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๐๏ธ 7 July 2025
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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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