Ep. 2970 - First $1,000: Mystery Gift Bundles for the Indecisive Shopper
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s First $1,000 segment, we hear from a side hustler who helps shoppers choose the perfect gift. Find out how her mystery bundles became a hit with customers who love the surprise factor.
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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| 0:00.0 | With our longtime partner, ShipStation, you can save hours and money every month by shipping |
| 0:04.3 | from all your stores with one login. It also lets you find the best rates among all the global |
| 0:09.1 | carriers allowing you to focus on other parts of your business. Calm the chaos of order |
| 0:13.5 | from a moment with the shipping software that delivers. Just go to shipstation.com and use code |
| 0:17.8 | side hustle to sign up for your free trial. That's shipstation.com |
| 0:21.8 | code side hustle. |
| 0:25.6 | Lemonada. |
| 0:30.7 | Mystery gift bundles for the indecisive shopper. |
| 0:37.9 | That is the business idea of the day, the side hustle idea. |
| 0:41.3 | And it's not just an idea. |
| 0:42.2 | We're going to hear from a side hustler who made this idea happen. |
| 0:45.3 | It's part of our first $1,000 segment. |
| 0:47.6 | Every Monday we bring you an episode in this segment, which is all about how somebody makes |
| 0:51.5 | their first $1,000 with a new business idea. |
| 0:54.8 | And how do they do that without going into debt, without spending much money at all? |
| 0:58.4 | And usually by using a skill they already have. |
| 1:01.0 | They just learn to adapt or transform this skill in some way, which really is the ultimate |
| 1:04.7 | key to side hustling or starting any kind of small business of any kind, taking a skill |
| 1:08.8 | you already have and learning to deploy it in a way |
| 1:11.1 | that it's helpful to others, in a way that creates value for them and for you. With that in mind |
| 1:16.3 | today, we're going to hear from Claire. She had this idea about mystery bundles. They became a hit |
| 1:20.8 | with customers who loved the surprise factor. Let's let her tell the story, along with some details, |
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