1. You will be forced to think differently and have a unique recipe
2. You will end up increasing your energy levels, mind & everything required to do what has to be done
3. You will value things and time more
4. Patience will be 100X
5. You will cultivate the habit of choosing long-term games & people in life
6. You will learn to survive what most can’t.
7. You will end up doing more than lots of people with lots of resources
8. Will find simple answers to everything in life
9. You will be more focused in life as you don’t have anything extra :)

1. No Live Community — less feel & momentum
2. They become outdated. You don’t know if they are relevant anymore
3. You don’t know what to skip & from where to start. You don’t know if they are relevant to you from video/text no 5 or 13
4. They are mostly general — The content doesn’t address specific and unique needs
5. It feels like someone is throwing information on you. It’s not fun and dead
6. NO REAL-TIME Q&A, feedback and validation
7. Chances are that you will not complete pre-recorded meetups & courses

“In real life, we learn *on demand*, when it best suits our needs, interest, & styles The learning process should be driven by the demand for, rather than a supply of, knowledge.” Ana Lorena Fabrega

At HelloMeets we do mini meetups on specific topics which keep changing every week. People who need & have to apply them at that particular time, join us :)

WILL ADD MORE TO MY NEXT POSTS :)

1. Dive into what you want to learn. Learn through Google and offline experts and simultaneously apply it in real.

a) My dad threw me into the swimming pool🏊 when I was in class 3 or 4 & I started crying out of fear but it made me learn swimming and get over the fear. Now at least I can swim decently whenever I wish to and hopefully will be able to float on water if something bad happens someday.

b) I built HelloMeets and my network by starting HelloMeets and not only reading about startups & networking.

2) Forget your emotions and ego. You need to have 0% inertia to be able to ask enough good questions in life and take advantage of a great opportunity to connect with anyone on the internet these days.

I see most people have lots of inertia to ask lots of questions and face tough situations. You don’t want others to know you know less than them and also you think why will anyone help you. I can 100% guarantee that’s wrong thinking.

3) Practice as much as you can. Like Anything Else, We Need to Practice Startups.

Just like singing and playing the piano🎹.

4) Just do it ✔️ 🏃🏼 “Procrastination is a symptom of not caring enough” @jackbutcher

5) Do what you love. It will automatically make you go deep into things and invest good time in learning.

6) Doing what you love also helps you in easily picking up things that you don’t love. If you love your startup, you will just do and learn anything required. Love brings passion and focuses which in turn make you do whatever is required.

7) Keep evaluating & reviewing where you have reached. Once you practice something a lot, you will start doing it well but there’s no end to improvement. To go to the next level, keep reflecting on how you are doing now and how can you improve.

This will help you go from 5 ⭐to 6 ⭐and UP...Your level will keep on increasing.

If you are someone who wants to become a good marketer:

1. Learn copywriting fundamentals

What you learn, practise by writing for your community. Write, test and repeat.

2. Learn psychology — Best way to learn psychology is to build a community of what you love.

If you love painting, build a community of painters.

3. Don’t take stress about learning social media platforms — they will keep changing. Those are easy to pick, temporary things.

P.S. This post is inspired by a call I had with an aspiring marketer.

Your takeaways depend on what you know & how you view things.

The things I listened to and read when I started with HelloMeets, now look different to me. And I am sure this will change further.

Have you experienced the same?

Blogs on productivity and focus are for people who haven’t found the love of their life and are forcefully trying to focus.

Love leads to focus & you don’t need to make efforts to focus.

P.S. If you are someone who’s in LOVE, lockdown won’t bore you and news won’t scare you. You are LOST in your own world.

You can do this too if you are a very hyperactive person🚀 and don’t care about minute errors. All you care about is sharing your learnings and ideas & helping others.

Don’t think like journalists, focus on the intent as a writer.

How can you write like a 🚀?

• Write on your personal experiences and observations — This is very easy to finish as you don’t need to google or think a lot. It’s your own story, the truth — it’s always in your head.

This was all about it.

— Focus on learning. Don’t think like journalists

— Share authentic stories and ideas

— Don’t feel shy to commit mistakes. Rise above them

Blog written in 30 mins-

How to become a better copywriter and whatever else you see long on my medium

Blog written in 5 mins

3 min reach-out — Connect with anyone on a call 📞 and whatever else you see short on my medium

AND YOU JUST READ SOMETHING I WROTE IN 5 MINS 😊

How I write blogs in 5 mins & HIT PUBLISH was originally published in HelloMeets on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Today, one of my friends Whatsapped me saying, “How do we become an idea person from a person who only works?

And I sent these 5 points to him (explanation below):

This is how I have grown from a person who never got any idea to a person who gets them every day.

1. Making a conscious effort for the brain to think ideas
2. Being curious & more aware
3. Focusing on the fundamentals
4. Following good people on twitter, real-life & everywhere
5. Becoming less or zero hands-on: free to apply all the above— making analogies and relations and more
6. Making a conscious effort for the brain to think ideas — For me, this has always been the first step to grow at anything in life.

Be aware of what you are bad at and become conscious about improving.

Being conscious will lead you to do and attracting the below points in life.

2. Being curious & more aware

Ask questions. I think in recent times I have asked the funniest and weirdest questions to Google, my mentors and others.

When you want to know everything, you will become more aware and awareness helps in getting ideas.

3. Fundamentals — Becoming a person who knows & understands the fundamentals of what she is doing

Whatever you learn, always make sure to understand the fundamentals.

I have met hundreds of people offline and online and it's not necessary everyone knows fundamentals. Clear fundamentals make the people best at what they do.

When you understand fundamentals, you get more ideas.

4. Following good people on twitter, real-life & everywhere

You produce what you consume. Make sure you surround yourself with good people.

These people don’t have to necessarily be good at what you want to become but it works another way too — They should be good at their thing, core fundamentals about life and concepts should be clear and they will be able to influence you in anything in the best possible way.

5. Becoming less or zero hands-on: free to apply all the above — making analogies and relations and more

Don’t keep your calendar occupied with hands-on work all the time.

To be able to leverage the above 4 points well, you need time with yourself thinking about what matters to you the most (your startup or whichever is for you) and the ideas will come 😊

After doing all this, most of the times you will see yourself producing remix solutions (putting learnings from A to B and vice versa).

How you can become a person who keeps getting Ideas was originally published in HelloMeets on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

When you are reaching out to someone very popular or someone you don’t know at all, requesting them for a quick 3 mins call really helps.

It helps make them feel that it’s an easy ask and you get to the first step of having them to listen to you 😊

Also, people get attracted to you if you are different. They will never hear this from anyone.

Next is what you will say in 3 mins — Well this is unique to each of us.

Keep it to the point, don’t say paragraphs about yourself.

When you ask them for a 3 mins call, send them a short pitch about what you do and you want from them and keep it extremely short.

In my case, its 4 lines.

P.S.

1. This is what has worked for me endless times 😊
2. Don’t feel shy to ask for 3 mins. Don’t think what if I take more time. In the beginning, if you take 2–3 mins up its fine. The other person is not using a stopwatch ⌚
3. You’ll master the art to be short with practice along with being curious 😊

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Why did I consider learning Copywriting and investing time in it?

• It all started with my need —

At HelloMeets we do tons of meetups every month. Our meetup creatives and the content written on them has to be sellable — Headline, each word and line make a difference.

And until last year, we were not doing it right every time.

When I saw a few meetups getting cancelled & some doing well after coming up with another poster with different content — I thought well, this is an extremely important thing to FOCUS on & sort for long-term.

NOT ONLY ME, Why should everyone invest in copywriting?

• You get to know how to get things done from the person you are writing to
• You get more YES’s in life
• It is used everywhere — your emails, presentations, posters
• Even while writing simple one line texts on chat, you can make people do what you want them to, if you know what you should write and how
• Your capability to ask good questions increases
• You think better
• As an Entrepreneurs, It's a good add on

What did I do to become better?

1. Started googling “Copywriting” and I was very lucky to come across quality people like Dave Gerhardt, Head of Marketing at Privy and ex-Marketing Head, Drift.

We have a lot of sources online and not every source is good. Choosing the right person on google is also a skill.

Through his videos, I learnt some fundamentals of writing a good copy, like:

a) Write as you talk

b) Write simple

c) Good copywriting isn’t about grammar, it's about your using your audience words

2. Through Dave Gerhardt, I came to know about the best-copywriting books and I immediately bought them.

Spent around INR 7500 on them. Sharing so that you are encouraged to spend on learning 😊

Here are the books I bought:

a) Ogilvy on Advertising (Vintage)

b) The Copywriter’s Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide To Writing Copy That Sells

c) The Boron Letters

I read mostly, The Copywriter’s Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide To Writing Copy That Sells (40% of it). It is the most actionable one.

The other two, I haven’t read much but have kept them for reference and others to use.

That was it. I did only this much content consumption and kept applying the learnings directly to work.

3. The major credit goes to the huge opportunity I had to put my learning into practice —

We were making around 15–20 posters every month and I was creating content for all of them from September 2019 to December 2019.

That’s why I started the blog with Practise, Practise, Practise…

4. Once you decide to improve then your whole mindset shifts — you start looking at everything differently

I started observing the content on cream & shampoo bottles.

Look below how clearly they write what will make you buy.

5. Top-selling books description on Amazon

This really helps. Try and observe what they write. They are meant to make us buy and are a really good example of a good copy.

USER RESEARCH — helps you in writing well, building better products & services & improving the experience of your customers.

• We talk to our users on call regularly and ask them a lot of questions w.r.t what they do, want to become and for what they come to HelloMeets and what they like.

Key Points to keep in mind:

1. FOCUS ON WHAT THEY LIKE & DO MORE OF THAT
2. DO RECORD ALL THE ANSWERS ON A GOOGLE SHEET AND MARK THE ONES WHICH REPEATE. The idea is to identify patterns.

(words that get repeated can be used in the copy. Patterns will help you in improving more than content at your startup)

Some key points to write well:

• Give as much clarity as you can. Think from other person perspectives.
• Cut each extra words which don’t have any purpose in your copy.
• Give less importance to grammar and more to what people understand and talk like
• Be specific — Mention the audience clearly. Even if its for a very niche audience. Let it get cut and reach out only those who can value from what you are offering.

P.S. There are lots of lessons on copywriting on the net. Practice makes all the difference.

How to get good at Copywriting📝 was originally published in HelloMeets on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.