Sunday Stand Up! Who's hustlin' today?

Epic
Launch https://repobox.io to the early access list with full NPM and Composer support

Yesterday

• Worked on squashing bugs
• Wrote a command line interface tool for a customer for their customers that makes the integration completely transparent.

Today

• Dealing with the first customer cancellation ( full story )
• Moving to the next customers in the early access list
• Looking at potential enterprise offerings, though trying not to get distracted

Shout Outs
@jpusateri - For making and spending time with others outside of the stuff we're working on, and for reaching out and doing more customer development and onboarding! Cheers.

By end of August, I'll have proven whether my online course was a one hit wonder or is a source of recurring revenue.

EPIC
Launch evergreen course and sales funnel, earning 5K in revenues. [$699 of $5,000]

BREAKDOWN

• Week 1: Complete scripts. [5 of 5 scripts completed.]
• Week 2: Complete email funnel. [8 of 8 scripts completed.]
• Week 3: Complete website. Set up webinar. Launch FB ads.
• Week 4: Launch webinar. Set up premium courses. Respond to queries.

YESTERDAY

• Reach out to sign ups who failed to confirm their email.
• Purchase mic.
• Reserve venue for webinar.
• Revise remaining emails in sequence according to Plan B.
• Start slide deck for free webinar.
• Choose webinar platform.

TODAY

• Reach out to sign ups who failed to confirm their email.
• Resend broadcast to unopens.
• Finish slide deck for free webinar.
• Set up webinar.
• Finish blog post re creating a logo.

KUDOS

@helengriffinjr for embracing her MVP and going after it!

Epic:

• Launch AutomatedAPI and contact 200 people

DONE

• some documentation and improved api docs
• linked docs and blog to main page
• fixed a bug on account management
• deliberately spent time with people I like
• reached out to 40 people

DOING

• planning blogs
• reach out to 40 more people
• continue work on roadmap and task creation for next bits of code

WIP
AutomatedAPI.com

EPIC:
Speak publicly about LocalChef

YESTERDAY:
I wrote the first blog post for LocalChef.pro . I challenged myself with a full guide on how to start a food truck in France. This ended up in a ~2500 words post.

TODAY:

• Contact my UX/UI friend to know if she could do an illustration for one of the page of the website.
• Contact two friends entrepreneur about the launch of LocalChef.pro to have their feedback
• Starting a new blog post on how to buy a used food truck.

WIP:
Make more stable LocalChef website, and focus on the SEO part.

KUDOS:
@jpusateri for having done most of the tasks he planned to do!

Epic
Currently building our billing and pricing components of downping.com. Got some great interest with our MVP, now working on getting our first paying customers.

Yesterday
Finished a lot of design work and setting up SSL. Working on increasing our perceived trust and reliability.

Today
We reached 75 users today. Going to focus on building out Stripe integration now and work toward getting our first paying customer.

Progess

• Week 1: Build out Downping MVP
• Week 2: Design, style, and improve UX
• Week 3: Implement pricing and billing features

EPIC: Build the product

Yesterday: Started working on the prototype for the backend

Today: Get the backend prototype more functional

EPIC

1. 2019
   • $6400 EOY - Nov & Dec excluded
2. Aug
   • 1st Pilot Customer
   • $1600 in Revenue
3. Objective
   • Double down on the sales problem to understand the customers better it.
   • Then make/test a quick MVP solution.

YESTERDAY

• Edit contract.
• Ship MVP aka send contract to prospect.
• Schedule a customer interview.
• PT job

TODAY

• Draft my customer interview request for various communities.
• More updating customer problems doc.
• Assess and prioritize my next action
• PT job

BREAKDOWN
WEEK 1:

1. Set my Aug KPIs. Pick my primary & secondary metrics.
2. Define a practical non-tech MVP solution to test w/ prospect.
3. Do lead generation to prepare for week 2.

WEEK 2

1. Do cold calls and emails.
2. Revised landing page copy.
3. Ship: updated website.
4. Lead generation.
5. Nurture folks in my pipeline.

WEEK 3:

1. Daily outreach (warm emails).
2. Review & Documentation (customer problems, docs & progress w/ customers-CRM).
3. Revised & center my value proposition and message on the problem. done week 4
4. Get feedback on MVP (aka me, myself and I) potential value.
5. Iterate my pitch, emails, and call scripts.

WEEK 4:

1. Daily outreach (warm/cold calls/emails).
2. Follow up w/ folks in my pipeline.
3. Iterate my MVP: value proposition, emails, and contract from feedback & objections.
4. Ship again..
5. Assess & document customer behavior, data, and feedback. in progress

WEEK 5:
TBA

• Revised sell sheet.
• Iterate my MVP: website. in progress

WIP: Envoy

KUDOS
@flog for fixing account dashboard bugs
@jimmylipham get that insight from that cancelation... that info is GOLDEN! On nurturing customers both coming, staying, and leaving. Congrats you're a business now ;-)
@jpusateri on getting in those conversations w/ customers.

SIDE NOTE
Today is I'll most likely reflect and relax so that I'll be ready to close out Aug on a high note. Wish me luck!