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Hi all,
I've never signed up to any forum before but after reading both of MJ's books a couple of times, I felt compelled to give it a go.
After taking the ancient advice of doing what you love, I became a musician/guitar teacher and have been doing it for the last decade now. While I do still enjoy some parts of it and I'm still as much in love with the instrument and writing music as I have always been, making a living from it has proven really, really hard over the past ten years. I can't sustain being so broke all the time.
After 4 failed guitar tuition websites my latest has started gaining some traction. It's far from generating thousands of dollars each month but it is making multiple sales each week. My mind was totally blown the first time someone bought one of my courses. I checked my inbox late one Friday night and someone had sent me $20! I was stunned, that was the first time ever in my life that I had sold anything (other than my time) and I couldn't believe that I had made it happen.
I'd been creating educational courses for a while but in 18 months, I hadn't made one single sale. It's safe to say I didn't have a clue what I was doing and looking back, I'm not surprised no one bought anything from me, the courses were so bad.
Last month my site generated $500, which of course isn't enough to live on but it's growing every month the more I work on it.
I think one of the main reason why it's starting to grow is because I took MJ's advice, I started to focus heavily on providing value for people, as oppose to thinking me me me. I hunted for hours to find what people's problems were and I searched for an area in the industry that wasn't providing the solutions, then I went to work.
I've made about 100 sales now and have had one person ask for their money back. I've had a hell of a lot of thank you messages from customers and people telling me how much they love the site, so I feel that people are genuinely liking what I'm offering.
I have bigger plans for the site but after reading Fastlane/Unscripted , I realise that I'm breaking the commandment of time. The business will only run if I'm in there and I fear that this could be a problem longterm.
One other idea I've been pondering lately is perhaps starting up a directory for guitar teachers. Guitar teachers can sign up and students all over the world can hire them for video-call lessons, teachers then get rated and so on. I think it provides value to both people wanting to learn guitar and for teachers alike.
One thing that's true is that this shit is hard, it took so much work just to make that first $20. But now I've generated a few sales, I just want to keep growing. If I can make $500 a month I see no reason why I can't make 10x that, or more even.
My whole family is pretty middle-class and I grew up around middle-class people and employees. I feel as though too many of my friends are stuck in the past, proudly commuting 3 hours a day to London to do some mind-numbing job. I can't relate to it and hate the conversations they have about cars/mortgages/jobs/holidays and other superficial crap.
I don't know anyone else that would ever even consider starting up any kind of business and that's a strong reason for me signing up to this forum, I'm alone in my adventure. I want to interact with like minded people and hear first hand of their struggles and successes, I want to learn more and if I can in anyway, help others too.
I want to prove to myself more than anything, that I can live on my rules and that I can be successful without following the crowd.
More than anything though, providing value to people and making their lives better is what really excites me. Whatever I do it has to be good natured and help people positively, the last thing I ever want to do is rip someone off.
My main 'why' for wanting to succeed is that I fear not being able to support myself and if I were ever to become a father, to not be able to take care of my family.
I'm excited to be here, I'm still so new to entrepreneurship and I have so much to learn.
Thanks a lot for reading.
Chris
I've never signed up to any forum before but after reading both of MJ's books a couple of times, I felt compelled to give it a go.
After taking the ancient advice of doing what you love, I became a musician/guitar teacher and have been doing it for the last decade now. While I do still enjoy some parts of it and I'm still as much in love with the instrument and writing music as I have always been, making a living from it has proven really, really hard over the past ten years. I can't sustain being so broke all the time.
After 4 failed guitar tuition websites my latest has started gaining some traction. It's far from generating thousands of dollars each month but it is making multiple sales each week. My mind was totally blown the first time someone bought one of my courses. I checked my inbox late one Friday night and someone had sent me $20! I was stunned, that was the first time ever in my life that I had sold anything (other than my time) and I couldn't believe that I had made it happen.
I'd been creating educational courses for a while but in 18 months, I hadn't made one single sale. It's safe to say I didn't have a clue what I was doing and looking back, I'm not surprised no one bought anything from me, the courses were so bad.
Last month my site generated $500, which of course isn't enough to live on but it's growing every month the more I work on it.
I think one of the main reason why it's starting to grow is because I took MJ's advice, I started to focus heavily on providing value for people, as oppose to thinking me me me. I hunted for hours to find what people's problems were and I searched for an area in the industry that wasn't providing the solutions, then I went to work.
I've made about 100 sales now and have had one person ask for their money back. I've had a hell of a lot of thank you messages from customers and people telling me how much they love the site, so I feel that people are genuinely liking what I'm offering.
I have bigger plans for the site but after reading Fastlane/Unscripted , I realise that I'm breaking the commandment of time. The business will only run if I'm in there and I fear that this could be a problem longterm.
One other idea I've been pondering lately is perhaps starting up a directory for guitar teachers. Guitar teachers can sign up and students all over the world can hire them for video-call lessons, teachers then get rated and so on. I think it provides value to both people wanting to learn guitar and for teachers alike.
One thing that's true is that this shit is hard, it took so much work just to make that first $20. But now I've generated a few sales, I just want to keep growing. If I can make $500 a month I see no reason why I can't make 10x that, or more even.
My whole family is pretty middle-class and I grew up around middle-class people and employees. I feel as though too many of my friends are stuck in the past, proudly commuting 3 hours a day to London to do some mind-numbing job. I can't relate to it and hate the conversations they have about cars/mortgages/jobs/holidays and other superficial crap.
I don't know anyone else that would ever even consider starting up any kind of business and that's a strong reason for me signing up to this forum, I'm alone in my adventure. I want to interact with like minded people and hear first hand of their struggles and successes, I want to learn more and if I can in anyway, help others too.
I want to prove to myself more than anything, that I can live on my rules and that I can be successful without following the crowd.
More than anything though, providing value to people and making their lives better is what really excites me. Whatever I do it has to be good natured and help people positively, the last thing I ever want to do is rip someone off.
My main 'why' for wanting to succeed is that I fear not being able to support myself and if I were ever to become a father, to not be able to take care of my family.
I'm excited to be here, I'm still so new to entrepreneurship and I have so much to learn.
Thanks a lot for reading.
Chris
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