{"id":3716,"date":"2007-06-25T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/?p=3716"},"modified":"2023-06-20T16:10:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T20:10:53","slug":"the-4-hour-workweek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/?p=3716","title":{"rendered":"4-Hour Workweek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Tim Ferris <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Notes taken while listening. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>parkinson\u2019s law<\/li><li>test sales and web pages\/offers by at very end saying backordered<\/li><li>contract mfg\u2019s listed on his website<\/li><li>\u201cHarder to create demand than it is to fill demand\u201d<\/li><li>find niche with lots of demand then build a product for it<\/li><li>find niche and target that niche (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/yogaclimber.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">yogaclimber.com<\/a>\u00a0story)<\/li><li>create the product category for your niche (neural enhancer for his karate vitamins)<\/li><li>brickworks\/your man in India<\/li><li>Exclusivity vs. everyone entering market &#8212; as more and more places get your product then then compete by lowering price and killing margin (golf shirt story of pro shops), may end up being best situation to keep exclusive for long time (MetRx)<\/li><li>Can\u2019t legally tell distributors what they can sell price at but can put lowest advertised price in terms and conditions.<\/li><li>Find a niche \u2013 then brainstorm products specifically for that niche<\/li><li>**Never ask a question \u2013 instead propose a recommendation (Where do you want to go for dinner)<\/li><li>expert credentials \u2013 get em easy<\/li><li>FAQs reduce calls and confusion<\/li><li>Response Magazine \u2013 (resource magazine) \u2013 DR ads examples<\/li><li>JR Whitney \u2013 DR Statistics<\/li><li>Hire or outsource for FMF return messages or fix autoresponder<\/li><li>Have a dedicated space for work \u2013 or you\u2019re always working<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Ferris Notes taken while listening. parkinson\u2019s law test sales and web pages\/offers by at very end saying backordered contract mfg\u2019s listed on his website \u201cHarder to create demand than it is to fill demand\u201d find niche with lots of demand then build a product for it find niche and target that niche (yogaclimber.com\u00a0story) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238,241,6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-booknotes","category-business","category-career","category-productivity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4475,"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions\/4475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}