Ask for Feedback & Listen – Part of Chapter V of the book “Find Your Passion”

Ask for Feedback and Listen – Part of Chapter V of the book “Find Your Passion”

If you are a future entrepreneur, here are a few suggestions you can apply to give value to your ideal clients.

Interviews for Ideas and Prototype Testing

Reach out to your ideal clients to ask them for their feedback on your idea for a prototype or sample of your product that you might have created. Depending on the nature of products and services, interviews can vary from fifteen to sixty minutes. In any case, you have to, once again, add value first! Otherwise, no one will have an incentive to participate. You can offer them gift cards in return, or, even better, anything that they would consider of value. As long as you want the feedback from your ideal clients, I’d recommend you offer them for free something you know they would normally buy. You can also offer them the new product or service they’ll test in “usability interviews” to test their interest in advance.

Surveys

You can conduct one-to-five-minute surveys, online or in-person. For online surveys, you can use SurveyMonkey or create a survey for free via Google Forms and reach out to your ideal clients on social media and ask them to fill out the survey. Again, offer them back something of value to show them you respect their time. Regarding the in-person surveys, when things get better with the pandemic, you can do street market research to find where your ideal clients work and hang out and ask them on the spot, face to face!

Research Your Competitors

Collect information from the most successful products or services of your competitors that are similar to or the same as your own. Ask for information from your competitors’ customers.

All the above will give you enough valuable insights about what products and services you can create and deliver. Because remember, before anything else, add value first.

Identify with Your Ideal Customer

Search online what your ideal customer searches for. Put yourself in their shoes. What exactly would you type into a search bar to solve your problem if you were them?

Commitment

It’s time for you to manage your time properly to accelerate your transition into a career with more success, fulfillment, and passion!

But before you jump into your passion work, I want you to ask yourself this question: “What will make me committed?”

You see, even a deadline might not be enough for you to follow through on your career transition because your commitment plays a key role in your ability to meet your deadlines. Most people don’t meet their deadlines. Don’t be one of them. If you set a deadline, honor it fully. If you can’t do this, then you need to answer the previous question. You need to find out what will make you truly committed to going for your passion.

If giving up your job and comfort is what you need to be committed, do it! That’s also what I did. This approach has worked with many people because they were forced to get out of their comfort zone and make things happen for them. So, find what will make you 100 percent committed and do it!

Passion Work

1. Do whatever you need to do to be 100 percent committed to making a living from your passion if that is a priority for you in this period of your life.
2. Set a deadline (specific date and time) to start acquiring the skills and qualifications you need.
3. Use the reminders that work best for you (e.g., post-it notes, posting on walls, images, objects).
4. Leverage and schedule your availability times. For instance, if you have a nine-to-five schedule, leverage your evenings or weekends, or you might want to move to part-time or start reducing your working hours.