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Start, Learn, Adjust
A 7-figure online entrepreneur shares how he built his business (via Reddit): I was a musician and wanted to learn how to not have a job. I realised I could make good money performing at bars, and started doing so. Then I started getting booked for weddings, and realised there was more money in that.…
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922 email subs in 1st week
That’s the story of Grow Getters, as detailed here 📈 They’re basically a newsletter about growing a newsletter (how meta). The growth hack that worked best for them the first week (350+ subs): downloading their Gmail contacts and emailing them all asking to subscribe.
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Software With A Service
Speaking of podcasts, here’s a recent interview with Laurence Taylor on TMBA. Laurence is co-founder of HipTen, “a SwaS (Software with a Service) consultancy that works exclusively on the Salesforce platform for the insurance industry.” Apparently the company does “high six figures” in annual revenue 🤑 Surely lots of opportunities to emulate that business model with different niches and/or…
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Obsessed with Passive Income
“I just lost my job so I’m starting an online business. How can I earn passive income?” I have a “doomed” label in Gmail for messages like that 🙈 Because being obsessed with passive income while starting your first business is like being obsessed with running a marathon while learning how to walk. I quit my…
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How To Come Up With A Business Idea
Ultimate list of ways to come up with winning business ideas, from genius entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Elon Musk, and Steve Jobs.
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The Batman Effect
What do Beyoncé and Bruce Wayne have in common? Per this BBC article, they both use alter egos: Beyoncé’s was the assertive and empowered ‘Sasha Fierce’, who allowed her to perform with extra self-confidence and sensuality. “Usually when I hear the chords, when I put on my stilettos, like the moment right before when you’re…
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Thinking like Bezos, Musk, Buffett
Michael Simmons writes that such billionaires think in 4D while most people think in 1D: Dimension 1: Focus on one field (specialization)Dimension 2: Learn across disciplines, apply to a specialty (polymath)Dimension 3: Think vertically from hacks to principles (mental models)Dimension 4: Think hundreds of years into the past and future (time) The full article is worth…
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$60,000 via TikTok in 6 weeks
That’s Tori Dunlap’s story. In terms of followers, it took me 3 days to do on TikTok what it took me 3 years to do on Instagram. But I was ready for it — I have an established, global business, credibility, and products to sell. As a former social media manager, it’s a reminder that…
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The Billion Dollar Blog
Plenty of food for thought in this article by Nathan Barry (creator of ConvertKit). The title refers to a fashion blog started by Emily Weiss in 2010, which evolved into beauty brand Glossier, now valued at $1.2 billion 💰 Two excerpts from Nathan’s article that resonated with me: It’s a trap to think that no competition means an…
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Let’s keep going anyway
I’m currently reading and enjoying Phil Knight’s Shoe Dog. My favorite part so far: I thought back on my running career at Oregon. I’d competed with, and against, men far better, faster, more physically gifted. Many were future Olympians. And yet I’d trained myself to forget this unhappy fact. People reflexively assume that competition is always…
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Earning $2 for every website visitor
That’s Sa El’s website: SimplyInsurance.com. He reported in a recent interview that the site is earning $50k per month from only 25k visitors, an outstanding conversion rate 😲 Even more impressive: the site has more than tripled its monthly revenue in less than a year (ref). See my list of affiliate marketing websites for more sites like Sa’s.
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No degree, no problem
Fun fact #1: one of the biggest tech companies in the world hires software engineers even if they don’t have a computer science degree. From Google’s “How We Hire” page: Do I need a computer science degree to be a Google software engineer? No, a CS degree isn’t required for our software engineering or product manager…
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Gladys Estolas – Founder of Stoxart
Gladys turns stock market charts into art and sells the prints online. Learn more about her business and how she makes money online.
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The common denominator of success
Here’s a speech delivered in 1940 by Albert E. N. Gray, an official of the Prudential Insurance Company of America. The entire thing is worth a read – it’s a fairly short speech – but the parts about “doing things when you don’t want to do them” especially resonated with me: The common denominator of…
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5 ways to make money on Facebook
Facebook lists four here: A fifth announced recently: paid online events A couple of profiles we’ve done of people making money on Facebook:
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