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The Creativity Checklist: The 11 Step System That Instantly Pulls Million Dollar Ideas Out Of Your Head
Best selling author, and million dollar product creator Tim Castleman walks you through his 11 step system that practically forces million dollar ideas out of your head and in front of those need them the most.
After struggling for years trying to properly explain his ideas, and despite spending thousands of dollars in group and one on one training and mentoring, Tim still struggled to create products and services for others to successfully use.
Then one night, everything changed. Over the course of an evening this system - built from years of personal experience, high level training, and a successful and growing online business - came to be.
If you’ve ever struggled getting all of those ideas out of your head, this book is for you.
If you’re tired of being overwhelmed, tired of wasting all of your time and energy trying to think of the “next big thing” this book is for you.
When you get done reading the creativity checklist and see the power of this 11 step system your business will never be the same.
When you’re finished you’ll be able to ….
- No longer struggle with capturing ideas and you’ll be able to instantly explain them to anyone you desire
- See how your story and your struggle can actually be a good thing when trying to help others
- See how to use the power of 3rd party data and your biggest fans to your advantage
- See how you can instantly add 20% to your bottom line and make more money than you currently think possible
- Secretly spy on your competition and learn how to out perform, out market, and over run them in the process
After struggling for years trying to properly explain his ideas, and despite spending thousands of dollars in group and one on one training and mentoring, Tim still struggled to create products and services for others to successfully use.
Then one night, everything changed. Over the course of an evening this system - built from years of personal experience, high level training, and a successful and growing online business - came to be.
If you’ve ever struggled getting all of those ideas out of your head, this book is for you.
If you’re tired of being overwhelmed, tired of wasting all of your time and energy trying to think of the “next big thing” this book is for you.
When you get done reading the creativity checklist and see the power of this 11 step system your business will never be the same.
When you’re finished you’ll be able to ….
- No longer struggle with capturing ideas and you’ll be able to instantly explain them to anyone you desire
- See how your story and your struggle can actually be a good thing when trying to help others
- See how to use the power of 3rd party data and your biggest fans to your advantage
- See how you can instantly add 20% to your bottom line and make more money than you currently think possible
- Secretly spy on your competition and learn how to out perform, out market, and over run them in the process
43 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 9, 2014
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November 9, 2017
Quick Read, Simple Essay
Quick and to the point, but nothing I didn’t already know. Still serves as a useful guide to newbies with zero marketing experience.
Quick and to the point, but nothing I didn’t already know. Still serves as a useful guide to newbies with zero marketing experience.
September 16, 2015
As I should have guessed by the second half of the title, this has far less to do with creativity than marketing. If I had bought this book instead of borrowing it, I would have been highly disappointed. Not that I have anything against marketing, but this felt like regurgitated jargon to me. I gave it two stars because the checklist itself could act as a good reminder to make sure that you're doing things like sharing your story and collecting customer reviews.
Some things that bothered me in particular:
The more problems your products of service solves, the more chances you have to make a sale.
Perhaps, but are you doing them well? It's all well and good to say that you solve problems, but your product/service will do far better if you solve less problems really well than if you solve a lot of problems badly. Don't let the feature creep get you.
'Overdue' and 'overdo' are not the same words. They are not interchangeable, so don't use them that way.
From question 11 - 'How much time and/or money did it take to develop your product or service'?
The whole point with this section is to show people how smart they are to have taken the path you're suggesting compared to the one that they go alone.
Then a couple of minutes later he references the promises of the diet industry. Maybe it's just me, but that smells like a lot of bull, just like most of the diet industry. Obviously people buy it, but is that really how you want to sell your product? Yes, stories are important. They build rapport and can help you sell your product or service, but please, please, please do it in an honest and open way, not as a sleazy marketing trick.
In many ways, I feel like the whole book is Castleman patting himself on the back. There is an arrogance to the phrasing that rubs me the wrong way, but that may just be me. He does have some good comments and, as I said at the beginning, the checklist itself isn't a bad idea. It's that attitude that surfaces in multiple comments like 'Despite selling over seven figures of products online, before the checklist I was constantly struggling '. With the comments like the one in question 11, I take it that he feels he needs to reiterate that over and over, but as the reader he could have cut his past experience and left it in the bio.
Steps off the soapbox
I could say more, but if I wrote all my thoughts they'd be as long as the book itself. Hopefully, this is helpful to another reader somewhere out there in the great wide world lest I be ranting in vein.
Some things that bothered me in particular:
The more problems your products of service solves, the more chances you have to make a sale.
Perhaps, but are you doing them well? It's all well and good to say that you solve problems, but your product/service will do far better if you solve less problems really well than if you solve a lot of problems badly. Don't let the feature creep get you.
'Overdue' and 'overdo' are not the same words. They are not interchangeable, so don't use them that way.
From question 11 - 'How much time and/or money did it take to develop your product or service'?
The whole point with this section is to show people how smart they are to have taken the path you're suggesting compared to the one that they go alone.
Then a couple of minutes later he references the promises of the diet industry. Maybe it's just me, but that smells like a lot of bull, just like most of the diet industry. Obviously people buy it, but is that really how you want to sell your product? Yes, stories are important. They build rapport and can help you sell your product or service, but please, please, please do it in an honest and open way, not as a sleazy marketing trick.
In many ways, I feel like the whole book is Castleman patting himself on the back. There is an arrogance to the phrasing that rubs me the wrong way, but that may just be me. He does have some good comments and, as I said at the beginning, the checklist itself isn't a bad idea. It's that attitude that surfaces in multiple comments like 'Despite selling over seven figures of products online, before the checklist I was constantly struggling '. With the comments like the one in question 11, I take it that he feels he needs to reiterate that over and over, but as the reader he could have cut his past experience and left it in the bio.
Steps off the soapbox
I could say more, but if I wrote all my thoughts they'd be as long as the book itself. Hopefully, this is helpful to another reader somewhere out there in the great wide world lest I be ranting in vein.
June 9, 2020
Caveat, it’s not a book about creativity, but moreso a book that explains how to determine if that idea (product or service) in your mind is worth perusing. A solid checklist if you need to decide on if it is worth it to start on that project.
February 24, 2020
Quick read to get you on (or back on) track!
I love the quick clarity that this book gave me. I’m sitting at the airport and this title popped up and it was exactly what I needed right now to help me refocus.
I love the quick clarity that this book gave me. I’m sitting at the airport and this title popped up and it was exactly what I needed right now to help me refocus.
May 18, 2020
The book has zero emphasis on creativity. Its focus is on a generic sales pitch.
September 12, 2014
11 questions you need to ask yourself before starting your next big project
I can't remember how I first discovered Tim Castleman, but I'm happy I did, because he's always unleashing unique new products like this one.
The Creativity Checklist is exactly what it says it is: an 11-step system that will help you put your ideas on paper and get them out into the real world. More than a simple checklist of "do this, then do that," it's actually a series of questions you can ask yourself about any large project you're considering, in order to help decide whether it's worth pursuing and what exactly its purpose will be. If you've ever struggled to finish writing a book, for instance, it's likely that you're unable to answer at least one - perhaps all - of the questions Tim presents.
Why waste your time wrestling with ideas and projects that will never work? And why waste time asking some guru or another to evalutate it for you when you can evaluate it yourself - with intelligence and honesty - by using this book as a guideline?
In short: this is a great tool for writers, idea people, and anyone looking for a way to find success on their own terms.
I can't remember how I first discovered Tim Castleman, but I'm happy I did, because he's always unleashing unique new products like this one.
The Creativity Checklist is exactly what it says it is: an 11-step system that will help you put your ideas on paper and get them out into the real world. More than a simple checklist of "do this, then do that," it's actually a series of questions you can ask yourself about any large project you're considering, in order to help decide whether it's worth pursuing and what exactly its purpose will be. If you've ever struggled to finish writing a book, for instance, it's likely that you're unable to answer at least one - perhaps all - of the questions Tim presents.
Why waste your time wrestling with ideas and projects that will never work? And why waste time asking some guru or another to evalutate it for you when you can evaluate it yourself - with intelligence and honesty - by using this book as a guideline?
In short: this is a great tool for writers, idea people, and anyone looking for a way to find success on their own terms.
November 5, 2015
Great Book
This book gave me some very great ideas to use in both starting my day, and stirring my creative juices. If you are having a hard time giving expression or even finding a new idea this book is for you.
This book gave me some very great ideas to use in both starting my day, and stirring my creative juices. If you are having a hard time giving expression or even finding a new idea this book is for you.
November 22, 2014
I am not sure why I should have bought this book. May be got carried away by the title of the book. Nothing much to write about the book. Would suggest not to buy this. Not recommended
November 8, 2014
Useless. Nothing to do with creativity.
February 3, 2015
This little book had a few good tips on product design and sales but it didn't live up to the promise of helping you develop million dollar ideas.
December 31, 2015
Rather short and whilst it seems true there are no new/innovative ideas and approaches
April 25, 2017
Excellent book by Tim on utilising your creativity in a systematic, almost on command, manner.
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