Ep. 3053 - Weekend Workshop: Test, Test, and Test Again

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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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: testing!

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.
0:10.9	Weekend workshop, test, test, and test again.
0:14.9	Welcome, friends, welcome side hustle school community.
0:17.5	Thank you for tuning in, episode 3,053.
0:22.6	As part of our weekend workshop series,
0:28.7	it's all about helping you learn the key steps to a new side hustle in 2025, or perhaps later,
0:33.6	one step or concept per week. It includes activities, examples, and more, and of course, it's all free. Today we're talking about testing. Oh, and I should say we're using the book Side Hustle from Idea to Income in 27 days. That is our text. It's available wherever
0:42.1	books are sold. And I'm going to take you through those key steps. Today, we're on day 20.
0:47.4	We've actually had 20 weeks of the year so far. So day 20 is all about test, test, and test again. If you want to hear some of the earlier episodes
0:54.8	in this series, you can just go to the website, sidestle school.com. They're all freely available
0:59.0	there. But today's learning objective is discover how to test your business ideas and offers
1:03.8	to continuously improve your results. And a key point is success in the side hustle world is not
1:09.8	about guessing. It's about testing to find
1:12.7	what really works. Our example today is Gabby Orcutt, who famously got paid for posting on Pinterest.
1:20.6	Got paid a lot. Got paid $40,000 a year. Not a bad little side income, right? Also, this starts back a few
1:26.8	years ago. Maybe she's making more now, I'm not sure.
1:29.4	Whatever the number is, she started posting images on Pinterest just for fun, just like most
1:34.4	Pinterest users.
1:35.6	And then when she realized she could earn money from her pins, she didn't just randomly post
1:39.3	content.
1:40.2	Instead, she systematically tested different approaches.
1:43.7	She experimented with various types of images,
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