Any Internet Business Comes Down To This
At the end of the day any Internet business comes down to this diagram.
I have been digesting an amazing book called “Back Of The Napkin” - It really is a ground breaking book (although Gary Halbert would surely be saying “I told you so” )
It’s not just about drawings -it’s about a whole process of “Visual Thinking” - I’m loving it and this diagram is the first in a series of a project I’m doing on the Immediate Edge.
I always get excited when I learn a new creative process and this is really a great one.
Gary Halbert always rammed home to me that your best thinking in done with pen and paper. This book agrees and even provides the scientific evidence of why this is so.
People are surprised that I do my planning on paper. So does John Reese, So does Frank Kern.
I remember when the three of us were traveling in Japan on the bullet train. John (in a way that only he can) just clapped his hands together and said “It’s time to make some money” and he pulled out his yellow notepad. He does all his planning on pen and paper…
Sidenote - John fell asleep on the train and Frank spent the rest of the trip using the same legal pad to draw an “intimate” part of the male anatomy and then position it so he could take a “compromising” photo…
For someone like me with a real passion for tech - you might be surprised about how much I use pen and paper.
Ed
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I have always used pen and paper…I would be lost without it. Lists is the only way I can stay on track and work methodically.
I feel the same way as you do about paper and pen. I have to have my notebooks with me, almost always when I am working on the computer. I feel a little like a caveman(woman) and am sometimes a bit embarrassed to admit it to people. I can just ‘hear’ them saying, ‘Why don’t you just put all that in Word docs? Paper? Really?’ But I just have to have my paper!
Oh, and the same goes for manuals! My newest camera came with an online manual! I detest it! I have hardly even read any of it at all. I want a manual ‘in my hands’, you know?
Great topic - and grand image of the three of you goofballs on the train! I love it!!
Whenever I create a website, I create it on paper first. The design, layout, pages, database, etc are all done on paper before I even start on the computer.
This makes the whole process a lot easier because you can work out things much easier on paper than on the computer when it comes to the layout and design.
~Shannon
Brain to hand to pen to paper. Keeping it real and real simple. Everything that has worked out well for me started this way. Good advice which is often forgotten in this “digital age”.
I would be lost without my notebook. Where I go, it goes. Even in the middle of the night, I can now jot down ideas in the pitch black of night.
Will check out the book.
I always appreciate your little nuggets of wisdom you slide in when writing your blog, it is especially helpful to us who are learning the craft to know which books are helping you in your business as that knowledge also benefits us.