How do you launch a product with minimal complications? What do your customers actually want, other than a solution? How can you maximize your productivity when there’s so much to do? Steph Crowder, business coach and host of the Courage & Clarity Podcast shares her inspirational and tactical advice on the 3 phases of constructing a business, prioritizing your growth-based vs. administrative responsibilities, and creating a need for your product with stories about “the why behind the why.”

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TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE:

1. We need both vision and process, courage and clarity.

2. Success is only meaningful when it’s rooted in your own definition.

3. Figure out what you do, who you do it for, and why.

4. Understand your audience’s problems. We want transformations, not just solutions.

5. Create a story behind your product. What’s the why behind the why?

6. We all need the painkillers and the vitamins.

7. Audience building requires connecting with customers and having a place to showcase it.

8. Launch an MVP, a minimal viable product. It doesn’t have to be so complicated to generate success.

9. Work towards a minimal viable income and learn to be sustainable and scalable. You can’t stay in hustle mode forever.

10. Put in the pebbles before the sand. Do the growth-based actions before the admin work. That email can wait.

11. Clarity comes from action, from actually taking the first step and the next one.

12. Don’t underestimate the value of community. You don’t have to do this alone.

 

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• CourageandClarity.com

• Listen to the Courage & Clarity Podcast

• Stephanie’s 15 Minute Planner Method

• The Fizzle Show

• Pat Flynn’s Smart Passive Income Podcast

• Fizzle’s 3 Phases of a Business

  1. Get a sense of what you do, who you do it for, and why you do it.

  2. Turn the idea into something tangible. Find a primary mechanism to connect with your audience. Launch an MVP (minimal viable product) without the complications.

  3. Determine your minimal viable income. Create a system to be sustainable and scalable.

• Ember coffee mug

• Kate Spade 5 o’clock Martini watch

• Productivity products & systems

  • Trello

  • Asana

  • Pomodoro Technique

  • Rewards based system

• A visual representation of Stephen Covey’s Rocks, Sand, and Pebbles productivity concept

• This week’s listener wins!

  • Tanea @multipotentialiving on Instagram

  • Stacy @stacystringhamdespain on Instagram

 

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