Good evening,
I've just joined the forum, after reading the first book Millionaire Fastlane, and am working my way through Unscripted. I have dyslexia so am making the most of the enjoyable narration.
A bit about me, I work in the public sector in Great Britain, doing a job I really enjoy. Not particularly unscripted, I know! I'm not really able to talk about enteprenerialism at work, not the line one joins with that attitude (usually!), so am looking forward to getting stuck into things here.
For me though, since a young age, maybe in my teens, having that almost compulsory detestation for authority, have been a massive believer in individualism, and was massivley influenced by Ayn Rand. (Whose quotes I've noticed crop up in the books!) It influences me now, though, more by the moral imperative I feel to provide value to the market, and a part of my measure as a man, is to provide, to the market, to the best of my ability as a capable and competitive individual. My mother and her father before her were stock market traders, and whilst I enjoyed pitting myself against the market in that way testing my mettle I wanted to do and give something 'more'.
Over the last year or two I set up a website and was offering coaching services, and was remunerated for about £1,000. Not a lot, but considering my disorganised inability to follow leads, I'm surprised I got that far. Reading TMF has shown me that this isn't sustainable as it is exchanging my time for money, at a nice rate, but still at a rate. I decided to try and divorce my time from my efforts, and have been working on a subscription service to replicate some of the things I was doing. I thus soft-killed my coaching, the website is still up offering free advice for those who cannot or won't pay, but will, in time feed through paying users one hopes!
Fast forward six months and I wasn't really getting anywhere, stuck with a lot of feature creep and a markedly confused offering. I noticed I could help others with something else, so have taken a bit of a sabatical from the previous project and am now focusing on a MVP for a new offering, doing something similar in a different market. This new offering has a much bigger market (which I anticipate will bring its own joys), but also has another component of helping the needy in very difficult circumstances, the CENTS profile is quite different. That being said, I think once this is deployed and automated, I will be able to return to my other project with a much better head on my shoulders, and much more coding/deployment/execution experience.
I'm not worried about working on two projects at the same time because the offering is the same, just for different markets with slightly different features.
My next step is getting the MVP/proof of concept in front of some testers who will hopefully find many problems and opportunities for me to improve my offering! Then it is onwards and upwards to a fuller execution, the joys of marketing and more extensive deployment.
If anyone is reading this at a perhaps similar stage, with the early inkling of an idea or maybe about to start execution, one thing I've noticed that customers really enjoy it when you enjoy providing them with value, going the extra mile, they are more than happy to pay you to do so. If they think you're taking them for a ride, and you aren't really enjoying it, maybe because there's less value, it also shows.
Any thoughts or advice would be welcome!
Cheers,
PW
I've just joined the forum, after reading the first book Millionaire Fastlane, and am working my way through Unscripted. I have dyslexia so am making the most of the enjoyable narration.
A bit about me, I work in the public sector in Great Britain, doing a job I really enjoy. Not particularly unscripted, I know! I'm not really able to talk about enteprenerialism at work, not the line one joins with that attitude (usually!), so am looking forward to getting stuck into things here.
For me though, since a young age, maybe in my teens, having that almost compulsory detestation for authority, have been a massive believer in individualism, and was massivley influenced by Ayn Rand. (Whose quotes I've noticed crop up in the books!) It influences me now, though, more by the moral imperative I feel to provide value to the market, and a part of my measure as a man, is to provide, to the market, to the best of my ability as a capable and competitive individual. My mother and her father before her were stock market traders, and whilst I enjoyed pitting myself against the market in that way testing my mettle I wanted to do and give something 'more'.
Over the last year or two I set up a website and was offering coaching services, and was remunerated for about £1,000. Not a lot, but considering my disorganised inability to follow leads, I'm surprised I got that far. Reading TMF has shown me that this isn't sustainable as it is exchanging my time for money, at a nice rate, but still at a rate. I decided to try and divorce my time from my efforts, and have been working on a subscription service to replicate some of the things I was doing. I thus soft-killed my coaching, the website is still up offering free advice for those who cannot or won't pay, but will, in time feed through paying users one hopes!
Fast forward six months and I wasn't really getting anywhere, stuck with a lot of feature creep and a markedly confused offering. I noticed I could help others with something else, so have taken a bit of a sabatical from the previous project and am now focusing on a MVP for a new offering, doing something similar in a different market. This new offering has a much bigger market (which I anticipate will bring its own joys), but also has another component of helping the needy in very difficult circumstances, the CENTS profile is quite different. That being said, I think once this is deployed and automated, I will be able to return to my other project with a much better head on my shoulders, and much more coding/deployment/execution experience.
I'm not worried about working on two projects at the same time because the offering is the same, just for different markets with slightly different features.
My next step is getting the MVP/proof of concept in front of some testers who will hopefully find many problems and opportunities for me to improve my offering! Then it is onwards and upwards to a fuller execution, the joys of marketing and more extensive deployment.
If anyone is reading this at a perhaps similar stage, with the early inkling of an idea or maybe about to start execution, one thing I've noticed that customers really enjoy it when you enjoy providing them with value, going the extra mile, they are more than happy to pay you to do so. If they think you're taking them for a ride, and you aren't really enjoying it, maybe because there's less value, it also shows.
Any thoughts or advice would be welcome!
Cheers,
PW
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