#1612 - Q&A: “Help! My lifestyle site is stuck at a plateau…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2021
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A listener’s lifestyle site started well, but can’t seem to get past an early-stage plateau. What should she do?
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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.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's up? Welcome to a brand new week. I hope you're doing well. It is a brand new week, |
| 0:09.4 | and it's also almost the first of June. For those listeners who are joining me in real time, |
| 0:14.9 | here we are approaching the middle of 2021. Of course, if you're listening later, |
| 0:19.1 | hopefully most of this content will still be helpful to you. That's how we design the show. |
| 0:23.3 | But wherever you are in the world, whatever time it is, whatever date it is, |
| 0:26.2 | I often feel like I am making this show for myself. I don't mean just because I like to talk about |
| 0:32.9 | these things, but because I have been through a lot of these experiences that listeners are bringing |
| 0:37.2 | up to me. A lot of listener questions I get are issues that I have dealt with in different ways. |
| 0:42.0 | And so I'm like, oh yeah, I remember dealing with that. Or maybe this is something that I'm a |
| 0:46.6 | little bit stuck on at the moment as well. So what are some creative approaches that others have |
| 0:51.6 | used to navigate this process? And when I tell the case studies, of course, I'm also like, wow, |
| 0:56.7 | I'm learning through this. It's pretty cool to hear how so-and-so has been able to figure this out. |
| 1:01.6 | So thank you for being part of that. Thank you for helping me make the show for myself and for you. |
| 1:06.8 | Now today's caller has a lifestyle site that started out well, but she can't seem to get passed |
| 1:12.7 | an early stage plateau. What should she do? Now this is very common. This is common in so many |
| 1:18.4 | projects. You get a little bit of traction, you're like, this is awesome. And then maybe you get |
| 1:22.6 | some more traction. And that's even more awesome. And then you're like, okay, third time, we're going to |
| 1:26.8 | really grow here. And then you don't. You're just kind of, as I said, stuck. And so you keep doing |
| 1:32.8 | the things that brought you to the point of initial success. And you realize that those same things |
| 1:37.3 | aren't taking you to the next stage of success. So it can be a little bit disheartening or frustrating, |
| 1:42.3 | or you're just kind of like, I don't know what to do. Like I'm willing to work here, but I don't |
| 1:46.4 | quite know what to work on. As I said, common issue, common problem. So let's talk about it. |
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