Ep. 3213 - Q&A: “Can I monetize a college scholarship database?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Obscure college scholarships are gold, at least if parents trust your data. In this episode we design a subscription, ROI guarantee, and tech stack that can turn a spreadsheet into monthly income.
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| 0:50.7 | Can you monetize a college scholarship database? That is the business idea we're going to look at today. |
| 1:02.1 | Obscure college scholarships can be worth a lot of money. They also tend to be really valuable because fewer people are competing for them. |
| 1:09.0 | And so parents are interested in this data, at least |
| 1:11.3 | potentially. We're going to hear from a listener with a private spreadsheet. She has spent some time |
| 1:16.6 | compiling this. She edits it. She does her best to make it very helpful. And it saves her consulting |
| 1:22.6 | clients thousands of dollars. So now she's thinking about maybe another step is packaging that intelligence. |
| 1:28.8 | Could she package this in a different way, perhaps create a different source of income to where she's |
| 1:34.1 | now selling a product as opposed to providing a service or perhaps in addition to? |
| 1:38.1 | So let's talk about how this works, how it could work better, and how it might get you thinking |
| 1:41.9 | about your next side hustle idea. I want to encourage you to |
| 1:45.5 | start and pursue and follow up on ideas of your own. So that's why we make the show. Detailed |
| 1:49.9 | question from our caller and my answer right after this. Whenever you go to buy something online, |
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