"That can't be right...," I muttered. +1,000% conversion? How could that possibly be right? A 4-digit increase? I checked and re-checked the data; but there were no mistakes. Having read countless books and blog posts, I'd heard about the paradigm from other startup case-studies. This was the first time I was seeing it in person.
Do you know what we do for a living? We make things for self employed people, for indiepreneurs and solopreneurs and bloggers and podcasters and mediapreneurs and all the great names the news labels us with.
As Chase says so often on The Fizzle Show, even as an entrepreneur, it's so easy for your business to become just another job. You get down in the weeds, working on the never ending to-do list and before you know it, you're wondering why you ever started a business to begin with.
Blogging has been one of the most valuable things I've ever done in my life. As I said back in August (when I wrote Should I Start a Blog?), I don’t know of many other ways to spend your time that can lead to a bigger impact or payoff.
Click play on the video above. Staying motivated and changing ineffective habits are both essential skills for anyone working to become self-employed. When you don't have a boss or team to keep you on track, being able to change your behavior yourself can literally equal the difference between success and failure.
Click play on the video above. It’s short and sweet and shares one of the most important paradigm shifts you could have early on in starting a business. It’s ok, you can watch it. I’ll wait. It’s only 3 min.
The Eagle and Child pub is similar to many other pubs in Oxford. It's dimly lit, serves beer at room temperature, and cider is an easy find. They have fish and chips along with other pub food. By all accounts, it's just another common place in one of the greatest college towns in the world. Except for one thing...
Running an active online community or forum isn’t easy. The natural tendency for forums is to start strong when everyone is new and excited, but to dwindle over time as people lose interest and move on.
I watched Woody Allen’s Sleeper last night. It’s an early 70’s faux-future weirdness movie… in a good way. There’s an orgasm machine. (Which, by the way, I think we’ve come far enough into the future to deserve an orgasm machine. We all work hard, we deserve this. C’mon the future!)
The Fizzle team has been hyper-focused on growth over the past month, and we're seeing encouraging results. As a team, we select a different "theme" each quarter to guide our project work. Our current theme is simply membership growth. We always care about growth, but these themes give us a chance to turn all our attention to one specific thing for a while to make new breakthroughs.