Back in May last year, I “launched” my first paid product.
I say “launch” because it wasn’t as much of a launch as it was me saying “Hey guys, come and give me your money for this thing now”.
Seriously.
I’d been having a lot of success at the time with my Content Creator’s Toolkit, as I called it. Which was a free Notion product I made where I gathered up all the books, courses, articles, threads, tools, and other resources I used to educate myself on a wide array of topics over the past few months.
All topics relating to building my own creator business of course.
I did the occasional giveaway with the product and it would get a crazy amount of responses time and time again.
It got to a point where so many people were telling me how this toolkit should have been a paid resource, some of whom even donated me $20 to show their support.
After a while some friends of mine convinced me to actually turn it into a paid product.
But it didn’t feel right to suddenly slap a price on it.
So I reworked it, updated it, and tried to make it as good as possible—adding even more stuff, refining the look and feel of it, and generally building something I was proud of at the time.
I also whipped up a quick and dirty sales page to make it even more enticing.
All seemed good so far.
But that’s where I messed up.
I simply slapped a price on it ($22) and told people “hey btw, this thing is now available for purchase. It’s new and exciting, check it out”…which I told them once.
Just once.
The result?
Zero sales.
None. Nada. Not even a banana’s worth.
I didn’t promote it. I didn’t validate it. I wasn’t even that excited about it anymore just a few days later.
Even more.
I completely stopped paying attention to it and it got maybe 1 sale since then because of someone who bought all of my stuff after having gotten a single product he liked so much.
Needless to say.
My first “launch” didn’t go well.
Luckily I didn’t stop there. I kept trying out new methods and new strategies to create better products, faster, and actually getting paid—even as fast as just under 14 days.
Don’t give up just because things don’t start out as well as you hoped.
It’ll get better.
Trust me.
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