What I wish I was had been told when starting on my entrepreneurial journey

It took me 17 years of trying before I made a product that generated 7-figures.

I wrote a letter to my just-starting-out self, outlining what I wish I had been told at that time.

Here's an excerpt:

Try to get one stranger’s email address online.

Then try to generate $1 online.

If that thing that generates $1 feels like it has legs, keep going with it.

If not, try to come up with something to make $100. And keep going from there.

You know you can create products, so start getting used to trying to exchange it for money. But start small, it’ll help you move faster, and force you to spend less time on the product before trying to get it in front of people.

If you aren’t sure what to make, you could:

• Look on sites like Fivver, and see what jobs people are looking to get done, and see if you can automate any of them

• Create a PDF of something you know about and put in on a site like Gumroad

• Create a PDF compiling information about, well, anything and put in on a site like Gumroad

• Find a Chrome extension that has a good number of installs, but low ratings, and see if you can make a better one

• Find a useful script you’ve written and offer it in exchange for an email address

• Offer to make a friend a website, and note any time you’re having a hard time getting it to do what you want. How can you simplify that for others?

There are endless ways to approach this, the point is to just thing small, don’t overthink it, and keep trying things.

You’ll learn so much and you’ll gathering momentum and it’ll build. Eventually you’ll realize how far you’ve come!

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