《小而美》读书——教你搞定副业

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现在有好多朋友都想着如何有一份自己稳定的副业,希望能从这本书中得到自己的答案~~

这是一本讲如何从零开始创业的工具书 , 原文名字是《THE MINIMALIST ENTREPRENEUR》 。里面详细介绍了从想法到成功创业,并保持持续盈利的讨论。

如何成功:

盈利第一:

你从哪里开始?好好看看你关心的人、地方和社区。痛苦点在哪里?什么没有起作用,但可能通过一点努力就能起作用?这些都是通过极简主义创业让事情变得更好的机会。

1.Narrow down who your ideal customer is. Narrow until you can narrow no more.
1. 缩小理想客户的范围。缩小到不能再缩小为止。
2.Define exactly what pain point you are solving for them, and how much they will pay you to solve it.
2. 准确定义你要为他们解决什么痛点,以及他们愿意付给你多少钱来解决这个问题。
3.Set a hard deadline and focus fully on building a solution, then charge for it.
3. 设定一个硬性截止日期,集中精力构建解决方案,然后对其收费。
4.Repeat the process until you’ve found a product that works, then scale a business around it.
4. 重复这个过程,直到你找到一个有效的产品,然后围绕它扩大业务。

A business is a way to solve problems for people you care about—and get paid for it. 创业是为了解决你关注的人群面临的问题,并从中获得报酬。

从社群开始:

目的:值得解决的问题和值得解决的人

  • 找到有共同兴趣的社群:对于每一个有共同兴趣的群体,都有一个Facebook小组、一个Reddit社区、一个Twitter或Instagram标签,或者在网上以其他形式聚集和分享想法。

  • 贡献、创造、教学

  • 不要想着一夜成名

  • 选择正确的社群

    社群过滤:太小,你就无法建立一个可持续的业务。太大,首先获得可持续性的成本就太高了——而且你会在过程中吸引或创造竞争对手,导致产品定价的逐底竞争,你可能无法生存。目标范围要小,不会有大公司竞争

  • 选择社群中正确的问题来解决或者解决自己的问题

解决问题的方向:

Place utility: Make something inaccessible accessibleο 地理位置优化:让一些事务从不可获取到可获取

Form utility: Make something more valuable by rearranging existing parts 组合优化:通过重新排列现有部分来使某物更有价值

Time utility: Make something slow go fast 时间优化:让慢的东西变快

Possession utility: Remove a middleman 流程优化:去除中间人

  • 构建正确的解决方案

    自己喜欢么

    是否愿意付费

    内部增长机制

    自己是否擅长这方面的技能

关键点:

It’s the community that leads you to the problem, which leads you to the product, which leads you to your business.是社区将你引向问题,将你引向产品,将你引向你的业务。

Once you’ve found community-you fit, start contributing with the intention of becoming a pillar in that community.一旦你找到了适合自己的社区,就要以成为该社区支柱的意图开始做出贡献。

Pick the right problem (it’s probably one you have), and confirm that others have it. Then confirm you have business-you fit too.选择正确的问题(这可能是你存在的问题),并确认其他人也有这个问题。然后确认你有业务-你也很适合。

When in doubt, always go back to the community. They will help you keep going and ultimately succeed.当有疑问时,总是回到社区。他们会帮助你坚持下去,最终取得成功。

尽可能少建造:

极简主义只做一件事,并把它做好。他们与客户并肩工作,反复迭代解决方案,并确保它值得付费,然后才将其带给社区以外的客户。

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  • 在开始阶段,必须坚持真正必不可少的东西,而不是试图一下子学习并做每件事。

  • 从过程开始:先帮助人利用专业的技能解决问题,在这个过程中发现可以流程化的产品产品

  • 最后构建:这里的构建是流程化解决问题的过程

  • 验证

  • 流程化

  • 产品化:流程化是将一个手动流程规模化,那么产品化就是将流程完全自动化

关键点

Refine a manual valuable process before building a minimum viable product.在构建最小可行产品之前,精炼一个有价值的手动流程。

The faster the feedback loop you have with your customers, the faster you’ll get to a solution they will pay for. The fastest feedback loop will be one you have with yourself.你与客户之间的反馈循环越快,你就越快找到他们愿意付费的解决方案。最快的反馈循环是你与自己之间的反馈循环。

Before you build anything at all, see how little you can get away with charging for it. Even later, build only the things you need to build. Outsource the rest.在你建造任何东西之前,看看你能收取多少费用。即使后来,也只建造你需要的东西。其余的外包出去。

I define “product-market fit” as having repeat customers who sign up and use your product on their own so that you can start to focus on outbound sales.我将“产品市场匹配”定义为拥有重复客户,他们自己注册并使用你的产品,这样你就可以开始专注于出口销售。

向您的前 100 名客户销售:

关键点

Launches are alluring, but they are one-off events I wouldn’t bet your business on. Instead, wait until you have a product with repeat,paying customers. Then launch by thanking them!推出新产品很吸引人,但它们是一次性的事件,我不会把你的业务押在上面。相反,等到你有了重复的付费客户后再推出,然后感谢他们!

Selling your product (or process) directly to customers may seem slow, but it is worthwhile. It will lead to a much better product because the sales process will be less about convincing and more about discovery.直接向客户销售产品(或过程)可能看起来很慢,但这是值得的。这将导致更好的产品,因为销售过程将更多地关于发现而不是说服。

Start by selling to your family and friends before moving on to your communities and, finally, if at all, to total strangers. (The further away from you, the harder they will be to convince.)首先,向家人和朋友推销,然后向社区推销,最后,如果可能的话,向陌生人推销(离你越远,说服他们就越难)。

从分享自己开始:

最好的营销向世界展示真实的你 以及你的产品

关键要点

Marketing is not about making headlines, but making fans.营销不是制造头条新闻,而是制造粉丝。

Start by educating, then inspiring, then entertaining. Each of these three levels of content is more far-reaching than the last.首先是教育,然后是激励,最后是娱乐。这三个层次的内容都比前一个层次更有影响力。

Paid advertising can work, but it has its cons. If you do decide to spend money, wait as long as you can—you’ll know much more about who you’re trying to reach that way.付费广告可以起作用,但它也有缺点。如果你决定花钱,尽可能等待——你会更多地了解你试图接触的人。

和你的小生意一起成长:

关键点

Seek “profitable confidence”: Infinite runway will maximize your creativity, clarity, and control. This is simple (spend less than you make) but not easy.寻求“有利的信心”:无限的跑道将最大限度地发挥你的创造力、清晰度和控制力。这很简单(支出少于收入),但不容易。

How to spend less: Do less. Don’t move too fast, don’t move to Silicon Valley, don’t get an office, don’t get too big. Grow as fast as your customers want you to—and are paying you to.如何花更少的钱:做更少的事。不要走得太快,不要去硅谷,不要租办公室,不要发展得太大。像你的客户希望的那样快速成长——而且他们正在付钱给你。

If you raise money, think about raising it from your community and turning your customers into owners.如果你筹集资金,考虑从你的社区筹集资金,将你的客户变成所有者。

Ultimately, most founders run out of energy before they run out of money. Maintain your energy and sanity, and that of your cofounders and coworkers, by realigning early and often on what really matters.最终,大多数创始人在资金耗尽之前就耗尽了精力。通过经常重新调整真正重要的事情,保持你的精力和理智,以及你的联合创始人和同事的精力和理智。

构建自己的生活方式:

focused on community before process, process before product, sales before marketing, and marketing before growth.

做上面这些之后,这里主要是建设自己公司的文化

总结

以前经济增速比较快,工资增长速度也很快,很多人毕业在2-3年工资收入翻倍,甚至更多。除了带来愉悦之外,也带来了内心膨胀——以为是自己能力强。现在这行情,慢慢让很多人开始冷静下来,寻找自己的出路,也有了更多的反思,这未尝不是一件好事。

希望大家都能以一份平静的心态,去寻找自己的一份小生意。

原文: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/HSBGzGIUc…