Let's help those who haven't made a sale yet.
For those who haven't made a sale yet, reply below with what you're struggling with.
In the meantime, here's some questions for you to ponder:
1) What currently keeps a roof over your head?
2) What do people already come to you for help with?
3) If someone had a gun to your head and said you need to make a sale this week then what would you do?
4) If money was no object what work would you be doing?
I'm currently struggling about three things.
1. I like to plan and be organized, but it is hard to plan actions to a
goal I've never achieved. I want to earn €300k a month. How do I know how to structure the milestones and individual intermediate
goals? I can only guess, but a plan built on guesswork doesn't sound convincing.
I also wonder in which program to create such an action plan. It seems to me that a Gantt chart is an appropriate tool.
2 I wonder what value to give to people. I don't know how to program, do graphics, do marketing, etc. So I thought about an online shop in a dropshipping model (because I don't have any capital at the moment) or with digital products
(My situation is delicately described in the welcome post:
INTRO - Introduction, from Poland, working in Netherlands)
So I am looking for products to trade.
Some say I should do what I love, others say I should look where there is already an audience and still others say I should sell seasonal products.
Each way seems right.
Overall, my plan at the moment is that I would like to set up an online shop or otherwise make money online to break out of my full-time job. It is important for me to be able to run my business absolutely remotely as I am just entering the business world and I want to be mobile. I want to be able to travel to places where people with money are - to learn, to explore, to broaden my horizons, to be inspired. The online shop would cover travel, accommodation, food and fund my next business ideas.
Am I thinking right?
3. I have an idea in my head for something great. But all I have is an idea. Everything else requires specialists in other fields and investors, because the project would definitely be expensive.
The problem: I have no idea how to go about it, or whether to go about it at all, since ultimately the only thing I can contribute to the project is just an idea. I could manage this project in the future, but who would want to create this project with me if I don't have the programming skills, money or knowledge of the subject matter...?
1) What currently keeps a roof over your head?
I work full-time, on a junk agency contract in the Netherlands, earning just above the national minimum wage.
2) What do people already come to you for help with?
They want me to explain to them, the more advanced features of Android, iOS or Windows. They want me to help them find motorbike gear or advise them on it. They want to practice riding a motorbike with me. My sister thinks I am good at looking after her young children when she needs my help. They want me to play a good party as a DJ. They want me to help them find a good TV, phone, headphones, etc. to buy online.
3) If someone had a gun to your head and said you need to make a sale this week then what would you do?
I would sell something I have at home.
I've thought about making short children's stories in video or ebook form, where I would also sell advice for parents, but I don't think I could manage to embrace that in a week.
4) If money was no object what work would you be doing?
I would like to make humans an interplanetary species. So I would get involved in things like life extension, brain-computer interface, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, building centers capable of keeping humans alive in space, psychology of a new species, methods of communication with alien civilizations, etc.
And if someone expects a more down-to-earth answer then I would be involved in traveling, learning languages, psychology, educating children, making music, playing parties, dancing and playing lots of sports.
But the truth is (as I mentioned in the Introduction) I don't know life and I'm sure there are plenty of exciting things in this world I could be involved with.