Marc Lou
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard Sep 2024
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The Startup Ideas Podcast · How to become a solopreneur (3 $1M+ startup ideas) · 11 Sep 2024
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Getting started with something simple is the best way to get more ideas, to build a tiny audience, to get feedback, to learn. There's just so many things that just roll after that. Having a course, a book, I think it's the easiest way to get started. And so, yeah, that's the entire point is to start with something simple.
There's this sense as a business owner that if you charge a subscription, then you will get monthly recurring revenue. So you get $10 in January, you're going to get $10 in December, and it's going to keep going like this. But What I do is I tend to remove any subscription and I really ask myself, do I need that subscriptions?
A friend of mine is telling me, if you have a recurring payment, you should provide recurring value.
Man, thank you so much. Big fan of the pod. I've watched a lot of episodes and I'm happy to be finally in here.
Just before we get started, I got lots of ideas. Lots of them are terrible, but I try all of them and eventually some of them ended up working. So whatever I prepared, some of them might not be the best, but it crossed my mind and I think it's worth exploring.
Man, that is absolutely crazy. That reminds you that even with years of experience, you'll still not really know what you're doing.
Yeah. Yeah. And sometimes the opposite happens when you think you have an amazing idea. You spend two months building it and then nothing happens. I guess that's the open zones. I think... I think one good part to get started is there is this gold rush for SaaS products. Because we hear amazing stories of a kid who used no code and made a million dollars using a SaaS product.
But I think there are tons of products before that that are much simpler to start with. And I think one of them is teaching what you actually know. you probably have a background, whether you've been studying something, you've been, I don't know, it could be a sport background, could be employee backgrounds, having a course, a book, I think it's the easiest way to get started.
I think that's my case. I like the creation process. And I wouldn't think too much about the customer. I would still create it. And I would think about something that changed my life. And building a SaaS is one of them. But sometimes there are little things that are, I'm talking about very simple things, but like how to sleep better. Like for instance, I see the impact on my sleep on my day.
If I have a good night, eight hours of sleep, I wake up, I'm pumped. My entire day is like a blessing. But now if you're talking about getting the perfect night of sleep on repeat, It's much harder than just being lucky once. You need to go to bed at the same time all the time. You need a specific temperature. You need earplugs. You need all these kind of things and it becomes complicated.
And this is something that you could sell to anyone. Everybody needs a good night of sleep. And I remember in 2021, that's one of the things that changed my life. That could literally something you could build in like you could make a PDF in a day and you can sell that to start.
No, I haven't. I was Googling it.
Yeah. Yeah, because design matters a lot here. And even if just ideas is very simple, having a good... landing page, like the one you, you talk about, like, this is one of, um, one of your favorite, I think it was a newsletter or tweet of yours that says the tweets size or tweet bites landing page. I think, man, that's such a great way to get started without overthinking.
You can have a call to action by a little course here or there. And. If you do the work to launching a little bit everywhere, you know, then you learn a lot about what's happening and what's not happening. You learn about creating headlines. You learn about putting your ideas out there and stop overthinking.
I think that's the first step when you're starting in this journey, even if it seems simple. That's the point. That's the point of like, you're just getting started. Then you can, you know.
There we go. Yeah, that's the point. That's the starting, that's the ignition of the business. I think there's like, sometimes you get this idea and you think that's going to change everything in this world. You know, this is like full throttle, all into it. But I think it's a journey and an idea is just a part of the journey. And there will be so many ideas in that longer journey.
And getting started with something simple is the best way to get more ideas, to build a tiny audience, to get feedback, to learn. There's just so many things that just roll after that. And so, yeah, that's the entire point is to start with something simple.
I would definitely use a medium to share what I'm working on. So if I'm comfortable on the camera, I'll definitely go on YouTube or TikTok, Instagram. If I am better with writing because I'm a little bit introvert, then I will go on Twitter. And I would learn how to share my ideas, learn how to share what I'm currently working on so I can create content out of my daily life.
And that would create, it wouldn't make a buzz at the beginning, but I would create an initial traction. You would get five to like, I don't know, 10 people who just look at what you're doing and they'll be here when you're launching. That would be the first step.
Yeah, man, I can relate so much to that. And if you go back to my Twitter accounts in the very beginning of the journey, like 2021, 2022, you would see tweets of me when now with cringe, because I'm trying to tell people what to do.
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