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According to a new study of 3,500 remote workers: About half of the study participants were located in the USA 🇺🇸 and the rest were scattered around the world 🌍 Comparing the above numbers to individual income in the USA as a whole in 2019 (source): So either remote workers tend to get paid more, or people with higher earning potential tend to…

I went through this thread on Reddit – What is your pay rate and how hard is your job – and made a list of the online jobs people reported. Might give you some ideas/inspiration:

We analyzed more than 2 million freelancer profiles on Upwork to discover the best paying freelance jobs. Top of the list is…

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…