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Aaron Kerr – Public Domain Publisher
How does Aaron make money online? In a December 2019 interview on the Side Hustle Nation podcast, Aaron Kerr revealed that he earns money via “public domain publishing.” From the show notes at SHN: Aaron’s website is called Timeless Reads. Some of his books available on Amazon: Twelve Years a Slave The Murder on the…
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Rene Delgado – Bounce House Dropshipper
How does Rene Delgado make money online? Rene started a website selling bounce houses – aka bouncy castles – at the end of 2016. He set up the business using a dropshipping model, which is explained like so in a 2018 interview with Rene: In this model, the customer still sees Rene as the owner…
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Ruan Marinho – Founder of Develomark
How does Ruan make money online? Ruan is the owner of a digital marketing agency called Develomark. They offer website design, SEO, and PPC for local businesses. One of the primary ways Ruan’s company makes money online is by creating lead generation websites. (This is sometimes referred to as Rank and Rent SEO.) Ruan explained…
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Robby Blanchard – Founder of Commission Hero
How does Robby make money online? Robby is an online entrepreneur who earns money in a variety of ways. He came to prominence in 2019 as an affiliate marketer promoting products on the ClickBank marketplace, mainly via Facebook ads. Robby also earns money from sales of Commission Hero, the affiliate marketing training program he launched…
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Trading time for money
This is thought of as a bad thing nowadays. Neville Medhora of Copywriting Course doesn’t see it that way: I know a bunch of people tend to hate on this “Trading time for money” thing…..but if someone pays you several hundred dollars for an hour of work….would you complain so much? Incidentally, Neville charges $597 for…
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Start To Be Great
Patricia Bright is a British YouTuber who has earned more than $1 million from ad revenue alone 💰 She explains how she did it in this video… Great quote from her near the end, referring to how her videos were nothing special when she started out: “You do not have to be great to get started but…
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TikTok vs Reels = More Money for Creators
Reels is Instagram/Facebook’s answer to TikTok. It’s launching very soon and has the two companies acting like divorced parents trying to bribe the kids to pick a favorite. Posted on Forbes yesterday: TikTok has launched a more than $2 billion fund to distribute money to creators globally over the next three years in an apparent response…
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Play with GPT-3
I wrote a bit about GPT-3 in last week’s email. In short, it’s looking like the most advanced artificial intelligence the world has ever seen 🤖 Access to GPT-3 is still invite-only but here’s a way you can play with it a little bit. That interface is fairly limited though. As I found out when I asked, how can…
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1000 Paid Email Subscribers
Lenny Rachitsky wrote the two articles linked above. The articles are for his newsletter 📧 which you can read for free once a month or pay $120/year to get it once a week. He started it just over a year ago and announced yesterday: Crossed 1,000 paid subscribers today. Now making a living off 1,000 true fans. What do…
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Your First 10 Clients
Two articles to help you find them 👇 From the first: almost every B2B business BOTH hits up their personal network AND heads to the places their potential customers were spending time. The question isn’t which of these two routes to pursue, but instead how far your own network will take you before you move on. From the…
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Selling music > Selling photos
I came across Ant this week while researching how musicians make money online. I was also researching how photographers 📸 make money online, and looked at a bunch of income reports from people selling stock photography. Turns out it’s not a great business to be in 😔 The best of the believable reports I’ve found come from Steve Heap, who…
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$0 to $20k/month in 1 year making beats
That’s the story of music producer Ant Chamberlain 🎧 Some highlights pieced together from these two videos:… Here’s his most popular beat on YouTube (2.4 million views). That’s also the top selling track listed on his BeatStars page, selling for $50 a pop… My key takeaway from Ant’s story: he made almost $0 his first 9 months but still kept…
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Jill Loeffler – Founder of SFTourismTips.com
How does Jill make money online? Jill started and runs SFTourismTips.com, a website about things to see and do in San Francisco. The site earns money for Jill via affiliate marketing and display ads. How much money does Jill make? In December 2019, Jill shared some details with us via email: Total [website] revenue per…
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First Gig of a $7000/Month Virtual Assistant
How does Fiona make money online? Fiona is a freelance virtual assistant. She explained her work in a March 2020 interview: I do a lot of behind the scenes work for several businesses. Imagine a business owner having a meltdown right before a big launch. I’m the person that fixes everything and does preventative maintenance…
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Sa El – Founder at Simply Insurance
How does Sa make money online? Sa runs a website called Simply Insurance that helps people compare insurance quotes and buy insurance. If a visitor to the site clicks an affiliate link to an insurance company website and buys insurance from them, Sa earns a commission. How much money does Sa make? Sa revealed during…
