#1063 - Book Lover Ships Out Fantasies for Profit
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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An avid reader from Michigan turns her passion into income with two fairytale profit centers.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome friends, listeners, Sadisle School community. |
| 0:12.0 | Excited to bring you this story today. |
| 0:13.8 | It's all about an avid reader from Michigan who turns her passion into income with two |
| 0:19.1 | fairy tale profit centers. |
| 0:21.2 | Every month she ships out a couple of hundred books to happy subscribers. |
| 0:25.2 | That's right, it's a subscription box model. |
| 0:27.5 | We'll look at the economics of running this service on a platform called |
| 0:30.4 | Creightjoy. |
| 0:31.4 | Why is it interesting? |
| 0:32.5 | What are the benefits? |
| 0:33.5 | What are the drawbacks? |
| 0:34.6 | And what do you need to know if you'd like to try it yourself? |
| 0:38.4 | The story is called book lover ships out fantasies for profit. |
| 0:41.5 | It's coming up in just 30 seconds. |
| 0:43.7 | Kaelin Parrick has an insatiable love for reading, especially a young adult fiction, also |
| 0:59.5 | known as YA. |
| 1:01.2 | One day she noticed that her local bookstore was selling used books for as little as $1 |
| 1:05.2 | each. |
| 1:06.2 | They were flying off the shelves. |
| 1:07.2 | They got her thinking if they could make a profit off of used books, why couldn't |
| 1:11.6 | she? |
| 1:12.8 | While she had just graduated college and landed a full time job as an accountant, she'd also |
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