When we compare ourselves to other people our work gets worse not better. And yet it’s a totally human experience: “they have people buying, listening, reading, clicking their stuff, why don’t I have that?”
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When we compare ourselves to other people our work gets worse not better. And yet it’s a totally human experience: “they have people buying, listening, reading, clicking their stuff, why don’t I have that?”
“I don’t really have deep expertise in anything. I’m more of a jack of all trades. Do I have any business starting a business?” We’ve heard this question a number of times at Fizzle, so let’s set the record straight and give you some insights about starting a business without expertise.
Can you try two business ideas out at the same time or will it just waste your time on both to not focus on either? On the show today we share our thoughts on that question as well as 3 others brought up recently on the Fizzle Forums:
“I just want to make my site and my products and not reach out or communicate as a marketer except minimally…” This was in a note we received recently. It was from a Fizzler who was considering giving up.
You probably already know that there are different learning styles. These are the ways people learn best. There’s verbal, visual, auditory, kinesthetic and many more depending on where you learn about these different styles.
On the show today we share one Fizzler’s story about the fear that comes when you’re choosing between two business ideas. It can feel impossible to choose sometimes. And for good reason — the decision matters.
How do you deal with the emotional ups and downs of entrepreneurship? Sometimes I’m manic, over-motivated, putting my head down and working everyday until some major milestone is reached. But this, in my experience, is far too often followed by burnout, down in the dumps, depression.
One of the liveliest conversations this week in the Fizzle forums was about how to successfully market when your business topic is a hobby like knitting, book binding, scrap booking. Marketers often talk about finding the “pain point,” but this pain language can be misleading when your business addresses desires instead of pain alleviation.
On the show today we do something a little different: we each brought some links that have meant something to us in the past few weeks and on this show we share them with you. You’ll find links to all the articles, videos, books and more below. And the stories in podcast will walk you through why we think these links are important enough to share.
With all the existing platforms out there to sell your product through — Amazon, Etsy, Creative Market, Minted, iTunes, etc — is it really a good idea to spend time making free content? Angelene is a Fizzler who makes beautifully designed illustrations, cards and photo packages and this question is top of mind for her right now.