Michael Marlin White’s Post

Grinding away in your business and not seeing real progress means only 1 thing: You’re working on the wrong things. And look, it’s easy to do. Because there are so many damn options online. → Business models → Marketing channels → Content strategies → Tech stack options → Fulfillment systems And to make things more difficult: Success is in the sequence. Meaning, it’s about doing the right thing—at the right time. I learned this through years of trial and error. But after selling more than $2.5 million online. And launching 3 productized services that have generated $500k+ each. I've got a process that works. And 3 times a year I run a Bootcamp to guide a small number of people through it. It's the program I really wish I had when I started. If you're interested in: Fast tracking your progress. Avoiding expensive & painful mistakes. And eliminating doubt about whether you're working on the right thing–right now. Shoot me a DM to see if we still have spots open. We’re going live July 15. 🏝

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This week at ResultMaps, we improved clarity for our friends using the Entrepreneurial Operating System™ (EOS). It’s even easier to break your 90-day rocks into milestones, and see the work that’s going into them. Milestones give you waypoints on the path to achieving the rock.  TIP: no more than 5 milestones, or you’ll end up with a to-do list instead of meaningful milestones. With milestones set up, you can align to-do’s or projects and see your progress. That means you see the path clearly from your vision, through your 1-year plan, all the way through rocks, milestones and to-do’s. And of course, it’s easy to create issues from any of them, or pull them into your weekly L10. On to the next week's sprint! What did you ship this week?

Fail fast, fail often, they say. Well, we’ve definitely had our fair share of failures in the two years of running Cloud9devs. The top three that come to mind? 1️⃣ Releasing an MVP on a Friday afternoon 2️⃣ Making assumptions about a new client 3️⃣ Making a subpar V1 of our own website Whenever we’re faced with a challenge like that, I remember the words of my business coach: “Don’t whine; focus on what you can do. What’s the action plan?” It’s thanks to that mindset that we found a fix for each – and learned a valuable lesson to boot: 1️⃣ Never launch on a Friday. For everyone’s sake, it can wait until Monday. 2️⃣ Ask instead of assuming. Have a dedicated communication channel for updates and queries. 3️⃣ Make sure your website clearly communicates your expertise. How else are people gonna know? I’m sure there are more f*ckups in store for us. They come with the territory. But we’re not afraid of them. That’s because they helped us get to where we are today: Building platforms that attract hundreds of thousands of users and generate millions of dollars of revenue for clients across the globe. Onwards and upwards!

Productizing my services literally changed my life. My services became: → Easier to market. → Easier to sell. → A hell of a lot easier to deliver. And just as importantly. Productizing allowed me to iterate and improve what I was delivering. Just like a tech company might update some software. But best of all, it allowed me to deliver better work. At higher rates. In less time. Which created freedom. Freedom I could use to continue growing my business if I wanted. Or freedom to go to the beach with family if I didn’t. If you're burning out. Or your business is plateauing. Consider productizing as the next phase. To scale your revenue. And your time. If you want a deeper dive into what productizing services is all about, check out this YT video I recorded for you: https://lnkd.in/eU8TWUQH 🏝

Here are some ideas for content creation if you're a startup company: 1. Weekly Updates: - Share growth metrics and team accomplishments every week. 2. Highlight Your Product: - Explain the problems your product solves and showcase customer success stories.

Do you ever wonder what happens when the path you’ve spent years building suddenly no longer feels like yours? As Kipling said, “If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss… and lose, and start again at your beginnings, and never breathe a word about your loss…” After + 18 years in Corporate. I took a step back. Reflected. Traveled. And started building again —this time with my bare hands, trillions of knowledge and hopefully a fresh vision. I’m quietly working on something new—AI tools platform designed for students, SaaS as real state, creative branding solutions and Growth and Elevate hacks—all designed to help others rebuild and thrive. Because I know others also find themselves re-building with their bare hands, my mission is to help. Big things are coming. 💡

"Believe you can and you're halfway there." 💫 Recently, I've been deeply involved in several exciting projects: launching the Time Thief Quiz (my new sales funnel and all its components), developing The Productivity Accelerator (shh, it’s a secret! 😉), and even revamping my website and refining my messaging. The deadlines I've set have made it intense, but here's the key—it’s my belief in the impact these initiatives will have on others that has made the process flow seamlessly. Don’t underestimate the power of self-belief. Take one action today that aligns with your vision and see the difference it makes. What's your first step?

Wondering why your business isn’t growing as you thought it would? The issue could be that your flywheel is stuck. Let us help you figure out which stage you are in and what needs to be done to keep things moving. https://lnkd.in/eTkNhqtz

To be successful, you need to be able to distinguish between signal 📶 and noise 🙉. And this applies to everyone‼️. You see, one of the key elements of scaling fast is recognizing triggers and cutting through the noise. And to do this most times, you will need to not be nice! I love everyone on my team but believe me, brutality is needed if you are to get it done when everyone else can’t. — I prefer to be kind other than being nice. People think both are the same. But they are actually not. Being a builder myself and a product manager, I’ve always learned to build fast, ship fast, fail fast (if need be), and scale fast so you can build support to stay up fast. Building DMZ KAM in 2023 I landed 3 major partnerships in my first 3 months of running the platform. Note that at this point I was a solo-builder hidden in my tiny office space disturbing about 8 countries digitally as at then. — What happened here was that decisions were made faster, no excess logical thinking and emotional bias. No bureaucratic delays and unnecessary approvals and meetings. I just got shit load of work done. — When I was going to shutdown it wasn’t because of lack of users… It was lack of moving from product to profitability. This happened because I didn’t have enough resources to actually build a “Premium Edutech Solution” After I shutdown and started working on some research, I found out if I had maximized my partnerships and shut out the noise from everyone I would have still did good. — I don’t want to build another “online learning platform”. I want to build a life building platform that builds capacity into people and help them achieve a better life. Believe in as much as DMZ KAM only stayed up for 1 year plus, I know folks physically who graduated and are finding a better path because I built something — Fast forward to today, I shape product with signals other than noise. When people consult me for product development, I tend to go back to the “law of first principle” and solve the problem from ground up. In 2022, terms like TAM, SAM, and SOM will take my research time. Today, it’s a secondary factor for me. The first question is “Is this a problem, is it causing a challenge, and are people experiencing pain from these challenges?” Once there is a YES for all of these guys. Let’s get to customer discovery with an MVP that cost below $500-$1,000. $500-$1,000? Yes. That’s the idea MVP budget. I must figure out how to get the MVP of any idea out for under that budget. — If we push that crappy product and people still indicate interest, then, we can go back and start the TAM, SAM, SOM thingy. In essence, all I am saying is that customer discovery has become my major signal. — On a project I am currently contributing to, when everyone started contributing their bit (the noise), pace reduced. As a product manager or product person, learn to identify core contributors and stick to them too. — Cheers 🥂