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Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur
Never forget why you’re really doing what you’re doing. Are you helping people? Are they happy? Are you happy? Are you profitable? Isn’t that enough?
from Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur by Derek Sivers
Matthew Carey added 1mo ago
E-mail blasts are the best training for being clear.
from Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur by Derek Sivers
Matthew Carey added 1mo ago
“From:” name, right? Why not use that to make people smile, too? With one line of code, I made it so that every outgoing e-mail customized the “From:” field to be “CD Baby loves [first name].” So if the customer’s name was Susan, every e-mail she got from us would say it was from “CD Baby loves Susan.” Customers loved this!
from Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur by Derek Sivers
Matthew Carey added 1mo ago
At the end of each order, the last page of the website would ask, “Where did you hear of this artist? We’ll pass them any message you write here.”
from Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur by Derek Sivers
Matthew Carey added 1mo ago
“We’ll do anything for a pizza.”
from Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur by Derek Sivers
Matthew Carey added 1mo ago
Once you’ve got a hit, suddenly all the locked doors open wide. People love the hit so much that it seems to promote itself. Instead of trying to create demand, you’re managing the huge demand.
from Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur by Derek Sivers
Matthew Carey added 1mo ago
it always led to the customer and
from Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur by Derek Sivers
Matthew Carey added 1mo ago
musician getting in touch directly. This is something that big stores like Amazon would never do.
from Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur by Derek Sivers
Matthew Carey added 1mo ago
no matter what business you’re in, it’s good to prepare for what would happen if business doubled.
from Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur by Derek Sivers
Matthew Carey added 1mo ago