{"id":38582,"date":"2015-10-22T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mixergy.com\/?p=38582"},"modified":"2016-06-23T21:29:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T04:29:07","slug":"course-cheat-sheet-build-your-following","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixergy.com\/course-cheat-sheet-build-your-following\/","title":{"rendered":"Master Class: How to build your following &#8211; with Dorie Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s this myth that building a startup is easy.<\/p>\n<p>You build an MVP, you launch&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>TechCrunch falls in love with you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And pretty soon Apple or Google come knocking.<\/p>\n<p>After that it\u2019s Mai Tais on the beach for the rest of your life.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty funny, right?<\/p>\n<p>Because we know the truth:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Building a startup is freaking hard.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But you know what can make it a whole lot easier?<\/p>\n<p>Having a following.<\/p>\n<p>Once you have a following, doors start to open up.<\/p>\n<p>You attract more investors&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You get special access to products and services&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Prospects practically throw their credit cards at you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And a lot of roadblocks magically disappear.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, check this out:<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, <a href=\"http:\/\/dorieclark.com\/stand-out\/\">Dorie Clark<\/a> wrote three book proposals&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And she was turned down flat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard from a lot of people, \u2018Well, the idea is interesting,\u00a0but what you really need is&#8230;a big [e-mail] list,\u2019&#8221; says Dorie,\u00a0the author of <em>Stand Out: How to Develop Your Breakthrough\u00a0<\/em><em>Idea and Build a Following Around It<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So she built a following, starting from zero.<\/p>\n<p>Today she has two books for sale on Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>And her life\u2019s work reaches people around the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In <a href=\"https:\/\/mixergy.com\/?p=38573\">her\u00a0Mixergy course<\/a>, Dorie gives you her complete,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>step-by-step system to build a following.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll discover:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The very first step you should take to start\u00a0building a following (it\u2019s easy, even if you\u2019re an\u00a0introvert)&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Why you should skip giant networking events, and what to do instead&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>How to reach out to people you WANT to know,\u00a0even if you think they\u2019re too big to talk to you&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>How to go from a small group following to a\u00a0worldwide \u201cbroadcast\u201d<\/li>\n<li>and much more!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s this myth that building a startup is easy.<\/p>\n<p>You build an MVP, you launch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[293,295,245],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cheat-sheet","category-course-cheat-sheet","category-courses"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Master Class: How to build your following - with Dorie Clark - Business Podcast for Startups<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There\u2019s this myth that building a startup is easy.  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