with his main side hustle, an in-person tour guide service, devastated by the pandemic,

Rob Pettingelow found a silver lining and spun off an entirely new business

and earned another $5,000 along the way.

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But back to Rob, so we last caught up with Rob January 2020 talking about how he'd grown

TriPax DC to 40 grand on the side and in particular in that episode, which was number 370,

some of the creative ways he'd used YouTube as a marketing channel. But as you know,

within a couple months the world and especially the travel world, pretty much ground to a halt.

It really was disappointing and eventually I did what I called putting the business into

hibernation, which is basically to stop spending. I went through and looked at all the subscriptions

that I had, all the services that I was paying for and unless it was absolutely 100% necessary,

it all got cut and then just said I'm going to wait it out. 2020 was down about 50% about half

compared to 2019. 2021 did come back a little bit. People were traveling again in 2021.

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