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TikTok vs Reels = More Money for Creators
Reels is Instagram/Facebook’s answer to TikTok. It’s launching very soon and has the two companies acting like divorced parents trying to bribe the kids to pick a favorite. Posted on Forbes yesterday: TikTok has launched a more than $2 billion fund to distribute money to creators globally over the next three years in an apparent response…
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Play with GPT-3
I wrote a bit about GPT-3 in last week’s email. In short, it’s looking like the most advanced artificial intelligence the world has ever seen 🤖 Access to GPT-3 is still invite-only but here’s a way you can play with it a little bit. That interface is fairly limited though. As I found out when I asked, how can…
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1000 Paid Email Subscribers
Lenny Rachitsky wrote the two articles linked above. The articles are for his newsletter 📧 which you can read for free once a month or pay $120/year to get it once a week. He started it just over a year ago and announced yesterday: Crossed 1,000 paid subscribers today. Now making a living off 1,000 true fans. What do…
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Your First 10 Clients
Two articles to help you find them 👇 From the first: almost every B2B business BOTH hits up their personal network AND heads to the places their potential customers were spending time. The question isn’t which of these two routes to pursue, but instead how far your own network will take you before you move on. From the…
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Selling music > Selling photos
I came across Ant this week while researching how musicians make money online. I was also researching how photographers 📸 make money online, and looked at a bunch of income reports from people selling stock photography. Turns out it’s not a great business to be in 😔 The best of the believable reports I’ve found come from Steve Heap, who…
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$0 to $20k/month in 1 year making beats
That’s the story of music producer Ant Chamberlain 🎧 Some highlights pieced together from these two videos:… Here’s his most popular beat on YouTube (2.4 million views). That’s also the top selling track listed on his BeatStars page, selling for $50 a pop… My key takeaway from Ant’s story: he made almost $0 his first 9 months but still kept…
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Jill Loeffler – Founder of SFTourismTips.com
How does Jill make money online? Jill started and runs SFTourismTips.com, a website about things to see and do in San Francisco. The site earns money for Jill via affiliate marketing and display ads. How much money does Jill make? In December 2019, Jill shared some details with us via email: Total [website] revenue per…
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First Gig of a $7000/Month Virtual Assistant
How does Fiona make money online? Fiona is a freelance virtual assistant. She explained her work in a March 2020 interview: I do a lot of behind the scenes work for several businesses. Imagine a business owner having a meltdown right before a big launch. I’m the person that fixes everything and does preventative maintenance…
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Sa El – Founder at Simply Insurance
How does Sa make money online? Sa runs a website called Simply Insurance that helps people compare insurance quotes and buy insurance. If a visitor to the site clicks an affiliate link to an insurance company website and buys insurance from them, Sa earns a commission. How much money does Sa make? Sa revealed during…
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Joel Young – Founder of JumpStart Video
How does Joel make money online? Joel Young started and runs a JumpStart Video, a video content and marketing agency. Joel told us in a January 2020 interview: We create animated explainer videos, motion graphics, training videos, and social media content for all sorts of businesses and organizations. In fact, we’ve completed more than 12,000…
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Nagina Abdullah – Online Weight Loss Coach
How does Nagina make money online? Nagina describes herself as a “health & food coach for ambitious women.” She runs a website called MasalaBody.com, which is packed with information to help women lose weight. Judging by a couple of articles about Nagina’s business in early 2017 – here and here – she earns most of…
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Wayne Chin – Freelance Voiceover Artist
How does Wayne make money online? Wayne Chin seems to make money online in a variety of ways, but for this profile we’re focusing only on his work as a freelance voiceover artist. Wayne is a top-rated seller on a platform called Fiverr, where he sells his voiceover services. You can see his Fiverr profile…
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Santiago Lopez – Ethical Hacker
How does Santiago make money online? Santiago is a freelance ethical hacker from Argentina. He helps companies find cybersecurity issues so they can fix them before bad guys take advantage. Those companies pay Santiago for his help. Santiago connects with clients via a platform called HackerOne, and has worked with the likes of Verizon, Udemy,…
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Justin Clifton – Google Ads & Web Analytics Expert
How does Justin make money online? Justin is a freelancer running a Google Ads and web analytics business. He described his work in an October 2019 interview: I help businesses drive quality traffic to their site and track important website actions like sales and lead generation events (form submissions, phone calls, etc.). In particular, many…
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Kat Ambrose – Freelance Writer
How does Kat make money online? Kat is a freelance writer. She described her work in a December 2019 interview: I write and ghostwrite value-packed blog content for eCommerce and SaaS companies that positions them as a resource in the industry, and educates their audience. I’ve written for several top companies that specialize in email…
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