Ep. 3094 - Q&A: “Can organizing someone’s email become a real side hustle?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 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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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 | 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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