Kickoff Note: We’ve Chosen the Business

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Kickoff Note: We’ve Chosen the Business Idea.
Dec 2nd: WOW! After 205+ votes in the comments and well over 400 email replies (holy crap), the winner for the topic for me to validate a business idea around is…

Hiking in California?

Cooking hacks was a very close second for you all, so that may have to be my next challenge in the new year. What do you think?

For now, I’m pumped. Hiking in California is something I’ve had a strong interest in for the past several years, so I’m up for the challenge—this is going to be fun. Here’s a picture from the summit of Mt. Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States at 14,505ft when I hiked it in 2014 (you get pretty light-headed at that elevation ascending from sea level in one day).

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So now, here’s what comes next.

First off, I have to admit I already made my first mistake—or at least a deviation afghanistan phone number database the advice I typically give (shockingly, I’m still human).

In my excitement around 5:15am yesterday morning once I saw that hiking in California was going to win, I bought a domain name.

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With most of the people I connect with through my site, my blogging courses and in The Launch Formula, I usually advise people NOT to immediately rush out and buy a domain name, start a website or jump straight into other tactics that equate to spending money without first having a clear path to making a return on that investment.

But, I promised I’d share everything with you—the good and the bad—so consider this my first hand slap. Now it’s time to back-pedal a bit.

Luckily it only cost me $13.95 to register the new domain where I keep all of my domains over on Dreamhost.

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That now leaves me with $486.05 left of the $500 that I’ve allocated to validating this business idea.

However, since I’ve had so much experience over the years with quickly whipping up (read: very simple) WordPress websites to test out ideas, I already know that I can take a stock self-hosted WordPress template and get a functional website ready to go in no more than 1-2 hours.