- Most people stop at ‘I’ve got the idea, I haven’t got the resources’. The ones who get somewhere get resourceful instead.
- A £500 website is one Saturday workshop. Ten people at £50 is £500 and it’s paid for.
- The website brings people in, so the next workshop has fifteen. That’s £750, into being findable.
- Then twenty, which is £1,000 for reaching people who have never heard of you.
- Not a penny of your own money has gone in. It cost three hours on a Saturday afternoon.
Someone tells you what you need. A proper website. Decent photographs. Somebody who understands search. You agree with all of it.
Then you look at the number and that’s the end of the conversation.
I have had this exchange more times than I can count, and for me the sticking point is almost never the money. It’s the frame.
Resources, or resourcefulness?
Most people faced with a good idea and no money stop there. *I’ve got the idea. I haven’t got the resources.*
The ones who get somewhere aren’t handed more resources. In my experience the single difference is that they get resourceful instead. They find a way to fund it, borrow it, share it or earn it.
That sounds like a slogan until you do the arithmetic. So let us do the arithmetic.
What does one Saturday actually pay for?
Say the website is £500. You’ve agreed you need it. You haven’t got £500.
Could you run a workshop? Three hours on a Saturday, ten people, £50 each.
Most teachers, asked that, say yes without hesitating.
That workshop is £500. The website is paid for.
Now the website is working. People find you who could not before. The next workshop has fifteen in it.
Fifteen at £50 is £750 — into being found properly in search.
More people find you. The next has twenty.
Twenty at £50 is £1,000, which is a serious budget for reaching people who have never heard of you.
And not a penny of your own money has gone into any of it. It cost three hours on a Saturday afternoon.
Why is this different from just spending?
Two things.
Each round pays for the next. You aren’t buying a website. You’re buying the thing that fills the next workshop.
There’s no debt and almost no risk. If the first workshop draws six people, you’ve made £300 and you buy something smaller. Nothing has gone wrong. Compare that with £500 on a card in January.
Where does it stop working?
It needs something you can genuinely sell in an afternoon. If you’ve never run a workshop, that’s the first thing to build, not the website.
And the spend has to return something. A website that brings people in works. A logo doesn’t.
Where this sits
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