RE: How Do You Get Over Your Fear of Failure?! Help me!
I question whether it is only fear making you drag your feet. Only you know, but in similar circumstances I sometimes have been reluctant to teach certain things because I earned my knowledge the hard way. It felt wrong to just give someone the keys without them earning it.
You worked damn hard for what you know, and honestly I don't even know in many cases how that kind of specialized knowledge could be transmitted to someone with little to no experience.
I would also say if you can sell on Ebay (been there, so done with the scammers and entitlement by buyers) in arguably one of the hardest niches where sizes aren't uniform, buyers like to rent the item and return, sometimes you get it back with fresh stains etc, it doesn't feel like you are easily swayed by thoughts of failure. This feels more a matter of your heart saying this isn't right.
I am extremely fearful, lol. I do believe the class holds the key to learning how I do what I do, but the thought so many months and hundreds of hours of work and for us to not sell any of them makes me extremely anxious. We will also have to market it on my personal facebook page which I absolutely do not want to do. Some people freely promote their businesses to their friends/family/ acquaintances but I have always been very secretive for some reason. As for selling on ebay, yeah..there are some scammers, lol. Ive sold over 20,000 pieces of clothing on ebay, and have had to maybe deal with .5% of them being scammers or returns...so its not too awful :)
lol, ok. You do not understand how brave you are dealing in clothing and I will stop planting that seed (right after my next sentence). But you do have a level of strength to deal there that many do not, you just don't see it because it feels normal and right to you.
In the next week I am going to be blogging about my knowledge in self publishing as part of my ongoing self employment series. As it develops I will be discussing the ways marketing is used, and many of the ideas would overlap with online courses. I can't say how long it will take me to get to the marketing, maybe a week or so in (I am lucky to post 4 things in a week). I need to discuss how I got in, the dynamics of of it all, structures etc before jumping to marketing the finished product. I am going to guess it will be in the latter half of March.
LOL thats the first time anyone has called me brave! Can't wait for your posts! Ill definitely be tuning in!