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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3169 - TBT: Selling Ads for Medical Conferences on Commission

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.8 โ€ข 3.3K Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 4 September 2025

โฑ๏ธ 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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0:00.0

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0:44.9

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0:51.8

So you can fast forward through editing images, designing presentations, generating code, debugging code, summarizing meeting notes, finding files, managing your schedule, responding to Chuck's long emails.

1:03.7

Chuck doesn't actually send long emails.

1:06.4

But the point is, leaving all the time in the world for the things you actually want to do.

1:40.1

And no offense, Chuck. Get a new Dell AIPC at Dell.com slash AI-PC. How those ahead, stay ahead. Lemonada Thank Not every side hustle requires building a product or even offering a service of your own.

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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