The Flop Hat
I thought AI could handle our product descriptions. It couldn't. Here's what went wrong, what I learned, and how to avoid selling emotionally intelligent scales.
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I tried to stop one spam email and accidentally blocked every real one instead. For two hours, our inbox became a fortress of failure.
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We bought eight trailers before finding out no one would insure our new rental business. Learn what happened and why due diligence isn't optional.
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We ran one Google Ads campaign without a daily cap. In 24 hours, our entire budget was gone. Here’s what we learned the hard way.
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We tried to modernize our operations with an ERP. Instead, we nearly broke the whole business. Here’s what happened and what we learned.
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We started on a DIY server with Prestashop. One bad update took the whole site down. Here's what went wrong and how we rebuilt with BigCommerce.
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I missed payroll. Chaos followed. Paper checks were printed. Lessons were learned. Here's how a forgetful Friday turned into financial frenzy—and how you can avoid it.
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I broke our entire 10,000-product catalog with one rushed CSV upload. Chaos, free products, and Rewind to the rescue. Learn from my panic.
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This week’s disaster comes courtesy of a tiny oversight with **massive consequences**: formatting a number without the respect those two beautiful, tiny zeroes deserved.
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Because when you wear all the hats, sometimes you forget to BCC. Welcome to The Flop Hat, HatStacked’s weekly tribute to the mistakes we’d rather forget—but probably learned something from. Each Friday, we dust off one spectacular flop, wear it with pride, and figure out how to