Welcome back to the Weekly Side‑Income Roundup.
This week is all about building smart, staying invisible to office politics, and stacking simple wins with tools that do the heavy lifting for you.
Here’s what we’re diving into:
- How to grow a side hustle without getting your boss involved
- Pinterest’s newest trend tips for Q4 opportunities
- A former aerospace worker pulling in $50K a month
- Meta rolling out fresh AI-powered ad features
- A big OMC breakdown for 2026 affiliate marketers
Let’s get into it.
THIS WEEK’S BIG IDEA
👉 How to Build Your Side Hustle Without Upsetting Your Boss
Entrepreneur just published a great breakdown on how to create an income stream without making waves at work.
Key moves include setting boundaries, choosing projects that don’t overlap with your employer, and managing your time so nothing slips.
The article also calls out the biggest mistake new side-hustlers make: working in the open instead of building quietly and strategically.
Our Take: Your job doesn’t need to know what you’re building. Keep your workload clean, your time blocks tight, and your passion projects separate. Quiet momentum is powerful.
TOOLS OF THE WEEK
🔥 Meta Adds New AI-Powered Tools to Ads Manager
Meta introduced new AI automation for creative suggestions, quicker ad setup, and personalized asset generation. Perfect for side-income builders who want fast variations without hiring designers.
🛠️ The Free “Marketing Experiments Library”
A public archive of tested copy, funnels, and conversion experiments. Great inspiration for landing pages and email hooks.
Our Take: One tool saves you time. The other saves you guesswork. Test Meta’s AI creative in your next ad and steal one proven experiment idea for your next landing page.
TODAY’S QUICK WINS
🧭 Pinterest Unveils Q5 Trend & Marketing Tips
Pinterest released its newest Q5 guide showing what topics spike right after the holidays. This is a goldmine for solopreneurs planning January content or early-year offers.
💰 A Former Aerospace Worker Now Makes 50K Per Month
This Entrepreneur story shows exactly how he grew a niche service and scaled it to $50K a month. A great reminder that simple, low-complexity offers can scale fast.
Our Take: Quick wins come from timing and simplicity. Use Pinterest’s Q5 guide to shape your first week of January and choose one offer you can ship quickly, even if it feels small.
FROM OMC
👉 Our Cyber Monday Exclusive: Get the Complete AI Writing System Free
We just opened up a special Cyber Monday offer for the OMC community. You can get our complete AI Prompt System for free today. This was originally a $97 training.
Inside you get the two “secret sauce” prompts we rely on, twenty specialized marketing prompts, real examples, templates, and a full video training series that works with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and more.
Access is instant. No credit card. Just join the VIP SMS list and the full course unlocks on the next page.
Our Take: If you want AI to actually sound like you and not a generic chatbot, start here. This is the most practical system we’ve released and it is only free until the end of Cyber Monday.
AI SPOTLIGHT
🚀 AI + Affiliate Marketing For 2026: Niches, Funnels, and Scale
We just released a brand-new strategy guide breaking down how to use AI for niche selection, funnel building, competitive research, and smart scaling in 2026.
If you want next year’s roadmap, it’s here.
Our Take: Affiliate marketing rewards early movers. Use AI to find the gaps before everyone else sees them. Pick one niche and build one smart funnel this week.
UNTIL NEXT WEEK…
Keep your moves simple this week.
- Use Meta’s AI tools to create one ad variation.
- Steal one idea from Pinterest’s Q5 guide.
- Read the side hustle article and tighten your boundaries.
- Pick one niche to explore for 2026.
Progress doesn’t come from big breakthroughs. It comes from stacking small steps that compound.
Talk soon,
Aidan
P.S. Some very big updates for the end of December are coming. Keep an eye on your inbox.
