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Failure Friday: Hand Sanitizer Makes Clean Getaway

In this week’s “Failure Friday” segment, a hand sanitizer product line expansion encounters epic delays and misfortune for this natural body care products founder.
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A founder of all-natural body products battles a sticky situation.

Notes from Chris

Episode 1539
I believe we can learn as much from failure as we can from success, if not more. It’s with this principle in mind that we’re starting Failure Friday, a collection of short stories all about mistakes, missteps, disasters, and of course, failure.

Today’s short story features Sarah from Los Angeles. We told the successful story of their natural deodorant on Episode 509 (“Natural Deodorant That Actually Works Brings In $5,500/Month”). Last year they just so happened to be branching out into hand sanitizer before the pandemic started. Incredible timing, right?

But as you might guess, not everything went according to plan. Let’s hear from Sarah about that struggle…

Listen to today's episode to learn more...

 
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