#2610 - Failure Friday: “I abandoned a growing email list…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from an online retailer who started a promising email list but faltered in maintaining it. Consistency matters!
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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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Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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| 0:00.0 | All the big names are here. |
| 0:02.0 | Oh, who is that? |
| 0:03.2 | I think she was in the movie about that really big shark. |
| 0:06.0 | No, not her, the florist. |
| 0:08.0 | She's automating invoices on the go so she can spend more time on that flower wall. Quickbooks to save you up to eight hours a week, |
| 0:15.0 | so you could bring your vision to life. |
| 0:17.0 | That's how you business differently. |
| 0:19.0 | Into it's Quickbooks. In this week's failure Friday segment we hear from an online retailer, well a side hustler who starts an online |
| 0:34.3 | retail business, and they are building a promising email list, but they falter in maintaining |
| 0:40.1 | it. They kind of just give up on it and they're very sporadic, inconsistent, and essentially |
| 0:45.3 | abandoned this growing email list. Now listen, I have kind of done this too. So many of these |
| 0:50.4 | Failure Friday segments and times that we hear from people who have |
| 0:53.7 | experienced either a disaster or a mistake or just kind of took their eye off the ball, |
| 0:58.2 | I've done that. |
| 0:59.8 | And so it's all about what can we learn from these experiences. |
| 1:03.5 | How can we go from failure to success? |
| 1:05.1 | How can we improve the next project we start? |
| 1:07.5 | How can we make sure we are consistent? |
| 1:10.2 | This year, my word of the year is daily, or maybe it's every day. I never could decide which one like which phrasing I liked better |
| 1:17.1 | But the idea is like there are things I'm doing every day or daily and of course I have the podcast every day and I have an Apple watch |
| 1:24.7 | running streak for I think about 1500 days so far, but I wanted to get more |
| 1:28.8 | consistent on sharing online because I felt like I wasn't doing that so well. |
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