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Side Hustle School

#1819 - Failure Friday: “I had to take a hard look at my business model…”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from Allen Chiang, the owner of Retro Radio Farm. At first, he has too much business to handle—but when Facebook advertising becomes less profitable, he has too little.   

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Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions

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0:00.0

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0:34.9

Hello, hello. Thank you for tuning in today. My name is Chris Gellibot. This is Side Usle School.

0:39.6

And guess what? Today's episode is going out on Christmas Eve.

0:43.2

And, uh, wow. What a holiday season it has been, what a year it has been.

0:47.2

I am so grateful for you joining me along the way.

0:49.4

We got something a little bit special coming up tomorrow.

0:51.8

So be sure you don't miss that episode.

0:54.0

But for now, today, this is our pen-ultimate Failure Friday episode.

0:58.4

We introduced this new segment at the beginning of the year.

1:00.8

Uh, it has been super, super popular. Lots of insight, lots of transparency and honesty.

1:07.0

Just some great storytelling coming through from many of the sideuslers we have featured,

1:11.5

sometimes in years past, or sometimes some authors with books coming out.

1:15.0

Who are willing to tell a story of something that went very wrong?

1:18.1

Okay, so we call it Failure Friday, as mentioned.

1:20.4

It is a collection of short stories about mistakes, missteps,

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