Find & validate your business idea [FREE WORKSHEET]

What do a publicist, a CrossFit coach, and a recording engineer have in common? To view this email as a web page, [click here]() {NAME}, What do a publicist, a CrossFit coach, and a recording engineer have in common? They’re all running businesses that bring in seven figures of revenue (that’s over $1 million a year). And those businesses all started with a simple idea: helping people. Publicist = Help people become household names CrossFit coach = Help people RX every workout Recording engineer = Help people produce better-sounding music No offense to these successful entrepreneurs, but none of those ideas are particularly ground-breaking. I don’t see the printing press, the iPhone, or penicillin in there. And that’s good. Business owner =/= supergenius Very, very few people sit down to think of a business idea and come up with something that would make Silicon Valley venture capitalists fall all over themselves in a flurry of cash. What a relief! The pressure is off, and that’s great news for you. Because you don’t need an incredibly unique, Steve-Jobs-would-be-jealous invention to start a business. You just need a simple idea. One that probably won’t take that long to land on — especially if you use my “How to Find a Profitable Idea” worksheet. This worksheet walks you through examining your skills, knowledge, and the challenges you’ve overcome to help you generate 20+ business ideas, figure out which people would happily pay for, and choose the best idea to run with. [Download the “How to Find a Profitable Idea” worksheet FREE (this week only)](). [Worksheet]() When you download the worksheet, you’ll answer simple questions, one by one, to get the juices flowing. There are no wrong answers here. Then, you’ll narrow down your answers to identify the business idea that: 1) You would enjoy spending your time on, and 2) People would pay for. The “How to Find a Profitable Idea” worksheet comes from the second module in [my step-by-step business-building program, Earnable](). I created Earnable to battle the myth of the “million-dollar idea.” The misconception that your business isn’t worth starting if you’re not inventing something brand new, or if [someone else is already doing what you want to do](). Inside Earnable, you’ll narrow down your business idea from dozens of potential avenues, whether you’re brand new to entrepreneurship or this isn’t your first rodeo. (If you’re curious, the first module inside Earnable is called How to Think Like an Entrepreneur. It’s an overview of the seven principles I’ve learned over the course of 20 years spent running my own businesses and helping more than 42,000 students start theirs. Earnable starts with mindset before ideas, because the entrepreneur’s mindset is more valuable than any one idea.) [Try it for yourself now with the “How to Find a Profitable Idea” worksheet](). Oh, and those successful business owners I mentioned earlier, who started with a simple idea? There’s one more thing they have in common. They all started with Earnable, too. Three 7-figure businesses, one simple idea The publicist is Selena Soo, who’s helped her clients get featured in O, Forbes, and Inc., among others. She now makes over $2.2 million a year. [Selena Soo riding a pink golf cart] Here she is driving her custom pink golf cart around Puerto Rico. She moved there because it sounded nice. She swims in the ocean every afternoon. The CrossFit coach is Ben Dziwulski, who was able to spend $15,000 treating his parents and his wife’s parents to a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Finland and Sweden. [Ben Dziwulski and family Europe trip] Is taking your whole family to Europe part of your Rich Life? It was for Ben. And the audio engineer is Graham Cochrane, who [wrote about his success on CNBC]() after hitting $1.6 million in yearly revenue. He works fewer than 10 hours a week. [Graham Cochrane and his family in France] Here’s Graham and his family enjoying a 6-week trip to the south of France. He spent a couple hours checking email each week. That’s it. They all built their 7-figure businesses from a simple idea. [You could do the same](). More soon, [Signature] P.S. Here are some in-the-trenches reports from Earnable students who didn’t let “I don’t have an idea” stop them from investing in themselves: [Max Webber]()   [Martin Bentsen]()   [Lindsey Konchar]()   You may be new to IWT. Here's all the stuff we offer [Programs]() [Podcast]() [Netflix show]() [Books]() [Check out our website for more]() Follow Ramit [ig]() [fb]() [tw]() [yt]() [pc]() Was this forwarded to you? Sign up [here](). This email was sent to [{EMAIL}](). If you no longer wish to receive these emails you may [unsubscribe]( at any time. 548 Market St #89946 San Francisco, CA 94104-5401