#970 - Military Spouse Finds Joy in Punny Greeting Cards
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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After using puns to make the distance seem shorter between her and her Navy Pilot husband, a marketing manager and military spouse turns it into a business.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the program, we're going to look at a greeting card side hustle that focuses |
| 0:13.0 | on puns. |
| 0:14.0 | It's all about puns, actually. |
| 0:16.0 | Punny greeting cards designed and sold by a military spouse who uses humor to make the |
| 0:20.2 | distance between herself and her deployed partner a little easier. |
| 0:23.9 | Now this was a real challenge to work on this episode because obviously we don't like |
| 0:27.5 | puns here. |
| 0:28.5 | You know, puns are just not cool. |
| 0:30.0 | So this was a bit of a stretch, but I managed to over pun this concern and persevere. |
| 0:36.3 | Actually true story. |
| 0:37.3 | There is one guy out there that emails me every time we have an episode that has a lot |
| 0:40.1 | of puns in it. |
| 0:41.1 | And he's like, Chris really like the show, but could you, you know, cut back on the puns, |
| 0:45.5 | really appreciate that. |
| 0:46.5 | Thanks to which I say, oh, absolutely, of course, you know, I will completely take that |
| 0:50.6 | feedback into account. |
| 0:52.5 | No more puns at all inside of school. |
| 0:55.0 | Right. |
| 0:56.1 | Also this episode has an interesting lesson about Etsy and using your own website. |
| 0:59.8 | And this is kind of fun because we often have stories about somebody who's using a platform |
| 1:04.8 | like Etsy or Shopify or similar. |
| 1:07.6 | And they often face this question of do I also develop my own site? |
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