#544 - Oh Snap! Photography Site Turns Into Passive Income Hustle
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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A traffic engineer begins shooting wedding photography to make some cash on the side, but it’s his niche tutorial website that earns the real money… at least until it doesn’t.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh snap! |
| 0:06.0 | Today we're going to talk about a photography site that turns into a passive income hustle. |
| 0:11.0 | Now right off the bat let me just address something, sometimes people say, hey why don't |
| 0:15.0 | you talk about stories that don't work? |
| 0:17.1 | Or a story that has some pretty major challenges to it? |
| 0:19.8 | Well my response is I actually do that all the time. |
| 0:23.0 | Like story after story, there are all kinds of challenges and sometimes things don't |
| 0:26.0 | work. |
| 0:27.0 | And then the person usually turns it around and does something different. |
| 0:29.8 | I believe that adaptability and being willing to make a change is a predictor of success |
| 0:34.1 | much more than just persistence. |
| 0:36.9 | So with that in mind, welcome to Side Asel School. |
| 0:38.6 | My name is Chris Killapo and that story today, that photography site story, is all about |
| 0:42.7 | a traffic engineer who begins shooting wedding photography himself. |
| 0:45.6 | His goal is to make some cash on the side. |
| 0:47.5 | But then it is his niche tutorial website that earns the real money. |
| 0:51.3 | And real money is in fact what he earns for a while at least until it crashes and burns. |
| 0:54.8 | So I'm going to tell you about that. |
| 0:56.4 | I'm going to remind you don't build your business on someone else's platform unless |
| 0:59.8 | you can accept the risks. |
| 1:01.7 | So two important lessons there and also talk about why it's okay sometimes to not be strategic. |
| 1:07.5 | All of that is illustrated well throughout the story. |
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