Stay cool and automate
Show Notes:
Life is going well for Mark! Thanks to cleaning out his air conditioner, the appartment is now a cool 26 degrees Celsius instead of the 33 degrees it was last week! Rather than endure that furnace, he spent most afternoons last week at coffee shops. He can't take his Mac mini, monitor and ergonomic keyboard to them, but he did take his Kindle and ended up reading three full books. He also hit his health goals and a new milestone for Alchemist Camp subscribers!
Justin has gathered half a million carrots in his son's video game, but his automation efforts haven't been entirely wasted. He's been inspired by in game success and has started automating parts of his wife's online business and created a self-serve version of her course for therapists. It's generated seven sales at $499 so far. He's also been tweaking a few things in the Nugget bootcamp based on what he's seen of from one of the students progress so far. Along a similar line, Mark's been very gradually automating a free intro email course he offers his email subscribers. It's still a mostly manual process but the part that accounts for 90% of Mark's manual effort is automated.
Justin talks a bit about the struggles of juggling contracting, entrepreneurial work and being at home with a young kid during Covid.
Mark gives Justin an on-screen tour of Reactor's stats, both in terms of Podcast listens and YouTube and then Justin show the current state of the Nugget bootcamp. Mark is a huge fan of the atmosphere added by the old school 8-track cassette tape on each page that play "Justin's bootleg notes" when you click on them. He wants the Justin's unreleased Speak product that powers it for his own site... but Justin's a bit hesitant about digging too far into opening it up to the outside world for a while. Mark sees it as a powerful tool for increasing conversions but Justin sees it potential business but one that would be better with funding behind it. (25m to 39m)
Mentioned
Justin's goals for next time
- Finish editing Nugget Bootcamp
- Get six entrepreneurs to review it
- Create a survey for it
- Set up an email account for this podcast
Mark's goals for next time
- Publish the screencast/walk-through he recorded
- Deploy Reactor
- stay on point for diet every day except his friend's upcoming b-day party
Video version at https://youtu.be/8ZpimVlL-8E
On Apple Podcasts at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/reactor/id1500109358
recorded on 2020-06-24
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(3 comments)
Mark: A co-worker has been using a vertical mouse since his RSI surgery, and loves it.
Not an 8 track, but digging the concept of bootleg content. Agreeing with Mark that Speak has potential, but I can see Justin's view that you can imagine a ton of things that it could use.
@Danilo: Doh! I got the wrong kind of tape. My grandfather used to work on that tech but I'm just too young to be familiar with any except the ones that got replaced by CDs.
RSI surgery terrifies me and I'm hoping my expensive keyboards and mice can save me from going that route. Hope your co-worker is recovering well!
@Mark: IT's be several years since his surgery, and no issues I've heard. My mother also had the same surgery three years ago and no issues either. From what I understand it was basically a small hole is made in the middle of your palm and a tiny instrument is inserted towards the palm and the "band" surrounding the tendons to the hand is cut open. I think that it was fairly quick less than 30 minutes, and I think that most of that was making sure the anesthetic was in full effect. A week or so not lifting anything over 5 pounds (~2.25kgs) and you're back at it.
Of course, anything involving cutting things in your body, you have to make sure you're good with the potential risks. Good luck with your journey.