Prolific Beats Perfect

Hey friends,

I just listened to an amazing podcast episode.

Chris Do from The Futur was interviewing my friend, entrepreneur and author Dan Priestley about how to create a personal brand.

There were two lessons in there that I think apply to everyone.

🏗️ 1. Prolific Beats Perfect

The point of creating content (from a business perspective) is so that your audience develops a connection with you.

People increasingly want to buy things from other people, not faceless corporations. And the way to inspire people and deepen that relationship with them is through being prolific. Create things weekly, daily, finish projects quickly.

The more you create, the higher your chances of making that one video or blog post that strikes a chord.

In other words, quantity beats quality.

Take the Beatles, for example. They wrote on average one song every ~8 days for 12 years, and often multiple albums in a year. They didn’t spend years agonising over every little detail - but their songs are still legendary. If they’d been perfectionists, they probably wouldn’t have gotten as far as they did.

The point is - don’t don’t set your quality bar too high. Just get out there and create.

⏳ 2. Content is Time Travel

This is really true.

For example, Dan wrote his book Key Person of Influence 12 years ago. And all these years later, Chris Do read it, vibed with the ideas, and invited Dan onto his podcast.

So in a way, Dan-from-12-years-ago communicated with modern-day Chris in a time-travelly kind of way. And it let to new opportunities, with the two guys chatting on a podcast, becoming friends, and potentially working together on a business.

So remember - with every piece of content you put out there (especially on a platform with longevity, like YouTube or a blog), you’re leaving a breadcrumb trail that will lead interesting people to you in the future.

Have a great week!

Ali xx

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