#1966 - Failure Friday: “80% of our customers never returned…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from the founder of Plate Crate, a baseball-themed subscription service. Business was going great–but when he decided to upgrade the website, the count quickly went against him.
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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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| 0:30.1 | Hey what's up, Chris Killevaux here, your host of Side Usual School. |
| 0:42.3 | Welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:43.3 | Welcome as well to our failure Friday segment. |
| 0:46.8 | I always enjoy working on this segment. |
| 0:48.6 | It's a collection of short stories about mistakes, missteps, disasters, and of course failure. |
| 0:54.1 | In other words, all the things that go wrong. |
| 0:56.8 | As you know, I'm telling you success stories all the time. |
| 0:59.0 | It's nice to hear what doesn't work or at least what doesn't work for a while and |
| 1:03.5 | how someone is able to respond and adjust, perhaps even pivot. |
| 1:07.4 | Now today's short story features Josh Banned from PlateCrate.com. |
| 1:12.8 | PlateCrate.com is a subscription box all about baseball. |
| 1:17.4 | And the subscription box was going well. |
| 1:19.4 | Business was growing. |
| 1:20.4 | The team decided to upgrade the website and make a big change. |
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