#322 - Coupon Code Site Earns Copious Profits
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2017
⏱️ 10 minutes
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A marketing exec sits on a domain name for 11 years before finally turning it into a profitable coupon finding site.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh hey there, welcome to Side Us All School, my name is Chris Gellibot, I am your host. |
| 0:11.7 | Question for you, are you a coupon clipper? |
| 0:13.9 | You like savings and deals? |
| 0:15.4 | I've noticed that people are either really into that or not into it at all. |
| 0:18.6 | Gotta be honest with you, I used to be really into this kind of thing. |
| 0:21.4 | I was frugal to a fault and had this obsession with free stuff for a long time, probably |
| 0:26.8 | in my early 20s, extending for quite a while. |
| 0:30.3 | You know there are stories about your grandpa driving 50 miles to say 50 cents a gallon |
| 0:34.0 | on gas. |
| 0:35.0 | That was basically like me, except I wasn't a grandpa, I was 20 years old. |
| 0:38.9 | If there was free food involved, like I would do just about anything, there was a travel |
| 0:42.7 | hacking deal once where I could pay $3 to stay at these really awful motels. |
| 0:47.8 | Like they would normally cost $30 a night or something, but I could get $27 off. |
| 0:52.3 | And I was like awesome, this is amazing. |
| 0:54.4 | If I ever had a bad experience, like if I ordered a pizza, there was something wrong with |
| 0:57.5 | it. |
| 0:58.5 | I would write a detailed letter of complaint, like I would use whatever creative writing |
| 1:01.9 | or copywriting skills I had at the time, send that letter off into the corporate headquarters |
| 1:06.0 | and they would usually send me back a coupon for a free pizza. |
| 1:09.6 | These days, probably for the better, I don't have much time to do that stuff, but I do |
| 1:12.9 | know that there are a lot of coupon and deal sites out there and you've probably seen |
| 1:16.8 | them. |
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