I’d also be glad to help you out in terms of marketing expertise. What’s your question, exactly?

The Archive - for note-taking (no more post-its) - zettelkasten.de/the-archive/

Basecamp - for project management (gives me both total piece of mind and full control about all the gazillion things that need to be taken care of) - basecamp.com

Cool!

Cool!! You’re number 1, Arnaud :) I will send you all the details and the timeline this Friday so you know when you can expect the ad for No Meat Today to be done. :)

The calm wake-up routine with journaling is nice.

(Also, playing chess in the morning is something I never considered as a morning routine. Def a great alternative to being mindless on YouTube.)

I’m hoping to go on a 1-month research trip abroad in September. I started one-month research trips in 2017. I liked it so much that I did it again in 2018. In 2019 I didn’t do it because my business trips (4 months - 12k expenses) were too expensive that I had no more money left in September, plus I stopped working with that client who generated the majority of my income. 2020... well everyone knows about that :(

I plan to get there by writing texts on commission (SEO content, sales copy) from Monday to Friday to generate enough surplus money. I reckon that 2.5k suffice for 1 month abroad including return flight. I have not decided yet what my destination will be; also because C19 will probably stay a more permanent companion than we would like.

The WIP community can help me by either commission a text from me for their business or recommend someone who needs text help. I write in English and German and you can see my copywriting portfolio here => naii.link/copywriting-portfol… (@marc I hope it’s ok to set a link to my portfolio; if not I’ll remove it again).

#suse : I’m hoping to produce 12 small stories this year (mostly audio ads). Since this is a side hustle happening on the weekend, 1 ad per month seems to be realistic for me.

I plan to get there by offering the majority of them pro-bono to projects / companies / organizations I sincerely like. The resulting word of mouth should give me some social proof, attention and leads for paid work.

The WIP community can help me get there by telling me whether they’re interested in a pro-bono story-centered audio ad. But I will ask that question explicitly at a different place here at WIP.

Cool! I haven’t heard about syntax.fm before. I’ll check it out. Thank you :)

haha that’s cool!

I actually have done something similar on LinkedIn. There’s this group I created and it’s called “Digital Nomads Around The World” www.linkedin.com/groups/84784….

I created it a while ago and without any promotion there are currently 925 people inside. I still don’t know what to do with the group though.

And, just to clarify... on the Substack publication for Studiolist I had published stuff (on a weekly basis) so it’s not only a placeholder.

Maybe you can try to start a conversation with them? Or organize some sort of event to start to create community and discover what they are looking for?

Yep. That’s a good idea, and it’s probably the direction I’ll be taking.

Approaching the people who signed up seems to be the bottom line of what you and the other WIP folks that generously shared their feedback here recommend.

Thanks Adriaan 🙏 😊

Excellent!

You’re spot on with the problems that VOs face.

ACTUALLY, through my prior work (I connected to 100+ Recording studios in Morocco, Spain, Portugal, UK, and the US by going there in person and connecting f2f) I have a list of prospects that also have connections to hiring companies and that want to fill their studio because I initially connected studios and traveling voiceover artists (“voiceover nomads”) but now that I pivoted - COVID-caused - the voiceover artists and the studio have become one and the other side are hiring companies.

So, I’m pretty strong on the studio side (offering the supply), and the hirer side (the demand) is something I need to work for on the most.

building out a 2-sided marketplace from it would be tricky as a single, bootstrapped founder

That’s right, it is tricky but imagine it ACTUALLY worked. The vision of it alone makes my eyes grow :D

You got me thinking and I’ll start having some conversations with the people (actors and hiring companies that I’m connected with).

Thank you! That was really helpful already :)