Here we go:
(1) As a student I used to hand out samples of Carnation Instant Breakfast at a Boston subway stop. Not anyone's idea of fun, believe me.
(2) Cleaning disgusting student bathrooms in college -- a story I've told on this list before.
(3) Working as an administrative assistant for a headhunter in the fashion industry in New York. Now that's not embarrassing in itself, but the indignities I was subjected to...oh, boy. The woman who ran the company was abusive and crazy to the point that I finally quit...and then when I realized there was no other job in New York that paid a graduate student nearly as well, I came crawling back.
However, a fellow I know named Paul Laino really takes the cake -- not only for what he does, but also for how successful it is for him.
Paul is known on YouTube (where he has over 130,000 subscribers) as Scrap & Pallet Man. He earns a five-figure monthly income with videos showing him going through trash for material that can be recycled, sold, etc.
I asked him the various ways he monetized his channel.
I was surprised to learn that a major way is through merchandise sales. People like him after watching his videos, and are all too happy to buy a coffee mug with his logo on it.
He told me that sometimes he feels more like a mug salesman than anything else.
Well:
I'm going to assume you don't want to follow exactly in Paul's footsteps with the trash and all, even though he's doing really well.
But:
Remember what he said about mugs?
How about we skip the trash and go right to that?
Telling a fulfillment company what to write on a mug is not difficult work, especially since winning ideas are all around you if you know where to look.
What a fun little way to bring in some smackers on the side -- not to mention a business the bastards can't shut down.
The woman I interviewed about this on the Tom Woods Show, Rachel Rofe, has hundreds and hundreds of testimonials from people who are having a ball following her blueprint and making good sales.
Last week she showed us every step of that blueprint. If you saw it, you know what I'm talking about: she left nothing out.
Tom Woods