Supporting private solutions to public problems.
One morning I went to log into Faebook, one of my standard places to check up on friends, family, associates … oh and do a little virtual work in a silly little game I play involving harvesting & building stuff. I am met with this screen:
Kickstarter is an interesting system for funding many projects that I want to see happen. It’s people creating a small business (or an established business trying a new model for product development & release).
Over the years I have found good and bad campaigns, but today I saw something interesting:
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You know it’s coming.
You have dreaded it for months, or at least weeks.
The Season Finale of your favorite TV show … and worse, that cliffhanger right at the end, and nothing for months.You really want more. Another episode next week; the next chapter of the story.
With many ventures I have made a mistake. I set the expectation of perpetual production. Two episodes per week. One episode per month. One post per day. Sixteen hours per day. Fifty hours per week.
Each venture was missing a designated reevaluation date, a predetermined season. Instead of just starting out with a goals, each needed to have a point where you are forced to review, reflect, and make a decision to continue in the same, similar, or different direction. On a personal level humans sometimes need  sabbatical (breaks from your normal) or a sabbath (day of rest each week).
Ever struggle with the question of if anyone is consuming your media. You produce and produce and see little or no results? There is a spectrum of too little to too much content released & today on Stay At Home CEO a post is released focused on the Attention Economy.
The article is written for Stay At Home Dads and Stay At Home Moms, especally those wanting to build a business, but the idea really applys to you. Especally if stay at home parents are part of your target market.
Something other then spamming the crap out of people is needed if you want long term success & ever want to reduce the amount of work you need to do for results. The funny thing is you don’t define “spamming” your potential audiance does.
Jonathan Nation has released his process for planning the next year.
It has also been posted on Stay At Home CEO.
The general process is
With deciding on Goals in there too. An added element is a way to look at life in terms of types of relationships.