Ten Ideas Every Day

Based on James Altucher's Daily Practice

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10 ideas for my morning idea/writing time

Write in detail about a single business idea for a specific business

Practice writing about political issues

Practice writing about philosophical/ethical issues

Practice writing scary stuff

Write about switching from 10 ideas/day to a daily blog post

Write about the value of ideas

How to sell a special podcast episode

Write about business model experimentation and podcasting

Write about the conflict between wanting to share things online and the potential negative ramifications

Don’t pigeon-hole myself into one topic yet, write about a bunch of different things and see what resonates. Then either try to find a common thread between the different topics or focus on the things that are hitting.

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10 things that would help my career

Get involved in something else locally that is low commitment but introduces me to a lot of new people

Look for opportunities to help local people on Reddit or with marketing

Write more

Setup a website for local marketing and web design

Write better 10 ideas lists

Read more

Listen more

Write for local media

Do great work

Ask for referrals and testimonials

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10 ideas for ICYou

Offer free consultations

Price the course high (~$300 or higher)

Get on as many podcasts as possible

Do live talks

Write

Do guest blogs

Do a podcast where you answer questions about children

Give away all of the preview videos for free

Create a community for leaders of children

Get pictures for testimonials

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10 ideas for someone launching an online course

Build your audience!

Write every day

Get the best video and audio equipment you can

Setup a nice looking studio

Offer a sale on launch and never offer a sale again

Offer 3 price points

Never give someone a discount

Automate as much as possible

Have a solid email sequence that sells the course

Send an email right before the sale is over to people that haven’t bought

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10 ideas for a daily challenge app

Auto recording goals if possible (e.g. sync with a fitbit for fitness goals, kindle for reading goals, meditation app for meditation goals).

Have public and private groups that people can join

Add a “leader” to a group. Tweet the leader automatically when you complete the task.

Allow everyone to bring their own daily challenge to the group

Sync each group with a community platform so users can share stories and support each other

Add option to attach video or image when marking a daily task complete

Notify leader when a user reaches a certain goal

Randomly alert users when other users complete their daily task

Alert users when someone in the group hasn’t completed their task and it’s getting late

Upgrade status in the group when certain goals are reached

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10 takeaways from the Cafe

It is a great event, would be a shame to not do it next year

It takes up a lot of the Board’s time, need to organize it better

There should have been a Cafe committee with defined roles (Chair, sponsor lead, vendor lead, decorator, 

The performances should end by 3:30

Is a saturday in the fall the best day for it?

We should check sports schedules and local events to make sure we don’t have too much competition

There was a lot of root beer left, should have just bought some growlers

People really liked the apple cider

Not making people sign in was a great idea

Not doing flyers was a good idea, didn’t seem to affect attendance

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10 things I love about America that may or may not be true

Customer service

Virtually zero low-level government corruption (cops excluded)

Ease of travel, no borders or language changes

Food

Opportunity

Diversity (people, land, food, cultures)

The constitution

Credit cards

Entertainment

Bourbon

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10 things we’ve gotten used to that we don’t really need

Clothes

3 meals per day

Monogamy

Sedentary lifestyle

Sleeping on a mattress

Footwear

Hierarchical authority

Religion

Utensils

USD

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10 questions/ideas for Barn Burner Promotions

What’s it like to work with the Oak Ridge Boys?

Who is your primary customer? Who pays you and who do you work with?

Who comes to your show?

What is your experience with Reddit so far?

How about local subreddits, doesn’t seem to be on in your area

There is a musicpromotion subreddit

What have been some of your biggest successes?

How much time are you spending on this business?

What are your current marketing channels?

Any special relationships in the are that you can leverage?

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10 things I should learn/practice

Public speaking

Piano

Working with a team

Leading a team

Sales

Monitoring reddit

Ethics

Networking

Hiring

Training

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10 ways unethical marketing can come back to bite you

Lower quality customers

More chargebacks and refunds

Unhappy customers, more customer support required

Hard time sleeping

Legal action

Spending time/resources trying to stay ahead of whatever system you’re trying to game

You could get exposed

Tactics could drive away your best customers, the ones that will get the best results/most value and help build your business

You’ll have a hard time building community because your members will want to discuss your unethical practices

Other businesses won’t want to partner with you

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10 topics for ethical marketing

Daily Fantasy Ads (or casinos in general)

High pressure sales calls

Pricing products and services

The fine line between marketing/advertising and manipulation

Strategies that some have called into question that we think are okay

FreeCreditReport.com/Auto opt-in subscriptions

“Unhealthy” product advertising (nicotine, alcohol, fast food)

Micro bid auction sites

What do you gain from being ethical?

The ethics of claims (4 hour work week, increase x, etc)

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10 things that keep me up at night

Living situation Prospect of finding a place Prospect of paying for my own place Future of relationship Future of business Caffeine Nicotine Financial situation, need to save Upcoming calls or speaking Too drunk

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10 christmas gifts

Box of golf balls

Scratch and sniff whiskey book

Scratch and sniff wine book

Restaurant gift cert

Tickets to a show

Whiskey

Wine

Pierogies

Framed picture

Blue apron gift

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10 ways I could make money

Clean up my personal website and start networking

Part time at a golf course

Look for writing jobs

Tutor

Sell car

Find any part-time job

Finish CCM project

Hit up DM about his website

Leverage board experience

Upwork

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10 halloween costumes

Trump

Cosby

Stitches

Police officer

Game of thrones

Ant man

Pope

Syrian refugee (that’s horrible)

Mexican immigrant (again, horrible)

The kid who brought that “clock” to school

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10 christmas gifts

Rumi spice

Book

Beer

Pappy

Casa Dragones

Cigar

Kitchen stuff

Coffee

Puzzle

Game