For some reason you haven’t shipped that project yet. I haven’t either. We make excuses, even as we daydream about the idea. We fool ourselves with a future reality even as we procrastinate.
For some reason you haven’t shipped that project yet. I haven’t either. We make excuses, even as we daydream about the idea. We fool ourselves with a future reality even as we procrastinate.
It was a successful business making good money, a few thousand a month. And then, suddenly, poof — the whole business is gone. This is the allure and the danger of a business ideas that’s “not the most legit thing,” and this is the situation one of our podcast guests today has to deal with.
"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.
Here at Fizzle, we’ve spent the last couple weeks in full-on year review mode. We have some new ideas to share (and some time-proven designs as well). We talked in an episode a long time ago about how we do these reviews and, more specifically, how we find the plan for next year in last year’s review.
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.
On the show today, something completely new to us: a collection of current events that, remarkably, wove themselves around a common theme. One of the biggest regrets of those close to dying is this: that they didn’t speak their mind more throughout their lives.
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.
Several listeners asked questions about choosing between multiple business ideas. What can you do to tell which ones are viable and which aren’t? We get into that, a youtube video editing hack, Barrett’s “LPC” strategy and a couple other bits on the show today. Enjoy!
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.
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