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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3434 - Q&A: “Best way to get to market with nutrition bar…”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Business, Side Hustle, Entrepreneurship,, Careers, Entrepreneurship, Small Business

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

A listener is launching an “all-in” protein bar. It’s a crowded market, but they’re, well, all-in. How can we help them get on the shelves of Whole Foods?


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0:00.0

I don't know about you, but in my pantry, I have a bunch of different protein bars.

0:12.6

I also have some that I take with me on the go, got some in the car, got some in my suitcase,

0:18.3

some traveling a lot. And there's just so many of these days. You know,

0:21.3

if you go to the grocery store, they have like, you know, not just shelves, but entire sections

0:26.0

with different kind of protein bars and nutrition bars. Definitely a crowded market, but also

0:30.4

there's a lot of demand for it. So today we've got a caller who wants to go to market with their

0:35.5

own nutrition bar. It sounds incredible. They've got a great vision. Well, it sounds incredible except for one thing. That would be the taste. So that is kind of a problem, but we'll talk about it. They assure us they're working on it. What are the next steps to making their all-in bar, as they call it, a protein-packed, profitable creation? Let's see if we can do that.

0:54.2

Emma is our caller.

0:55.3

She'll tell us more about it.

0:56.4

I'll give a response.

0:57.5

All that is coming up in this short action-packed episode.

1:00.6

Stay tuned.

1:05.8

Hey, Chris, this is Emma from Austin, and I've been following your projects for a couple of years.

1:10.9

I've invented a new kind of protein snack I call the All-in Bar.

1:15.0

It works for people with almost every dietary restriction, including gluten-free, vegan, and low-carb.

1:21.0

As for how it tastes, well, that part is a work in progress.

1:25.1

But I'm also thinking ahead.

1:26.5

What are the steps to getting to market

1:28.0

with my all-in-one bar? How can I be on the shelves at Whole Foods one year from now? Thanks for any

1:33.6

advice you can share with me. All right, Emma, as I said, a very crowded market, as I'm sure

1:42.1

you're aware, there are just so many of these different bars out there these days. I don't know how some of them stay in business just because the category is so large. But I also buy a lot of them. So I guess maybe that's part of the answer. So what do we do here? Step one, solve that small problem of taste. I mean, that's just kind of like we can't do much until that is solved. If your protein bar tastes

2:01.0

terrible, probably not going to get very far. So let's just assume you're going to solve that

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