Let me tell you a quick story about part of my week. I think this is how true Entrepreneurs operate.
On sunday I was sent a spam email for a service that looked fairly interesting. For $39.95 per month it was interesting but I am cheap so I did not buy. I forwarded the link to my business partner, mostly as a joke, saying “Look how easy it is to make money online.” When he saw the page he thought I was right, and he asked me if we could do the same thing. I thought about it for a few seconds and figured “Why Not” So on monday afternoon we told a few others about our idea. They really liked it.
I then wrote a plan of how to program it, it used some PHP and some other things that were above what I could do, so I wrote a project for it and tried to get a free lancer from Asia to it. I had many freelancers talk to me about it but it seems that none of them got it, so I started thinking about how I could do it myself. So all tuesday morning I worked on coding, and by tuedsay afternoon it was done. I still had a few glitches and by wednesday morning it was totally complete. We emailed it to a few people and they were loving it. On wednesday we had our first customer at $20 per month. Thurday we added a second. On friday we talked with a guy who is confident that he will help us sell 50 sites. We gave him a free account. Now it is friday night, one more person just signed up for $20 a month. I figure at this rate we should have 50 new people a month or MORE.
So lets recap. We went from idea to profits in under 72 hours. We have zero cost other than our time, and have $60 per month coming in already with much more to come. I will keep you updated and in a few weeks give a total of how many people we have.
Rapid Development is the key to all of this, most people I know would not just jump in, they would hesitate, and then never do the idea at all. That is what I would normally do, but that is why I have a business partner that likes to get thigs done.
I saw this topic on a TV today, was the quote of the day. I was thinking about it for a while and it is so true. So many people come up with one idea and they focus on that way too long. And for most people that idea is to work for some big company. Once in they are in that job the company gives them a ladder that they start to climb…. work two years then get a bit more power and a bit more money, then do it all over again. It is just enough to keep people doing it yet never enough to let them do anything else. This works great for the people who own the company.
I saw this topic on a TV today, was the quote of the day. I was thinking about it for a while and it is so true. So many people come up with one idea and they focus on that way too long. And for most people that idea is to work for some big company. Once in they are in that job the company gives them a ladder that they start to climb…. work two years then get a bit more power and a bit more money, then do it all over again. It is just enough to keep people doing it yet never enough to let them do anything else. This works great for the people who own the company.
