Tag: Service

What’s In the Box? Low-Carb, Low-Sugar Snacks

What It’s About

A healthy snack subscription service.

[podcast_details]

Words of Wisdom

How exactly has Dawna been able to find so much success so early in? Well, it boils down to a few different things: 1) the fact that she grew her audience before actually launching, 2) that initial 15% lifetime discount to her first round of subscribers, and 3) the value that she places on customer feedback. She started sending out a survey each month to get a feel for what her subscribers like and do not like, and this has really helped her create a better box month after month.

Fun Fact

Prelaunch is an excellent strategy to validate your business idea. Many entrepreneurs are using this strategy to test if their business idea has a demand. By running a prelaunch, you get to know whether people are willing to pay for your product before spending the time and money in creating one. For Dawna, it generated traction and helped build a highly targeted audience who are interested in buying her product.

Notes from Chris

Episode 546

By day, Dawna Boone is a Certified Public Accountant who works for a mortgage company in Dallas. And she isn’t just really good at her job—she genuinely enjoys what she does and has no desire to change that. But like many others listening to the show, she wanted something more… something different and fun that could potentially help her to develop new skills.

What she wanted was a side hustle.

As an avid listener of our show, Dawna was introduced to a multitude of new ideas and interesting business models that she had never really considered on her own. Of all these ideas, she found that she was particularly interested in subscription box-based side hustles. But what would her subscription be? She wasn’t sure.

All of that changed in November of 2017 with Ep. 333. It was about a subscription box called My Bariatric Box that was tailored to those who had undergone bariatric bypass surgery. The featured side hustler, Nikki Willmore, having gone through the procedure herself, found that all of the weight she had struggled to get rid of was making a Brittany Spears comeback 13 years later. When she discovered that others like her were also struggling to find solutions to their midday snacking woes, she realized that this was a need that she could fill.

While Dawna didn’t really have any direct, personal experience dealing with dietary restrictions, many of her family members did. Her mother and several of her relatives were living with Type-2 Diabetes, so she knew that the struggles were real.

With some research under her belt, Dawna knew that at the very least, conditions like Type-2 could be better managed with a proper diet. And at best, it could even be prevented or reversed!

But unfortunately, grocery stores are packed with sugar and carb loaded food items as far as the eye can see. And Dawna knew that it was a challenge for many people to find the right kind of foods to eat—even more so for those with heavily restricted diets like her family members with diabetes.

When she started putting together the foundation for the service she wanted to offer, she figured that it would be wise to focus on low-sugar and low-carb snacks since those pesky midday cravings end up being the hardest. Dawna’s goal? Providing a healthier, easy-to-grab alternative to the overly processed snacks found in vending machines and office break rooms.

And that’s really how the idea for Sugar Smart Box came to fruition. The box was created with diabetics in mind—but would still be great for anyone looking to cut back on their sugar and carb intake. I’m sure by this point you’re asking, “But what’s in the box, Chris? What’s in the box??” Dawna wanted to include a variety of at least seven different salty and sweet snacks with < 5g of sugar and < 9g net carbs per serving—everything from jerky to cakelets!

Although she’s still in her first year of Sugar Smart Box, she’s currently bringing in around $5,000 per month in revenue.

Now that she’s had a taste of what it’s like to build a side hustle of her very own, Dawna shows no sign of slowing down, and she hopes that changing snacking habits will lead to better health overall for her subscribers. Her current goal is to grow Sugar Smart Box so that it reaches more people. And there might even be some different options in the works since her subscribers have expressed an interest in gluten and nut free options. Whatever changes come down the line for this Texas-based CPA, we have a feeling that she’ll have it in the box—signed, sealed, and delivered!

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • Sugar Smart Box: Check your sugar at the door—sign up for Dawna’s sugar smart snack box!
  • Cratejoy: Dawna ended up using Cratejoy to manage many of the logistics of Sugar Smart Box

 

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"This whole project has been a lot of fun, but the best part of the experience is knowing that my product is something that is truly helping people."
—Dawna Boone #SideHustleSchool

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Chris Guillebeau

Marriage Inspires Theatre Captioning App & Service

What It’s About

Husband and wife duo develop delightful, dubbed displays for the deaf and hard of hearing.

[podcast_details]

Words of Wisdom

It’s important to ask yourself how you’re going to make money from a side hustle idea right out of the gate. Otherwise, you get into the all-too-common situation of pursuing something that might create an improvement somewhere but isn’t really going to help you achieve your goal of a new source of income.

Fun Fact

In addition to being a developer and side hustler, Matthew is also in a band called Jump, Little Children—which is also how he met his wife. They took a 10-year hiatus, but they simply couldn’t stay away forever. They’re actually about to release a brand new album and go on tour this year!

Notes from Chris

Episode 543

When he’s not working as a developer, Matthew Bivins has been an actor and musician all his life. While on tour with his band one night in Chicago, his bassist came backstage and couldn’t stop raving about the “hot deaf girl” he had met at the merch booth.

This woman had been deaf since birth and was just beginning to learn American Sign Language in college. One of her assignments for class was to “sign sing,” and she had picked one of Matthew’s band’s songs to perform in front of her classmates. When she discovered that they were going to be playing a gig in Chicago, she figured she’d go.

Looking back, it seems almost like fate that Matthew met his wife for the first time that night, and the two were married a few years later.

As you might imagine, a performer and a deaf woman being married presented some problems when it came to recreational activities. Matthew loved watching theater, but his wife had never really experienced it—mainly because most theaters didn’t offer any sort of accessibility services.

Around mid-2015, Matthew came up with an idea that could revolutionize entertainment experiences for deaf and hard of hearing people: an app that can deliver captions to a person’s phone or tablet in real-time during shows.

Matthew calls this idea “closed captioning,” which is different from “open captioning”—where the captions are available on a big screen for everyone in the audience to see. His closed captioning idea would function a lot like the current caption tablets, but it would be far less expensive for the theater since the captions would go to phones owned by the patrons, rather than tablets that had to be purchased by the theater.

Matthew soon found himself booking 1-2 shows per month through his new side hustle, CaptionPoint, and he’s kept that momentum for a couple years. At first, he just charged $100 per show, but he quickly realized it wasn’t worth his time. Now he has a sliding scale from $350 to $600, depending on the theater size.

So by late 2017, CaptionPoint had become two distinct things. The first is CaptionPoint “The Service,” where Matthew or a contractor goes to shows and provides open captioning to audiences. The second is CaptionPoint “The Product,” which is the closed captioning app Matthew’s been working on this whole time.

In his own words, Matthew’s finally “cracked closed captioning” for theaters and is thrilled to start offering the service this Fall. He sees this app, not the service, as the long-term, scalable solution to captioning. He’s used that same website-based slides application he built a couple years ago to make viewing captions on personal screens a reality. He’s earning up to $1,000/month, but he wants to do more.

With that in mind, Matthew recently brought someone on-board who’s going to help him do real fundraising—this time with some real focus and strategy. With that extra money, he’s going to find more help to refine the app and start promoting the product to theaters nationwide.

Matthew’s excited about the monetary rewards of creating a much-needed product, but he’s very clear that the biggest reward is being able to enable people who are deaf or hard of hearing (and especially his wife) to enjoy theater the way he always has. In reading between the lines, he’s found a project that pays multiple dividends.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • CaptionPoint: We don’t mind spelling it out for you—learn more about Matthew’s caption creating app over on his website!

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Quote of the Day
"For my first show, I used the tools that were already out there—tools most DIY captioners would use. And it was a nightmare copying an entire script into PowerPoint slides. I knew that with my nerd know-how I could totally streamline the process."
—Matthew Bivins #SideHustleSchool

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Moonlighting Makeup Artist Earns Extra $25,000/Year

What It’s About

A college student that puts the “blush” in “blushing bride.”

[podcast_details]

Words of Wisdom

Caitlyn wouldn’t be earning her extra $2,100 a month if she didn’t take a risk in launching her side hustle. She puts it succinctly when she says “if you can dream it, you can do it. So dive right in. Don’t wait until the moment is right because that moment doesn’t exist.” She knows firsthand that excuses can pile up, but Caitlyn also is a great example that starting somewhere (anywhere, really) will help the rest of the pieces fall into place.

Fun Fact

Makeup and cosmetics go way back. All the way back to early civilization, with the ancient Egyptians being among the first in recorded history to use makeup. Cleopatra allegedly soaked the sails of her ships in perfume so that people would be able to smell her arrival. How’s that for a signature scent?

Notes from Chris

Episode 539

28-year-old Caitlyn Tuzzolino didn’t act on her dream immediately. Upon graduating from college, she dove head first into the corporate world. Since then, she’s created and led marketing departments for an accounting firm, a software company, and an automated manufacturing company, where she helps raise brand awareness and drive sales.

Caitlyn was busy, but she still found herself wishing for more. She noticed that she increasingly started to begin sentences with “I wish…” Then she realized that it was time for her to stop wishing and just get to work.

What would she do? Well, she’d always been good at doing makeup. So good, in fact, that her friends would always enlist her to help them do their makeup, too. The former competitive dancer honed her skills in high school. Then in college, she was constantly asked to do her friends’ makeup before they would go out on the weekends. Every situation helped her see that she had a talent that people wished they had. It also made her realize that she could, and should, do something with it.

So a bit later, when she longed to do something more than just her corporate job, Makeup by Caitlyn Michelle, was born… or shall we say, made up.

Caitlyn knew that lots of weddings took place in her area of Rochester, New York, so that seemed like a good starting point for her side hustle.

She started practicing on anyone and everyone she knew. Friends, family, friends of friends, you name it… everyone except her dog. After practicing different types of makeup looks on different face shapes, she took photos so she could begin building a portfolio that she could then use to showcase her talent. She also began to take her portfolio to local hair salons to ask if they would be willing to refer her to their wedding parties. To her surprise, two salons agreed.

She now serves clients throughout New York State and books 20-30 weddings per year. Caitlyn balances her 40 hour work weeks with weekends spent on her side hustle, in the form of makeup trials, weddings, or events.

Since her first days of taking any and every client that came her way, Caitlyn has been able to build her skills and reputation and now requires a booking minimum of six people for a wedding day. After about one year of starting her side hustle, Caitlyn became booked for weddings almost every weekend of the year – and it’s been that way ever since. Not only is she able to make more money doing something she loves, she gets to help people feel confident as they celebrate a special day. And, to Caitlyn, that’s half the fun.

Caitlyn doesn’t know what the future holds for her or her side hustle, but she does know that she eventually wants to take her side hustle full-time within the next few years. And, in the meantime, she wants to continue to learn new skills like lash extensions, microblading, spray tans, and a lot of other things that I don’t know the first thing about. And that the only thing she’ll be winging is her eyeliner.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • Makeup by Caitlyn Michelle: Dum-dum-da-dum dum-dum-da-dum—check out Caitlyn’s full portfolio over on her website!
  • WordPress: Caitlyn used WordPress to setup Makeup by Caitlyn Michelle, and here you can learn how to install your own WordPress site in 5 minutes

 

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Quote of the Day
"I didn’t just try to build a side hustle—I really believed that I could do it. I had to be my biggest cheerleader and put my blood, sweat, and tears into building a name for myself that first year. I was so eager to turn my dream into a reality, and successfully doing it has changed my life."
—Caitlyn Tuzzolino #SideHustleSchool

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Chris Guillebeau

Children’s Book Author Turns Page to New Income

What It’s About

A mother makes a career out of telling children stories.

[podcast_details]

Words of Wisdom

If you want to teach others something, make sure that you have developed the necessary skill and experience first. Plus, building career capital gives you perspective and confidence that can help you stand out from the competition!

Fun Fact

Before Eevi started helping aspiring children’s book authors, she was creating and launching book trailers for USA Today bestselling authors like Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Debra Webb, and James Hankins. By all metrics, she had a thriving business. It was only when she realized that she couldn’t scale her business that she decide to pivot.

Notes from Chris

Episode 538

For work at home mom Eevi Jones, a career that was non-location dependent was of vital importance. With a military spouse, she never could stay in one place for too long, having moved 12 times over the past 19 years. Besides building Lego castles with her two boys during the day, Eevi was also a successful children’s book author who helped publishing houses launch book trailers for their bestselling authors.

By all measures, Eevi’s career was going well. With over a dozen children’s books published, Eevi had substantial experience authoring, illustrating, and marketing books in her niche. With her vast experience particularly in the illustration of books, she found herself booked out weeks or months in advance with great demand for her services. But at the beginning of 2017, she realized that work was catching up with her. Sometimes she would go to bed at 1 in the morning, and then be up at 5. She couldn’t spend time with her children or her husband, and she didn’t have time to write children’s books anymore. She found she was becoming a victim of success.

What do you do when you’re overwhelmed with work and business? You start another business, of course! A different kind of business.

Eevi’s friends had suggested that she could teach others how to launch a career as a children’s book author. With her vast experience and familiarity with the publishing industry, it was a natural change, and Eevi became convinced that this was a business which she was uniquely qualified to build.

To date, Eevi has managed to earn upwards of $1,500 a month from the combined revenue of her published book and coaching. The course is now becoming a reality.

She expects that her monthly income will grow as she scales her efforts and grows her platform – something she was never able to do in her previous business. The success of authors whom she has coached also gives her immense satisfaction that she didn’t have before.

Eevi attributes most of her success to having built up “career capital.” It’s a concept coined by University of Georgetown Professor Cal Newport, who says that mastery and the keys to a good career come from developing experience and expertise. Not only did Eevi publish a dozen children’s books before she started teaching this skill to others, she also made sure to continually refine her material by approaching the issue from a beginner’s perspective. It’s made a big difference in setting her apart from her competition.

Like Eevi, you too can write a new chapter in your business or side hustle. Just don’t be afraid to turn the page!

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • EeviJones.com: Learn more about what it takes to become a children’s author over on Eevi’s website!
  • CreateSpace: The platform that Eevi used to create the outline for her book and self-publish

SEE ALSO:

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Resources

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Quote of the Day
"I love seeing how much my offerings are wanted and needed. Writing a children’s book is very much a passion project for many of my clients, so it’s wonderful to know that I’m helping them fulfill one of their most precious dreams."
—Eevi Jones #SideHustleSchool

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To infinity and beyond,

Chris Guillebeau

Movie Industry Friends Rewrite the Credits, Earn $20,000/Month

What It’s About

Two friends streamline the act of giving credit where credit is due.

[podcast_details]

Words of Wisdom

There are all sorts of ways to make money. What is something in your industry that other people might never think of, but you know is a hassle or otherwise takes a lot of time? What could be a possible solution or just a substantial improvement to it?

Fun Fact

Although Endcrawl is a SaaS product with a login area for customers to use, we served about 100 indie films before we even rolled out our first UI. Over time we built out an api and automated more features but the core product is still very similar. Since then over 1,000 movies have used Endcrawl.com. Including movies like Moonlight and The Big Sick.

Notes from Chris

Episode 536

When it comes to business models, software has to be one of the most profitable. Huge companies like Microsoft make their billions by selling software to customers worldwide. But, is it possible to create a software business as a side hustle? Today we’re featuring a side hustle that proves it can be done.

Introducing Endcrawl, a software product built by John Eremic AKA “Pliny” and his co-founder Alan. Endcrawl is what’s known as a SaaS—software as a service—product. Unlike conventional software that might be installed on your computer, (like Windows or Excel). SaaS products run in the cloud, and customers pay a fee to use or access them.

Endcrawl serves a very specific purpose—t creates end credit sequences for movies. You know, the type you see scrolling along in black and white when you’re leaving the cinema. Where every person that had a hand in making the film gets their credit. Well, each of those names had to be added to a list, sent to a typographer then sent to a videographer who would compile and edit. The sequence then needs to be rendered for film so it can grace the silver screen.

Endcrawl completely automates that process using software, and aspiring and professional filmmakers the world over are paying for the privilege of using it. Let’s take a look at how this came to be.

It all started with a couple of drinks. The guys both worked in the film industry, and they had both brainstormed ideas in the past but never committed to anything. One night at a party, they committed to building a project together, solving a problem they’d long knew existed: the time consuming and painstaking task of creating end credits software.

Pliny and Alan threw $1,000 each at the project to get started. That would enable them to get a server and the tech required to run something like this, as well as cover any small expenses that might crop up.

Alan had a coding background and was able to whip up a very basic version of Endcrawl. When I say basic, I mean really basic. They had a programmed script that would run on their laptops, and customers would email them a spreadsheet that they’d feed into the script. It would automatically generate the credits and they’d send them back in 15 minutes. Even with the manual process, it was a big improvement, because this process used to take up to 24 hours using the old methods.

The customers loved it! The fact that it was a crude version and wasn’t automated didn’t matter much in the beginning. They were able to charge $500 a pop for each end credits sequence generated. Even with this super basic, and in their words ‘janky,’ proof of concept software, they served their first 100 customers using this system, for $50,000 in income.

Things have begun to ramp up over the last two years though. Now in 2018, Endcrawl is generating around $20,000/month. After expenses are factored in, this gets John and Alan very close to being able to quit their day jobs. Their plan is to double revenue over the next year while holding down their jobs, and if everything goes well look at dedicating the full-time commitment to Endcrawl. By then it will pay them both a livable wage.

So, it is possible to build a software-based business as a side hustle, but it isn’t simple. It can take time to build and the process is slow, methodical and not always certain. But Endcrawl proves it can be done.

From an idea conceived over a few drinks to a script running on one laptop to now generating end credits for films like Moonlight, Snowden, Lady Bird, and The Big Sick, Endcrawl’s days of crawling have dramatically sped up. In fact, they’re off and running!

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • Endcrawl: Learn more about Pliny and Alan’s credit software over on their website!
  • 99designs: The platform that Dariusz used to design his logo for Rocket Vodka

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Quote of the Day
"Early growth was 100% organic, but what we found is that as we progressed, growth got harder—not easier. There is this fallacy that as you grow, everything just starts flowing downhill. We found the opposite to be true: once all the low-hanging fruit has been picked, the real work of selling starts."
—John Eremic #SideHustleSchool

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To infinity and beyond,

Chris Guillebeau

Project Manager Helps Cubicle Workers See the World

What It’s About

A remote work focused travel planning service that helps people ditch their cubicles in lieu of international views.

[podcast_details]

Words of Wisdom

Remote workers value security and stability more than self-employed nomads, and you really have to take these differences into consideration if you’re planning on marketing to either group. While some of their needs may overlap, there’s also a lot of distinction between the two groups! And remember, the services that you tailor to the people in each group is important, but it’s also vital to consider how you speak to them and their needs as well. In some ways, that might be even more important!

Fun Fact

Just a few short years ago, working from home may have seemed out of reach across some industries, but today, not so much. In 2015, 23 percent of employees reported doing some of their work remotely, up from 19 percent in 2003, Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows. A New York Times report also noted that telecommuting is fast on the rise. Who said you can’t be more productive in your pajama pants?!

Notes from Chris

Episode 525

For Project Manager Libryia Jones, it was a desire to travel the world that brought her to side hustling. Before Libryia’s daughter started high school, she wanted her to experience a different kind of education: the kind that can only be gained by immersing yourself in the peoples and cultures of distant lands.

To do this, Libryia convinced her boss to allow her to work remotely—then she began looking for opportunities to travel and work at the same time. She’d heard about companies that facilitated travel, providing accommodation and workspaces, giving remote workers the chance to go all over the world. But as she researched these companies she found one common theme—she wasn’t allowed to bring her daughter with her.

Unable to find a package that worked for her, Libryia quit her job and took her daughter traveling with her on a self-planned trip. She felt she couldn’t be the only remote worker who wanted to share the experience with their family. So, in the spirit of so many of our case studies, Libryia came up with a solution to her problem and created an experience that would make this kind of travel more accessible.

She called it Wanderist Life, and it was built around the concept of having a life you don’t need to take a vacation from. The simplest way to describe the Wanderist Life business model is that people trade their at-home living costs—like monthly rent and bills—for one monthly payment to the Wanderist Life service. For this monthly payment, Libryia will find your accommodation, give you access to a co-working space, arrange transport and travel, as well as organizing unique experiences every month for you to take part in.

To test her idea, and get real-time feedback from her target audience, Libryia decided to create a one-off excursion. She set the location as Chiang Mai, Thailand, and aimed to get 50 people to spend time there over Thanksgiving. It was a big goal, but she posted in travel and remote work Facebook groups, and ran some targeted Facebook ads to cities with larger numbers of English speaking expats, and quickly built a list of people to attend.

This allowed her to really get a feel for booking accommodation for people, planning trips for larger numbers and seeing how remote workers enjoy spending their time on the road. It influenced how she planned and approached the future trips, and the overwhelming success of it made her want to stick with the idea.

Although she’d planned to make a profit sooner, she found there were lots of costs she didn’t account for. Extras like VAT (Value Added Tax) or problems with landlords have run up extra bills and eaten into the extra money she would have made for profit. This steep learning curve seems to have been essential to the future success of Wanderist Life, and Libryia feels she’s finally on track to make real money.

Her 2019 trips, which start in September of 2018, are on track to generate just under $200,000. She’s been able to set prices that allow her to cover these unwanted costs and still make a profit, without making the trips unaffordable.

Looking to the future, Libryia is focused on the growth of the company and creating more one-month “experiences” for travelers so she can test new locations. She’s also expanding into speaking and looking to promote the idea that you don’t need to work from a cubicle to be successful! If you like the idea of working remotely without quitting your job, maybe you should check out Wanderist Life.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • Wanderist Life: Ditch the cubicle and stale, shared coffee—learn more about the curated, remote working travel opportunities Libryia has available over on her website!
  • Medium: A blogging platform that Libryia uses to market Wanderist Life and drive more traffic to her site

 

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Quote of the Day
"I think that people are interested in Wanderist Life because they want to live and work differently than how they’ve always been told that they should. They want to do it in a way that feeds their passions and makes them feel fulfilled and not like life is passing them by in a cubicle."
—Libryia Jones #SideHustleSchool

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Chris Guillebeau

Danish Pastry Partnership Bakes Up Series of Events

What It’s About

How a pastry builds a friendship and a delicious side hustle!

[podcast_details]

Words of Wisdom

While a market-type environment may seem like a ripe environment for competition, it may actually serve you better in the long-term if you work together with your fellow sellers.

Collaborating in the beginning was mutually beneficial for Chad and Zoie. Chad was able to save money on the filling for his pastries, Zoie had someone directing people to her stand, and they both got more exposure for their products.

Fun Fact

There’s much speculation on the origins of æbleskiver, but one of the most popular theories dates back to the time of the Vikings. Apparently, one band of these rampaging Vikings had been particularly hit hard in battle, so, when they got back on their ship, they decided to have one of their favorite dishes to help them regain their strength—pancakes.

In those days, they did not have modern conveniences like frying pans, so, they greased their dented shields and poured the pancake batter on them over the fire but, guess what came out of the holes of the shields—Æbleskiver!

Notes from Chris

Episode 523

Today’s side hustle was actually a result of a different side hustle. Back in 2007, Chad Gillard, a business analyst at a Minneapolis agency by day, was selling æbleskiver at a local farmer’s market. His food stall neighbor, Zoie Glass, owner of Lucille’s Kitchen Garden, was selling jam—the perfect thing to fill the æbleskiver with. A natural partnership formed between them—Zoie offered to let Chad use her jams in the pastries, and in return, he would conveniently direct customers to her food stall.

By collaborating like this, they both benefited. Chad was able to save money on the filling for his pastries, and they both got more exposure for their products. They decided to team up to try to learn more about growing their food businesses. They attended national trade shows and met with food industry leaders in other areas in order to figure out the best way to bring their businesses to the next level.

Their aim when starting Midwest Pantry was to help level the playing field for small-time players trying to take their food business to the next level. They noticed that even though the Midwest is known as the breadbasket of America, all the big wholesale food trade shows were located on the coasts. These are the places food producers go to meet with wholesale buyers and try to get their products in grocery stores and other markets.

Not only would people have to fly to the coast to attend these, they would have to pay upwards of $10,000 to get a booth in order to try to sell their products. For many people who are just starting out, this is unreachable. Chad and Zoie wanted to bring together local food producers with wholesale buyers without the astronomical price tag.

A local kitchen and food supply store was holding an annual tent sale, and Chad and Zoie thought this could be a great place to gauge interest in a trade show type event. Ahead of the tent show, Midwest Pantry paid for an extra day for the tents and set up booths for food producers. They only charged enough to cover the costs and brought in wholesale buyers.

After testing things out at the tent show, they secured some booths at a food and wine show that was held at the state fairgrounds.

These experiments were somewhat successful, but the next step was to create their own trade show. And that led to two more phases!

So let’s talk about how they make money. Like the activities of the business itself, the revenue model for Midwest Pantry has transformed multiple times since Chad and Zoie started up. At first, they tried to create a membership model, but because they didn’t have the name recognition then that they do now, it didn’t really take off. They then transitioned to monetizing at the event level, but because they wanted to make sure food producers had access to the events, they also wanted to keep costs down. Therefore, they’ve since transitioned back to the membership model.

The membership model they now offer includes both individual and corporate tiers. At the annual individual level, which is $65 a year, members get free entry to the meetups and access to the educational series, along with other discounts. Premium memberships, which are $40 a month, allows members to rent out space in the Food District. There are five tiers of corporate memberships ranging in price from $500 to $10,000 a year.

They have anywhere from one hundred to one hundred fifty individual members, depending on the time of year, over a dozen corporate members. Over the years, Midwest Pantry has worked with over five hundred businesses.

Midwest Pantry has been sowing the seeds of growth and fostering a community of collaboration and innovation for over ten years. And yes—it’s still a side hustle for both Chad and Zoie. It gives them the opportunity to help other side hustlers and to have a voice in shaping the food industry for small businesses. You might even say they’re helping keep the bread in the breadbasket of America!

 

 

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • Midwest Pantry: Learn more about the community they’re building over on Chad and Zoie’s website!
  • Lucille’s Kitchen Garden: The jam-based retail business that Zoie had when she and Chad stared their partnership

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Quote of the Day
"The best part of working on Midwest Pantry has been getting to work with food producers from all over Minnesota. People do the coolest things, and I love seeing over and over that great ideas can come from any and everywhere."
—Chad Gillard #SideHustleSchool

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Chris Guillebeau

Man Earns $100,000 Serving Clients on $5 Website

What It’s About

A graphic designer makes a name for himself helping others build brands.

[podcast_details]

Words of Wisdom

When it comes to naming a product, Dion’s secret is to keep it simple. Not all businesses have sex appeal, and you shouldn’t try to make all products sound like they do. Find the tried and tested techniques in your industry and stay in line with them.

Fun Fact

Dion has been a Fiverr top rated seller since 2014 (side note: it’s no easy feat to achieve and hold something like that), and to date, he’s helped 5,828 clients develop names!

Notes from Chris

Episode 521

Have you ever looked around a store and thought, “Who comes up with the names for all these products?” If so, you might be interested in learning about today’s side hustler!

Back in 2010, graphic designer Dion Lynk was looking for ways to increase his income. He’d always wanted to earn a million dollars, and knew he’d need multiple streams of income to achieve it. After all, he’d heard that the average millionaire has at least seven!

He’d recently learned about a platform called Fiverr—but was unsure he could reach his goal with a $5 limit on his earnings. Intrigued to see what the potential earnings could be, Dion decided to create a gig and run a test.

Confident in his ability to be funny, Dion offered to tell people a joke in exchange for $5. Although this was a quirky idea he didn’t expect to perform well, he was surprised by the response. Within a matter of days, a number of people had commissioned $5 jokes from him.

Dion figured there may be more to this platform than he first thought. Plus, every $5 that was added to his account was a step closer to his million-dollar goal!

Having tested Fiverr’s potential, Dion wanted to create an evergreen skill he could use to make money well into the future—because he figured he might run out of jokes. He needed to find a skill that could be done efficiently for the lower price tag but would provide value to the customer. It needed to be a win-win for both of them. Dion closely inspected his skills and found he kept circling back to the same one—naming products.

From his work in graphic design and helping companies with their branding, he knew naming products was a problematic part of the marketing process. Giving the product the right name can be the difference between a bestseller and the bargain basement. If he could help people with this problem, he felt, he’d be opening his arms to a lot of five dollar bills.

Now, let’s approach a topic that many of our listeners are probably wondering about. Can you really make real money at $5 a person?

Much to Dion’s delight, Fiverr eventually allowed sellers to increase their prices and offer multiple services. This means he’d no longer have to work at just $5 per gig.

He then settled on three packages. His basic package costs $35 for three names. His standard package costs $65 and delivers three names with taglines. And his premiere package costs $95 which promises everything from the last two packages and a “.com” domain to go with it. He set his prices based on conversations with previous customers, as well as work he’d done outside the platform.

All of this together has helped Dion earn over six figures on the platform, and to date, he has created names for over 5,000 different clients, with nearly 3,000 positive reviews.

Looking to the future, Dion is still striving towards his million dollar goal. On the side (his side, side hustle) he recently patented an invention. He also wants to learn more about how to invest all this money that’s coming in! Maybe that’s a $5 service someone should provide…

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

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Quote of the Day
"Just start, and don’t dive into comparing where you’re at with others, analysis paralysis, or asking for permission from anyone."
—Dion Lynk #SideHustleSchool

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To infinity and beyond,

Chris Guillebeau

Civil Engineer Sells Everything but Kitchen Sink, Moves to Bali, Employs 100 People

What It’s About

A Chrome extension and online app that helps resellers make better product choices!

[podcast_details]

Words of Wisdom

Greg likes to say his success has been due to his humble start. He made something that solved a problem, he continued to improve that product according to his customers’ feedback, and he grew organically. No outside funding, no big startup budget—just a grand idea that was fundamentally sound.

Fun Fact

Jungle Scout’s in-depth case study series has become the #1 source of new users. By demonstrating to newcomers how they can get started, he’s build authority, generated trust, and even donated over $50,000 to non-profits.

Notes from Chris

Episode 520

Greg Mercer has always been a tinkerer with a good head for business, and at 10 years old, he painted and sold acorns. As you might guess, that side hustle was not highly profitable, but the next one got more traction. At age 14, Greg launched Pedkey, a working key for motorized scooters, and he received enough traffic to his website that he proudly received a “Cease and Desist” letter from GoPed, a giant in the industry.

The shutdown didn’t damper Greg’s spirits for long, though. He continued to learn after school and experimented when he could, but, as with many of us, the draw of a “regular job” eventually started to overshadow Greg’s entrepreneurial spirit. So when he graduated from college, he settled in as a corporate civil engineer in Pensacola, Florida.

And for a while, he was happy. He had a reliable salary. He was working with talented professionals, and he even got to go out to the oil rigs every now and then. But it didn’t last for long. Greg quickly found himself dreaming of side hustles after work. Then it even started to happen during work…

So in 2013, Greg started selling wholesale items, like hooded baby robes, on Amazon.com. Why baby robes? Well, he would browse various subcategories on Amazon, look for strong sales rankings to determine if a niche was hot, and see if there was a gap in the available products that he could fill with imported items to generate sales. It became all he could think about, and he knew he couldn’t stay at his corporate job for long.

As expected, their business grew and grew. But it wasn’t very efficient… and that little business, as interesting as it is, isn’t what our story is about.

Scrolling through pages on Amazon, creating complex Excel sheets, doing a bunch of math—gathering the data to find products to sell was very difficult and confusing. There had to be a better way.

Greg dreamed of creating an app that could help him organize and analyze the data that was already available across Amazon.com. He figured that if he could crawl and digest that data onto a single page, he could speed up his product discovery time dramatically. It would also likely come in handy for others like him looking to flip products.

So in January of 2015, Greg drew up his plan and found a freelance developer on a gig-for-hire site.

One month later, the Jungle Scout extension for Google Chrome was released, and Greg set the price at $67. His goal was to simply sell ten copies to help make up the cost of development. And he did—on the first day!

But the sales didn’t keep up the next couple days. Greg tried Facebook ads—and they didn’t work. He tried blogging—but writing just wasn’t his strong suit. Then one of his initial customers asked Greg to demo the product for a Facebook group. He did a webinar for 100 folks and got ten more sales. It was clear: webinars were the most effective method for getting sales.

Greg’s idea was validated, but it wasn’t finished yet. He got in touch with his users for feedback, built out more features in the Chrome extension, and saw sales continue to climb as he released more webinars.

Fast forward to early 2018: Jungle Scout has 80 employees, 100,000 users, and aims to open 5 schools through Pencils of Promise and the Million Dollar Case Study. Greg and Elizabeth now live in Austin for most of the year, but still travel a lot and work remotely.

Their goal moving forward is to just keep doing what they’re doing. Entrepreneurship has enabled them to live a life that works for them—and they want to help as many people as possible achieve that sense of accomplishment and personal freedom!

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • Jungle Scout: Demystify which products will be the best to flip using Fulfilled by Amazon—crack the code and learn more on Greg’s website!
  • Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA): The model that Greg used to flip products that allowed him to pass on the responsibility of keeping stock and shipping out orders
  • Reddit: The “front page of the internet” where Greg ended up building his launch list

SEE ALSO:

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Quote of the Day
"Looking back, if I were to give advice to myself two-and-a-half years ago, it would be to get in front of other people’s audiences as much as possible. It’s a great way to get your product and brand out there when you’re just starting out and lack an audience or email list of your own."
—Greg Mercer #SideHustleSchool

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To infinity and beyond,

Chris Guillebeau

Baker Starts Agency to Raise Dough for Dream Home

What It’s About

A baker makes extra dough for her dream home helping others build their brand.

[podcast_details]

Words of Wisdom

For anyone looking to take advantage of Instagram in their business, Mimi recommends you go back to basics. Many businesses forget that Instagram is a photography platform first, and a marketing tool second. You need to create well-lit images that show your product in its best light and share captions that are relevant to your audience. Stick to basics and use the platform properly and you can see major growth in your following, while subtly promoting your products!

Fun Fact

Mimi has a strong sense of what she wants and has often turned down work with bigger agencies who don’t meet the requirements or don’t mesh with her ideals of what good creative work looks like. One of the best things about a side hustle is you get to make all the final decisions!

Notes from Chris

Episode 515

For organic baker Mimi Council, it was the dream of building a new family home that brought her to side hustling. With sky-high California house prices, Mimi knew her current level of income wasn’t going to help her raise the $100,000 she needed to build the first part of the project. If she was going to turn dreams and ideas into bricks and mortar, she’d need a second source of income. But Mimi was faced with a problem.

As the owner of a successful bakery, she found herself with a full schedule. She was working six days a week, for at yeast 10 hours a day, trying to rise to the top. This meant if Mimi was going to start a side hustle, she’d need to draw on her existing skills, and use the free time she did have. There was no room for learning new skills or taking Saturdays off work!

So instead of seeing her job as an obstacle, Mimi saw it as an opportunity to find side hustle ideas.

As a scrappy small business owner, she’d learned lots of skills to help her market and grow her venture. For example: she’d learned photography to capture beautiful images of her creations, Instagram marketing to make her more visible, and SEO to ensure that her website was consistently receiving traffic. Most of all, she remembered what drove her to learn these skills in the first place: they were expensive to outsource, and it was hard to find someone she could trust who really understood her needs as a small business.

Her friends often asked questions regarding how she started her bakery. Things like that list of skills she’d acquired—how she created an Instagram following of over 45K in just a year, how they could create visually stimulating photos like hers, and even what kind of promos they should run for their own businesses. It was then that she figured she could be making money instead of just telling her friends all of these things. So, she started marketing to people outside of her friend group.

Mimi felt she was competent enough with all of these skills to perform them for other businesses. She also figured that she could charge an affordable price which could give her an edge over the competition. Since she’d been in the trenches trying to grow her bakery and could empathize with many of the day-to-day problems small business owners deal with, she decided she would start a creative agency and offer her services. She called it Above 8000 Creative.

Thanks to her focused marketing techniques and clear branding, Mimi has been able to generate $2,000 a month through the business. This money goes directly into the savings account for her new house, which she’s hoping to be able to start work on in January of 2019.

Looking to the future, Mimi wants to keep growing Above 8000 Creative’s client base and put more away towards her dream home every month!

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • Above 8000 Creative: Learn more about Mimi and the work she’s doing over on her website. And don’t forget to order some cookies over on her bakery’s website!
  • Unsplash: Beautiful high-quality free images and photos you can download and use for any project—no attribution required.

SEE ALSO:

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Quote of the Day
"When starting a side hustle, it’s good to have a strong work ethic since you’ll need to be working instead of doing other things."
—Mimi Council #SideHustleSchool

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To infinity and beyond,

Chris Guillebeau