On today’s show we answer a handful of questions from eager listeners, tackling subjects like finding focus, sticking to your voice and making your product before building an audience (and vice versa).
On today’s show we answer a handful of questions from eager listeners, tackling subjects like finding focus, sticking to your voice and making your product before building an audience (and vice versa).
Hear how they made their first product along with lessons learned, what they wish they’d known and their best advice. The Fizzle Show dedicated the month of January to helping folks think better about making their first product by sharing the stories of others:
The whole month of January we’ve put together a series of podcasts to help you think through making your first product. Omitting one important question from the myriad stories, best practices and advice…
Panels can be insanely wasteful experiences. I spend about a thousand bucks to get a conference ticket, plane flight and hotel to show up in a room where there’s 4 people on stage sitting at a cheap table giving me what is, essentially, an NFL half time report.
Online business culture seems to be in a bit of a conversion craze. Everyone wants to know how to convert casual web traffic into buyers and subscribers. And it makes tons of sense when you’re talking about loads of traffic and loads of money.
You are a human. We think that’s your greatest business asset. Through your humanity you experience and intuit and empathize and create. That’s business, baby. Our humanity is a danger as well. We slip into vanity, insecurity, fear, isolation.
Pricing is tough. No doubt. But we’ve got experience with it and in this episode give you the essential pieces of advice to make your thing and price it right. This is part two of a four part series on making your first product… to sell… to people who aren’t in your family.
As I write this I’m literally in the bathroom at my hotel in Las Vegas enjoying a quiet moment before another night out with friends and conference goers. I’ll let you guess at the chair I’ve engaged.
Today we're starting a free 30-day challenge and we want you to join. Last month we asked you to vote on which 30-day challenge we should create to kick off the new year. Your top two choices were the "blog breakthrough" and the "just ship it" challenge ideas.
If you’re on this page you likely fall into one of two camps: 1. it’s time to make your first sellable thing, or 2. it’s time to start thinking about making your first sellable thing.