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Let's talk about an offer, idea, or thing that flopped in our business...
I went through a phase of 'I need momentum and I'm a little desperate' (we've all been there ๐Ÿ˜‚) and decided to create a low-cost email membership. $7 a month. Each week I'd send an email with a topic, collect questions from members, then reply to everyone in one email so the whole group got the benefit of the answers. Sounds okay in theory, right? I knew something was wrong the moment I set it up. The first signup notification came through โ€” and I felt genuinely sick. Like, oh no, what have I done. Fortunately it was my own test email. Not a real signup. ๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿคฃ The lesson: I didn't have the capacity for it. I was still in my 9-to-5, building on the side, and I'd created something that would require consistent weekly output I couldn't sustain. I'd confused 'having an idea' with 'having the bandwidth to execute it.' Now I ask myself before creating anything new: do I have the time and energy to actually deliver this for 60 days? If not, it goes in the "parking lot". Your turn ๐Ÿ‘‡ What's something that flopped in your business โ€” offer, idea, system, anything? Drop it below. No judgment here, only learning.
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@Niky Egerton Where do I begin? Lol. So many (bad) offers have come and gone for me. The biggest mistake I made was thinking I could "figure out" what the best offer was instead of talking to my target audience.
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@Niky Egerton Yeah, absolutely. It also comes from my background in education where we are given content and need to think about how we can deliver content to our students. Whereas in business, we start with the problem and build the solution to solve that specific problem. Took me a while to get my head around this!
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