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

Sat May 28 05:25:12 UTC 2016

Hello,
Why would I use a dropshipper rather than Amazon?

There are loads of jobs one can do from home, one just may need to develop
a couple skills.
1. Blogger, we talked about this, but blogging and vloging, if done well,
can be great.
2. Programming, being a programmer has so many opportunities involved with
it that I have no idea why it is not taught in grade school. It is really
easy to learn and the potential is so high.
3. Writer, you can publish books, comics or short-stories.
4. You can become anything in consulting, like with the fundraising idea.
Marketing, investing and accessibility are three options that come to my
mind, but there are thousands of other ideas.
5. If you have any talent at all in crafting, or creating kits, Etsy.com is
great.
6. Accounting, if you like reading the tax law, this is perfect for you!
There are a few accessible or partly accessible accounting programs  out
there and everyone has to do taxes.
7. Inventing, buy an arduino and invent a product people would love to buy
and get it manufactured. You can do this from home, although you need to
invite people in to test it and you may need to go out to get parts built.
8. Audio engineering. Reaper is pretty accessible and is not that
expensive. One could do something in mixing.
9. Investing, if your friends and family give you money to invest, you can
run a little fund and take a percentage of the returns. Just make sure
everyone knows what they are getting into when they give you money.
10. Reading, there are some places that pay for readers and reviewers for
books.
So there are lots of options, one just needs to be a little creative.
Thank you,

Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Daniel Perry via nabentre <
nabentre at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> 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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