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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3223 - Q&A: “When does a logo actually matter?”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Today’s caller wonders whether to polish the package or finish the product. We’ll set a two-checkpoint rule that keeps creativity flowing, without turning branding into busywork.

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0:00.0

You know that customer reviews can have an enormous impact on your business. And you probably know this as a customer as well. When you go shopping for something, don't you look at the reviews? You might even filter them by star rating. You might see what people like, what they don't like. So if you want to have good reviews, if you want to have great reviews, it really helps to automate your process. And that's something our longtime partner, ShipStation, can help with.

0:21.5

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0:26.7

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0:27.7

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0:31.8

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0:35.8

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0:39.4

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0:46.0

Lemonada.

0:50.7

If you've ever started a new business or side hustle and got really excited about

0:59.3

designing the color or the logo or the typeface, just thinking about the branding, but you

1:05.1

actually think more about that than the actual business.

1:07.6

Well, you might relate to today's color.

1:09.5

They're kind of wondering if they should continue to polish the package or actually finish the product first. So let's see if we can

1:15.9

give them some guidance to keep their creativity flowing. I never want to be negative or say, like,

1:20.2

don't work on something you're excited about because it is fun to create a business identity

1:24.6

and decide, okay, here's what things are going to look like or here's how the presentation or packaging is going to be. So it's not so much brand versus product.

1:32.1

It's more about sequence. Like what part of your branding do you need to genuinely do to speed up

1:38.3

the validation and actually get to launch? And what parts can wait until you've actually got orders?

1:44.0

And you're like, oh, now I've

1:44.9

got a real business. Maybe now I want to invest a bit more in this process. So I thought this was

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