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Side Hustle School

#2180 - Q&A: ”My customer tried to barter with me ... after the sale!”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

This really happened: after attending a paid workshop, a customer tries to barter by offering her energy healing services in lieu of payment. Uh … how should the event planner handle it?

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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

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0:38.4

Hey there, what's up? Thanks for tuning in today. So one of the cool things I get to do

0:42.8

is I get to hear about all kinds of interesting customer experiences. Now of course I should say first,

0:49.2

many customers, most customers are awesome and amazing. If you have customers or clients,

0:53.9

I hope they are the best in the world. Commerce is what makes the world go around, etc.

0:59.0

But one thing I also believe is that the customer is not always right. I don't make this show for

1:04.4

customers or clients. I make it for side hustlers and small business owners and entrepreneurs and

1:10.0

people who are interested in creating something for themselves. Sometimes the customer is actually wrong.

1:16.0

This whole thing about the customer is always right. That's not true. Sometimes it's not worth

1:20.3

chasing business. Sometimes you should fire customers when they become a burden that prevents you

1:25.1

from serving other people who are less difficult or whatever the situation may be, etc. Again.

1:34.0

So this brings me to today's caller, quite a set up. I'm just going to let you hear her question

1:39.7

without further commentary from me. We've got a shout out to our sponsor, sponsor message,

1:44.7

then you're going to hear Rebecca's question, slash story, and then we'll talk about it. Connections

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2:00.2

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2:06.8

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