#2652 - Failure Friday: Monthlong Ad Budget Gets Spent in One Day
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from a seller of kitchenware who decides to experiment with online ads. Unfortunately, an error leads to her spending her entire budget for a month in a single day!
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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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| 0:24.9 | you invest. This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something |
| 0:28.9 | goes wrong. All right, Chris Gillibow, back with you. Month long ad budget gets spent in one day. |
| 0:45.0 | That's what we're going to talk about today. |
| 0:46.5 | That's the story we're going to hear. |
| 0:48.0 | And just to be clear, this is not how it's supposed to work. |
| 0:50.0 | If you have a budget to spend money on ads for an entire month, |
| 0:55.0 | ordinarily that would go for, let's say 30 days, perhaps 31 days, maybe 28, |
| 1:01.0 | perhaps 29, I think those are the only options, right? |
| 1:04.0 | Well, unfortunately, an error leads to this side hustler, |
| 1:08.1 | small business owner spending her entire budget for a month |
| 1:11.1 | in a single day. |
| 1:12.1 | And of course, this is part of our Failure Friday series, |
| 1:15.0 | where we look at things that go wrong. |
| 1:16.8 | A weekly segment all about mistakes, missteps, disasters, |
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