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Side Hustle School

#942 - Paternal Twins Produce Passive Publishing Profits

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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When two identical twins start self-publishing ebooks, they build an $8,000/month income stream while traveling to twelve countries.

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0:00.0

Hello greetings, what's up? Welcome to Sadistle School. This is your host, Chris

0:12.3

Filico. For anyone listening in real time, I will be live in Chicago tonight. I believe

0:17.0

a location is we work Kinsey at 6.30 pm, but you can always get the details for that

0:21.4

kind of stuff at SadistleSchool.com slash tour. And now for all of our listeners who

0:26.5

are not in Chicago, I have a particularly interesting story for you today. When identical

0:31.4

twins decide to start an online business, they have a friendly competition to see which

0:36.3

business model is best. The one that wins out at least for them is self publishing. And

0:41.4

over time they build a mini-imperer for themselves, outsourcing the writing and even complete

0:45.9

process of publishing a series of short books on Amazon, which is now bringing in $8,000

0:52.3

a month. They drop out of school, move to Thailand, now they're making a course, and so on.

0:57.1

So it's definitely a wild ride. And for a bit of disclosure, I did have some feelings about

1:01.2

this story as an author myself, just in terms of outsourcing the complete process of writing

1:06.2

and publishing. As non-traditional as I am, I do follow a more traditional book publishing

1:10.7

path, and I personally couldn't imagine being so disconnected from the process of writing.

1:15.9

But I managed to overcome those personal feelings to work on this story because I think

1:19.4

you should hear about different approaches. Also, these guys are really young, and the

1:23.2

fact that they've been able to spot and take advantage of an opportunity is admirable.

1:27.2

So we are all about highlighting creative approaches to create passive income here on the program.

1:31.5

With that in mind, paternal twins produce passive publishing profits, here's coming right

1:36.1

up.

1:38.2

This episode is brought to you by Aala Big Milk. It's important that your little ones

1:43.2

get the nutrients they need for normal growth and development. Aala Big Milk is simply

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