Ep. 3104 - Q&A: “Can I run a resale business entirely on Instagram?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Can you run a resale business using nothing but Instagram? In this episode, we explore how creators are flipping vintage and preowned goods—without using any marketplace apps at all.
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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
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| 0:00.0 | Life in general can be chaotic. Do you ever experience chaos in your life or your business? I certainly do. I was recently on book tour and trying to manage a whole bunch of other stuff at the same time. And so I'd get ready to go out and speak with a crowd and audience of awesome people, perhaps including some of our listeners out there. And then I'm also thinking about other things I need to do |
| 0:22.2 | and just trying to manage and keep up as much as possible. One thing I don't have to worry about, |
| 0:26.7 | though, is order fulfillment because Shipstation handles that. And ShipStation can help you handle it. |
| 0:32.2 | If you have orders to send out, well, let me tell you, you can automate shipping tasks. |
| 0:37.1 | Automations allow you to smoothly |
| 0:38.5 | print shipping labels. You can scale your business. You never need to upgrade. Shipstation grows with you. |
| 0:43.8 | They have helped many of our customers over the years. In fact, it is the fastest, most affordable |
| 0:48.3 | way to ship products to your customers. You even get discounts up to 88% off UPS, T-HL Express, |
| 0:57.4 | and USPS rates, and up to 90% off FedEx. |
| 1:01.2 | Calm the chaos of order fulfillment with the shipping software that delivers. |
| 1:03.1 | Switch to ShipStation today. |
| 1:07.2 | Go to shipstation.com and use CodeHustle to sign up for your free trial. |
| 1:10.6 | Once again, shipstation.com code hustle. |
| 1:14.5 | Lemonada. |
| 1:26.5 | Can you run a resale business entirely on Instagram? |
| 1:29.3 | That is exactly what we're going to talk about in this episode. We're going to explore how creators are flipping vintage and pre-owned goods. They are |
| 1:34.6 | resellers and creators, kind of a mix of two classic side hustles, without using any marketplace |
| 1:39.8 | apps at all. So they're not using Facebook Marketplace. They're not using Craigslist. They're not using |
| 1:45.1 | Poshmark or all these other networks. They're just using Instagram. We're going to hear from a caller |
| 1:50.8 | in Kansas City. She's been flipping thrifted and vintage clothes for a while. She's been through all |
| 1:55.7 | those different channels. Also, Deepop, I forgot to mention that one. But lately she's seeing more and |
| 1:59.9 | more sellers, skip them |
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