Consistency – Entrepreneurial Mindset (E130)

Notes: Startups for the Rest of Us - E500 Stair StepThe Business of eCommerce - E5Startups for the Rest of Us - E222 Atomic HabitsJames Clear Pit traps Waiting to get startedComing out of the gate too hot Sponsors: Drip – Get a free demo of Drip using this coupon code!Spark Shipping – eCommerce Automation Transcript : Charles (00:00): In this episode of the business of eCommerce, I talk about consistency. This is a business of eCommerce Episode, 130. Charles (00:14): Welcome to the business of eCommerce. The show that helps eCommerce retailers start launch and grow their eCommerce business. I'm your host Charles Palleschi, and I'm here today. Talk about Consistency. This is something that this week or last week time of this recording, I listened to an episode. It's a podcast I've been following for hundreds of episodes. Now they do one a week. It's called startups for the rest of us. It's by this guy named Rob, another guy named Mike. They talk about SAS. Businesses have been following for many, many, many years. And recently this week, they just hit that 500th episode. And this is making me think about consistency and just how these guys have showed up every week for 500 weeks and recorded. And even top of the episode, some episodes are better, some, a little misses, but they do it every week. I think that consistency speaks a lot. Charles (01:07): And I think that's something that a lot of folks underestimates today's episode is sponsored by drip, drip it's of world's first e-commerce CRM and a tool that I personally use for email marketing and automation. Now, if you're ever running an eCommerce store, you need to have drip to try. And here's why drip offers one-click integrations for both Shopify and Magento. There's robust segmentation, personalization, and revenue dashboards. To give you an overview of how your automation emails are performing. One of my favorite features of drip is the visual workflow builder. It gives you a super easy way to build out your automation rules visually and see the entire process. It lets you get started quickly, but also build very complex automation roles. It's powerful, but also easy to learn. Unlike a lot of email tools that offer the same type of automation to get a demo of drip today, you can go head over to drip.com/boe. Charles (01:55): That's drip.com/b O E. Now under the show. And I've cited them before. On an early episode mentioned that stair step approach. That's actually originally by Rob look guys on the podcast and it just talks about building businesses kind of in this more incremental way. And I'll link to that in the show notes. But I think everyone's checked that out, but the concept of consistency I feel like is very underrated. I've read the book atomic habits by James, Claire. I think you should all read that or at least check out James's Twitter account. He posts very insightful little pieces every few days. And it just talks about over time slowly having these habits that build on top of one another and great example of something like podcasting blogging, any sort of content where the very first time you publish a podcast, publish a blog post. Charles (02:50): It doesn't really do anything, right? Like episode one, not many people, no one followed me. We've had the blog first post. No one really checks it out, but if you're consistent over time, that's what you start to actually get the wins. Same thing going into the gym. You can go to the gym or run and just going and lifting a waist. Doesn't actually do anything for you lifting at once. But that building reps, which build sets that build workouts that continue each day, that's where you start to get that impact. And I think entrepreneurship is very, very, very similar, which this to come pick traps. I see a lot of folks fall into what they don't do this. And this is total out for the first is people that don't ever start. They kind of, they wait to stash,