#2092 - Failure Friday: “I had to issue refunds and cancel 50 orders…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from a successful Shopify store owner who sells party favors. Everything was going great, until disaster struck in the form of a misplaced change to her order panel.
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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 | Hello and welcome. |
| 0:10.0 | We're listening to Side Usal School, the daily podcast on making extra money without |
| 0:13.5 | quitting your job. |
| 0:15.0 | And also, this is our weekly segment. |
| 0:17.1 | Comes out every Friday. |
| 0:18.1 | It's called Failure Friday. |
| 0:19.6 | It's all about mistakes, missteps, disasters, and of course failure. |
| 0:23.5 | All of the things that go wrong. |
| 0:25.4 | Now, of course, we're all about case studies and success stories here on the podcast, hearing |
| 0:29.9 | great reports from listeners who are making money and starting new projects, growing |
| 0:34.9 | their business, sometimes going full time, all those good things. |
| 0:38.5 | But something I started hearing a couple years ago was people want to know more about what |
| 0:42.7 | doesn't work well. |
| 0:43.7 | So that's how we started this new segment series and it's been very popular. |
| 0:47.5 | So I just kind of like to get out of the way. |
| 0:49.2 | Let the Side Hustler tell her story, his or her story. |
| 0:52.4 | And today's short story features Mackenzie from Vancouver, Canada. |
| 0:56.2 | As you'll hear, she has a successful Shopify store selling party favors and a few other |
| 1:00.9 | things. |
| 1:01.9 | And most of the time, this just goes on quite nicely. |
| 1:04.8 | Like the business is successful. |
| 1:06.0 | It works, you know? |
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