The list of ideas and questions to ask yourself to create awesome content.
Daily routine / questions to ask | Examples |
Create (Sell your sawdust)
What you done today?
What you created?
Whatâs in your calendar?
Show it with images+videos | âHereâs the demo of the new feature. It helps X people to solve Y problemâ
âI was on 5 calls today. Exhaustedâ
âIâve interviewed customer. Learned a lot. Hereâs key takeawaysâ |
Publish
What did you publish?
Why you published it?
For whom?
How to use it?
Show it with images+videos | âIâve just published article on how to solve Y problem. Check it outâ
âWeâve just released a feature X. Try it out and let us know your feedbackâ
âMy medium post went viral and got 100 commentsâ
âToday I was banned at subreddit Y. Not sure what rules I violatedâ |
Challenge yourself
What are you going do that you havenât done before?
What things scare you? | âIâll get 100 users in 30 daysâ
âIâll tweet 10 times daily for the next 7 days and let you know the resultsâ
âIâll send 100 cold emails to VC funds in 7 dayâ |
Act
What big decisions did you make? What long-time issue that bothered you solved?
What decision can help others in similar situation? | âOur site lacks trust. we need to focus case study earlyâ
âWeâve decided to change our release cycle from 1 week to 1 day. hereâs whyâ
âTwitter ad didnât work; testing facebook nowâ |
Fail
What mistake did you make?
What you feel awkward about?
How would you approach some issue differently?
What lessons you learned from mistakes?
Show it with nice charts / gifs | âIâve dropped production database of a live product. Never since then though.â
âI promised to deliver product too fast but I failed. Hereâs how we solved it and you can tooâ
âIâve paid $10k+ to consultants but they havenât delivered anything. Weâll change the way we onboard consultants nowâ |
Win
What you feel great about? What you shared in private with your close friends? What specific numbers did you reach?
Celebrate small wins. Huge wins are made of small.
Show it with nice charts / gifs | - You gained your first Twitter follower? Tweet it!
- Gained first 10 followers â tweet it!
- Improved conversion +1% â tweet it!
- Learned something â tweet it
- Released/changed something â tweet it |
Learn
What doubts do you feel?
What things you realised you didnât do right?
What issues/blockers do you have right now?
How other people solve this?
Show it with charts/screenshots/infographics | âAlex shown me a cool tool to create nice screenshots. Will use it from now on!â
âIâve chatted with James and figured out our onboarding is terrible. Going to simplify it! nowâ
âIâve just watched an interview with Sam Parr. Here is how to research reddit like OG:â
âIâve never done SEO. How do I start?â
âWe launch on ProductHunt in 10 days! Never did it before. How do I prepare? Please help!â |
Have fun
What activities you enjoyed and want to repeat? (not necessarily work-related)
What joke stuck in your head?
What movie or song gave you ideas?
Show it with photos/videos/gifs
| âI enjoyed making this hilarious rap song with Danâ
âIâve met with Alex, weâve just laughed for a good hour and havenât figured out anything, but I feel lots of energy nowâ
âWeâve went to the beach with Stefan and his dog. The weather was windy but thatâs what it makes it even coolerâ |
Help and support others
What did you do for others to help them? What can help others? What cool people you can introduce to each other?
Hype other makers and products as much as you hype yours. | âHereâs the roast of the main page for George! Weâve polished value proposition and created a UX mockup to visualise the idea. Good luck with the launch!â
âI just spoke with Andrew and heâs looking for a decent designers. Whoâs ready to prove their grit?â
âHey John, remember I told you about Andrew? I think you are a great match and should try to do something together! Would love to help to schedule an intro call if neededâ |
Chat and meet new people. Get friends. Win âfansâ
What awesome people did you meet? Who would you love to meet soon? Why did you value them? How did they help you? How you can help them?
Share photos and videos with yourself/people you interact | âThank you Yucheng for using Momentum early and helping us to fix bugsâ
âHey Joe, Iâm also into content and I see youâre much ahead. Appreciate your works, especially <something specific>. Can you please take a look at my thread and say what I can improve?â
âInteresting, Andrew. We also tried to apply this process but it didnât work for us because we werenât ready. Excited to hear how itâs going for youâ
âIâve just met with Stefan in real-life and the dude is super funny. Hereâs the photo of his dogâ
âFinally, weâve had a call with Dan! It was weird to chat for the first time after the long time of tweetingsâ
âIâm meeting with Jason tomorrow who founded 3 startups and raised $10M+. What should I ask himâ |
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