Ep. 3094 - Q&A: “Can organizing someone’s email become a real side hustle?”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Inbox zero, for hire? In this episode, we explore whether paid email cleanup can be a viable side hustle—and how to land the kind of clients who’ll actually pay for it.

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	Introducing the new Dell AIPC powered by the Intel Core Ultra processor.
0:05.6	It helps do your busy work for you.
0:07.3	So you can fast forward through editing images, designing presentations, generating code, debugging code, summarizing meeting notes, finding files, managing your schedule, responding to Chuck's long emails.
0:19.3	Chuck doesn't actually send long emails, but the point is,
0:22.8	leaving all the time in the world for the things you actually want to do. And no offense,
0:27.3	Chuck, get a new Dell AIPC at Dell.com slash A.ai-P-C. How those ahead, stay ahead.
0:40.0	Life in general can be chaotic. Do you ever experience chaos in your life or your business?
0:46.1	I certainly do. I was recently on book tour and trying to manage a whole bunch of other stuff at the
0:50.9	same time. And so I'd get ready to go out and speak with a crowd,
0:54.8	an audience of awesome people, perhaps including some of our listeners out there. And then I'm
0:59.8	also thinking about other things I need to do and just trying to manage and keep up as much as
1:04.3	possible. One thing I don't have to worry about, though, is order fulfillment, because
1:09.1	Shipstation handles that. And ShipStation can help you handle it.
1:12.2	If you have orders to send out, well, let me tell you, you can automate shipping tasks.
1:16.9	Automations allow you to smoothly print shipping labels. You can scale your business. You never need to
1:21.6	upgrade. Shipstation grows with you. They have helped many of our customers over the years.
1:26.0	In fact, it is the fastest, most affordable way to ship products to your customers. You even get discounts up to 88% off UPS, T-HL Express and USPS rates, and up to 90% off FedEx. Calm the chaos of order fulfillment with the shipping software that delivers. Switch to ShipStation today. Go to Shipstation.com and use CodeHustle to
1:45.8	sign up for your free trial. Once again, shipstation.com code hustle.
1:53.7	Lemonada.
1:58.3	If you're looking for your next side hustle, maybe it could be organizing someone's email.
2:07.6	That's what today's caller is wondering about.
2:09.9	Inbox zero for hire, perhaps, can organizing someone's email become a real side hustle?
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