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WEEKLY RECAP: Why Do a Product Launch Only Twice a Year?

In our thirty-fourth recap of Season III, we'll highlight the lessons learned in this week. Also: an audio update from a previous case study!
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Episode 967
THEMES & TAKEAWAYS:

We’ve just finished week 34 of Season III! This week, we featured a college student who pays for school by baking cheesecakes, a Spanish teacher who hustles on the side, and a blogger who earns $140,000 from her real estate course before it even launches.

Today, I’ve got an audio update for you from a good friend of mine, I'll share some interesting insights I learned from a Vice article on phone mining, and I also want to dive deeper into that big, online course success story we featured in Ep. 961 where I'll answer the question, “If it’s so successful, why not keep it open all the time? Why did she do it for only one week and then close it down for six months?”

Listen to the Weekly Recap to learn more on these topics and to hear from Joel of MoveWell!


WHERE ARE THEY NOW:

Today, we have an update from Joel Runyon who was featured on the show in Ep. 381.

Listen to the Weekly Recap to hear from Joel!

You can also check out his website, MoveWell!
EPISODES FROM THIS WEEK:

Here's what we heard this week on Side Hustle School! Listen to this week's recap for a more comprehensive highlight reel.

  • Ep. 961 - A blogger and podcaster earns $140,000 from her online course on rental properties before launching. After completing beta testing, the real launch does even better
  • Ep. 962 - After moving from Cuba to America with no English skills, this well-educated journalist learns the language and then helps others learn his
  • Ep. 963 - A South African traveler earns money through blogging AND childcare, allowing her to live in Turkey, Ireland, and the United States
  • Ep. 964 - Everyone hates cardboard moving boxes, but is there an alternative? This marketer from Tennessee delivers reusable plastic moving totes for an extra $500/month
  • Ep. 965 - When surgical scars keep one woman out of a bikini, she enlists the help of a friend to produce a new kind of cover-up in the form of temporary tattoos
  • Ep. 966 - After an unsettling conversation, a junior scientist creates an entire product line to shift the stereotypes for “what a scientist should look like”
Inspiration is good; inspiration combined with action is better. Now get back to work!

Yours in the revolution,

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