Week 3 of Joy Runs. Finding my groove. Extreme product-market fit is said to have 3 components: 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱, 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗘𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆. Efficiency is the least sexy so it often gets overlooked. However, if you don't build it in from the start your business or side-project ends up consuming more hours and money than it should. We've all been there! That's why I've made it my mission for Joy Runs to stay simple and run off 4 desk hours and $10 per week. So, how's it going? I'm currently at 5 hours. Here's the breakdown: • Weekly newsletter: 20 minutes (via Beehiiv) • Article publishing: 40 minutes (via Elementor editor) • Content creation: 3 hours (via Elementor editor, Canva, Semrush's free tools & user-generated content) • Social media mgt: 1 hour • Everything else: Automated Wherever possible everything is working off repeatable formats or automated, although I do get a lot of joy from interacting with the (still small) community and writing up my own experiences of each running theme. I'll do another round-up of costs soon, but all in all Joy Runs is running on $50 per month, including the initial website development and ongoing hosting via Elementor. To paraphrase Peter White, ruthless simplicity doesn't just make a product easier to build and manage, it also makes it more irresistible and lovable to users.
This week Joy Runners are #running to a theme of 'Water' 🌊 💦 Wonder where it'll take them. By bendy rivers, streams, sea, lake loops, rock pools, even embracing a cathartic run in the rain 🌧️ Here's a stunning double rainbow I saw on mine...
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3moThanks for the shout-out 🙇 the cult of radical simplicity!