To start things off, below is a quick video to let you know what Muselife is all about. Take a minute to watch and then check out the post below it for more…
Muselife is born of equal parts inspiration and frustration: inspiration to share experiences with outsourcing and niche product creation, and frustration with the torrent of conflicting advice and common questions I see absolutely everywhere. It’s time to centralize the conversation and share both the experiences and resources needed to make a killing turning your ideas into income and aggressively reclaming your time.
It’s important we start by defining our end-game: ultramobility & total personal autonomy enabled by highly automated sources of passive income. Tim Ferriss’ book The 4-Hour Work Week succinctly and powerfully codified a lifestyle and methodology many of us were already pursuing, and a thriving community has emerged to further the effort. Within these circles, we call one such source a muse to distinguish it from a traditional business – as the focus is an essentially hands-off, automated way of generating revenue that lets us focus on far more important facets of your life: time with family, friends, exploring passions, travel, philanthropy, and so on.
Consider Muselife your no-bullshit resource for all facets of achieving such a lifestyle, focused on rapid product development, niche market testing, fanatical outsourcing and complete process automation to give you more of what you can never get back once it’s gone – your time.
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Simplify & Clarify
Let’s strip down the topic of creating passive income online to its absolute simplest form:
- Identify a need within a niche audience/market segment
- Create a product that satisfies this need
- Enable them pay you in exchange for your product’s value
Given the simplicity, why do so many think of passive income as a sort of unattainable end? The answer is just as simple: failure to clarify the unknown. As a whole, it all seems rather complex and overwhelming – creating your product, building your sales page, marketing to your niche, processing payments and delivering your product. Where do you start and how do you ever know if you’re going about things in the so-called ‘right way’? The short answer is: you don’t. When it comes to selling information products, there is no right or wrong, but rather effective or ineffective approaches.
- Someone reads your sales letter and buys or they leave as if your product never existed
- Someone clicks your Google ad or they read it and move on with their life uninterrupted
- Your new customer keeps your product or they request a refund
At every single step of the way, you simply need to be as effective as possible and convert desire, need, or curiosity into hard-dollar sales.
What’s ahead?
Derived from my personal muse creation/outsourcing experiments, as well as ongoing participation within the community, you can expect Muselife to detail explorations, experiments and resource. As a quick overview…
Outsourcing & Automation
Finding the right teams around the world, what to watch out for, success studies and process outlines to ensure you get high performance and optimum output
Ultramobility
Through extensive global travel – be it Bangkok, Budapest, Melbourne or Mexico – I’ve experimented with all facets of conducting business without a solid real base of operations. I’ll share the priceless lessons learned – on islands, in airports, across timezones.
Muse Case Studies
From concept to launch, we’ll explore case studies and profiles of successful (and not-so-unsuccessful) muses. Through it all, we’ll extract the critical lessons you can only learn by doing.
Resources & Reviews
Whether you’re looking for the simplest digital content delivery, software you can’t live without, or unbeatable muse-focused books, you’ll find it here.
“I will automate my income.”
From this point forward, make this your mantra. Scrawl it on your bathroom mirror and stick it to your computer. Automate your income and you recapture your time.
I’m launching Muselife to share as much as possible, to ensure you can absolutely kill it creating and selling your own products. Make 2009 your most ambitious year yet, a year you’ll reflect on with no regret – make 2009 the year you reclaimed ownership of your time, managed outsourcers around the world and did something few people you know ever will – create flowing income sources from nothing more than an idea and plan.
