Will It Fly? How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

By: Pat Flynn

Narrated by: Pat Flynn

Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins

Publisher's Summary

Stop rushing into businesses born from half-baked ideas, misguided theories, and other forms of self-delusion. A lack of proper validation kills more businesses than anything else. As Joel Barker says, "Speed is only useful if you're running in the right direction." Will It Fly? will help you make sure you are clear for takeoff.

It answers questions like:

• Does your business idea have merit?
• Will it succeed in the market you're trying to serve, or will it just be a waste of time and resources?
• Is it a good idea for you?

In other words, will it fly?

Chock-full of practical suggestions you can apply to your business idea today, Will It Fly? combines action-based exercises, small-scale "litmus tests", and real-world case studies with anecdotes from the author's personal experience of making money online, hosting successful podcasts, testing niche sites, and launching several online businesses.

Will It Fly? will challenge you to think critically, act deliberately, and dare greatly. You can think of the book as your business flight manual, something you can refer to for honest and straight-forward advice as you begin to test your idea and build a business that takes off and soars.

In five parts, Will It Fly? will guide you through the validation of your next business idea:

• Part one, Mission Design, helps you make sure your target idea aligns with and supports your goals.
• Part two, Development Lab, walks you through uncovering important details about your idea that you haven't thought about.
• Part three, Flight Planning, is all about assessing current market conditions.
• Part four, Flight Simulator, focuses on the actual validating and testing of an idea with a small segment of a target market.
• Finally, Part five, All Systems Go, is to help you make sure your idea after all that will fly!

Please Note: Additional materials for this audiobook can be accessed at willitflybook.com/course

©2016 Flynndustries, LLC (P)2016 Flynndustries, LLC

The best guide for becoming entrepreneur

Where does Will It Fly? How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

This is a great book! At first, I hesitated a bit. I was sure that everything had been already told in Pat's podcasts and written in the blog. That was not the case. Book not only compiles the best ideas from author's experience but include's a step-by-step guide on implementing your own business.

What did you like best about this story?

All the instructions in the book are very practical. Pat gives many examples from his own life and life of his colleagues. He shares with us not only success stories but also those in which he failed.

What does Pat Flynn bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

The narration is done great! Not always the author of a nice book can present his own work in a way that listener would enjoy it. I can say with the confidence: it doesn't refer to this book. Pat expressed all the excitement and enthusiasm about making value for people in a way you want to act immediately.

Any additional comments?

I recommend this book to everyone who wants to start his own business (even tiny one) but don't know how to start or do it "in a right way". You will not only find wise and helpful instructions. You will also get a lot of inspiration and desire to start right now.

12 of 13 people found this review helpful

This book is worth way, way more than its price!

This is a very actionable book, with a free companion course. Pat Flynn nails it! His ideas on customer research is worth 100 times the price of the book, alone! If you ever thought about a business idea, this book will help you test it, and also help you brainstorm additional ideas, so that you can almost guarantee success!

5 of 5 people found this review helpful

Pat Delivers Again!

If you are new to Pat Flynn you are in for a treat. You are about to meet an honest and ethical man who only wants to help the world one entrepreneurs at a time. Check him out if you are interested in starting an online business.

4 of 4 people found this review helpful

It's an amazing book

It's an amazing book, especially for those who are interested in designing ideas and validating it.
Will it fly works as a step by step guide to validation process. You follow the steps reading or listening the book and there is an online companion course that shows you how Patt applied every principle on the book in his own business.

8 of 9 people found this review helpful

For beginners

This is an awesome and refreshing book it really gives you a different perspective on tactics to take one going about making an idea into something real and tangible that you could benefit off of in the long run if you stay consistent and put in the hard work.

3 of 3 people found this review helpful

Smart and Helpful!

I wish I could give this book 5 stars 50 times. Pat does such a great job serving the reader and gives helpful and actionable tips. Listening to someone who has actually done the things they are teaching is great and I look forward to implementing the teachings from this book immediately. Thanks Pat and look forward to learning more in the companion course.

3 of 3 people found this review helpful

Waste of time

I started listening to this book because I thought it will provide tangable strategies to scale ideas. What this book actually turn out to be, is something close to a children's book that lacks actual business content.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

A Must Have for Anyone Staring a Business

It even includes search engine shortcuts that make research so much easier. Will relisten soon

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

#will it fly

Awesome useful content from Pat as usual. Great job. Absolute necessary resource for starting any business. Thanks Pat

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Very Actionable Information

I've read a number of books on this topic and this is one of the most clear and actionable pieces of literature on the subject. The author even includes a companion course online to use while going through the book. Seriously worth way more than the purchase price. The author is relatable, genuine, and real throughout the entire book. Worth the buy.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Excellent practical advice

If you're starting a business you need this book. Great tips and practical advice to get your new venture off to the best start.

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Good for real beginners

I am team Flynn, really like the content he produces. This book though is for real entry level entrepreneurs. The pace for me was painfully slow and points were dragged out. if you do have a little experience it’s a job to get to the end. Honestly though it does what it says on the tin, you should be able to answer the question about your ideas following this book

THE guide for refining a business idea

Pat will help you refine your business idea to what really works. The ideas in this book are simple, actionable and practical enough for anyone to follow. So glad I read this right before I began my startup!

Just the guide I needed

I had the beginning of an inkling of an idea but I just couldn’t grab hold of it. Will it fly broke my musings down into digestible pieces for me to focus in on the idea. Pat Flynn’s calm and steady voice acted as the perfect guide especially when I felt overwhelmed by my idea. Thanks to this book my website for Middle-Aged Entrepreneurs is now reaching the end of the runway and is ready to fly, thanks Pat for all your support and encouragement :-)

Actionable and to the point.

Actionable and to the point. Listened through once to get the concept and intend to listen again and go through the activities with my new business ideas.

Very interesting book

Very interesting book if your looking to start your own business and wandering if it's something that will sell/work

Superb as always by Pat

It seems Pat can do no wrong, just about everything he does is obviously for us rather than himself. Good man!

Big fan of Pat Flynn

This was a great listening experience and I recommend the audiobook for anyone who are wondering if they should start a business. It taught me things not only in business, but also about life. Enjoyed the book.

Fantastic , applicable content

I am in the final stages of creating an online course so I wasn't sure what value I would get from this. however, I got loads of practical, applicable advice which I am now putting in practice to make my course and marketing even better. I've moved my pre-launch froward by 4 weeks as a direct result of reading this and am excited to get real validation for my idea even before its finished.

Engaging, thought provoking and practical

What a great listen. Pat includes exercises as well as online modules which you can follow along as you read. I personally really enjoyed the fun style and practical exercises, which proved very useful. This is a book you can use over and over again and apply the process to different business ideas. Definitely a keeper.