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Side Hustle School

#884 - Anchors Aweigh! Graphic Designer Leads Guided Sailing Tours

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Side Hustle, Careers, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship,, Small Business, Business

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

A graphic designer packs his bags to see the world, then stumbles into a new line of work leading guided sailing tours.  

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

Hello everyone, it's a new week.

0:10.8

I am coming to you live from Phoenix, Arizona, where tonight, that is tonight, for those

0:16.0

in real time, at least I am kicking off the new tour for the new book, 100 Side Usals.

0:20.9

I'm so excited for this.

0:22.7

Of course, if you're listening later, then the tour has begun and I was excited and I'm

0:26.2

probably still excited whenever you're hearing it.

0:29.3

I don't want to say too much about that here because I want to focus on the story, but

0:33.0

it is an exciting time and I'll be sharing updates as I go from city to city and hopefully

0:37.0

I'll get the chance to hang out with many of our listeners.

0:39.3

The tour details are always at Side Usalschool.com slash tour.

0:42.8

Now, in today's story, an Australian graphic designer packs his bags to see the world and

0:48.8

stumbles into a new line of work leading guided sailing tours.

0:52.6

He discovers that a particular demographic of young professionals is not being marketed

0:56.5

too well or provided for at all.

0:58.9

That's when he gets the vision to start his own brand.

1:02.6

Not surprisingly, this story includes a lesson in knowing your demographics and catering

1:05.9

to them.

1:06.9

It's also a disaster and recovery story.

1:09.6

This guy learns that PayPal is not his pal.

1:12.4

The service almost sinks his ship before it sails by withholding his money.

1:16.8

Spoiler alert, he no longer uses PayPal.

1:20.0

This is a fun one that's even got me looking at the schedule to see if I can go on one

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