Last week, our episode about bootstrapping came out on Labor Day and I challenge you to submit your questions

and you took me up on it and we got five great ones and we're going to answer them today.

So many good questions from last week's episode. Thank you for taking the time to reach out.

I'll try to answer each one in turn.

Hi Seth, Jeremiah from Lincoln, Nebraska. You gave a few examples of bootstrappers and it seems

like the general theme is people that want to orchestrate multiple things or others together in

order to create a bigger organization or company. And I wonder about people who might consider

themselves artists or makers or craftsmen, people that mostly just want to do their creative work in

order to produce something and send it out into the world to provide value.

Should these people consider themselves bootstrappers in the way that you've presented it?

And if so, how do they fit into the context of the bootstrappers workshop? Thanks Seth.

This is something that we've been hearing again and again since the dawn of the internet,

which is that we have a craft, we have a passion, there's a thing we make.

And here here's this wide open territory where we can finally get past the gallery owner,

the retailer, the choke point that keeps us from having our work be found by someone who wants it.

And so we end up with things like Etsy or eBay or even you to me. Here the thinking goes,

Mr. or Mrs. or Ms. Creator, come on in, show us what you got, the world will find you

and you can get back to work making what you make. This is why self-publishing on the

Kindle seems so compelling because writers can go back to writing. But what is actually happening

is that you need a publisher. You need a publisher, somebody who is going to do the hard work

of helping you be found, of dancing with the potential customer, of treating that customer

with respect and care, of earning permission, engaging with people who want to be engaged with,

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