Thanks for making these offers! I think you might get more interest if you give more information. For example, you don’t want to share your current ideas regarding marketing, but perhaps you could share a past brilliant idea or two that you’ve had and implemented?
For reference, I’ve gotten a lot of backlash from friends in the community about even posting this post—it went through a lot of editing before I published it, because people are extremely skeptical about the values of business ideas in and of themselves at all. So for your purposes even with a promise to only request compensation if it works, potential interested parties will usually need a lot of convincing just to think its worth investing their time in talking with you.
Likewise, examples and data regarding other offers & claims would also be great. The feedback I’ve gotten that people, especially in this community want, is specific with concrete examples. You are better off being overly specific and potentially causing someone to think they’re not part of your target market than under specific and having everyone just read past.
Best wishes! And please respond in this thread with any results you get from anything in this post, including if this advice helps you in another context :)
I agree with “potential interested parties will usually need a lot of convincing just to think its worth investing their time in talking with you” but I’m unwilling to put significant effort into trying to convince them in this post. Here’s why: Nothing that I say even matters at all. They need to see it for themselves.
The way I see my post working is this: As people get to know me from my posts on LessWrong, some of them will see evidence of ability and start getting an idea of what kinds of things I’m good at. THEN they’ll think it’s worth investing the time to explain their problem to me and see what happens.
I’m not interested in working hard to convince people that don’t want to believe me, who may be too risk averse to think big—all for the prospect of not getting paid! My personality is like oil to that water. It’s the people who are thinking big and can guess at what I have to offer based on our interactions that I’d like to work with.
I’m just not known in this community yet.
And, just in case it wasn’t clear, most of my marketing ideas are untested. I’ve had some amusing successes, but I’m not a professional marketer. I’m a person who has enough of the right kinds of ideas that potential is there, but has not yet had the opportunity to make use of it. If you want to pay people like they’re interns, you tend to hire entry level people, no? If you want to do new kinds of work, you tend to accept that it might not pay well at first, right? For marketing ideas, I’ve essentially got an intern-like attitude, though I am offering only a small time investment.
Hi Epiphany,
Thanks for making these offers! I think you might get more interest if you give more information. For example, you don’t want to share your current ideas regarding marketing, but perhaps you could share a past brilliant idea or two that you’ve had and implemented?
For reference, I’ve gotten a lot of backlash from friends in the community about even posting this post—it went through a lot of editing before I published it, because people are extremely skeptical about the values of business ideas in and of themselves at all. So for your purposes even with a promise to only request compensation if it works, potential interested parties will usually need a lot of convincing just to think its worth investing their time in talking with you.
Likewise, examples and data regarding other offers & claims would also be great. The feedback I’ve gotten that people, especially in this community want, is specific with concrete examples. You are better off being overly specific and potentially causing someone to think they’re not part of your target market than under specific and having everyone just read past.
Best wishes! And please respond in this thread with any results you get from anything in this post, including if this advice helps you in another context :)
Look what I did:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/up/shut_up_and_do_the_impossible/77vu
I agree with “potential interested parties will usually need a lot of convincing just to think its worth investing their time in talking with you” but I’m unwilling to put significant effort into trying to convince them in this post. Here’s why: Nothing that I say even matters at all. They need to see it for themselves.
The way I see my post working is this: As people get to know me from my posts on LessWrong, some of them will see evidence of ability and start getting an idea of what kinds of things I’m good at. THEN they’ll think it’s worth investing the time to explain their problem to me and see what happens.
I’m not interested in working hard to convince people that don’t want to believe me, who may be too risk averse to think big—all for the prospect of not getting paid! My personality is like oil to that water. It’s the people who are thinking big and can guess at what I have to offer based on our interactions that I’d like to work with.
I’m just not known in this community yet.
And, just in case it wasn’t clear, most of my marketing ideas are untested. I’ve had some amusing successes, but I’m not a professional marketer. I’m a person who has enough of the right kinds of ideas that potential is there, but has not yet had the opportunity to make use of it. If you want to pay people like they’re interns, you tend to hire entry level people, no? If you want to do new kinds of work, you tend to accept that it might not pay well at first, right? For marketing ideas, I’ve essentially got an intern-like attitude, though I am offering only a small time investment.