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DQ News: How to Failproof Your Business, Episode 5: The Product/Service Snowball

One of the most common lines of questioning Dave and I get — when he’s not being questioned by the police, of course, because that’s totally different — is how to diversify income streams. Remember when everyone said they had a novel in them?

Now everyone’s got an ebook, and for good reason. People who sell products want to sell services, people who sell services want to sell products — life coaches, I’m talking to you — and people who aren’t selling anything yet are wandering around in a haze of conflicting advice. Sigh. Is this any way to spend time that could be perfectly wasted with a bottle of wine and Love Actually? I think not.

Over the last few days, Dave and I talked about the most important thing you need to do with your business, how to build a big list, what people don’t tell you about social proof and why standing up for yourself brings in the big bucks.

In today’s video, Dave and I talk about The Snowball. We teach you:

• Moving into products from services (yay! passive income!)
• Branching out into services from products
• Using your services to sell your products (including a secret ingredient)
• Using your products to sell your services (hint: big money here, darling)

We also talk about my personal favorite, a world-rockingly simple way to make $250 by tomorrow and get a product out the door NOW. (It involves a gun. That’s all I’m saying.)

I’m also told by my beta viewers that my riding pants are really hot. Oh, yes. I went there.

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Think You’re Not An Expert?

“You’re not an expert. You’re just some guy in his home office.” So said the wife of someone I know, someone whose business brings in a little more than half a million dollars a year in profit. It’s been a long time since we’ve talked about this around he

Captain Jack Sparrow on Living your Brand

This is a guest post from Deanna Lohnes, founder and proprietor of Parlance Media. I was sitting on the train checking out a stranger’s tattoos. He caught me looking intently at the one on his forearm. He said “Jack Sparrow” by way of ex

How To Failproof Your Business, Episode 8: Making Metrics Sexy, and How To Make Damn Sure You Don’t Quit

So this is it, the last in the series. This is the last piece of the puzzle. We want to make sure you’re actually doing this stuff. Doing stuff = very good. Being Mr. Quitting Pants = not good. Especially for those of you who are taking the Failproo