Ep. 3029 - TBT: Travel Blog Becomes Spring Break Powerhouse
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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In this week's Throwback Thursday segment, discover how this side hustler built a spring break site that soars to $8,000 during peak months by combining ad networks with carefully edited AI content.
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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| 0:00.0 | Lemonada. |
| 0:02.7 | Travel blog becomes spring break powerhouse. |
| 0:14.2 | Welcome back to Side Ussel School. |
| 0:15.8 | Chris Gillibow here. |
| 0:16.7 | In today's episode, you're going to discover how this side hustler built a spring break site, |
| 0:22.4 | basically content about spring break. He's going to explain it. It soars to $8,000 in revenue, |
| 0:28.2 | which is basically profit. It's almost all profit during peak months by combining ad networks |
| 0:33.1 | with carefully created or carefully edited AI content. How does all that work? |
| 0:38.1 | That's what we're going to go into in this short action-packed episode. |
| 0:41.2 | So glad you're here. |
| 0:42.2 | It's also part of our throwback Thursday series, where we take a look at someone |
| 0:45.8 | whose story has evolved since we first featured them. |
| 0:49.0 | Now, last week in this segment, we heard from a side hustler who pivoted from digital art |
| 0:53.4 | prints to creating mockups for Etsy and Shopify. |
| 0:57.2 | They turned an underperforming project into a high-demand service. |
| 1:01.0 | Today we've got this guy who's making the Spring Break website, as I said, up to $8,000 a month in income during peak months, a little bit less during some non-seasonal months. |
| 1:10.9 | But hey, the project has already made. |
| 1:12.7 | The project is there. |
| 1:13.5 | It's largely passive income. |
| 1:15.1 | And he has gotten creative in using AI content to build it out a bit further. |
| 1:20.3 | So pretty cool here. |
| 1:21.5 | Lots to learn. |
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