I view this ability as a strength of mine—I’m

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I view this ability as a strength of mine—I’m working with the tools and skill sets I already have. Call it what you will, but you have to play with the cards you have at your disposal today.

Right, so how do you start when you can’t just pull a website out of thin air?

Google Docs (free).

Like the vast majority of people just getting started with their business ideas, if you don’t already possess the ability to quickly build a simple website, my advice is to work with what you’ve got and leverage the immense number of free online business tools already out there, like Google Docs.

What skills and strengths do you already possess?

Can you make do with creating a simple Google Doc outline of the solution you want to build?

Don’t sign up for paid email list-building tools to collect leads either. afghanistan phone number database your money.

Go with either a free Mailchimp account or even better (less time and effort), use a Google Form to collect email addresses for your first potential customers (we cover how to do that in my free course about Finding the Right Business Idea). They’ll be stored in an excel-like Google Sheet (for free) where you can reference them and easily send email updates anytime in the future.

Now, I’m going to take a step back.

Since I already started to deviate from the advice I usually give, I’m taking a step back.

I’m not going to launch the website yet.

It’s not worth investing the time building a website before I know exactly what I’m going to be selling.

So, I’m going to turn to more manual, organic methods of connecting with people I know will be interested in hiking in California. I want to hear from them, exactly what they need before I go out and build a solution to a problem that doesn’t really exist (like I’ve done before).

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UPDATE #1: Elevator Pitch, 47 Email Subscribers, Generating Product Ideas and a Giveaway.