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345: How Two Side Hustlers Became The Go-To Merchandisers For Businesses Across America

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Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media

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4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This week in the guest chair we have Quianne Perrin Savoy and Sonja Smith, founders of The Merch Studio. They provide businesses and entrepreneurs with unique and completely customizable merchandise.

In this episode they share:

  • How their creative backgrounds set the foundation for starting their own business

  • How they expanded from small business to having corporate clients

  • The processes they use to ensure high quality and timely customer service

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0:00.0

Hey friends, before we get into today's episode, I want to share with you another great podcast.

0:06.2

No Straight Path hosted by Ashley Menzies' Bobatunde is brought to you by the HubSpot Network.

0:11.9

By shedding light on the stories behind the shiny resumes, social media highlights and

0:16.8

job titles, No Straight Path aims to humanize success from the millennial perspective.

0:22.4

Featuring guests from all walks of life, No Straight Path aims to inspire conversations

0:26.8

around the nuanced perspective of success.

0:30.4

An episode you might want to check out is building safer, more equitable workplaces with LexiBee.

0:36.6

In it, Alexandria Butler, otherwise known as LexiBee, shares how professional theater

0:41.3

classes prepared her to tap dance for the masses, despite being introverted by nature, and

0:47.2

she also shares the unexpected introduction she had to the tech industry.

0:52.1

Listen to No Straight Path wherever you get your podcasts.

0:57.3

You're listening to Side Hustle Pro, the podcast that teaches you to build and grow your

1:02.4

side hustle from passion project to profitable business, and I'm your host, Nikela Matthews

1:08.1

of Komet.

1:09.1

So let's get started.

1:16.8

Hey friends, hey, now let's get into the episode today in the guest chair.

1:21.3

We have Keani Savoy and Sonia Smith, the founders and miracle workers behind the merch studio.

1:29.9

They are what I often consider my best kept merch secret, but honestly you probably come

1:35.7

across them.

1:36.7

So they are the creators of any side hustle pro merch you've ever seen from my live show

1:42.5

all the way to what's on my site now, side hustle shop.co, including the infamous gold mug.

1:49.8

What they do over at the merch studio is they are creative agency that help brands inspire

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