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  1. Shrimpfriedrice

    How to Build a Digital Marketplace?

    IDEA EXECUTION WEB DESIGN 
    This is super helpful, thank you!!! I could also see charging a commission for the project (i.e., I don't get paid if you don't get paid). What do you do? I also wonder, you can build these marketplaces on WordPress? I would like this to be slick (really up the ante on the value prop), and...
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    To KDP Select Or Not - That Is The Question (for authorpreneurs)

    MARKETING 
    Authorpreneur here. Amazon sells 95% of all books. The exclusivity is worth it unless you start selling your eBooks in bulk quantities elsewhere. I sell ebooks on Draft2Digital (one of the biggest eBook consolidators) and Ingram Spark, and they sell 1-2 books a month compared to the 30-50...
  3. Shrimpfriedrice

    How to Build a Digital Marketplace?

    IDEA EXECUTION WEB DESIGN 
    I found this great article from Sharetribe on how to validate a marketplace idea. How to validate your marketplace idea (and trust the results) | Marketplace Academy Definitely will spend some time doing the research and continuing to manually connect people while collecting the data...
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    Local Events Listing Website

    IDEA 
    Hey @Dufresne85! What is the difference between a marketplace and a directory website? In my head, as a customer, I'm almost thinking a marketplace acts like a directory too?
  5. Shrimpfriedrice

    Local Events Listing Website

    IDEA 
    I have heard about this being executed, this was back when FB was still new-ish. Their specialty was Chicago ladies in their 20's and 30's with high-end taste looking for social and networking events, as well as restaurants and events that were the "cool place to be." This was called Cheeky...
  6. Shrimpfriedrice

    How to Build a Digital Marketplace?

    IDEA EXECUTION WEB DESIGN 
    This is an extremely useful post!!! Thank you so much! I do think yes, starting with the simple Excel/Airtable is the way to go. Start putting it together. Give it to my email list to see what they think. Share tribe is definitely useful. Thank you for sharing!!
  7. Shrimpfriedrice

    How to Build a Digital Marketplace?

    IDEA EXECUTION WEB DESIGN 
    Thank you Andy...I see what you mean by this...but I currently am doing this... I have been calling and emailing and Facebook messaging and sending out email blasts. Very manual. This is why it seems useful to automate this.
  8. Shrimpfriedrice

    How to Build a Digital Marketplace?

    IDEA EXECUTION WEB DESIGN 
    Andy, thank you for cleaning the lens. I needed that! Ultimately, you're right. I suppose I jumped straight to the solution without understanding the customer and problem well enough yet. If I'm following, the best thing to do is to best connect 1 person's request for a professional (or a...
  9. Shrimpfriedrice

    How to Build a Digital Marketplace?

    IDEA EXECUTION WEB DESIGN 
    Haha uhhhhh Ok, but for real, great questions, the juice is flowing: 1. I have a book that feeds to a growing email list that is sold via Amazon ads, podcasts, and social media. Use that to feed them into marketplace? 2. I have a Facebook group that draws people interested...
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    Building an Audience - Content, "Helping People," and Passion

    HOT! MARKETING 
    I totally relate to this. My niche is rainwater harvesting, which I have no experience in too, and fell into it because there are needs. I waffle every day between "should I be doing this" to "this is fun!" It's very, very normal. My advice, if I was talking to my younger self, would be to...
  11. Shrimpfriedrice

    How to Build a Digital Marketplace?

    IDEA EXECUTION WEB DESIGN 
    Hello entrepreneurs! After being in the rainwater harvesting niche for the past 2ish years, I have noticed bigger (i.e., more lucrative, scalable, time-removed) opportunities than I have been doing so far (writing books). One of the most interesting is that people often come to me via email or...
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    Sold 10,000 Books. Now What?

    HOT! BOOKS SCALING EXECUTION 
    Isaac, no problem brother. You are a fierce entrepreneur for even trying, with your challenges. We all have them, but I'm rooting for you, especially when I take Amazon in the US for granted. By the way, what's the water situation like in your country? Uganda, right?
  13. Shrimpfriedrice

    Sold 10,000 Books. Now What?

    HOT! BOOKS SCALING EXECUTION 
    99% of sales come from Amazon, which I advertise on (and have a guy who manages the ads for me). I do have a good amount of customer data, mostly from Amazon ads keywords and my Fb group. Potentially my biggest hurdle is that I'm spending a ton of time on building things (books) that don't...
  14. Shrimpfriedrice

    Sold 10,000 Books. Now What?

    HOT! BOOKS SCALING EXECUTION 
    Has anyone here used Kit.co? I see Youtubers use it as a way to put all their affiliate links and recs into a single location. Could be a good stepping stone but don't know much about it.
  15. Shrimpfriedrice

    Sold 10,000 Books. Now What?

    HOT! BOOKS SCALING EXECUTION 
    Wow is it really?! *heavy breathing* Quite a few signups have come from the Fb group...but Wow. this is certainly giving me more confidence to sell more (higher priced) stuff to them.
  16. Shrimpfriedrice

    Sold 10,000 Books. Now What?

    HOT! BOOKS SCALING EXECUTION 
    Wow, I did not know this. Thank you, I will research this further. I was justing watching a Tiktok on the rain taxes in DC. Now how does a billion dollar publishing company come about? Its taken me so much time to create just 2 books. To scale with quality I'd need to hire tons of authors and...
  17. Shrimpfriedrice

    Sold 10,000 Books. Now What?

    HOT! BOOKS SCALING EXECUTION 
    Ok, great point. Which is why maybe people don't touch this stuff. I do know the customer base well, and naturally it varies by country, but the person who's interested in rainwater isn't always the far-right voter. They're a subset. There's people from all different backgrounds and interests...
  18. Shrimpfriedrice

    Sold 10,000 Books. Now What?

    HOT! BOOKS SCALING EXECUTION 
    I love this idea!!! It would integrate my ideas of a course and a product. I don't know if they want a course or a product either, but I'm glad to hear that other entrepreneurs have the same idea, so I can run this by my audience. I'll also run the online rainwater marketplace by them too.
  19. Shrimpfriedrice

    Sold 10,000 Books. Now What?

    HOT! BOOKS SCALING EXECUTION 
    Hehe you are right! Out of 10,000, only 700 have joined the email list (is that a lot or a little?) Perhaps my lead magnet in the book is not enticing enough. Anyway, you're right. Clearly there are at least 10,000 people wanting to learn about this stuff in this way. If I sold them something...
  20. Shrimpfriedrice

    Sold 10,000 Books. Now What?

    HOT! BOOKS SCALING EXECUTION 
    Gotcha. In this case, I could see my next few months really focused on building out the email list. I'm currently at about 700 people on the email list and 1.7k in the FB group.

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