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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3373 - STORY: Savvy Stationery Site Offers Cards for Divorce & Diwali

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Small Business, Entrepreneurship,, Entrepreneurship, Careers, Side Hustle, Business

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

A director at a non-profit college of music creates an e-commerce site selling greeting cards with a twist. 

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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

In today's story, an associate director at a nonprofit college of music creates an e-commerce

0:10.5

site selling greeting cards. And not just any greeting cards, but cards with a twist, or

0:15.8

perhaps just a different sort of message that you might see on your typical Hallmark card.

0:20.7

In this story,

0:21.2

you're going to hear how she makes a big change transitioning from a consumer-focused model,

0:25.3

which is basically B-2-C, to a wholesale focused one, B-to-B. We're going to call this story

0:30.5

savvy stationary site offers cards for divorce in Diwali. I love stories of people taking an

0:36.3

existing industry and remixing it somehow or

0:39.0

otherwise creating a change in evolution and not just doing well for themselves, but then also

0:43.8

kind of pushing or nudging an entire industry along. I always think of my good friend Emily

0:48.0

McDowell, who definitely did that in the greeting card world in a very big way. Today's story is

0:52.8

about someone else. Her name is Ali King. I'll tell you all about it in the story. Her business is called groundswell greetings.

0:58.8

The story is coming right up. Stay tuned. When you run a business, every minute counts. You don't

1:06.4

have a lot of spare time and you probably know that accounts payable can take up way more time than it should.

1:11.9

A simple task can become all too complicated, but it doesn't need to be. That's why I recommend

1:16.8

Intuit QuickBooks Bill Pay. QuickBooks Bill Pay automates your accounts payable and QuickBooks

1:21.9

allows you to do more of what you want to do, so you're not sorting through invoices during

1:25.8

your spare time or when you'd rather be doing something else. No more manual bill entry. You instantly see what's due, who needs to

1:32.2

approve it, how it all works, spend less time on admin and more time keeping your business growing

1:37.8

with QuickBooks Bill Pay. Learn more at quickbooks.com slash bill pay. Again, that's quickbooks.com slash bill pay. Terms apply.

1:47.3

Money movement services are provided by Intuit Payments Incorporated. Licensed as a money transmitter by

1:51.8

the New York State Department of Financial Services. Allie King is the Associate Digital Director at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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