#2106 - Failure Friday: “I tried to sell something no one wanted…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from a seller of gift baskets for college alumni—or at least, that’s what she *tried* to sell. Unfortunately, buyer demand was non-existent.
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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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| 0:00.0 | I believe we can learn as much from failure as we can from success. |
| 0:12.5 | Perhaps even more. |
| 0:14.3 | Welcome to Side Usal School. |
| 0:15.3 | My name is Chris Gellabo. |
| 0:16.3 | Welcome as well to Failure Friday, our weekly segment all about mistakes, missteps, |
| 0:21.2 | disasters, and of course failure. |
| 0:22.8 | It is essentially a collection of short stories about all these things that go wrong. |
| 0:27.6 | Not the big successes, but the challenges that we encounter along the way. |
| 0:31.2 | You get to hear directly from a side usalor who has struggled to get something off the |
| 0:34.2 | ground. |
| 0:35.5 | These stories tend to vary a bit, but they often begin with an idea, an idea, or an assumption, |
| 0:40.6 | something that they thought might be a good idea, but of course it doesn't turn out that |
| 0:43.8 | way. |
| 0:44.8 | What happened? |
| 0:45.8 | What did they learn along the way? |
| 0:47.4 | Today's short story features Birdie from Central Ohio. |
| 0:49.7 | She's one of our listeners who had an idea to sell gift baskets for corporate alumni. |
| 0:55.0 | Unfortunately, buyer demand wasn't as great as she hoped for. |
| 0:59.1 | In fact, this buyer demand was, well I guess we can say, non-existent. |
| 1:03.4 | Let's hand it over to her to tell the story. |
| 1:05.4 | Have you ever tried to sell something that no one wanted to buy? |
| 1:18.3 | Guess what? |
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