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🗓️ 22 November 2025
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Today’s caller runs a tiny subscription app and has two grand to spend. Should that money patch cancelations or chase new sign-ups? We’ll do the napkin math and land on a clear next step.
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| 0:00.0 | If you ever shop online, which, let's be real, who doesn't, you already understand how important |
| 0:05.6 | customer reviews are. You know this as a consumer, right? You always check the reviews before you buy |
| 0:10.1 | something and your customers are checking reviews as well. That's why if you run an e-commerce |
| 0:14.7 | business, reviews have an enormous impact on your business and you want to level up your business |
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| 0:37.2 | and use code hustle. No credit card or |
| 0:39.7 | contract required and you can cancel any time. That's shipstation.com code hustle. |
| 0:48.2 | Lemonada. |
| 0:52.8 | This is a very specific question we got today from a listener. |
| 1:01.0 | I liked it. |
| 1:01.8 | I spent some time thinking about it. |
| 1:03.6 | And I always try to choose questions that are going to be relatable to the most number of people as possible. |
| 1:09.3 | But sometimes it's helpful to choose something really |
| 1:11.1 | specific because it can show you a different way to think or show you like, what do you do |
| 1:16.0 | when you're a little bit further along and your business is making a good amount of money. |
| 1:19.7 | In this case, it's like this guy has got a couple thousand dollars to spend and he wants to |
| 1:25.0 | spend that money in the right way. So he's got a tiny subscription app. |
| 1:29.8 | I shouldn't say tiny because he has, I think, what, 180 customers that are all paying |
| 1:34.5 | each month. So that's great. And of course, he also has people canceling each billing cycle. |
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