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10 Business Ideas You Can Launch in 7 Days
10:20 AM
Can I really build anything like a successful startup business in 7 days?
When I’ve brought up the idea in conversation, people have responded with you can’t build something important in 7 days! Or, I can’t build ‘what I want to build’ in 7 days!
That might very well be true. The business or product you
had in mind probably won’t jibe with Dan’s approach, that’s why it has
value.
It’s not an approach that focuses on building great
products (although it doesn’t mean you can’t). It’s really an attitude
about entrepreneurship— a know-how better learned by ‘launching in 7
days’ than by ‘validating your product.’
If you are short on 7 Day style ideas, here’s some to spark your thinking.
1. “Lifecycle Email Monkey.” These
are the emails that you receive as part of a product trial, or being a
member of a product or service. Setting them up can be a pain but
they’re extremely profitable. Why not set customers up on your system,
tweak the approach monthly (they get to participate in the best
practices you are developing), and send a monthly report.
2. “SEO Sweeper.” This blog has 400+
posts. What if somebody jumped into my analytics, gave me a quick survey
on my best visitors, and re-framed old posts to gain more traffic. Why
not take one big action every month and report on the results?
3. “Newsletter Nanny.” There are many
things that entrepreneurs value that they understand to be valuable but
have a difficult time investing in. Big time bloggers often understand
the value of mailing lists, but they generally don’t invest into them. Why? Because they are big time bloggers. They blog!
4. “Product Video Vixen.” You could
develop a basic format that people buy into. Maybe these are 1-2 minutes
and share the story in a unique format. You could do them online only
(with assets you request from them) for 2K or do them in person for an
extra fee + travel.
5. “Recurring Rex.” Rex helps you reduce
churn. One done-for-you high impact activity for your recurring
subscription that makes you your money back right away. Man you know how
time intensive this stuff is to implement? (You might want to focus on
one platform at the beginning). Which brings me to a great one…
6. “Membership Maven.” You know what
every single membership site owner in the world has? A pain in their
technological ass. Most of us are using something out of the box that
has a ton of workarounds, or have patched together 15 different tech
solutions. Why not put together a stack of solutions (mix and match?)
that work and that your team supports? Offer install, hosting, and
maintenance packages monthly, and charge huge fees (5 figures) for
stress free 100% secure migrations to your platform.
7. Product Feed Perry. This is a good
racket (I’m thinking here of Google product feeds or other paid
advertising products), but most people don’t stay in it that long.
Perhaps it’s because knowing how to market products online is often more
difficult than developing your own product (you can launch one in 7
days right?). Getting attention and buyers for something is harder than
figuring out what “something” is. So most people that start out with
this type of client work get sick of their clients and burn through it
relatively quickly. That also means that there is always an immediate
opportunity to step up and situate yourself as a paid advertising
consultant (with productized services of course).
8. “Writer Ghost.” This one would require
a lot of work and some relationship building. For the amount of input
required, you’d need to get yourself to the point where you could charge
pretty high rates. You could also focus on more technical industries
where you interview the founders, do some research, and turn that
content into authority blog posts every week. I know people pay for this
type of thing because I have friends that make many thousands of
dollars a month writing these posts for others.
9. “Facebook Fiend Campaigns.” You know what sucks? Setting up and managing Facebook ad campaigns. Rob Walling said he’d pay for it on stage at #DCBKK. That’s where you come in. Why can’t you create and manage one new campaign a month for me? Mark Manson
said that Facebook has the potential to bring me 10’s of thousands of
visitors, but all it does for me is bring me photos of my cousins kids.
Help!
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