#2358 - Failure Friday: Professional Line-Stander Sits Down
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from a man with an idea to become a professional line-stander, waiting in line for concert tickets, new iPhones, and anything else that people wanted to pay him for. Unfortunately, this business idea fails to attract a crowd.
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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.
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Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
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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 | The search is heating up for the people who make football better. People like Sally Butler. |
| 0:05.0 | It's really us about putting mums on the pitch where they belong. |
| 0:09.0 | Jimmy the Moa. It might only be a council feel next to the tip. |
| 0:12.0 | But around here it's Wembley. |
| 0:14.0 | Rachel O'Sullivan and Soapy Downing. |
| 0:16.0 | Bringing women's football to a wider audience. |
| 0:19.0 | Entries are rolling in. Who's your real football number one? |
| 0:22.0 | Nominate them today and they could win a money car buy experience with Skybet prize drop. |
| 0:27.0 | Skybet for UK's number one betting app. |
| 0:41.0 | Professional line standards sits down. |
| 0:43.0 | So we're going to talk about today and this week's Failure Friday segment. |
| 0:47.0 | In fact, we're going to hear from a man who has an idea to become a professional line standard. |
| 0:52.0 | Waiting in line or online just depends on where you're from whether you say in line or online. |
| 0:57.0 | But you know waiting queuing up I could say as well for concert tickets, new iPhones, anything else that people want to pay him for. |
| 1:05.0 | Like if there's something that requires you to wait in a line on a line and you don't want to stand there for hours. |
| 1:11.0 | Well this guy's going to do it for you at least that was the idea of unfortunately this business idea fails to attract a crowd. |
| 1:18.0 | And that's why we have slotted it into Failure Friday. Failure Friday is a weekly collection of short stories about mistakes, missteps, disasters and of course failure, all the things that go wrong. |
| 1:28.0 | And by the way, welcome to Side Usal School. My name is Chris Gillibot. |
| 1:31.0 | I love bringing you this podcast every single day with tips, ideas, case studies, questions and answers and ongoing dialogue all about how to make extra money without quitting your job or building economic empowerment. |
| 1:43.0 | Starting a small business maybe eventually quitting your job, but everything along with that mission of independence and doing something for yourself. |
| 1:51.0 | And sometimes things go better than others, right? Sometimes there are challenges along the way, which is why we like to look at this question of disasters, mistakes and perhaps mistakes a good word here, perhaps a mistake in business idea. |
| 2:05.0 | Not every business idea is good, not every business idea is timely. Sometimes it actually might be a good idea, but it's the wrong time or the wrong market in which case it's not going to work. |
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