Discover How to Quit your Job with Confidence!
When looking to leave your current 9–5 job and you need a lot of things in place.
I know this because not only have I left my job, but I’ve also been laid of a ton of times before that!
(What can I say, the video game industry is volatile!)
In order to quit with confidence, you need what I call the “5 rights”
In this article, I will focus on 1 of those 5: the right business model.
To help you figure out if you have the right business model, I laid out 10 steps.
These steps are the high level overview I actually teach in my Get Off the Bench Challenge.
Anyway, here are the 10 steps to making sure you have the right business model.
1) Pick a business from a cause /subject you care about and that a market of buyers exists…make it your mission.
2) Niche down to a specific audience within the industry you’ve chosen to truly bring your mission statement to life
3) Research the hell out of this group of people… this will naturally lead to an offer…whatever problem that target audience is having, solve it in a way that’s easy for the audience to do/use and understand
4) Test your offer with people by talking to people in your target audience…sell or pre-sell them your offer. if nobody buys, go back to step 3
5) Verify the success of your offer from your first sale(s) and get a testimonial or 3 as well as feedback from your first few customers/clients. The testimonials will help you market to new customers within your target audience.
6) If necessary, refine the offer to be even better based off of feedback and your experience delivering the offer
7) Scale your marketing efforts…keep talking to people, but you need to do more than 1 on 1 conversations (this is when paid ads comes in to play…notice how far we are down the chain before we do investment traffic?)
8) Build systems to automate or increase efficiency. What systems are needed will be seen as you scale your marketing efforts (and you are making MORE sales). You can also add new products to enhance your offerings (or to get old customers to buy new things)
9) Now you can focus more on sales and business growth since you have systems for marketing and operations
10) See how you can replace yourself in your business
bonus step: go back to step 1 and do it all over again for a 2nd revenue stream
I will be talking more about this process in detail inside my daily emails.
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The point is, you cant quit your job with confidence if you don’t have a way to reliably replace your income.
A “side hustle” mindset is an OK start, but to be able to escape that 9–5, you need to shift your mindset to think business.