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Side Hustle School

#2736 - Failure Friday: The SEO Consultant's Outsourcing Oversight

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In this week's Failure Friday, we explore the story of an SEO consultant who learned the hard way the dangers of outsourcing to unvetted agencies. 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: [email protected] 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.substack.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. 😎 🙏🏼 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:03.0

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0:05.0

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0:07.0

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0:09.0

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0:12.0

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0:13.7

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0:16.7

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0:21.8

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0:23.9

CODieK slash Special Offer. The SEO consultants oversourcing oversight.

0:37.0

Oh yeah, what's up friends?

0:40.4

Welcome to Side Hustle School.

0:42.1

My name's Chris Gilliboe, your host. And this week's Failure

0:44.7

Friday, we're going to explore the story of an SEO consultant who learned the hard way the dangers of outsourcing

0:50.5

to unvetted agencies.

0:52.9

This is a fun one, or at least it was a fun one to work on.

0:56.6

And the principle of Failure Friday, the reason why we share stories

0:59.6

of things that don't go so well

1:01.6

is because we can learn as much from failure as we can from success.

1:05.7

You get to hear directly from a side hustler who has struggled to get something off the ground or

1:09.5

otherwise hit a roadblock, definitely a roadblock in this situation.

1:13.0

And you'll hear the short story of their idea, their assumption, and then what happened

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