26 July 2012 ~ 8 Comments

3 Fundamentals You Need That Business Bloggers Don’t Teach – FA108

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Learning The Basics Might Sound Boring, But Without Them Success Won’t Come

You might want to blow everyone out of the water with your innovations or dazzle with cutting-edge advanced methods.

But if you don’t have the right fundamentals in place, you will only blow out and frazzle yourself to pieces from burnout.

But don’t worry, Tim and I won’t let that happen to you!

Fundamentals may not be that exciting, but if knowing and using them helps you achieve freedom and success, then I’m thrilled to practice them.

What’s the shortcut to more Time, Income, and Mobility? Fundamentals.

But, how often are these talked about and implemented? I’m not sure. I just know that a lot of people don’t teach them, especially Bloggers Who Blog About Business Blogging.

And I’m sure the multitude who follow the Hope & Pray Blogging Model could save time, energy, and heartbreak by at least having an understanding of these 3 fundamentals.

But it’s a lot more exciting to sell high-level tactical shortcuts and the idea of Build It, And They Will Come. It rallies the masses and gets everyone excited.

There’s a time and place for those things, of course, and there’s always room to grow.

But it’s easy to ignore real-world fundamentals for a while and look at your Google Analytics to see posts go viral, visitors in the thousands, posts comments galore – but is your bottom-line getting any bigger?

If you don’t have a handle on the essentials, chances are it won’t.

Break out the pen, grab the notepad, have a Come To Jesus meeting, and see where you can get back to the business-building basics.

Enjoy your Fun & Mental Adventure!

Tim “Grand Master” Conley & Johan “The Swede” Woods

Three Business Fundamentals Interview of Tim Conley on WebDomination.co.

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  • http://www.tropicalmba.com Dan

    This was a fun one guys! One usage thing that helps me out is to use the term “market” to specify the cash-flow itself unless otherwise indicated. So of course there are marketplaces of ideas and stuff, but if we go by this standard, “cat owners” aren’t a market but instead “people who buy cat furniture” are a market. That way you are talking about something specific– the market of people trading money for furniture, rather than a broader group of people who might not even spend money “cat owners.” Simple thing but I’ve found it useful in my career.

  • http://FoolishAdventure.com Tim Conley

    Thanks Dan. I totally stumbled over my market definition. I wasn’t intending to define a market when we started, but as soon as I got to the market topic the thought popped into my head that I should define it. I did a sucky job at it off the top of my head.

  • http://tigermuse.com/ Johan Woods

    #BOOM, good point, Dan, and a great way of approaching markets (“who’s spending on what?”). Getting into markets like that are where you want to be and serve.

  • http://awebsitedesigner.com.au Dan Norris

    Hey guys great episode, def better audio in Tim’s ‘studio’ than on my version!

    One thing I struggle with is you talk to people who have built successful businesses and more often than not they will say (1) that it’s not a business until it makes money – i.e. don’t blog about blogging, create something useful and ask for money and (2) you have to persevere, building something takes time.

    I think there is so much to learn about how to validate ideas. When are you working on something worth pursuing (even though it’s not making money right now) and when are you wasting your time.

    I think there’s another podcast episode in that (or 2)!

  • http://FoolishAdventure.com Tim Conley

    Definitely. I’ve been diving into a ton of lean startup methodologies lately to see if I can gleam some shortcuts from their experience, experiments and opinions.

    Even after doing this biznass thang for a ton of years there is always something more to learn and test.

    Validation will definitely be an upcoming episode. Need to cover validating the idea, the market, the product and the team.

  • http://tigermuse.com/ Johan Woods

    Yeah, validation is one of my favorite things :) AND learning how to interpret the feedback you get is key, too.

    Should be an episode!

  • http://sukcesstrony.pl/ Krzysztof (Chris) Trynkiewicz

    Wow Dan, that’s a great point! It’s going to my marketing tips notepad. Thanks!

  • http://sukcesstrony.pl/ Krzysztof (Chris) Trynkiewicz

    Great episode, as usual. Thanks for answering my question, Tim. I’ll leave some more over time :)