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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3039 - Weekend Workshop: Sell Like a Girl Scout

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

This new segment is all about helping you learn the key steps to a new side hustle in 2025, one step or concept per week. It includes activities, examples, and more—and of course it’s all free. Today’s topic: the art of natural selling!

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

Lemonada.

0:02.7

Weekend Workshop.

0:12.4

Weekend Workshop, sell like a Girl Scout.

0:14.6

That's right.

0:15.5

Sell like a Girl Scout.

0:16.9

Have you ever seen the Girl Scouts selling cookies?

0:20.6

Depending on where you live,

0:21.6

they might be called Girl Guides, or maybe you live in a country that doesn't have Girl Scouts,

0:26.0

but you might have heard of them anyway. Among other things, once a year, the Girl Scouts,

0:30.4

at least in the United States, set up shop outside drug stores, shopping centers, grocery

0:36.3

stores, and so on, selling cookies.

0:39.3

A few different kinds of cookies. They sell these boxes by the dozens. They sell a lot of

0:44.4

cookies, and everybody's happy about it. Everybody is happy to see them. They are very persuasive.

0:49.6

They're cookies. They kind of sell themselves. Plus, it's like cute little kids selling these

0:53.3

cookies. Let's talk about how this might apply in the world of side hustling. That's what we're all about. This new segment weekend workshop, it's all about helping you learn the key steps to a new side hustle in 2025, one step or concept per week. And we're using the book side hustle fromA to Income in 27 days. It's available wherever

1:11.4

books are sold. If you don't have it, well, I'm taking you through the key steps,

1:15.1

along with listener stories and examples throughout the year. Today is day 18 in the series.

1:20.7

It's all about selling in a natural, authentic way. Learn to sell your products or services

1:25.5

with confidence and authenticity without feeling pushy.

1:29.3

That's why I use this model in the book about the Girl Scouts because if you walk down any city

1:33.6

street, you often encounter street canvassers. And they're like jumping in your path.

1:38.2

And they're like, here's a pitch to save the polar bears or whatever it is. And not to say that

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