PB085: How to Get Entrepreneurial Ideas Out of Your Head – Pat Flynn Interview

Note: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes. How to Turn Your Product Daydreams Into Reality Today's episode is a special interview with Pat Flynn about how to turn your great ideas into real life products. Pat Flynn is a blogger at Smart Passive Income, speaker, podcaster, author and entrepreneur, widely known for the great tips he shares about how to increase your income. Many bloggers have great ideas for generating income but don't end up following through due to fear, or being unsure about how to go ahead. Pat shares his tips and answers your questions so that you can transform your product ideas into reality. Pat has also just released his brand new book - Will it Fly. In This Episode You can listen to today's episode above or in iTunes or Stitcher (where we'd also LOVE to get your reviews on those platforms if you have a moment). In today's episode: Why you should care about what Pat has to share The roadblocks many bloggers face when it comes to monetising through products How to come up with product ideas How to choose which ideas to focus on Exercises for developing product ideas How to identify which idea will make the ‘best’ product Things you should consider for choosing your first product How to feel the fear and do it anyway How to choose which way to develop your product, e.g. should it be an ebook? A course? Something else? How to deliver your product Things you should consider before building your product How to create your product The 3 things Pat recommends you should do first if you're starting from zero The one thing that will take you longer than anything else in making your product a reality Pat's top 5 apps/sites he uses for business Pat's top 3 podcast tips The biggest change Pat plans to implement for his business in 2016 Further Reading and Resources for How to Turn Your Product Daydreams Into Reality Episode 67: Why You Should Create a Product to Sell On Your Blog (and Tips on How to Do It) Episode 54: 3 Questions to Ask When Facing Fear Pat Flynn's book, 'Will It Fly?'   Pat Flynn's website My first interview with Pat from January 2010 (the audio quality isn’t fantastic, sorry!) Full Transcript Expand to view full transcript Compress to smaller transcript view Darren: Hi there and welcome to episode 85 of the ProBlogger Podcast. My name is Darren Rowse. I am really pleased to have a special guest on today’s podcast, Pat Flynn. Many of you will be familiar from his podcasts, his blog, his ebooks, and the products that he has created over the last few years. He is the blogger at smartpassiveincome.com, a blog where he documents his journey of building an income. He has been doing it since 2009, I think. I first interviewed Pat on ProBlogger in January of 2010 and I am going to include a link to that interview on today’s show notes.  You can find today's show notes at problogger.com/podcast/85. That interview is kind of a bit of a funny one. The audio is not great but it’s me and Pat talking about what we knew back in 2010 about making money blogging, and it kind of gives you a bit of an introduction to Pat and how we started out. I think it’s kind of a funny but also kind of interesting interview, so I have included it in today’s show notes. Also on today’s show notes, there’s a whole heap of links to things that Pat mentions, some of the projects that he runs, and also a link to his brand new book which we talked about in quite a bit of depth today.  His book is called Will It Fly. It’s all about trying to work out whether that crazy idea you’ve got in your head will fly, and really that’s what we’re talking about in today’s podcast. Getting those ideas out of our heads, and testing them, and working out whether they are valid or not, and taking them to that first step,