5 Books Helped Me Launch
The Five Books
Here are 5 books that helped me launch Better Sheets. And now I'm a Google Sheet guru, selling Google Sheet Tools, Templates, and Tutorials.
📚 Launch by Jeff Walker
📚 Lost & Founder by Rand Fishkin
📚 E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber
📚 Discipline is Destiny by Ryan Holiday
📚 Competing Against Luck by Clayton Christensen
Launch by Jeff Walker
Launch helped me create a workshop along with my members. Didn't need to figure it all out before I launched. I just had to ask.
Lost & Founder by Rand Fishkin
Lost & Founder helped me with my mindset around being my own business. It's a hard journey and this book helped just ease the ups and downs. It was like Rand was holding my hand the whole time.
E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber
E-Myth Revisited helped me understand the simple process of creating SOPs, Standard Operating Procedures. In the end it's a simple concept: write down what you do so that others can do it. But it's a mind-fuck if you're reguarly doing things you think nobody else can do.
Discipline is Destiny by Ryan Holiday
Discipline is Destiny helped me figure out how to be consistent. Instead of forcing myself to be consistent through sheer will power, I realized I needed to find a sustainable way of working with what I have. It's not about how many resources you have but how resourceful you are with what you have.
Competing Against Luck by Clayton Christensen
Competing Against Luck helped empower me to think about my customers, my traffic channels, and ultimately my entire business offer differently. I didn't have to go out and find more information. It literally gave me another perspective on the information I already had.
More here: https://blog.bettersheets.co/5-books-to-launch-a-business/
Thank you for the cool suggestions! I encountered mentions of Clayton Christensen and Michael Gerber books before, so I guess it's a sign and a reminder to read them.
thanks for sharing these books
Your right i will read these books.
What led you to the idea of selling Google Sheets etc. for money?
It was actually after I was selling tutorials. I realized that to make tutorials about sheets that could sell, I had to sell sheet templates. Templates to this day, and selling individual sheets make up a small percentage of my total revenue. But it's a non-zero percentage.
And I realized too, that by selling templates I was leaving a lot of value on the table. Selling individual sheets led me to build more robust tools, and sell those. Tools in sheets, and tools for sheets.
That's really cool actually - sounds like you've put in a tonne of work. Thanks for taking the time to respond.