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$5 million a year teaching no code
I enjoyed this recent interview with Tara Reed on Mixergy. She’s been running Apps Without Code for a few years now, and says the business earns $5 million a year with a 34% profit margin 💰 Give the interview a listen if you’re not technical but would like to build a website or app. Related: best business podcasts for online…
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Fakers don’t make it
From a TedX talk by Jordan Watson… They’ve got that fancy life saying, “Fake it til you make it.” I say, “Make it til you make it.” Fakers don’t make it. You need to show up every day and be the best you possibly can so that new opportunities find you. Jordan is the guy behind…
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Hacking Apple for $288,500
Sam Curry writes that he and four hacker friends recently spent 3 months working on the Apple bug bounty program 👾 In other words, they got paid to find and report vulnerabilities in Apple’s infrastructure. And they’ll probably get paid even more: As of now, October 8th, we have received 32 payments totaling $288,500 for various vulnerabilities.…
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Steal hours from comfort
Derek Sivers on how to make things happen: It takes many hours to make what you want to make. The hours don’t suddenly appear. You have to steal them from comfort. Whatever you were doing before was comfortable. This is not. This will be really uncomfortable. The few times in my life I’ve made a real change like this, it…
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$477,916 for writing a boring book
Martin Kleppmann spent 2.5 years writing a book called Designing Data-Intensive Applications. Doesn’t exactly sound like a thrilling read, does it? 😂 And yet he reports that he’s earned almost $500k from the book so far. Unfortunately, he also reports that “the success of my book is atypical.” And: writing a book is really hard, at least if you…
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Sales vs Marketing
What’s the difference? 🤔 I like this explanation via Hacker News: Sales is a conversation, marketing is a broadcast. Marketing gets the phone to ring, sales takes the call and closes the deal.
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High-level content marketing strategy
This article by Grow & Convert details how they helped a client – a concussion treatment center – double their monthly consultations via content marketing. Several things I like about it: Definitely worth a read if you’re into SEO or content marketing, and another one of those articles you could take to prospective clients and say,…
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$22k in 6 weeks (kind of)
Joshua Tiernan writes that he made $22k in 6 weeks with no outreach and a site built on Bubble. (Bubble is a platform for building web apps without code.) Joshua’s site is NoCodeFounders.com and it’s monetized in two ways: The “$22k in 6 weeks” headline is a bit misleading, as Joshua notes that he started the website about a…
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The safest way to get what you want
Words from billionaire investor Charlie Munger: “The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want. Deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.” That’s from his commencement speech at USC. The full thing is well worth your time 👍…
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4 kinds of side hustles
Justin Mares is the co-founder and CEO of Kettle and Fire, a multi-million dollar D2C bone broth company. He writes about the 4 kinds of side hustles: Justin points to #2 as his favorite, but #1 sounds increasingly to me like a legit “hack” for making money online. So long as you buy smart, of course 🤓 An…
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1 Tweet + 6 Days = $116,147
A designer named Traf shares an overnight success story that was 7 years in the making. In short: In his blog post about it all, Traf writes that publishing often was key to his success: There’s only so much we can control once pushing something out into the world, but publishing often will increase your odds…
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Alice Ackerman – Remote Accountant
Profile of a remote accountant. Find out how to find a remote job as an accountant, and see salary info for this kind of remote job.
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Lessons from a $163,360 client
Brian Speronello reveals how he found a freelance client that ended up paying him $163,360 over 3.5 years (average of almost $4k/month) He calls it “partnership marketing”… one of the fastest ways to attract quality clients is by partnering with other — non-competitive — businesses who already work with your ideal clients. And who also fit into…
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$10k presales for an ebook
That’s Steph Smith’s new book, Doing Content Right. Some details gleaned via this thread by Steph on Twitter:
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Quick analysis of 50 businesses
If you liked my list of ways to come up with a business idea, you’re sure to like this 👉 Find Your Next Business Idea With 50 Different Examples Each example is broken down with the C.P.S.O Framework: As they say in the article: If you can’t explain your business in these simple terms, you are in trouble.
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