This is one of the biggest benefits of involving

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This is one of the biggest benefits of involving your target audience in the creation process as you go—some of the people that are interested in what you’re doing will want to participate with you. I’m all in for that.

I now have access to a drone and a 360 cam—SCORE.

This could’ve been perceived as a barrier to entry for this business, but I side-stepped that by involving my target audience in the process of building. These items are pricy to buy and still a little expensive to rent, so it’s great knowing that I’ll be able to borrow this gear when it’s time to shoot my content.

MailChimp and Gmail (whoops).

Over the past week, I also took 10min to sign up for a free MailChimp account afghanistan phone number database my lunch break so that I’d be able to send email broadcasts to my early subscribers in the near future. In hindsight, did I absolutely need to do this already? No. It was a waste of that 10min.

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I won’t be using this service immediately since I’ll be primarily sending individual emails to my early subscribers to keep it very personal, but got excited and wanted to lock down the MailChimp account now while I was thinking about it.

No particular reason why I did this already—and to be honest I really didn’t need to. In retrospect, this was not the best utilization of my time and isn’t how I advise managing opportunities.

Same goes for the Gmail account I created this week—did I absolutely need to get a new email account just for this website (that doesn’t even exist yet)? No, not yet at least. But I got excited and did it.

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I don’t have plans to use this email address immediately either—I’ll get to that point once my site is up and I need to list a more relevant contact email.

Generating product ideas.

I’m going to keep these 1-on-1 conversations going with my early feedback group. My goal is to learn how I can best help them—and to come up with product or service ideas that deliver value.