Tag: Geriatric Entrepreneur
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Using social media to promote your content.
While social media is a relationship-building tool, it can be used to promote content. Using social media to promote your content is all about finding the right balance between self-promotion, sharing useful information, and entertainment. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat are all great mediums to both create and share relevant content. The key is…
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Become a thought leader; Be Original
A resource for folks considering a post-retirement career To become a thought leader you must be original by creating high-quality content. To do this you’ll need: Goals for your research A process for sampling and analyzing your data Questions A process for managing the project It’s important to figure out how much time and resources…
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Build the house you want to live in
Advice for folks starting a second career as a solo entrepreneur Define your values early and often. Values are not generic two-word commandments that state the obvious. They should codify what you believe in place where everyone can see them and everyone can suggest changes. Values should be an oral tradition. They should tell your…
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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Advice from Sahil Lavingia’s book The Minimalist Entrepreneur At this stage of our business cycle, you are profitable and growing organically. Maybe this is the end game for you, you are earning a nice living for you and your family. But many entrepreneurs want to continue to see their businesses grow. And to stand still…
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From e-mails and communities to profitability.
Make email the backbone of your marketing – maintain control. Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook can take away your business at any time by changing the algorithms, shutting down your account, or making you pay to turn up. Social media is a great place to gain distribution you are building on rented land. Once you…
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Marketing? Just be you!
More ideas from Sahil Lavingia’s book. The Minimalist Entrepreneur. Selling to strangers is hard, it’s much easier if you have a connection with your potential client. In this post you will learn what Sahil Lavingia tells us on developing your audience. Congratulations, by following steps outlined in last week’s blogs which were part manifesto and…
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Getting Ready for Launch – Your first 100 Customers
Constraints lead to Creativity. More lessons on how to be a minimalist entrepreneur If you are a minimalist entrepreneur the early stages of launching your business is all about constraints. You need to focus on doing one thing well and avoiding the temptation to try to do everything at once. Scope creep where a project…
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Don’t let self-doubt set in; build as little as possible.
More lessons from Sahil Lavingia The Minimalist Entrepreneur. Writers are told, “Write what you know” for entrepreneurs it’s not quite that simple. When you are starting a business you are imaging something that has not been done before, or at least not in the way you are contemplating your business vision. This applies even if…
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Start Building your business with Community
Lessons from Sahil Lavinga, The Minimalist Entrepreneur Sahil Lavinga tells us a story about entrepreneur Sol Orwell who, in 2009, was overweight and unhappy. He decided he needed to learn more about fitness and nutrition. He joined a Reddit community and the more he learned about the subject, the more he shared, he answered questions…
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Are you a Minimalist Entrepreneur?
Introduction: Sahil Lavingia started his career chasing unicorns. He joined Pinterest as employee number two but left before his stock invested to build his own billion company: Gumroad. A tool to help creators sell their products online. Simplicity was key, no complicated setup, no elaborate storefront. Just a link for customers to pay and you…