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Side Hustle School

#798 - Continuing Education Directory Earns Six Figures

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

An Australian woman leaves her marketing agency to launch a directory for architects in need of professional development credits. 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: #SideHustleSchool Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com Twitter: @chrisguillebeau To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

There is a massive field known as continuing education.

0:12.0

This term continuing education is used a couple of different ways.

0:15.7

The first one is kind of generic, as in you can continue your education in lots of ways.

0:19.9

There are continuing education courses at most colleges and universities for people who

0:23.8

just want to learn without pursuing a degree.

0:26.0

So that's one form of it.

0:27.5

The other one, and what we'll look at today, is all about professional development.

0:31.6

So lots of professions that have gatekeeper bodies where you have to be licensed and pay

0:35.4

dues to retain your membership in that profession.

0:38.1

They require some degree of ongoing annual continuing ed.

0:41.2

And you're typically required to have a certain number of credits completed each year.

0:45.0

The details vary across different professions, different countries, etc.

0:48.2

But again, this is a really, really big industry.

0:50.8

So in today's story, we'll look at an Australian woman who leaves her marketing agency to launch

0:54.9

a profitable continuing education directory for architects and need a professional development

0:59.2

credits.

1:00.2

It means a tremendous need.

1:01.4

She saw this opportunity and she went for it.

1:03.5

So I'm going to give a shout out to our sponsor.

1:05.4

I appreciate them.

1:06.5

And then I'll tell you exactly how she did it.

1:10.3

This episode is brought to you by Hule.

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