No one likes to feel stack, especially by your cloud, but the IBM Clouds the most open and secure public cloud for business. It can manage all your absent data anywhere. Smart loves problems, IBM. Let's put smart work visit, IBM Dot, com, slash flexible, do you believe in an overnight success while for the most part I dont I believe there is usually a lot of work involved in an overnight. Success usually takes a lot of knights, often weeks and months. There are often failures or at least challenges obstacles. Mishaps, along the way, So we need story that I bring to you every day at a try to tell you not only what was good. What was it but also what obstacles were encountered now speaking of every day, welcome to sign a school. My name is critical about, and this is episode six hour one. Thank you again for joining me for six. Days or two days or however many day

You have been part of this experiment. It is a bit more than an experiment. Now I suppose, since we are still going strong and we're going strong because of listeners like you, so thank you for your support today, story which set aside hustle, that is a real business, has more than thirty thousand dollars in monthly sales. During the holiday season. At least it's been going for a decade. This is operated by someone in Quebec, Canada Still has a regular job. Growth has been slow, steady and sustained so not an overnight success, but a long term sustainable one which I think is actually a lot better stay tuned. I'll. Tell you all about this Frenchmen who says Bonjour thirty five thousand dollars a month, Phooey Hustle. He's usually found with flock rock cheese, bread and butter on its plate, he's never far from a glass of red wine. Cedric brought his love of gas. Drano me with him when he emigrated from France to Canada about fifteen years ago to work as an economist consulted, but upon his arrival a friend, informed him, they wouldn't be able to find his favorite french waivers incorrect. Plate and he's never far from a glass of red wine. Cedric brought his lot

gastronomy with him when he emigrated from France to Canada about fifteen years ago to work as an e commerce consulted. But upon his arrival, informed him. They wouldn't be able to find his favorite french waivers income back. You almost got on the next flight back to France, I never want to shy away from a challenge. Cedric was determined to scour cutbacks. Looking for a flavor from every region of the province, you began a directory of artisanal food producers and use that as a basis to begin his new venture terawatt could back. Terawatt is the perfect side hustle starting point, because the word refers to the unique environmental context that helps give food its distinct flavour, Jesus from different regions, produced indifferent seasons, calf characteristics that inform the taste and flavour profile. The same can be said for coffee wine, chocolate and even tomatoes. Cedric began to walk back in two thousand five with

ten products may since grown too, about four hundred different items for the first five years. He kept the inventory and his basement managing just one order a month in the early days, scaling to thirty a month in those first years, self described techie any relied on his own programming prize to get his E commerce website up and running at the time. Looked online for an open source solution, but there wasn't a lot available to him. Keep at minus was back in dreary days of two thousand five pre word press and chop. If I so aspiring modern side, hustlers can rest easy, don't have to worry about coding and produced a couple thousand dollars. Cedric was able to purchase a full inventory of those first ten products so that he had twelve of each enough to launch

site. You wanted to focus on organic items, labels without a huge list of ingredients, less filler, more substance and with substance come seasonality both for the kind of products that Cedric cells and for the volume during the summer he's a go to purveyor of barbecue, sauce, dressings spices and champs in winter. He shift towards selling herbal tease and comfort foods like see sought, caramel terra codecs orders are seasonal to Cedric, typically, ships about traded orders each month from January to September, in an eight hundred orders a month from October, two December because of this kind are yet to be strategic and how he builds and sustained is inventory. He keeps a running list of everything he hasn't storage and, perhaps even more importantly, their expiration date. He then uses those less to determine what to highlight and push in his email. Newsletters now has mentioned. Not everything is easy. Nothing is an overnight success

Let's talk about challenges when Cedric was dreaming about how he wanted his side of such a look, he had grand visions of worldwide shipping and dream crumbled pretty quickly once he realized that shipping fees would cost more than the products themselves, but there are also some hard lessons to learn with shipping just within Canada, because some provinces costs more to ship to distribute a balance that out with his low profit margins. Yes, I started out handling it on fulfilment, but eventually things got to be a bit too much for him to do when he was sitting up to thirty orders a day. He also discovered that food items can be challenging to ship because surprise, there's a lot that can go wrong and when he was nothing to worry about spoiling, the products themselves were prone to breaking in the shipping process. There were more than a few mishaps during two. I cut backs early years, but these days Cedric says they have the process down. So what about the money when I mentioned relatively low profit margins, I said it can still use, allow the revenue to invest in more products, advertising and growth. But of course he also wants to make some money for himself. So he takes about ten percent side, hustles monthly revenue as his bonus extra income, is mainly take some about a thousand.

And Monitoring Association, an upwards of three thousand. The mind during the hardy months, which typically bringing around thirty five thousand dollars each month and sales, while your money is great: Cedric recommends knowing what the driving factor is behind, creating your own site, hustle or your business or whatever it is. You want to do that. Why? How can it be a better and longer lasting motivator than just extra spending money, especially when the going gets tough and those artichokes expire on the way to Vancouver? That was a rough week? Last but not least, Cedric suggest knowing your limitations, so you can grow intentionally and deliberately so, what's next in the world, a fine food and maple butter, while Cedric is looking for ways to tweak his shipping methods in order to increase, is profit margins, he's also working on a new website and x,

his product offerings to foods found from all over the world, not just in Quebec wishing bone shots since July inside us all seem to go together just like pregnancies and warm right. Unlike a lot of other online business is repeated on the show this. The kind of project that does come with some risk and will take some time to succeed. But when I saw it takes some time succeed, they all take time to succeed, but this one is definitely like a long term projections anything because the costs are high and whenever you're purchasing a food product to resell, yet to deal with all those complications of shipping and storage and the need for it to go from your warehouse or your basement wherever it is to the customer in a fixed period of time. For it So? These are not small articles, but also, you know some of the opportunities that I tell you about on the show our new, so I've been talking about drop shipping a bit. Lately we have that story which are keeping enough about the guy who made printed thousand dollars from drop shipping or reselling a coffee grinder. I think that's amazing and credible, and we had other

I like that too, while this kind of recently at least the technology that enables it didn't, exist, fifteen or even ten years ago, two people I've been doing reselling dropped shipping forever, but not really in this way the people are doing now. So the thing is there all kinds of opportunities out there? My philosophy is always if you have a passion, something didn't and cover that choose that if you're not sure what you want to do, why not choose a project that is relatively easy and relatively low risk? Not the Good NEWS is that Cedric clearly knows his. Why let that little plant the end about how it is really focused not just on making money, but also on on building this ESA as a fun project? That's that's why in all kinds of people and suffer him. It's not all about the money. It's a strong side income but also seems like a food ambassador or a food, evangelist of sorts, so good for him from great Cedric, keep up the good work and to our list. Thank you for joining me again on this journey. As I said episode, six sixty one we ve got so much more on the way I'm working with the team on some fun stuff that I can't wait to reveal to you soon

do stay tuned, as always, inspiration is good, but inspiration with action is so much better today. Show notes are its so score that slash six one, that's it for now I'll be back again to Morrow. Once again, my name is preschool about in this school