#818 - Jealous Designer Starts Popular Art Blog
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Jealousy leads to opportunity when a bored graphic designer channels her love of artwork into an online masterpiece.
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's talk today about the business model of operating a curatorial website. |
| 0:13.6 | Curatorial website, curation, what do I mean by that? |
| 0:17.1 | Well, there are a lot of successful blogs that have built a huge following by curating |
| 0:20.8 | various content, various things or items that they found online. |
| 0:24.9 | For example, this is why I'm broke.com has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers posting |
| 0:29.4 | about cool gadgets. |
| 0:30.4 | And that site earns affiliate commissions whenever visitors click through to purchase those |
| 0:34.1 | gadgets from amazon.com and other merchants. |
| 0:37.3 | A few other examples of long running curatorial sites are brainpickings.com, Swiss-minist.com, |
| 0:43.8 | and Kotkey.org. |
| 0:44.8 | We'll link all of those up later in the notes. |
| 0:47.2 | All of them rely on a combination of direct donations and advertising. |
| 0:50.9 | In most sites like these, there's a mix of original writing combined with a lot of posts |
| 0:54.6 | that are basically like, hey, go look at this thing. |
| 0:57.5 | Where the curator is simply passing on interesting items to their readers. |
| 1:00.6 | So, we're going to look at a detailed example today. |
| 1:03.2 | By the way, welcome to Citadel School. |
| 1:04.6 | My name is Chris Gillipo. |
| 1:05.8 | So glad you're here. |
| 1:06.8 | And in this story today, Gellis C leads to opportunity. |
| 1:10.0 | When a bored graphic designer channels her love of artwork into an online masterpiece that |
| 1:14.7 | celebrates artists across the globe. |
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