Why you should test out many ideas at once.

[AndrewNC]

This post is an argument about why you shouldn't only focus on one idea when you're getting started out.

• I was just talking to an old friend of mine who said his plan going forward is to build 10 different products (in the same market/category), and see which ones take off.
• I remember interviewing the Vishen, the CEO of Mindvalley Academy for my magazine, and he said somewhere that when he first started, he tried to put out many products at once, and when one took off, he focused on that one.
• For my first successful business, I published 30 different niche magazines, and about 5-7 of them took off financially (and none of those 7 were the primary one I built first)

This goes against the common advice of "Focus on one thing".

So from my experience following the "try out a lot of things once", and having it work, I gained a few insights.

The first key is that everything I tried out was in one industry/category/marketing channel. I knew how to get the product in front of the end-users who were looking for it, and from there it was a test of demand and conversion rates. This allowed me to get a large volume of data very quickly to see if my products were a hit or not.

The data doesn't lie.

The second is rapid execution.

For three months straight, knowing that my products were in the same marketing outlet, and I knew how to get in front of the users - I executed fast. I didn't toy around with one idea and then wait a few weeks before the next. I was constantly pumping out content.

The third part is to cut off the losers very quickly.

For the ones that I knew didn't take off (and I had the data to verify that), I didn't have any emotional attachment to one idea or another. If the initial test didn't perform; I stopped putting my energy into it.

When I found out which one sticks, and which one takes off the quickest (with room for growth), that is the moment when I put all my energy in those specific ones.

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