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2michaeltaylor
6y ago
weirdly zip recruiter is still hiring
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Overcoming My Insecurities to Make $600/mo in Truly Passive Income
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Growing a Social Proof Marketing Platform to $88k/mo in Revenue
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10y ago
Just updated the post to make credit explicit.
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2michaeltaylor
10y ago
Just removed this. It wasn't getting many shares anyway. Sorry for the inconvenience!
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10y ago
^^ super useful feedback, thanks for taking the time to explain and get more specific. Generally, most people do NO (or very little) research, testing or thinking about their business idea before investing significant resources into it. My
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2michaeltaylor
10y ago
Good question! Lots of people don't know what we do from our site, but it's actually working pretty well at the minute; our conversion rate is 19% for that page! We've been trying to improve the copy but we haven't been
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10y ago
LOL. Well they already had jobs where they could work on their idea. It's funny though he did kind of start lean and build up: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/History_of_Pok%C3%A9m...
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10y ago
Thanks! Yeah I agree; I'd still be happy if I never made the next Snapchat. I'd rather make little fun businesses that make money and can grow without too much insanity.
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10y ago
We just started by solving our own problems as a marketing agency. Eventually we found one that enough other people had (through this testing process).
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10y ago
Hey - author here. Fair point, all credit goes to the various 'lean' books; Lean Startup, Running Lean, 4 Steps to the Epiphany and Lean Analytics all come to mind when I think what inspired this. I didn't mention as I didn&#
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10y ago
Thanks for reading / commenting on the post. Just wanted to say I massively agree with you; it's exactly how we got started, and could afford to test these various business ideas and our agency business is what funds our tech. Eve
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10y ago
Haha I'm sorry if it came across as 'culty'. I'll check out the video thanks for sharing.
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10y ago
Makes sense. Pretty big change conceptually so jotted it down for our next co-founders meeting.
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10y ago
That's a very valid point. One for the lawyers. Anyone have good advice on this front? Happy to add to post.
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10y ago
Cynicism is definitely healthy. * Very fair point, just added to our Asana. * Client's money. We've spent about $20k of our money over the past six months or so. I would argue we're even more on the hook when it's someon
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10y ago
Hey, author and one of the co-founders here, michael taylor. Thanks for checking us out and taking the time to comment! We definitely are standing on shoulders of giants here; I sleep with Lean Startup under my pillow. We just saw this blow