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Failure isn’t enjoyable. However it may nonetheless educate us issues! Listed below are 4 classes we’ve discovered about entrepreneurial failure from the unimaginable tales within the first 4 episodes of SPI Media’s latest podcast, Flops.

This publish comprises minor spoilers, so if you wish to keep away from them, simply hit play on one of many observe gamers under, or go discover Flops on Apple Podcasts or wherever you prefer to hear.

All proper, on to the teachings from failure!

Failure Lesson 1: If It Appears Too Good to Be True…

(from Episode 1: “The Pyramid Scheme” with John Vuong)

Within the inaugural episode of Flops, search engine marketing skilled John Vuong joins me to debate a giant mistake he made in his twenties, when his formidable, risk-taking persona led him down a path to damage.

John bought caught up in a pyramid scheme that misplaced him $100,000.

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Nurturing a web-based group takes persistence and dedication. However should you spend an excessive amount of time targeted on launching new applications for your members relatively than partaking with your members, chances are you’ll discover your group is lower than thriving.

Relationship growth is without doubt one of the greatest methods to spend your time in your group. The factor is, particular person members interact in on-line communities in a wide range of methods, and will due to this fact choose a sure kind of relationship. It helps to know every of the member varieties you may discover in your on-line group, so you may greatest serve your entire members and guarantee a thriving group.

On this publish, I’ll speak about how you can establish and work with these 5 on-line group member varieties:

1. The Lurker
2. The Social Butterfly
3. The Critic
4. The Troublemaker
5. The Tech Challenged

Observe: These varieties

By Sara Jane Hess and David Grabowski

What’s up, podcasters? It’s SJ and David once more with extra podcasting information and updates! This is a wonderful approach to take a look at some reveals we’ve been digging, in addition to atone for pertinent trade information. You’ll be able to most likely guess what the latter goes to be, particularly in the event you clued into Apple’s newest podcast-related announcement. There’s lots to dissect, however don’t fear, we’ve gotcha lined! 😁

And in case you have no thought who we’re, we’re the SPI Podcasts Workforce: Sara Jane Hess (senior producer) and David Grabowski (producer). We’re the 2 individuals at Workforce SPI devoted full-time to producing Pat’s reveals and, more and more, some brand-new reveals on the SPI Media community!

In the event you missed it, we launched our first present two months in the past: Flops, a podcast about failure

We’ve bought huge information! SPI Media simply launched its very personal YouTube channel!

Wait, you’re saying—doesn’t SPI have already got a YouTube channel? Nicely, yeah, Pat Flynn has a profitable YouTube channel with almost 300,000 subscribers and greater than ten years of superior movies. So it’s extra correct to say that we’re increasing our YouTube technique. The SPI Media YouTube channel is our new vacation spot for in-depth instructional content material for entrepreneurs. On this put up I’m going to clarify how the channel happened, and why it is best to contemplate tuning in!

Why We Began a New YouTube Channel

So why begin a brand new YouTube channel for SPI? In any case, Pat Flynn has been producing nice content material on his personal channel for over ten years. Why not construct on what we’ve bought?

The brief reply is that it didn’t make sense.

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