Tag: Social Media

Avocado Queen Earns $45,000 Selling Spreadable Granola

What It’s About

Did you hear the joke about the Granola Butter? I’m not telling you—you might spread it!

[podcast_details]

Words of Wisdom

For those out there still on the fence about starting a side hustle, Ali had some great advice related to starting:

“If you’re hesitating and waiting for the ‘perfect moment’ to launch your side hustle—just launch. The perfect moment doesn’t exist, and it’ll never come. The sooner you launch, the quicker you can pivot and figure things out as you go. Also, tell anyone and everyone that you’re launching a side hustle. It’ll hold you accountable to follow through.”

Fun Fact

Ali’s first launch almost never happened. Before she could officially share her Granola Butter with the world, she needed the approval of the food inspector. However, there was only one food inspector at the time and she was struggling to keep up with the amount of work she had on her docket. Ali was worried that she wouldn’t get the nod before her launch date—she had already announced it and sent influencers her #freethedrip kits—kind of a big deal!

Fortunately, Ali has the tenacity of a bulldog and called or emailed every day. Finally, the day before the launch, Ali got the O.K. Phew!

Notes from Chris

Episode 599
Meet Ali Bonar, a full-time product marketer for a health tech company living in San Francisco. Growing up, Ali’s life was pretty normal. She was outgoing, had a bunch of friends, and played volleyball on her high school team. On the outside, everything appeared fine. However, on the inside, as Ali will attest, she was developing an unhealthy relationship with food.

She’d starve herself all day then spend the night binge eating which left her feeling guilty. In Ali’s mind, she had no self-control and didn’t feel comfortable in her own skin. She had developed an eating disorder while studying nutrition at UC Berkeley from trying to eat clean all the time. Seriously, food was stressing her out!

She began documenting her journey of intuitive eating on Instagram with the handle @avokween shortly after college. Her struggles with food persisted and she quickly realized this was a problem that wasn’t going away. She needed help.

Her breakthrough came when she shifted her focus away from worrying about how certain foods made her look and instead focused on how they made her feel, everything changed. This avokween began giving zero guacs!

Meanwhile, her marketing job was leaving her creatively unfulfilled. As soon as she’d get off work, Ali would go home and tinker around in her kitchen. This was the place where she could exercise her creative freedom. She felt alive. She began experimenting with different foods, posting her stories on Instagram.

A self-proclaimed nut butter-aholic, Ali found herself putting the buttery spreads on everything. And it was while experimenting with a combination of granola and coconut oil that Ali stumbled upon (cue the trumpets) granola butter.

This spreadable gold was getting rave reviews from family and friends. Because of all the encouragement, Ali decided to kick things up a notch.

What started as mere kitchen experiments resulted in the founding of Kween Foods, a wellness company with the mission to empower women to reclaim their relationship with food through self-love and body positivity. Their first official product? Granola Butter—the first-ever spreadable granola!

Riding on the coattails of popular trends was another way Ali leveraged her social media following. She sent her curated list of influencers a #freethedrip kit which was everything they’d need to create a worthy Instagram post. #freethedrip was a play off of the #freethenip movement. #freethedrip was basically a way to let your smoothies run wild, welcoming the nut butter overflow!

Ali says Instagram has been instrumental in promoting her brand. 90 percent of her sales have come from her Instagram following. It made reaching out so easy because of those existing relationships. Since launching Kween Foods four months ago, Ali says business has been a steady climb resulting in $45,000 worth of sales.

So, what’s next for Kween Foods? Ali says Kween is scaling quickly, and there might even be an opportunity down the road to pursue it full-time. And currently, Kween is cooking up some seasonal flavors for the upcoming holidays. Did someone say pumpkin spice? We’ll see! The avocado queen’s reign is set to continue.

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Yours in the revolution,

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Resources

CREATE YOUR ONLINE STORE

Create your online store with Shopify using an exclusive discount for Side Hustle School listeners. For a limited time, get a free 21-day trial and a 10% discount for a whole year.

Many Side Hustle School listeners are building sites using Shopify's easy-to-learn platform. Try it free today! Learn More

GET YOUR FIRST 1,000 EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS

Social media is nice, but building an email list is still the single best way to get customers and clients for your hustle. It's not hard to get started—sign up for a 30-day trial and join the list-building challenge! You’ll be up and running in no time. Learn More

Quote of the Day
"People don’t relate to perfection, they relate to realness—not the glossy image of perfection. If you try to appeal to everyone, you’ll appeal to no one."
—Ali Bonar #SideHustleSchool

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Chris Guillebeau

Squeaky Clean Couple Raise the Bar with Online Soap Sales

What It’s About

A Side Hustle School success story with real lather!

[podcast_details]

Words of Wisdom

Danielle says that you should find a trend in social media and see how this can benefit you. One of the things she said benefited them significantly is the fact that they are a black-owned and operated soap company—which as they say is kind of a rarity. They were able to market their product to their community and receive tremendous support.

Fun Fact

While we’d never tell you to shower less, there’s a bar of soap made by a family-run business in Lebanon might make you think twice about washing too much. Each bar of soap is made with gold and diamond powder, which is why it’s so pricey. Soap is surprisingly expensive!

Notes from Chris

Episode 594

Couples who side hustle together, stay together. At least that’s what the evidence from North Carolina couple Danielle and Rondel Roach suggest. They met while working together at the National Institute of Health, but after a few years, they decided to make a change. And they made this change in more ways than one…

Rondel had quit his job to drive for Uber and Lyft. Danielle also quit working as a manager for a cancer research company. While they both enjoyed their new routines, Danielle wanted to find a way to earn more money together so that Rondel could work fewer hours, and come home earlier. Danielle was thinking of ideas but wasn’t sure exactly where to start… or even how to start. Then, in November 2017, Rondel’s cousin sent Danielle an email. He knew that they wanted to earn extra income and had an idea of how they could start.

As it turns out, that cousin and his wife had recently started a doll business, and he was preparing to create a course and share everything he had learned about how to use Instagram for marketing. He wanted to test-run the course on someone, and who better to turn to than family?

Danielle and Rondel spent several hours learning about Instagram marketing. They wanted to execute what they learned, but they needed something to market first. Danielle spent her lunch breaks putting her new skills to work, researching what was trending on Instagram. She hoped that if she found something interesting, she would be able to put her own unique spin on it and turn it into a successful side hustle.

After a good thumb workout… I mean, lots of scrolling through Instagram, she found something that interested her. Danielle brought the idea to her husband, who loved it even more than she did. Since they both had the fire of motivation burning, Rondel ordered supplies the next day and they got to work making their test products. The product was… natural soaps.

Danielle turned to Youtube video tutorials for instructions on how to do… just about everything! As she told us, “I am a early morning person so I’d wake up at 5:30am and watch endless Soap Queen Videos on Youtube.” Meanwhile, Rondel built the website for Bombd Aesthetics on Shopify, and both of them continued to make soap every day after work, coining names for the batches that were visually appealing.

They officially launched on January 1st, 2018. The same cousin that helped them navigate Instagram marketing invested $600 so they could register their business as an LLC and buy supplies like a stick blender, measuring cups, and bowls. Almost right away, they began seeing sales… a LOT of sales.

It wasn’t just that they’d found a hit with their product; they’d also found a huge hit with how they marketed it using Instagram ads and features. Danielle and Rondel drive traffic to their website by finding large social media pages that align with their holistic values and ask them to feature Bombd on their Instagram page in exchange for a small promotion fee.

They’ve also branched out into Facebook and Google ads, and invest about $200 into one ad. Danielle told us that they typically invest about $200 in one ad, and then see a return of about $1,000—pretty great ROI.

Thanks to these efforts, Bombd Aesthetics is bringing in around $50,000 a month. That’s right! Danielle says they actually get nervous on days when sales are $500 or less. They’ve now hired an apprentice soap maker to help them handle all those orders coming in. As for what’s next, they’re on a three-step plan to lather, rinse, and repeat.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • Bombd Aesthetics: Take bath time to the next level—snag some goods over on Danielle and Rondel’s website!
  • Shopify: Danielle and Rondel used Shopify to set up their site for Bombd Aesthetics, and they’re offering a 21-day trial and exclusive discount for all Side Hustle School listeners!
  • Soap Queen: The all things bath products resource page that Danielle turned to in order to learn how to create her products

SEE ALSO:

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

Yours in the revolution,

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Resources

CREATE YOUR ONLINE STORE

Create your online store with Shopify using an exclusive discount for Side Hustle School listeners. For a limited time, get a free 21-day trial and a 10% discount for a whole year.

Many Side Hustle School listeners are building sites using Shopify's easy-to-learn platform. Try it free today! Learn More

GET YOUR FIRST 1,000 EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS

Social media is nice, but building an email list is still the single best way to get customers and clients for your hustle. It's not hard to get started—sign up for a 30-day trial and join the list-building challenge! You’ll be up and running in no time. Learn More

Quote of the Day
"I remember our first customer, her name was Destinee W. I remember telling my husband about the Side Hustle School book and how we need to envision our ideal customer, give them a name, and target more customers like them. To this day we call our ideal customers Destinee W."
—Danielle Roach #SideHustleSchool

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Chris Guillebeau

Living the Dream: Man Gets Paid to Play Video Games All Day

What It’s About

How to make $3,000/month playing video games!

[podcast_details]

Words of Wisdom

Brad didn’t know a thing about marketing when he started streaming, but he did know how to make people feel welcomed and appreciated. From the very beginning, when someone joined his stream, he would give them a quick shout out and invite them to ask questions if they had any.

This simple habit helped new viewers know that they were welcome to chat and participate, which led to Brad’s chatroom being highly active during his streams, which led to a community being built among Brad’s followers.

Fun Fact

Over 30 subscribers have sent Brad games in the mail to give away on his stream. It’s made his channel a sort of grab-bag for followers who like to buy games for other followers. While it was completely unexpected, it’s opened yet another fun pathway to community participation.

Notes from Chris

Episode 571

For Brad Driscoll and millions of others, video games are a pathway not only for fun but also for finding friends and communities. The only thing was, these friendships and communities built over games couldn’t be transmitted across countries or continents—at least, not in the early years—so when Brad’s best friend and college roommate moved to Tokyo, he wasn’t sure how they were going to continue to connect.

That is, until they discovered Twitch. By streaming his gaming on this new website under the name Dinky Dana, Brad could still interact with his friend all the way across the world—and they could even talk with only a twenty-second delay. Time zones were now an issue, but technology enabled their close friendship to survive.

It also produced an unexpected side hustle.

Brad began to notice random strangers subscribing to his channel and watching his streams. Lots of them. It was weird, he thought, but also…. pretty cool.

He started paying attention to other streams and noticed some people appeared to be making pretty good money by offering premium subscriptions for anywhere from $2-10 per month. These people would host subscriber-only streams, giveaways, and all sorts of community activities.

Brad wanted in on the streaming source of course. After all, the thought of making money while playing video games was… well… the dream.

But to get to that point, he’d have to work for it.

Around June of 2014, just three months after signing up for Twitch, Brad took on an enormous challenge: 365 days of streaming. He committed to at least three hours of streams per night for an entire year. His local friends weren’t exactly big fans of Brad being busy every night, but the Twitch community loved it. [What a challenge: some people exercise every day for a year or train for marathons. Brad thought: man, I’m going to do something harder: play those games whether I feel like it or not.]

It was a difficult year, lots of hard work engaging with followers and creating streaming plans, and he almost broke the streak a few times. But by the end, Brad had increased his follower count from a humble 3,000 to over 30,000. This put him in the top 1,000 Twitch streamers at the time.

At the height of his streaming days in 2015 and 2016, Brad was bringing in $3,000 per month from paying subscribers, which was actually more than he was making from his job at a cybersecurity company.

Brad still streams several times per week and has a large community of gamers that tune in, but he’s slowed his streaming roll in the last year to build a new full-time business with his brother: a marketing agency. Not only that, but he’s still bringing in $1,000-3,000 per month in subscriptions per month. All those years training as a gamer have paid off in more than just extra lives.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • Twitch | Dinky Dana: Check out some of Brad’s videos over on his Twitch page or over on YouTube!
  • DinkyDana.com: Learn more about Brad and the games he plays over on his website
  • Extra Life: An online grassroots movement working to save local kids through the power of play

SEE ALSO:

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

Yours in the revolution,

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Resources

CREATE YOUR ONLINE STORE

Create your online store with Shopify using an exclusive discount for Side Hustle School listeners. For a limited time, get a free 21-day trial and a 10% discount for a whole year.

Many Side Hustle School listeners are building sites using Shopify's easy-to-learn platform. Try it free today! Learn More

GET YOUR FIRST 1,000 EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS

Social media is nice, but building an email list is still the single best way to get customers and clients for your hustle. It's not hard to get started—sign up for a 30-day trial and join the list-building challenge! You’ll be up and running in no time. Learn More

Quote of the Day
"I never wanted it to be a one-way street where my viewers only watched me. I would always find ways to give my viewers a positive way to engage with me and my content, but I also encouraged them to engage with others within the community."
—Brad Driscoll #SideHustleSchool

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To infinity and beyond,

Chris Guillebeau

More Monet, Fewer Problems: Attorney Turns Holiday Prints Into Cash

What It’s About

A passion for watercolors leads to a familial shift in priorities.

[podcast_details]

Words of Wisdom

Jane’s number one lesson, in both life and side hustling, is that moving slowly is better than standing still. Probably because, as a mom, she doesn’t have time to stand still. But, it was the incremental gains that showed her that some weeks may be more productive than others, success isn’t possible without the little steps to take you there.

Fun Fact

The marble slab that eventually became Michelangelo’s statue of David was originally cut 43 years beforehand for an artist named Agostino di Duccio. Agostino gave up on his sculpture and, 10 years later, another artist named Antonio Rossellino took a crack at sculpting it. He eventually gave up as well, which paved the way for Michelangelo to start working on his chiseled masterpiece in 1501. Persistence pays off!

Notes from Chris

Episode 557

Jane Du, an attorney from Dallas, has always had a passion for art. When she wasn’t studying for her electrical engineering degree, she could often be found absent-mindedly doodling on textbook pages or random sheets of paper. But it wasn’t until she found a set of oil paints and a canvas during a summer holiday that she began to look at her art more seriously.

Not seriously enough to pursue it instead of engineering, and eventually law school, but enough to take classes and build her skills.

Watercolors, live models, and acrylic paints soon filled her weekends, and her work started to grow. Once in a while, a friend or family member would ask to purchase a painting, but Jane still didn’t take her art seriously. She just did it because she loved the creative balance it offered when she wasn’t working on case briefs or depositions.

When she started to take an online watercolor painting class in 2016, Jane created a Facebook page dedicated to her art so she could show off her work, without spamming her friends.

Not only did her artist page help Jane track her progress over time, it also inspired her to combine different styles to create new art forms, too. It was after a calligraphy class in 2017 that Jane came up with the idea to combine calligraphy with watercolor paintings.

Following a holiday to Hawaii with her family, she made a few postcards to send to her friends with scenes from the island. She also posted them online, and queries started to fill her inbox. Her other friends, the ones who weren’t graced with a watercolor-slash-calligraphy postcard, wanted to buy one of their own!

That’s when she thought that creating cards and prints to sell wasn’t such a bad idea. A picture started to form in her mind… it would be easy to grow without taking up too much personal time, and she wouldn’t have to part with the original prints!

Even though she had the foundation for a side hustle in her head, she didn’t think about it too seriously until she had a baby in mid-2017.

Her maternity leave gave her the time she needed to invest in building it out. She spent a week watching Youtube tutorials to learn how to create her Finn and Remy website and watched her side hustle come to life with a pre-launch sale that saw 12 orders come in during her first week. Since then, her orders have exponentially increased—and so has her passion.

Jane has also added two children’s books to her roster of creative endeavors, and she’s brought in around $15,000 since September of 2017. While Jane says they don’t have the same profit margins as her prints, she knows this is just the next step in her family’s big adventure. Her side hustle has inspired them to shift their focus from work to family and take a long trip abroad, starting in Mexico. While Jane doesn’t know where her side hustle, or next destination, will take them, she knows that her family’s priorities wouldn’t have realigned without the freedom she gained from her art.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • Finn and Remy: Head on over to Jane’s website to see her full collection
  • Shopify: Jane used Shopify to set up her site for Finn and Remy, and they’re offering a 21-day trial and exclusive discount for all Side Hustle School listeners!

SEE ALSO:

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

Yours in the revolution,

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Resources

CREATE YOUR ONLINE STORE

Create your online store with Shopify using an exclusive discount for Side Hustle School listeners. For a limited time, get a free 21-day trial and a 10% discount for a whole year.

Many Side Hustle School listeners are building sites using Shopify's easy-to-learn platform. Try it free today! Learn More

GET YOUR FIRST 1,000 EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS

Social media is nice, but building an email list is still the single best way to get customers and clients for your hustle. It's not hard to get started—sign up for a 30-day trial and join the list-building challenge! You’ll be up and running in no time. Learn More

Quote of the Day
"Just do it. Stop thinking about it and do it. The “doing” is a process and you’ll learn much more from actions and feedback than from internal rumination."
—Jane Du #SideHustleSchool

Sponsors & Gratitude

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To infinity and beyond,

Chris Guillebeau

College Grad Shares “More than Mac & Cheese” Recipes for Students

What It’s About

A college student helps other co-eds break out of the freezer aisle.

[podcast_details]

Words of Wisdom

Right out of the oven, Chelsea emphasizes the importance of being clear on what you want to do. After figuring that piece out, she suggests to get even more specific by focusing on a particular niche.

This eliminates a lot of the blind risk taking, and instead allows you to understand the likelihood of success in that area from the beginning.

Fun Fact

When Chelsea got her first client with her new brand, she knew she didn’t want to celebrate with anything too frivolous or expensive… so her and her husband popped a bottle of Prosecco and called it a day!

Notes from Chris

Episode 545

Back in 2010, Chelsea Cole was a student at the University of Oregon on the fast track to becoming an elementary school teacher. But a couple years in, the realities of the public school system started to sink in, and she was no longer certain that she wanted to work in traditional education.

That’s when she started to pay attention to the things she enjoyed to see if there were any viable alternatives. And the first thing that boiled to the top was her love of food and cooking.

You see, Chelsea had created a food blog called A Duck’s Oven (because U of O’s mascot is a duck) to document her adventures in cooking, and it was a way for her to unwind after a day spent cramming for tests. When she was in her kitchen, all of her worries and school concerns melted away like butter in a hot pan.

But up until she realized that a life of chalkboards wasn’t for her, cooking had just been a hobby. Now she was looking at it with fresh eyes.

Since she loved cooking so much, why not try her hand at cooking for others? Like many idealists before her, Chelsea’s first thought was to open a restaurant. While Eugene, Oregon was a nice college town, she had her sights set on Eugene’s foodie obsessed sister, Portland.

So in 2013, Chelsea packed her bags and set off to the land of hipsters, craft beer, and Blue Star Donuts. Not going into this half-baked, her new course of action was to get a job at a restaurant until she had learned the ropes enough to open her own. She was certain that she had found her destiny!

But just like Moses said when delivering the tablets of stone, just because there’s dough in the oven doesn’t mean it will become a biscuit…

Although she enjoyed the fast-paced environment of working in a restaurant, Chelsea quickly discovered that running one was far from being a piece of cake. So, back to the cutting board!

Since the majority of her audience had been fellow classmates, she thought about ways that she could cater directly to them and their needs. Chelsea knew from experience that many of them were living off of boxed mac n’ cheese and frozen pizza, so she decided to set her goal on helping them branch out from the frozen food aisle.

How exactly was she going to compete with the siren song of Hot Pockets? Well, to start, she’d create content and recipes that were simple and easy to put together.

Narrowing down the focus of her blog helped her grow her social media following to over 2,000 followers (on Instagram and Twitter), and these days, the blog is bringing in anywhere from $800-$1,200/month. Some of this cash comes from affiliate relationships, and Chelsea has also been able to make money helping other bloggers develop recipes and improve their social media.

These days, Chelsea is working hard to cook up passive income for herself—there might even be a cookbook in her future! She admits that idea still needs a bit more time in the oven, but she’s not loafing around—the blog remains a breadwinner!

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • A Duck’s Oven: If you’re looking for a new resource that will brighten up your weekday menu, head on over to Chelsea’s blog for some inspiration. Get crackin’!
  • Lose Weight and Keep it Off: This story on Chelsea’s blog really resonated with me, and I think it adds a nice dollop of humanity to her side hustle. Read more about it, here!

SEE ALSO:

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

Yours in the revolution,

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Resources

CREATE YOUR ONLINE STORE

Create your online store with Shopify using an exclusive discount for Side Hustle School listeners. For a limited time, get a free 21-day trial and a 10% discount for a whole year.

Many Side Hustle School listeners are building sites using Shopify's easy-to-learn platform. Try it free today! Learn More

GET YOUR FIRST 1,000 EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS

Social media is nice, but building an email list is still the single best way to get customers and clients for your hustle. It's not hard to get started—sign up for a 30-day trial and join the list-building challenge! You’ll be up and running in no time. Learn More

Quote of the Day
"I’ve always hated the concept of working my butt off to build something for someone else—I want to build something that’s mine!"
—Chelsea Cole #SideHustleSchool

Sponsors & Gratitude

Move Forward With Uber!

Side Hustle School is brought to you by Uber—the company determined to improve the ridesharing experience for both riders and drivers.

I've seen a lot of these improvements firsthand, but don't just take my word on it! Read more about all of the ways Uber is moving forward—head on over to Uber.com.🚘 Learn More

Like the Show? Leave a Rating!

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Here's How

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To infinity and beyond,

Chris Guillebeau

Weekly Recap: Do You REALLY Need a Facebook Page?

Notes from Chris

Episode 519

LISTENER CHECK-INS + QUESTIONS:

This week, we received listener voicemails from Dave, Chris, and Brenna:

    • Dave: “Hey, Chris! I just wanted to say that I’m binge listening to the show on the weekends like I usually do when I’m working around the house. Love the show, love the inspiration—keep up the good work!”
    • Chris was one of the original podcasters, but what he’s working on now is a Kickstarter football board game called Friday Night Legends. He recently met his Kickstarter goal, and now he’s working on getting the word out!
    • Brenna has a question about the pros and cons of having a social media page like Facebook for your side hustle. In Ep. 404, the Being Boss podcasting duo decided to close down their Facebook page, and she’s wondering if there are certain side hustles that really benefit from having a Facebook page or if the whole thing is unnecessary.

In today’s recap, we’ll delve more into this topic of whether or not you really need a Facebook page—listen to the Weekly Recap to learn more!

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!

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. 513 – When an Ontario man finds himself dreaming of a car he can’t afford, he buys it anyway—then rents it out half the time to earn an extra $15,000 in 2017
  • Ep. 514 – A pediatric dentist joins forces with her husband to sell sugar-free caramels. Starting from a goal of selling 100 bags at a local market, they go on to earn $100,000 in 2017
  • Ep. 515 – She spent years dreaming of building her own property in California. To turn the dream into a reality, she started a side hustle by applying the skills she’d gained in operating a bakery
  • Ep. 516 – While browsing the candle aisle at Target, a social worker discovers an illuminating opportunity to make money
  • Ep. 517 – An 18 year old in the UK goes from idea to action with his fitness-meets-fashion athletic brand in just over a year
  • Ep. 518 – When her day job no longer provides her with joy, a speech pathologist creates an online store that helps others make every day more like the weekend

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

Yours in the revolution,

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WDS 2018 is coming up at the end of June (June 26th-July 2nd), and we’ll be welcoming people from over 30 different countries. With inspiring keynote speakers, a week full of activities and attendee-led meetups, and two incredible parties, you won’t want to miss it!

This is our final wave of main stage tickets so visit our website to get your ticket to this incredible, once a year event! We promise that it’s unlike anything you’ve ever experienced before.

Here’s what’s coming up next…

Each week I’ll feature more stories from people who are starting side hustles without quitting their job. Here’s a sneak peek of what’s coming next week:

  • He’d always dreamed of making a million dollars–but could he achieve it selling his services for just $5? Thanks to a penchant for naming things, he’s well on his way
  • Backpacks that bring fashion to the mountains earn a Colorado couple an additional $2,500 a month while also feeding the homeless
  • And so much more!

Do you have a side hustle story you’d like to share? Fill out the Side Hustle School submission form and your story may be featured on the show!

Also, if you’re interested in joining the Side Hustle Society, visit our Society page to get notified when it goes live!

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Speech Pathologist Sells Turkish Tea Towels By the Seashore

What It’s About

A woman discovers an opportunity to help others live like it’s the weekend.

[podcast_details]

Words of Wisdom

Liz kept a close eye on her Instagram growth and used what she learned to start a beginner’s Instagram course for business. She breaks it down into three different sections: 1) the best time to post every day and minutia like that, 2) how to be discoverable through collaboration, and 3) how to dress to impress. Liz says that the other strategies won’t work if you aren’t paying close attention to the overall look of everything. It’s not really for you (shouldn’t include lots of selfies!) and all content should be driven by what your followers want to see with consistent aesthetic and overall look.

People make a split decision when they visit your Instagram page and decide pretty quickly if your feed is something that makes them happy to look at. Be consistent with the overall look of the things you’re putting out there because Instagram is a visual platform.

Fun Fact

When she was considering additional products to offer alongside her Turkish towels, she decided to tackle something called felted soap. If you’re like me and have never heard of this before, it’s essentially a bar of soap with bright, colorful wool wrapped around it that has undergone a felting process. Once felted, the wool is smoothly matted and totally adhered to the surface of the soap. It’s basically an ancient Turkish version of a natural loofah!

Many markets that Liz went to put an emphasis on handmade products, so this was her attempt at producing a handmade product. But it was so time-consuming for the amount you can charge (there’s totally a cap for how much you can charge for a bar of soap), so she abandoned it. Plus, it really took over her entire kitchen, and her husband wasn’t overly thrilled about it.

Notes from Chris

Episode 518

Liz Martin’s mom always told her that “you should have something to look forward to every day.” In 2014, Liz realized that this “something” was completely absent in her life. Although she had a rewarding day job as a speech-language pathologist for a nursing home in Charleston, South Carolina, she also felt a creative void in her life. You see, like many of us have done at one point or another, Liz was working for the weekend.

When things got rough, she’d try to convince herself that everything was okay. She had a good salary and felt that she was lucky to have the job that she had. Still, when something is missing from your life, it’s hard to forget about it.

Liz decided to focus on adding little, happy things to her daily routines—a new journal from a shop she loved, or some fun straws that would add a little color to her drinks. Basically, something small that would bring a little pizzazz or joy to her day. Something she could look forward to when the hours at work started to get to her. Her mother’s words became her mantra and an idea she tried every day to live by.

What does this have to do with starting a side hustle? Well… around this time, Liz had a cousin who lived in Turkey, and she sent over a set of Turkish cloth towels to the family in the States.

These Turkish towels were extra special. The richly dyed, handmade cotton creations were made on a loom, and they had many uses. Picnic on the beach? Bring a Turkish towel to sit on. Whiling away the evening on your front porch with a mint julep at hand? As the sun set, there’s no better way to stave off the chill spring breeze than by wrapping yourself in a stylish Turkish towel.

Since this was the ultimate weekend companion, Liz thought that she could try selling them.

As her sales increased, Liz felt more and more comfortable weaning herself out of her day job at the nursing home. She first dropped down to 4 days a week, then 3, but by late 2016, she was working just 2 days a week while dedicating the rest of her time to developing Charleston Weekender.

When the nursing home was acquired by a new company, they weren’t thrilled with this arrangement. They told Liz that she was welcome to work for them full-time again—but instead, it was exactly the push she needed. It was a great job, but it just wasn’t what she wanted to be doing. Had this not happened, Liz said that she’d probably still be there working part-time and never really taking the leap.

The Charleston Weekender has evolved considerably in two years of part-time work and now one year of full-time focus. These days she’s bringing in anywhere from $5-7,000/month. In addition to product sales, Liz also gets paid for sponsored social media posts, IG classes that she started to help others market their times. She even decided to open up a retail shop of her own!

What about that sense of something missing? Well, the side hustle turned small business has brought Liz the freedom to travel and reclaim more of her time for herself. Best of all, she no longer feels like she’s working for the weekend.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • The Charleston Weekender: Learn how to make every day feel like more of the weekend over on Liz’s website!
  • Squarespace: The website building platform that Liz used to create her website for The Charleston Weekender

 

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Yours in the revolution,

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Resources

CREATE YOUR ONLINE STORE

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Many Side Hustle School listeners are building sites using Shopify's easy-to-learn platform. Try it free today! Learn More

GET YOUR FIRST 1,000 EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS

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Quote of the Day
"I notice that doing occasional Instagram live videos and consistently creating Instagram stories keeps my audience interacting with me. It never hurts to pop in to have more face time with your social media community!"
—Liz Martin #SideHustleSchool

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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.

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Resources

CREATE YOUR ONLINE STORE

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Many Side Hustle School listeners are building sites using Shopify's easy-to-learn platform. Try it free today! Learn More

GET YOUR FIRST 1,000 EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS

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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

Texas Blogger Turns Weekend Adventures Into $2,000/Month

What It’s About

A Texas blogger masters Instagram and monetizes her weekly excursions!

[podcast_details]

Words of Wisdom

If you’re looking into social media influencing as a side hustle, Jessica says:

Start by thinking about what you can offer to your potential audience, and what makes you, and your content, unique. And not just that—be as specific as possible. If you want to talk about fashion, think of something within that market that isn’t already supersaturated—maybe make your channel all about fashion in really bright colors or all about scarves. And once you narrow it down, stick to it and try not to get off base.

Fun Fact

Named for a character in a Russian novel, Marfa, Texas, is a small desert town in the southwest part of Texas with about 2,100 residents. What it lacks in population density, it makes up for in hipster cred. The tiny town has been featured in The New York Times approximately 12 times, and the art scene has made a splash on NPR, too. Marfa-llous.

Notes from Chris

Episode 496

You may have seen social media influencers on your Instagram or Snapchat feeds, or at least heard about people getting paid to post about brands on their social accounts. But if you’ve ever wondered what it takes, or how to begin your own influencer side hustle, you’re not alone! Jessica Serna in Dallas, Texas wondered the same thing… so she figured it out.

Jessica loved her 9-to-5 job working as a recruiter for a local non-profit organization, but whenever she wasn’t at work, you could find her on a road trip, traveling to a new city or town for the weekend. If it was driving distance from her home in Dallas, she would be there. Soon, she developed a knack for finding interesting places to visit in Texas and figured out all the tricks to staying fashionable in the blistering heat and humidity that the state is famous for.

As she made the most of her time outside the office, and her Instagram feed became filled with pictures from her travels, people started asking her for recommendations and places to try. She slowly started to build a following, but it wasn’t until a brand offered her some money to promote their product that it really clicked. Maybe she could make money from her social media following while doing something she loved—sharing new places and things with people. Social media influencing was completely new territory for Jessica, but she felt that she was up for the challenge.

She spent a weekend at her desk for a change of pace and created a basic WordPress website to house her new travel posts and images, and kept the name simple and to the point—My Curly Adventures. The name was partially inspired by her wanderlust, and partially because, as a woman with curly hair, she was never immune to the challenges that Texan humidity posed to her hair.

After her website went live, Jessica’s following began to grow even more. It turns out that her idea to focus on a specific niche, traveling in Texas, was a hit! And with this increase in her following came incoming brand promotion offers.

Since her first paid promotion, Jessica has had the chance to attend special events in different cities, try interesting and unique products, eat at amazing restaurants, and visit new destinations—all either for free or paid for her efforts. In Jessica’s words, “It’s a life I never imagined, and every day I can’t believe I actually get paid for this.”

It took Jessica a year, and a lot of travel, to build her following into a social media influencer side hustle, but now she has over twenty-two thousand followers. In her opinion, it was well worth all those long weekend trips, fantastic meals, and hours spent editing photos—especially now that she’s been able to move from side to full-time hustle.

The added bonus? Now her favorite things—traveling and new experiences—come to her either paid or absolutely free. With the upgrade to her main focus, My Curly Adventures is set to create even more content (and Jessica can take even more trips) as she finds interesting new ways to share ideas and locations with her followers. Jessica is her own mane advocate, and the combing attractions over are sure to look interesting!

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

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CREATE YOUR ONLINE STORE

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Many Side Hustle School listeners are building sites using Shopify's easy-to-learn platform. Try it free today! Learn More

GET YOUR FIRST 1,000 EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS

Social media is nice, but building an email list is still the single best way to get customers and clients for your hustle. It's not hard to get started—sign up for a 30-day trial and join the list-building challenge! You’ll be up and running in no time. Learn More

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"The most amazing thing I’ve been able to do is live a lifestyle I’ve never imagine. I’ve attended events and traveled to places that I always thought might happen ‘one day.’ I also have the freedom to create my own hours, which has been exciting for me!"
—Jessica Serna #SideHustleSchool

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South Carolina Transplant Creates Watercolor Stationery Brand

What It’s About

When she leaves her old life behind, this designer turns to watercolors to fill her time…and her wallet.

[podcast_details]

Words of Wisdom

Renee is an avid believer that if you write out your goals, you’re more likely to make those goals happen. She sets daily goals for herself because she firmly believes that it’s good to look at tasks from a day to day perspective and it’s satisfying to check things off as she goes. It’s an added boost of accomplishment!

Fortunately, she has plenty of paper to write down her goals.

Fun Fact

Renee’s first sale was actually from a neighbor. She had no idea he knew about her, and he had no idea he was buying from her! She refunded the shipping and personally delivered his order to him.

He was a little confused at first, but they had a good laugh about it and he and his wife are still customers of hers today.

Notes from Chris

Episode 473

Renee Gutzwiller has always had a bit of a creative streak, and these urges were heartily encouraged by the creative role models she had growing up. Her mother was a full-time photographer, and her grandmother had been a seamstress. Paired with the business acumen of her entrepreneurially inclined father, Renee was on the fast track to learning how to pursue a creative career.

Renee went on to get a Master’s degree in Design Management and landed a role as a User Experience Designer for a tech company in Charleston, South Carolina. But despite the creative elements of her day job, Renee realized that she still wanted more. She fell in love with watercolors, and she started filling her home with her works of art.

The move to Charleston brought many changes. Far away from her friends and daily routine, she found that she needed something a little more substantial to fill her free time. What she needed was a side hustle.

Inspired by the beauty of this old coastal city and its influx of tourists, Renee decided to start painting watercolors of the area and selling them to visitors eager for a keepsake to take home with them. She called her company Island Haus Paperie, and decided to start selling her watercolors in the form of prints, cards, notepads, and of course, stationery.

When she first got started, she sold her products in person at market events and on her website, but these days you can find her products in 10 different stores, 8 of which are located in Charleston.

So far she’s selling around $1,000 each month in product, and after her printing expenses, Renee clears approximately $700 each month. Her profit increases each month because she’s starting to print larger quantities, which makes her printing cost go down tremendously. She has a lot of plans up her sleeve, and this is one side hustle that she won’t be watering down.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

SEE ALSO:

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

Yours in the revolution,

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Resources

CREATE YOUR ONLINE STORE

Create your online store with Shopify using an exclusive discount for Side Hustle School listeners. For a limited time, get a free 21-day trial and a 10% discount for a whole year.

Many Side Hustle School listeners are building sites using Shopify's easy-to-learn platform. Try it free today! Learn More

GET YOUR FIRST 1,000 EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS

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Quote of the Day
"Let go of things that you don’t excel in. You don’t need to be everywhere, and you don’t need to make your product bend to every style. Do what you do best!"
—Renee Gutzwiller #SideHustleSchool

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