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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3057 -TBT: Crossing Borders, Boosting Orders

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.8 โ€ข 3.3K Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 15 May 2025

โฑ๏ธ 8 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s “Throwback Thursday” segment, learn how a Canadian ecommerce expert turned his experience running an FBA shop into a consulting business, helping fellow Canadian sellers break into the lucrative U.S. market.

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

SIDISL School is brought to you by our longtime partner ShipStation. With ShipStation,

0:04.6

lead your business into the future with smart features and automations that boost efficiency and save you time.

0:10.8

Over 130,000 companies have grown their e-commerce businesses with ShipStation. Calm the chaos of order fulfillment with the shipping software that delivers.

0:18.9

Go to shipstation.com and use code hustle to sign up for your free trial.

0:22.9

That's shipstation.com code hustle.

0:28.1

Lemonada.

0:32.9

Crossing borders, boosting orders.

0:39.2

Hey friends, what's up?

0:40.2

Welcome to Side Ussel School.

0:41.6

This is Throwback Thursday.

0:43.1

Every week we take an in-depth look at someone whose story has evolved considerably since we first featured them.

0:48.8

What do I mean by crossing borders, boosting orders?

0:51.3

Well, in this particular segment, we're going to learn how a Canadian

0:54.2

e-commerce expert turned his experience running a fulfillment by Amazon shop into a consulting

0:59.6

business. He's helping fellow Canadian sellers break into the lucrative U.S. market.

1:04.8

Canadian market is, I believe, about 10% the size of the U.S. market. So some savvy Canadian

1:10.5

side hustlers, entrepreneurs, small business owners focus a lot on the U.S. market. So some savvy Canadian side hustlers, entrepreneurs,

1:12.0

small business owners focus a lot on the U.S. market. Now, there are, of course, various trade

1:17.1

issues that come up, tariffs and so on, you know, geopolitical conflicts that interfere with this

1:21.5

whole thing. And most of us just want to like run our business, right? So that's a whole topic

1:26.2

of another episode. But let's hear this update

1:29.1

in the series, as mentioned, Throwback Thursday. Last week, it was about a third grade teacher

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