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Name: The Common Path to Uncommon Success
Rating: 4.2 (165 reviews)
Author: John Lee Dumas

John Lee Dumas

A Roadmap to Financial Freedom and Fulfillment

4.2 (165 Bewertungen)

25 Min.

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What’s in it for me? Turn your big idea into a lucrative business.

For too long, you’ve been led to believe that success is attainable – but only for a select few. After all, not every up-and-coming entrepreneur becomes a millionaire overnight.

But here’s the truth: the key to uncommon success doesn’t have to remain top secret, held behind high-priced paywalls by self-appointed gatekeepers. The path to success is, in fact, a common one. And there are practical steps you can take to follow this common path all the way to achieving uncommon success.

In these blinks, you’ll find out exactly how to harness the power of these techniques to attain financial freedom and personal fulfillment. It all starts with one big idea. So what’s yours?

In these blinks, you’ll learn

how to find the perfect mentor;
the benefits of creating a fictional ideal customer; and
why all bug problems aren’t the same.

Identify your big idea by matching your passions with your skills.

At some point, you’ve probably had an idea and thought, Maybe I could turn this into a profitable business. But there are some common pitfalls when it comes to identifying the big ideas that are really worth pursuing.

The first involves only choosing something you’re passionate about. Sure, you might love muffins – but that doesn’t necessarily mean that you have the knowledge and experience required to open a muffin bakery.

The second mistake occurs when you believe your big idea needs to be something you’re good at, even if it’s not a true passion. For example, if you’re good at coding, you might decide your big idea is to build websites. But if that doesn’t really excite you, you’ll probably lose steam further down the road. So how can you figure out which ideas really have a bright future?

The key message here is: Identify your big idea by matching your passions with your skills.

To get started on identifying your best ideas, consider your top skills and decide which of them excites you the most. The best idea combines something you care about and have experience in. Once you find that, you enter what the author calls your zone of fire.

Some people spend months, or even years, trying to pinpoint this sweet spot between enthusiasm and proficiency. But locating your zone of fire should only take a few minutes of your time – and all you need is a pen and paper.

Here’s how to do it.

Draw a vertical line through the center of the page. Write the word “passion” at the top of the left column and “expertise” above the right-hand column. Set a timer for five minutes, and press start. Write down everything you’re passionate about – including activities or causes that enthused you as a kid or young adult. If you had nothing scheduled for tomorrow, and no responsibilities, how would you spend your day?

Reset the timer, and use the next five minutes to write down everything you’re an expert in. What are you really good at?

The last step is to look at your passions and areas of expertise, and consider which from the first column combine well with competencies from the second.

The author discovered that he was passionate about chatting with successful entrepreneurs. And his time in the US Army and subsequent stint in corporate finance had taught him valuable public-speaking skills. Once he put these things together, it clicked: he’d create a podcast and interview entrepreneurs who’d cracked the code to success.

Find a niche problem, and adjust your big idea to solve it.

Now that you have your big idea, you need to make sure it provides value to other people. Your big idea should offer a real, in-demand solution to a specific problem in the world. Otherwise, potential customers won’t have a reason to put it on their radar.

Just take one inventor who developed a spray for every kind of bug in the world. Did you have a termite problem? Check. What about ants or cockroaches? The same product would do the trick. On the packaging, bright lettering proclaimed that this single spray could “kill every bug in your household.”

Create your ideal customer.

Not everyone can be your customer. In fact, of the billions of people in the world, the vast majority will never use your service or consume your content. And that’s a good thing.

The author’s exclusive podcasting community, Podcasters’ Paradise, has only had about six thousand people join in its eight years of existence. And yet it’s brought in over $5 million in revenue by catering expressly to their requirements.

Select the platform that best serves your avatar’s lifestyle.

Think of your favorite online content. Is it in the form of an e-newsletter, a podcast, or a YouTube channel? Perhaps you'd still read, listen, or watch that same content if it changed to a different medium. But chances are you enjoy that content partly because it's easy for you to fit into your current lifestyle.

With your own big idea, you'll also have to pick the most effective medium to reach your target audience. To best share your message, choose between the three most popular platforms: audio, video, or written text. Each comes with its own advantages, which we’ll take a closer look at in just a moment.

Find a mentor, and start or join a mastermind group.

You’ve made it this far on the path to uncommon success, and now you’re almost ready to get started creating content for your avatar. You’re bound to encounter hurdles along the way, and for the occasional question or crisis you might be inclined to lean on friends or family for help.

But, in the long run, it’s more effective to have dedicated people you go to for advice and constructive criticism. That’s where masterminds and mentors come in.

Plan out your content production strategy.

Now it’s time to get into the finer details of making your big idea a reality. And here’s the thing: essentially, all you need to do is stick to the plan.

But what if you don’t have a plan yet?

Start creating your content, and then launch!

Many entrepreneurs get through the exciting stages of brainstorming ideas, announcing their dreams of financial freedom, and even scheduling content production to a T. Then the majority go on to fail within their first year. But why?

Well, all of your planning and preparation won’t matter if you don’t sit down and actually do the work. Creating a steady flow of valuable, free content is difficult. And, at first, you might make some mistakes – but that’s expected.

Generate additional income by building sales funnels.

While running Entrepreneurs on Fire, the author learned a lot about both podcasting and entrepreneurship. And his podcast became so successful that many listeners asked for more guidance on creating their own podcasts.

The result? Podcasters’ Paradise – an elite community of aspiring podcasters. Members paid a fee to access a premium course in podcasting, and to attend exclusive events and webinars hosted by the author.

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The Common Path to Uncommon Success (2021) arms you with the tools to create valuable content and turn it into financial independence. Drawing on more than 3,000 interviews with successful entrepreneurs, it lays bare the path to transforming your big idea into a profitable business.

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Über den Autor

John Lee Dumas is the founder and host of the award-winning podcast Entrepreneurs on Fire, which has more than 3,000 episodes and over 100 million listens to date. After many years of active duty in the US Army, Dumas worked in corporate finance and real estate; he also spent a year in law school before deciding to escape the nine-to-five and become an entrepreneur. He’s the author of Podcast Launch: A Complete Guide to Launching Your Podcast.

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