Maximizing Your Progress in 2024

Jun 14, 2024

Maximizing Your Progress in 2024

Current State of 2024

  • Acknowledgment that 2024 is halfway through.
  • Questions to self-evaluate progress towards goals set at the beginning of the year.
  • Stress on the importance of concrete actions taken towards set goals.

Missed Opportunities

  • Mention of a past event "times up" teaching how to make money through the attention economy.
  • Free masterclasses to start an agency from zero, with student success stories.
  • Small group program collaboration opportunities with high earnings.
  • Emphasis on taking action to not miss out on opportunities.

Steps to Achieve Financial Goals in 2024

Step 1: Action-Based Goals

  • Problem with Result-Oriented Goals:
    • They put the result on a pedestal, making it seem unattainable.
    • Lack of actionable measures to judge progress.
    • Often leads to frustration and giving up.
  • Solution: Action-Based Goals:
    • Setting daily actionable tasks increases chances of achieving results.
    • Example: Instead of aiming to get in shape, aim to complete 220 weightlifting sessions a year.

Step 2: Figure Out How to Make Money

  • Importance of identifying a skill that can generate income.
  • Criteria for selecting a skill:
    • Ease of Learning: Quick and easy to learn basics.
    • Perceived Value: High payment potential.
    • Barrier of Entry: Low initial investment required.
    • Personality Fit: Matching the skill with your personality.

Skill Evaluation Table

  1. UX Design: Medium learning difficulty, moderate perceived value, low barrier of entry.
  2. Copywriting: Easy to learn basics, high perceived value, low barrier of entry, fits analytical/logical types.
  3. Coding: Difficult to learn, high perceived value, medium barrier of entry, fits analytical introverts.
  4. Sales: Easy to moderate learning, high perceived value, very low barrier of entry, suitable for both introverts and extroverts.
  5. SEO: Easy to learn, low to moderate perceived value, low barrier of entry, not suited for highly creative or highly analytical types.
  6. E-commerce: Easier now due to viral product trend, high perceived value, low barrier of entry, fits both extroverts and introverts, more favorable for creatives.
  7. Blockchain: Very difficult to learn, high perceived value, high barrier of entry, fits highly analytical types.

Step 3: Pick Your Skill

  • Combine the table parameters and personal situation to select a skill.
  • Focus on skills with ideal balance of ease of learning, perceived value, and low barrier of entry.
  • Common picks included copywriting, sales, and e-commerce.

Step 4: Define Success and Set Action-Oriented Goals

  • Example for Copywriting:
    • Write X pieces of copy for M clients.
    • Suggested goal: Write 1,000 pieces by end of 2024.
  • Example for Sales:
    • Send 10,000 cart abandonment messages.
    • Realistic success scenario of $10,000 earnings with 5% conversion at 20% commission.
  • Example for E-commerce:
    • Post 3,600 viral product videos on TikTok.
    • Potential earnings scenario of ~$54,000 with 0.1% conversion at $50 average order value.

Step 5: Create an Execution Plan

  • Importance of having a detailed, actionable plan.
  • Suggested methods:
    • DIY: Less ideal, higher failure risk.
    • Professional Plan: Creates a higher success probability.
  • Presentation of the Digital Launchpad subscription includes professional guidance for copywriting, sales, and e-commerce.

Call to Action

  • Encourages the viewer to seize the opportunity and avoid future regrets.
  • Sign up for the Digital Launchpad for access to courses designed to help make $1,000 online.
  • Options available for monthly or yearly plans, with added perks in the yearly plan.