I’ve done a bunch of these “survey” and “contest” thingies where we offer to help people with their small business ideas or current businesses.
It’s almost a shame only I get to see these results instead of other people…because:
MOST OF THEM ARE STUPID!
That’s right….a bulk of the ideas and running businesses that get submitted …DON’T MAKE MONEY, and doubtfully ever will.
BUT….THESE STUPID BUSINESSES ARE VERY VERY IMPORTANT!
Starting any small business or side-gig is kind of like riding a bike (or any skill):
STAGE 1.) You don’t know what the hell you’re doing and you’ll probably fail a couple of times.
STAGE 2.) You start to get the hang of it.
STAGE 3.) After trying many times, you kind of know what to do by now.
Look at any successful business person and there’s a VERY high chance they’ve tried A LOOTTT of things before whatever made them rich.
Here’s just a SAMLL LIST of dumb things I’ve done:
- Resumite
- Tried to buy and sell penny stocks
- Facebook fan website
- Rave website
- Rave forum
- Rave video hosting service
- Powerwashing houses
- Painting address numbers on curbs
- Burning cd’s
- Fixing computers
- Selling bottled water
- WordPress design
- Website building
- Adsense websites
- Blogging
- 3D printer websites
- FancyBlog
- SEO consulting
- Buying/Selling on ebay and from Surplus stores
- more….
- ….and more….
- ….and more….
That was just junk I could list off my head in a minute!
In fact, I’m always disappointed at my progress. I feel like after ALLL THHHEE THHINGGSS I’VE TTRRRIIEED I should be a freakin billionaire by now! But like a lot of things, it takes longer than expected and it probably harder than expected.
Every person I’ve met that’s successful has GREAT stories about all the things they’ve tried in the past. Try asking someone successful this question:
“What other business ideas did you try before you made it big?”
….and I bet you’ll get a lot of cool answers.
So if you’ve been trying to get something off the ground once and for all but feel it isn’t that great of an idea……. don’t be afraid to start quick & fail fast with some crappy business idea.
There are methods to help increase your odds of success (like the SumoBusinessBlueprint we did)….
….but JUST STARTING SOMETHING is always a damn-great place to start!