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Side Hustle School

#2890 - Failure Friday: Sugar-Coated Advice Crumbles Cake Dreams

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from a passionate baker whose custom cake business quickly rises, only to fall flat due to misguided pricing strategies and well-meaning but bad advice from loved ones. 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

Turning an idea into a small business doesn't happen by accident. You need to be all in.

0:05.5

At constant contact, we have the digital marketing tools you need to get the word out, close the sale,

0:10.3

raise the funds and gather a community around this thing you've built. So let's do this together.

0:15.2

Let's send this, share this and shout this from the rooftops. Let's segment this, automate this,

0:20.3

and AI this for real results fast. Let's get out of this what we put rooftops. Let's segment this, automate this, and AI this for real results fast.

0:22.7

Let's get out of this what we put into this.

0:24.5

Let's build this. Let's grow this. Let's win this.

0:27.3

Get started today at Constant Contact.com.

0:30.7

129 at McDonald's gets you a mini Oreo McFlurry.

0:34.8

129 on a big night out gets you...

0:37.6

Sorry, no trainers.

0:40.4

McDonald's save a menu.

0:42.2

Actually get your money's worth.

0:45.0

From 11am.

0:46.3

Price and participation may vary.

0:47.8

Price varies on delivery.

0:49.1

Subjects availability. Sugar-coated advice crumbles cake dreams.

1:04.0

What's up, my friends?

1:05.3

Welcome to Sada Soul School.

1:06.6

Welcome to this week's Failure Friday segment.

1:10.1

What's that about? Well, it's about the principle of

1:12.2

learning as much from failure as we can from success, if not more. So we get to hear all these little

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