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Making Money From Someone Else’s Side Hustle?

This might be a win-win for the side hustle community!

Sarah Willey
The Side Hustle Club
5 min readJan 21, 2023

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I’m trying a new experiment. To be transparent, I have no idea if I will really make much profit, but I see the potential to earn while lifting up my fellow hustlers.

Here’s what I love about it. First, it costs me nothing, so if I fail all I lose is my time. Second, it’s very easy and doesn’t take a lot of my time. I mostly do it while watching TV! Third, it lets me practice and sharpen skills I can use for other side hustles.

This is what I am doing: creating affiliate pins for Zazzle products on Pinterest.

So simple, right? I’ll walk you through it and share some ideas on how you could further expand on this idea to potentially make more.

First, what is Zazzle? If you aren’t familiar, it is one of the many print on demand services out there. Creators upload their own designs and place them on products such as t-shirts, mugs, and mousepads. Buyers come to the site and make purchases, then the seller gets a commission. (Selling print on demand is a cool side hustle, too, by the way! More about that in a bit.) There are a ton of products on Zazzle, they go way beyond the usual suspects when it comes to products and have things like skateboards and nail art that are less…

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Sarah Willey
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Written by Sarah Willey

Consultant, writer, business scholar. Nonprofit nerd; passionate about relationship-building and community. sarah@sarahwilleyllc.com

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