QA49 – I'm not sure what I can do for an online business

In today's Q&A, we are helping Steve discover the right path for his online business and how to make that compelling enough to convince his wife it's possible. Do you have a question you want answered on our podcast? We would love to help you! Click here to ask your question! Resources Mentioned in this Episode The Flip Your Life Community Podcast Episode #6 Elementary Librarian Let's dive into this week's question! SHANE: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast, where life always comes before work. We are your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. Join us each week as we teach you how to flip you lifestyle upside down by selling stuff online. Are you ready for something different? Alright. Let's get started. What is going on guys? Welcome back to another Q and A with S and J mini podcast. Our question today comes from Steven and he writes in via email. He says: I really want to get started on online business. I have a lot of interests but I am not sure if they would make a good online business. I am trying to figure out whether I have ideas for an eBook or have the writing skill to get the reader even interested in my product. I would also like to really convince my wife this digital product idea can work. What advice would you have on getting people behind this idea? JOCELYN: Alright Steven that is a great question. And one that I have actually gotten several times recently. So I just wanted to let you and everyone else out there know that the thing you want to look for when you are considering making a digital product is what kind of problems are you solving for an audience, or what kind of problems can you solve for an audience? What is keeping up at night and how can you help? How can you solve their problem? That little test is going to help you to evaluate each of your skills and how they might translate into a future online business. So the question is, do you have a skill that might translate well over to an online products like for example, Shane and I, we use our day job skills as teachers to create products that solve problems for teachers. Maybe it is not something that you do like for your job, maybe it's a hobby that you have or an interest and a lot of people that they can't make these types of things into a business but you absolutely can as long as you are solving someone's problems. SHANE: And you font have to be like some rocket science or a PhD or the authority in a field you really only have to know a little bit more than the people behind you. If I know how to set up a website, then theoretically I can create a course to teach people how to make a website that don't know how I am expert enough, I already know how to do that. I was not the greatest football coach that ever lived but I had a lot of experience over ten years and I created this very specific defense that a lot of people wanted to learn that defense who are either just getting into coaching or maybe they have some experience and they are switching over to my defense. So I was able to take my interest to football, turn that into a digital product and I was able to teach that to other people. I wasn't the football authority in the country but I did know a lot about that defense and there was a lot of people behind me that didn't know so much about it. JOCELYN: And you know sometimes there are people out there that say I just don't really have any skills or any interest and that is just not true, really for anybody. Everybody out there has something they are good at or something they really enjoy and if you are having a hard time coming up with something for yourself ask somebody who is close to you. What is something that I know about that I can maybe teach you how to do or show you how to do or that you think other people might want to learn how to do? That's probably the best way to get an idea for an online business if you have no clue what you want to work on. SHANE: Another huge mistake that people make when...