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Side Hustle School

#259 - $8 Start Up Costs Lead to $400,000 in Annual Revenue

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Business, Entrepreneurship, Small Business, Side Hustle, Entrepreneurship,, Careers

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

A longtime side hustler finds a way to get paid—a lot—for improving people’s online reputations. 

Side Hustle School features a new story EVERY DAY of someone who started a hustle without quitting their job. You’ll learn how they got the idea, how they overcame challenges along the way, and what the results are. You need a hustle! Share: #SideHustleSchoolShow notes: SideHustleSchool.comTwitter: @chrisguillebeauInstagram: @193countries

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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.


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0:00.0

GSK believes innovation starts when you stop to listen.

0:06.0

That's why GSK and Veeve Health Care have partnered with the HIV community for decades

0:12.0

and developed medicines that better fit the lives of people living with HIV.

0:17.0

That's just one example of how GSK unites science, technology and talent to get ahead of

0:23.5

disease together.

0:25.0

Visit gsk.com to learn more.

0:31.0

Test test to low is this on?

0:38.0

Well, I hope you can hear me.

0:40.0

It's just three days until the side hustle book comes out.

0:43.0

I am super excited, but I don't want to overdo it, so I'll tell you more about it tomorrow

0:47.0

and next week as the book goes out and as I hit the road.

0:50.0

For now, have you ever done something bad that ends up being posted on the internet?

0:54.0

Well, I hope that question doesn't bring up any bad memories for you.

0:57.0

Today's featured side hustler found a way to profit a lot, in fact, by helping people fix this problem.

1:03.0

Now, there's this whole new industry of online reputation management.

1:06.0

It's kind of been created in response to celebrity culture, not just celebrity culture, but also social media culture.

1:12.0

People posting all kinds of things, sometimes of things that they've done, perhaps something that they might regret

1:18.0

or at least might regret showing to the world, but also there's all kinds of stuff posted about other people, individuals and companies.

1:24.0

So today's story is about a guy in Las Vegas who ends up learning about this industry by accident,

1:29.0

spending a grand total of $8 to start a new side hustle, and ends up making multiple six figures from that project just two years later.

1:36.0

That story's coming right up.

1:38.0

This episode is brought to you by Aala.

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