WEEKLY RECAP: If Your Industry Changes, How Can You Adapt?

Notes from Chris

Episode 295

LISTENER SHOUTOUTS:

This week we have listener check ins from Sean and Jan and a listener voice message from Taryn:

• Sean: "Hi Chris! I’m a big fan. From the podcast to your books (I’m almost done with your latest, Side Hustle), I find your advice along with the experiences of others very motivating. So... I did it. Made my first sample purchase of a product sourced from China, to be sold on Amazon. Just wanted to say that it’s very much in thanks to your work that I went through with it. Lots of work ahead to make it profitable, but I’m ready for it. My goal is to bring in an extra $2,500 a month, in 6 months, then we’ll see where I'm at. Anyways, thanks again and see you at your Toronto tour stop!"
• Jan: "Hi Chris, I'm a teacher at an Alternative school for high school seniors in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Many of these kids struggle to pay for extras and haven't had entrepreneurial role models. I recently started listening to your Side Hustle podcast and then introduced it and you to my class. I could almost see the wheels come off, and the ideas started flowing! I'm reading the book now and will be incorporating the plans into our weekly class!! I'm seeing a curriculum for you to develop for high schools and colleges!!! Got me thinking like you!!"

• Taryn started a bridal blog a while back, but she found that she received more interest through Pinterest than she did through her blog. She wants to try with an advice blog, but she doesn't want to repeat the outcome she had with her bridal blog since part of her goal is to monetize it. She wants to know how she can monetize her blog from day one and do things differently. She'd also like to know what the differences are between stories we've featured that get to profitability almost immediately versus those who take a while to get there.

If you have something you'd like to ask me or an update you'd like to share, I'd love to hear from you! Leave me a voice message on the website or call into the Side Hustle Hotline (Dial 844-9-HUSTLE // 844-948-7853), and your question may be featured on the show!

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EPISODES FROM THIS WEEK:

Here's what we heard this week on Side Hustle School! Listen to this week's recap for a more comprehensive highlight reel.

• Ep. 289 - He looked for a simple solution for a client, and didn’t find one—so he spent the next year building it
• Ep. 290 - A trip to the mall at age 10 turns into a long-term hustle buying and reselling popular sneakers
• Ep. 291 - You read that right. In this bone-rattling story, a woman earns up to $3,000/month cleaning animal skulls for hunters and horror shows. She’s bad to the bone!
• Ep. 292 - A painter uses her love for her hometown and her last $100 to start a side hustle creating art that pays real money
• Ep. 293 - A nomadic employee writes a guidebook about Iceland and earns $10,000 after promoting it on Pinterest
• Ep. 294 - Noticing that new clients have lower budgets for web design, a woman in Berlin creates a series of low-cost kits

Inspiration is good; inspiration combined with action is better. Now get back to work!

Yours in the revolution,