Oh, what's up? What's up, Nick? Oh, Loper here. Welcome to the side hustle show because there's a million in one ways to make money online

But they almost always come down to helping other people today's guest has been doing plenty of that reaching hundreds of thousands of followers as a

Spreadsheet influencer. You didn't know there was such a thing. Did you started in June

2020 year and a half ago basically as she hit six figures in sales within six months since then scaling to consistent

six figure months and even the occasional six figure day, which is absolutely nuts cat, northern miss excel. Welcome to the side hustle show. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to be here

You bet. I'm just looking at some of the current

stats on the social channels over here over half a million followers on Instagram almost three quarters of a million on tiktok

Stick around in this episode to hear how cat built that following so quickly and how she's turned those views into

Real life revenue and profits. You'll find all the notes and links to resources mentioned in this episode at side hustle nation.com slash cat k a t

Now cat one business model that I've been excited about for the last few years is what we've called software with a service basically piggybacking on

The popularity of an existing software tool and then providing consulting training support for that tool

But the focus has tended to be on like these new up and coming software tools like we're going to be an early adopter and establish some expertise

Miss excel is a variation of that model, but what's kind of crazy is Excel and I had to look this up has been around since 1985

It's almost as old as I am it's older than you are. It's not this like new thing where I'm going to

You know come in and become yes, you know early adopter expert on here. So I'm curious about your

idea of the inspiration to start

Talking about spreadsheets online

Absolutely, I mean it really all started because it was something I was truly passionate about

During my MBA program. I went to Binghamton University in upstate New York and

majority of my classes were in excel and that's where I really fell in love with the program

So I started teaching it online simply because it was something I had just loved to use and love to learn about

And then the whole thing really took off from there

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