The 4 Hour Workweek - Tim Ferriss

Notes that I took from the book. This book is filled with so many golden nuggets it’s insane. If you haven’t read this yet it’s an absolute must read.

“A Not-to-do list is just as important as a to-do list”

To-Do List:

Get good grades this semester and finish above a 3.0
Workout everyday in the mornings before class so you can achieve a figure than you had at the end of Europe
Read one book per month (12 pages a day)
Eat healthy, low carbs, low sugar, Whole Foods, 4-5 glasses of water per day,
Enjoy the small things, take moments to absorb and reflect
Monetize website
Finish planning for Europe (Get It fully paid)
Get 6 more people using the software by May (basically 1.5 people per month)
Build lasting relationships
Stay focused on my vision, make it as clear as possible
Be early to everything

Not-To-Do List:

getting caught up living in the greek house
Focusing on what I don’t have
Doing too many things that aren’t getting me results
Being unorganized
Not sticking to a schedule
Letting my phone get the best of me

Confirming Sufficient Market Size:

Compete.com / Quantcast.com (finding popular search terms and visitor traffic)

Writersmarket.com - finding niche magazines to market your product

Spyfu.com - Use this to find out what your competitors are spending their time, money and effort on. Look for repeat spending to find out what is working

www.srds.com use this to buy customer mailing lists for specific magazines

Finding Products to Resell or Manufacture:

Affiliate Networks: www.Clickbank.com , www.cj.com , www.Amazon.com/associates These resources will let you avoid the necessity of inventory and invoicing. It will allow you to test new products

Alibaba.com

Worldwide Brands

www.thomasnet.com They is contract manufacture just about anything

Consumables and vitamins www.expoeast.com , www.expowest.com

Finding Public Domain information

>Project Gutenberg (www.gutenberg.org) Project Gutenberg is a digital library of more than 15,000 pieces of literature considered to be in the public domain.

>LibriVox (www.hbrivox.org) LibriVox is a collection of audiobooks from the public domain that are available for free download.

Recording Seminars or Phone Interviews with Experts for CD Downloadable Products

>HotRecorder (www.h0trecorder.c0m) (PC), Call Recorder (http://ecamm.com/mac/callrecorder/) (Mac) Use these programs to record any inbound or outbound phone call via computer using Skype (www.skype.com) and other VoIP programs.

>NOCost Conference (www.nocostconference.com)

Provides a free 8oo-number conference line, as well as free recording and ﬁle retrieval. Normal phones can be used for call-in, so no computer or web connection is required for participants. If you’ll have a Q&A, I suggest soliciting attendee questions beforehand to avoid issues with muting/unmuting of lines.

>ZOOM If you’d like to record the actions on your screen for video tutorials, this program will get the job done. If you need advanced editing features

Licensing Ideas to Others for Royalties

>InventRight (www.inventright.com) (800-701-7993)

Stephen Key is the most consistently successful inventor I’ve ever met to use this website, with Millions in royalties from companies like Disney, Nestlé, and Coca-Cola. This Site Introduces his faill-proof process for doing the same thing. His techniques for cold-calling alone are invaluable. I highly recommended visiting this site.

,Guthyﬁenker Corporation (www.guthyrenker.c0m) (760-773.9022)

GRC is [he Soc-pound Infomercial gorilla. It brings in more than $1.3 bil-

lion per year in sales with mega-hits like Tony Robbins, Proactiv Solution,

and Winsor Pilates. Don’t expect more than a 2~4% royalty if you make

the cut, but the numbers are huge enough to make it worth a look. Submit

your product online.

Searching Patents for Unexploited Ideas to Turn into Products

>United States Patent and Trademark Ofﬁce (www.uspto.gov)

(800—786-9199)

>Licensable Technologies Developed at Universities (www.autm.net;

see “View all listings” under “Technology Transfer Ofﬁces”)

>Inventors Groups and Associations (call and ask if members

have anything to license) (www.uiausa.org / Resources /

InventorGroups.htm

Becoming an Expert

>ProfNet via PR Leads (WWW.prleads.com) and

HARO (www.helpareporterout.com) _

Receive daily leads from journalists and TV and radio PrOducers 100mg

for experts to cite and interview for media ranging from local outlets to

CNN and the New York Times. Stop swimming upstream and start re-

Sponding to stories people are already working on. HARO offers select

1eads at no cost, and you can mention my name with PR Leads to get two

months for the price of one.

"PRWeb Press Releases (WWW-Prwebdirea'com) , h.s service has

The Press release is dead for I110“ Purposes’ but us-mg tt ihe toP 0f re-

sOIne serious search-engine beneﬁts, such as appeal-mg a

13th Google News and Yahoo! News resum-

www.Expertclick.com Allows you direct access to mass media by publishing your expert profile.

Use www.legalzoom.com to start LLCs and S-Corps

Use www.CorporateCreations.com to form any kind of corporation you want but Tim used it to form a C-Corporation for paying out investors/shareholders. You can also use this resource to form a corporation overseas.(Think about this when creating a international real estate and travel company)

Services for selling downloadable products (ebooks,videos,audio, etc)

Www.e-junkie.com

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C’PP plug-in 'Lulu (www.fourhourblog.com/lulu)

Durhmlliblog Lulu Will 315? d0 _Print:0n-demand and other forms of manufacture and

capablhties. " ﬁllﬁllmem' lee nghmmg Source (WWW-1ightningsource.com) it offers d'

’d au‘in‘one tribution through Amazon, Barnes 8L Noble online, and other niajor outle:

'CreateSpace (www.createspace.com)

A subsidiary of Amazon.com that offers inventory-free, physical distribu-

tion of bookS, CD and DVDS on Demand, as well as video downloads

through Amazon Video On Demand“.