Business
This is episode 5 of the WANNABE Entrepreneurs podcast. In this podcast Emeka and Uwa discussed some of the delays they've found have tried to hinder their best laid plans on the path to working on their businesses full time. They discover that sometimes the solution to the challenges one faces are right there staring you in the face. Whilst exploring the solution, which is to talk to those around you, the issue of revealing your idea to an idea thief came up. It is our shared belief that most ideas cannot be stolen. Each idea carries with it the unique signature of the originator. An idea thief is merely an impostor and would soon burn out. Don't let this stop you. you need to step out to be seen. Another point that came up is that sometimes someone not tied to the internal workings of your business could actually do a better job or can make an easier job of marketing your business. Take a step back from your idea sometimes in order to be able to sell it. Here we used the term "MVP" quite a lot. MVP stands for Minimum Viable Product. This is essentially the minimum number of features required to get the product or business you are working on released. The MVP, it is believed, saves you from endlessly writing new features and never knowing if those features are actually wanted by the customer. So, get to MVP and then ship. Uwa gets a kick up the backside for constantly writing code and adding features whilst he should be focusing on marketing the solution. Its been over two weeks and he still hasnt done his videos. He has written the script for one of them though ;-) Uwa should aim to create a community, find a way to create content for social media marketing sustainably and find a way to reach potential customers. Uwa needs to complete the instructional videos and the marketing work by end of the week. Emeka has good news this week. His landing page is now up and running. YIPPEEEEE!!!! Over the next week Emeka wants to get his application to MVP stage by: 1. Completing the on-boarding of studios. At least one more studio should be on the site 2. End users must be able to complete a booking from doing a search to actually having a session booked. ----- Links to tools mentioned on the cast ----- Pexel - this is a good source of images. Most, if not all, are royalty free https://www.pexels.com/ Canva - use this create images you can use on your social media channels. the format the images to the correct sizes for you and you can add captions. All free of course https://www.canva.com So one might take an image from pexels, format it via canvas and then use it on social media. I was paying for this solution for years. Up until last month in fact. And the quality of the one I paid for was not as good as what I got from canva and pexel. Flipboard Mobile App - This gives you news articles related to the categories you select on registration. Very good for news and sources of content.