Quote: (05-15-2017 08:29 PM)Suits Wrote:
Quote: (05-15-2017 08:13 PM)the1element Wrote:
Quote: (05-15-2017 08:12 PM)Suits Wrote:
^^Do you watch Sharktank?
A few times. Why?
Watch it more.
Lessons to be learned:If you can't think of a product, then do the next best thing...build an audience.
- Most ideas suck or are poorly executed.
- The cool factor of an idea might make people excited, but the only thing that real matters are sales.
- Most ideas come to people when they see a problem and decide to solve it.
- There are very few people who just "decided to invent something" and simply do so. Most ideas are happened upon unintentionally.
Start a blog about golfing. Grow readership by providing quality content on a consistent basis (something new every one to three days).
Build that audience and even if you don't have product ideas, you can sell other people's product ideas because you now have something even better....a marketing channel.
That's actually the hardest part of business. Not the creating (which is hard), but rather the marketing. No point in having a million dollar idea if no one knows about it.
If you have 3000 visitors a day, people will be throwing money at you to review their newest golf club innovation.
This guy fucks.
Good advice man...
I would never have thought about how building an audience is next best thing to having a product.
I'm going to keep my eyes and ears open each day and see if anything comes to me.
Also, started watching Sharktank (about four episodes last night) good show shit. You learn a lot just from watching the way the Sharks analyze the products and valuations.
Anyways, I'm going golfing now (got a tournament coming up in the next few weeks).
Edit: I think my big issue is I want to be an entrepreneur I don't have any interest in running freelance and becoming an employee. I don't want to be an employee to clients. I want to build something that's mine, I don't want to become another employee.