Seeding Partners | Day 26: 100 Day Challenge: Zero to $10k a Day

Day 26

Seeding Partners

Galatians 6:7 reads: “Do not be deceived. God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.”

The way I understand this is that whatever you sow, you will eventually receive.

Whatever seeds you plant, will eventually grow and be harvested.

Therefore, I am planting seeds for partners.

There are things I can do and there are things I cannot do.

When you are starting a business, that is not the time to be learning how to run a business.

If you need to learn marketing but don’t know marketing, it will not help to learn marketing as you attempt to start the business. You would be competing against established marketers and expert copywriters who have been doing this as their profession for years, possibly decades. How can you hope to compete?

In my opinion, you can’t.

So don’t bother.

Find a marketer, find a copywriter, find those people who know marketing of the type you need and partner with them.

Maybe they will say no, and if so, that’s okay, just go on to the next on your list. Sooner or later someone will say yes.

When you start a business, you need to begin where you are. You cannot begin where you are not. Attempting to do so will only bankrupt you and lead to business failure.

You cannot start anything where you are not.

If I arrive in Los Angeles near LAX, and I want to travel the PCH (Pacific Coast Highway) to San Francisco, I can’t start in Riverside. I’m not in Riverside.

I am at LAX, the airport, and that’s where I need to start from, attempting to start from any other location is ludicrous, it simply won’t work.

But that’s how many of us face starting a business.

There are so many things we don’t know.

And there are many things we don’t know that we don’t know.

This is probably the biggest reason why 50% of all new businesses fail within the first five years. You don’t know what you don’t know and trying to learn how to run a business when you’re trying to start a business just multiplies your chances of failing.

Begin where you are. Focus on your strengths, and, as I say in my book — outsource the rest.

Focus on what you do best and let others focus on what they do best. Find those who complement your strengths with strengths of their own — marketing, distribution, product development, accounting, human resources, customer service — and build your team with these people. That’s how you build a successful — and sustainable — business.

Of course, finding partners is not the easiest thing in the world if you don’t know how to do ‘That’.

But, this is the one thing you have got to learn if you want to fill in the gaps of your own skills, knowledge and expertise.

Whatever you lack, you have to find someone else to do.

With this in mind then, I am seeking partners.

I am following Chris Duncan’s definitions of “types” of people.

Chris lists 5 “types.”

1. “Seeker.” These are the people who can come up with new ideas, new business, new inventions or processes nine ways to Sunday. That’s me. I am always coming up with new business ideas.

2. “Starter.” People of this type are the marketers, they ask; “How can I sell this?”

3. “Promoter.” This type of person is also a type of marketer. They are looking how to get the message out to the most people possible. They want everyone to know of their company’s brand new product or service.

4. “Builder.” This category are the business builders, they are always looking for ways to systemize the business making it more efficient, scalable and productive.

5. “Operator.” This person focuses on finding the right people for the business. They are looking at how best to run the business and what people would be best to fill each role.

Scientology (I went to a Scientology church in Arizona for a few years) lists 17 “hats” (what Scientology calls departments or divisions) that every business needs to scale, be productive, be profitable and survive.

I don’t have my Scientology Handbook with me, and I don’t think all those categories are absolutely necessary to fill — not for a startup anyway. So we will stick with Chris Duncan’s 5 types.

Seeker. I am a Seeker. I think of new ideas on almost a daily business — sometimes 2 or 3 a day. And I know many of these would make successful businesses because I often see “my” ideas becoming a successful business months or years later. How may of you are the same way?

So if you are any of these other types in Chris Duncan’s 5 types of people, let’s partner up.

DM me and we will get a conversation started. If it seems we will work well together, we will take it from there.

DM me or leave your comments below. I read everything.

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