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Side Hustle School

#934 - Cigar Subscription Box Delivers Smoking Returns

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

A software engineer starts a premium subscription box service for savvy cigar smokers.

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0:00.0

A subscription box service can be one of the most reliably profitable business models.

0:14.2

Once you build it to a fundamental level of sustainability.

0:17.4

We have talked about subscription boxes before many times, in fact, on the program.

0:21.2

I was looking through the archives.

0:22.9

We have done episodes on subscription boxes for Korean face masks, for natural hair products,

0:28.9

comic books, low-carb, low-shigger snacks, a bariatric weight loss snacks, different

0:34.0

project, candles, personal shopping for kids, and tea.

0:39.0

Just a name of few.

0:40.0

Actually, that was more than a few.

0:41.7

But the point is, I should start an offshoot, a subscription school, just for all these

0:45.6

stories.

0:46.6

I love telling them to you, though, because there's something valuable and interesting

0:49.4

in each one.

0:50.4

This is a high-profit business, as I said.

0:53.5

And this whole model is attractive, because regardless of the content, regardless of

0:57.3

what you're actually shipping, if you can get this, as I said, to a fundamental level

1:00.9

of sustainability, you can predict, often with great accuracy, how many people were

1:05.7

made subscribed.

1:07.0

Therefore, how many people will be paying a monthly fee, leading to consistent revenue and

1:11.0

cash flow.

1:12.0

So lots of opportunity here, again, if you can get a few basic things taken care of.

1:16.6

Welcome to Sideosal School.

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