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Friends, let's take a road trip, or at least let's hear about a road trip today. Listener has an idea, a business idea to sell a road trip kit. How can they put this together? Who's their ideal customer, et cetera? They will explain a little bit more in their question.
I always love hearing listener questions, scenarios, different ideas, things that you are working on. We have a whole global community of people out there trying new projects, hopefully getting going and creating some independence so they're not dependent on their day job. Whether you want to quit your day job eventually, or you're happy in your job but you just need extra money. You like the idea of building something for yourself. That's what we're all about.
Side Hustle School for more than 3,400 episodes. Today's listener question about road trips and a road trip kit for truck stops is coming right up. Hey Chris, this is Thomas from Jackson. I've been listening to your show for a couple years now. It's been part of my daily commute, actually.
Speaking of driving, my Cytosil idea is a road trip kit that combines a few helpful and fun items in a box that sells at truck stops and gift shops and things like that. You get a compass, an old school atlas of US road maps, an air freshener, maybe some snacks that you can't get at the average store. I know that people don't need a compass or paper maps to drive these days but the idea is that it's a cool gift or even just a nice thing to buy for yourself. I might even include a mixtape if I can figure out how to make them. Maybe cassette players will make a comeback.
What are your thoughts on this idea? Thanks. First thought here is to make sure you have a pretty clear target market in mind. I'm not sure we have that yet based on this information, at least. Truckers are very different than people going on road trips.
A trucker isn't like, "I'm going to go have a road trip." That's what they do every day. That's their life. They don't have a ton of novelty to it. Maybe there's some nostalgia, but I think if you're marketing to people going on road trips, they do that for all kinds of different reasons. All the more reason to have a clear target market.
I like selling them in gift shops more than truck stops. Maybe there's some overlap and also on Amazon. There could be themes. It could be like graduation road trip kit, moving across country road trip, to be with a partner or to get away from a partner road trip, something like that. Also just to note, it doesn't have to be only useful items.
Like our caller mentioned, people don't need a compass or paper maps these days. I think what you want to focus on is items that are fun or anything that sparks nostalgia. That's the value. It can make for a good gift. It's more of a nostalgia play or something fun or memorable or maybe something experiential than necessarily something useful.
That's what I think there. At least my first thoughts. You need to have a clear target market before proceeding or else it's just going to be a little bit generic. Let us know how it goes. Let us know if you have an update.
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My name is Chris Guillebeau. This is Side Hustle School.
