Just Get Started: The Key to Online Business Success
Just get started. In this enlightening episode of the Faith Based Business podcast, Pastor Bob Thibodeau emphasizes the importance of taking action to create your own profitable online business. He shares personal anecdotes about teaching his grandchildren how to drive, illustrating that proficiency comes from real experience rather than just theoretical preparation. Bob encourages listeners to overcome the paralysis of planning and to launch their ideas into the world, even if they aren't perfect. By sharing practical strategies and motivation, he inspires you to embrace the journey of entrepreneurship with confidence and faith.
Takeaways:
- Taking action is crucial; many people spend too much time planning instead of executing their ideas.
- You will never know if your online business idea works until you try it out.
- Just like learning to drive, you gain proficiency through practice and real experience.
- Confidence comes from doing; the more you practice, the better you become at your craft.
- Instead of seeking perfection, launch your ideas and learn from the feedback received.
- Iterate quickly based on results; small changes can lead to significant improvements in success.
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Transcript
Hello everyone, everywhere.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Pastor Bob Thibodeau here.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Welcome to the Faith Based Business podcast for today.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:We're so blessed that you're joining us.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:You know, this past several weeks we try to motivate you, teach you, guide you.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:These past several weeks to create your own profitable online business, we've been guiding you, you know, discover your niche, niching down your niche, how to do market research to make sure that, that this is what you're going to be doing.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:And folks, if you missed any of these episodes, I urge you to go back and catch up because these things are, are vital to your success.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Amen.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Today I'm going to share another idea with you, and that is just get started.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Praise God.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Just get started.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:A lot of folks spend months, sometimes years, just thinking about what to do.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:And until the rubber meets the road, you'll never know if your idea is going to work or not.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:So just get started.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:You know, you may, you may remember back when you were like 14 years old and thought you knew how to drive.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:I mean, you'd watch your dad drive or your parents drive and other people drive, say this, this is, I got this.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Now, you were just waiting till you're 15 or 16, whatever your state law is, so you can get into the car and try it out, remember?
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:And you had it all in your mind, you had it all figured out.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:This, I got this.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:But the first time you had to exit onto a highway and Traffic was doing 70 mile, 75 miles an hour past you, it's probably a little bit scary for you, wasn't it?
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Right.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:The only way you got good at driving at 75 miles per hour was by driving at 75 miles an hour and doing it several times at 75 miles an hour.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Am I right?
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Don't shut me down when I'm preaching.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Good already, Praise God.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Now I have seven grandkids and I taught five of the seven how to drive.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Personally, I take them to an empty parking lot and teach them how to drive, turn, stop, accelerate, and all that stuff.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Then we'd proceed out on the quiet side roads for a little bit and, and then the next time out on the roads, you know, I'd be telling, okay, let's go up here and turn left here, turn right here, turn left up here.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:And we'd end up out on the Beltway, the interstate highway system and the particular place we had enter.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:I had it already pre planned in my mind on this.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:But then you'll have to drive about maybe a half mile, three quarters of a mile and they'd be able to have an exit, right?
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:And they never have to merge.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:All they're doing is they had to accelerate because you got other cars trying to take that exit as well.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:And, you know, they would get super nervous.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:You could just tell this was scary for them, right?
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:But the fact were they required.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:It would require them to get up to the speed limit quickly amidst the trucks and cars zipping past them at 70 miles an hour.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:I look up here, fear was on their faces and it was priceless, right?
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:I wish I could show it to you, but I'd be telling them, faster.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Come on, hit it, hit it.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:They accelerate.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Get going.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Stay right up there.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Get there.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Get up, get.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Okay, now keep your speed ups.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Keep your speed up.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Okay, now turn your turn signal.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Let's exit.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Slow down, slow down, slow down now.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Okay.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:And they'd manage the curve and then they'd exit and out on the side road again.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:And I tell them, congratulations, you just drove on the beltway.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:And it was a sort of, hey, I did, didn't I?
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:I did that type of moment.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:And it's something that they had been dreading.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:And then I was just maneuvering them into that position where now they had to react, they had to do it, they had to be successful, and they accomplished it.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:And it was a winning moment for them, winning moment for me.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Because now in their minds, they knew they could do it.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:They just did it.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:And instead of, you know, telling them, now, Monday, this is what we're gonna do, and have them dread it the whole time of being nervous, I just, you know, okay, turn left here, turn left here, turn right up here.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:And all of a sudden, they're there.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:They had to perform, folks.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:That's what you need to do.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Just do it.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:You know, they couldn't plan for what I was about to do because I didn't tell them what was going to happen once they were in the middle of it.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:They just had to do one thing to survive.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Follow my directions exactly.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:And this built their confidence now in ways that would normally take weeks to do with your standard driver's training classes.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:And.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:But that confidence in me, their confidence in me, and the self confidence in themselves now for accomplishing it, paid dividends and accelerated them quickly down the process.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Not one of my grandkids has ever received a citation either, praise God.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:And most of them now have been driving for years.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:But they all talk when.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:When the.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:The younger ones were now hitting that age.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:They all talk about how papa taught them to drive at taking them out on the Beltway.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:And why did I share all of that?
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Because it's the same thing here.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:You will never become proficient online until you pull the trigger.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:And just do it.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Just pull the trigger.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Instead of waiting until you think you have the perfect solution, you have the perfect website, you have all of these things ready to go.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Instead of waiting until that happens, just do it.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:I do that today, folks.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:I got an idea for a new training.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:I don't go out there and do a whole bunch of market tests and see, you know, do they like this one?
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Do they like this ad?
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:You know, I do that in the process of launching.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:I'll have, you know, I'll have three different methods of getting it out there, but all of them are going out simultaneously.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:It's like boom.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:And it's published and then I see which landing page, which optins are working the best.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Okay, you don't have to take months and months to do this.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Just do it right.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:You don't have to take hundreds and thousands of dollars in research to see what three products are going to sell the best.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Just launch all three, promote all three and see which one does the best and then put the other ones aside, maybe use those for bonuses on the one that did do.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Successful.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Amen.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Just create what it is you need to launch.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:That's all it is.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Put it out there, see what happens.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:What happens if nobody buys it, Come back in, look at it again and then revamp.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:One, one, one thing.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:It could be the color of the website, it could be the color of the COVID on your PDF, whatever it is, change one thing, the title, the font, change one thing, blast it back out there, see what happens.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:But if you change the entire concept, you change the website, you change the fonts, you change the colors, you change the name, and then you blast it out and get a little bit of response.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:What triggered the response?
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:You don't know that's what I'm saying.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Change one thing, get it out there, see what happens next.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:In the process, you may get a couple of sales here and there that will help feed your processes as you keep going forward until all of a sudden that one change, you did it just, you know, the graphic on the front and all of a sudden all these clicks are coming in.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Then you know, okay, this is it.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Now you can put the advertising dollars to work.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Now you can put all the effort into your social media posts and, and blasting it out there because now you got something that works.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:You didn't wait you in the process of launching, you may, it may have taken you 7, 8 iterations to find the one thing that starts working.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:But now you know.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:And that seven, eight iterations may have taken you two weeks, three weeks to figure out, instead of months and months and months of I just don't know.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Now you know.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:We're going to take it up again.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:There.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Next time.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:This.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:I'm already talking longer than I figured I would.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Amen.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Praise God.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:I don't know about you, but this is important stuff.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Amen.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:So we'll just take it up here.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Next time, if you have an idea, just do it.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Just do it.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:And then we'll talk next time.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau:Till then, let's pass the Bob Remind you, be blessed and all you do.
