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Side Hustle School

#1602 - Failure Friday: “I thought I had the Midas touch...”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Business, Side Hustle, Entrepreneurship,, Careers, Entrepreneurship, Small Business

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from a digital marketer who spends months creating a life-changing “killer app” that no one wants.  

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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.


Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com

Email: team@sidehustleschool.com

Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions

Connect on Instagram: @193countries

Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com

Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com


If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼 


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0:00.0

Busy making budget plans for the business year ahead, we've got you covered.

0:05.6

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0:10.6

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0:11.6

Plus, our business price promise means if you find a cheaper deal from one of our biggest competitors, we guarantee you to beat it.

0:18.2

Search three business or visit us in store.

0:21.2

Business price promise means we'll beat it directly.

0:24.4

Quit you've been given my e-vote of 1.02 for business plans by at least £1 per month.

0:28.2

Time's apply, search three business price promise.

0:35.2

Hey, what's up, listeners?

0:36.7

Friends, community, side of school, you guys are awesome.

0:39.9

Thank you so much for being here.

0:41.9

I'm so grateful to be able to make this program for you every single day.

0:44.9

My name is Chris Gillipout and it is Failure Friday.

0:48.4

I believe we can learn as much from Failure as we can from success, if not more.

0:52.6

It's with this principle in mind that we're sharing a collection of short stories all about mistakes, missteps, disasters, and of course, Failure.

1:00.6

These stories vary quite a bit.

1:02.6

Often they start with an idea and assumption, something that the case study, the person thought would happen and then what really happened, often a disconnect between those two things.

1:12.9

And of course, what they learned along the way.

1:15.3

So I really appreciate and I applaud their courage.

1:18.2

I'll share some of my own Failure stories along the way as well.

1:21.4

Today's short story features Lucas Lee Tyson from Boston.

1:26.4

We told the successful story of how a teenager that would be Lucas learned to manage a $50,000 a month digital marketing contract way back on episode 790.

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