Hello, hello greetings. This is Chris Gillebo for Side Hustle School. Countdown continues

12 days to go until the Side Hustle book is out. But until then of course we've got

a lot of great stories coming up one every day. Today let's talk about blocking as an affiliate

model. So setting up a blog or website in which you are an authority, sending people

to some other site, usually a company that pays a commission for you sending visitors

that become customers. We've talked about this in a couple different ways in previous

episodes. In fact going way back to the beginning episode number two of the show, the fish tank

guy, the guy who set up a blog about fish tank several years ago and is still getting paid

$700 a month from Amazon for that neglected site. But also episode 188, which featured

auto slash. This guy who created a company that ended up disrupting the carbonyl industry

eventually went on to make hundreds of thousands of dollars. But of course it started as a

side hustle. Well today's story is about sports betting, specifically football or soccer

in the UK. You'll hear about a guy for whom watching soccer has been a lifelong passion.

Now he's figured out a way to turn it into cash. This is also a very new hustle just started

six weeks ago. But he's already seeing some pretty great results. I'll tell you all about

it right after this.

From marketing manager Henry Francis, soccer, known as football in much of the world, has

always been a big part of life. Like many people in the UK he grew up watching his favorite

players on the big screen, playing in the schoolyard and turning out for his local team.

And that's why as an adult he found himself spending a lot of his spare time watching and

talking about the sport with his friends. He was also familiar with the casual sports gambling

culture in the UK, where it's not unusual at all for people to spend a small amount of

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