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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3022 - TBT: When Selling Prints Wasn’t Enough

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Throwback Thursday feature, discover how pivoting from digital art prints to creating mockups for Etsy and Shopify turned an underperforming side hustle into a high-demand service.

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.

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0:47.4

Got a pretty cool transformation story for you today. We're going to hear from a digital artist

0:56.6

who turns into a mock-up specialist for e-commerce. What am I talking about? Well, basically,

1:02.6

they have pivoted from digital art prints to creating mock-ups for Etsy and Shopify.

1:08.1

And in doing so, they have turned an underperforming side assault into a high

1:11.6

demand service. So if you have an idea, if you have ever tried a side hustle that hasn't worked,

1:16.4

maybe you need to tweak your idea a bit. Maybe you need to go from your initial idea to something

1:21.3

that might in fact be more profitable. And by the way, welcome to side hustle school.

1:25.7

My name is Chris Gillibow. Welcome as well to Throwback Thursday.

1:28.9

This is a segment where we take an in-depth look at someone whose story has evolved since we first featured them.

1:34.0

Last week, we heard from a stationary lover in Tokyo who began shipping curated paper goods and writing supplies abroad, all while supporting small artisanal shops.

1:43.8

So today we're going to hear from Raina,

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