Hey there, what's up? Welcome to Sideosal School. This is Chris Gell about your host.

Got a great story for you today. A really excellent case study in this story, a gentleman

known as the AV Gear Guy. He has a name, but that's what he goes by. The AV Gear Guy.

We'll talk about that in the story. He uses a $5 a month Craigslist ad to land thousands

of dollars in work. Listen, somebody's going to go out there and try this today. I hope

you will. One of our listeners, maybe more than one of our listeners, go and try this

guy's tactic and let me know how it works. By the way, there could actually be several

different lessons or takeaways from this episode. The aforementioned AV Gear Guy is doing

really well and he's learned a lot along the way. In the spirit of having some focus

to these episodes, I try to pull out at least one specific lesson or interesting point

for your consideration. That's why I last on to this $5 a month Craigslist ad. As I

said, there's a lot here. The story is called Video Editor Shoots for the Stars. By the

way, this is episode 1998, 1999, 1998. I cannot believe that myself, but it is true. We are

almost to 2,000 episodes. Thank you for being part of this amazing community. The story

is coming up after this quick message from our sponsor. Graham Jones goes by Gray works

as a TV editor and writer. Because that industry has so many epsom flows, he's always

built in the gaps with side jobs, including a stock footage library and getting sponsorships

for his video podcasts. But in 2017, when he was invited to shoot a music festival, he

started thinking bigger. Although he had a lot of gear already, he didn't have everything

he needed for the job. So he rented it from a peer-to-peer equipment sharing platform

called ShareGrid. That experience made him realize he could be running out his own gear

when he wasn't using it. So he immediately listed everything he had and started making

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