#1952 - Failure Friday: “I naively thought the influencers would bring sales…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from an Australian who owns an ecommerce business offering mindful toys and gifts. Following a rebrand, she pays Instagram influencers to create interest—but mostly they just took her money.
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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
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| 0:30.0 | Hey, what's up, Chris Gellavau here. |
| 0:40.0 | Thank you so much for tuning in today. |
| 0:41.6 | Another episode of Sideos for School. |
| 0:43.6 | This is, in fact, our Failure Friday segment. |
| 0:46.2 | Built around the principle that we can learn as much from failure as we can from success. |
| 0:50.4 | So, this weekly segment features a collection of short stories about mistakes, |
| 0:54.8 | missteps, disasters, and all this stuff that just goes wrong. |
| 0:58.8 | Okay? So, just like our Thurberk Thursday segment, |
| 1:01.8 | you get to hear directly from a sideosler who has struggled in some way. |
| 1:04.8 | And they'll tell you this really honest, transparent story, |
| 1:07.8 | which I very much appreciate because these stories have just been so relatable. |
| 1:11.8 | I feel like I have made some version of every mistake that we have featured. |
| 1:15.8 | It's just been fun to work on the episode. |
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