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When it comes to selling products for your side hustle, there are typically two different paths you can take:

 Buying products from manufacturers or wholesalers

 Making your own products that you’ll then sell

No matter which product-sale path you choose, chances are, you’ll need to make a larger investment in your side hustle — both initially and on an ongoing basis — than you would if you were instead doing weekend bartending like Cindy or doing ridesharing through Uber or Lyft. Make sure your side hustle business plans (see Chapter 4) take these financial considerations into account!

Tasha and Breanna both absolutely love fashion, and both are intensely interested in starting some sort of side hustle. Tasha decides that she’s going to provide personal-shopping services, helping other people choose stylish clothes and accessories to fit their budgets. Basically, Tasha will be providing contract services — the same side-hustle family as what Cindy will be doing for her bartending gigs.

Breanna, on the other hand, is thinking bigger. She wants to build a website that she’ll use to sell women’s clothes and fashion accessories. She’ll find the right suppliers for print T-shirts, blouses, pants, skirts, denim jackets — you name it! Then she’ll put their products on her website and, hopefully, bring in customers through social media marketing. Basically, Breanna’s side hustle is almost indistinguishable from any other online retailer, other than the fact that she’ll be running her online boutique during evenings and on weekends when she’s not doing her day job.

Sarah also has a thing for the latest fashions, and she’s also very interested in starting some sort of a side hustle. Just like Breanna, Sarah really likes the idea of building a website and selling products. Unlike Breanna, however, Sarah doesn’t plan to search for suppliers for what she plans to sell. Sarah started making jewelry back in college — initially just for herself, but eventually a piece here and there to sell to her friends. Back in college, she just sold her jewelry to friends at cost (basically, she didn’t make any money — she just charged her friends for the cost of the materials).

Now, though, Sarah wants to turn her jewelry-making into an ongoing side hustle. She designs about a dozen bracelets, another dozen rings, some earrings, and some necklaces for her initial product offerings. She makes a couple of each item to have on hand and plans to custom-make new items as orders come in (at least for now).