Because "Write and they will come" is not true. You need to market your blog and drive traffic to it.
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2. Sign up at forums where your target customers hang out and help people out. Have a link in your signature that points to your website.
Right now, you want to get targeted traffic to your website and capture their email addresses by giving something of value. [free ebook, a discount for early adopters]. Not only will this give you a list of customers for the launch, but the ad copy and the website copy will help you understand what resonates with them [based on conversions] and will prove very useful at your launch.
It is never too early to build an email list.
1. Can a competitor enter your market, outgrow you and reduce your expected slice of the pie?
2. Does the revenue your business generates, increase exponentially as you increase the number of users? (e.g. revenue based on ads)
3. Can funding let you approach a different market? (say your target customers are SMB and the different market is Enterprise)
4. Can your business gain significantly if exposed to a group of startups that are funded? (one immediate advantage to being YC funded is access to other YC funded companies)
If the answer to any of the questions is a Yes, I would definitely consider looking at funding.
It's hard to do especially if you have bills to pay. But you are going to have to take that step and make an effort to move on. Work becomes very difficult once you start resenting it.
I used to take protein powder, but I think its a waste of money if you are not trying to seriously bulk up. For the ones who want lean muscles, enough eggs and chicken breasts do the trick.