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If you’re stuck finding a remote job or clients for your freelance business, read this post on Reddit. The author outlines something he calls the 6×6 Method which helped him succeed first as a personal trainer and later as a software engineer. No tricks, no hacks, no shortcuts… I promise that if you spend six hours a day doing…

Sam Altman writes: I think the biggest competitive advantage in business—either for a company or for an individual’s career—is long-term thinking with a broad view of how different systems in the world are going to come together. One of the notable aspects of compound growth is that the furthest out years are the most important. In…

The punchline of this 25-minute YouTube video is that the guy only made $22 profit… But that was after only 3 days of testing the idea, so he could well be on to something. More important than the idea or the results though is the thought process and rapid execution. If you can absorb and emulate that,…

At about the 36-minute mark of a recent episode of the My First Million podcast, the hosts list out a few things people say you need to build a million-dollar business, but you actually don’t: Sure, all those things are good to have and likely give you an advantage, but they are not requirements to success. You can…

Sahil Lavingia, founder of Gumroad, reflects on his failure to build a billion-dollar company: I was just 19, a solo founder, with over $8M in the bank and three employees. The world was starting to take note. Fast forward a few years and the company was bleeding $100,000’s every month and had to lay off all…

This post on Reddit details an 8-step process that grew a marketing subscription (SaaS) business from almost zero to $160,000/month+ in revenue. In the end, the campaign generated more than $1,100,000.00 in lifetime revenue from only $92,707 in ad spend. That’s almost a 12x ROI 🤑 What if you took a month or two to learn and…

A 3-minute video from John Green – the guy who wrote The Fault In Our Stars – to watch whenever the going gets tough 😔… Quote: You have to hope and you have to go on. Even when you’ve lost more games than you’ve won and you’ve been down so far that a tie feels like winning, you have…

🍔 This advice from Andy Johns tastes pretty good: More businesses need to be like Chick-fil-A and In-n-Out. The menu is simple, the service is excellent, and the quality is high. […] The lesson is clear: do less, do it well, and be consistent. […] Both In-n-Out and Chick-fil-A were started in the 1940s, but growth hasn’t…

If you frequently find yourself too tired to work on your business 😴 it might help to learn about the two kinds of tired, as specified by Scott H Young. The first tends to melt away once you start taking action. “The effort is all in the starting, not the doing.” Whereas the second “persists throughout the activity…

Solid advice for finding clients from a Redditor who currently has 79 clients for his social media marketing agency 👍 I especially like the tip for finding clients via Yelp (emphasis mine): What I do first is hit up the people that are running ads [on Yelp] because if they are running ads they can more than likely…