Ep. 3060 - Weekend Workshop: Burn Down the Furniture Store
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2025
⏱️ 8 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: why you should ‘burn down the furniture store,' AKA the power of special offers.
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 | 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 | Weekend workshop time. |
| 0:38.8 | Hey friends, what's up? |
| 0:40.0 | Welcome to Side Hustle School. |
| 0:41.6 | This is a fun one. |
| 0:42.6 | Weekend Workshop, Burned Down the Furniture Store, also known as the Power of Special |
| 0:47.8 | Offers. |
| 0:49.0 | Now, first of all, I should explain the weekend workshop, this segment. |
| 0:52.2 | It's about helping you learn the key steps to a new |
| 0:54.5 | side hustle in 2025, one step or concept per week. We're using the book side hustle from idea to |
| 1:01.5 | income in 27 days, which is available wherever books are sold. I'm going to take you through the key |
| 1:06.9 | steps along with listener stories and examples throughout the year. And here we are all the way |
| 1:12.0 | coming up on halfway through the year, not quite, but we are getting there. So today's episode |
| 1:17.0 | comes from day 21, which is all about sales and promotions. All right. So what do I mean by |
| 1:23.0 | burning down the furniture store? Well, I use this example in the book. Well, essentially, we're going to |
| 1:27.9 | talk about why limited time deals and special offers are so effective and how to use them |
| 1:33.3 | ethically in your business. And so you ever notice how some furniture stores seem to be going |
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