21 days ago we completed ‘The Business Activist Entrepreneurs Bootcamp’, a 21-day learning experience that we have very much enjoyed.
Short daily videos followed by useful exercises and accompanied by a funbook.
The aim? Learn how to develop a business idea, secure money to get started and launch!
The hosts? Brandon and Amanda Neely, two business activist entrepreneurs themselves. They that have run a coffee bar for nearly 10 years with the mission to ‘inspire a genuine and local community of people who change the world with their purchasing power, time, and talents’.
Light bulb - what we have learnt
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We don’t need a huge amount of time to improve our venture day by day... as long as we’ve got a good guide!
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Key ingredients for success: a vision, consistency, good prep… and a plan B and C. On this, see also last week’s post in case you’ve missed it!
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Oh wow… there are so many more learning learning points. Ok, a good one is that we can all be super-heroes as long as we know what our super-power is. A simple test can help.
Heart - what we have loved
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It was short and to the point. 1 theme a week. Three weeks altogether. No more than 20 minutes a day to spend on videos or exercises.
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The exercises. Learning for a purpose.
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The forum. Great to share thoughts and ideas with other bootcampers and to receive useful insights from the facilitators.
Smile - what made us laugh
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Diligently spending our lunch break in August with the tablet and the headphones on the landing, just out of our office door :)
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Some of the comments in the forum space
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Talking about consistency with a creative person who hates planning and deadlines!
Pointing finger - what we take away
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An Instagram page with a consistent picture every Weds… prepping for our trip start!
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A revised concept of triple bottom line which is very much in line with ABCity.org’s philosophy - measuring results through money, social impact and fun!
Shaking hands - what connections we have made
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The first fans of our Facebook page were participants in the bootcamp!
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We discovered the Smart Passive Income podcast and through it... The Bakers!
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So much inspiration and good examples from another bootcamper, Sabine @ From Scratch
Rooted foot - what we knew already and was important to remember
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#small matters. From selling coffee beans to setting up an amazing learning & business activist community :)
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One thing is to have a story to tell, another thing is to be able to tell it in a way that it’s engaging, inspiring and meaningful for other people
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There’s need to really understand what customers want, expect and think like.
Bin - what we’d kick away (didn’t like that much…)
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Having 2 platforms to share comments and learning - the bootcamp forum and the Facebook page. 1 would have been sufficient or having the 2 talking to each other.
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A $1,000 worth bonus randomly allocated to a bootcamp participant - mainly because the winner was not super-engaged and we still don’t know what they won!
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The impossibility to join the next step… the BUSINESS ACTIVIST BREAKTHROUGH! Mainly due to logistical reasons as ABCity.org will soon be travelling :)
If you’d like to know more about any of the above, leave a comment below!
If you’d like to know more about other learning opportunities that Brandon and Amanda can provide, this is the link for you http://overflowyourpossibility.com/bootcamp.
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Quoting Amanda would say: “Keep overflowing”!