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#1819 - Failure Friday: “I had to take a hard look at my business model…”
In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from Allen Chiang, the owner of Retro Radio Farm. At first, he has too much business to handle—but when Facebook advertising becomes less profitable, he has too little.
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