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What’s New for You?

“Life is about creating new opportunities,

not waiting for them to come to you"

— Selma Hayek

Feeling Creative?

Are you in a creative mode these days, crafting something new? Or are you yearning for that natural high of mapping out and executing the latest expression of your brilliance?

The above quote from Actress Selma Hayek is widely helpful. There’s also a mid-point perspective. Sometimes an idea’s seed appears. You see ways to expand the idea with your knowledge, personality, or a solution you’ve got..

Where to Look

Another source of inspiration is revisiting things you’ve developed in the past whether fully developed, partially, or simply an idea.

Or you now see a new path or format you didn’t see earlier. It requires paying attention to many things around you, considering who could use the concept or product, and what needs to change to implement it.

Possibilities Abound

DuringCOVID’S earliest days a client who was a children’s book author was about to contact corporate decision makers to explore making bulk sales or licensing various elements from among her products. No one answered phones or responded to emails. Total silence…until one day while mindlessly scrolling through Facebook posts, a photo of a bed covered with dozens of socks appeared.

Starting to write a comment, “if only those socks could talk,” it occurred that they COULD talk! They could become sock puppets. This became the first offer in a free activity club on the client’s site. To gain access to the FREE activity club, an adult needed to provide their email address. That mailing list could be highly valuable as evidence of people’s interest in the client’s book.

Notice Everything

That’s a clear example of creating an opportunity without waiting for it. Those events couldn’t be anticipated! Once the idea was formulated, it required action. It worked! That is one of many examples of creating opportunities rather than waiting for them.

In a nutshell:

  1. Be more aware of everything, wherever you are, without judging. You just might come up with something new, fun, and lucrative all in one.

  2. Revisit earlier ideas whether they ever got off the ground or not.Your perspective and knowledge are different now than then.

  3. Ask people you know what ideas they have about something you’re considering adding to your business. They don’t need the whole story.

  4. Take tips products you’ve created that sold well. Expanding your product/service line based on those is easier for creating new items.

  5. Consider creating a contest asking your customers to submit an idea of what they want. You choose one or more that get you excited.

If you’re worried your idea is seen as hairbrained, you may have the last laugh all the way to the bank, as the Pet Rock’s inventor did ages ago.

If you’re worried your idea is seen as hairbrained, you may have the last laugh all the way to the bank, as the Pet Rock’s inventor did ages ago.

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