Natalie Robomed

This means that Bridget wouldn't be responsible for any inventory herself.

So nothing would be sitting in her garage, taking up space.

All of these orders would be placed online and then fulfilled somewhere far away.

All Bridget needed to do was set up a website and the dollars would start rolling in.

But that's not all.

The guy on the phone has another potential business for Bridget, too.

OK, glamorous, selling things on eBay.

But the guy on the phone is persuasive, saying that it's a cool way to make money.

It seems hip.

It seems like a world that other younger people are able to access.

And now she is, too, even though the idea is Bridget can either sell her own stuff that she has lying around at home or flip items she buys elsewhere.

there's a third potential income stream too.

The term Bridget's looking for is affiliate marketing, another frequently bandied about phrase that's really popular with a certain type of online hustle crowd.

Essentially, it's where you earn commission by posting content like blogs or pictures or Instagram stories that contain affiliate links to products.

When people buy that product through your link, you get a cut.

Content creators do this all the time when they're asking you to buy that yoga set or that appliance using their link.

This guy is saying Bridget can make money by writing blogs that contain links to products and then use those same blogs to drive traffic to her own products.

And Bridget thinks, this all sounds great.

But the guy says, don't just take my word for it.

It's the middle of the week.