#971 - Aerospace Apprentice Soars to Seven-Figure Sales Heights
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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An eBay experiment started from a childhood bedroom becomes a multi-million, make-your-own-fashion eCommerce empire.
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 | Whether it's a barmy day on the beach or a vibrant night in the city, elevate your indulgence |
| 0:08.6 | with the new Magnum Sunlava, with thick white chocolate and velvety coconut ice cream for |
| 0:15.7 | the day and the new Magnum Star Chaser, with cracking chocolate and popcorn flavor for the |
| 0:23.0 | night. |
| 0:26.0 | The pleasure is always on Magnum, true to pleasure. |
| 0:33.0 | I thought a bit about my childhood and adolescence when I was working on this story, not because |
| 0:44.0 | the protagonist goes to jail for stealing a car, not because he burned down a tree or a house |
| 0:48.5 | or anything else. |
| 0:49.5 | That's a whole other story. |
| 0:50.9 | But because there's a connection between aerospace and selling on eBay, the aerospace industry |
| 0:55.8 | in particular, both of my parents were aerospace engineers, my dad and my stepmom, but I followed |
| 1:00.8 | the path of selling on eBay, which of course led to other things, lots of other things |
| 1:04.6 | that came up later. |
| 1:05.9 | Now in this story, an eBay experimenter expands his make your own fashion products into |
| 1:11.1 | a multi brand e-commerce empire. |
| 1:13.2 | He's an aerospace apprentice who soars to seven figure sales heights. |
| 1:16.9 | He actually goes on to earn millions of dollars from selling t-shirts on eBay, which is |
| 1:21.4 | still possible. |
| 1:22.4 | We'll talk about that. |
| 1:23.6 | So here we have a lesson in scale and paying attention. |
| 1:26.0 | I'll give you some practical tips at the end of the episode on how you could identify |
| 1:29.1 | a market in which this could work for you, because here we are 20 years on online auctions |
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