Going on a solo-adventure has many upsides. Full flexbility. No one to account to. Moving quickly. But, there are certain risks. Imagine you are hiking on your own. 🚶🏾♂️ The colourful mountains are illuminated by the sun. The wind breeze is seemingly playing music on your clothes. 🌄 You feel fully energized about going some extra miles and run up the hill and simply just do as you please. Amazing....
Note: The review is regarding part of my work and only displays a look into a facet of a project and does not include all income/revenue I generate Overview It’s kind of strange. I’ve read a dozen times that things do not go as expected whilst starting a business. But now, that things really went different from my goals and plans it feels kind of weird. So, “bad” news first"...
“Just start a service business”. Sounds pretty easy, right? Wrong. Going from a product-focused to a service-based business is more challenging than I expected. Here is why: I do not have an established network in the field I am diving into. I made two switches at once. From: Type of work: Full-time employee Field of work: Marketing To: Type of work: Self-Employed Field of work: Team Building Although I read about making a double switch not being recommendable I just went on and did it....
“ Giving people more control over what they do and how they do it increases their happiness, engagement, and sense of fulfillment. ” — Cal Newport
Note: The review is regarding part of my work and only displays a look into a facet of a project and does not include all income/revenue I generate Greetings friend from the WWW, as mentioned in my earlier post I am going to publish my progress on a monthly basis. Progress is currently slow, but steady. Paid Media Experiment The Google Ads Campaign has brought traffic and one person booked an appointment via the website calendar....
I get it. You want a good product. Yet, I have to launch early. And fast. Like really, really, really fast. “If You’re Not Embarrassed By The First Version Of Your Product, You’ve Launched Too Late” — Reid Hoffman Fast means accepting imperfection. This is why I decided to soft-launch Remote ’n Active - List on a Sub-Reddit yesterday. And talk to people from my target audience. And send it to a couple of friends....
As I’ve been seeing very low conversions on remotenactive.com I decided to post on IndieHackers.com in the Group “Landing Page Feedback”. I then got a reply from Jonathan Lee, who runs pagereview.io. He created a pagereview feedback page for me with really valuable feedback I must say, I think this is really cool. If I had a team, or more people working on the product/site, I would definitely give it a shot as it makes design critique really easy....
Yesterday, on 14.06.2021 I got to the post of the day with 125 upvotes. Link to the post Here is how I created the post. Topic It’s not always easy to come up with topics to write about. I have been experimenting with different kinds of posts on LinkedIn and noticed one of my posts had a pretty high engagement. Here are the LinkedIn stats on my post about my learnings about attending the Y Combinator Free Startup School....
Ich habe die letzten 6 wochen in der Öffentlich gearbeitet und habe über meine bisherige Erfahrung nachgedacht. Ich bin zu folgenden Ergebnissen gekommen: Ich werde meine Ziele nur noch auf monatlicher, nicht wöchentlicher Basis veröffentlichen Ich werde alle weiteren Artikel auf dieser Seite auf english erstellen, Deutsch nur auf Nachfrage. Falls du etwas mal nicht verstehst, melde dich einfach bei mir Dadurch erhöhe ich meine öffentliche Produktivität und vereinfache die Workflows, da die Übersetzungen doch viel Zeit in Anspruch nehmen
I’ve been working out in public for nearly 6 weeks and have reflected on my learnings. Going on forward I will continue with these changes: Tracking my goals on a monthly, not weekly basis (weekly internally) Keeping my articles in english, german translation only on requests This will improve my public productivity and help me improve content creation, as certain work flows took up more time than expected (e.g. translating idioms into german or vice versa)....