The interesting thing being that he didn't do any of the things he says he would do (so, maybe despite all his best undercover efforts, things would fail !), yet people listen as if the messiah was talking.
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How Seth Godin would launch a business on a $1,000 budget
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Re: How Seth Godin would launch a business on a $1,000 budget
#22A better guide would be how to launch a business on a budget of 45 minutes a day. I'm sure that's the bigger challenge for most of us
I like this idea. Added it here to my list of ideas for useful and interesting articles: https://www.indiehackers.com/@csallen/ideas-for-articles?noc...
Would love to hear more of your suggestions!
Re: How Seth Godin would launch a business on a $1,000 budget
#23A better guide would be how to launch a business on a budget of 45 minutes a day. I'm sure that's the bigger challenge for most of us
I like this idea. Added it here to my list of ideas for useful and interesting articles: https://www.indiehackers.com/@csallen/ideas-for-articles?noc... Would love to hear more of your suggestions!
I think csallen is marketing with us, you guys.
Re: How Seth Godin would launch a business on a $1,000 budget
#24Seth Godin is a marketer and talented self-promoter. His job (which he does well) is to write pithy stuff that captures your attention.
This is an agency problem with a lot of business advice. The people who really know how to launch a business on $1K are almost never the ones writing about how to do it.
Re: How Seth Godin would launch a business on a $1,000 budget
#25I started my business with less than $1000. I worked a full-time job and built my first video game product ( http://store.steampowered.com/app/386900/The_Cat_Machine/ ) by waking up earlier in the morning to get an hour or two in before my 'real' job, and working Saturdays, and doing that for a year. I found customers by putting an enormous about of effort into marketing, and finding only some of it paid off (but wha…
> I found customers by putting an enormous about of effort into marketing, and finding only some of it paid off (but what did, really worked).
What worked and what didn't?
Re: How Seth Godin would launch a business on a $1,000 budget
#26I'm actually wondering how to market the medium post that I wrote that delivers value - seems a bit of chicken and the egg problem.
Exactly this. Same as "build a side project as a marketing channel for your main thing" – as if that side project markets itself. People seem to assume just because something is free, it automatically reaches a big audience.
Re: How Seth Godin would launch a business on a $1,000 budget
#27A better guide would be how to launch a business on a budget of 45 minutes a day. I'm sure that's the bigger challenge for most of us
Agreed. With so many different "growth hacking" strategies out there already, the "45 Min/Day" idea would really help to clarify which priorities should come first.
Re: How Seth Godin would launch a business on a $1,000 budget
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know someone who has written two hugo-nominated sci-fi novels, but otherwise lives a typical 9-to-5 work life. I finally asked how he gets his writing done and learned that he wakes up at 5am each day. According to him, "the first thing you do every day is the most important thing".
Oh, I absolutely agree! I'm definitely an early morning sort of person, and when you're a self-employed, self-directed programmer, that feeling in the day of 'getting going', digging into a good chunk of work with free hours stretching ahead of you, that can't really be beaten. So I do get up earlier, and start work earlier than most, but I don't start the day with news sites, or emails, or twitter or anything like t…
it introduces an awful lot of negativity.
So true - I used to start my day reading news. No more, and my days are happier for it. Most of it is shit you cannot influence anyway.
Re: How Seth Godin would launch a business on a $1,000 budget
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like this idea. Added it here to my list of ideas for useful and interesting articles: https://www.indiehackers.com/@csallen/ideas-for-articles?noc... Would love to hear more of your suggestions!
I think csallen is marketing with us, you guys.
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Re: How Seth Godin would launch a business on a $1,000 budget
#30I started my business with less than $1000. I worked a full-time job and built my first video game product ( http://store.steampowered.com/app/386900/The_Cat_Machine/ ) by waking up earlier in the morning to get an hour or two in before my 'real' job, and working Saturdays, and doing that for a year. I found customers by putting an enormous about of effort into marketing, and finding only some of it paid off (but wha…
I know someone who has written two hugo-nominated sci-fi novels, but otherwise lives a typical 9-to-5 work life. I finally asked how he gets his writing done and learned that he wakes up at 5am each day. According to him, "the first thing you do every day is the most important thing".
I've also found that my thinking is at its best in the first few hours after I wake up. My creativity and problem solving skills steadily decline throughout the day, and at night I'm only good for fairly mechanical work.
I don't think it's a time of day thing (I'm not an early riser) but more that your brain is refreshed by sleep. I wish I could take naps, it would be wonderful to regain that state mid-day.