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Katy Bellotte – Content Creator and Freelancer
How does Katy Bellotte make money online? Katy makes money online in many ways. In an April 2020 video on her YouTube channel, she listed out eight different income streams: The eight: YouTube sponsorships YouTube ads Instagram brand deals Podcast ad reads Freelance video (shooting and editing) Freelance graphic design Freelance hand lettering Freelance brand…
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Kevin Ham – Domainer
How did Kevin Ham make money online? Starting in the late 90s, Kevin Ham built a portfolio of 300,000 domain names in less than a decade. The result was a $300 million empire, generating $70 million in estimated annual revenue. From a 2007 article in Business 2.0 Magazine: Ham’s cleverest play may have been striking…
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Carrie Dagenhard – Freelance Writer and Content Strategist
How does Carrie make money online? Carrie describes herself as a freelance writer and content strategist. So clients hire her to help with writing and content strategy. In my first twelve months of freelancing, I earned 40 percent more than my salary at my previous 9-to-5 role. As per Carrie’s LinkedIn: Media Bistro explanation: How…
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Never Forget: Skills Pay the Bills
Recently I’ve been getting emails from readers along these lines: I don’t have any skills to freelance therefore I plan to start a far more complex business that requires way more skill and experience to succeed. One person told me they weren’t skilled enough to freelance so they were looking at doing e-commerce instead 🤦♂️ Fact is, if…
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SEO Jobs Report
Backlinko analyzed 7,051 job postings on Glassdoor and LinkedIn to better understand the current SEO job market. Given what they found, you should consider SEO if you’re still on the hunt for a profitable skill to learn 🎯 Key findings from the report: The mean salary for a US-based SEO professional is $60,548 per year. 64.3% [of…
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How Big Tech Makes Their Billions
Fascinating article and graphics detailing how “the big five” tech companies – Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook – make their billions. Highlights:
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$3K/Month Online Coworking
An interview with Bosco Soler, the founder of SinOficina, “the first online coworking for the Spanish speaking community of freelancers and entrepreneurs.” It’s basically a premium online community for a niche market. Membership costs $20 per month. There are surely opportunities out there to create similar for other niches. Perhaps even the same concept for different countries/languages?
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Up to $44 per hour teaching English online
Given that the aforementioned @NicoleHuntington apparently speaks English 🇬🇧 Spanish 🇪🇸 and Portuguese 🇵🇹 she’d probably be able to earn more money as a community tutor on iTalki. Although, granted, teaching English to strangers is probably not as much fun as playing video games with strangers. Regardless, I recently analyzed 220 profiles of community tutors on iTalki – ie. teachers who don’t…
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Paid gaming buddy
While researching the above I found a site called epal.gg. Go on there and you’ll see a list of people willing to play video games with you for a fee. No surprise that the majority of best sellers seem to be young and female 🧐 @NicoleHuntington is the biggest earner I found. She’s been on there for about…
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Gold Farming
This was also included in the aforementioned article as another way to earn money playing video games. I don’t recommend you do it, but it’s fascinating to learn about. As per Wikipedia: Gold farming is the practice of playing a massively multiplayer online game (MMO) to acquire in-game currency later selling it for real-world money. Similar…
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Marketing strategy of a $6 billion company
Here’s an excellent article breaking down Canva’s marketing strategy that helped the brand grow to a $6 billion valuation 🤯 Worth a read if you’re interested in: This part in particular is good to keep in mind:
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Good ideas are like Nikes
👟 One of my many highlights from Felix Dennis’ book, How To Get Rich: Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Specially adapted sneakers may be a good idea. But the goal is still to win,…
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White-label product: $16k profit last month
Dave Nash writes on Reddit that he founded an ecommerce brand in February 2019 and last month it did $76k in revenue and $16k in profit 💰 Pretty sure the brand is Mount Lai. Someone asked in the comments on Reddit how he came up with the product idea. Dave’s response: I saw the product randomly while I…
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2 SaaS Success Stories
In case you don’t know, SaaS = Software as a Service. Famous SaaS businesses include Zoom, Slack, Dropbox, and Mailchimp 🐵 But it’s not just big companies succeeding with SaaS. Here are a couple of “small” success stories I found this week:
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The Danger of Platform Dependency
TikTok is the #1 app in the world right now (source), but it’s just been banned in India 🇮🇳 and might soon be banned in the USA 🇺🇸 That’s a massive bummer for some Indian TikTokers who were apparently earning up to $800k per year, and it might soon be a massive bummer for some American TikTokers who are apparently earning up…
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