#298 - Australian Uses Online Classified Ads to Sell Wedding Flowers
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2017
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
After hearing about the Craigslist Wedding Photographer (Ep. 9), a woman in Australia books $7,500 in wedding clients for her newly-acquired floral arranging skills.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh hey there, thanks for tuning in, this is Chris Gell about the host of Side Hustle School. |
| 0:11.2 | Glad to have you back today. |
| 0:12.6 | Here's a question I get surprisingly often. |
| 0:15.4 | What if your side hustle causes you to get burned out on something you enjoy? |
| 0:20.1 | Sometimes that's hard for me to answer because I love what I do, I have no desire to do it |
| 0:23.9 | less. |
| 0:24.9 | But it is a fair question, and today's story provides at least one possible answer to it, |
| 0:28.4 | in the form of an Australian who learns to do floral arrangements, and then undertakes |
| 0:32.2 | a crash course in marketing or services using an online classified ads website. |
| 0:37.2 | So it's a great story on its own, it also deals with that issue of burnout. |
| 0:40.9 | What if there's something you enjoy but then you make it your side hustle and you no longer |
| 0:43.4 | enjoy it? |
| 0:44.4 | And it's also a throwback to an earlier episode of Side Hustle School way back in our |
| 0:48.2 | second week with another story of a listener starting their project after hearing what |
| 0:52.2 | somebody else has done. |
| 0:54.0 | All good things, and they're all coming up in just a moment. |
| 1:05.1 | Kristen Brown manages her father's industrial electronic business in Melbourne, Australia. |
| 1:09.2 | Of course, that's not all she does. |
| 1:11.5 | She also has a side hustle that not only serves as a creative outlet, but also allows her |
| 1:15.2 | to fulfill her childhood answer to what do you want to be when you grow up. |
| 1:19.8 | Of course, she also makes money from it, and not only that, but Kristen decided to start |
| 1:23.0 | this hustle after listening to one of the very first episodes of Side Hustle School. |
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