#2412 - Q&A: “I’m making $10k/month … but I feel overwhelmed.”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
This ecommerce business is taking off, but the owner isn’t sure what to do next. How do you handle an unexpected success?
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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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| 0:00.0 | Well listeners, I gotta tell you, I like doing the Failure Friday segment, which of course |
| 0:15.1 | comes out once a week on Fridays, but, you know, it's even better than Failure success. |
| 0:21.1 | Like it's fun to look at the process of getting vulnerable and understanding the disasters |
| 0:25.4 | and mistakes and all that kind of stuff. |
| 0:26.8 | Of course, we started side hustle school to highlight success stories, okay? |
| 0:30.9 | So today, you're gonna hear a quick success story along with a question. |
| 0:34.5 | Sometimes success produces some questions and some obstacles to overcome, but it's |
| 0:39.1 | a cool story from Chloe, a San Francisco-based entrepreneur who's hit the jackpot with |
| 0:42.9 | her e-commerce store. |
| 0:44.4 | Now, interesting point, Chloe doesn't want to say what she sells, okay? |
| 0:47.8 | And this is sometimes common in e-commerce. |
| 0:50.7 | People have found like a good market and it's working really well on Amazon or another |
| 0:54.6 | platform or Shopify sometimes, but they don't want to say what it is because then, you |
| 0:59.7 | know, they're worried about somebody kind of coming in to sell the same thing. |
| 1:02.5 | There's a lot I could say on that topic, but I want to say on topic because the point |
| 1:06.9 | is she's making $10,000 a month, you know, at this point, which of course is wonderful, |
| 1:12.4 | but she's feeling a bit overwhelmed with the rapid growth. |
| 1:15.2 | And that's the issue here. |
| 1:16.9 | That's what we're gonna focus on. |
| 1:18.1 | It's a common feeling when a side hustle takes off, so let's explore how she can handle |
| 1:21.8 | this exciting yet daunting situation. |
| 1:24.4 | I'm making $10,000 a month, but I feel overwhelmed. |
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