Gaining the confidence to take a chance on yourself.
Last week Ryan and I had a great conversation with Lissy, one of the participants of our first Restart workshop.
Bite-Sized Lessons for Solopreneurs from Soloprenuers
Practical tips to help you get and keep paying clients through straightforward and concise lessons on the most useful tools.
What Would Bowie Do?
When you work for yourself there will be times when you’re working by yourself. While building Jump Ship we’
A 5-minute overview of Restart
Here's 5 minutes of our workshop to figure out if you should go independent.
Our first two programs are live
Introducing our first two programs: Positioning That Sells and Restart
3 distinct patterns about working for yourself, 1 stark reality, and 1 shared desire
This past week alone, I spoke to 28 people about working for themselves. There are three distinct patterns that are standing out for me.
What do you think about working for yourself?
We're interested in speaking with 15-20 people who are curious about working for themselves or have started down this path already. Specifically, we're looking for people who want to make money by providing services (consulting, coaching, training, design, research, etc.).
A Google Sheet template to standardize your Tags and Custom Fields across your tools
Here's a spreadsheet I wish I had at the beginning of starting my company. Here's a free Google sheet template to help you set up your tag strategy for tracking customer status, progress, purchases, etc., across tools.
Our first Jump Ship! GPT is ready for testing.
The Jump Ship! Brand Messaging Assistant is a custom GPT to help you clarify the messaging of what you do, the problem you solve, and the steps it takes to do business with you in a simple and clear way. And, if you want it, generate the content of a single-page website with the results.
And… we're back!
Reflections and updates about the changes and pivots to Second Wave Dive and Chief Design Officer School, and how those efforts will be a part of Jump Ship!
Hang on.
I don’t know about you and your sphere of influence, but in mine, I’m talking with a lot of folks who are feeling near or at the end of their rope. They are tapped out. And to be honest, so are Ryan and I.
How to find clients who will pay you–please answer this simple question
Getting clients is both hard and not as hard as you think. When starting a new business, especially a product or service business, you must run many tests to determine if you're providing something new or novel to your future customers.
Inch by inch everything is a cinch, especially when you're tenacious.
When it comes to helping people in their careers what they already know can be helpful, but it isn’t the most important. What matters most is their desire and ability to learn combined with a passion to invest in themselves. The rest is easy.
Both feet "in" required, not permanently so
Taking an entrepreneurial path doesn't require your attention 24/7, but you must be tenacious when you give your attention.
Getting to business failure as fast as you can.
We’re deep into our beta cohort and I’d say it’s going well, very well. And my mark
Eating our own dog food. How we're using frameworks to develop the Jump Ship! brand.
Last week, Greg and I reached the point where we needed clarity on our messaging for Jump Ship to clarify the offer we're providing and for whom. We need to get more clear on our initial marketing and brand story so that when people ask, we have a succinct, consistent answer that resonates.
Kicking things off with the uncomfortable questions, for good reason.
After working with him for a few months, my friend and mentor, Jeffrey Zeldman told me something I was not
Figuring out who else is selling what you're selling will challenge your motivation to keep going
It can be a hard emotional hit if you jump straight into the business stuff. Focusing on the emotional side of this exploration is critical to get through the analytical stuff.
I had to know what success would feel like before I started
If I was going to start my own business, I HAD to succeed in both having a meaningful life and making money for this to work.
From an idea to your business model
By the time most of you will read this, Ryan and I will have completed the first session of our
There's work for you.
This morning I read that yet another company is laying off 7% of their labor force. Like all other kinds
Can you increase the odds of working for yourself?
Hi there. Ryan here. This is Jump Ship, a brand new joint venture between me (Second Wave Dive) and Greg