#2206 - Q&A: “Can you sue telemarketers and get paid?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
A caller refers to a story of a guy who earned $7,000 from suing an annoying telemarketing company. What a great idea! The next time you get an annoying sales call, don’t hang up until you get the caller’s info.
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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
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Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
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| 0:41.0 | Listeners, friends, community, welcome. |
| 0:43.0 | Now listen, I promise to bring you interesting and novel ideas in the pursuit of our mission. |
| 0:49.6 | Our mission is of course to help you make extra money, to help you create personal freedom, |
| 0:53.4 | to do more of what's important to you, perhaps to leave your job and go full on an entrepreneurship, |
| 0:58.4 | or maybe as I said just make some extra money, we've got all kinds of people out there doing interesting things. |
| 1:03.4 | So, interesting and novel ideas as promised. |
| 1:06.4 | Today you're going to hear about suing telemarketers and getting paid for it. |
| 1:10.4 | What a great idea, right? |
| 1:12.4 | Like the next time you get an annoying sales call, maybe don't hang up right away, |
| 1:16.4 | because maybe there's a way you can actually get paid. |
| 1:18.4 | Our caller today is going to refer to a story of a guy who earned something like $7,000 from doing exactly that. |
| 1:25.4 | So, is this possible for anyone? What do you need to know? |
| 1:28.4 | Well, listen to this episode, I'm going to give you those answers. |
| 1:31.4 | So, as I said, when you get those telemarketing calls, maybe hang on the line for a moment, because who knows? |
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