Ep. 3169 - TBT: Selling Ads for Medical Conferences on Commission
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In this week's Throwback Thursday segment, hear how a freelance marketer started selling ad placements and sponsorships for medical conferences—on commission only—and turned it into a surprisingly consistent side hustle.
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.
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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
If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼
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| 1:45.9 | Today's story in the Throwback Thursday series features someone who carved out a niche helping sell ad placements without organizing any events, designing materials, or |
| 1:50.5 | running a business themselves. They're actually doing ad placements for medical conference |
| 1:55.3 | sales, and they have worked behind the scenes as a commission-only salesperson. These are |
| 2:00.3 | relatively small events, but they have a very targeted scenes as a commission only salesperson. These are relatively small |
| 2:01.1 | events, but they have a very targeted market. And the organizers were more than happy to outsource |
| 2:06.1 | the ad and sponsorship sales process, at least partially to this person who found a way to |
| 2:11.5 | basically make money by being a connector. So that sounds good, right? If you like to introduce people, |
| 2:17.2 | if you like to bring different |
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