Comments on: Beyond Productivity

By: Murphy

Murphy — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:19:28 +0000

Cut out make her chase you.
Its clearly not a passion of yours. If you really wanted it to be a big thing you’d be out in the field every day and doing seminars and things like that. Your blog is more of a hobby and I don’t think you have to be as strict on yourself in updating it.
Conversion Doubler for me looks like the thing that adds the most tangible value and also has the most money making potential. I reckon it could make you millions (it might not but it has the best chance of the three in the medium term)

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2008/05/the-value-of-ideas/

(steve on value vs implementation)

By: aoj

aoj — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:59:23 +0000

Richard Branson (Sir) has 300 companies ;)

I think its awesome that you are travelling and yet you still produce all these articles.

By: cz

cz — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:54:36 +0000

Read about the 80/20 principle.

By: dave

dave — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:17:37 +0000

I don’t know how much money you make total, but it may be time to hire a part-time assistant that you can mentor to be able to do all the miscellaneous things to keep your business running. At the very least, you can contract out things like marketing as others have said.

I have an assistant myself, allowing me to focus on new things, while they maintain what’s already there. The upside of this is that you have automatic feedback on your products, before they go to market, and someone to help you with the initial push. For example, in your case, you can still write the initial copy and the newsletters, but your assistant can edit it and get formatting right; I know I prefer to write, and let someone else handle how it looks.

You may not have enough work to keep them busy more than 10 hours per week, initially, but saving that time yourself can allow you to start any new project you wish. And it really won’t cost a ton; you can get good apprentices for $8-10/hour if you’re allowing them to work from home; most times they’re just looking for good experience and a mentor to help them better themselves. In fact, my assistant and I are about to start a project together split 50/50, and it’ll be even better than if I did it myself. Something to think about…

By: V

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:04:21 +0000

I agree whit has been said about hiring someone else to do the parts you don’t like.

Notice how, what really excites you is to *conceive* and *start* new projects. There is some other people out ther who actually gets excited about *marketing* … let ‘em have their share ;)

By: The Digital Backpacker

The Digital Backpacker — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:17:34 +0000

If you wrote a book I’d buy three of them the day it came out and send the extra two to my parents.

You kick ass in every area of life, and I strive to be like you all the time.

Thanks for the continued writing…I do really think you could do well with a book though.

By: Davd

Davd — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:59:38 +0000

Perhaps, you have answered your own question. If management of your websites isnt your favorite activity, then hire somebody to deal with it. As for the daily 15, write up the next 15-30 days of stuff before hand. For your blog, you can write up some stuff beforehand that you post on days that you “lack creativity.”

Whats most important about work is that you have to enjoy it. If your passion is to start new projects, then by all means start them (but I would suggest adding just one project at a time). You never know what you will be able to accomplish without trying.

David

By: tim

tim — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:58:37 +0000

I have no idea how much money you earn from Make Her Chase You, but I would imagine that you could make significantly more money from Conversion Doubler. Why not Focus on Conversion Doubler, make it your main source of income, and then start other projects?

It sounds like a lot of work to rewrite MHCY as well as write weekly newsletters, and from my understanding you aren’t all that involved in the pickup community anymore.

I hope that you maintain all of your sites, because I enjoy reading them, and also I assume that you get some enjoyment out of writing them.

By: Bill Riddell

Bill Riddell — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:50:33 +0000

Why not have your cake and eat it too.
Your able to produce great ideas and see them through to create a superb product, if its a dislike of marketing that is holding you back then pay someone else to do it.
Hire a professional copywriter to crank out great sales letters for you and more while you move on to creating more products.
Thinking that you can only handle a few products is clearly a limiting belief that is holding you back from greater success.
Do what you do best and let someone else take over the rest.
Look at Tyler, he gets Papa and staff to handle the business allowing him to focus on important stuff.
I’m sure you will overcome and triumph.
Bill (basil)

By: John Galt

John Galt — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:58:46 +0000

This is why I wanted you to read The Goal. In any system, there are at most one or two factors (“constraints”) under its control that limit its ability to obtain more of what it wants. Improving any part of the system aside from these constraints will not improve the overall performance of the system. In the same way, strengthening any link but the weakest in a chain will not strengthen the entire chain.