The right cold email can change your life.
But 99% of them never get answered.
Here are 17 free/affordable software tools that’ll make you impossible to ignore:
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Starting your first business:
- Spend a month picking a name
- Spend a month designing a logo
- Spend a month waiting for LLC filing
- Spend 6 months on the product
Starting your fifth business:
- Build an MVP
- Slap a logo on it
- Start selling ASAP
Speed pays.
Business is basically just:
1. Find a way to improve people's lives
2. Build something that makes it happen
3. Create a decent sales pitch for it
4. Put that pitch in front of people
Don't overthink it.
Start at the top and work your way down.
One metric to inflation in New York City was called the Pizza Principle.
Financial researchers found a nearly perfect correlation.
From 1930s-1970s the growth was nearly flat.
Inflation grew rapidly.
Now rapid food inflation has disconnected the correlation.
If you're trying to sell something to a specific industry it should be a given that you will be reaching out to every single company in that industry
Operating with the "I just need 4 clients" frame ensures you stay at $0
You need to be the best
Everything you need to build a $20k/mo business:
1. One profitable skill
2. One productized offer
3. One outreach method
4. The discipline to show up every day
Nothing fancy required.
Just basic skills, a basic plan, and hard work.
1. Find a profitable business
2. Find what people hate about it
3. Build a similar solution
4. Fix the things they hate
5. Now you have a profitable business
It really is that simple.
You know there will be another bull. Probably the big one.
You know the builders and project owners and developers will make billions.
Yet your not trying to be one?
Sir?...The fuck?
$0-10k a month:
- Skills
- Outreach
- Persistence
- Offer building
$10k-100k a month:
- Hiring
- Systems
$100k a month and beyond:
- Mindset
- Network
- Positioning
Go up one level at a time.