🧵🛠️ DAY 1- CHOOSE YOUR INDUSTRY (AND HOW THIS PICTURE CHANGED MY LIFE)
If you’re new here, this is DAY 1 of a 27 DAY series where you peek over my shoulder and watch me build a business from scratch.
Let's get to it! 🧵🛠️
Here’s Day Zero from yesterday so you can get caught up.
SUMMARY: In the next 27 days I’m going to build a business from scratch and let you peek over my shoulder in real time.
Step into a slim Jim and let's get started...
10 years ago I wrote a 27 day case study where I let people watch me build a business from scratch.
That case-study led to hundreds of people building multi-million dollar companies.
Let’s do it again!
27 Days of Threads of me starting a business in real time!
Day zero👇🏾
So if you’re in all the business FB groups.
You’ve bought 7 Udemy courses
You've read every startup book
You’re on every email list
Your timeline is endless Gary V videos…
And yet...nothing?
We can change that in the next month!
TODAY WE CHOOSE OUR INDUSTRY!
Since we’re doing this in real time, at the end of this thread you can vote on what industry I get into and I’ll do whatever you choose.
Ok, just 30 seconds for my backstory.
30 seconds I promise, super quick!!!
So I used to be an accountant working in the DC area.
Actual picture of my old office building, if you recognize it, hit me in the dms.
I hated my job and started googling and trying new projects while still at my job.
I tried dating sites, advertising networks, consulting side projects, you name it.
Nothing worked.
My friends looking at me every time I had a new business idea...😂
In 9 months after trying and tweaking the model, I got up to $40k a month while at my job and finally decided to quit (After hanging on scared for a couple extra months 😂) .
This is when I quit my job. Peep the date.
That was my last job ever!
So this step requires removing all emotion.
We’re here to put up numbers.
So we can't worry about passion, or if it fulfills some childhood dream, or get ourselves caught up with stroking our egos or anything attached to fuzzy feelings...
So instead of some sexy "business idea", we're going to build a <What are people already spending a shit ton of money on> business.
Might be boring and unsexy, but that’s where we go.
Practical, real world things that people buy. A lot!
Alright so you got a couple of good prospects but cant’ decide what to go after, I came up with this random point system. This bad boy works for me.
Closest to 100 wins.
So for industry I’m going to narrow it down to local services like Shoemoney did.
Why? Because it just freaking works.
It fits all of our criteria. Plus I can get started from my laptop, never see anyone face to face, and apply e-commerce techniques and win!
As long as what you come up with matches our resources we’re on our way.
We’re not going to spend two years begging people to invest in our dream when there’s a gazillion companies we can start for less than $1,000.
And that’s what we’re going to do.
And remember, we’ve already removed the “is it a good idea” risk out of the equation as well.
So all we are left with is execution.
Execution.
Execution.
Execution.
Ohh boy this is where the magic begins...
Based on your vote, tomorrow we're going to choose a domain, and get cracking.
I'll lay everything out for you in real time and let you give your inputs every day as well.
I got to do all the work, so this should be fun...
What to do now? 3 Steps.
1. Scroll up and vote on the poll.
2. Retweet the damn thread, it takes two seconds yo!
3. Proceed to step 2 ^ if you missed it.
Oh and finally...
🧵🛠️ DAY 2- THE BUSINESS MODEL AND LET'S CHOOSE OUR CITY
If you’re new here, this is DAY 2 of a 27 DAY series where you peek over my shoulder and watch me build a business from scratch.
Let's get to choosing our city! 🧵🛠️