6k a month making custom rugs

I make and sell custom rugs and last month I hit 6k in sales. It is a very niche market, but I've had alot of success in it. I recently had a few videos of mine go viral (gaining well over 20+ million veiws in total) and my Instagram account gained about 50k followers in about a month. Now steadily putting out content and gaining roughly 5k followers a week.

At the peak of my videos going viral, I was getting over 100 DMs a day of people wanting to order a custom rug. Since demand was through the roof, I increased my prices by 3x. I've been booking out clients months in advance. I made a website and have been doing exclusive rug drops for my followers on top of doing all my cleint work. I also put up some affiliate links on my Instagram and I'm making roughly $20 a day from those links.

I went from working as a delivery driver at Fedex absolutely hating my life and making $2,800 a month .. to now clearing my first ever 6k month making and selling custom rugs.

I started making rugs the very beginning of 2023, and I had this vision from day one. I've always wanted to be an entrepreneur and this was my escape plan (weird escape plan I know) from my boring mundane job. I saw all these other popular accounts making and selling custom rugs, and I figured I could do the same. I was pretty hell-bent on making this work.

I wasn't "lucky" with my videos going viral. I put out hundreds of videos before my first one went viral. I experimented with many different formats and editing styles before I saw any success. It took me 7 months to gain my first 500 followers. Keep going and trust the process.