#424 - Designer Goes Viral with Playful T-Shirts; Earns $445,000
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
A freelance graphic designer turns his work research into a gold mine.
Side Hustle School features a new story EVERY DAY of someone who started a hustle without quitting their job. You’ll learn how they got the idea, how they overcame challenges along the way, and what the results are. Share: #SideHustleSchoolShow notes: SideHustleSchool.comTwitter: @chrisguillebeauInstagram: @193countries
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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.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello my friends, side hustle school listeners and community. |
| 0:07.8 | My name is Chris Gillipot. |
| 0:08.8 | I've got a great story for you today. |
| 0:10.1 | It's about someone who is tremendously successful, ends up making a lot of money in a short |
| 0:14.8 | period of time. |
| 0:16.6 | And what's funny about it is he doesn't actually intend to make money, at least not in the |
| 0:19.7 | beginning. |
| 0:20.7 | In the beginning, he's just doing some work research, research about how to be a better |
| 0:24.9 | employee and serve his company's customers better. |
| 0:28.2 | And as part of that process, he creates a little practice store. |
| 0:30.8 | I'll tell you all the details in the story, of course. |
| 0:33.3 | And this little practice store ends up making real money. |
| 0:36.6 | Like I said, not just a small amount of money, but a lot of money, hundreds of thousands |
| 0:39.8 | of dollars. |
| 0:41.3 | So good question for today. |
| 0:42.5 | What happens when your work experiment makes real money? |
| 0:45.7 | How do you find yourself in that situation to begin with? |
| 0:48.5 | Or let's say actually, how do you proactively create that situation, or at least create |
| 0:52.3 | the circumstances in which it can occur? |
| 0:54.7 | And then what do you do about it? |
| 0:55.7 | Like what happens next? |
| 0:57.8 | Well, that is in fact the focus of today's story. |
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