What It's About
Mexican avocados ripen into an $85,000 Snapchat consulting contract.
Business Model
Skills Required
Complexity
Profit Potential
Words of Wisdom
Austin had a lot of words of wisdom to impart to our Side Hustle School audience:
"Take massive, imperfect action. Side hustles often boil down to the amount of grit you have; nothing gets built successfully without a bit of hard work and patience. So often, I see my friends pursue an idea and give up before they ever even get started."
Fun Fact
Launched in 2011, Snapchat is a popular mobile messaging app used to share photos, videos, and text, which is only available for a short time. Shortly after viewing a message (called a snap), it will self-destruct. A geo-filter is a graphic overlay that can be added to a snap to capture where you are or what you are doing.
Notes from Chris
Episode 235
Austin Dixon is a serial hustler. The digital marketing consultant and millennial business coach has a few side projects each with a varying level of involvement, success, and failure. But the one he calls his “true side hustle”—the one he started to make some extra money outside the 9 to 5—is Filter Haus, a service that works with brands to promote their products/services through custom Snapchat Geofilter campaigns. It was after Austin made a Snapchat Geofilter for a friend’s birthday party that he and his business partner Shane saw marketing potential. Geofilters were a great tool for marketing an event, so why not try them for marketing brands, too? In one night, Austin set up a website and within the first week, the duo had made a sale. That first sale was a “this could actually work” moment, said Austin. Filter Haus’s biggest client to date, Avocados from Mexico, came from a blog post-Austin did about their digital marketing strategy during the Super Bowl. They were given creative freedom to pitch a campaign that would help create an association amongst millennials between sports and avocados and landed a 12-month, $85,000 contract.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
- Filter Haus: Learn more about Austin and Shane's Snapchat geo-filter on their website
- Wordpress: Austin and Shane used Wordpress to create their website, and here you can learn how to install your own Wordpress site in 5 minutes!
- Avocados from Mexico: Filter Haus’s biggest client to date that came from a blog post Austin did about their digital marketing strategy during the Super Bowl
- The Top 10 Benefits Of Social Media Marketing | Forbes: Interested in learning more about marketing through social media? Check this out
- Oil & Gas Sales Rep Makes $40,000 Reposting Online Photos: After joining Pinterest, a natural gas sales rep learns how to pin for dollars in her spare time
- Bikini Model Creates Multi-Million Swimsuit Line: A swimsuit model uses industry connections and social media savvy to launch a high-end shopping site taking on major swimwear companies from the beaches of Miami
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