Make Money Online

Make Money Online

By Kai Davis & Nick DisabatoBusiness
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  • [106] "Writing Time is Sacred Time"

    • What do our writing practices look like?

    • How did we get started writing?

    • How should listeners work on building their 'writing muscle'?

    • Is it necessarily to write daily?

    • Should you just write? Write and publish?

    • Andrew Chen on Writing and Blogging

    • Robin Sloan on "Stock and Flow" as it applies to the writing /

      publishing process

    • Nick's Newsletter

    • Kai's Newsletter

      23 min
    • [104] How to Say "No" to Clients
      • When should you say no to clients?
      • What's the best way to give a no?
      • How should you politely turn down small projects?
      • How do you avoid making compromises in scope?
      • How do you fire bad clients?
        • 14 min
      • [103] How to Have a Good Phone Call

        How do you have a good phone call with a prospect? How do you prepare enough?

        • How long should the call be?
        • Should you leave a buffer after the call?
        • Should you prepare an agenda?
        • How do you determine who is leading the call?
        • How do you end the call?
          • 19 min
        • [102] Reading, Writing, Doing

          What's a good balance between educational content consumption and doing the work?

          • Time management
          • Reading may just happen. Optionally: intentionally schedule time
            • around it Implementation: when you finish a book, how do you decide
            what to read next?
          • -- Tape flag ("This is a thing I want to remember")
          • -- Highlighting
          • -- "This is an interesting thing to know about" and then apply later
          • Rereading to extract notes / directives
            • 27 min
          • [101] Speaking at Local Meetups
            • Subject of meetup
            • People at the meetup
            • Go to one before speaking
            • If you don't have a good meetup, start one, but don't be the first to
              • speak
            • Good places to host a meetup
            • Good places to announce a meetup
            • Scaling/growing your meetup (as you grow, make sure there isn't an
              • in-group and an out-group)
            • Avoiding Groupthink in Meetups (Creative Mornings: Someone manages it
              • for a fixed term and then passes it off)
              20 min
            • [98] Books We've Read Recently
              • https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/1517901804
              • https://smile.amazon.com/Food-Lab-Cooking-Through-Science/dp/0393081087
              • https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0300215126
              • https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/1591865484
              • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_Order
              • https://smile.amazon.com/Calm-Technology-Principles-Patterns-Non-Intrusive/dp/1491925884
              • Content Design by Sarah Richards
              • Million Dollar Consulting
              • Value Based Fees
              • Personal MBA
              • Interviewing Users
              • Calm Technology
              • Sourdough: A Novel
              • The 12 Week Year
              • The One Thing
              • Deep Work
              • Breakthrough Advertising ($125 + Shipping and Handling)
              • Square Foot Gardening
              • Tools of Titans
                • 21 min
              • [97] Positioning: How Specialized Should You Be?

                "Obviously there's a diminishing return if you hit specialization of 'There's one business in my region I can market to' -- how do you know when you've specialized enough"

                • Know your target market, like Ecommerce
                • Know niches within your target market, like Women's Fashion and Beauty or Every Day Carry
                • Identify if there are 20-50 companies in your niche in your target market
                • Identify if of those 20-50 there are 15-20 companies that are paying for consultants, have paid for consultants, or are looking for
                  • help solving a problem

                  Iterate. Too many companies come out? Become a

                  little more specialized, based on your research. Too few? Become a
                  little less specialized ("SEO optimization for women's fashion and
                  beauty stores selling $1,000,000/yr and based in New York" →
                  potentially too specialized)

                  16 min

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