Episode 25 Life’s Hurricanes

5 August 12, 2014 by

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Josh is stuck in traffic and John is stuck in a hurricane – well, sort of. The weather forecasts are blowing things out of proportion, says John and another hurricane headed his way.

The mountains will stop this one.

Josh is still tied-up in traffic with no lap top and Derick isn’t sure what to do with his career. Does this sound familiar? Have you ever felt this way? What did you do?

Derick lays it all out while getting good advice from John. Sounds like Derick has a bit of his own hurricane to tame. What would you do, if you were Derick? The EntreProgrammers always appreciate your comments.

Derick’s question should be: “What should I do with all of this talent?” He has several things going, and it’s becoming a little stressful for this EntreProgrammer to be handling all of these projects.

Is he looking in all the right places for his answers? And then they take a look at marketing. It appears that you either market yourself, or hire someone to do it for you.

Musicians have exactly the same problem – a musician and a promoter are both full-time jobs, like a programmer is to marketing.

The EntreProgrammers show how this can be done.

Go in-depth with The EntreProgrammers to help Derick solve the “I’m way too talented for my hat” dilemma. And a nice surprise shows-up at the end.

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  • Derick, I understand your predicament. You simply have too many projects to handle at once. It happens to the best of us. I certainly have been there. I’ve been listening to this show since the beginning batch of episodes and really find this podcast informative and entertaining. If you have too much on your plate, maybe consider taking on an Entreprogrammer intern. Someone who could lessen the load on one or more of your projects. I personally would love to help in any way that I could, no payment necessary.

  • Tony Henrich

    @Derick.. why don’t you publish your screencasts/video tutorials on Pluralsight and forget hosting them yourself? Let them deal with the marketing headache and expenses. They are much bigger than you will ever be and I am not surprised if your subscribers number is shrinking. With Pluralsight they get a ton more options. John publishes there so why not follow his lead. Create the content and and wait for the checks. Plus you don’t have to keep creating content all the time if you host them yourself and worry about stale content. Create when you have new material. The number of Pluralsight subscribers doesn’t shrink because some authors stopped creating content.

  • Tony Henrich

    @Derick Another comment about podcast hosting. You can do so much with podcast hosting u ntil the service is done. Then there’s not much extra you can do to differentiate yourself from other podcast hosters other than price and holding hand. If the process is automated to the user and just works, the users probably doesn’t want anything more.

  • @Derick – consider this one vote in favor of you sharing your learnings. I appreciate the value you provide and being able to learn from your lessons.

  • I agree with John mostly about the downside of freedom. This was a riveting talk about just this: http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice. There is one point on which I want to disagree, though. Saying that freedom is naturally problematic and that it’s not in our nature to embrace freedom and that we want to be driven and given direction by others is a point I’d like to dispute. I don’t think it’s a matter of nature, but a matter of nurture. Having been through schooling where I was taught to sit down, shut up, and obey authority figures and trained to become an employee and a member of society rather than an individual, I blame my experience rather than my nature for the difficulties I have had in leaving comfort and moving toward acquiring what I desire. I think this is a common experience in Western culture. Anyway, thanks for another stimulating and instructive episode, guys.

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