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Another 2-part post here. Part 1 being advice to beginners and part 2 asking for people with experience to check in.
My advice is for you to put together a decent product/service/offering and as soon as it is functional you should put it out there and focus on getting the first sales.
So many of you are worried about failing or worried that you will over promise and under deliver. I get it. Everyone hates that guy! My advice is not to over promise. Rather it is to promise big and then rise to the occasion to deliver. Fight like hell to make it happen.
If you look through the introductions of successful people both on this forum and elsewhere, many of them will echo this very thing. They will talk about being over their head at some point or biting off more than they could chew. The difference between them and the guy that over promises and under delivers is that they stepped up and rose to the occasion.
But most importantly.....there is no occasion to rise to if you don't make the sale first.
I fully empathize with the hesitation as I too strongly believe living by the creed under promise, over deliver. But there are key moments in your life that you need to make a leap of faith and run for the stars.
TL;DR
STOP focusing on perfecting your product/service before launch and just launch. Then fight like hell to deliver the best value you can.
Part 1
There is so much talk of providing value, that it seems many are paralyzed in the value creation phase instead of letting their ideas fly and actually providing the value.My advice is for you to put together a decent product/service/offering and as soon as it is functional you should put it out there and focus on getting the first sales.
So many of you are worried about failing or worried that you will over promise and under deliver. I get it. Everyone hates that guy! My advice is not to over promise. Rather it is to promise big and then rise to the occasion to deliver. Fight like hell to make it happen.
If you look through the introductions of successful people both on this forum and elsewhere, many of them will echo this very thing. They will talk about being over their head at some point or biting off more than they could chew. The difference between them and the guy that over promises and under delivers is that they stepped up and rose to the occasion.
But most importantly.....there is no occasion to rise to if you don't make the sale first.
I fully empathize with the hesitation as I too strongly believe living by the creed under promise, over deliver. But there are key moments in your life that you need to make a leap of faith and run for the stars.
TL;DR
STOP focusing on perfecting your product/service before launch and just launch. Then fight like hell to deliver the best value you can.
Part 2
If you have ran a business of some sorts and have experience with this, we would all love for you to chime in.- Can you remember a time you bit off more than you could chew and instead of buckling you rose to the occasion and made it happen?
- Are you glad that you did it?
- Do you think you would have achieved what you have, if you played it safe all the time and only delivered your value when you where 100% competent and experienced enough to do it?
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