Ep. 3053 - Weekend Workshop: Test, Test, and Test Again
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 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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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. |
| 0:10.9 | 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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