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Customer, Pain, Solution, Offer
This framework from Dane Maxwell’s book “Start From Zero” helps you analyze a business idea by focusing on Customer, Pain, Solution, and Offer. Great for understanding and creating successful products.
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This AI is Better Than 50% of Human Coders
Shelly Fan writes… DeepMind’s new coding AI just trounced roughly 50 percent of human coders in a highly competitive programming competition. When challenged with the CodeContest—the battle rap torment of competitive programming—the AI solved about 30 percent of the problems, while beating half the human competition. But don’t worry, coders are not about to become…
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Commission Academy Review
A review of Commission Academy by Dale & Simon. Essential info, price and discount details, red flags, reviews from real students…
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CENTS Framework For Analyzing Business Opportunities
Here’s a quick overview of the CENTS framework from a book called The Millionaire Fastlane. Use this to evaluate your existing business or a business opportunity 👀 You don’t need to score well on each part of the CENTS framework to have a successful business, but the more you score well on, the more successful…
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What Part Of The Movie Is This?
Yesterday I was struggling to write up this edition of the newsletter. I had a lingering flu, hadn’t slept great, and YouTube was right there with lots of easy distractions. Then I asked myself: what part of the movie is this? See, I find it helpful to think of my life as an epic movie…
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Zero to $5000 MRR in 19 Months
Kyle Nolan writes about his experience building ProjectionLab to $5000 in monthly recurring revenue 💰 ProjectionLab is a financial projection app that helps you “simulate your financial future and chart a course toward your best life.” Kyle recommends having modest aspirations when building this kind of business, and celebrating small wins to keep yourself sane…
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The 130,000 Subscriber Growth Loop
Nice breakdown here of how Harry Dry grew MarketingExamples.com to 130,000 subscribers in 3.5 years, “using some of the smartest content distribution strategies I’ve ever seen.” he didn’t even create anything new for 8 months in 2021, but his audience still kept growing. Harry’s “growth loop” seems to be one of his biggest keys to…
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$17,618 From Only 3000 Visitors
Daren Smith writes how he earns $10,000+ each month, mainly selling several online courses on topics like hand engraving and interior design. He shares that in May last year his website received only 3000 visitors but earned $17,618 via course sales 🤑 Darren worked out all his numbers in advance… To reach my goal of…
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1st Year Niche Jobs Marketplace Earns $100,000
FiveTeams is a niche job platform targeting international tech professionals. Built in 2.5 months using a no-code tech stack, saving over €800K in development costs.
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A Sneaky Form of Laziness
From Tim Ferriss’ book The 4-Hour Body… Recognize that working long in the gym is often a form of laziness, an avoidance of hard thinking. The same can sometimes be said for working long in your business. What are some hard decisions you could make that might render those long hours unnecessary?
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$2.6 Million Horror Movie YouTube Channel
It’s a channel called Dead Meat, started by James A. Janisse in 2017 and self-described as… A horror movie channel celebrating everything great and awful about the genre. Looks like it’s their “kill count” videos that have put them on the map. Those are videos where they tally up all the kills in popular horror…
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A Definition of Success From 1934
🏀 Legendary college basketball coach John Wooden coined it… Success is peace of mind that is the direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. Furthermore, only one person can ultimately judge the level of your success—you. (Source: Wooden) I couldn’t find the…
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$300,000/Month Proofreading Course
Proofread Anywhere provides “proofreading skills courses and education on how to become a proofreader online.” Caitlin Pyle started it on a whim in 2014 after she had worked successfully as a proofreader herself for a few years. Apparently the business was earning as much as $300,000 per month last year, then Caitlin sold it for…
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The Business Of Being A Writer
Jane Friedman has several books for sale on Amazon 📚 The most popular, with 270+ reviews: The Business of Being a Writer Writing in mid-2021, Jane revealed her earnings from that particular book… I was paid a $5,000 advance for The Business of Being a Writer and I earned out that advance after the first…
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Bro Made $125k From Some Scribbles
The headline is a tweet responding to a recent announcement by Brett Williams… Hit 25,000 downloads on a stupid little project where I drew scribbles on my iPad and sold them. The whole project took just a few hours. Crazy. Brett’s “stupid little project” is called Funky Scribbbles ✍️ It’s basically a collection of vectorized…
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