246: How to Start a Subscription Box Service: From Spare Bedroom to $15k in Monthly Recurring Revenue
The Side Hustle Show
Nick Loper
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2017
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Side Hustle Show 246, how to start a subscription box business, from spare bedroom to $15,000 in monthly recurring revenue. |
| 0:10.0 | What's up, what's up, Nick, Loper here, welcome to the Side Hustle Show because your 9 to 5 may make you a living, but your 5 to 9 makes you alive. |
| 0:18.0 | We're kicking off a series of episodes this month on the theme of recurring revenue. |
| 0:22.0 | This is predictable income month after month, which really makes life a lot easier, less stressful and gives you |
| 0:28.7 | peace of mind for budgeting and marketing. |
| 0:31.3 | So how can you build recurring revenue for yourself? This month you're |
| 0:34.2 | going to hear from four different entrepreneurs with four very different business models but |
| 0:38.1 | they all have a recurring revenue component. First up is Sam Gonzalez. He's a cop. He's a full-time police officer, former NYPD. |
| 0:47.0 | He's a husband and a father of two. But starting out of his spare bedroom, he's built a subscription box service called urbane box |
| 0:54.5 | to fifteen thousand dollars in monthly recurring revenue it's a stylist service |
| 1:00.1 | where the value proposition is Sam's gonna to send you $120 worth of great looking |
| 1:05.0 | clothes for 60 bucks and you don't have to spend time shopping just comes to you and |
| 1:08.9 | you're constantly keeping your wardrobe up to date. So stick around to hear how Sam came up with this idea, |
| 1:15.2 | how he landed his first brand, partners, and customers, and how he's grown this thing, |
| 1:19.0 | all while working full-time. Notes, links, and a free downloadable PDF highlight reel summary are at |
| 1:24.5 | side hustle nation.com slash Sam. Before we dive in let me take a moment to |
| 1:29.1 | thank today's sponsor Fresh Books.com. Fresh Books is the affordable accounting and bookkeeping solution for freelancers, |
| 1:35.2 | entrepreneurs, and side hustlers like us. Invoicing and time tracking is built right in, |
| 1:39.5 | so when it's time to get paid, think Fresh Books. And as a Side Hustle show listener, |
| 1:44.2 | they're hooking you up with a 30-day completely |
| 1:46.3 | free trial at Fresh Books.com slash Side Hustle. |
| 1:50.1 | I'd also like to thank Incorporate.com |
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