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


Partly to his surprise, he received two orders. The cost of the ad was just



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Partly to his surprise, he received two orders. The cost of the ad was just
$300,  so  that  represented  a  $1,500  profit  if  he  could  actually  create  the
guide. He wrote to the two buyers and said he was developing a new and


improved “2.0 version” of the guide and would love to send it to them at no
additional charge as long as they could wait thirty days for it to be finished.
Of course, he offered to refund their money if they didn’t want to wait,
but  both  buyers  chose  to  wait  for  the  2.0  version.  He  then  spent  the  next
month frantically writing the guide before sending it to the eagerly waiting
customers. Since he knew he had a success on his hands (and it helped that
he actually had a product now), he placed another ad and sold ten more over
the next few months.
Maybe you won’t do it that way, but make sure there is sufficient demand
for your product or service before spending your whole life working on it.
That’s why it’s so important to get started as quickly as possible and why
the first sale can be so empowering.
RESPOND  TO  INITIAL  RESULTS
. After an initial success, regroup and decide
what needs to be done next. Jen and Omar responded to demand by adding
more maps and carefully creating new products. One year in, they made the
decision to stop doing their own fulfillment. “Going to the post office was
fun when we were first getting started,” Jen said. “But then we had to do it
three to five times a week, and it got old.” They decided to subcontract their
shipping to a local warehouse and ended up saving several hours a week.
Decisions  like  these  may  sound  like  a  no-brainer  (Why  should  two
designers  spend  their  time  making  post  office  runs?),  but  implementing
them can take a lot of work. In Jen and Omar’s case, it wasn’t just a matter
of hiring the local warehouse to do their shipping; they also had to complete
the daunting task of syncing their online shopping cart with the fulfillment
house.
Finally, it’s good to pay attention to what created the initial success even
if it seems accidental or coincidental. In Jen and Omar’s case, it may have
been  a  fluke  the  first  time  they  were  featured  on  a  major  design  site,  but
what if they could make that happen again? It did happen again, over and
over,  because  they  built  relationships  and  pitched  their  new  projects  in  a
low-key, commonsense manner. This is a process we’ll look at more in the
next section of the book.
In a microbusiness built on low costs and quick action, you don’t need to
do much formal planning. Mostly, you need the elements we’ve discussed
throughout the book: a product or service, a group of customers, and a way


to get paid. Check out the One-Page Business Plan template on 
this page
 for
a helpful tool.

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