Don’t Work By Yourself

Doing hard work on your own sucks, especially if you are a solo founder.

Entrepreneurs experiencing higher loneliness show roughly a 36% increase in exit intentions relative to typical variation (research here).

To solve this, my friend Casey Davies Bell has created a tool to make you feel less lonely when doing hard work.

Enter SuperFocus.

This tool is just a Pomodoro clock or a deep work clock, but with mates.

The best thing, though, whatever hard task you are working on, you know there is another person beside you slogging it out.

You can see someone else working and not feel alone.

You’ve got someone with you digitally.

Don’t estimate the power of competition, community and an online timer.

If you are an online founder working on your own, this will keep you going during the tough times.

Turning Costs Into Profits

Most of our gym suppliers are middlemen.

They buy stuff from someone for wholesale and sell it to us at retail.

And we know this, but normally we're too busy with our main thing to do be bothered doing anything about it.

But at the end of last year, we had time.

After looking through our bank statements, we found two products/services that we're spending multiple thousands of dollars on a year, which we can source straight from the wholesaler for 20% of the price.

And better yet, after a little market research, we discovered there's a bunch of other gyms that hate paying that 5x markup too.

So we've got product orders in the works, and pre-sales are lightly committed to.

And by years end I suspect we'll not only have added ~$6k to our bottom line by cutting costs, but another six figures to our top-line in new revenue.

Normally, I'd say you should just focus on your main thing, and these side-quests are a distraction.

But our main thing is cruising along nicely, and we've got time to give things like this a nudge. So we have.

I guess the moral of the story is something like, "don't take getting ripped off for granted".

You never know what your bank statement can tell you if you look a little deeper.