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In today’s Q&A, we are helping Steve discover the right path for his online business and how to make that compelling enough to convince his wife it’s possible.
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SHANE: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast, where life always comes before work. We are your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. Join us each week as we teach you how to flip you lifestyle upside down by selling stuff online. Are you ready for something different? Alright. Let’s get started.
What is going on guys? Welcome back to another Q and A with S and J mini podcast. Our question today comes from Steven and he writes in via email. He says: I really want to get started on online business. I have a lot of interests but I am not sure if they would make a good online business. I am trying to figure out whether I have ideas for an eBook or have the writing skill to get the reader even interested in my product. I would also like to really convince my wife this digital product idea can work. What advice would you have on getting people behind this idea?
JOCELYN: Alright Steven that is a great question. And one that I have actually gotten several times recently. So I just wanted to let you and everyone else out there know that the thing you want to look for when you are considering making a digital product is what kind of problems are you solving for an audience, or what kind of problems can you solve for an audience? What is keeping up at night and how can you help? How can you solve their problem? That little test is going to help you to evaluate each of your skills and how they might translate into a future online business. So the question is, do you have a skill that might translate well over to an online products like for example, Shane and I, we use our day job skills as teachers to create products that solve problems for teachers. Maybe it is not something that you do like for your job, maybe it’s a hobby that you have or an interest and a lot of people that they can’t make these types of things into a business but you absolutely can as long as you are solving someone’s problems.
SHANE: And you font have to be like some rocket science or a PhD or the authority in a field you really only have to know a little bit more than the people behind you. If I know how to set up a website, then theoretically I can create a course to teach people how to make a website that don’t know how I am expert enough, I already know how to do that. I was not the greatest football coach that ever lived but I had a lot of experience over ten years and I created this very specific defense that a lot of people wanted to learn that defense who are either just getting into coaching or maybe they have some experience and they are switching over to my defense. So I was able to take my interest to football, turn that into a digital product and I was able to teach that to other people. I wasn’t the football authority in the country but I did know a lot about that defense and there was a lot of people behind me that didn’t know so much about it.
JOCELYN: And you know sometimes there are people out there that say I just don’t really have any skills or any interest and that is just not true, really for anybody. Everybody out there has something they are good at or something they really enjoy and if you are having a hard time coming up with something for yourself ask somebody who is close to you. What is something that I know about that I can maybe teach you how to do or show you how to do or that you think other people might want to learn how to do? That’s probably the best way to get an idea for an online business if you have no clue what you want to work on.
SHANE: Another huge mistake that people make when they start out is they try to come up with the idea like capital T, capital H, capital E; this is THE idea. I got to get this right the first time or it’s never going to work. And 99.9% of the time, your first eBook, your first idea, your first online business is not going to work but you are going to learn the process. You are going to learn how to get online, how to sell products, how to do those things and it’s just important to get yourself out there and try something. You are not going to be able to sit there on your lazy boy looking out the window and an eureka moment happened and you got this perfect product. You are going to try something and fail. You are going to try something and fail and eventually something is going to stick and you can hammer it. So one of the big things that we always tell all of our students in Flip Your Life is just pick something. Just make something, get it done. It does not matter if it succeeds. It does not matter if it’s the right idea because it’s not your only chance at bat. You are going to go up over and over and you ae going to try again and again until something works. So don’t get caught up in this what is the one thing that I have got a shot at? There are hundreds of things that you know and do or that you can learn and teach to other people you just have to try them. Now, quickly at the end here we are going to talk about convincing your wife. That’s really going to be hard right now because you don’t even have a concrete idea or a grasp on what you’re doing. So that’s probably not your best goal right now is to convince her that’s possible. You can show her things like our podcast. You can show her success stories to let her know that this world does exist but back when we first started out that I got in to online business, Jocelyn was extremely skeptical.
JOCELYN: Yeah. Very, very skeptical. That’s a nice way of putting it.
SHANE: She totally did not even think that this is possible. She is like what are you falling in all these scammers online. But I had to basically had to go out and prove to her that I could put information out and someone would give me money for it on a very small scale and once she saw that it was possible, she developed her own interest in it and she got into it. You are not going to convince your wife to be able to do anything but you can show her that it works. You can show her that she could do this too. You don’t have to pull her into whatever you are going to do online so make sure that you are not trying to brow beat your spouse over the head with this. They may never be into it. It may just be something you do. The biggest thing you can do is just get her to support you in your endeavor while you are trying to do this.
JOCELYN: We actually have recorded a podcast about this. It is one of our very first podcast. If you want to check it out, you can head on over to flippedlifestyle.com/podcast6.
SHANE: And that is how to get your spouse on board with starting an online business. Also, if you need help picking a niche that is one of the things that we really focus on in Flip Your Life: Creating Your First Digital Product To Sell Online. We focused on helping you find something you are interested in or something that you are expert enough and to create that first digital product. So if you want to learn more on how you can do that, go over to flippedlifestyle.com/flipyourlife. And you can read all about our program where we actually help you select the topic for your first digital product.
JOCELYN: Alright. I hope that was helpful for you Steven. Good luck in creating your first digital product and we will see y’all next time.
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