[nabentre] an excited question from a fellow federationist and entrepreneur

[Michael Babcock]

Brandon
Those are some amazing resources, and thanks for sharing them with me and the rest of the group. Daniel, reference this message to help you get moving! Unfortunately I think we've all had it badgered into our own head, both from public education and the media, that we only need to work on 8 to 5 or 9 to 5, and we should be making money. People take this mindset to starting their own business as well, and I'm fortunately, that's A recipe for disaster.

 If you're passionate about a topic, or you're passionate about what you're trying to help people accomplish, then you'll never run out of content.

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> On May 27, 2016, at 9:18 AM, Brandon Keith Biggs via nabentre <nabentre at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello Daniel,
> You should take some classes on entrepreneurship. Some good videos are:
> https://www.udacity.com/course/how-to-build-a-startup--ep245
> and
> http://24o.it/links/?uri=http://startupclass.samaltman.com/&from=Il+corso+di+startup%3F+%C3%88+online+gratis%2C+firmato+Stanford
> 
> 
> You should do some marketing research for a business idea first. If you
> wish to write a blog, get out of your house and talk to people (or just do
> it over skype). There are 3 steps to interviews:
> 1. do in depth interviews that are at least 20 minutes long, and listen to
> what people's thoughts are on blogs and your subject matter. Don't ask them
> right off if they would read your blog because they will say yes. Instead
> ask them when they currently read blogs, how do they find their blogs and
> all open questions like this.
> 2. After about 6-10 interviews of your potencial users, gather together
> their thoughts and create an idea of what you could do based on their
> feedback. Then get a survey with rating scales, multiple choice and check
> all that apply. Write questions like: How do you find blogs? A. Google
> searching keywords for a problem I am having. B. Browsing blog sites. C.
> Hear about it off friends on Facebook... There are numbers to make this
> statistically valid, look at:
> http://iqsresearch.com/what-makes-a-statistically-valid-sample/
> But just shoot for 385 respondents.
> 3. After getting back your responses (don't cheet!) look at what people
> said and make a prototype blog following what people said they wanted to
> read. Get some of your respondents to read it and comment on it. Look and
> see who is coming to your blog and who is not coming to your blog and
> interview people in those two groups to find out why. Then make changes
> based on their feedback.
> 
> Remember though, your idea is worthless unless people want it. I could make
> a square wheel and try to sell it to car makers but they will not buy it.
> If I sold the wheel to artests though, they may buy it, but I will never
> know unless they do buy it.
> 
> Here is an example of the design process:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taJOV-YCieI
> 
> Just find what you are passionet about and find other people who are
> passionet about the same things and use them as your respondents.
> 
> There is only one get rich quick skeem and that is doing the work to make
> your product or business grow. The only techniques are talking to people
> and doing what they say.
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> 
> Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>
> 
> On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 7:56 AM, Daniel Perry via nabentre <
> nabentre at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hello there everyone, my name is Daniel Perry and I'm from Front Royal
>> Virginia and I'm also a fellow federationist as well as an entrepreneur. I
>> love working completely from home and currently run my own fundraising
>> business as a distributor for a fundraising company. However, since I love
>> working from home, I also love to look for other businesses that I can
>> maybe get into and expand my sources of income. Here are the businesses
>> that I've tried and failed at. I've tried Ebay and that wasn't a good
>> longterm business solution because I still had to rely too much on sighted
>> help and I've tried internet marketing by creating my own blog from scratch
>> and that just absolutely did not work. I've also been scammed by a couple
>> of opportunities that were too good to be true. Ones that said you only had
>> to pay a small entry fee to get in, something like 15-20 dollars, or in one
>> case $198 and then once you payed that, you had to pay them something like
>> 3 grand for the coaching. So naturally I didn't do that particular
>> opportunity. So that's my introduction and I'm wondering if any of you fine
>> folks have any sorts of ideas of businesses that I can run completely from
>> home. I'm excited to be a part of this list and I figured that since I'm
>> not only a federationist but also a business oriented kind of guy I wanted
>> to surround myself with other blind entrepreneurs. Have a wonderful day and
>> I hope to hear from you soon.
>> 
>> Sincerely, Daniel Perry
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