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Daily Stand Up: Who's hustlin' this Thursday?

Why?

That extra nudge of accountability to achieve even a small step on your IH journey each day.

To join in:

01 COMMENT on AT LEAST ONE fellow hacker's progress and give them an IH Point for their check in. Let's get in there with the encouragement/feedback! (Changing the order, because I know we can do better!)

02 Share your epic (a big chunk of work with a meaty objective) you'd like to complete by the end of August.

03 Share what you accomplished yesterday.

04 Share what you commit to accomplishing today.

Optional:

05 Share your Work In Progress to underscore your accomplishments.

Then tune in the tomorrow to share how you did on your own tasks!

#daily-stand-up

on August 8, 2019
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    EPIC

    1. 2019
      • $6400 EOY - Nov & Dec excluded
    2. Aug
      • 1st Pilot Customer
      • $1600 in Revenue

    YESTERDAY

    • Redraft/edit my cold email to be customer-centric.
    • Daily outreach.
    • Start revising landing page copy

    BREAKDOWN
    TODAY

    • Edit landing page copy.
    • Update website.
    • Daily outreach split between cold calls & emails.
    • Create an outline and short presentation for VFA founder story tomorrow.
    • Do Startup School (videos & group session).

    WEEK 2

    • Do cold calls.
    • Revised landing page copy.
    • Revised sell sheet.

    KUDOS
    @dc5k conquering the Lambda functions errors and getting them under Netlify 10s timeout.

    WIP: Envoy

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      I checked out the landing page, but I'm kinda confuse on what the service is. It's like a virtual assistance, but more?

      Keep up the hustle! :D

      1. 1

        @davidn20 thanks for the feedback. It's sales/biz dev service. I'm still editing the copy now and haven't updated the site yet. I'll ping you when I'm done ;-)

  2. 3

    By end of August, I'll have launched early access to my Sales For Founders course, and generate $20k in presales.

    I'll also have finally decided whether I want to say 'enrollment' or 'enrolment'.

    EPIC:

    Launch 'early access' version of course. Generate >$20k in prelaunch revenue.

    BREAKDOWN:

    Week 1: Redo landing page, record testimonial videos/welcome video, write funnel emails

    Week 2: Set up either free webinars or free video course

    Week 3: Redo course content

    Week 4: Redo course content and launch

    YESTERDAY

    • Big announcement about course which I've been working on behind the scenes (email sent)

    TODAY

    • Relaunch new version of landing page
    • edit and upload testimonial video
    • I'm on a podcast!

    KUDOS

    @thepatwalls for providing me with a spontaneous testimonial for the S4F course :)

  3. 3

    EPIC

    Danger World's Multiplayer MVP (danger.world)

    YESTERDAY
    I got multiplayer working locally! I'm still styling and whatnot, but the "hard part" is done.

    Check out a sneak peek here: https://imgur.com/gallery/7DMqpbn

    TODAY
    Ship it! There will be plenty of small follow-on work, but I want to get my MVP out the door ASAP so I can start working out the kinks!

  4. 3

    By end of August, I'll have proven whether my online course was a one hit wonder or is a source of recurring revenue.

    EPIC
    Launch evergreen course and sales funnel, earning 5K in revenues.

    BREAKDOWN

    • Week 1: Complete scripts. [5 of 5 completed]
    • Week 2: Complete filming and email funnels. [3 of 8 completed]
    • Week 3: Complete website.
    • Week 4: Launch and respond to queries.

    LAST EVENING

    • Draft second email.
    • Draft third email.
    • Integrate Convertkit form into Gatsby site.

    THIS EVENING

    • Review three scripts. (Hold me to it!)
    • Draft fourth email.
    • Draft fifth email.
    • Time box styling Convertkit form on Gatsby site.
    • Add testimonials.

    KUDOS

    I wonder what happened to @AndrewV?

  5. 2

    August Epic

    • Launch Announcr MVP
    • Finish draft of sales playbook
    • Field test sales playbook

    Yesterday

    • Outline sales playbook

    Today

    • Continue adding sections to the playbook. This is a fantastic exercise

    Kudos
    @Harlem for announcing dem SECRETS

    Work in Progress
    Announcr

    1. 1

      Did I miss something? What's SECRETS?

      1. 3

        oooops I saw COURSE and thought Harlem ;) It was really @louisswiss

  6. 2

    EPIC

    Reach MVP

    BREAKDOWN

    Week 1: Tools week - I've got several additional tools in mind, I'm going to try to get at least two of them completed by the 8th. I'm also going to be fixing a couple of issues I've noticed with the current tools. I'll also add client side input validation, I'm only doing server side validation right now.

    Week 2: Writing Week: Troubleshooting flow-chart and/or checklist, a couple of articles for the notes section

    Week 3: Do some basic SEO, keywords, sitemaps, etc. More tools work or writing as time allows.

    Week 4: Finalize the look and feel of the website, any design changes should be minor at this point. Explore some of the paid ideas I've been kicking around.

    YESTERDAY

    • Finished adding query string support to tools.
    • Started working on

    TONIGHT

    • Add a WhoIs lookup tool. This should be easy to implement
    • Start working on the RBL checker
    • Maybe implement some sort of a sharing feature now that query strings work

    KUDOS

    @ItsSteve for sharing his experiences with us

    1. 1

      RBL Checker?

      1. 1

        Real-time Blackhole List or DNS Blacklist. Wikipedia has a pretty good write-up on how they work. It's one of the ways email filters decide how to classify your emails.

  7. 2

    EPIC

    Aug-

    Yesterday

    • Added Slack channel support for downtime notification.

    Today

    • Setup SMS channel for alerts. It's a big task and will keep a couple of days.

    Happy building...

  8. 2

    https://goallyhub.com/

    2019 Goals

    • Work with 2 small business for advertising

    August Goals

    • Build a list of 5 target business
    • Put together a pitch
    • Contact those 5 business
    • Get 1 business to work with me

    Yesterday

    • Set up a plan
    • Work with Raspberry Pi
    • Setup and boot up pi
    • Join a bunch of meetup and schedule events
    • Create Cold Calling Script
    • Create Elevator Pitch
    • Update code base and deployed new code
    • Fixed Create Event

    Today

    • I'm attending a couple meetups today. I need to think about how I'm going to present myself. Rehearse if needed.
    • Think about who I'm going to contact and how I'm going to contact. Be specific with my list. Like all nail salons or restaurants. Pick a niche.
    1. 1

      Glad to know you are working with Raspberry Pi. Keep it up

  9. 2

    EPIC
    -Launch MVP and get into direct marketing mode: demonstrated by emails/DMs/messages/calls with 200 people.

    YESTERDAY
    Not a damn thing from this list. Side tracked by some threadbase.io stuff, which I believe is now resolved.

    TODAY:

    • implement model pre-validation to reduce backend failures
    • implement active prevention of duplicate API creation
    • end to end test and quantify final refinements

    KUDOS:
    pending

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      Please do share the blog post! And look forward to following you on your quest for a new idea!