#2593 - Q&A: “How do you start with no audience?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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It’s the ultimate chicken-or-egg problem: how can you grow a business with no existing audience? Fortunately, there’s an answer—or actually, *several* answers. Let’s help this listener get going!
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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
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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 | F word and travel. |
| 0:03.0 | With an H-SBC Global Money Account, |
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| 0:08.0 | That means no f-fucks here. |
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| 0:11.0 | No fucks here. Howdy and definitely no fees here. |
| 0:15.4 | Pay no H.S.B.C. fees overseas with a global money account. |
| 0:19.0 | H.S.C. UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:22.2 | Available to H.S.CC UK customers with an eligible current |
| 0:24.6 | account exclude some accounts such as the HSPC Basic Bank account for mobile banking |
| 0:28.0 | app users only non-HSPC fees may apply. It's the ultimate chicken or egg problem. It's the ultimate chicken or egg problem. |
| 0:40.8 | And it actually has nothing to do with chickens or eggs. |
| 0:43.6 | That's just an analogy. |
| 0:44.8 | But the problem is, how can you grow a business with no existing audience? |
| 0:48.4 | How do you even start with no audience? |
| 0:50.9 | Well, fortunately there is an answer, actually several answers. |
| 0:53.7 | I'm going to try to keep it concise. |
| 0:55.2 | Let's see if we can help a listener. |
| 0:57.1 | We're going to hear from Maya from Fargo, North Dakota. |
| 1:00.2 | Maya has a flare for creating natural skin care products. |
| 1:03.0 | She wants to transition this passion into an online business. |
| 1:06.0 | But she faces a common hurdle, starting from Ground Zero with no existing audience or customer base. |
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