Episode 223: Become a Successful Maker Without Destroying Yourself (FS223)

The Fizzle Show

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers, Freelancing, Marketing, Small Business

4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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    <p>No matter what kind of business you’re thinking of starting, you have got to solve a REAL problem with a REAL solution. We tear apart this idea in depth with Dan and Tom from [Studio Neat], makers of fine, modern physical products. They’ve just launched a brand new (and very unique) [notebook on Kickstarter], and it hit it’s goal in just a few hours. So, naturally, we wanted to ask them about what they’ve learned about business in their several years creating successful products from scratch. Here’s three pieces of advice from them good for *all* of us, no matter the kind of business we’re running: More at <a href="http://fizzleshow.co/223">http://fizzleshow.co/223</a></p>

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Fizzle Show.
0:10.7	All right.
0:14.3	Hey listeners, thank you so much for being here.
0:17.5	This is the Fizzle Show because most businesses fizzle out. And the question
0:23.6	is, what are you going to do when you start to lose interest? What are you going to do when it's like
0:26.4	harder than you thought it was going to be? What are you going to do when it doesn't come easily?
0:31.1	That's where a lot of the fight for your business happens. And we exist to create a community
0:37.1	around independent entrepreneurs, indie entrepreneurs,
0:41.0	people who are earning a living doing something that they care about. It is possible now more
0:47.6	than ever to earn a living doing something you actually give a damn about. And that's what we're
0:53.0	into. That's what we're about. That's what people who listen to the show are about. And that's what we're into. That's what we're about.
0:54.6	That's what people who listen to the show are about.
0:56.4	And that's what people at fizzle.co are about.
0:59.3	Earning and Living doing something you care about.
1:00.9	And today on the show, we've got a little, a couple like, to me, I'm big fans of these guys.
1:06.4	All-Star, all-star independent business guys. Okay, they make physical products, all right?
1:15.0	Solving problems for modern, modern man, I would say modern man. You know, a lot of the times on
1:20.5	the show, we're talking about marketing or coming up with an idea for a product or that, there's
1:25.2	a lot of things that are similar on the physical end and
1:27.7	the digital end and working for customers and stuff like that but there are some differences
1:32.4	so we wanted to do today on the show was talk with some actual physical product makers to hear
1:38.9	what is it like to actually make a physical product you might be surprised how much is different
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