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ShipStation and Starting an Online Side Hustle
from #203 - Long Island Strong | The Tim Dillon Show · #203
6 min
SponsorShipStation
A sponsor read for ShipStation drifts into riffing about starting e-commerce businesses selling crafts, riot-themed novelty items, and junk found at yard sales.
- Tim argues that broke people with a talent for crafts, drawing, or woodworking should start an online business to make money.
- Friends who try selling online fail because they get in over their head and can't manage their orders properly without organization tools.
- Rich people still want to buy things, so you can make and sell niche items like birdfeeding equipment, riot glasses, or other crafty products.
- Tim suggests selling items from your home—old toasters, vintage kitchen stuff hunted from yard sales—and reselling them at markup on online platforms.
- His mother used to drive around the neighborhood putting garbage in a van without ever selling it, which is what ShipStation would have helped her do.
- Tim jokes that even niche markets like racist people who still take COVID seriously and buy Confederate flag COVID masks are probably underserved buyers.