#2179 - First $1,000: “I had no idea Hula Hoops were a seasonal business…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s First $1,000 segment, we hear from Holly the Hula Hoop Hustler. She’s now earning up to $2,000/month selling hula hoops on Amazon. But what about her first $1,000—how did she make that happen, and what did she learn?
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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.
Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions
Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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| 0:38.4 | Hello, hello! What's up? Welcome to Side Us All School. I'm so glad you're tuning in wherever you |
| 0:43.1 | are in the world. This is all about making extra money without putting your job. We accomplish |
| 0:48.1 | this mission through questions and answers, case studies, field reports, updates from you, our |
| 0:53.0 | listeners, our global community of amazing people all over the world. This episode, of course, |
| 0:58.2 | is part of a feature we've been doing all year called your first $1,000. As you might guess, |
| 1:03.0 | it's all about how someone made their first $1,000. How did they get to that point? Not their first |
| 1:08.4 | $10,000 or $100,000, $1,000,000, whatever it is. All those numbers are good too, but it would be a |
| 1:14.3 | much longer story. We're all about keeping things actionable on point, respectful of your time, |
| 1:20.0 | because of course you are a busy person as well, at least I'm guessing so. That's our market. |
| 1:24.4 | Busy people who want to make something happen for themselves. With that in mind, today's feature |
| 1:28.2 | comes from Holly, the Hula hoop hustler. Holly, the Hula hoop hustler. I just gave her that tagline |
| 1:33.2 | myself, but her name is Holly and she sells Hula hoops, so it seemed to kind of make sense. She is |
| 1:38.0 | now earning well over $1,000 a month selling Hula hoops on Amazon. Of course, what about that? First |
| 1:43.9 | $1,000, I think she's actually making up to $2,000 a month now, but how did she get started? What did |
| 1:48.6 | she learn along the way? She's actually got a couple of lessons for us here, so let's hear it from |
| 1:53.2 | Holly. I'll come back at the end with a quick wrap up. Connections can take your business anywhere, |
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