Ep. 3029 - TBT: Travel Blog Becomes Spring Break Powerhouse

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Throwback Thursday segment, discover how this side hustler built a spring break site that soars to $8,000 during peak months by combining ad networks with carefully edited AI content.

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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0:00.0	Lemonada.
0:02.7	Travel blog becomes spring break powerhouse.
0:14.2	Welcome back to Side Ussel School.
0:15.8	Chris Gillibow here.
0:16.7	In today's episode, you're going to discover how this side hustler built a spring break site,
0:22.4	basically content about spring break. He's going to explain it. It soars to $8,000 in revenue,
0:28.2	which is basically profit. It's almost all profit during peak months by combining ad networks
0:33.1	with carefully created or carefully edited AI content. How does all that work?
0:38.1	That's what we're going to go into in this short action-packed episode.
0:41.2	So glad you're here.
0:42.2	It's also part of our throwback Thursday series, where we take a look at someone
0:45.8	whose story has evolved since we first featured them.
0:49.0	Now, last week in this segment, we heard from a side hustler who pivoted from digital art
0:53.4	prints to creating mockups for Etsy and Shopify.
0:57.2	They turned an underperforming project into a high-demand service.
1:01.0	Today we've got this guy who's making the Spring Break website, as I said, up to $8,000 a month in income during peak months, a little bit less during some non-seasonal months.
1:10.9	But hey, the project has already made.
1:12.7	The project is there.
1:13.5	It's largely passive income.
1:15.1	And he has gotten creative in using AI content to build it out a bit further.
1:20.3	So pretty cool here.
1:21.5	Lots to learn.
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