3534 Failure Friday

Failure Friday: "My anniversary sale was an epic fail…"

In this week's Failure Friday segment, the founder of a thriving membership site learns what happens when he stops giving it the attention it deserves.

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I believe we can learn as much from failure as from success. It's with that in mind that I offer Failure Friday: short stories about mistakes, missteps, and disasters.

Today's story features Thomas from Maryland. He started a membership site that was going very well — but then he took his eye off the ball, stopped giving it the attention it needed, and a big anniversary sale he'd planned turned into an epic fail.

It's a common trap: once something is working, it's easy to assume it will keep working on its own. It won't. The projects that thrive are the ones you keep showing up for.

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