Be proactive. I recently interviewed serial entrepreneur

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Be proactive. I recently interviewed serial entrepreneur and investor, Michele Romanow on my podcast, The Side Hustle Project—and she cites one of the biggest contributors to her success as her ability to clearly map her way to launch, foresee potential obstacles and create a plan of action for what needs to happen the day after their product is out in the world.

It’s not easy, but nobody can do this for you. And you won’t be able to do it all on your own, either.

Your ability to problem-solve and navigate around your obstacles will determine the level of success with your business.

"Your ability to problem-solve and navigate obstacles will determine your success."
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Here’s an example of mapping the route to achieving one my goals from #5 above. My daily goal on Monday is to finish all of the copy content for a blog post I’m planning on launching. The weekly goal that this maps to is albania phone number database together the entire blog post, including all of the other assets like a free downloadable resource for anyone reading, beautifully designed images, links, and well thought out keyword research to bring together a blog strategy that will make this post truly awesome.

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Moving up to the monthly level, writing that blog post or publishing a solid guest blog post—and seeding it out to friends, family, mentors and the rest of my network is designed to get 100 initial supporters committed to buying my product once it has been fully produced.

This is a proof-of-concept and tells me that there’s a desire for that product in the marketplace. It’s all very calculated and aligned.

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Plan as best as you can for the potential of press spikes or when guest posts go live as you may need to dedicate all of your free time to meeting demand if your product takes off all of a sudden. It can happen (like it did with my iStash back in 2013).

And though working hard to engineer press spikes or rely solely on guest posts for larger sites is a far cry from learning how to drive traffic to your website in a repeatable, scalable way, it can still be hugely effective when your #1 goal is still validating your idea.