‘I earn up to £81,000 a month and only work 30 minutes a day’

Sep 14, 2023 at 9:03 PM
‘I earn up to £81,000 a month and only work 30 minutes a day’

One lady is sharing how she is ready to make the equal of as much as £81,000 from her “simple and easy” side hustle.

Cassiy Johnson from Howell, Michigan solely has to work half-hour a day designing T-shirts on Etsy.

Entrepreneurs are in a position to create and promote their very own clothes and merchandise on the e-commerce platform.

Wanting a second source of income after being furloughed throughout the pandemic, Ms Johnson launched a T-shirt design enterprise on Etsy in May 2023.

According to the entrepreneur, she solely has to spend half-hour per day managing her facet hustle which she does from her telephone.

Outside of her second job, Ms Johnson works in gross sales the place she makes round $17 (£13.67) per hour.

The 12 months after she began her enterprise, the facet hustler made $90,000 (£72,000) from Etsy and opted to make it her full-time job.

Based on the paperwork reviewed by CNBC: Make It, the shop has earned over $766,400 (£616,000) with round a 3rd of this sum being revenue.

In her highest-earning month up to now, Ms Johnson introduced in $100,900 (£81,000) from her facet hustler-turned-business.

Her success has allowed her to create two further companies and given her husband the chance to stop his job.

Speaking to CNBC, the businesswoman the street she took to get her facet hustle the place it’s right now.

She defined: “My husband was having a really stressful time at work, and I knew we could live off $90,000 (£72,000) [per year].

“It was a magical time, to be able to be like, ‘You know what, honey, just quit your job.’”

Outside of her Etsy business promoting customised shirts, Ms Johnson has grown into different income streams.

These embrace a YouTube channel which has amassed 118,000 followers and outpaced her Etsy followers within the final six months.

The businesswoman added: “It’s a grind. You have to do the easy stuff every day for weeks months and years on end until it works.

“Then, you have to constantly stay up-to-date on your trend research, so your products can remain competitive against every other print-on-demand seller.”