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Three helpful lines of questioning to strengthen your scope:
When someone decides to buy and read your book, what are they trying to achieve or accomplish with it?
Why are they bothering?
After finishing it, what’s different in their life, work, or worldview?
That’s your book’s promise.
What does your ideal reader already know and believe? If they already believe in the importance of your topic, then you can skip (or hugely reduce) the sections attempting to convince them of its worth. Or if they already know the basics, then you can skip those.
Who is your book not for and what is it not doing? If you aren’t clear on who you’re leaving out, then you’ll end up writing yourself into rabbit holes, wasting time on narrow topics that only a small subset of your readers actually care about. Deciding who it isn’t for will allow you to clip those tangential branches.
Write Useful Books
Rob Fitzpatrick und Adam Rosen
At Pearson, the life cycle has six phases instead of three, but the fundamental concepts are similar. Early-stage ideas are funded with small investments and are expected to return learning rather than financial results. In other words, teams are asked to validate their business ideas and not to return a profit. Once an idea has been validated, the product council will invest additional funds and will expect more-traditional returns.
Sense and Respond
Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden
The annual repurchase rate is an early indicator of how an e-commerce startup will succeed in the long term. Even before a year has elapsed, an e-commerce company can look at 90-day repurchase rates and get a sense of which model it’s in. A 90-day repurchase rate of 1% to 15% means you’re in acquisition mode. A 90-day repurchase rate of 15% to 30% means you’re in hybrid mode. A 90-day repurchase rate of over 30% means you’re in loyalty mode.
Lean Analytics
Alistair Croll, Benjamin Yoskovitz
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