I made some very healthy sales in the first few days of Awesome Fear-Wrangling. I now have an extra two thousand Aussie dollars in my PayPal account, flexing and looking smug. That’s about half of what I calculated I’d need to quit the Day Job and still have a couple months of basic don’t-get-kicked-out-of-the-house savings….
Monthly Archives: May 2010
The day after
The big Official Sparkly Launch is over (although if you buy Awesome Fear-Wrangling before the end of the week there will be bonuses), and so far I have made about half as much as I need to quit the Day Job. It’s a decent start; thank you to everyone who bought the resource so far….
Getting it done, heads or tails
For the last two weeks, every morning has been a coin flip. photo credit: Micah Sittig Heads: I wake up excited, thinking, “Oh, Awesome Fear-Wrangling is gonna sell a zillion copies! More than enough to allow me to quit the Day Job and not have to try to work 14-hour days in winter! Wahoo!” Tails:…
Birthday thank-yous
On this side of the world it’s the 28th and that means: it’s my birthday it’s the launch day for Awesome Fear-Wrangling and now seems like the perfect time to thank the many wonderful people who helped me. photo credit: Samdogs The Dude For new readers, The Dude is my partner of ten years: he…
A thousand flavours of awesome
I’ve been doing interviews and guest posts all over the place to prepare for Tomorrow’s Big Birthday Launch, and finding out that being interviewed is as much fun as interviewing someone else, hurray! I raised a stunningly good point in one of them and I want to share it with you. photo credit: nikoretro In…
The weird part about relationship marketing
I made the sales page for Awesome Fear-Wrangling available to my (totally awesome) advance discount list and I had EIGHT sales in the first 12 hours. (JOY JOY JOY.) Unsurprisingly, it’s my biggest supporters who bought first: if you looked at the list of buyers it would be familiar to any of you who hang…
Awesome is Memorable
It’s time for another guest post! Here’s some wisdom from the delightful Peggie. In order to be awesome you must be memorable. Being memorable is scary stuff. I mean, people have to take notice of you in order to be memorable. Being memorable strikes fear in a lot of good hearts. People who want to…
How to build a rock-solid relationship online
I have four people working for me right now. For free. One of them is me. (I count, right?) One is The Dude, who is trimming and equalising the last audio files for Awesome Fear-Wrangling. But that’s one of the lesser-known duties of partners. The two others are friends from forums who are kindly smacking…
Fear and the first-mover advantage
I’ve been trying to add more images (now that my readers have showed me how to do it in under an hour) and I’m going to try something a little experimental: a tale of graphs. Don’t worry, it won’t bite. This is the diffusion of ideas: the rate at which new ideas and technologies spread….
Own your awesomeness
Suppose I walk up to you in the street and I say to you, “Hey, that last important thing you did? That was awesome. Magnificent. Superb! You’re totally kick-ass.” What’s your reply? “Thanks! It was a lot of work and I’m proud of the result. Glad you liked it!” or is it more “Oh, well,…