Ep. 3193 - Weekend Workshop: The Art of Electronics Arbitrage
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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This new segment is all about helping you learn the key steps to a new side hustle in 2025, one step or concept per week. It includes activities, examples, and more—and of course it's all free. Today's topic: buy low, sell high, repeat!
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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| 0:00.0 | business owners are built differently and there's nothing more satisfying than your business keeping up with you. |
| 0:05.8 | But of course, sometimes your growth outpaces what you can handle, especially when it comes to shipping. |
| 0:11.1 | That's why I'm so grateful to our longtime partner, ShipStation, been helping us out for many years, |
| 0:15.3 | been helping out many of our listeners as well. With ShipStation, you can make all your packages |
| 0:19.9 | count and save up to 90% off rates on all |
| 0:22.7 | major carriers. Basically, if you ship out product, you're going to save money with ShipStation. |
| 0:27.4 | I've heard it over and over from our listeners, and that's why I'm happy to partner with them. |
| 0:32.3 | Upgrade to shipping software that does more than keep up with your business. Shipstation propels it |
| 0:36.2 | forward. Start your 60 day free trial at Shipstation.com, Code Hustle. Once again, shipstation.com code hustle. |
| 0:46.5 | Lemonada. |
| 0:51.3 | All right, all right. Let's talk about the art of electronics arbitrage. |
| 0:59.4 | This is such a fun one. I remember when I first worked on this story long ago for the side hustle book. |
| 1:05.1 | We're going to hear about this guy, Trevor Mountcastle. What if earning airline miles could |
| 1:10.3 | accidentally become a six-figure |
| 1:11.9 | business? This guy is a government analyst who turned his travel rewards hobby into a sophisticated |
| 1:18.2 | arbitrage operation that generated over $100,000 a year while also funding his first-class |
| 1:24.2 | trips around the world. I mean, pretty cool, right? Hard to beat that. Welcome as well |
| 1:29.3 | to side hustle school. This is our segment known as Weekend Workshop. It's all about helping you |
| 1:34.3 | learn the key steps to a new side hustle one step or concept per week. We're using the book |
| 1:39.1 | Side Hustle from Idea to Income in 27 days. It is available wherever books are sold. And for the first half of the year, |
| 1:46.0 | we went through the 27 steps in the book, one step per week. In the second half, we're looking at |
| 1:50.7 | more detailed case studies so you can understand how people apply the framework. So let's talk about |
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