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Intro
Hey, I'm Artiom.
In case you haven't seen my intro, you can check it out here.
In short, my goal for the past year was to make a simple living out of the skills I got. Specifically, a solo-business where I fully control my time. Basically, some type of freelancing.
Execution
Now, my goal is to first make a sale. It can be anything related to helping someone, using my skills. Then we'll just see how I get more sales and scale. To do this, I will finally start helping people. It can be anyone from the internet, or people I know.
I tried helping people in the past, and failed. But I learned some key things.
So this is how I will be doing things from now on:
- Find some people to help
- Give your advice and try to enter a conversation
- Listen to what they need
- Help them
The part with entering the conversation is the one I struggled with. After helping someone, I usually expect him to need more help. If yes, then they'll probably ask. If not, then I will at least be a referral point for the future. And I'll also gain some experience, train my problem solver muscle and gain data on what people are struggling with.
For this to work, I need to truly help them. I thought a lot about this, and my effort would be useless for someone if it can't yield at least something that makes a difference. I can't just give them some help and disappear. I need to make sure that my effort solved their problem, or helped them in some way.
Important key things:
- Truly help them. Make a difference.
- They need to be in motion. Dedication. Hungry enough who is willing to receive help.
- No small question. Real problems. I don't know how I'll truly make a difference for someone who searches for "The best WordPress theme". Maybe he has some important internal problems like a failing website, but for now I don't know how to extract those problems.
- Not looking to hire. I want to be seen as something else, rather than a cost. Maybe I can just listen to them first, and after that, see how I can help them for free (for credibility purposes).
Another small problem is the place where I can find those people. They are everywhere. For some reason, on Quora it's hard to find them. They are here for simple questions, and most of those are non-priorities. But there are also those who have serious problems.
Other places:
- Twitter
- Reddit
It's also not necessary for people to describe/make a post about what their problem is. I can just find people in need just by looking at their content and solutions. I can think about guys who have poor edited videos on YouTube, or different businesses that can't create enough good-looking posts on their socials.
I will also create some small lists everyday with the problems and their links/sources, so I can later choose the relevant ones. This is just the fix for that problem with filtering all the problems and finding the people who are in true help. I think this will fix it for now.
And finally, the skills I got:
- Web development (anything, full or design).
- Video editing (basic).
- Graphic design, image editing. Everything using Photoshop.
- Got some basic skills in programming. Maybe scripts or small apps.
- App development (tried it once, made a small app).
I'm open to anything else. I will learn everything from the fly, as always. Right now, I just need to switch my mentality from me-focused to them-focused. It doesn't matter about the skills. I need to look at what they need and what they're struggling with, before thinking about what skills I've got. Then, I'll just learn how to truly fix their problem and make a difference.
I still don't know how this helping thing really works and how it'll generate money. I'll just start now, fail as fast as possible, learn and adjust as I go.
Other important sources:
- You don't need to be an expert
- Who can you help ?
- Who have you helped ?
- Has your ME-BIAS backed you into a corner of doing nothing?
- The Untold Truth About Money
Please if you have any suggestions, just ask. I'm open to everything.
I will keep this thread updated with the progress.
Let's do it.
Hey, I'm Artiom.
In case you haven't seen my intro, you can check it out here.
In short, my goal for the past year was to make a simple living out of the skills I got. Specifically, a solo-business where I fully control my time. Basically, some type of freelancing.
Execution
Now, my goal is to first make a sale. It can be anything related to helping someone, using my skills. Then we'll just see how I get more sales and scale. To do this, I will finally start helping people. It can be anyone from the internet, or people I know.
I tried helping people in the past, and failed. But I learned some key things.
So this is how I will be doing things from now on:
- Find some people to help
- Give your advice and try to enter a conversation
- Listen to what they need
- Help them
The part with entering the conversation is the one I struggled with. After helping someone, I usually expect him to need more help. If yes, then they'll probably ask. If not, then I will at least be a referral point for the future. And I'll also gain some experience, train my problem solver muscle and gain data on what people are struggling with.
For this to work, I need to truly help them. I thought a lot about this, and my effort would be useless for someone if it can't yield at least something that makes a difference. I can't just give them some help and disappear. I need to make sure that my effort solved their problem, or helped them in some way.
Important key things:
- Truly help them. Make a difference.
- They need to be in motion. Dedication. Hungry enough who is willing to receive help.
- No small question. Real problems. I don't know how I'll truly make a difference for someone who searches for "The best WordPress theme". Maybe he has some important internal problems like a failing website, but for now I don't know how to extract those problems.
- Not looking to hire. I want to be seen as something else, rather than a cost. Maybe I can just listen to them first, and after that, see how I can help them for free (for credibility purposes).
Another small problem is the place where I can find those people. They are everywhere. For some reason, on Quora it's hard to find them. They are here for simple questions, and most of those are non-priorities. But there are also those who have serious problems.
Other places:
It's also not necessary for people to describe/make a post about what their problem is. I can just find people in need just by looking at their content and solutions. I can think about guys who have poor edited videos on YouTube, or different businesses that can't create enough good-looking posts on their socials.
I will also create some small lists everyday with the problems and their links/sources, so I can later choose the relevant ones. This is just the fix for that problem with filtering all the problems and finding the people who are in true help. I think this will fix it for now.
And finally, the skills I got:
- Web development (anything, full or design).
- Video editing (basic).
- Graphic design, image editing. Everything using Photoshop.
- Got some basic skills in programming. Maybe scripts or small apps.
- App development (tried it once, made a small app).
I'm open to anything else. I will learn everything from the fly, as always. Right now, I just need to switch my mentality from me-focused to them-focused. It doesn't matter about the skills. I need to look at what they need and what they're struggling with, before thinking about what skills I've got. Then, I'll just learn how to truly fix their problem and make a difference.
I still don't know how this helping thing really works and how it'll generate money. I'll just start now, fail as fast as possible, learn and adjust as I go.
Other important sources:
- You don't need to be an expert
- Who can you help ?
- Who have you helped ?
- Has your ME-BIAS backed you into a corner of doing nothing?
- The Untold Truth About Money
Please if you have any suggestions, just ask. I'm open to everything.
I will keep this thread updated with the progress.
Let's do it.
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