Hi all,
Definitely not a frequent poster here but I’m currently stuck in my own thinking.
Would greatly appreciate any advice, even harsh ones as long as it’s constructive!
I think I have done what most wantreprenuers/money chasers did:
Built for Adsense sites (5-6 years ago): did sell some good websites and made $2k
Amazon selling: breakeven
Affiliate marketing: failed
Dropshipping: failed miserably; lost $15-20k
After my huge failure in dropshipping, I was devastated and paused my entrepreneurial pursuit for a while.
I decided to re-visit the forum, which I stopped when I was doing dropshipping, and discovered Fox’ legendary web design thread.
I was inspired and thought to myself, “hey you have never had really hard skills. Why don’t just learn one and make some money? Best thing is unlike dropshipping or affiliate marketing, I don’t need to gamble my money on paid traffic.”
So I started taking the courses in August and by Nov, I have had 3 clients and made $5k.
I was quite lucky to be honest. Finding clients become much harder after my first three clients.
Tried making short videos.
Sent 1000+ personalised emails.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not complaining. I know over time if I stick to it I’ll figure out how to find more clients.
But at the meantime, I re-read TMF and Unscripted and many GOLD posts in the forum. It’s clear to me that CENTS is the foundation of rapid wealth creation.
To me web design does not satisfy the commandment of SCALE and NEED.
SCALE because it’s labour intensive work. It’s not like something that can go from $1k to $10k instantly. No need much explanation here.
NEED is a bigger problem here. Just like MJ’s famous “fitness blogger” example: does the world need one more web developer?
Yes I did closed some clients and they were indeed happy with my work. But I don’t see my websites giving them results like “increasing their businesses by 30%” or sth like that.
The value that I provide is merely “building the website”. That’s it.
Does the world need one more web developer who merely build websites? I don’t think so. There are tons in Hong Kong and they charge much lower than me, with much more experience.
Without a real NEED and without real value creation, I’m not sure if I should invest my time and resources on web design.
Why don’t I focus my energy on building a real CENTS business?
It’s not like I have to quit my job tomorrow. I have steady cash flow from my job so I can build a business with it.
Or am I being a quitter and not sticking to one thing?
Would greatly appreciate your input!
Definitely not a frequent poster here but I’m currently stuck in my own thinking.
Would greatly appreciate any advice, even harsh ones as long as it’s constructive!
I think I have done what most wantreprenuers/money chasers did:
Built for Adsense sites (5-6 years ago): did sell some good websites and made $2k
Amazon selling: breakeven
Affiliate marketing: failed
Dropshipping: failed miserably; lost $15-20k
After my huge failure in dropshipping, I was devastated and paused my entrepreneurial pursuit for a while.
I decided to re-visit the forum, which I stopped when I was doing dropshipping, and discovered Fox’ legendary web design thread.
I was inspired and thought to myself, “hey you have never had really hard skills. Why don’t just learn one and make some money? Best thing is unlike dropshipping or affiliate marketing, I don’t need to gamble my money on paid traffic.”
So I started taking the courses in August and by Nov, I have had 3 clients and made $5k.
I was quite lucky to be honest. Finding clients become much harder after my first three clients.
Tried making short videos.
Sent 1000+ personalised emails.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not complaining. I know over time if I stick to it I’ll figure out how to find more clients.
But at the meantime, I re-read TMF and Unscripted and many GOLD posts in the forum. It’s clear to me that CENTS is the foundation of rapid wealth creation.
To me web design does not satisfy the commandment of SCALE and NEED.
SCALE because it’s labour intensive work. It’s not like something that can go from $1k to $10k instantly. No need much explanation here.
NEED is a bigger problem here. Just like MJ’s famous “fitness blogger” example: does the world need one more web developer?
Yes I did closed some clients and they were indeed happy with my work. But I don’t see my websites giving them results like “increasing their businesses by 30%” or sth like that.
The value that I provide is merely “building the website”. That’s it.
Does the world need one more web developer who merely build websites? I don’t think so. There are tons in Hong Kong and they charge much lower than me, with much more experience.
Without a real NEED and without real value creation, I’m not sure if I should invest my time and resources on web design.
Why don’t I focus my energy on building a real CENTS business?
It’s not like I have to quit my job tomorrow. I have steady cash flow from my job so I can build a business with it.
Or am I being a quitter and not sticking to one thing?
Would greatly appreciate your input!
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