Someone who copies you is just copying one frame out of a video. If you keep going, you'll find that their video diverges from yours, and probably not for the better.
Anyone can be merchant (Amazon.)
Anyone can be taxi driver (Uber.)
Anyone can be journalist (Twitter.)
Anyone can be investor (Bitcoin.)
Anyone can be movie director (Youtube.)
Anyone can be hotel owner (AirBnb.)
Anyone can learn (Wikipedia.)
Dear Internet, thank you.
Looking to update some of my mailing list subscriptions (and get some inspiration for how to evolve mine!) What is your absolute favorite mailing list?
Wealth is the power to choose.
Financial wealth is the power to choose how to spend money.
Social wealth is the power to choose who to hang out with.
Calendar wealth is the power to choose how to spend your time.
Mental wealth is the power to choose your thoughts.
It is becoming very apparent to me that the number one reason why agencies lose clients isn't lack of results.
It's lack of communication and processes.
When @sobtiankit said "Customer success is all about helping customers succeed at their jobs, not at using your product" - I admit that this is the first thing I sent to my own customer success team :)
no doubt @getpostman is growing so awesomely :)
I thank @spatro of @getSignEasy for giving a simple template for documenting user persona! - When you are defining the user persona of a customer, your core team should be able to answer the following:
a) background b) pain point c) goal d) reason to use the product
Personalisation 2.0 will focus on...bit.ly/2GbXYbK
#TuesdayThoughts https://t.co/RqMikTs3f0
Money is not the goal.
The goals are,
not being constantly stressed,
not working a job you hate,
sleeping with no alarm clock,
spending time with family & friends,
learning slowly,
helping people who could do more,
not being constantly busy,
smiling more genuinely,
being happy.
People will pay $9,000 to have a textbook read to them at elite universities, but won’t pay $1 for a podcast loaded with original content.
If you listen to any cover music of Hans Zimmer you'll realize how his choice of exotic instruments makes a huge difference.
Great artists differentiate in the detailing.
#inception #interstellar https://t.co/Y8Z1IQ7r8M
The simple formula for great case studies & why they’re so effective in marketing - by @JulietStott of @BrightStarCMA https://t.co/LfkWTaUIbX
One time, I was at a Q&A with Nora Roberts, and someone asked her how to balance writing and kids, and she said that the key to juggling is to know that some of the balls you have in the air are made of plastic & some are made of glass.
@rupaniamit 📢Alpha Series Ep. 13 is Now Available on your Dashboard - 'Evolution of My Investment Philosophy' with Amit Rupani, CFA, Full-Time Investor. Visit https://t.co/L1SVJHVUs4 https://t.co/dUqNQpyn6l
Find one company you can hold for 10+ years
Use your savings in the year to buy that one stock
Find next company in the second year
Repeat the process
Do it year after year
Over a period, you would have built a great portfolio.
Also: Write about what you love until you love to write. https://t.co/VphWV5RwkB
Please be better informed. Here are some great lists to start you off: @tulikabooks @prathambooks @DuckbillBooks @PickleYolkBooks and also please follow the work of @CommunityLibPro, because they are among those people who make sure that it isn't just our privileged kids who read https://t.co/DlFFhdOiLv
Useful and handy list by @markpollard.
Part of this upcoming book, 'Strategy Is Your Words' (Kickstarter page - "A 400-page journey into the words that help and hurt strategists with over 20 techniques you can apply to your next brief and your life" https://t.co/CbaZ9hNU5H). https://t.co/lKqc05A5EX
I’m enthralled by this series of talks by George Soros.
In them, he builds upon Karl Popper’s Open Society to constrict a theory of society, economics, and financial markets.
The project is as ambitious as it sounds, but the writing is quite clear.
https://t.co/L6UgPsXIbT
Left - 2010
Right - 2020
India, a short journey. From rising economic power to failing democracy https://t.co/ctocpMHAh3
What’s your most important life lesson that you wish you learned ten years earlier?
#tiktok is ruling Bharat. Go eff yourself with all your analysis. https://t.co/LJwxBXI1RT
Only 44% of people we asked say people within their organisations have the skills to make sense of customer data and insights #EconBreakfast https://t.co/zNJmUt5Isn
I just took a popular sales letter formula and mapped it to a Hero's Journey arc.
The map really well and so far and it actually helps me quite a bit with how to structure the messaging. https://t.co/uLzWNrTn6s
Whaaaat? I didn’t know about this clever shortcut. Wish she had been MY math teacher. I probably would have been a lot better at the subject! #whatsappwonderbox https://t.co/MtS2QjhNy3
Trying to find more companies like Basecamp, Crash Course, Wildbit, Mailchimp, Buffer, Wistia, and Panic.
What are your favorite bootstrapped, customer-focused, right-sized businesses that solve real problems for paying customers?
Each year, about 15% of queries on Google have never been searched for before.
=> If you are tuning your marketing to Google search trends you are lagging in setting the trend and catching the trend. You are one of many players. Mind that.
Source: https://t.co/Ph1rO3cJw6
"During Gold Rush, most would-be miners lost money, but people who sold them picks, shovels, tents & blue jeans made a nice profit" ~ Peter Lynch.
Over 4 million of the 30 million songs on Spotify have never been streamed by anyone.
Forgotify lets you listen to the songs in this forgotten end of the long tail 👇
https://t.co/73Bv5pMXC0
Wealth isn't money.
Wealth is options.
@rsg Someone once said, “as the tangible becomes cheaper, the intangible becomes more valuable.”
Design is more important than ever for startups. One theory why: almost everything else has gotten easier.
Basic tech stacks are a commodity—automation enables smaller, focused teams—capital is abundant.
Product design is a larger percentage of what’s left.
In India, biggest risk for businesses are governments, regulators and courts.
One big mistake can push you back by a decade. Focus on not doing wrong things.
Attention @dominos_india / @dominos: to incident on Jan 17, 2020.
Kindly refer to the sequence of incident on the said date, along with the Bill copy. Do Advice your store managers (and this store manager in particular) that such things are not acceptable. https://t.co/QddSyizOzx
@jjude Maybe check out these guys https://t.co/xzskw7zbFx
After getting invited to two private Slack investor groups and one on WhatsApp, I'm becoming convinced that private, interest-specific social networks are the future. The sharing is a magnitude order higher signal.
Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. are becoming auditions.
The worst part was that Amit came to me only because the flow took him to paytm and he wanted to use gpay instead!
The Bharat market is huge, but the people get hurt a lot more when they are scammed out of thousands of their hard earned rupees.
true story... https://t.co/lKh2zPKveh https://t.co/pg2VWP0yvh
1/ Why you need to document things to improve your decision-making, a thread:
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."
~Richard P. Feynman
Feynman is one of my heroes, a brilliant physicist who was also a renaissance man
Ok people, I have VERY good news to report.
@rrherr found a list of all the Vintage Shorts.
Text your friends, cancel your weekend plans, and lose yourself in the wonderful world of ideas.
https://t.co/MjVfUgCjFu
When the cost of failure is high, plan before you act.
When the cost of failure is low, act before you plan.
“An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.”
If you’re struggling to come up with a business idea, remember there are only four different types of utility: form utility, place utility, time utility, and possession utility.
What can you make easier to understand, faster to get, cheaper to buy, or more accessible to others?
📚Build a reading habit and/or a writing habit with your own @glideapps app. Tutorials by the awesome @AmieDelisa (+ they take less than 30 mins!)
https://t.co/ulkEKsZ1TA + https://t.co/3xAYTRxHS7 https://t.co/R0Van9C706
Where people try to to save money:
- $3 coffee
Areas that actually matter:
- Investment fees ($50,000+)
- Asset allocation ($50K+)
- Negotiating salary ($25K+)
- Mortgage interest ($20K+)
- Student loan interest ($5K+)
Stop asking $3 questions & start asking $30,000 questions
Two career-building moves that work without fail
1. Ask the most senior people in your network to forward invites to dinners
2. Prep a question before any event, then say your name and ask it confidently
Be intentional and find ways to open doors
What would the ultimate online course look like?
Thinking:
- On-demand
- Cohort based
- Live sessions
- Pre-recorded webinars
- Downloadable worksheets
- Hosted on/offline
- Accountability
- Low price vs high price
- Pass or fail
- Accreditation
- Post-course opportunities
etc
Pricing tells a story.
- Low price -> product isn't that valuable
- High price -> this is a premium product
- Freemium -> need time to see value
- $/seat -> every user gets value
- $/team -> the value is for teams, not users
- $/tx -> value on every tx
What do your prices say?
May I introduce: @tinyhelpersdev – https://t.co/NUoIhm7DBc.
Because I never find the proper tools when I need them I started collecting useful single-purpose online tools that are useful for web devs & I'll keep adding tools. 😊🙈
I share my favorite ones below in a thread. 🧵 https://t.co/gJUUG8SI1I