#2540 - Failure Friday: Profitable Affiliate Website Peters Out
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we explore the downfall of a once-lucrative affiliate business. Tune in to uncover how a stubborn mindset led to a financial nosedive—and the crucial pivot that followed.
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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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| 0:24.9 | you invest. This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something |
| 0:28.9 | goes wrong. In this week's failure Friday segment, we explore the downfall of a once lucrative |
| 0:45.8 | affiliate business. I'm excited to welcome you here to Sidosal School. This is |
| 0:50.2 | Chris Gulliboe, your host, and the principle of Failure Friday, in case you're new, |
| 0:55.2 | I believe we can learn as much from failure as we can from success, if not in fact more. |
| 1:00.3 | So in these segments, you get to hear directly from a side hustler who has struggled in some way or something does not go as planned. |
| 1:08.0 | There's lots of different variations. |
| 1:10.0 | But then we look at what is the lesson and how can this person and how can all of us in fact move forward when we have a setback |
| 1:16.4 | So today we're gonna look at a profitable affiliate website that kind of Peters out |
| 1:20.9 | It was going so well. It was making money. This guy, Devon, he's an affiliate marketer. |
| 1:26.0 | He feels like he has cracked the code. But then the code soon cracks him or something like that. |
| 1:31.7 | I don't know if he actually gets cracked like a code. The |
| 1:34.3 | point is the business steadily declines and so eventually Devon has to make a change. |
| 1:39.8 | So in these situations it's always good to make a proactive change and I've been in |
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