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Side Hustle School

#2393 - Failure Friday: Ghost Tours Fail to Scare Enough Clients

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear a spooky story: an attempt at offering a ghost tour of Denver fails to scare enough people into signing up.

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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

Goast Tours failed to scare enough clients. What's up? Welcome to Sadassal School, Chris

0:16.8

Gilebo here. Excited to bring you a new episode, episode 2,393. In fact, every single day

0:24.5

on the show we're bringing you different case studies, tips, ideas, questions and answers,

0:28.6

all about making extra money without quitting your job, making extra money without going into

0:32.7

debt, without borrowing money, which I guess is the same as going into debt, but you know

0:37.8

what I mean? On a budget, using a skill you already have without quitting your job, that's

0:42.6

what it's all about. And once a week, every Friday, in particular, we have this segment

0:48.3

that we call Failure Friday, which is very convenient how the day matches up with the

0:52.6

title. And it's all about stories that don't go so well, mistakes, missteps, disasters,

0:59.1

all that stuff that actually fails to make money is not a huge, amazing, successful, wildly

1:04.8

profitable idea. And we share these stories because we are all about success, of course,

1:09.3

but sometimes you have to try different stuff and your first idea might not work, or you

1:13.1

might have had a success before, but your second idea doesn't work. And that's just normal.

1:17.9

And so the whole entrepreneurial path is about trying different things and making adjustments,

1:22.5

and willing to let go of bad ideas, or just ideas that were maybe ahead of their time,

1:28.2

perhaps. So with that in mind, today's short story features James from Denver, Colorado,

1:34.8

his attempt at offering a ghost tour of the city fails to scare enough people into signing

1:39.8

up. In fact, he runs into a matter of competition because there are a bunch of people interested

1:44.6

in ghost tours in Denver, but there's also a number of companies already offering that.

1:49.5

So let's hear from him about the rise and fall of Denver ghostly guided tours. And I'll

1:54.4

come back at the end with a very quick wrap up.

1:57.4

I'm here to share the spooktacular story of my short-lived side hustle, Denver ghostly

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