Can you start an online business, nothing more than a phone, not even a computer. I grew up in a world of desktop computers, myself And transition to working mostly on laptops, but I'm that. A lot of people and younger generations are growing up in the world bubble. First, where phones are the primary devices. In fact, some people in some parts of the world may never actually work on a desktop or laptop computer, but they're able to do so much on their phone. I noticed that whenever I travel to Africa, or much of Asia. Not everybody has a computer, but just about everybody has a phone, so I thought this was pretty interesting in this story. That plainer rights your way into a custom calligraphy shop, starting nothing more than your Iphone and one against

in follower, which was herself from a personal account, but it grew her friends encourage her to open it Etsy store and she into going even further, eventually quitting her job and publishing a book this year. In fact, she earned around two hundred thousand dollars. I started with a love of doodling crate story. I really enjoyed working on this one. I will bring it to you after this message from our sponsor go anywhere

Megan Taylor has been a two door and artist for as long as she can remember when she was in middle school with pass notes back and forth in class. She designed a slips of paper, so it looks beautiful teacher or threatened to take the notes read into the class but make it would think open it up and show it off. I worked really hard on it and high school. She painted the banner that the football players would run to every gameday her letter and got better and better as time went on even her name. I've been chosen for aesthetic reasons, although the name is pronounced like Megan, it's spelled.

Eighty eight show because her mom thought it looked prettier like that, after graduate in college making gonna job as an event platter. One day she decided to take a calligraphy class, just four five after the class was over. She was on her way to a friends house for a book club. So as a hospitality gift, she decided to write some typical southern sayings on carts, like hey all less your heart levy, a lot and thanks a bunch, her friend, loved and soon the other members of the book club, where encouraging Megan. To start at my store, the idea made good sense, Megan enjoy doing calligraphy and she could use a little extra cash that point she couldn't even afford wifi at our house, so she decided to go for it that night she started renew side hustle in bed. Enter Iphone. Four. It began with an instagram account that she called all she wrote, notes a lot of other sellers name, their shots after themselves, but Megan knew her name was difficult. To spell she want to make sure people could find a shop that night for Insta

I have only one follower and it was herself from her personal account, but soon after that, we open up an Etsy store, so she could officially start showing your cards in the weeks that followed make it would pose. Sets of cards for people to buy. She started with the southern style, sat that she gave to her friend and kept building from their just a couple months. After beginning she decided by the domain name for all she wrote notes. She wanted to base her shop out of a website rather than just at least. Ultimately, she didn't want to come. Numerous tell their friends. They got their calligraphy offered Etsy. She wanted to say they got it from her. Bread ass time went on making cap creating more products. While she was making a little extra money, she wondered about one of their opportunities. This new role could break. One day she was asked by a local membership club if she would teach a handwriting class and she instantly agreed. Megan says this was a dream. She never knew she had. She was able to stand in front of a group of people who are stressed out from long days at work and help them to develop their create.

It is, over the past few years, she's been able to grow her little ass. He shot into a full fledged business. One day she was speaking in teaching at a women's conference was approached by a publisher. Ask about writing a book. She had already self published a twenty page workbook for her class and sold a thousand copies. That's what really motivated the publisher to invest in her. That book happy hand, lettering came out in twenty seventeen and today, from this site, also, which is now again a full fledged business making earns around two hundred thousand dollars a year about a hundred and ten thousand dollars comes from the all. She wrote notes shop, which now includes tee shirts, mailbox, decals and mugs. Another sixty five thousand dollars comes from the handler. Classes, which he travels around the country to teach and, alas, twenty five thousand dollars an estimate of her book sales for the year Megan is currently working on another book. This time, it's a children's story. Her long term goal is to become this generations by

Ross with happy little hand lettering for everyone So here is a fine little side, no story. I often ask people about their first sale like The first time you made money. You know what your side hustle, and I want to do this just from traveling and doing events, because people often have really great stories about what it felt like or just what happened the first time. Then they noticed that they got a payment notification or sign. Or whatever. So in maidens case she's got a good one. She said you know, I will never forget the day. I got my first sale from someone that I didn't know for the first couple weeks of my business, I was mostly selling to Facebook friends, but then I opened my Etsy shop. One set of no carts when we talked about the story, and that day she was a spectator at a golf treatment is actually watching off on the fifteenth T Box, where we re supposed to be really quite

if your cell phone is that when I supposed to be on silent and then all the sudden she heard this loud itching sound from her purse, which was snow, of course, the notification of a pain so she pulls out her phone and and still remember, to this day the name of the customer where they were from etc, and then she rushed home and wrote the cards sent them out the next day and says you know that customer essentially changed my life because she gave me a taste of what would eventually become my feet. And funny not the story made it back to the golf tournament, organizers and so it later, when she actually has a book out the invite her back to come and do a book signing their at a future event, and she even gets to recreate her for sale right there on the course it's usually get to keep yourself on silent too. Why you're watching offer some other sport where the base was to be quiet, but in this case it worked out. Just fine aren't. I hope you enjoy that side. Note and the story itself. Our congratulations to Megan she's, doing really good work, we're in a link up on the show its page listeners. Inspiration is good, but inspiration with action is better. That notes. Page is outside US school dot com slash,

Zero four seven episode, one thousand forty, seven, I'm so glad you're out there. I want you to have a success story like make it's like everyone else that we feature on the programme. So always thinking about your next step, or my name is critical about this- is sort of this war From the onward project.