πHow I got my first win β and the blueprint you can steal
The first month I could cover my bills with online money came after a moment of total defeat. Iβd been spinning my tires for months, landing a few piecemeal clients on upwork - my outreach efforts were totally wasted. I'd signed exactly ZERO people through cold email, and couldn't close anyone in "my niche" to save my life. Money still going out, nothing coming in ... completely stalled, feeling defeated. I needed to change or quit β so I came up with a plan. I stopped trying to convince strangers. I took a step back, a deep breath, and I came up with a solution to a problem that I PERSONALLY would pay to have solved, and selling it to people who already trusted that I get it. Context! I was deep in the remote music producer world and T H E problem we all had was consistent clients, not just word-of-mouth. So I solved that problem! I took my new AI skills and scraped Bandcamp / IG / X and built lead lists of bands giving ready-to-work signals: - posting about writing - teasing a new song - βheaded to the studioβ - hiring / looking for help / asking for recs Then I sold those lists to producers I already knew in Discord communitiesβ¦ because it was literally the only thing we all talked about. That month I sold 11 lists at $500 USD each. It saved people a full day (or more) of deep research, and it fit the budget/value. TL;DR (at the end haha) - start with a problem you actually understand - sell to people who already live in that problem - package one pain into one deliverable - build the snowball, and donβt compare your level 1 to someoneβs level 9 If youβre stuck, donβt start with βan offer.β Start with a pain you understand. π€Whatβs ONE problem youβd pay someone else to solve for you right now? In my case, it was: βFind bands that are ready to work.β Whatβs your version of that? Drop it below. Iβll reply with 2β3 ways you could package that!