First, I'll talk about why someone would want to transition from employment to entrepreneurship.
My blueprint for transitioning from employment to entrepreneurship
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First, I'll talk about why someone would want to transition from employment to entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone. If you don't desire it above most things, you won't stick with it long enough to succeed.
People assume it's risky to start a business, and that a traditional paycheck is a safer option for providing for your family.
You can start a business while still being employed. Then, if it fails you're not totally destroyed. You can try again.
Many see failing as a risk, but it's just part of the journey.
It's for this very reason that entrepreneurship is tough.
You're the one in control. No boss to tell you what to do. It's on your shoulders.
You may work longer, harder, and for zero pay in the beginning, but you're building infrastructure that will pay you while you sleep.
That's the goal. It only comes from building.
Now you can spend your time exactly how you want to spend it, and get paid for the value you provide.
$10 product @ 1000 sales/month = $10,000/month
$100 product @ 100 sales/month = $10,000/month
You don't need millions, you need hundreds, or a few thousand customers.
It takes time, dedication, providing value day-in day-out for months (or years) to build the attention and audience required to sell that much product.
But, it's not impossible, and can happen very quickly with the right skills.
Skills are the things you know how to do
that other people either don't know how to do, or don't want to do,
that you can do for them.
Some skills are more valuable than others.
Chances are, If it's hard to learn, it's probably more valuable.
-Sales
-Marketing (getting attention)
-Design
-Time Management
-Writing (copywriting, communication, content)
-Building/Manufacturing (e.g. writing code)
If you learn these, you can do just about anything you want.
1. Make time every day to help people.
2. Offer to solve other people's problems.
3. Learn the skills needed to solve them.
4. Encounter the next problem, so you know what other skills to learn.
Repeat steps 3 & 4.
The goal is to encounter new problems. If you only see the same problems, you're not learning new skills. You're just working.
Diversify who you help so you encounter different problems.
I recommend skill based courses (less theory and more action) that lead to a specific skill being learned.
You can take these online. Typically, you get what you pay for.
It depends on how much you can learn on your own, through sourcing your own information (from YouTube, books, etc.).
Courses do create a shortcut by providing all the info you need in a package. It's faster.
Not exactly. You can do that, but then your income is still tied to your time. You want to separate your time and your income.
The only way to do that as a service business is if you hire people to do the work. But if you want to work on your own, it's not really an option.
Only you can do what you do, the way you can do it. Make something only you can make.
You don't need new ideas. You can work with ideas that already work.
How? Make things that already exist, with your spin on it.
Serve that niche by adding value and finding out their pain points.
Continue working to solve their problems in exchange of payment.
Do this for a few years, and you'll have a business.
You eliminate distractions, and things that take up your free time, and replace it with learning new skills, building value, and helping people.
I recommend getting up early before your day-job and getting in 2 hours of work a day.
You're also working when there's less distractions (before other people are awake) so no one will bother you and interrupt your deep work.
This is crucial for people with kids.
Start with doing things that give you more time, by automating things customers are asking for regularly.
Automate using code, content, and communication systems.
This allows you to free up time to work on solving more problems and providing value for more customers.
This is how you create long-term value that will pay you in the future.
But if you commit to showing up every day for two years, you will start to see the fruits of your labor.
The business now generates more than $38,000/month, and only requires a few hours a week to maintain.
I quit my job two years in.
- Help other people you know, so you can learn new skills.
- Use those new skills to build products for other people.
- Continue adding value and building for a few years.
You now have these skills forever, and can continue to be an entrepreneur!
1. The 4-Hour Workweek
2. Deep Work
3. Atomic Habits
4. Zero to One
5. Think And Grow Rich
There's more, but I'll let you discover them.
Are there any other topics you want to have covered? Let me know 👇
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