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If you’re an expert looking to monetise your expertise easily this is for you
Need 3 app testers. More info here https://tally.so/r/w88elr
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@Damian Kingsbury please see the info on the link. Essentially a 60min user test session of the app prototype. You will be the tester and get £50 for your time.
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FYI we only need people next week now. Latest info on the link
Create your niche, create more leads
Key Person of Influence is Daniel Priestly’s best known book and a masterclass in how to become a lead magnet. He says it’s simply not enough to say your a “Workshop Facilitator” even “Workshop Facilitator for corporations” is not enough. He says in a world where it’s now easy to reach your niche through social networks you have to niche down and then own that niche. To the example above an effective niche would be “Workshop Facilitator for data divisions in top 500 sustainable corporations” would be a good example of a niche you could own. What’s your niche? What do you own? For myself I’ve moved from “Helping corporates do good” to “Helping early stage technology startups design better products faster with design sprint.” This still could be improved to be industry specific e.g. travel or food but is good enough to get started
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@Manuel Hilscher good questions A) it’s important to thoroughly research your niche and judge it’s potential before jumping into it. Questions to be answered could be 1. Will the is audience still be here in 5 years time 2. What’s the size of the audience globally 3. How many players are serving this audience already / is there an opportunity for me to own this niche Global audience I think is the most important as there should be a steady flow of new entrants and with the internet you can reach them wherever you are. Jumping niche? I think with any business you need to give it your all for 12 months and then reflect and reposition if it’s not working. B) create a persona of your target customer in that niche and search for them in LinkedIn. If you’re getting 3k+ results for them you know there’s enough of them. Equally if you only get 100 results and there’s no other solution but you then that could still be enough. Especially if you’re charging each of them 50k or more. C) Steve Jobs said you know you’re focusing when you’re saying no to something that you’re heart is screaming at you to do it but you instead choose to focus and finish on what you started. At the start of a meeting he demanded his execs to tell him what’s the one thing you said no to today that you really wanted to do but didn’t. I think this is especially relevant for ADHD people like me. There’s no reason why you can’t take something supplementary that interests you and build upon your offer, like AI, to improve your offer though
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@Garett Bugda so your niche could be CEOs of health tech SMEs (not turning over more than 5mil per year) who want to get to 10mil a year through innovation. You do this by brining a fresh outside perspective from other industries through innovative workshops that product tangible results
Need a UX Researcher for a 4 week design sprint
Any recommendations please do tag them below. It’s about 30hrs work over a 4 week period for a new client. If it goes well this will evolve into a long term relationship. Many thanks
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Pricing - the perennial question
I am being hired by a UK Charity to facilitate a 5 hour session in London. A one-off. They want a quote from me. Even after some years, I still find it hard to estimate how long it will take, to think through and design exercises for a workshop. I find it hard to know, at the beginning of the process, how complex it is going to be and how much head space it is going to occupy in the coming weeks. And how to charge for the 'dead time' ... the time when one finds oneself thinking about the meeting while walking the dog or driving the car. Questions for you: ** how do you estimate the number of days it will take for ‘preparation and design’? ** do you quote a set fee for a job, or do you quote by day rate and estimate days? How do you set prices? What conversations do you have, with yourself and/or with the client? Big thanks in advance! James
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@James Frost did you follow a value based pricing method? In that did you ask them how much this project is worth to them and then charge them a percentage of that? Definitely don’t do hourly charging. It’s just not relevant for workshops which are fast and provide $$$$$$$ so much value. https://www.youtube.com/live/B1b7QlQILRo?si=Ul2sq064espEWQ5K
Making something free without looking cheap: Hello Pro Bono Design Sprint
I've been consistenly DMing potential clients (thanks @Adam Egger ), attending networking events and getting myself out there which has helped start a steady stream of interest. However I wanted an ever-green product offer that would drive lots of interest by being free but not cheap whilst giving lots of value and lastly position myself as doing good, hello Pro Bono Design Sprint https://probonodesignsprint.scoreapp.com/ If you're thinking of doing the same bake these 3 things in 1. Make it a limited offer "Once per year" 2. Have a close date on when applications will no longer be accepted "Thursday 1 August 2024" 3. Directly address your target audience "Early-stage technology startups who have a great idea but no funding to do it"
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Making something free without looking cheap: Hello Pro Bono Design Sprint
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3 days later and 107 visits, 10 applications and 2 designers have reached out and offered themselves pro-bono to help. Not bad. I can already see what I would do differently to improve upon it e.g. offer something like an LDJ instead or a free talk like Adam does, something less expensive to run.
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@Karin Garcia bravo. Looking forward to seeing your offer 👏
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I help early-stage technology startups build better products faster

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