šHow I got my first win ā and the blueprint you can steal
The first month I could cover my bills with online money came after a moment of total defeat. Iād 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 ā 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 - āheaded to the studioā - hiring / looking for help / asking for recs Then I sold those lists to producers I already knew in Discord communities⦠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 donāt compare your level 1 to someoneās level 9 If youāre stuck, donāt start with āan offer.ā Start with a pain you understand. š¤Whatās ONE problem youād pay someone else to solve for you right now? In my case, it was: āFind bands that are ready to work.ā Whatās your version of that? Drop it below. Iāll reply with 2ā3 ways you could package that!