#1720 - TBT: Local Comic Book Store Expands to National Subscription Box
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
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🗓️ 16 September 2021
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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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| 0:35.2 | 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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