Rags to Bitches - Journey to escape the 9 to 5.

This is bad advice.

Businesses are not lottery tickets where you have a probability of striking gold, and by increasing your tickets you'll increase your odds.

A successful business (one that is profitable and consistent) requires time and energy to create.

In recent years every business I've created is one that was seriously thought out, and spent months (or years) of hard work and dedication before releasing. And when it released it was successful because I took the time to do everything the right way.

This was a departure to how I did things in the past, where every month a new project was being worked on. Nothing was done the right way, and it certainly gave the illusion that I just needed to try more things before I lucked on something that worked. But in reality they were just half-assed projects that might've succeeded had they had my full attention.

Have an attack plan, execute 100% on that plan, and avoid shiny object syndrome.
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Was your first ever business successful?
 


OP: Try your best, it may work, nobody knows, I'm not saying your idea is shit just do it.

My 'friends' used to say all my ideas were shit and it's pretty depressing.

Just try different avenues of promotion. Plans of attack. Increase chances of winning.

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There's this program called dragons den over here where multimillionaires invest into ideas they think will work. Well some guy went on and pitched his idea. They were all extremely rude and told him it was utter crap and he'd never make any money from it and basically laughed at him.

Funny thing, 2 years later the guy didn't give up and it's a multi million pound company! Those people are now extremely gutted.
 
Good luck, its going to be dam hard.

Also 1 month is enough for a simplistic plugin/theme even if you don't know how to code. The internet is packed with guides and walkthroughs. I made a pretty sexy WordPress theme packed with options and all I knew was html + css, zero php skills and I couldn't even code in any other language.
 
Day 3

Thanksgiving breaks over and I'm back at college.

I'm going to UCSB, so the weather and people are pretty awesome. Can't say I'm too thrilled about going back to class... gonna keep on skipping the unimportant/uninteresting ones. :2drinkspit:

Devoted most of my time today to programming and writing a mock sales page.

The plugin I'm writing is going to be released as a Warrior Forum Special Offer - $9.95 type thing with future upsells. I know you guys hate on WAFO, but it's probably the best market for the plugin I'm going to be selling.

Tomorrow, I'm going to keep tuning up the sales letter and plugin. Can't say I have an ETA right now, but hopefully I'll be able to bring it to market within the next week and a half.

Keep calm, carry on...:jester:
 
Your original idea sounds kine of like content revenge plugin that's sold on wafo already... Make sure you do proper research and don't release a plugin with the same features as one already released unless you can do it better and have the support base for a solid launch on Wafo. ;)

Good luck.
 
You can never aim too high, but you can set unrealistic deadlines for hitting those goals.

I have a concerns with your approach, take it or leave it;

-You don't seem to have a plan, you're almost just "winging it". Sun Tsu says every war is won before it is ever fought -in business that means that your success hinges largely on everything you do BEFORE you ever even launch. Your plan of execution -market and product research, market entry and marketing plans, etc. Your strategy seems to throw plugins at the world until one sticks. That's not a strategy... You need flexibility and adaptability for success, but you need to have a basic framework to do that within if you want to get off the ground.

-I didn't see a single mention about market research here or customer needs -you're throwing out a bunch of random plugin ideas (BTW, BAD idea. If I saw a good one and I wanted to I could have my team build it in a week flat and you would have just sold out your chances. A Thousand other members could do the same. It's like telling a bunch of treasure hunters where all the treasure is.) and hoping that one of them is a good idea. Now THAT's a bad idea.

You don't find good product ideas brainstorming on a forum for a night. I've wasted months in the past creating products that nobody fucking wanted. Infact my first one cost me about $3000 in cash and half a year in time only to turn out a huge bomb. Why? Because nobody wanted it and I never bothered to figure that out.

Stop thinking about you want and start really figuring out what the market want. It usually doesn't happen when you try to do it overnight with the purpose of making 100k in 3 months.
 
^^Sound advice Phillip.

I'm going to close this journal for the time being.

My expectations of how easy it would be to make money with Wordpress were naively optimistic. I did not realize that the market is saturated, prices are too low, and nobody really gives a shit about your crappy plugin.

I'm going to take some time off and just focus on programming. Ruby, Flask, Node... haven't decided yet. Just keep on increasing my abilities until I can actually build something worthy of being built. 6 - 12 months of learning a new language is infinitely more valuable than chasing the few grand I could make from WP.

Hope you guys enjoy the holidays... I'm out.
 
Nutella said:
^^Sound advice Phillip.

I'm going to close this journal for the time being.

My expectations of how easy it would be to make money with Wordpress were naively optimistic. I did not realize that the market is saturated, prices are too low, and nobody really gives a shit about your crappy plugin.

I'm going to take some time off and just focus on programming. Ruby, Flask, Node... haven't decided yet. Just keep on increasing my abilities until I can actually build something worthy of being built. 6 - 12 months of learning a new language is infinitely more valuable than chasing the few grand I could make from WP.

Hope you guys enjoy the holidays... I'm out.
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Errr, you just made the biggest mistake you could have made. Launch it. Learn. Will you make your $100k? Likely not. But IF YOU TREAT it like you really can make that $100k, you might actually do it and if not, you will learn what you need to learn to make the $100k on your next business venture.

GET ACTIVE. STOP SITTING ON THE SIDE LINES WISHING!
 
Nutella said:
My expectations of how easy it would be to make money with Wordpress were naively optimistic.

... I'm out.
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... aaaaand there is your problem. Not willing to work, hustle, get shit done.
That only took 4 days.

lol.
 
Nutella said:
^^Sound advice Phillip.

I'm going to close this journal for the time being.

My expectations of how easy it would be to make money with Wordpress were naively optimistic. I did not realize that the market is saturated, prices are too low, and nobody really gives a shit about your crappy plugin.

I'm going to take some time off and just focus on programming. Ruby, Flask, Node... haven't decided yet. Just keep on increasing my abilities until I can actually build something worthy of being built. 6 - 12 months of learning a new language is infinitely more valuable than chasing the few grand I could make from WP.

Hope you guys enjoy the holidays... I'm out.
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WTF !!!!!, shortest journal I've ever read......
 
Nutella said:
... Just keep on increasing my abilities until I can actually build something worthy of being built. 6 - 12 months of learning a new language is infinitely more valuable than chasing the few grand I could make from WP...
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Dude. Wake up.
 
I'm not sure giving up is the best idea. Carry on, fail and try again. Learn from your failure.


But either way, I wish you luck.
 
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