That moment when you get the first email about a successful transaction… someone found your thing and then liked it enough to buy it… that moment changes you forever. But how do you get there? What are the steps to making a thing that’s sellable? What roadblocks will you absolutely collide with and how can you hurdle over them?
Last week Corbett had a conversation with a friend who proclaimed: “it's too late to build a popular blog or podcast. The day has passed when you could grow an audience and earn a living from it. Maybe you could do it in 2007, or 2009, but not now.”
So many of us get discouraged. We lose motivation, lose heart, lose direction, fizzle out, feel like impostors, scream inside our heads “what the hell do you think you’re doing!?”
Email is still the single best relational currency online. You can pinterefacetweetplus all you want, but email outperforms them all where it counts. But building and running the email side of your business is problematic.
Traffic feels like this magic thing that, once attained, makes you invincible… you can run and jump and write and create and everything just gets better. You guys love to learn about traffic. You seem to have an insatiable craving for getting more people to your site.
Last week we started a conversation about the tools, resources and systems that have been the most helpful to us. This week we conclude that conversation with a slew of killer resources. Again, if you or someone you know suffers from Infoprepassionprodlearning Syndrome, this conversation is the healing balm to get you:
We’ve seen a trend recently in people buying every damn book, mastermind, hangout, conference, system, toolset, info product, membership, coaching, etc. It's understandable. Sometimes we just don’t know what we don’t know and we’re smart enough to go look for those insights.
Over and over again early business starters approach Corbett for advice and he notices them focusing on the wrong stuff, wasting time on unimportant things, things that have absolutely no effect on whether or not their business will be a success.
From now until you die, how many times will you be asked, “what do you do for a living?” Here’s how to make your response exceptional. When someone asks about “what you do for a living” you can try to make it up on the spot.
We all face what Eric Ries calls the hardest part of any startup: deciding whether to quit, pivot or persevere. Why is it the hardest part? Because most of us don’t know what the hell to do!