Want to See Task One of the Sticky Business Contest?
Round one of the Sticky Business Contest has ended, and the contest is still going strong.
We’ve already received comments from people thanking us because we’re helping people achieve the goal of finally making change in their life to reach a dream. That’s pretty cool.
People know that even if they don’t win, this contest is going to help them do something about their life.
So how many people registered? 177, in fact, which is a great number considering the contest wasn’t as easy as a drop-your-name-and-sit-back. Nope. Our contest involves four tasks that people have to complete by the weekly deadlines.
Guess what? Less than 60 people submitted their completed task before this week’s cutoff. That means those are pretty fantastic odds for nearly $20,000 in prizes. We’re excited to see who’s going to make it all the way through!
What are participants getting out of our contest? Well, our contest is built to help people:
• Stop procrastinating on reaching their dream.
• Learn that change is easier than they think
• Focus more and hone in on what matters
• Take an idea and turn it into reality
• See that business isn’t scary
Because we want to help everyone – not just people who win, but as many people as we can – we’re going to reveal the first task our participants had to complete to stay in the contest.
No, you can’t win anything if you complete it now. You had your chance.
But yes, you can achieve something by completing the task on your own for personal reasons. You can get unstuck from where you are, and start sticking to where you want to be. That small business you’ve been putting off?
Start making it a reality. Play along for fun, and because you deserve to finally make a change for the better.
Here’s what participants had to work on for Task One:
Before you plan any business, you must have a conceptual idea of the type of business you’ll have. Your task is to write a brief overview of your business concept in 200 to 350 words.
For example, what type of business would you like to create? What do you plan to sell? Will it involve products or services? Where do you expect to find customers for your business – locally, nationally, or internationally/online? Who will buy your product or service? How will they hear about it? What process will they go through to find you, pay you and take delivery?
Contest participants are already working hard on Task Two. Who’ll make the deadline? Who’s going to move on to round three?
We can hardly wait to see.
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“We’ve already received comments from people thanking us because we’re helping people achieve the goal of finally making change in their life to reach a dream. That’s pretty cool.”
Unfortunately, there’s plenty of people who won’t be thanking you.
Was it really necessary to open the contest to only those who are from the US or Canada? When I first read about your contest, I was very excited but when I read the eligibility rules…
Same here – still a bit of a sore subject for me
@ Mugil;
Blame legal red tape I assume.
Even the simplest things can be really difficult.
@ Mugil and Andy – Because neither of you seem to know me very well, allow me to clearly say that I am the first person to stand up and say, “What?!? They’ve excluded a country/race/skin color/ethnic group/etcetc!!! How dare they!”
Seriously. Born English in Quebec, I know all about being excluded.
There is far more to this contest than meets the eye in legal red tape. There’s about $3,000 worth and counting, in fact. We have two governments in Canada alone watching to make sure we don’t fuck up. We have over $70,000 lawsuit potential hanging over our head. We have thrown a lot of dollars at a lawyer who said to us:
“Did you know that when you throw a contest, it is not YOUR laws of YOUR country that apply but the laws of THEIR country? How will you ensure to be compliant of all the laws of all the countries in the world?”
That’s a good question. Do either of you have an answer?
@Mugil and @Andy
I’m sure if they could the Men would have extended it to everyone they could reach.
Luckily they are sharing the content of the contest with everyone, which really is the whole point of it – getting people to seriously think about their (potential) business and to actually do something about it.
As much as I hope to win prizes, my business has already won just by me doing the first exercise. I have a much clearer idea of the business and I have created a series of actions to follow up on just from the first one week.
I can’t wait for the rest!
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Hate to sound all mushy and stuff, but this truly is one of those situations where everyone can be a winner. Maybe not the winner of the multithousand dollar überprize, but still a winner. I know when we reach the end, even if I’m not the winner, I’ll be miles closer to making the dream biz a reality than I would’ve been. That’s very cool.
What’s astounding is 2/3 of the entrants dropping out on the first round. Some attrition is expected, sure, but…wow.
@ Matt – I was frankly very surprised at the number of people who came to me directly asking what kind of tasks, how much work and could I tell them ahead of time what the tasks were so they could decide if they should enter.
Needless to say, I told them to enter and if they didn’t want to do the work, to drop out.
My perception is that many people didn’t enter *because* there was work involved. And those who did drop out either didn’t want to do the work (which wasn’t really that hard at all) or procrastinated until they lost their chance. I may be wrong, but I think those are the two biggest factors.
The up side of that? Whoever *does* win will have won because they were serious about making a change, putting their life in motion and determined enough to stick with one small task a week for only four weeks. Those are the people I’m cheering for.
I agree with Matt, there’s enough free stuff on here from James and Harry (and Charlie) that I consider myself a winner!
Whilst I can see that everyone can be a winner by following the contest, I don´t agree that the work involved is all that easy – the questions are quite difficult if you haven´t really got any answers in your head.
Starting out completely from scratch, it´s hard to know what to sell, products or services, if you don´t feel you have any
Some people are luckier than others, I guess, as they have skills which are readily transferable to running an online business. As an example, let me use my day job – if I worked say as a plumber/electrician/painter/decorator/carpenter for a company, I can see how those skills are fairly easily translatable into working for yourself. For myself, I work in the UK for a very large American megacorporation servicing ct scanners at an airport – I can´t be any more specific or my employers may find me and assasinate me!
Now there really isn´t much opportunity to go freelance with that as if you approached the airport where you worked and offered to do the work for them instead of your current company, that company would just sue you out of existence. So straight away, to go freelance, I have to look outside my current sphere of expertise.
Anyway, what I´m trying to say is that some people just find it harder to do these things than others – to be honest, I´m surprised the dropout rate isn´t even higher – I reckon by the time you get to the last task, the entrants will have whittled themselves down to half a dozen all by themselves!
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@ Phil – I definitely see your point. When you have one set of skills or limited experience, it can be difficult to know what business to choose to build.
You mention, “Straight away, to go to freelance…” Why straight away? Why not use the day job as a backup while you build a solid foundation?
I only see a lack of skills as a temporary limitation as part of the plan to building a business. If your dream was to be a deep-sea diving instructor, then you can certainly follow that dream. You can plan your business and research it, and in the list of “things to do to reach my dream”, you simply add, “Learn what I need to know.”
It’s a milestone. Ask yourself, “What do I need to do to make this business happen?” If education in a certain area is part of the answer, then you know the milestone you need to reach to get you that much closer to your goal.
Businesses don’t have to be built on existing skills, either. Even if you choose not to be a deep-sea diving instructor but still want the business, you can hire the people that *do* have those skills to work for you while you learn your own.