Ep. 3246 - TBT: Recruiters Pay Me to Tear Apart Their Emails
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s Throwback Thursday segment, hear how one copy-savvy side hustler turned a collection of recruiter emails into a paid “swipe file,” and then built a monthly subscription around it.
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| 0:00.0 | If you ever shop online, which, let's be real, who doesn't, you already understand how important |
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| 0:48.2 | Lemmonada. Recruiters pay me to tear apart their emails. |
| 1:00.7 | That is the title of today's episode. |
| 1:03.3 | Today's throwback Thursday segment. |
| 1:04.9 | In fact, we're going to hear how one copy-savvy side hustler turns a collection of recruiter emails into a swipe file. Swipe file is |
| 1:13.5 | basically collection of notes, emails, copy, et cetera, that you can borrow from, customize, |
| 1:18.9 | make your own. And then he builds a monthly subscription around it. As noted, this is throwback |
| 1:23.8 | Thursday where we take an in-depth look at someone whose story has evolved since we first featured them. And of course, this is Side Hustle School, the daily podcast, the only one bringing you stories, tips, answers to questions, all kinds of ideas designed to get you thinking and not just thinking, but hopefully working on your next side hustle. So you can have more money without quitting your job. |
| 1:44.6 | That's what it's all about. Last week, we heard from a side hustler who built a simple browser-based |
| 1:49.0 | spreadsheet tool, and I think they've achieved their objective because that tool earns enough to cover the rent each month. |
| 1:55.3 | Pretty cool. All right, today we're going to hear about this recruiter email swipe file. |
| 2:00.1 | Sean, the side hustler, is going to explain it a bit more. |
| 2:02.8 | I'm going to pass the microphone to him. |
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