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On building a $60k+/month online business with no money or experience
I spent ZERO dollars to get started! I was so broke that I didn’t have any money to spend. I literally found a way to use what I already had to turn a profit.
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How To Win
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…
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Be like these 2 burger joints
🍔 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…
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Two Types Of Tired
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…
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Hacking Yelp to find clients
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…
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Here’s how much money YouTubers make
Run this search on YouTube and you’ll find lots of folks reporting their income for 2019. Your earnings on YouTube depend on several things, including: Andrei Jikh’s income report stood out to me… He started his YouTube channel at the beginning of 2019 and ended the year with $118,040 in ad revenue 💰 But here’s the thing: despite…
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How I earn $3500/month online, writing about cannabis and cryptocurrency
I wake up whenever I feel like waking up. I have lots of free time for hobbies like painting, working out, socializing with friends, and traveling the world.
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Earning $50k from intentionally crap games
A fascinating (and funny) 45-minute talk by two game developers who, frustrated by the low ROI from building quality games, decided to try the opposite approach… They paid $15 for a basic slot machine game 🎰, turned it into a template, and used that to quickly generate hundreds of games for the Android App Store. “At this…
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50% of top Shopify stores are in this niche
According to data shared on Reddit, it’s the fashion niche 👚 Other points of interest from that thread and the full data set: (One caveat: as noted in the Reddit comments, the data set doesn’t include “headless” Shopify stores – ie. stores which use the Shopify backend but are hosted independently.)
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How to get rich (without getting lucky)
Here’s a famous Twitter thread about getting rich by a thoughtful entrepreneur, investor, and all-around rich guy named Naval Ravikant. He’s since expanded on those ideas in other formats: I’ve been listening to the podcast version on and off the past week, training my brain to be better at business 🧠
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On becoming a freelance career coach, resume and LinkedIn expert while raising kids in Madagascar
I work independently and earn $6,500/month online. Working from home gave us the flexibility we needed as a military family.
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Recommended Resources
A curated collection of the best tools and resources we’ve found for building an online business. Web hosting, email marketing, courses, etc.
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This book lives up to the hype
You’ve probably heard of Atomic Habits 📖 I started into it a few days ago – it’s one of three reads in this month’s FBB book club – and so far it’s living up to the hype. One of the many passages I’ve highlighted already: if you can get 1 percent better each day for one year, you’ll end…
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$13-17/hour teaching English online
A solid overview of QKids posted on Reddit. Quick overview:
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Why Mr Beast is a genius
Here’s a nice 10-minute video breakdown of how 21-year-old YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson (aka MrBeast) is racking up ~300 million views per month and earning himself millions of dollars… Four keys: (Also interesting to see that video about MrBeast practicing what they teach. Almost 2.5 million views in a couple of weeks!)
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