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You only need 1 true fan if it's the right fan! There was a (uploaded to TikTok) video I saw where this guy had 18 followers on YouTube, and just was not getting any kind of traction at all. I mean some traction but not much -- only 18 followers! Was about to quit. Then all of a sudden he got contacted by Oprah Winfrey's people about hosting a TV show about the ideas that he talked about in his videos. It turns out t…
This again? 1k true fans, like the 10k hours rule popularized by Gladwell or the Purple Cow by Godin, etc. sounds better on paper than in practice, but there are always caveats and major survivorship bias. Getting those 1k fans is quite hard, as it turns out, maybe impossible even though it's not that many on an absolute basis. According to Kevin Kelly, a true fan is more than just a Twitter follower or a Facebook li…
Maybe some of you know of Dave Bull: the Caucasian Canadian that took a shine to Japanese woodblock carving (Ukiyo-e printmaking). I have pondered his "business model". Apparently the master Japanese carvers were loathe to take this gangly gaijin seriously when he began his obsession decades ago. And yet, Dave set for himself some insane goal of carving 100 wood blocks for prints over the space of a decade. Now as a…
This is beautifully written - thanks so much! This story reminds me of (how I imagine) the career of Connor Price looks like. Check him out on youtube. He makes so many tracks with so many people - and eventually things pick up. He could very well be the next Sheridan.
This idea reminds me of something I've read on some old blog post about enterpreneurship. So, the guys starting the company were excited, because they said "We know the odds are small, but we don't need much, if just 1 in 1000 buys our product we're rich, as that's like 350K people in the US. And how difficult would be to get 1 in 1000 to buy our stuff with a little marketing? It's a great product anyway! Heck, if ju…
While I agree it downplays the difficulty, I think the point is you shouldn't be focusing on getting millions of followers, which most people assume is the goal.
You don't need a million followers (or more), you just need some (about 1000) who really care about you and your products/services.
This idea reminds me of something I've read on some old blog post about enterpreneurship. So, the guys starting the company were excited, because they said "We know the odds are small, but we don't need much, if just 1 in 1000 buys our product we're rich, as that's like 350K people in the US. And how difficult would be to get 1 in 1000 to buy our stuff with a little marketing? It's a great product anyway! Heck, if ju…
1,000 true fans is an essay about a thousand die-hard fans paying a content creator $100/year, which comes out to 100k before taxes and expenses. I'd argue that if you're smart enough to be reading this website, you're smart enough to create and sell a piece of software to 10 businesses. If you can add 2% of revenue/quarter or save 5-10% of an expense, you can name your price (as long as it's below the amount of reve…
I gave up a Software Engineering career to become a content creator (Instagram/Blog/YouTube/magazine articles/photography/speaking/books), so I can offer my first hand experience.
What you say is, more or less, on the money. I would absolutely be earning more cash if I stuck at my software career. I willingly put my hand in the air and said "I don't want more money, I want a different life."
I realized that sitting inside every day was not the life I wanted to live, so I changed it. I don't want "an easier" way to make money, I don't want to sit and write software. I learned that doesn't make me happy.
I'm passionate about exploring the world and telling stories about that, so that is what I do now, and I love it. Yes, I have a lot less money than I used to have, and I'm much happier. Monetizing this life has been an incredible learning experience, and I'm proud of what I have achieved to date.
For me personally, life is not about finding an "easier way" to make money. It's not about how comfortable my life is, and it's not about simply having more money. So I choose this life. And, well, also The Road Chose Me.
Does anyone have any suggestions where I could go looking for fans? I'm making a text editor/game where you write text documents with tentacle arms. Learn ritual magic based on what you write / activate machines by writing. I've got about 1400 followers on twitter, had a few semi-successful posts on reddit. Tiktok did less well. My weathervane is currently pointed towards doing more on YouTube. Enough people have dow…
This idea reminds me of something I've read on some old blog post about enterpreneurship. So, the guys starting the company were excited, because they said "We know the odds are small, but we don't need much, if just 1 in 1000 buys our product we're rich, as that's like 350K people in the US. And how difficult would be to get 1 in 1000 to buy our stuff with a little marketing? It's a great product anyway! Heck, if ju…
The blog post might’ve been this one from Derek Sivers: https://sive.rs/1pct
Maybe some of you know of Dave Bull: the Caucasian Canadian that took a shine to Japanese woodblock carving (Ukiyo-e printmaking). I have pondered his "business model". Apparently the master Japanese carvers were loathe to take this gangly gaijin seriously when he began his obsession decades ago. And yet, Dave set for himself some insane goal of carving 100 wood blocks for prints over the space of a decade. Now as a…
I'm not one of those guys because it's really difficult to reshape your life into that structure.. But all it really requires is willpower.
For me, concentration of that level only comes into play when I'm fascinated by a difficult problem... it can't be applied to mundane small incremental daily progress.
But maybe if I set my sleep and wake alarms differently...
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Meh. If you're smart enough to read this web site you should find someone else to leverage some equity out of and a good salary and ride it to IPO then retire and do something else.
> IPO then retire and do something else. Yeah, do what, exactly... Dawdle around dabbling in random stuff, only to eventually get bored and return to tech for making an impact on something and changing the world...