Meg Heckman

Meg Heckman has 16 of her videos in Side Hustle Intel. Together they cover 16 different work-at-home gigs, mostly in online stores and things you make. We pull out each gig on its own and write it up in plain language: what the gig is, how Meg pitches it, who it suits, and our honest take. Every entry links back to the video it came from, so you can always hear it from Meg directly.

See all 16 in the Gig Finder →

Types of gigs

• Online stores 11
• Things you make 5

Videos featured (16)

Every gig on Side Hustle Intel links viewers to the video it came from.

• If You’re About To Start Print On Demand, You Need To Watch This Video ↗Oct 27, 2026 · 1 gig
• How To Easily Create 100 T-Shirt Designs (My Exact Process) ↗Oct 20, 2026 · 1 gig
• I Reviewed 100+ Print On Demand Stores, Here’s What Actually Works ↗Oct 13, 2026 · 1 gig
• How To Get Your First 100 Sales in 30 Days (Full Playbook) ↗Oct 6, 2026 · 1 gig
• Reviewing Every Print On Demand Supplier (Use This One) ↗Sep 29, 2026 · 1 gig
• Brutally Honest Advice for Anyone Starting Print On Demand ↗Sep 22, 2026 · 1 gig
• Stop Wasting Hours on T-Shirt Design. Use This AI Process Instead. ↗Sep 15, 2026 · 1 gig
• I've Designed 10,000+ T-Shirts, Here's What Actually Sells ↗Sep 8, 2026 · 1 gig
• How to Find a Disgustingly Profitable Niche ↗Sep 1, 2026 · 1 gig
• Building POD Stores Live in Real Time ↗Aug 23, 2026 · 1 gig
• The Smartest Way to Start POD With Almost No Money ↗Aug 22, 2026 · 1 gig
• I’ve Tested Every T-Shirt, These Are The Best ↗Aug 1, 2026 · 1 gig
• How to Build a Cult like E-commerce Brand with Zero Followers ↗Jul 18, 2026 · 1 gig
• Ecommerce Was Hard Until I Understood This Simple Rule ↗Jul 11, 2026 · 1 gig
• Everyone Thinks Print On Demand Is A Scam (They're Wrong) ↗Jul 4, 2026 · 1 gig
• The Annoyingly Simple Reason My T-Shirt Brand Makes $550K/Month ↗Jun 27, 2026 · 1 gig

All 16 gigs

• A One-niche Print-on-demand T-shirt Brand Run on a Fixed Loss Budget and a Six-to-twelve-month RunwayOnline stores · Over $2,000 to start

  You build a t-shirt brand on Shopify around one niche and treat the first six to twelve months as a learning period. Before spending anything you write down a timeline in months…

• Launching a Print-on-demand Tee Store With 100 Designs Planned on a Three-column, Niche-section SpreadsheetThings you make · $100–$500 to start

  Before launching a t-shirt store, you plan 100 designs on one spreadsheet. The columns split them evenly into text-only, text with graphic, and graphic-only (33 each, plus one)…

• A Broad Single-niche Print-on-demand Shop Built Around Six Traits She Found in Successful Stores, From Varied Designs to Flat-rate ShippingOnline stores · $100–$500 to start

  You pick one broad niche with roughly 20 to 50 million people (her example is golf, at about 29 to 48 million players) and keep it broad rather than narrowing to something like…

• A Seven-step Playbook for Launching a Shopify T-shirt Brand and Chasing 100 Sales in the First Month With Weekend Catalog AdsOnline stores · Under $100 to start

  You follow seven steps in order: pick a niche you belong to; write a one-paragraph brand 'why' with Claude and spend one to two hours researching bestseller patterns; make 100…

• A Shopify T-shirt Brand Fulfilled Through Printify, Chosen After Scoring Printify, Printful and Gelato on Cost, Speed, Quality and SupportThings you make · Under $100 to start

  You run a t-shirt brand on Shopify and let a print-on-demand company print and ship each order, so you hold no stock. The creator compares the three big providers on the same…

• Relaunching a Failed Print-on-demand Store as a Niche Brand That Launches Fast and Fixes Its Numbers in a Set OrderOnline stores · $100–$500 to start

  You build a Shopify t-shirt store around a niche of 20 to 50 million people that lasts all year (her summer-lovers store dropped off in September), research it through Etsy…

• Print-on-demand T-shirt Store With 100 ChatGPT-made, Print-ready DesignsOnline stores · Under $100 to start

  You run a print-on-demand t-shirt store, with the creator's rule being to launch with 100 designs, and generate every design in ChatGPT's image model. Her process is three steps…

• A 'find, Decode, Flip' Method for Creating Original Best-selling T-shirt Designs by Reverse-engineering Why Proven Designs Sell, Rather Than Copying ThemThings you make · Under $100 to start

  Instead of copying an already-selling design, use a three-step process: FIND a genuinely proven best-seller (large review history, sits in a shop's bestsellers, or a competing…

• A Graphic Tee Brand Built on a Niche That Passes Her '3D Test' of Devotion, Demand and Depth, Aimed at How People Describe ThemselvesThings you make · $100–$500 to start

  Before building a print-on-demand t-shirt brand, you test your niche against three questions. Devotion: will you still care six months and 500 designs in? Demand: are there 20…

• Shopify Print-on-demand T-shirt Store Tuned With a Live-teardown Checklist for Conversions, Shipping and Catalog AdsOnline stores · $500–$2,000 to start

  You run a Shopify store selling mostly t-shirts printed and shipped by Printify, and tune it the way Meg and her partner Chris do while reviewing viewers' stores live. Their…

• Launching a Shopify T-shirt Brand for About $230 Using Free App Tiers and a $12.50-a-day Weekend Ad BudgetOnline stores · Under $100 to start

  You prepare a whole t-shirt brand before paying for anything: niche research and brand writing in free Claude, designs in free ChatGPT, cleanup in free Canva, all saved on Google…

• Print-on-demand T-shirt Brand That Picks Its Shirt Blank by Audience to Protect Margins and Cut ReturnsThings you make · Under $100 to start

  You sell printed t-shirts through a print-on-demand supplier and choose the blank shirt to fit who is buying. Meg compares four common blanks with all-in costs (one print plus…

• Niche Apparel Brand Built From Zero Followers Through Seven Small Trust-building Habits in Ads, Email and Weekly DropsOnline stores · $500–$2,000 to start

  You run a niche t-shirt brand, using Meg's Sloth Hiking Club (shirts for slow, casual hikers) as the model, and earn trust through seven habits. Only release designs a customer…

• T-shirt-only Online Brand That Sticks to One Product, Niche, Audience and Platform and Goes Wide on DesignsOnline stores · $500–$2,000 to start

  Meg's 'rule of one': sell one product (t-shirts), to one niche and audience, on one platform, and ignore mugs, hoodies, totes and other add-ons. Put the variety into designs…

• Apparel Brand That Treats Print-on-demand as Just Fulfillment and Builds the Ad-to-email Sales Funnel Around ItOnline stores · $500–$2,000 to start

  You build an online apparel brand where print-on-demand only handles printing and shipping after the sale, and you do the selling. Using her Sloth Hiking Club brand as the…

• Print-on-demand T-shirt Brand Run on a Weekly Loop of Research, Many Designs, Ad Tests, Daily Data Reviews and IterationOnline stores · Over $2,000 to start

  You run a t-shirt brand on a weekly loop Meg calls four non-negotiables. First, research the customer (where they shop, the phrases they use, what they're proud of or fear) and…