Ep. 2985 - Q&A: “How can I relaunch a product that didn’t sell well the first time?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we help a small business owner decide whether to relaunch a product that didn't perform well the first time. How can she turn a past flop into a future success?
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Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions
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Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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| 0:48.3 | How can you relaunch a product that didn't sell well the first time? This is a unique question. I don't think we've ever had it before. Last year and the year before, we did a series called Failure Friday, where we shared stories of misadventures, mistakes, missteps, things that went wrong and such. But I'm not sure we ever had a scenario where someone had a failed product and then went back to |
| 1:12.5 | relaunch it, which I think is really interesting because oftentimes you have a great idea or you |
| 1:17.4 | have a great product, but the messaging isn't quite right. |
| 1:19.7 | Or you get one thing wrong with an otherwise great idea. |
| 1:23.5 | And so if you could just kind of change that one variable, might you be able to go back and try again? |
| 1:28.7 | Well, yes, you can, of course, but there are some factors to consider. |
| 1:31.9 | So I was excited when this question came along. |
| 1:34.2 | Comes from a home decor shop owner who launches a personalized wall art line that didn't sell as expected. |
| 1:40.8 | She thought this was going to be just fantastic and it turned out to not be, at least in terms of |
| 1:44.9 | results. So is it worth relaunching with a stronger strategy or should she just move on? Let's talk |
| 1:51.3 | about it. This is Sait of Soul School. I'm your host Chris Gillevaux. Every day, a new episode, |
| 1:55.0 | all about different scenarios, questions, answers, ideas, case studies, things you can use for |
| 2:00.0 | your own inspiration, motivation |
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