Andrew Gale

good stuff! - Should you ask for a credit card up front & trying to decide on free trial length are the same link though :(

I love Bing but I don't want to let anyone know. Don't read this.

It comes down to what you want to do.

Do you see yourself as someone who runs a couple projects/startups at a time and does good in all of them?

Or do you see yourself as someone who dedicates themself to a single project and takes it as far as it can go?

The one rule of startups is that there are no rules of success. People may talk about their past experiences and what they've seen work but, I can tell you for sure that I've seen both types of people successful.

Follow you gut.

No - I hate to bring shark tank into the discussion but I think it the variety on that show, shows one thing:

There are no rules to success.

If you build a good product, it doesn't matter if you're confident or not .. It can catch on like the latest youtube video. Nobody sees the person behind the product.

Do you think the people behind Mt.Gox (or whatever it was called) we're startup people? No they were magic the gathering card traders and that's what the system was originally designed for.

There are traits that can help you persevere if you have them but ultimately anyone can make it happen and the variety of successful people show that already.

What does a normal day of work look like to you?

Here for the -10 Karma, I'll be working on my 2 startups  (one making $ , one being built) and doing consulting on the side that's going to be finished after next week which is when I'll also take a weekend off.

I think most people don't put any real effort into writing the actual outreach emails.

The whole process is painfully boring (finding who to contact, finding their contact information, reading some of their work, pre-engaging, writing a targeted email, sending at the right time and hoping it works).

Because of that, people just do the buck shot approach and the receiver of the email can tell 99% of the time. That makes it easier for people like me. I spend at least 10-15 minutes on each email before I send it out. Doing this and sending a really well written email is enough to stand out IMO.

I love slack but i'm actually rooting for Facebook and I don't know why.

Tl;dr Yes / probably

I'm blogging about our journey to 1k subscribers at http://blog.makerstool.com and are being 100% transparent to help marketers learn along the way.

What's your view on finding pain points before building something in entrepreneurship ?  I see this trend going on that is essentially - Find a pain -> confirm the pain -> build exactly what customers tell you.... Personally I don't think it's the best way and I think this type of narrow thinking can hurt innovation.

Also do you think if you were searching for pain points you would of created the PH idea?

" whereas it's just about different channels like Facebook and blogs and emails, etc. "

^ you just answered your own question here.  We're not talking about offline practices such as flyers, billboards and radio advertising. Because of the channels we're focused on are online, it's online marketing.

Offline and online use completely different channels.. It helps clarify the broad channels we're referring to.

Hey @Jice_Lavocat - By far the outreach was the worst part, especially because the first 2 days I spent on it every single response was a no... Some influencers decided it was best to even tell everyone on Twitter how much my outreach sucked (3 people did this)... And to be honest I needed that... So I revised my strategy and decided to it would be smart to interview influencers on how to do outreach... That way I would get a new awesome post from it and I would learn!

Nope, got shut down again and 1 person on Twitter sent me about 20 tweets shutting me down but in good heart (it was him giving me advice on why hes not going to help me and what I need to do) 

So after that I still wasn't prepared to give up so I read every single post on outreach there is... I realized most of them sucked... Thats when I decided to create a framework to help with outreach and now my emails are converting at 26% from cold email to link on first send. 

Because of my recent success with outreach (After failing like crazy) i'm actually excited to do it again with my next post.

But, I would actually say any 'promotional' task that you spend a full day on, is completely and utterly brainsucking boring.  Try legitamently answering questions on Quora for more than an hour straight. You will lose your mind.

My last post I spent ~6 hours creating it and a full week of promoting it. Literally full-time, pure promotion focus.

1  and 1/2 days  on Quora

4 days on outreach

half a day commenting on relevant posts

etc

It was the first post on my new blog and has had over 2k visitors now (still counting)

Hey Joel, 

 Good seeing you again and happy to be a part of this community.