If you are checking out my blog due to my guest post on The Smart Passive Income blog, you are welcome. I really had fun writing the post on the SPI blog and I hope you could get some value in it.
I want to share a post with you here which I title, Ignore the Real World (thanks to the book Rework by 37 signals). As an entrepreneur, the chances are you have great ideas bursting out of your brain but the moment you share it with someone, they reply you with, “That won’t work in the real world”
In the real world, you are meant to go to work for someone else.
In the real world, you are meant to work 40 hours a week doing what you are told and your creativity doesn’t matter
In the real world, you move up the ladder when you help “The company” achieve their goals and all you get is a pat on the back. “Thank you, because of your work, the company has made a profit of $10 million this year”, while you earn $20,000 a year.
In the real world, you will be crazy to do what you love and earn money doing it.
In the real world, entrepreneurs are crazy risk-takers in a cut-throat environment and only the top 5% succeed so you had better stay with your safe and secure “job”.
Screw that.
If Bill Gates had listened to the people in the real world, he would have thrown away his dream of seeing a personal computer on every desk. We would have been stuck in a time where computers were the size of warehouses and we had to type our letters on those noisy, ink-based typewriters.
If Pat Flynn has listened to the people in the real world, he would have gone looking for another Architectural job after being laid off during a recession while his new family suffered the consequences.
The truth is, we are not cut out for the real world, the only reason we stick with the real world is that we feel it is a safe and secure place to be. My problem with the real world is that I am not able to do what I love, what keeps me up at night, stuff I can think about for hours without getting bored, stuff like developing solutions to real problems and seeing people get value out of it.
The great thing about the world we live in today is that the middle man has been left out of the equation. The only pre-requisite to being successful is how much work you are willing to put into your passion.
If you are really passionate about what you do, it won’t feel like work at all. You can pretty much do it all with a laptop and an internet connection. You can post a video to the web that millions have access to without paying money to a TV network.
There is no excuse for having to waste my life for “The Boss”, that is why I have decided to get on the journey to the other world, where I can create freely, live, love and matter.
In my research, I have discovered that there are 7 pillars you need to implement to start a successful business as an entreprenuer and if you sign up to my newsletter, I will send you 7 free reports that outline these pillars. Thank you for taking the time to read this, I appreciate it.
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Is it frustrating that although you have followed the recommended steps to develop a product to sell, your sales still look disappointing? You have built a large enough list to survey about your upcoming product, you have developed a minimum viable version of that and released it to the public, your sales are trickling in but that is all it ever does… trickle in. How do you break that glass ceiling and get a flood of sales and not just a trickle. Read more →
In the previous post, I described two online products I developed in the past year. I challenged the readers to guess which product was a total failure that generated no sales and which went on to sell 20 copies and generates about 2 sales per week.
If you haven’t read the previous post which describes these two products, you should do so here. Which of these two products failed to get one buyer? Now I am going to reveal the failed product and why it did fail.
In this post, I will give you two examples of products/services I developed and offered in the past year. One had zero customers and the other had 20 customers. I will also tell you what the difference between these two products are so you can know what kind of products sell and what kind of products bomb and become utter failures. Let’s see if you can guess which was the disaster product before you finish reading this post
A lot of people have a problem with selling or being a marketer, better yet sounding like a sleazy used car salesman. This is a problem I have noticed that some people have when trying to make sales online.
I wish I could tell you that you don’t have to sell to make any money with your business, there is really no way out. You will have to embrace selling. The good news is there is a way to market you products without having to feel like taking a shower afterwards and that is what I want to highlight with this post.
While she was growing up, she was labelled a freak, an outcast that was not worth paying attention to. People said she was too eccentric and provocative so she started to tone her personality down.
Her passion was music and arts. While in high school, she played lead roles in high school musicals like Adelaide in Guys and Dolls.
At 17, she gained admission to NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where she improved her songwriting skills. In 2003, her second year at Tisch, she dropped out of high school to pursue her career in music. Her father could have scolded her and threatened her to go back to school but he decided against it. He agreed to pay her rent for one year making her promise that if she wasn’t successful, she would go back to Tisch.
It’s time for another monthly report from Entrepreneur Blog’r. These posts are meant for you as much as it is meant for me. You get behind the scenes information on a fairly new blog and how I intend launch an array of businesses of off it. For me, it is a way of staying accountable and making sure I get things done month after month, if not I will have nothing to report and come on, how will that look if I had nothing to report?
Let me know if you have any questions in the comments.
You can sign up to Aweber here (that is an affiliate link). It is one of the most cost effective ways to build and maintain a list online and all the big boys use it, so you are in good company.
Paul Cunningham of Blogging Teacher has released an Email Marketing Report which I believe you should read. It has loads of information
Here are some examples.
Which is the most popular email marketing service
What are the leading uses of email marketing
The biggest challenges encountered with email marketing
The techniques these bloggers use to attract subscribers
How often the survey respondents send emails to their lists
This is Part 2 in the Email List Building series, you can find Part 1 here if you haven’t already. In this post I will give you some ideas of stuff you can give away to give people an incentive to sign up for your list. No one will sign up for your list unless they see a benefit of doing so. It’s the age old “What’s in it for me” syndrome. A simple “Sign up for updates” message is not going to cut it.
A list of people that gives you permission to contact them and send them information is the most valuable asset any entrepreneur can have. Period. This is going to be a series of posts where I will give you a comprehensive guide on how to build that asset, build an email list of prospects for your products. You will also learn how to create and share valuable information that builds a relationship with them, brands you as the expert and ultimately make them comfortable buying stuff from you.
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