Ep. 3110 - First $1,000: Murder Mystery Lover Sells Clues in the Mail
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2025
⏱️ 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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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 | 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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