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

Fri May 27 23:03:54 UTC 2016

those are wonderful resources and I sincerely thank you. My passion, however 
is not blog writing at all, I learned that real quick. I actually like the 
idea of selling products via dropshipping, but not nessisarily on Ebay. I'd 
like to either find a business in a box that's legitimate or start my own 
store but I don't really have loads of money to throw at this, more like 
probably less than 100 dollars and I can't get out very easily since I don't 
live in a big city. The reason I love my fundraising business so much is 
because it allows me to do just that, work straight from home and they 
already have products to sell so I don't have to do all the leg work of 
looking for products that will sell nor do I have to work on building my own 
web site either. So maybe if you could maybe help me find another 
distributorship type of an opportunity that's accessible to the blind that 
would be wonderful. Have a wonderful day and I hope this additional 
information helps you get a much better idea of what I'm looking for. I'll 
share some more ideas I have when I get more of your feedback.

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From: "Michael Babcock via nabentre" <nabentre at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2016 12:55 PM
To: "NAB Entrepreneurs Mailing List" <nabentre at nfbnet.org>
Cc: "Michael Babcock" <empoweringtheblind at icloud.com>
Subject: Re: [nabentre] an excited question from a fellow federationist and 
entrepreneur

> 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.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> 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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