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🗓️ 28 July 2025
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In this week’s First $1,000 segment, discover how one new parent turned a 3 a.m. spreadsheet session into a sellable baby tracker. With no ads and no tech background, he reached $1,000 in sales using only parenting groups and a Notion template.
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0:00.0 | Lemonada. |
0:02.0 | All right, all right. What's up? Welcome back to Side Hustle School. My name's Chris Gillibault, your host. |
0:15.5 | In today's episode, a sleep-deprived dad creates a digital baby journal. In this week's first $1,000 segment, |
0:23.1 | in fact, you're going to discover how a new parent turns a 3 a.m. spreadsheet session into a |
0:28.0 | sellable baby tracker. Baby tracker. That's what he sells. With no ads, no tech background, |
0:33.4 | he reaches $1,000 in sales using only parenting groups in a Notion template, a template using |
0:38.8 | the app Notion. Today's episode is part of a feature. We call your first $1,000, as you might guess, |
0:44.6 | as you might know, if you've been around for a while. It's all about how somebody makes their first |
0:48.0 | thousand dollars. How do they get to that point? Not their first $100,000. That is also |
0:52.6 | pretty awesome, but it would be a much longer story. |
0:55.3 | And we want to help listeners take action on their ideas quickly so that they can get to their |
0:59.8 | first thousand dollars and beyond. So let's hear about this first time parent who finds |
1:04.6 | some clarity in chaos, ends up building a digital product that's helping other people as well, |
1:09.4 | helping other people and bringing in revenue for him. The sales come from organic traffic, which means he's not paying |
1:15.1 | for it, which is nice. So let's hear about it. Let's hear the story. I'm going to pass the |
1:18.9 | microphone, and I'll be back at the end with a few words of wrap up. Life in general can be |
1:24.8 | 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 |
1:45.5 | and just trying to manage and keep up as much as possible. One thing I don't have to worry about, |
1:50.1 | though, is order fulfillment because Shipstation handles that. And ShipStation can help you handle it. |
1:55.5 | If you have orders to send out, well, let me tell you, you can automate shipping tasks. |
2:00.4 | Automations allow you to |
2:01.4 | smoothly print shipping labels. You can scale your business. You never need to upgrade. Shipstation |
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