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Flipping a Website for $238,356 Profit in 2 Years
Mushfiq Sarker has been flipping websites since 2008. As detailed in an in-depth case study, he bought a website in the outdoors niche in April 2020. The site was earning $300 per month via the Amazon affiliate program, and Mushfiq bought it for $23,000. By the end of the year, he’d spent another $22,086 on…
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Learning To Ride A Bicycle
Words from the book Superforecasting (an excellent read, btw)… The knowledge required to ride a bicycle can’t be fully captured in words and conveyed to others. We need “tacit knowledge,” the sort we only get from bruising experience. To learn to ride a bicycle, we must try to ride one. A year ago it was…
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The Future of Artificial Intelligence
Ben Tossell asked for AI predictions and got some interesting responses. Including: One of those predictions was written by AI, btw 😜 My favorite prediction comes from Justin Brooke… The future of AI isn’t big tools like Jasper, it’s all of us having our own personalized AI writers. Trained to write in our voice, for…
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Copy What Works
Fun fact: you don’t need some magically original idea to start a successful business. Few successful businesses sprouted from a truly original idea. Google wasn’t the first search engine and Facebook wasn’t the first social network. What business ideas do you already see working well for other people? 🤔 Look here: Can you do something…
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My Favorite Work Music
It depends what kind of work I’m doing… What kind of work music do you listen to? 🎧
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She Makes $240K/Year Writing Resumes
Mary Southern is the founder of Resume Assassin, a resume writing service 📝 Starting out, Mary didn’t think she had many skills to start a business, and had narrowed down her list of business ideas to… Fortunately, she decided to give resume writing a go, and one of her first “great decisions” was to reach…
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From $14/hr to $100k/year in 3 Years
Until recently, Kaila VanSumer’s Twitter bio noted that she’d gone from earning $14 per hour to $100,000 per year in just 3 years 📈 I got in touch to learn more about her story. Turns out she is a self-taught product designer working 100% remotely. Kaila’s background… I started out in customer service after earning…
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From Broke to $391,000/Year on YouTube
How does Cathrin Manning make money online? Cathrin Manning is a vlogger and online entrepreneur. She helps people grow their online audience through her website The Content Bug and her YouTube videos. In her November 2022 video, Catherine explains how she went from having $367.22 in her bank account to making almost 400k a year……
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Perfecting Blogging Review
12 things you should know about Perfecting Blogging, Sophia Lee’s blogging course. Essential info, hidden costs, red flags, alternatives…
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Jimi Hendrix On Getting Started
My favorite new podcast is called Founders 😍 The show is basically host David Senra summarizing the biographies of great leaders / entrepreneurs / creatives. I really enjoyed the episode about Jimi Hendrix, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest guitarists of all time 🎸 despite dying at age 27 back in 1970.…
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Roko’s Basilisk: The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment?
Speaking of AI, there’s something called Roko’s Basilisk, which Slate refers to as “the most terrifying thought experiment of all time” 😱 As Rational Wiki describes it… Its conclusion is that an all-powerful artificial intelligence from the future might retroactively punish those who did not help bring about its existence, including those who merely knew…
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Practical AI Newsletter
My favorite new newsletter is called Practical AI 💌 A FREE weekly newsletter about AI and its applications and implications on business for non-technical business professionals and managers. Some cool stuff I found in the first few editions 👇 Related: Now there’s AI to detect AI
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He Posted “Shorts” Videos For 30 Days Straight
Neville Medhora did this across 4 platforms 👇 Neville’s videos ultimately reached 1.2 million accounts. The videos did best on Instagram, reaching 714k accounts there alone 📈 Neville’s takeaway… So…are these short form clips worth it?? I think if you’re gonna make it a regular part of your content strategy, then yes. I think the…
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Origins of a $200,000/Month Content Business
As of May 2022, Charlie Chang had over 1 million followers online and was earning $200,000 per month 🤯 via five revenue streams… The Tilt reports that Charlie started out with no audience in 2018 and started posting daily personal finance videos to YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. One of his first YouTube videos is just…
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$9500/Month From Her Blog Within 2 Years
Kristin Larsen writes about taking her new blog from zero to $9,500/month in just 20 months, allowing her to quit her day job 🥳 She started off blogging about personal finance, then started figuring out how to drive traffic via Pinterest and blogged about that… I wrote a blog post about how my traffic went…
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