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Side Hustle School

#1128 - Q&A: How to scale a pen-to-paper greeting service?

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Side Hustle, Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business, Entrepreneurship,, Small Business

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

This listener started a pen-to-paper initiative to connect people through snail mail. It’s starting well, but how can it scale—and is a Pay-What-You-Will pricing model the best option? 


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0:00.0

Greatings, friends and listeners and reminder right at the top of the episode here, by the way,

0:09.0

this is Chris Galivo. I want to know about your projects. I heard about a really cool one today.

0:14.0

You'll hear about it too. And I have very much enjoyed the first month of our year of interaction.

0:19.2

All year long in 2020, we're doing listener questions, updates, following people along throughout

0:24.2

the course of their projects, looking at where their ideas come from, how they execute on those ideas,

0:29.1

what happens along the way, and what they could do better, because of course we could all do better.

0:33.2

Now we're going to be ramping up as we go along with more questions, the new Throwback Thursday,

0:37.4

slash where are they now series, which we've done two of so far, more coming up,

0:41.5

and something special I'm saving for April when I will begin an all-new tour throughout the US and

0:46.0

Canada. Today's listener started a pinded paper initiative to connect people through snail mail.

0:52.1

It's starting well, but how can it scale? How can you grow something that is a manual process,

0:56.8

at least requires a manual process, and here's the kicker, is a pay-what-you-will-pricing model

1:02.1

at the best option. I really love that part of the question in particular. I'm going to spend some time

1:06.5

on it and give you a real opinion. All right, stay tuned. Here's a shout out to our sponsor, and then we will dive right in.

1:12.4

So I love the personalization and artistry of this project. It really is beautiful. I want to

1:29.6

encourage you to check it out. Heylux.co is your website. I'll mention that again at the end. It's

1:35.2

also very cool that Nikki tracks the number and destinations of these handwritten notes on that website.

1:40.3

You can see all the different cities and towns that they've gone to. Oh, and I had never heard

1:44.4

the verb calligraph before, which I understand what calligraphy is, but I've never heard it used as a

1:48.4

verb like that. So I learned something new every day just by working on the show. Thank you, Nikki,

1:52.6

for that. Let's look at these questions. She's got three of them here. I'm going to focus on the

1:57.6

second two. First one is about target audience. Broadly speaking here, I think it's anyone who wants to

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