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Side Hustle School

#369 - Designer Earns Extra $5,000/Month Posting Logos on Instagram

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

After first rejecting Instagram as being “only for selfies,” a Sri Lankan designer starts a popular account that earns steady affiliate commissions. 


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0:00.0

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0:08.1

Care have partnered with the HIV community for decades and developed medicines that

0:13.5

better fit the lives of people living with HIV. That's just one example of how GSK unites

0:19.8

science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. Visit gsk.com to learn more.

0:30.0

Hey there, side hustle school listeners. Welcome back. My name is Chris Gillibot. So excited

0:40.2

to have you here for season two as we kick off with a ton of great stories. Now as we go

0:45.0

through the year, I'll be telling you these stories, but I also hope to show you something

0:48.4

through them. I want you to learn how these kinds of projects work and what kind of side

0:52.5

hustle might be best for you. And as part of that, I think it's very important to understand

0:56.9

both your skills and your personality to find the best fit. There are three general

1:02.3

categories of side hustles, products, services and kind of a catch all category for everything

1:07.2

else. Most of the stories you'll hear on the show fall into one of those first two categories,

1:11.4

which are pretty straightforward. But on day two, episode 367, that amazing story of

1:15.8

the accountant who earns $200,000 actually more than $200,000 buying stuff at Walmart

1:20.8

and then selling it online, that's kind of in this everything else category. And technically

1:24.9

that subcategory is called reselling like he does have products because he's purchasing

1:29.0

something for sale, but the specific products are kind of irrelevant like it's all about

1:32.9

this model of reselling. Today's story also follows in this everything else bucket and

1:37.7

it features an affiliate sales model using Instagram. Affiliate sales are when you refer

1:42.5

a customer or a client to a company, that person makes a purchase and then the company pays

1:46.8

you a commission. So we'll look at that in different ways throughout the year as well.

1:50.4

But today's story is pretty cool. It's this guy from Sri Lanka who's able to earn $5,000

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