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Side Hustle School

#1720 - TBT: Local Comic Book Store Expands to National Subscription Box

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

In this week’s “Throwback Thursday / Where are they now?” segment, we hear from the Sacramento-based co-owner of Comic Crate, a monthly comic book subscription box service.  

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0:00.0

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0:35.2

Hey there, what's up? Welcome. Thank you for tuning in. My name is Chris Gill about your host

0:39.4

of Side-Osel School, and today is Throwback Thursday, our weekly segment with an in-depth look at

0:45.2

someone whose story has evolved since we first featured them. Now last week we heard from the owner

0:49.9

of Heathen Wines, after hosting Wine Tours all over Europe, he changed his business model during

0:55.2

the pandemic to offer virtual tours and sell private label wine. Today in our latest feature,

1:00.7

we'll hear from Pam Farley. She's the co-owner of Comic Create, a monthly Comic Book subscription

1:05.6

box service based in Sacramento, California, and also the owner of a Comic Book Store.

1:10.7

Now I want you to pay attention to something in particular from her update. She really knows her

1:14.4

audience, and that audience, her customers, is not in fact the kids who are reading the comics.

1:20.8

In fact, she says something like, my advice relates to comics, but you can expand it to other industries.

1:25.5

Pay attention to that because there's a really important lesson there. So let's hear directly from

1:29.5

Pam, I'll let her take it from here, and I'll come back at the end to give us a brief wrap-up.

1:33.5

This is Pam Farley from Sacramento, California. My side hustle is called Comic Create, and we were

1:49.0

first featured on episode 685. Comic Create is the only subscription box for comic books where you

1:56.4

get to choose the rating of the comics you receive, so you always know that they'll be perfect

2:01.6

for your favorite reader. We've owned a comic book store for more than 20 years, and we were

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