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$100,000/Month Helping You Tweet
Tweet Hunter is a suite of tools to help you build and monetize an audience on Twitter. Co-founder JK Molina tweeted about the milestone along with a photo of himself at a local bazaar. The caption… Me selling perfume and shirts at the local bazaar in 2017. That day I sold 1 shirt and made $14. Today I…
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$40K/Month Content Shop
That’s CopySmiths 👈 Kat McKinnon spent 20 years running an ecommerce agency, but then… … in 2019 I noticed something wild was happening with a handful of client blogs we had created. In one blog, organic traffic blew up from 800 to 150,000+ unique views per month, over 15 months. And for another client, we added $250,000 to…
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If you can’t pay the rent
Quote from an (unusually expensive) book called The Prosperous Coach… If you can’t pay the rent you don’t need a client, you need a job. Forget coaching. Find a way to create income immediately. You will never create high-end clients from a needy place. Once your basic expenses are covered and you no longer ‘need’ a…
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Before you buy a business book…
Try this hack: search your podcast app for interviews with the author 🎙 One good interview will often give you the best takeaways from the book, without having to buy or read it. For example, here are solid interviews from the top 3 picks on my list of best business books for online entrepreneurs…
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Good Surfer on a Bad Wave
Indie hacker’s guide: Focus on finding a great market (wave) for your product (surfboard). Use tools like Exploding Topics, Glimpse, Google Trends, and Subreddit Stats for market research.
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$3000/Month SaaS in 9 Months
That’s HelpKit, a product that helps you build a knowledge base on top of Notion 📑 Founder Dominik Sobe launched last September and has been chipping away at the business while still in school (“I need to finish my thesis asap”). Dominik is a self-taught coder, but he says that coding a product like HelpKit might be the easy part… The…
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Freelance Writing Around The World
Check out this interview and income report with freelance writer Alice Lemée. Alice started freelancing about 1.5 years ago and last month earned $5,766. Doesn’t sound like a ton, but she’s earned that while only spending $1600/month and living/traveling in places like Mexico 🇲🇽 and Colombia 🇨🇴 A lot of Alice’s clients have apparently come via Twitter, where she’s racked up 17K followers in a couple…
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Egyptian Rottweiler Guy Makes Millions
I first heard about Ahmed Sobhy via this short profile. He’s a guy from Egypt 🇪🇬 who started a Facebook page about the Rottweiler dog breed back in 2012 (first post). Apparently the page gained 200,000 followers in the first few weeks, and Ahmed has gone on to grow… That last one is probably the big money-maker for Ahmed. Social…
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Designer Earns $520,366 In 1 Year
Rich Webster shares on Instagram that he earned a cool half mil as a designer in 2021 😎 He offers six tips that “matter more than design if you want to make money.” One I hadn’t heard before… Brand yourself as an agency. The day you stop calling yourself a freelancer is the day you’ll double your rates. The…
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$420K/Year Anonymous Newsletter
As the world grows more privacy-conscious, I love finding examples of people earning big money online anonymously. That’s the case with the founder of the Alpha Letter newsletter. He recently shared his journey on Starter Story, detailing how he went from pretty much $0 a couple of years ago to $35,000/month today 🚀 TL;DR – he capitalized on…
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What Lies Clearly At Hand
Words below from a 19th century Scotsman 🏴 “The task of a man is not to see what lies dimly in the distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.” – Thomas Carlyle In other words, break your big projects and goals down into small, manageable tasks. Then get to work 👩💻
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Shaan Puri Lost $700,000 In Crypto Crash
That’s Shaan Puri from the My First Million podcast 🎙 Listen to the recent episode where Shaan explains how he’s staying sane despite the losses. Co-host Sam Parr recently tweeted a sentiment I strongly agree with… Instead of freaking out about the stock market, I’d rather just focus on making more $ through business building. Related: best business podcasts for online…
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$50,000 Profit From A Side Project
Pawel Urbanek writes about his experience building a Slack app. It’s called Abot, and it allows team members to anonymously post feedback and polls. Pawel started building the app about 5 years ago and says it has mostly been running on autopilot the last 2 years 🤖 It’s now earning him about $4000/month with very little expense or…
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Self-Taught Coder 5-Figure SaaS Sale
Reporty is a Shopify x Slack bot created by self-taught programmer Chris Tung. He built it to solve a problem, grew it to $3k/year, and sold it for $10k+ on MicroAcquire.
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3 Questions To Get Unstuck
From million dollar YouTuber Ali Abdaal… 1. What’s the difference between what I want, and what I am doing?2. Is there anything I can do now to change the situation?3. Am I waiting for motivation, or am I practicing discipline? Related to that last point, one of my favorite articles of all time 👇
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