{"id":1038,"date":"2023-01-12T14:01:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T06:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crazyleelist.com\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2023-01-12T14:37:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T06:37:24","slug":"book-note-will-it-fly-how-to-test-your-next-business-idea-by-pat-flynn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazyleelist.com\/zh_cn\/book-note-will-it-fly-how-to-test-your-next-business-idea-by-pat-flynn\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Note: Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea by Pat Flynn"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Recently finish “Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don’t Waste Your Time and Money<\/a>” (\u4e2d\u6587\u7248: \u9019\u500b\u9ede\u5b50\u6709\u641e\u982d\u55ce\uff1f\u7db2\u8def\u5275\u696d\u5927\u5e2b\u8b93\u4f60\u7684\u9ede\u5b50\u8b8a\u73fe\u91d1<\/a>) byPat Flynn. It’s a very good read, especially on practical method in communicating with the market and fine-tuning products! Hahaha, look at how many bookmarks I made on this Will It Fly<\/a> (\u4e2d\u6587\u7248: \u9019\u500b\u9ede\u5b50\u6709\u641e\u982d\u55ce\uff1f<\/a>)book below. I highly recommend this to anyone who’s starting a business.<\/p>\n

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The first part is Life Coaching exercises. This part makes Will it fly different from other online business books. Others would dive into business steps\/details directly, but in the end, business needs to reflect your own life goals to make you feel fulfilled. (If you are familiar with life coaching\/goal setting, just skip this part; still, I recommend to review it again, and doing those in different times always get new perspective.) I especially impressed with \u201cThe History Test<\/strong>\u201d (see Pat\u2019s link<\/a>). I had never done it before, and after this exercise, I can see clearly my career preference elements.<\/p>\n

The biggest take away of the following main business detail parts is: do market research before starting and don\u2019t get caught up in my entrepreneurial enthusiasm; Pat\u2019s market research method is simple and intuitive, and I can know the project within 1-2 weeks and\u00a0make a real informed decision to either move forward or scrap it. No need to spend so much time and energy exploring the unknown. If I read the book 5 years earlier, I could have saved several years time wasted.<\/p>\n

My method of finding market demand before was relatively straightforward: what I need isn\u2019t available or the current solution provided is not optimal, these give me gap to try the business opportunity. The \u201cmarket research\u201d I did before was just talking to several possible target customers, most of them are in my circles (not broad enough) thus the market research result is often distorted. This book shows in details how to dig deep into the real market demand and how to tweak the idea to better meet the need.<\/p>\n

I apply process in this book to one of my project idea:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Combining my successful platform experience of NT150.com<\/a>, I wanted to build a kids playdate platform to solve the time-consuming process of arranging weekend English outdoorsy activities<\/a> for our 3 yr old; the platform is almost ready, and as always, I didn\u2019t research the market first. \ud83e\udd23 This time, I followed Pat\u2019s step to do a thorough market survey and the result turned the whole project around: the needs of parents are different from what I and my friends in my circle think.<\/p>\n

Those parents in my circles all think the kid\u2019s playdate platform idea is very good. They are with more open personality, willing to communicate, and already spending much time arranging weekend family\/kid trips.<\/p>\n

After doing the market research, (I typed the keywords such as \u201cparenting\u201d, \u201cplaydate\u201d and \u201ckids center\u201d on FB, and whoever share a relevant post in the search results, I sent a private quiz message to them. There are step-by-step detailed process in the book, no worry), I find:<\/p>\n

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  1. Most parents want to relax, prefer to send the kids to studying center\/or any a 1\u20132-hour talent development activity so they can be free from kid for a lil bit. They don’t want to participate\/hold a playdate, nor take their children to far away outdoorsy adventures (they\u2019d feel tired)<\/li>\n
  2. Some are relatively conservative, worried about disagreement with other parents, children might have quarrels, even perhaps scammers host, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The result is surprising to me. It turns out that what everyone else thinks are so different from what I expected. And I did find the key point: Parent wants RELAX, and my product would tweak to this direction. After this experience, I will conduct market research first for each future projects to save me countless time and cost!<\/p>\n

    Pat is already a super successful leader, earns US$170,000 a month, (2022 report<\/a>) his main site SmartPassiveIncome.com<\/a> has 390K followers, and his books are best sellers on Amazon<\/a>, all his books come with companion course (extended teaching video, not only for free, the content is worth watching, many resources are included) I suggest that anyone who reads this Will It Fly<\/a> (\u4e2d\u6587\u7248: \u9019\u500b\u9ede\u5b50\u6709\u641e\u982d\u55ce\uff1f<\/a>) book join the companion course too. Pat absorbs the methods from successful people, then practice them thoroughly. In addition to applying these learned methods, Pat also organizes, simplify, and export them into products such as books\/courses.<\/p>\n

    *Pat\u2019s \u201cSuperfan<\/a>\u201d (\u4e2d\u6587\u7248: \u8d85\u7d1a\u7c89\u7d72<\/a>) book is also great, and \u201cSuperfan\u201d companion course is awesome, it is Pat\u2019s later production, with more resources.<\/p>\n

    Will It Fly<\/a> (\u4e2d\u6587\u7248: \u9019\u500b\u9ede\u5b50\u6709\u641e\u982d\u55ce\uff1f<\/a>) book is a great startup book that saves you so much time when starting a business, the steps are crystal clear, definitely beneficial to keep a copy at hand and checkup all your ideas!<\/p>\n

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