TIMELINE: 1 Year from mess to success
Hi I’m Xiomara. I was born in Colombia and now I live in London. I’m 30 years old and I have a standard 9–5 job BUT I have a burning desire to build my own empire to help, connect and inspire thousands of like-minded people.
This is my progress so far:
PS - Leave your comments 😃
2016
- --/04: Ambitious Box - Failed (I didn’t launch but it didn`t take me long to realise that I was not clear on the value of this)
- --/05: Today - Productivity Journal - Kickstarter: On hold
- --/05: Loveletters - Kickstarter: Failed
- --/06: Ambitious was rebranded to SuccessBabe, a week of social media - Failed
- --/07: Created Women Business Meetup - Poor performance
- --/07: Created the EntrepreneurBeach meetup {Talk to customers}
- --/08: 1st EntrepreneurBeach meetup {Talk to customers}
- 28/08: Decide one idea to work everyday: iWin {Focus}
- 03/09: Bought an annual Calendar to use "Seinfield Chain" to track daily progress
- 04/09: Created the iWinBox brand
- 05/09: Designed artworks for the iWinBox
- 06/09: Finish design - Print artworks
- 07/09: Put the prototype together - MVP#1 is ready
- 08/09: EntrepreneurBeach Meet up#2 {Talk to customers} showed MVP - Result: Low interest but I have product pictures now.
- 09/09: Buy domain
- 10/09: Edit product pictures
- 11/09: Write copy for the landing page
- 13/09: Cratejoy Call {Talk to partners}
- 14/09: Toastmasters {Improving Speaking skills}
- 15/09: Complete Landing Pages: #1 Success - #2 Entrepreneur - # Women
- 16/09: MailChimp - Facebook Ads
- 17/09: Facebook Ads - Tweak Landing pages #1 #2 #3 - Failed
- 18/09: Landing Page: #4 FREE
- 19/09: Facebook Ads LP#4 - Failed
- 20/09: Brainstorming where to go next {F!}
- 21/09: Virgin StartUp {Talk to peers} - Result: Low interest on books - Hard to explain the value proposition. Get to know people in the Entrepreneur community - Volunteer for future events.
- 22/09: iWin new idea: Fast Recipes idea and value proposition {Give massive value}
- 23/09: Wireframe website - the subBox is now a subproduct for the Store *Started this list*
- 24/09: iWin: Some progress on the MVP website
- 25/09: Test iWin website in Quora? I can’t remember what happened here - Someone told me start blogging?
- 28/09: Toastmasters {Improving Speaking Skills}
- LOST MOMENTUM - All confused about everything! {Visit my motivation}
- 05/10: EntrepreneurBeach Meet up#3 {Talk to customers} Brainstorming about Sales - Result: Met a couple of people that shares similar interests. My audience.
- 06/10: Recruitment fair - Do I even want to have a job? I want to quit the hamster wheel not move to a bigger one.
- 07/10: Sad and confused {Visit my motivation}
- 08/10: Pitch the SubscriptionBox to retailer - Not on the High Street. Result: FAILED in 3
- seconds. Came to Richmond (2 months later moved to live really close to this place. How odd)
- 09/10: Why am I doing this? {Visit my motivation}
- 12/10: Virgin StartUp {Talk to peers} - Result: I didn’t talk about the business but met more people in the Entrepreneur community and volunteer for future events.
- 13/10: Toastmasters Accelerator {Improving Speaking Skills}
- 14/10: Back on track! Friday night at home: Hustle! Retrospective of progress and plan future steps. iWin statistics shows 2 days of high traffic in the website and I can’t remember what I did on those 2 days. I`ve created a traffic strategies table to track ideas vs. result. {IDEA: Customisation - The 1st personalised development book using a questionarie as 16personalities + Recipes from iWin}
- 15/10: Reading + ZTL