#1695 - Finance Worker Strikes Gold with Custom Jewelry
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2021
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When the daughter of a jewelry maker discovers how profitable the industry can be, she uses her skills from corporate finance to build her own brand.
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| 0:35.2 | Hey everybody, what's up? Welcome to Side Usals School. This is your host Chris Gillabo. |
| 0:39.6 | Thank you for tuning in today. It's episode 1695 coming up on the 1700th consecutive day of the |
| 0:46.4 | podcast. Thanks to your support because you were awesome. Now of all the ideas you could pursue, |
| 0:52.0 | this podcast is by the way about finding and pursuing profitable ideas. Of all the ideas you could |
| 0:57.8 | pursue, I encourage you to choose one that offers a good margin. A good profit margin specifically. |
| 1:04.4 | What is that margin? Well, there's at least 100% and probably more. Of course, |
| 1:08.8 | this varies by industry. We're going to talk about it, but the point is that whatever it costs you |
| 1:12.9 | to make something or acquire something, produce something, you want to at least be doubling your |
| 1:18.7 | money on it. This doesn't mean you are a greedy, ropper Baron. No offense to any greedy, |
| 1:23.4 | rubber Baron's out there. It means you're trying to build a sustainable business. Many industries |
| 1:28.3 | have guidelines about margins, including the jewelry industry that we're going to focus on here |
| 1:32.6 | today. Other times, it's harder to look at someone selling the same thing and figure out what to |
| 1:36.9 | charge, especially if you're making something that has no obvious comp. You can't point to |
| 1:41.9 | somebody else and say, well, this is what they're charging. Therefore, here's my price. |
| 1:46.4 | Messaging and how you present your offer becomes even more important. |
| 1:51.0 | So we won't be able to cover all that in detail in today's short episode, but we're going to focus |
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