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The Fizzle Show

Episode 241: Networking, Avoiding Hard Stuff & Lessons Learned Making 100 Projects in 1 Year (FS241)

The Fizzle Show

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

4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

If you are stuck in the romantic notion of what it looks like to create a business and you need some motivation to stop running away from the hard work, you’re going to love this episode.

On today’s show we are joined by none other than Justin Jackson, who went from having a day job to being a successful author and creating 100 projects in one year, all to show that it is possible for you to become an indie entrepreneur (even in Canada!).

Justin is the founder of MegaMaker, where he advises software, SaaS, and digital product companies. His books, Marketing for Developers and Jolt have sold thousands of copies, and truly saved him from bankruptcy. On his blog and in his podcast he focuses mainly on topics like product marketing, helping entrepreneurs and software companies around the world.

Inside this episode Justin shares his experience of pursing his indie entrepreneur dream and how he got caught up in the romantic fantasy of what it’s really like to start a business. Justin gets vulnerable, revealing that his initial motivation for creating 100 projects in a year was to impress others and get approval from celebrity entrepreneurs, instead of doubling down on what was already working for him. Plus, he gets super real with us about how you absolutely cannot avoid the hard work that entrepreneurship requires.

Show Notes & Conversation: FizzleShow.co/241

Key Points From This Episode:

  • Why Justin could not have been an indie entrepreneur without a strong network. [0:03:32.1]
  • The turning point that opened up the possibility for Justin to quit his day job. [0:06:30.1]
  • An overview of Justin’s books, and whether or not they are right for you. [0:09:36.1]
  • A single blog post that put Justin on the map; This is a webpage. [0:10:124.1]
  • Justin’s journey of creating 100 projects in a year. [0:14:50.1]
  • Learning not to get caught up in the romantic fantasy of being a business owner. [0:25:44.1]
  • Identifying your motivations behind starting a business; do they align with your values? [0:29:29.1]
  • Biggest lessons Justin learned from his challenge of creating 100 projects in a year. [0:36:39.1]
  • Why we get caught up in the idea that “the grass is greener on the other side”. [0:46:39.1]
  • Recognizing that you have to lean in to your discomfort, fully owning your story. [0:49:02.1
  • Understanding that the beginning stage of every business is difficult. [0:55:19.1]

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Fizzle show!

0:08.5

Bam! Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, with emphasis.

0:15.5

My name's Chase Reeves. I'm in the studio here with Corbett Barr.

0:18.0

This is the Fizzle show where every week we talk about things

0:21.4

that are interesting to indie business builders, entrepreneurs earning a living doing something

0:28.1

that they care about. This isn't like raising a bunch of money and having a bunch of old fat,

0:33.4

white dudes on your board. This is, I want to make a living doing something I actually care about.

0:39.8

This is, I want to be independent.

0:41.5

I want to make life on my own terms.

0:43.6

I want to, I want to be poor on my own terms a lot of the times, but I want to use the

0:48.5

power of the internet to figure out how to connect to an audience that is, that is going to fuel my dreams, my hopes

0:55.9

and my dreams, and that I can solve their problem for it, because we can't escape that.

1:00.5

You've got to do something that's actually going to help people.

1:02.4

It's actually going to solve their problem.

1:04.1

Anyways, that's what we talk about here on the show.

1:06.4

Today is no exception.

1:08.3

First of all, if you're a new listener, hey, what's up? Welcome to your first

1:11.8

episode of the Fizzle show. There are so many in the back catalog. A lot of people can, you know,

1:17.0

a lot of people say we were a little more fun back then. We used to drink, we used to drink

1:20.4

Nogronis on the show. It was a little bit intense. But you can go back and do that. Listen, if you want the 10 best episodes of the show, go to fizzle.com slash toolkit.

1:32.2

Fizzle.com slash toolkit.

1:33.5

We put together a little package as a free gift

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