Ep. 2928 - First $1,000: Micro-Courses for Fast Learning
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In this week's First $1,000 segment, we hear from a Minneapolis teacher who turned her knowledge of children's stories into a series of short, actionable online courses. Robin shares how she marketed her micro-courses and earned her first $1,000.
Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions
Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼
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| 1:00.8 | Lemonada. A Minneapolis teacher turns her knowledge of children's stories into a series of short, |
| 1:15.5 | actionable online courses. In this episode, Robin shares how she marketed her microcourses |
| 1:20.3 | and earned her first $1,000. Welcome friends, welcome listeners, welcome everybody to our first, |
| 1:26.5 | first $1,000 segment of the year. Did that make sense? |
| 1:30.2 | First, first $1,000 segment of the year. So every week, in fact, throughout the year, we're going to be |
| 1:35.6 | repeating one of our segments from last year, well, with all new stories, of course, but I just mean the same |
| 1:39.9 | segment. It's all about how somebody makes their first $1,000, not their first $100,000. That's cool, |
| 1:45.5 | but it's a longer story usually. It's all about how somebody gets going. And one thing I have learned |
| 1:50.7 | and noticed over the years, once you begin to earn some real money, like $1,000 or more, |
| 1:54.6 | the steps required to go to the next level, $2,000, $10,000 and beyond are often easier than that first real paycheck. |
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