Ideas are easy. It’s the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.
Sue Grafton
Notes on finding your place inside a niche, interacting and developing content. Continue reading →
Archive for June, 2010
Niche Play, Social Interaction, Product Production: A Breakdown
Online Business is Chess | How to Avoid a Stalemate, be a Grandmaster and Keep $100
Wow, it’s been four weeks, I’m a jerk. I’m breaking the cardinal “consistency” blog rule, but for good reason. I haven’t left frustrated or concluded lifestyle design is an exercise in futility, on the contrary I’ve been moving the pieces into place on how to create lasting income online, the stage at odds with my day to day life right now. I’m sorry for not updating sooner, the reality is, this is a messy battle. I’ve half written a dozen posts to try and capture the take aways from my stalemate of really digging into my niche and launching a product. It finally makes sense in a chess frame of reference. On the cusp of disembarking from working in the business to working on it, there’s much to share, and you’ll benefit from my stalls, excuses, and breakthroughs….like usual. Continue reading →
What I’ve Learned from Internet Coaches
Coach, consultant, confident, whatever…talking with and getting help from people who have more experience than you is smart and necessary. Adam Baker and Corbett Barr have made great names for themselves in the lifestyle design and online business space. They’re perceived as experts as they should be. I’ve met with both of them and learned a thing or two about strategy and action.
How to Scratch a Niche & become a Medium Fish Thoughtleader
I’ve been working on a few processes on generating website traffic and how to become a thoughtleader. Some for automation, other for self execution. There are countless guides, blogs, and websites on this, (I’m looking forward to David Walsh’s M6 Method process on it) but I find most of the information out there too heavy to absorb, so here’s my particular black book on how to scratch your niche and make an impression. It assumes you want quality readers and have good content (or are in the process of producing it). Continue reading →
