#2900 - First $1,000: Handyman Cashes In On Home Theater Boom
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s First $1,000 segment, we hear from a DIY enthusiast who turned his knack for TV wall mounting into a profitable side hustle—without actually mounting any TVs himself.
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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 | Turning an idea into a small business doesn't happen by accident. You need to be all in. |
| 0:05.5 | At constant contact, we have the digital marketing tools you need to get the word out, close the sale, |
| 0:10.3 | raise the funds and gather a community around this thing you've built. So let's do this together. |
| 0:15.2 | Let's send this, share this and shout this from the rooftops. Let's segment this, automate this, |
| 0:20.3 | and AI this for real results fast. Let's get out of this what we put rooftops. Let's segment this, automate this, and AI this for real |
| 0:21.6 | results fast. Let's get out of this what we put into this. Let's build this. Let's grow this. Let's |
| 0:26.6 | win this. Get started today at constantcontact.com. I want to welcome you today to side hustle school and also to episode 2,900. |
| 0:45.4 | This is the 2,900 episode of the podcast. |
| 0:49.3 | Thank you so much for being out there. |
| 0:51.2 | Thank you to those who've been listening for a long time, some perhaps from the beginning or others for years. We have almost completed seven years of the show every |
| 0:59.2 | single day since January 1, 2017. And I'm just so thankful to our community. I don't want to go on |
| 1:04.7 | and on because I do have a story for you. So just that's all. Thanks for being out there and being |
| 1:08.5 | awesome. This story today, handyman cashes in on home |
| 1:12.5 | theater boom it is part of our first one thousand dollar segment where we get to hear from somebody |
| 1:17.7 | how do they get going how do they make their first thousand dollars and they often go on to earn much |
| 1:22.5 | more of course but we want to look at the genesis of the idea and how a regular person out there |
| 1:27.2 | can take steps to |
| 1:28.6 | create more financial freedom for their life. And so in this case, we're going to hear from a |
| 1:33.7 | DIY enthusiast who turns his knack for TB wall mounting into a profitable side hustle. But get this, |
| 1:41.1 | this is a key point. He's not actually out there mounting any TVs himself. So you might think, |
| 1:46.5 | oh, he's a handyman. Okay, great. He's doing manual labor and nothing wrong with that, of course, |
| 1:51.2 | but wouldn't it be great if you could get paid for helping people install their TVs and not actually |
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