I love this community. I stumbled upon this forum by accident a couple months ago and it's been a goldmine of knowledge ever since.
However, like some of you… I've also fallen into the trap hoarding courses.
I want to get really good at writing copy, building funnels, and running ads, essentially becoming a “rainmaker”.
I feel paralyzed with everything I want to learn. I've luckily already taken action on some courses, but I keep feeling like I'm “missing” something.
So, I was wondering - how long did it take you to overcome the urge to hoard courses and start taking action instead?
Thanks in advance for sharing your experiences.
It's definitely tricky.
Pick one idea you're passionate about. Forget about the money for a second, just one idea you really enjoy and give yourself 1 month to try it out. That means instead of downloading more courses just apply that one.
Don't download any others, just focus on that one and if you don't like it then you can go on to something else.
Hi, I will just tell you what worked for me after hoarding courses like you did for years.
Not only hoarded them but I took hundred and hundred of hours of courses and learned from them, but I always considered it not enough so I had to learn more.
Now this is what worked for me:
I started taking all the email copywriting courses and rewriting email templates for niches I wanted to work on, then after having enough samples, I took some courses on how to talk with clients and to network since I didn't want to compete with the million outreach spam emails they already hate to receive in their inboxes.
I joined fb groups, Discord servers and Forums of the niches I wanted to work in and made some friends through helpful comments presenting myself as an email copywriter but never sending them DMs or asking for work, not even once...
I gave some tips, some advice about writing emails and what works and some mistakes most people make, all that just through normal conversations and few posts... and after just one or two weeks some of them started reaching out to me and asking me to help them with emails. Two people asked me to help them with driving traffic to their fb groups. One Mastermind owner told me he struggles with storytelling in emails and he wanted to see how I would write in his voice.
This is how I got one main big client (The personal brand Mastermind owner) even if I presented myself as more of an ecom emails guy but I didn't say no to the opportunity when it presented itself.
And I have another sales coach partner. I ghostwrite and write his copy for his social media, emails and now I'm working on his projects for a share.
All this in just weeks after just getting myself out there consistently and helping people in a non salesy way. My aim was to use this help to ask them one day if they know someone who can benefit from my service and not asking them directly to be my clients, but the people I helped started reaching out to me themselves before I ask them if they knew someone who could benefit from my services.
There's a big lesson here maybe it can be useful for you...