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Side Hustle School

#979 - Aussie Student Starts Million-Dollar Bikini Biz979 - Aussie Student Starts Million-Dollar Bikini Biz

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

When an Australian student is in need of spending money, she starts a bikini side hustle that grows well beyond “itsy bitsy.”

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

May 2023, German Paper 1. Students should listen carefully to the recording.

0:07.0

Read the questions and try to ignore the churning in their stomach, the shaking in their hands,

0:12.7

or the little voice that matters. Do orbist, I.e. Diort.

0:16.5

Make sure they hear another voice that asks, are you okay?

0:21.3

That reminds them, you've got this. A proper chat can ease exam stress.

0:27.2

Britain Get Talking, ITV.

0:39.2

What is it with Australians and swimsuits?

0:42.1

We have done at least two stories of Australians making swimsuits and being very successful with them.

0:47.6

Including episode 864, Finance Guy Makes Bank with swimsuit line.

0:52.3

And I was also looking back on the archives and I saw episode 439.

0:56.6

Ingenior makes blinged out bikinis for fitness models.

0:59.5

Now that person wasn't Australian but uses Swarovski crystals in her bikinis.

1:04.6

Well, in today's story, but an Australian university student is in need of money,

1:08.6

she starts a bikini side hustle that grows to be far from itsy-bitsy.

1:12.8

In fact, it grows into eight different e-commerce shops and a million-dollar business

1:16.8

that she leaves university to run. How does she do it and what can we learn?

1:20.8

She is one of many people who've had success with e-commerce,

1:23.4

in particular by working with an overseas factory and using Facebook ads to market to customers.

1:28.3

There's a whole industry of people doing variations or different versions of this model

1:32.2

and this story is our latest case study in the series.

1:34.9

I'll give you a couple of e-commerce tips at the end of the episode.

1:37.3

So stay tuned, Aussie student starts a million-dollar bikini biz.

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