How a high-school student started a holiday pop-up shop at a mall and made more than $7,000 in profit in a month.
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Hello, what's up! Welcome back! This is side, hustle school
I'm your host Chris about and we are going into weak number for starting out episode, twenty two and from what I can tell so far.
And all the emails I've been getting as well as lots in no time
social media. We have a very
diverse, set of people listening to the shop and that's great because, as I put this together over the past six months,
I knew I wasn't interested in pursuing are targeting a particular demographic, so to me,
and decide our in general. It doesn't matter,
Oh, you are what your background
where you live, how much higher education you have ten, especially when it comes to putting your hustle together. None of those traditional demographics are prerequisites or barriers to entry. So if you do have a college degree or an advanced agree, that's great! It's not irrelevant at all. It's just not required! Nor really cares about formal qualifications in the world of hustling. So if you think about the stories you ve heard so far,
you can see how this fact shines through the last week, I told you about Trevor the government analysed who started a recycling hustle that has now multiple six figures. I assume Trevor has a college degree, but I don't really know it doesn't really matter is not relevant to the story to the hustle. The project is put together
now earning a lot of money. So those things aren't super important by good hustling does require resourcefulness requires the willingness to think differently
and then to act on that to experiment, and so, when I set out to think about you, my idea listener. I didn't think about traditional demographics at all. I thought about this shared value that we have of of wanting to create more freedom and opportunity in your life. Even in the midst,
everything else that super busy. Even in the midst of all the other commitments, you haven't obligations. Everything that you learn is constructed without value in mind,
value that desire of creating more freedom, not toy like today, story, which is all about how a high school student started.
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her day job as a high school student. Now, as many of us can recall, being in high school poor, being a teenager in general can be emotionally difficult, even if you have it
harmony, good family, you dont lack for anything you're, so going through a lot of changes and preparing for adultery
Brianna had never won a lot of make up, partly because she felt shy and uncomfortable attracting attention to herself when she was sixteen,
She noticed that when she started wearing red lipstick, she could slow
work her way up to other colors. Eventually she graduated neon blue
and from there, she realized Noah really cared what she was wearing. There wasn't a lot of judgment or anything negative and she felt like she could finally be herself
we're gonna had been interested in entrepreneurship, sense and even younger age. So this observation about bright and bold lipstick colors led her to a mission. She wants other people to feel confident and choose bold cosmetics and not be afraid to show their passion last fall.
The holiday season was coming around and her initial idea was to create a wholesale business, but then a mentor of hers who had a bit more experience.
Showed her how the world of consignment worked
and that's when she realized she wouldn't have to wait until she was older, had been to college shouldn't, have to raise a lot of money. She can actually begin except
meeting with real world sales almost immediately
started asking around and through another business friend, she was able to
a small unoccupied retail space in downtown Victoria for a whole month where she could operate a popup store, since she was selling cosmetics and other items on consignment and the space was free. Her car
were extremely low, she spent about two hundred dollars on a small amount of decor, some stationary and signage. Then she got her friends to help she built a super quick website using word press. She signed up for a square accounts that she could have appointed.
EL system. She was literally up and running within about ten days at first learning about that space and she stayed there.
Single day during the holiday month. It was open and thanks a lot
top anger that season by the end of the month she had cleared a profit of more than seven thousand dollars, two thousand dollars of which she donated to charity. They are probably not surprised to hear that enterprising Rihanna is planning to develop her own product line next and sell it both
online and in shops. Her long term dream is to have her cosmetic since a fora, and I for one one
We surprise in the least when she makes that happen. Ok
like we ve seen with a lot of our stories. Brianna success begins from recognising that something she wanted was something that other people might want to. She had that vision.
And instead of just recognising or noticing that she took action on it, and
having a tremendous first hustle experience in opening that pop up shop.
And also- and this is kind of what I want to highlight here and focus on. She worked really hard, and I ask you
You are there every single day like how long how that work, and she said basically, I was there.
All day every day, except one day in the whole month from seven
in the morning until eight o clock in the evening and
When I got home, I answered emails on my computer. I got ready for the next day. I
went to bed around midnight, not remove.
Brown eyes, a high school student. This was her holiday break. So this kind of schedule is
they not sustainable in the long term working all day every day from morning to night, but that's ok,
It was a holiday pop up shop, which is by nature only open for
the limited amount of time- and it was also a major opportunity for banana and she was thrilled to do it. So she didn't back down neck.
She said, I'm gonna! Do it. I'm going do everything I can to make it succeed. So I love that kind of work. Ethic,
when I think about side, hustling Pineau, it's it's not about doing something that has always super easy,
starting a hustle- is about investing in yourself. It's about
There might be some sacrifice involved in this process. I might actually have to get up earlier stay up late, not every day like Brianna did during that month, but for a time- and I think that's totally- ok,
And I think, if you believe in that, that's that's, what's gonna go to your success, so a lot of
talk about inside us for school is how to start
hustle in a limited amount of time, not a full day of working. You know every day, for a month morning to night
no you're busy with all kinds of other stuff, but sometimes it's also
great to go all in for an opportunity. Whenever one presents itself like we heard here, you might just find yourself with a holiday pop up shop and seven thousand dollar profit and of course it may not happen exactly like that for you,
If you listen to these stories, you begin applying them to your own hustle. You
see results, overtime, member inspiration is good, but inspiration combined action is so much better
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Transcript generated on 2020-08-07.