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Get your first ten customers locally

Tell the right hundred people, clearly, and get the first ten to buy.

Starter · 2–3 weeksR0transparent rubric

Your state

AWARE→LEARNING→PRACTISING→DEMONSTRATING→VERIFIED→APPLIED→OUTCOME-PROVEN

Why it matters.

Great products die quietly two streets away from the people who needed them. Telling the right hundred people is a skill, not luck.

The component skills.

The one-sentence offerChoosing the two right channelsAsking for the saleCounting what worked

Practise — activities that produce artifacts.

The one-sentence offer ~25 min

Write what you sell, for whom, at what price, in one sentence a neighbour could repeat. Test it on three people — do they get it without you explaining?

Artifact: The tested one-sentence offer

Two channels, one week ~90 min

Choose the two channels your customers actually use (WhatsApp status, local board, market stall, one group). Post your offer in both for one week and count enquiries.

Artifact: The two-week push log with enquiry counts

Missions — do it for real.

Mentors for this capability.

Matched from real, opted-in Lifelong Careers members through the Mentor Intelligence Network — with their trust states shown as stored. Source-listed is not the same as verified.

No opted-in mentors match this capability yet — none are invented. See the Mentors view or the full directory.

How assessment works.

Every submission gets a transparent first-pass against the mission's rubric — what was looked for and what was observed. Verified state requires a real review; the system never upgrades self-reported evidence on its own.

accuracy

Concrete numbers, units and exact values instead of vague amounts

evidence_quality

An observable artifact: worksheet, receipt, photo reference, recording note

follow_through

What happened afterwards — the result and what changed

self_awareness

Honest signals: what you noticed, what was hard, what you'd change

Accepted evidence: mission_submission, mentor_review, observed_application, work_sample.

Stated plainly — what this doesn't do

  • — Submissions are private, self-reported evidence — they never become verified without a real review.
  • — Mentor review for capabilities arrives in a later phase of this module.

Source: Lifelong Careers MY LIFE SKILLS Module Master Specification v1.0 §4 · v1 · last checked 2026-11-01 · your data rights