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What's YOUR Big Idea?

by Peter Bestel
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Anyone subscribe to this site:

idea a day

I've just signed up again after a couple of year's absence. I bought the book when it came out 4 or 5 years ago and I must admit, I forgot about it. Browsing my library I noticed it again.

Seth Godin wrote the foreword and I quote an extract:

The lessons are simple. First, stop keeping your idea a secret. Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death. The more people you share your idea with, the more likely it is to become real.

The second lesson is even more important - it's not the idea that matters, it's what you do with it. The real challenge (and the real skill) comes from championing your idea, shepherding it through the system and turning it into a reality.

So, here's my challenge: pick an idea, any idea. From this book or the one you've been carrying around like a fragile egg. Now go do something with it. Tell people about it. Share it. Build a prototype. Launch it cheap.

Make something happen. You can do it.
So, everyday you get an idea in your inbox. It could be good, great or stupid. It doesn't really matter, it gets your idea juices moving and can help you be creative, think up new products and new methods of marketing.

Brilliant.

Peter
#day #idea
  • Profile picture of the author Michael Dominic
    Very nice! Thank you for posting this website. Seems like it can definitely affect the mind in a positive way.
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    • Profile picture of the author Peter Bestel
      If you're quick enough to act on some of the ideas that come through, there's some real gems that can easily be monetised if you wish.

      But as you say, Michael, it can really help with developing and maintaining a positive (and creative) attitude - this is the real benefit.

      Peter
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      • Profile picture of the author ShayB
        Thank you for this site!

        Now if I can just monetize my coffee-flavored toothpaste idea....
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        • Profile picture of the author jcmentor
          Peter...

          Far be it for me to oppose Seth Godin. But I always heard that great ideas lose their power when they are shared too openly with too many people.

          On the olther hand, Seth seems to be doing OK for himself.

          I guess it all depends on the context.

          All the best,

          Jack Carroll
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        • Profile picture of the author Alex Sol
          Originally Posted by Shay60654 View Post

          Thank you for this site!

          Now if I can just monetize my coffee-flavored toothpaste idea....
          Heck, I'd buy one!
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          • Profile picture of the author ShayB
            Originally Posted by kiev View Post

            Heck, I'd buy one!
            hehehehehehe....I love coffee - anything flavored with coffee is my idea of a good thing....
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            • Profile picture of the author Peter Bestel
              I believe there's a philosophy that's common to the Idea A Day site, the Warrior Forum and the business networking organisation, BNI, and that's 'Givers Gain'. (It's a by-line for BNI)

              It's not about what you can get from these sites; it's about what you can give. The thing is, the more you give, the more you'll gain.

              If you don't believe me - just test it !!

              Peter
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        • Profile picture of the author CIIC
          Originally Posted by Shay60654 View Post

          Thank you for this site!

          Now if I can just monetize my coffee-flavored toothpaste idea....
          That's great, you'll need it after eating my glow in the dark twizzlers.
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          • Profile picture of the author Bon508
            Thanks Peter!

            I LOVE nifty things like this that get my creative juices flowing, and get me thinking about topics I'd normally never think about.

            I will recommend the site to my list... but I won't sign up myself. I suffer from the same affliction as Roger:
            My problem is I have new ideas all the time. I used to start launching them all over the place and spread myself too thinly.
            I'm too easily distracted (especially by interesting, creativing things like this!). I need to force myself to stay focused on achieving my most important goal and "stop flitting." Guess who reminded me of the importance of that? Seth Godin!
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        • Profile picture of the author Bev Clement
          Originally Posted by Shay60654 View Post

          Thank you for this site!

          Now if I can just monetize my coffee-flavored toothpaste idea....
          Shay a great idea, in Dubai you can buy coffee-flavoured toothpaste as well as chocolate flavoured toothpaste.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tuzic
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      hi,

      its a nice post & makes me think too.
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      • Profile picture of the author Heather Bestel
        Just been on the site and registered.

        some of the ideas are brilliant.

        Must warn you though - it is addictive!

        Heather
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        • Profile picture of the author KarlWarren
          I read through a few of these last night and signed up...
          There are some great minds out there.

          Being the book addict that I am, I highly recommend a book called:
          Did You Spot The Gorilla
          by Richard Wiseman

          It's not a BIG read, but a great eye opener. Speaking of which, I must catch up on my reading.
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          • Profile picture of the author Peter Bestel
            Originally Posted by KarlWarren View Post

            I read through a few of these last night and signed up...
            There are some great minds out there.

            Being the book addict that I am, I highly recommend a book called:
            Did You Spot The Gorilla
            by Richard Wiseman

            It's not a BIG read, but a great eye opener. Speaking of which, I must catch up on my reading.
            I wasn't aware of this book Karl, but I've read another of Richard Wiseman's, The Luck Factor. I'll see if I can spot his Gorilla book (see what I did there? )

            Peter
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            • Profile picture of the author KarlWarren
              Originally Posted by Peter Bestel View Post

              I wasn't aware of this book Karl, but I've read another of Richard Wiseman's, The Luck Factor. I'll see if I can spot his Gorilla book (see what I did there? )

              Peter
              I see, I see

              You'll love the book, I've not read the Luck factor.

              I think either you or Heather will be aware of the experiment with the basketball players that he ran (where the book got its name)
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              • Profile picture of the author Peter Bestel
                Actually, neither of us have heard of that, (I just looked on Amazon and it describes the experiment) we must have been off that day!!

                I think it's known as a negative hallucination - I'd be interested to pick this one up. Thanks for pointing it out Karl.

                Maybe we should start a Warrior book club? It might rival J-Mo's

                Peter
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  • Profile picture of the author Kelly Verge
    Peter,

    Thanks for the link!

    I recently started compiling a list of projects for a web programmer that I'm in the process of hiring. I was AMAZED at the number of ideas I've just filed in the back of my mind instead of acting on them (via rentacoder or such). I'm sure we all do this much more than we'd care to admit.
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  • Profile picture of the author trafficwave
    Very timely post!

    I have recently blown the dust off one of those (I believe) "Holy Cow" ideas that was bouncing around in my head a while back. I hadn't really moved forward on it yet every time I think about it, I KNOW it can really go somewhere.

    I was doing some coaching with a friend who had stalled out. After we talked for a while, I told him, "The only thing stopping you is you, Buddy. You just haven't taken the next steps. You know what they are. It's time to just take the steps and get going." (He thought I was a genius and thanked me).

    And then... "Physician heal thyself" pops in to my head.

    I was reminded of my own idea that I had let stall out. I took it back out of the "drawer" where it had been collecting dust and really examined it.

    Still one heck of an idea.

    REALLY close to being ready to market it.

    Duh ... the only thing stopping me was me.

    So I spent my afternoon getting things done in regard to this project and have scheduled lunch with a potential sales mgr for tomorrow.
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  • Profile picture of the author Roger Mayne
    My problem is I have new ideas all the time. I used to start launching them all over the place and spread myself too thinly.

    I have been told I have "grasshopper brain". Need to focus my energy on one thing only, as I don't have the spare capital to outsource everything yet.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Birch
    There is a closed forum out there that I belong to that has an 'idea incumbator' section. Users can 'air their secrets and ideas' and after input from various forum members, more often than not, a half decent product can be produced.

    Unfortunately though in this forum there are some highly developed 'eagle eyes' who can take an idea thats in its pre embryonic stage and before you know it, the user has created a product.

    I used to think that my ideas had been hijacked (yes, it happened to me once or twice), but now if it does happen, I can usually use the resulting product to my advantage.

    Now where are my notes I gathered on my anal bleaching idea . . .
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  • Profile picture of the author mrmcd
    Instead of making goals:
    "How Can I make $4700 in one week from 20th of october to 25th"..

    instead of that (which is what I use to do) now..
    my goals are..

    "How can I make $4700 in one week from the 20th of October to the 25th for at least 4 of my affiliates".

    Then I set an exact deadline to the minute, I assure myself I can do it, and start writing of a detailed plan of how I am going to make it happen.

    Sometimes the plan does not come immediately, but all of a sudden, there it is!

    And... If I would have not made the decision to DO IT, and decided that I CAN and I WILL, then that new idea would have never come.

    Try it out for yourself, but do it sincerely.
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    • Profile picture of the author Peter Bestel
      Originally Posted by mrmcd View Post

      Instead of making goals:
      "How Can I make $4700 in one week from 20th of october to 25th"..

      instead of that (which is what I use to do) now..
      my goals are..

      "How can I make $4700 in one week from the 20th of October to the 25th for at least 4 of my affiliates".

      Then I set an exact deadline to the minute, I assure myself I can do it, and start writing of a detailed plan of how I am going to make it happen.

      Sometimes the plan does not come immediately, but all of a sudden, there it is!

      And... If I would have not made the decision to DO IT, and decided that I CAN and I WILL, then that new idea would have never come.

      Try it out for yourself, but do it sincerely.
      Specificity! - brilliant and thanks for the shared idea.

      Peter
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark Maffei
    Also speaking of both Seth Godin, and "idea a day"... Whether you have or haven't already I *most* highly encourage you to read Godin's "Unleashing the IdeaVirus". Both timeless and profound!

    http://mark.bravura.googlepages.com/Ideavirus.pdf (direct download)

    Enjoy!
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  • Profile picture of the author johnapuna
    haha, thats a great idea, the coffee flavored toothpaste, you would put starbucks out of biz
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    • Profile picture of the author AndrewCavanagh
      It's an absolute piece of cake to come up with great ideas.

      As Seth says the real difficulty is in getting those ideas up and running (preferably finding someone else who'll take one of your ideas and run with it).

      One average idea well executed will make you rich so it's not so much the idea as putting it into action.

      Kindest regards,
      Andrew Cavanagh
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      • Profile picture of the author Cash Blasters Online
        what's my big idea, with the stock market crashing and walstreet running nuts, I think I am going to play my guitar for 3 hours , then watch a couple movies and forget the world tonight.

        So what do you think of that?
        Sounds good to me.
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      • Profile picture of the author Peter Bestel
        Originally Posted by AndrewCavanagh View Post

        It's an absolute piece of cake to come up with great ideas.

        As Seth says the real difficulty is in getting those ideas up and running (preferably finding someone else who'll take one of your ideas and run with it).

        One average idea well executed will make you rich so it's not so much the idea as putting it into action.

        Kindest regards,
        Andrew Cavanagh
        Andrew, not everybody has this ability, or should I say, not everybody has nurtured this ability.

        It's sites like this (http://www.idea-a-day.com) that encourages you to think about ideas on a regular basis. The next stage, taking action, is obviously vital, but without an idea in the first place...

        And lets be honest, even for the most pro-active of us, we'll all had ideas that we've done nothing with; why not share them and let someone else have a go? (Or maybe just a laugh!)

        Peter
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  • Profile picture of the author Lukmus
    I wish to become the millionaire and to buy island in the mediterranean sea)) For this purpose to have to work much.
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