Start The Snowball Cory Miller and Brad Osborne

How To Know What People Want To Buy

In this episode we discuss a step by step method you can use to Know Exactly What People Want To Buy, so you can know exactly what to sell, and how to sell it without having to guess. 

This simple step by step process will make you look like a marketing genius, even if you're brand new to a market or audience!

Which will make your life SO much easier when you're trying to sell a product, build a business, or market your products or services to the people who would be interested. 

If you know how to figure out what people are already looking for, selling your products and services becomes easy. 

You won't have to guess what products you should sell, which services you should offer, or how you should speak to your audience, write promotional emails, write sales copy, or even what you should include in your products, books, podcast episodes, or youtube videos to start out on the best foot. 

Show notes:

Resources Mentioned:

📕The Mom Test - Rob Fitzpatrick

📕Disciplined Entrepreneurship - Bill Aulet

VidIQ - Youtube Research Tool

Welcome To The "Start The Snowball" Podcast

We help you start a business online and get your side project off the ground.

Hosts Cory Miller and Brad Osborne discuss their thoughts on starting a business online in 2021 based on your unique interests, passions, and skills.

What we call your "Snowball" - the business or side hustle that is unique to you, and helps you get freedom over your time and your income while doing something you're excited about, love and helps others.

We call this your "Snowball"

For entrepreneurs, this is your startup, your new business, or even "Side Hustle" idea to earn you some extra bucks on the weekends.

For creators and builders, this could be the app you can't wait to build, the book you've been waiting to write, the album you can't wait to drop, or the Youtube Channel that's been sitting in your mind for too long and you know the world needs to see.

Any which way you slice it, your Snowball is going to be your way of putting something good and creative into the world, and we want to talk about some of the lessons we've learned over the years from starting businesses, websites, building communities, launching products and courses, and building followings on social media and elsewhere.

What is a snowball and how do you start one?

Learn more and let us help you start your next snowball:

Join us at https://www.starththesnowball.com
for more ideas about how to start your snowball.

In this episode we discuss How To Build Your Side Hustle As A Game and why this is crucial to being more successful faster, and having more fun. 

We talk about the benefits of thinking about business as a game, how to design your work in a way that feels like you're playing a game that you love, and along the way we discuss the idea of "flow" - how to recognize flow and when you find it, how to try to stay with it as much as possible. 

If you can design your work to be more like a game, you can find more success faster, and have a heck of a lot more fun doing it. 

Show notes:

Resources Mentioned:

📕Game Thinking - Amy Jo Kim
📕Hooked - by Nir Eyal
📕The Art of Impossible - Steven Kotler
📕Flow - by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

🕹Fun - https://megamanmaker.com/



Welcome To The "Start The Snowball" Podcast

We help you start a business online and get your side project off the ground. 

Hosts Cory Miller and Brad Osborne discuss their thoughts on starting a business online in 2021 based on your unique interests, passions, and skills.

What we call your "Snowball" - the business or side hustle that is unique to you, and helps you get freedom over your time and your income while doing something you're excited about, love and helps others.

We call this your "Snowball"

For entrepreneurs, this is your startup, your new business, or even "Side Hustle" idea to earn you some extra bucks on the weekends.

For creators and builders, this could be the app you can't wait to build, the book you've been waiting to write, the album you can't wait to drop, or the Youtube Channel that's been sitting in your mind for too long and you know the world needs to see.

Any which way you slice it, your Snowball is going to be your way of putting something good and creative into the world, and we want to talk about some of the lessons we've learned over the years from starting businesses, websites, building communities, launching products and courses, and building followings on social media and elsewhere.

What is a snowball and how do you start one?

Learn more and let us help you start your next snowball:

Join us at https://www.starththesnowball.com​ for more ideas about how to start your snowball.

In this episode we discuss finding the "Product Market Fit" in your business - the point where the product you're creating or the service you're providing finally works and creates revenue for you, and value for the market you're serving.

It's exciting when you reach it - but can feel very tough when you haven't found it yet. 

We talk about what we've found works to help you reach product market fit in your business. 

Show notes:

Resources Mentioned:

📕Disciplined Entrepreneurship by Bill Aulet

Product market Fit --- what is it ---- why does it matter?

How we go about it


Aha Entrepreneurship --- it’s a discovery ---- this is a lab --- everything is an experiment to get to product market fit
Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup by Bill Aulet --- https://amzn.to/32jq4g8
Beach-head markets
Navigating Uncertainty — the Fog
Having somebody to bounce ideas off
Coach and Counselor


Welcome To The "Start The Snowball" Podcast

Embrace who you are
Start your snowball
So that you LIVE life on your terms

Hosts Cory Miller and Brad Osborne discuss their thoughts on starting a business online in 2021 based on your unique interests, passions, and skills.

What we call your "Snowball" - the business or side hustle that is unique to you, and helps you get freedom over your time and your income while doing something you're excited about, love and helps others.

We call this your "Snowball"

For entrepreneurs, this is your startup, your new business, or even "Side Hustle" idea to earn you some extra bucks on the weekends.

For creators and builders, this could be the app you can't wait to build, the book you've been waiting to write, the album you can't wait to drop, or the Youtube Channel that's been sitting in your mind for too long and you know the world needs to see.

Any which way you slice it, your Snowball is going to be your way of putting something good and creative into the world, and we want to talk about some of the lessons we've learned over the years from starting businesses, websites, building communities, launching products and courses, and building followings on social media and elsewhere.

What is a snowball and how do you start one?

Learn more and let us help you start your next snowball:

Join us at https://www.starththesnowball.com​ for more ideas about how to start your snowball.

In this episode we discuss how and why to start your snowball - how to discover and follow your "Bliss" and turn your unique interests, skills, passions and desires into a fun snowball - a side hustle, or business that allows you to live life on your terms.

Show notes:

Resources Mentioned:

📕 Crush It by Gary Vaynerchuck

📀 The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell

💪 Strengths Finder

🖍  Kolbe

Why should someone start a snowball on the side - aka a side hustle


It takes time to build a business

Building Audience - Best place to start especially if you have no money


Building Reputation
Building Experience
Diversify your career
Learning
Make Connections — being good people
Discover your bliss
Safety - Keep Your Day Job

Follow (or Discover) Your Bliss


Passions / Interests / Curiosity

Dream big …. Just to get your big list
Find alignments & adjacent interests
Experiences, Groups of Niches/People
Expertise
Often it’s a blend
Your unique strengths — StrengthsFinder, Kolbe




Types of Businesses you can start on the side to start your snowball

This is an excellent way to start “figuring it out” and “discovering”


Content Creation
Blogging / Youtube / Podcast
Services/Freelance
Making / Creating (woodworking, art)
Ecommerce Hobby (start with an Etsy store, or something you collect)
Arbitrage / Flipping / Book Selling / Ebay / Amazon FBA

"The Tattoo Test" - how to know if this idea is a good fit for your snowball

Would you still want to be working on this in 2 years? 5? 10? 

Welcome To The "Start The Snowball" Podcast

Embrace who you are
Start your snowball
So that you LIVE life on your terms

Hosts Cory Miller and Brad Osborne discuss their thoughts on starting a business online in 2021 based on your unique interests, passions, and skills.

What we call your "Snowball" - the business or side hustle that is unique to you, and helps you get freedom over your time and your income while doing something you're excited about, love and helps others.

We call this your "Snowball"

For entrepreneurs, this is your startup, your new business, or even "Side Hustle" idea to earn you some extra bucks on the weekends.

For creators and builders, this could be the app you can't wait to build, the book you've been waiting to write, the album you can't wait to drop, or the Youtube Channel that's been sitting in your mind for too long and you know the world needs to see.

Any which way you slice it, your Snowball is going to be your way of putting something good and creative into the world, and we want to talk about some of the lessons we've learned over the years from starting businesses, websites, building communities, launching products and courses, and building followings on social media and elsewhere.

What is a snowball and how do you start one?

Learn more and let us help you start your next snowball:

Join us at https://www.starththesnowball.com​ for more ideas about how to start your snowball.

In this episode we discuss the pros and cons of Collaboration when it comes to business and creative projects. 

What are the benefits of working with others, and when can it be more challenging than it's worth?

Show notes:

Resources Mentioned:

📕 Range by David Epstein

💪 Strengths Finder

🖍  Kolbe

Productize Course

African Quote - "If you want to go fast - go alone, if you want to go far, go together"



Hosts Cory Miller and Brad Osborne discuss their thoughts on starting a business online in 2021. 

What we call your "Snowball" - the business that is unique to you, and helps you get freedom over your time and your income while doing something you're excited about, love and helps others. 

We call this your "Snowball"

For entrepreneurs, this is your startup, your new business, or even "Side Hustle" idea to earn you some extra bucks on the weekends. 

For creators and builders, this could be the app you can't wait to build, the book you've been waiting to write, the album you can't wait to drop, or the Youtube Channel that's been sitting in your mind for too long and you know the world needs to see. 

Any which way you slice it, your Snowball is going to be your way of putting something good and creative into the world, and we want to talk about some of the lessons we've learned over the years from starting businesses, websites, building communities, launching products and courses, and building followings on social media and elsewhere. 

What is a snowball and how do you start one? 

Learn more and let us help you start your next snowball: 

Join us at https://www.starththesnowball.com​ for more ideas about how to start your snowball.

In this episode we introduce the idea of a "Snowball" - a creative project you feel compelled to create and launch into the world. 

For entrepreneurs, this is your startup, your new business, or even "Side Hustle" idea to earn you some extra bucks on the weekends. 

For creators and builders, this could be the app you can't wait to build, the book you've been waiting to write, the album you can't wait to drop, or the Youtube Channel that's been sitting in your mind for too long and you know the world needs to see. 

Any which way you slice it, your Snowball is going to be your way of putting something good and creative into the world, and we want to talk about some of the lessons we've learned over the years from starting businesses, websites, building communities, launching products and courses, and building followings on social media and elsewhere. 

What is a snowball and how do you start one? 

That's what we discuss in this episode, and what our community is all about helping you figure out. 

Join us at https://www.starththesnowball.com for more ideas about how to start your snowball.