#1312 - College Student Starts Million Dollar Design Biz
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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A college student uses her artistic skills to make personalized gifts for family and friends, growing it into a million dollar business.
Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's featured side hustler, one of our listeners in fact, says that if it wasn't for |
| 0:09.2 | the design business she started in college, she might have had to drop out because she |
| 0:13.8 | couldn't afford it otherwise. |
| 0:15.8 | Well this business is now her full-time work, together with her husband and a number of |
| 0:19.5 | employees. |
| 0:20.5 | And it all started from selling stickers during her freshman year. |
| 0:24.8 | Welcome to Side Usal School, my name is Chris Gillipo, how can designers stand out in |
| 0:28.8 | a crowded field? |
| 0:30.1 | Or perhaps it could be some other crowded field. |
| 0:32.4 | If you have a talent and you're like, I know this is valuable, I know this can be useful |
| 0:35.5 | and helpful and hopefully profitable for me, but there's a lot of other people out there |
| 0:39.3 | who have these kinds of skills. |
| 0:41.3 | Well what can you do? |
| 0:42.3 | And the answer is usually, there are lots of variations, but the answer is usually by |
| 0:46.0 | doing something different, unique, or just better than everyone else. |
| 0:50.7 | Not trying to be better about everything, because that's not going to happen, but better |
| 0:53.9 | about one thing. |
| 0:55.3 | So how can you find out what that is? |
| 0:57.1 | Well this story might give you an idea. |
| 0:59.3 | Because among other things, I learned about Bridesmaid proposal boxes. |
| 1:03.1 | I'd never heard of that before and now I'm educated if you have not heard about it, perhaps |
| 1:06.8 | you will soon. |
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