638: 10 Scary-Good Side Hustles That Make Real Money
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All right, this is a ten scary good side hustlers that make real money. Or what's up? What's up, nick, all over here.

Welcome to the side. Also show because you're ninety five may make you living to fight to nine and makes you alive. Happy halloween to you.

This is a fantastic holiday. In the words of great, great teachers, kids, some really valuable life skills. You get dressed, you go to work, you get paid in Candy.

So today we've got ten scary, good side hossam. More halloween related with the others. And to help me out is in the end of many side hustles, you know. And as the host of minute pursuits podcast from two or one creative to the show.

he is fun theme that we have here. And I love the list and the runway we're going to go through in terms of some .

of these really call site tess's. Well, excited as well on a long time nit pursuits listener. And I feel like it's a long time coming to have you on the show and obviously, a lot of overlap between the two audiences and have lots of listeners from which are as well.

I want to see this off with a side told came across my desk from ebs fax this year. And this, the headline was two thousand dollars a month reacting to hora movies. And so this is Katherine fogles youtube channel is called cat watches horror vies.

At the time of this recording, SHE is over eighty thousand subscribers, started a little over two years ago, which is two years deep into this, I assume, side hustle project. And some of her videos, which, like the headline, is, I am freak out by hot movies. Let's to watch them together.

And it's just turned reacting to these for the first time and screaming and just get getting scared. Are you a horr movie? I'd like.

cannot do horror movies? No, I gna say, like, I have a funny story with my girlfriend and college, and we were going to see, I think, the rain, and we are on our way. I looked, I found that was like, I don't even like her doing.

And he was like, I don't either. So I love this idea because this is the way I really watch a horse vie. But it's with somebody like .

this kind of having fun with that yeah I remember see like glare which in in high school and then you know probably the next week going on a fifty mile backpacking trip and just IT IT was not I was not in a good place so I kit too horrible be a comedy any day of the week.

But so some of her videos, like she's got her reacting to some of these older classic or movies like exercise and predator and alien science of the lamps like these hours between one hundred and fifty thousand views and two hundred thousand views. And so you can plug the you plug the channel. You like any youtube channel into social blade and it'll estimate the earnings.

And like depending on the next, there's a huge variety and youtube R, P, M, right? But this is up to two thousand dollars a month, just in in to add revenue from cat watches, horr movies. Plus she's got a patron, campaigner, patron, you know, support cat for this with almost three hundred paying members, anywhere from three to ten dollars a month. And you get special bonus footage or you get inside access and different tears are but pretty well monetized to assist le that only a couple years deep.

I was blown away in your article by how many people are paying her. I think he said her most popular tears at ten dollars a month, and i'm seeking, like, what do you get for ten dollars a month, marty, getting what I need by watching. So that's the power of creating concept, creating idea.

And then once you get traction, there's usually several layers that can go deeper than that. This is also fun. I don't know if you remember this gona date me a bit, but this is also a great example of taking a model that already has been proven to work.

I work in high school and college. I think watching something called mystery science theater and IT was a couple of guys who had just watched these old movies that were bad. That was, that was, the central primacy were like, really poorly produced or terrible story lines are really bad acting.

They were just bad movies, and they would just joke to the whole thing. And that was, I mean, even before the day of of youtube, but they were incredibly popular and they did this to a lot of movies in a different way. She's put your own spin on something that that was done .

in successful twenty years ago. Yeah exactly. IT goes back to the pivot jam framework from the topical, yeah, guys, you're takes somebody else idea ripped off vivid IT to a new nudge, a new idea, and then J. M, go to town and do you think and and see? You get a following, even get attraction with that. This genre of reaction videos, because I tried and true thing know during during the pandemic, like lawyer reacts to, you know, stimulus package bill, a writer reacts to with this, you know, opening line of some novel by my friend rm bodmin IT runs the speaker lab and IT was know him reacting to these famous ted talks itself to formula that can work in in a lot of different nitches .

yeah yeah he reminds like, know my my netho is Young and like he will watch on youtube people playing a game to both learn but actually kind is like a community event you watching on youtube or like i've playing the game so like, you know this concept exists in so many different areas kind of she's really made in niche hot .

of IT all right next podcast reaction to watch visit in this brocade with the winter maybe that's my next signore's le, but that's the first one on this list. You know, making a couple of grand amount, probably more when you lay on both the patron and the absence from google views watching horry movies. There's a kind of for you maybe people with that to your own niche.

And he does even like him. He doesn't like her movies.

All right. So what's next to last year else we ve got?

yeah. So next up is pumpkin carvin. I mean, that IT is alloweth here.

So why would we not at least jump into something pic to the holy holiday itself? And this is mark evan and Chris sria. And they started manic pumpkin carbs dot com.

And basically they carve pumpkins for you. And obviously, it's a very seasonal business, extremely seasonal and will will get into some of the other things that are a little bit seasonal. Like this reminds me of Christmas lights.

You know, you will see the signs as you're drive in your neighborhood during the Christmas season, someone who'll come out and hanging your Christmas lights for you. But this this business day, basically car pumpkins. And I mean, I was shocked by how much money they're able to make per pumpkin.

Obviously, they do a really good job and pretty good at IT. The charging, like three figures, over one hundred dollars, high hundred dollars for some of these. And and they're making a pretty good psychosis come.

Yeah, this is maniac pumpkin covers that come. And in this truly art works of art, like some of the stuff they're able to create is genuinely impressive. And it's it's somewhat depressing that is on such a temporary medium, okay, we can capture a picture of IT. But like next month, this pumpkin is is gonna ck away, but one hundred fifty two, seven hundred dollars per pumpkin. And according to side hustle school, they're doing five hundred two one thousand pumpkins per season.

And a lot of the the is are going to be corporate clients, weddings, special events, people who have the budget to spend up to seven hundred for a pumpkin that pencils out rest mates, to be over over one hundred thousand dollars, maybe one hundred fifty thousand dollars for a very seasonal business that I got to imagine that another job, some other source that they come going on the rest of the year. But like you know, over the course of eight weeks to uh to cashion and a hot grand do an pumpkin art, if that's something you love to do. I was really impressed with that one.

I mean, you you think that obviously need to be in an area. I mean, bricklin, I think I saw so you know they can probe service the greater new york c metropole lin area that probably helps yeah dim get access to IT, like you said, corporate clients and that sort of thing. But I mean, it's also seems somewhat scalable.

You know you got finds some people who are good pumpkin carvers and you can kind of scale up. I'm sure they're probably not carve in a thousand pumpkins in the weekend of halloween. I am in assuming that, by the way, but IT is interesting to think that it's actually got some kill IT build .

into IT if you really wanted to other food related or like this temporary art thing for you because you people do like ice sculptures or where it's built just for this event. I guess I like a decorating type thing. Maybe maybe these guys have a corner on the pump kin market. Like you say another nitro thing.

This might work well. Yeah, you know, interesting me to bring IT up. My father in law ran for forty years, was an ice cover.

Was this so funny you brought that up? And so yeah, he would get hired for a lot of these types of things you just talked about, and he would make ice carvings of a whole different variety of things. So he would do full towers for french theme parties.

He would do statue of liberty for a new york theme party. He would say there's a lot of theme parties that aren't just halloween related. This is a time of york where there's parties for, but there's every time a year he would do great gad speech scene to parties and he would build hyslop tion.

That's this really into the whole theme idea. You know, we ve got to fall, we ve got to pump and we ve got to alloweth. But these themes applied throughout every holiday and every year.

Yes, it's just an example of like, well, here's a skill that I have that I probably never would have thought anybody would pay money for like it's just a good old time to carve pumpkins and get pretty with this in turning like figure out how to modify that kind of inspiring, pretty creative.

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But business models or side hustle les might be the best fit for you. And the third one on this list is, can a creepy, cruel one. And this is jeff neal, who is running the crater deep.

That count is a cricket. eating. And I think e commerce business, he sells live crickets to primarily reptile owners like people who who need crickets to feed their other pets.

And he says average has been doing this for several years, average in the real thirty thousand dollars on the side from his stage job. Crickets, apparently super easy to breed, fast to breed. And then just trying to figure out the shipping regulations about selling live insects on the internet.

This one definitely threw me off. IT feels like in our moderna wow side, hustling your way with crickets, but IT makes sense. So we people have my agency.

We do work with some veteran ans, and so I know for a fact that, but they call them the exotics, right? The exotic animals, not the cat, the dog, the bird, but all these other, like. So there is a good collection of people that have these types of animals.

and you to find I find food for that sounds like he blew up during covered when maybe the local pet doors weren't open and they weren't. I I don't know what I was.

but he has done well with them, said he has A A beard dragon. I was kind intrigued that you have a pet beard dragon.

I want to say we had somebody on the show, you know, or somebody mean the community who had like a bird drag on nitin early on all about, you know, taking care of this, you know, because it's you find a million one dog sites and probably a site for a very specific breed. But okay, we can have to go a little more niche if I want to find something maybe a little bit less competitive on that.

Kewl researchers and growing up by a pet frog as a kid, as a story goes, I was fairly Young where a late, you don't kind of nearby, and there were all these tad pools. And I said, dad, can I, can I take a tad pool home? He raised as a frog.

If you catch one, we can take IT home thinking, i'd never catch one. I don't know how much that was my data. Buy a lottery ticket.

I caught a tad pool OK. So we raise ed this tad, pull up to be a frog, and then released him back into the same lake like six months later. But we had to go another pet store to buy crickets once in a while. And I remember being quite .

process marketing wise. IT sounds like jeff is relying on these like reptile forums, like a good forum marketing. Go where your customers are the other where're hanging out these beauty dragon forums or other reptile forms. And hey, you know, we don't have a good cricket dealer if your guy, I mean.

that sounds like he really started, but I solving his own problem. And then he realized that there was this need because he's a part of that community and it's a great way to look if you're looking at what kind of IDE us so you might want to go into, like what problems do you having your life that you might have already solved and don't realized that if people have a need for IT or what problems do you have IT, maybe you could find a solution .

for them and and see if other people want IT. What is kind of call about this niche? Is the others probably some initial crickets that you're going to have to buy and I guess feed but after while IT becomes self perpetuating, right? It's like they just going to keep making more. And it's like we had somebody who is doing like plant propagation or selling many types of those things where it's like, okay about the seed once and now IT grows into this thing that I cut off the limbs of IT and then those reproof agate and is like it's almost the cool, like infinite loop or almost the ero cost of good sold. Know the father down the road that you get was .

really interesting. I like sarto starter and like know a lot like a home brew and like, you know, I know you have your starter for that and obviously not not very good to do those things. But to your point, I got my mind thinking like this kind.

almost self perpetuate itself. And one of those really exciting ones, we had a guy in that last year who was selling mushrooms out of maybe a bedroom. I can't that that room smells very good, but I was, I went to, say, eight hundred box a week or something worth of, you know, mushrooms to local restaurants and farmers market and just keep up, keep a roling amazing.

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Dcom launched April twenty three, charged nine box for a set of A, I created baby pictures. I I want this got to be like a face match APP that have been doing out of the A I angles. Necessarily important here.

I feel like there's been tools to do this for a long time. But by december, so six, seven month later, he has crossed over ten thousand dollars in revenue. According to you finance, personal site sold that site this year for an undisclosed five figure.

S, M. And relied on google traffic like people were typing in my baby generator. And he was blessed with some, some solid seo and came up on the first page for that, then look like he's on the first page anymore. I couldn't find our baby A I anymore, but he sold that. He moved on, built a cool little tool and was was make IT some money with that.

I mean, you know, I I have kids know when we were doing all the stuff while you pregnant not to have like they're like you want to get that three d image of your baby and all that. I want to look kind of weird, but IT is your baby and there's something about IT, you know and but they never told you what your baby was going to look like after IT was born, when IT was four.

And sex, I mean, feels one of things that you know it's it's like we talked about already like parties, events, weddings, but also baby people are willing to kind of spend some money in that category and thin nine dollars at something probably for most people. My daddy, my is going like, oh my gosh, I always know I have a blond hair kid like I don't think i'm taking IT too seriously, but it's probably worth like nine box to people and it's just a cool story. And how he really found a Price point that seems to resonate with enough people that he got a viable .

site has yeah is almost the novell ty factor where you could you could either created before you have a kid and then the now five years later, like, hey, that was that was pretty accurate or that was way off is almost the, you know, surprised you in the time capsule kind of thing? I'd be curious to see. Maybe I should upload my wife and I see, like, what did I did IT generate A A kid that looks anything like hours?

That's actually good point. I me, we have no idea how accurate this is to some degrees can take years for, I guess, determined of accurate. Why not? I mean, he had fun with the whole thing. He's got to post on twitter, my silly website, our baby AI, that doesn't actually solve a problem across ten thousand dollars in total reviews, I think he kind of knew is a fun thing hopefull. Everybody who bought those pictures kind of fun thing yeah.

Are there any other you know one of the A I side holes would be building you know an internal GPT for organizations or building kind of like a customer response boat for different organizations based on on the knowledge base or something like any other you know could be in this fun category or could be in a more useful category, but like any any A I assisted side holes that you might be excited about these days.

Oh, man, i'll talk about maybe if we have time. Like what kind of side us is work on. But one of the things i'm doing right now is repurposing a lot of my email content that I write for the weekend growth news letter.

I'm on medium and medium really fun because you can kind of i've i've been doing that, but i've also been expLoring new topics on medium and just sharing about IT. And a couple months ago, my wife and I were in the hardest time meal plane every week. And I thought this second, we know our priorities.

We we like to eat. We know our families like to eat. We know all these details how I just write a GPT for IT and so I did.

And so it's a GPT. And then you know, it's pretty simple for people of all, but I just thought of months, but I wonder if you could sell this one. You sell this idea if here's a GPT, this is going to build your family a custom meal plan based on your preferences, your allergies. You're all the different things you want and actually give you a meal plan every week.

Yeah, I think that's a huge pain point, that perpetual question of you know what's for dinner and you know there's company and solving in different ways of A C from the you know done for you meal kit delivery type of things down to parka is a meal planning APP.

It's been mentioned cooks' ts we've used often on but he had if there is, you know, maybe there is this A I assisted the type of thing they're be really cool to figure out, okay, what's the grocery list, right? Know what are the proportions that need to go to? Is can we reuse one ingredient across two or three different meals? Like can we make enough to have leftovers? Like there's there's a few different boxes that you can check there and and definitely some tech assist on that.

My friend even gave me an idea on that. He read the article is like, you know, you could probably do IT where you're actually just take a picture, your fridge and your copper and that kind of learns and see what you already have. So you don't want to go buy that again.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But we only have have this. I like IT. What's what's the process like, you know, to make your own meal planning thing or to make your own GPT. What does that even look like? How technical do I have to be?

Not at all. Not at all. seriously. Like we do a lot of A I implementation at our agency, but not in a complicated way. Like you just go to the ChatGPT, open a ei framework and there's a whole section on GPT and you concrete just it's kind of the classic analogy of how the best UI to begin with, like the more you give IT on the way in, the Better it's going to do for you clearly tell IT what you wanted to do.

So you going to have to have the goal in mind, don't go in just kind of brain storm and have the goal in mind and then just start working in all the different things. But that's the great thing. Like you can make the GPT.

You can play around of that. You can test IT, you can use IT. You go back in and add more to IT later. You can say, you know, let me give you some more from mac and now that i've used .

this for a week or okay, that yeah get upload ten years of podcast archives and the build something that that would be hell. I mean.

that chAllenges creating aside her self. A I is that can always be changing. But the brilliance of using the create a site, as I think, is that know there's low barriers to entry. Obviously, a cost for doing IT isn't very high.

But also like to your point, a lot of us can get in there and kind of you use a lot of these no code solutions along with customization in the A I model, and come up with some different ideas. I mean, this guy made IT work. I think he said in the shower one day for the A I baby, and always back to the A I baby photo thing, you know. And so it's it's an interesting opportunities, really an interesting opportunities.

People, that was the original idea for this episode. I could I make the one hundred percent A I episode and i'm going to in this instead. But maybe that is coming be like, well, that's kind of a spooky, scary, futuristic thing like we make A A halloween episode where is not even it's just roo robotic, but it's we're really here in the flash.

Um very good. So that number four, this A I baby generator making uh uh ten grand a total revenue before selling for a thousand. And plus exit there. What what's next for us?

This seems fun. We're going to go from A I D, like a little bit more of a classic idea. And this is a cotton Candy vending machines.

And so this is somebody who basically started with two machines inside. I have a resort. And so they have this kind of story about how they stopped working and eeta.

But basically in their first weekend, that story they talked about was eight hundred dollars in revenue from a machine on a good month. Now again, they're doing a year around IT seemed like so summer one machine can make anywhere from six to fifteen k in revenue. They have, I think, ten machines now, and so they're up into much tire revenue.

I mean, this is a really interesting idea because I know about in your neighbor od, but you've obviously got the halloween festivals we've got like my kids at their elementary school, they have their little pta fundraiser festival. You've got a lot of the like churches in neighbor to do their fall festivals at the end. You've also got october fest, by the way, and that's usually at end of september, early october. So specifically this time of year, like the cotton Candy, any machine you could use year around, but this time here, there's actually a lot like false festivals were these sorts of things would work really well.

You have you could rented out for an event because the machines themselves, or maybe a couple thousand box and you have some material costs go into that. But if hee's pulling in eight hundred box from one machine on one weekend, like he's making coin Candy, like there's not that much material that goes into IT.

And you know, he described there is there is more any and any vending machine has some many, you're got to go restocked or you've got to go service IT, like in this case. But I got independent contractors on the ground. They make this part of their out and they go to this.

The question always like you, why didn't the resort think of this? If if they haven't that kind of r why why didn't the resort just put him in themselves? But you know, that's that's not the business that they're in.

They want to stay in their line. They want delegate this extra sort of to to somebody else. This is distinctive vending dcom, if you won't check IT out. So he got the I think he's got a balloon machine that makes balloon animals that seems even more complicated, but again, almost no cost of whole like a little rober balloon. And he charged three, four, five x that and you doing pretty .

well yeah said he said in twenty and twenty four, he's on track to make five hundred grand in revenue. I think that's quite aside how. So obviously, we don't know that know the net profit and like that, my wife, when he was, he was on a team growing up and they were fundraising their most that's fundraiser was renting a snow cone machine and then go into a local market and selling snow comes to the local crowd.

And then they would pay, obviously for the rental for the snow comm. But they would make they would make thousand in one day. Selling snow comes even after the rental on the coast sold yeah.

selling frozen water and and trigger up this. So it's pretty good margins and that too.

So this is is the idea, mike, I said, I mean, once you buy the machine, probably some service, but if you have a place to store IT, if you have like a bad area, you can store IT like it's kind of these things where it's not costing you money if it's not rented out that weekend.

Yeah, there is a there is a novelty factor of like shit. I've never seen a cotton Candy vending machine before. I think that works in his favor.

And you kind of get inspiration from the stuff while you're while you're traveling, like we've got attributed to and coming up next year. And it's like vending machine central. There's some start like, no, there is a vending machine for every every person in the country. But but you know the remark what you wake up the first morning that you're there because of jet lag and it's five in the morning and our sun was three months all at the time.

I got everybody, you strap into the argo, let's go for a walk and you find these like ice coffee vending machines and like a dollar and like, yes, this is exactly what this is tasted, but they have any machines for everything, even even at certain restaurants. And so you take inspiration from that long as you stuff like, if you can bring that to a good location. And that kind of the the the key component is your location, location, location, just like real state.

In our winning machine episode we did early in the year was five ninety nine with my man from from winning pennel's and he he's I said, well, you know what's going to separate you from the five of the guys you know not on the door or trying to put any machine in this place. I don't say the reward. Talk about modern amenities instead of vending.

And you he's you're opening IT up to you know these like staffers, a many mini market type of things and you know more than just like your old school, any machine type of stuff. But I think you could play well with with cotton Candy or balloons or different seasonal events. There is much more the game is much brother than just, you know ky bars and and soda.

I listened to that episode. IT was really a good epsom and IT was IT was that one felt like I was really, you know, to some degree you rely a lot more and how you discuss this concept with that local, local place, whatever is, whether it's you, what we get all he talked about IT in in the episode, but you know somebody with this one, you could capsize on a lot of different things, like know local events and festivals and parties.

And you could probably even going back idea. We already shared and talked about that because you probably market this to parties in the area, you know, so you can market IT to summer barbecue es and halloween parties and all these different Christmas parties and things that people throw. And how could would you be to have like a cotton Candy machine as the. Each you deserve .

for the night yeah would almost be like like a like a photo booth rental for this wedding, for this party or something like that. But um even Better if you can find that every Green location that's just going to make a sales all the time. But there is an event or uh, specific play there as well as number five on this list.

Number six is when we elude to earlier, where is like, okay, would do Christmas light install and take down but that that theme of decorating for holidays has been creeping earlier, earlier in the year. And halloween is become quite a big thing. We are at home deeper with my son and, you know, these huge, you know, aneas onic zombies and staff, and you have button on the floor and watch him and raises arms up pat and makes some noise.

It's definitely become a thing with the inflatable and everything else to decorate your guard for hello ween and a little spider web up in the year now, you think we never had anything like that as kids. We have jackeymo ds on the porch like that was IT turn the light on jack lander's on the porch. European for business for you.

But like now it's become so this is a light up your holidays. That com, they started doing Christmas lights twenty years ago in in chicago. You've expected to do halloween as well with packages starting at eighteen hundred dollar.

Don't take many houses to make a meaningful set. Us le. Your packages start at eighteen hundred dollars.

They are all about free design, right? So like there's clearly like you're buying something that's unique. This is probably a little bit differently from what I saw then you're classic like he will hang your lives up and I show up, you've got to got the and I just hang him up and I move on which for the record, I think that's pretty lucrative of two.

But this is different. This is really going for that kind of luxury feeling. We're going to give you something totally unique. We're going to design something will click here, request your free halloween designs casually, you a virtual design called to see your custom options and pricing es and then reserve IT. So you're exactly right.

Like if you're already doing if you already have access to love this stuff for a different holiday like Christmas, I mean, I shoot, it's such a good idea that their website is generic enough that it's probably started off about Christmas lights. And i'm sure on november first, this entire home page gets changed over to Christmas, right? But right now it's all how how .

been deemed yeah yeah and then will take over for you know valentine's day and fourth july like know this. I mean, if you customers keep doing that, the other one that I want to point now under this category of holiday to core or alloweth, the core is porch pumpkins. So you got to check out this, this woman on instagram.

Her handle is porch pumpkins, thirty four thousand followers. This is heather, tourists out of dallas. And what he does is he just piles bunch of pumpkins on people's porches and that's me being somewhat physical. But you know, he makes me look really nice.

Two people, they have no design skills. Is that you're in that's .

IT sounds like a million dollars worth the pumpkins in four months out of the year. SHE is got a whole I think he has a warehouse and you've got drivers like there are some logistics involved, there are some costs in love, but she's found customers doing a million dollars of revenue to put pumpkins on people's porters. There is in each for everything.

I was really excited when I found this one. I I love that one thought, because that just taps into you. You don't have to stop at the porch.

You can go and help them decorate the insider house. You can help them decorate their backyard. You can like people they don't have to, then to buy and store and p together.

A good looking design for their holiday theme, in this case, halloween. Now you can just have IT all delivered, set up, esthetically put together. You can do just your porch.

But I mean, I would imagine you could extend IT at the home and you could do every holiday. You know, people like to design for the summer. People like to design for fall in general. So there's that things got a lot of legs to .

work through yeah if I was super impressed, IT says last year he did nine hundred jobs, ranging between three hundred and two thousand dollars with extra charges. Say, you want me take the pumpkins away? Happy to do, but will charge action for that.

He was fun. Ally, we read trader joes with the kids, uh, a couple weeks ago in this lady in front of us in line SHE her entire card, no food, only pumpkins. And you know, maybe maybe she's the local version of the porch pumpkins of her, would you to do with somebody functions? But maybe she's doing IT as a sign business will go decorate some people's purchase.

And this is such an interesting I mean, we obviously she's doing at so, so much scale, but you can start off by just happen your network. And then this would probably also do really social media, you know tiktok, instagram, instagram posting about this, you could probably build up enough of the head of steam just throughout the year by showing you um by showing this process over over again at this personality to IT like this feels like a business you don't have like skills are necessarily have know we talked about getting your any machine placed in certain places. I bet you could just rely on your network in social media are really .

going to talk the ground yeah sounds like a primarily is social driven for her. Hey, i'm to open up orders in july. I'm sold out by August and now it's just time to go find the pumpkins, to do the design work, set them up and I was crazy. So it's probably where he .

spends most for time is driving over trying to find all the pumpkins SHE needs yeah yeah.

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Were back of year from two one creative end, the weekend growth newsletter, doing in some scary, good side, hustles. And this was a really interesting one. And I found IT was selling digital cloth.

And this just blows my, because my my son is in the first thing, he gets a new game that I want to change my habit AR or he is very into like what his character is wearing in know whatever game IT is if it's, if it's my crater, it's like intendo switch words like, oh, I got this upgraded jacket. Like, who care? Like, I just want to play the game like, it's been so much time on this stuff, but there's a huge market around this.

So this is kasia Watson, twenty two year old, selling a block close. And I did not know this was a thing, but he does freeLance clothing design force, a big brands. We wanted get their brand into this game, like where people spend their time.

And to spend in some time in this game, we want to be everywhere. We want to get our closed and designs in front there. And so sh'd been doing this for years and years, no designes and clothes, and it's a cool site. Usually that is something that you create once so over over again, like an upper piece of software or a piece of content. He was two cents per sae because it's definite a volume game until he went out and started like freeLance design contracts from some bigger brands.

I think I saw that he made in her first year, which is twenty twenty three over one hundred and ten thousand dollars according to like I was verified by by cnd, C I, ppos. And I mean this pick back off. When I first saw this story on our, on our list your day, I thought I was going to be like, hey, the classic halloween costume rental place, you know, like be a little local boat.

yeah yeah. Like a spirit halloween.

you know, especially not so you can just like I was singing to my head how great that idea is even not even not so it's just like go out to all your friends and remember first me like k can I buy all your old costumes you I just got done with for like a dollar each of and you can just start building up a whole supply a costumes just by buying all your friends use halloween costumes the day after alloweth. But this puts a whole new spin on, I mean, this is all digital, so that opens up all these avens and also kind of highlights. You mention that like using that said, the expertise you built up then gotten get contracts at outside of that that that seems to be worse.

You N A lot of her money. Yeah, this is an interesting one. It's trying to go. You're already part of this ecosystem. You're part of this community. You know how the game is played, you know what's play well, but then playing that game the way you've been doing IT is not onna become a full time thing is you to go you got to go higher market. You got to go find those corporate clients that they really have budget to to spend in like a in world in this case.

Yeah, I think you this is a good time dimension, like every site has. So you got to understand how scale table is and how scale you want IT to be. And for a lot of us, like we kind land into a side.

So and then he goes well and then we started think about what's next. But you don't necessary think about what's next until you have that first initial success. But it's a great example of that, he said, kind of going up market and and not getting a confined by just limitations .

of what he started with you. The paralo would be like stock photography if shows up on a bunch of different lists of science hustles. But the people who have the success doing IT have thousand hundreds of thousands of images.

And okay, if we're going to play this volume game and IT can work like it's passive once those things cell by the new term thing is like, I want to go to portraits, wedding senior photos, family photos of the corporate event charge three, four, five hundred, you know, up to several thousand and dollars for that event. And so is kind of a similar play here. Where's yeah make these things in their cell and I can build up my portfolio, but I got to go find the the corporate client.

And i'm and thinking because some people have approached like could we, you know license your side hustle curriculum or could you create a user like who's the bigger who's the bigger fish that R I would be interested in what you know and that's something that's kind of been on my mind lately, where I OK you could sell, you know, once you do this, or you can go license this to somebody. We had a guy who was doing book, books, summary service, that was, you go to the website and buy IT. But like for him, he was like we're going to go to japan s we're going to go to these companies that have proven to make investments in employee learning, like continuing education, like they know care about this stuff as a benefit of working here. You also get access to to this books of my service is like that. That was a great pitch.

This reminds me in equal parts. Like to your point, this reminds me a story that I heard a while back about a friend, friends, I don't know, but they kind of built something that kind reminds me of this for the minecraft community, and then got popularity. They won't, making a ton of money off.

This is just truly like a little side, has some more of a passion project than anything. But years later, landed job at minecraft as a result of gain on their radar. And one thing needs LED to another.

And so they ended up, yes, they didn't have a side as only more. Now they had a job, but they were doing a job in an industry they absolutely loved and was built on the fact they've T T, A side has. So on IT.

yeah, there is, there is some cold stuff you do in h in minecraft. I think some friends of hours bow at disneyland, basically a minecraft version of disney, which i've recreated the entire park, all the rides, and probably paid five bucks for something. But if this guy sells disney to thousands of people and he was kind of a cool, something he probably wanted to create anyway. You know, it's like if you can find that kind of space to play, and I think you're you're .

going to have some fun, agree, especially if you are there in that space anyways, I mean.

shoot, what's the down's life? All right. Next one is one that has come across my desk a few times this year, and I know nothing about games or sports sweating.

Now it's like what these numbers mean, like the plus one twenty years, the I don't know, I asked my friends this weekend, like what does that mean when IT is like plus thirteen hundred? But the side of so that come across my desk is arbitrage sports spending. You spent on football games? anything? No, not at all, right.

So this this would be a great segment to a rookies. So via setting of this is different sports books are going to have different odds on different games and the arbitral ge opportunity is to find one ah this sports book says, you know the the yankees are going to win. And this sports book says, the yankees are going to lose and you find the so you make two bets and you know, you know you gna lose one, but you know you're also going to win one and that cancels out the loss and you make a little bit margin on IT like sounds.

T, D, S, sounds impossible to do without software. And unch, a software I wanna plug. Any man can speak for them. For the bunch of offered that will help you do this. You just have to have accounts at every every different sports look imaginable. And I don't know how found upon this is if this is like just unknown thing that happens, like I they're taking their cut their fees and they probably care, but is an .

interesting one. I mean, if you are like a date third, a math word, maybe this is something to look into of the sports spin has grown quite a bit as reading her thing was to. And eighteen kind of open up a lot more legalization.

I think I saw that here again, thirty five percent of americans are bad on sports now. So you know, growing market, growing that sort of thing. I think you described IT pretty well. I ve never been on a sporting event that I can think of in my entire life. But from, I am a math nd like I did kind of major basically in college in math and so that the process does kind of make sense. You know you're kind of arbitraging different sports bedding books and the way that they set lines and the way these things can change dynamically, these these numbers can change like lead up to a game or one sports book like somebody gets injured and one sports book looks at that different another one, right? And so yeah.

they have all updated in real time like they're some leg and that's kind of my understanding is like.

yeah or you can insight information that disguise injured and you know before the sports book finds out or so, there's a lot of stuff there were like I can see out there would be arbitrage opportunities every weekend, every week on different sporting events. Pay on where you land in terms of the way your mind works and in terms of how interested you are kind of getting involved in that.

Ah I was really surprised when we were watching football last weekend. There is A A lot of gambling related commercial and the first one was like, you know, when you have a hunch, you want to be able to place that bet. Like right now, I thought I was a joke.

Oh, no. They're like seriously promoting vandel or what is kind of surprising. And I guess this is this is a big deal.

And if you are going to do IT, maybe there is some arbitrage opportunities. Thing with any arbitrary ge opportunity is like this is usually short lived, is usually kind of a narrow, a narrow window. But there is going to be some .

people making this work going to movie twenty one, right where you know black jack and and learning if if you're smarter enough at a time, like you said, with a short live, because they would ve caught onto that now. And casinos don't allow you to to get that advantage, but they were what account cars and then use their brilliance to work the system.

And that's basically a former arbiters, right? So to some degree, that loops hole has been closed now. But but perhaps this one still rains supreme.

Yeah, I love me, an underdog taking down the casino story. I will read those. I will watch us all day long.

I don't think any boy's read for the .

casino that movie yeah and mayn't, this is all online like you're you don't have you know back room brass snuck les type of risk, you know if they find out you're an advantage player and throw that out there, not not allow ween related at all, but just something that I thought was interesting that's come across.

It's the first i've heard about this approach to IT. I think it's a very interesting approach. Again, because my mathematical background.

I like the idea and risk free profit like that, that lane intends to get crowded right away. There is probably risks, associated risks in anything. But I don't last forever.

So it's got to be one of these to get in while they get in good. All right. What's next on this list?

We've talked about topics like this already at this point. This one is A A bicycle ice cream business. It's Katherine brian and she's yelled in the founder of cream cruiser.

Now this one is a little bit twist to IT. So hang with IT here. What he did is, yes, he created a like an ice cream bike business where she's going.

I think he said he started local farmers markets. SHE got the weddings, corporate events, college events. SHE just has a bike, I don't know. SHE actually just straight, wrote the bike to her or SHE took him on a truck and IT was more magic.

C but it's got ice creams that after the unicredit, and what was all that, I think she's been like ten grand a months or something, SHE was saying. But what he then did, and this is what's kind of fascinating, we even had this yet, is that SHE then want on to make basically bike business university. And that's a bike business, university dot com.

And that is basically like teaching people how to start these businesses, right? And so this is a trade through model. And he makes twenty thousand dollars per month passive from what that sounds like.

And he said about doubling by the start of summer twenty and twenty four. At last update, you got a lot of followers on instagram, age two thousand followers, ice cream bike lady. So she's made a business, a site business of a service. But then he is also bigger side business side to teach people how to do that.

service the sisters inside muscles. One thing leads to the next. There's somebody doing this in our neighbor od and get you know very seasonal. I think this is about more you know it's going to be equally seasonal there. We always are calculated.

You the guy comes by, you know once a week after school when the weather good, you see you and pop by the swim mets when the community swim meats are going on and it's kind of have this right and always like what kind of you know the calculation you think he sells a day, you know what can I go? Very low overhead and means you got a bike with like a cooler attached to IT. Um sure there's a custom build out on there, but pretty impressive that she's able to do that.

And and again, going after the the bigger weddings, corporate events rather than just know one c two c ice cream sales, I think is an interesting play on that too. And then the age old playbook, do the thing, get a result. And then obviously, ep, it's you know kind of A I think it's sold as being like a fun outdoor sy money making business. Like, yeah, I attracted eighty thousand followers for other people who want to earn how to do this.

Some cancers doing really well. Yes, I looked backup because I was looking to see. My point was gonna like the overhead is so low, like even the start of costs like yeah you think the class ice cream vender and they ve got to buy that big truck and you got to maintain this truck at always looks like it's about to break down and never start again, you know, and all that.

But this is so much easier. Like the investment, he said he invested under ten thousand dollars to get IT going. So I was a ten thousand dol reference.

But I mean, to your point, like I think there's so much versatility here, like probably driving around selling you know neighborhood is not as profitable as getting that wedding gig, that corporate gig, you know the summer fair, whatever IT is, that's probably where you can make a substantial amount money IT is. So I do go back that she's only thing like in ball tomorrow in the winter. I'm wondering how many bike riding she's doing in sell on ice cream coes. But certainly a good .

spring summer may be early. false. yeah. IT turns into the the hot chocolate bike vender, the the hot coffee ti flip IT flip IT on his head here. IT is okay. One hundred grand in five months out of the year with seventy five percent profit margins.

What else could you sell out the back of a bike? Think this is that, you know, first there was crew trucks, and as I even, that's too much overhead, right? How do we shrink this still even further? So pretty cool.

Yeah I think it's great, especially again, like i'm thinking about where I live. I ve about forty five minutes I the ago but tones that tourists come here in the summer, right? So I mean, you just write that thing up and down the bor walk and even know if that's a permit right up and down all day you could provide like a killing.

Yeah, these are the little the little ideas that I absolutely that this is like didn't cost anything to get IT started. And then hopefully, I mean, do you do diligence on what kind of regulations and requirements you going to have, you know, to be a food vendor? But pretty quick to get off the ground.

And you know, you know so an ice cream on a hot day is a pretty easy sound. So you get the the last one on this list. Number ten is, I don't know, real.

This is, this is a real life wedding. Crashing been writing up in in a few different sources. One one recent one was in the new york post.

This is a neto rino vara. He he live in spain, and he is a professional wedding crash for a base fee, five hundred year OS, roughly five hundred fifty dollars. S neter says he's going, i'm going to come and I will crash your wedding.

I'm to pretend to be the brides long lost lover and, you know, run away with her. And I guess the primary target, the target audience, is the bride who was got cold feet. And I wants to break IT off in a really dramatic, had the alter that he was really interesting. But as r says, he's booked up through december.

When I first saw this, I really thought this was going to be an old to what when you say, like wedding rashes, like hiring someone to be like the life for the party, right? Like if you want your way to be awesome, hire someone who would like super outgoing, super funny, super loud and will show up and like, dance the night away and get the party going on, right? I didn't expect you to be.

He would job and crash your way with the intent to break IT up. And so yeah enough details in we here feels pretty git but but I was like there's no way but he said he's booked up and he'll basically show up and like for a cool five hundred euro. You can just kind of guess if that's way you want to go about in your wedding cold feet.

Like I guess that's a thing. And like this is proof that you don't you only need a certain number of clients. You don't need to sell the entire world.

Yeah there there is a market friday and we talk to jim gLance from brides mates for higher. Is this a real thing? But it's like, yeah, you know, people will hire me to be there, made of honor to help. You can be A A shoulder to cry on, to be be a friend for them on this day. And he built of a really interesting business around that. So the part that was like got me was like is is for real was at the end of the article he he says I get paid extra if I get hit if the groom room or the groom men are like punching me or stopping me on my way out you know, I get fifty year ros every extra hits like, obviously I don't want to get hurt, but I kind of want to take my time to that's why I take my money like this is for real.

I mean, I I would think maybe he put that in there just as a job hazard. You know, it's like, true. I had to go to hospital to get you stitches like that takes away from my five hundred year old iron.

So i've got to up charge every time I get hit and then he's like, well, as long I can play that card properly, like doing up in the hospital and maybe put a way a couple hundred more year o on the way out. You know, I was a waiting photograms, my first career. I did that for a decade, and so I have definite the other side of that, which is people shot up weddings, and we actually proved IT one time.

I shot a wetting on friday night, and then business partner shot, went in on a sary night. And we were adding the wedding the next week, and we saw the exact same person in the exact same outfit at one wedding, the next one. And we actually went after the bridegroom when we saw them exactly.

Do you know that person? Like, I don't know that person. I thought that we might.

And both them had same story, like not I didn't know that person, same venues in town. So there are definitely people who who crash weddings. I didn't know anybody was higher to crash wedding there.

There's there for the free food and drinks.

Yeah yeah. I think so. The social aspects me know so nice what is out there, but but to do IT professionally, that is next level.

I will tell you, that is next level. yeah. Is a nature. Everything is a sign of everything. jar. This been, all of these are ten scary good, loosely, halloween related some more than others. And appreciate you hanging out and and share this with us.

Do you got the agency got two or one creative that com, your host in the nit pursuits podcast. You got the weekend newsletter at weekend growth that come slash newsletter. You've got the amazon influences, but you got that stuff going on a of many online sissons .

excited these days. I do, I do yeah the marking job, that's what I do. But I just feel so stimulated.

And I love doing side hustles. I love trying them. I love seeing what works. I love just that inspiration you mentioned that I write about every week at the news letter, and that's free.

If people want to just see what i'm doing, what am I work going to right now? Influence that i've been to enough for about year and half now that was really successful. Lot of the gate that when really caught fire.

And so I share about that all the time and we're going cue force. So that's the fun time. When I was on influencing .

how many videos have you made?

Twelve hundred and fifty. Now i'm actually gonna make some videos right after this podcast. The house is empty, my wife and the kids, you're gone.

I'm going to go make some videos right for this podcast. I'm trying to get about thirteen hundred and fifty before the city. The black friday sales season hits.

okay. And is this just you can't have bought three hundred things off? I am like where you get in the stuff to film about IT.

So yeah, we've probably a good amount on amazon, but we bought nowhere near three hundred. And first off, you can make different types of videos about a single product. Maybe you have like several cell phone cases, so you can make a video about your cell phone case, and you can to compare your old cell one case with your new cell phone case.

And that's another video, right? OK. You can also get creative and go to neighbor's houses and film, go on your neighbors house like, sit there. You can use your coffee machine for a couple minutes, couple you maybe now how long IT takes to figure out and then make a video on that. I have not done this.

I've done at once where I was at an ear bnb, and I actually had used a lot of the stuff in the kitchen all week. And I was like, go last day I made a bunch of videos about. Stuff I using that air B N B. But a lot people will actually make that their model and go out to bnb s and random and then film .

all the products there. Okay, okay, nice.

So that's how you can get more videos than what you have. Usually you want to start with at least the base of stuff, hopefully have some stuff, but you don't do bother amazon as long as the available on amazon. So that's another key factor.

right? Do you find that IT is just a factor of creating the content, you know, in building that library of a thousand plus videos that that's what drives revenue or other specific tactics that are going to honestly.

not really not that I ve figured out. I mean, IT is a side. I so for me, so I haven't like sad there, but they don't give you any metrics. They don't tell you a lot.

It's really about you know you're trying to make a good video and make as many of them as you can because I found no correlation to the ones making me most of my money. And IT IT is the eighty twenty roby way like almost everything else in life, like totally I don't make the same amount of every video. I make eighty percent of my revenue or more off of probably less than twenty percent of my videos. And so it's really just about taking those swings at the to try to figure which what .

you're going to connect on. Yeah this is we started doing the kids like lego videos and trying to make them in their first passive income on the internet is like given I remember giving them the twenty box like over Christmas season last year and they're like cool, like pause right here. You d just made passive cub on the internet.

I don't think you have appreciation for like how cool this is, you know, and how to how easy this was for you. So I will I will back up that the influence of programme is probably easier. Money that ever made online have very, very few this year and of looking at six hundred sixty nine box so far this year, and I probably have less than fifty videos life.

So it's um IT works. It's IT. It's a really cool, really cool program that have got does IT take easy forever? Does the last forever? Probably not. But if you, if you can get accepted into IT, they still have to said, like what level of social following you need, make sure you apply with your youtube bar, instagram, you they want some link to a social no, you don't have to propose any your videos on that social platform.

correct? yeah. And it's also based on engagement. So it's like this company, how many followers you have, but they want to see accounts that actually get some engagement. But a lot of us have instagram accounts that you know over a thousand followers just from friends and family and work colleagues over the years and know so you can fit that into a business account doesn't change the outer account itself. And lot of people who have success with with something like that or maybe a tiktok account, they started itself.

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