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2021-02-212023-11-13

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Take the money before you build the thing

Announce the product as a single post while it does not exist, then collect preorders or let interest accumulate while you build. Payment is the only demand signal that cannot be faked by politeness, and it lets you test several ideas in parallel and build only the one that sold.


The method

  1. 01

    Test a batch of ideas at once by posting each one to TikTok and collecting preorders through Stripe before any of them is built.

  2. 02

    Announce an information product as a single post before it exists, then build it while interest accumulates.


What it returned

  • A plan to run thirty separate ideas through TikTok posts and Stripe preorders.

  • The Programmatic SEO course began as one tweet and had grown by the time the course itself was finished.


Sources


the second source

Three plays a week, for the phase you are in

No roundup of links, no news. Three tactics more than one builder arrived at separately, with the numbers each one returned and the disagreements left in.

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the second source

Three plays a week, for the phase you are in

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