Anonymous wrote:Etsy and online art sales.

What do you sell on Etsy? How much money do you make? I'm thinking of selling t-shirt and stationery on Etsy, but worried there's too much competition. I have a bunch of designs, but no idea if they'll sell, and not crazy about spending a lot of money only to find out no one wants my designs.

Anonymous wrote:Online record store

Where do you sell? Ebay? discogs?

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Anonymous wrote:Ive posted this before but I am the Xmas wrapping lady! You put your presents in the garage or front porch or whatever one night that you pick and I wrap them all and return to the same spot the next morning. 1.25 per present no matter what the size if you give me your supplies and 1.60 if I use mine. Everyone must provide tape though.

How do you attract customers? - repeaters and word of mouth or other advertising?

I want to know more about this too. Do your fees include ribbons? Bows? Name tags?

I have often thought that girl scouts or church groups could make a lotta money if they set up gift wrapping services right outside of shopping centers in December.

Also a professor. I am an expert witness in a few cases a year. Averages to a few hours per week. It's paid for new cars, summer house, and kids' college fund.

Babysitting
Tutoring/children's art lessons

I have several side hustles. I am a dog walker/pet & house sitter. I also deliver for Amazon fresh or Prime Now about once per week. I make about 1.5k per month off my side hustles. It's great and is our vacation/my splurge budget.

Anonymous wrote:Summer time sex worker. Teacher the Fall-Spring. Makes ends meet.

Interesting. How do you get customers? Word of mouth or do you have a madame/pimp?

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Anonymous wrote:Ive posted this before but I am the Xmas wrapping lady! You put your presents in the garage or front porch or whatever one night that you pick and I wrap them all and return to the same spot the next morning. 1.25 per present no matter what the size if you give me your supplies and 1.60 if I use mine. Everyone must provide tape though.

How do you attract customers? - repeaters and word of mouth or other advertising?

OMG. How do I contact you? Can you provide your business email address? Do you service NOVA areas?

Online record store

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Anonymous wrote:I have a blog.

What's it about? How did you make it profitable?

A very specific parenting niche. Like How to survive the NICU (a post for every last detail), but that's not the actual niche. It grosses 4.5k-ish a month, 1.5k from affiliate links, $500 for e-books, the rest from an advertising network. Expenses are minimal, less than $100 a month. I worked on it for a year making almost nothing, another year making very little, then it started to pay off. I had to learn a lot about SEO. I probably do 10 hours a month now, but could easily do less and make the same (I reply to every email I get).

The thing is that I'm very dependent on Google, Amazon, and the ad network. My income could easily collapse if one changes their algorithm or policies.

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Anonymous wrote:Etsy business that matches my day job income (which isn't bad, I work for a consulting firm as a middle manager)

What do you sell if you don't mind saying? How long did it take you to grow the business?

I actually don't want to say here, because it would out me. If it makes a difference, I was an early user and I have repeat customers. I add inventory at least weekly, and a huge part of my business is leading up to Christmas.

It took me probably 2 years to actually figure it out, grow my customer base, figure out what margins I needed to earn on top of taxes and fees, etc.

Also I was able to get some decent publicity for myself through a few niche-type websites.

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Anonymous wrote:Etsy business that matches my day job income (which isn't bad, I work for a consulting firm as a middle manager)

What do you sell if you don't mind saying? How long did it take you to grow the business?

I actually don't want to say here, because it would out me. If it makes a difference, I was an early user and I have repeat customers. I add inventory at least weekly, and a huge part of my business is leading up to Christmas.

It took me probably 2 years to actually figure it out, grow my customer base, figure out what margins I needed to earn on top of taxes and fees, etc.

Anonymous wrote:I side hustle as a real estate agent. I also flip about one house every 18 months, and I own three rental properties (with zero cash flow but will be paid off for my retirement).

I thought about real estate on the side, but someone told me real estate firms don't want part-timers. Is this not true?

Re: flipping. Don't you need a steady line of contractors and such so you can flip quickly? I always thought that differentiated the successful flippers from all the others.

Anonymous wrote:We have one rental. Instead of a hustle I went all in at my job and got promoted and leap frogged some managers

My husband is all about this as well, but I don't really enjoy my day job.

Anonymous wrote:Hustle*

Thanks. It was 4:54 in the morning. Not sure why I was even awake.