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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3110 - First $1,000: Murder Mystery Lover Sells Clues in the Mail

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.8 โ€ข 3.3K Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 7 July 2025

โฑ๏ธ 7 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s First $1,000 segment, meet a crime fiction devotee who built her own “detective-for-hire” game, complete with weekly mailed clues and online reveals. Find out how she used her storytelling skills—and a few vintage stationery props—to turn curious readers into paid participants.

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0:00.0

Lemonada.

0:10.9

Murder mystery lover sells clues in the mail.

0:14.5

Welcome friends.

0:15.3

Welcome to Side Ussel School.

0:16.9

Welcome back, I should say.

0:18.6

In this week's first $1,000 segment, meet a crime fiction fan who builds their own detective for hire game, complete with weekly mailed clues and online reveals.

0:28.8

Find out how she uses her storytelling skills, along with a few vintage stationary props, to turn curious readers into paid participants.

0:39.5

This story, of course, is about how somebody makes their first thousand dollars with a new idea. How do they go from idea to income? How might

0:44.3

they go beyond a thousand dollars? We touch on that a bit too, usually, but the whole focus is how

0:48.9

you can go from that basic idea like, here's a service, here's a product, how might I actually

0:53.5

make money from it?

0:54.9

So let's hear today's version of that. Her name is Angela. I'm going to pass the mic to her.

0:59.0

I'll be back at the end with a few brief words of wrap up. What's up? I want to tell you today

1:05.9

about our partner ZipRecruiter. You know ZipRecruiter. If you don't, you should. Perhaps as a good

1:11.7

introduction to them, let's talk about speed and quality. You don't usually get both of those things

1:16.0

together. You don't go through a fast food drive-thru and expect a gourmet meal to go. Or if you do,

1:21.8

you're probably going to be disappointed. If you use some automated fancy AI tools to do online

1:26.7

tasks, sometimes that works well,

1:28.8

and sometimes it doesn't.

1:30.2

Perhaps you have experienced that.

1:31.8

Speed and quality, they don't always go together.

1:33.9

But there is an exception to this unwritten rule, which is that if you're hiring,

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