The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future



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The 100 Startup Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau (z-lib.org).epub

Become Your Own Publisher
Follow these steps to enter the information publishing business. Each step
can be made more complicated, but they all relate to this basic outline.
1. Find a topic that people will pay to learn about. It helps if you are an
expert in the topic, but if not, that’s what research is for.
2. Capture the information in one of three ways:
a. Write it down.
b. Record audio or video.
c. Produce some combination of a and b.
3. Combine your materials into a product: an e-book or digital package
that can be downloaded by buyers.
4.  Create  an  offer.  What  exactly  are  you  selling,  and  why  should
people take action on it? Learn more about offers in 
Chapter 7
.


5.  Decide  on  a  fair,  value-based  price  for  your  offer.  For  pricing
guidelines, see 
Chapters 10
 and 
11
.
6. Find a way to get paid. 
PayPal.com
 is the most ubiquitous method,
with  the  ability  to  accept  payment  from  users  in  more  than  180
countries. Other options are available if you want more flexibility.
*
7. Publish the offer and get the word out. For an overview of hustling,
see 
Chapter 9
.
8.  Cash  in  and  head  to  the  beach!  (This  step  may  require  further
effort.)
 
*
You  can  find  a  review  of  several  different  payment  options  in  the
online resources at 
100startup.com
.
 
Alas,  like  any  trend  or  business  model,  not  every  story  of  independent
publishing  is  a  success.  Many  aspiring  publishers  operate  on  an  “if  you
build it, they will come” model. Later in the book, we’ll rename it the “if
you build it, they might come” model—sometimes it works, but many times
it  doesn’t,  and  there’s  no  guarantee  of  instant  riches.  For  every  online
course that becomes a Mondo Beyondo-size success, many others flounder
on  with  five  participants.  For  every  $120,000  e-book  like  Brett’s,  many
others sell two copies (one to the writer’s grandmother and one to a friend
of the family) before fizzling out.
Some of the failures relate to unrealistic expectations. Put simply, some
people  want  the  sun  and  the  fun  (or  the  $300  a  day)  without  the  work.
Partly  as  a  result  of  the  allure  of  working  from  anywhere,  many  aspiring
entrepreneurs  focus  much  more  on  the  “anywhere”  part  than  they  do  the
“work” part. Since the work part is what sustains everything else, it’s better
to focus on it from the beginning. After all, the best thing about a location-
independent  business  is  possibility.  The  fact  that  you  can  head  off  to
Argentina  or  Thailand  on  a  whim  doesn’t  necessarily  mean  that  you
actually will.
The  classic  image  of  a  roaming  entrepreneur  usually  involves  a  guy  or
girl sitting on the beach in a swimsuit, drink nearby, with a laptop propped
up against the backdrop of a sunset. My limited attempts at replicating such
a scene usually involve worrying about the laptop (Will it get stolen? Will I


get sand in the keyboard?) and straining to see the screen against the glare
of  the  sun.  Furthermore,  most  beaches  in  tropical  locales  do  not  provide
WiFi access, and for that matter, plenty of other places don’t either—so if
you’re going to operate your business on the road, you’ll need to learn to
think about your business as much as you think about being on the road.
It’s just like following your passion to the bank: Some people prefer to
keep  their  passion  on  the  side,  and  some  people  prefer  not  to  mix  their
vacations  with  their  work.  Even  entrepreneurs  like  Brandon  Pearce  who
have carefully built a high-income, hands-free business that allows them to
work minimal hours do that only after the business has been established. In
the beginning, there’s usually a fair amount of fumbling and a large number
of hours spent working on projects that may or may not succeed.
But hey, that’s enough of a reality check. There’s no doubt that thousands
of people have established successful businesses on this model, especially
over the last decade. Why not follow in their path, charting your own course
along the way?
When I last talked with Brandon, he was still doing extremely well (up to
$30,000 a month in our most recent conversation). He was now branching
out into new areas in Costa Rica and beyond, even thinking about buying
shares in a local farm. Perhaps the farm won’t be as profitable as the online
project,  but  that’s  OK—month  after  month,  the  income  from  the  music
software will continue to roll in. Brandon and his family have established
complete freedom and the ability to make a new life wherever it leads them.
Every day is an adventure.

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