#464 - College Student Starts Historic Letter Subscription Service
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2018
⏱️ 11 minutes
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A student cashes in on his love of history by mailing beautifully designed letters to monthly subscribers.
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| 0:30.5 | Hello there friends, listeners, side hustle school community. Welcome back. We're going to start a |
| 0:36.5 | brand new week today. My name is Chris Gellibot. This is episode 464 of the show. Starting out with |
| 0:42.1 | a strong story as we try to do every week. Today is all about a college student who starts an |
| 0:46.8 | historic letter subscription service. Really, really smart project is doing something fine and |
| 0:51.8 | it's actually quite scalable. I don't think every side hustle needs to be scalable. There are lots of |
| 0:57.5 | episodes, lots of features we do about somebody who does something that's going to go on to make |
| 1:01.5 | a couple thousand dollars a month and that's great. Alternatively, it's going to make a lot of money |
| 1:05.9 | in a short period of time, but because of the nature of it, it's not going to be sustainable, |
| 1:09.5 | like it's not going to go on forever. All of that is fine and well, but it's also great when |
| 1:14.4 | somebody creates a project that has a potential at least to not only be an initial success, but to be |
| 1:19.0 | a recurring success, typically with recurring revenue, which we'll talk about, but also something |
| 1:23.9 | that can grow and serve a lot of people over time. That's exactly what we've got today with this |
| 1:27.6 | story, a student who caches in on his love of history by mailing beautifully designed letters |
| 1:32.1 | to monthly subscribers. Along the way, he learned some important lessons about gift items, |
| 1:36.8 | automation, and not listening to customers when they say they want something. |
| 1:41.4 | Good lessons there, so stay tuned. I'll say thanks to today's sponsor, and then I'll bring you |
| 1:45.2 | this story. The search is heating up for the people who make football better. People like Sally |
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