HULLO?!

This blog post should be entitled, “Business Plan For Millions Online”….. omgoodness!!!!!! I’m printing it out, highlighting it, studying it and the most important part.. TAKING ACTION NOW! (note.. I saw how you included your FB link in here! Brilliant!)

What could you write about tomorrow? The stupidity of having a plan and doing nothing. The reality of knowing what to do and doing NOTHING… and WHY… you’re the master of the “THINKING” side of business if you ask me Rich and I for one would value very much your genius take on the things that make us NOT DO what we know we should, can and ought to do in our business… like this post for one! Those who don’t do what you say… need a post on WHY not?!

Come on, kick us in the butt… we need it.

Sandi :)

Rich,

Great post yesterday and today.

Since I am building my product site right now, your posts are helping me to see how I might use a blog in advance of having the product site ready and might even make sense to focus a little more in the short term on the blog than the product site.

Perhaps the first order of business is to get my future prospects engaged in a conversation about the situation/problem and my product can be a solution in the very near future. (Obviously, not a new idea – but I am just now seeing HOW I could do it in my own situation) I am thinking the conversation could actually accentuate the problem and possibly increase the demand for my product.

(If you wanted to talk more about this idea – I think it would be great)

There is so much insight and volume of knowledge in what you have written.

The constant challenge for me is to process and prioritize it and attempt to apply it.

As often alluded to by many – the big challenge is rarely the acquiring the knowledge but the actual effective application of the knowledge.

Any comments about how to more effectively apply all these great ideas would be helpful – Too many ideas to apply at once – prioritization is the key – I feel I am getting better at this but still have quite a ways to go before I feel I am being as productive as I would like to be.

Another element that I would love for you to write more about would be how motivate or provide incentive for your audience to spread the good word about your site/product in a viral manner to their friends.

Thanks again for all the great posts – Have a safe trip,

Kerry W

Hi Rich

Great Facebook page. Amazing how impactful it is, to see the human being behind the business. I think the personal photos are particularly effective – and I dont experience it as marketing, it’s just you being human.

I was joking with a colleague today, that I must try to explain Facebook to my Dad some time. He’s 86. Very intelligent guy, still sharp as a knife thankfully. (Roll with me, it’s at least somewhat relevant…).

But – his experience of life is so entirely unrelated to web, social media etc – that there just wouldn’t be a starting point for explaining Facebook to him. For the first half of his life or so, he lived without electricity. (And not just him – most of rural Ireland was like that until the mid 1960′s).

One of my dad’s favourite themes for discussion is just how much life has changed since he was young. You can’t argue his point.

Now let me introduce the other end of my personal spectrum; my 7-year-old son and my two girls (10-year-old twins). It’s really instructive to see how quickly they figure out systems .. work their way through levels of a Nintendo game .. figure out how to repair a wireless connection .. whatever.

To them, even at that age, there is no discontinuity between their technological and non-technological world.

I believe the changes we are witnessing and are about to witness, in our generation, are exponentially faster & more substantial than what has gone before. This is true across a number of areas (biology, energy etc) but in no area is it more true than in the social / human arena.

I truly believe that today’s kids, exposed to technology & social media from their youngest years, will experience online connections in a way that you and I think we already experience, but that in fact we can only approximate.

The distinction between “online” & “offline” friends won’t last very long.

It’s not that the dynamics and pleasures of offline human interaction are disappearing. It’s that a whole layer of very real, mind-to-mind communication becomes possible, regardless of location. It becomes like an new & extra sense. Online connections are not internally experienced as being in some way inferior to offline friends.

In your own words above .. “Now, we are no longer limited by proximity… ”

Fun to be alive in the age when this is happening, isn’t it?

Have a blast hanging out in Phoenix.

All the best – Sean

Very well put, Rich.

Great comment Sandi
I think I know the Answer “CON(BLOODY)STRAINTS”
We need to find what stops us :-), The way to find the answer is ask yourself “Why” dont I just “DO IT”
No body else stops us.

Kris ;-)

“It’s like the whole world has become a small town where everyone gossips.”

I love how you put that – it’s really what it feels like on the web today.

I’d love to learn more about offers.

Aside from that, the last webinar you did in the Founders Club was awesome!

I printed some of the slides and put them where my goals are so I look at them every morning as part of my morning and evening routine. More webinars into this more philosophical direction would be great! Tactics and stuff are nice and I make good use of them, but I feel like the real problem for me is my decision-making. I want to learn how you THINK and develop yourself – and model that. :-)

(i.e. I’m past the chocolate-coated carrot phase – carrots and broccoli are fine now.)

Thank you for sharing.
It is always a delight to feel what I believe – that
information is inspiration