-

Answer me this
What have you learned about business that you wish you knew earlier? 🤔 Share your answer on Facebook or Twitter.
-

Sales is a lot like golf
⛳️ Via Hacker News: Sales is a lot like golf. You can make it so complicated as to be impossible or you can simply walk up and hit the ball. I’ve been leading and building sales orgs for almost 20 years and my advice is to walk up and hit the ball. I reckon online business is…
-

Ad revenue > Twitter + Pinterest + Snapchat
That’s Bing – Microsoft’s search engine – with $7 billion in annual ad revenue 💰 Running Bing ads for clients might be a business worth exploring. You could reach out to companies running Google Ads – you know they already have an ad budget – and see if they’d be interested in testing some ads on Bing…
-

0-20k email subscribers in a year
Harry Dry of Marketing Examples explains how he did it 📈 What I find most insightful is a related comment he posted on Reddit: I do around an article a week. 5 days writing each piece. Then one day (8 hours) promoting it and replying to the comments, answering questions etc 5 days of writing to end…
-

Turning Hobbies Into Hustles
Molly Conway writes that this is a trap, and quotes Adam J. Kurtz: “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life work super fucking hard all the time with no separation or any boundaries and also take everything extremely personally.” Which, aside from being relatable to anyone who has tried to make…
-

Dropshipping: It’s Bullshit (Update)
A follow-up to that Wired article I mentioned a couple of weeks back: ‘It’s bullshit’: Inside the weird, get-rich-quick world of dropshipping Dan and Ian from the Tropical MBA Podcast discussed that article last week and provided some much-needed nuance, though their conclusion is essentially the same: be wary of dropshipping as a business opportunity. However, as…
-

4 writers + email list = $10 million a year
That’s the story of The Hustle, which is one of three examples here of lucrative newsletter businesses 💰 The other two: (This might be a good time to remind you that eBiz Weekly has a companion membership service too 😉)
-

$10-20/hour as a mock online juror
This Reddit post lists some sites that will pay you to be part of mock online juries 👩🏽⚖️ Things to know:
-

Facebook + Instagram Shops
Mark Zuckerberg went live on Tuesday to announce Shops, which basically allows businesses to sell products direct from Facebook pages and Instagram profiles 🤑 Do you know any local businesses that are already on Facebook/Instagram and looking to sell more online? Could you help them get set up and optimized on Shops?
-

Sign of the Times
Three historic companies that usually sell products via regular stores and supermarkets: But now, due to coronavirus, all three are selling direct to consumer via the internet. No coincidence that ecommerce platform Shopify is booming right now 📈 Even famous brands like Heinz and Heineken using it for their online stores. At the risk of sounding like a broken…
-

32 Best Remote Job Boards
Every month we crunch the numbers on 32 popular remote job boards, analyze 576 data points, and determine the best website for finding a remote job.
-

Franklin Hatchett Savage Affiliates Review
This Savage Affiliates review reveals everything Franklin Hatchett doesn’t want you to know. Learn the truth about his students and their earnings.
-

Playing games for big $$$
Four upcoming online chess tournaments will have $1 million total prize money 💰 Seeing that news this morning sent me down an esports rabbit hole. This site shows you which esports players and games earn the most money. Overall it looks like esports hasn’t been immune to coronavirus: total prize money for last month was down 57% compared…
-

The kind of person who can handle it
From a new book called Start From Zero: If I were to give you a $10,000-per-month business, would you know how to handle that? No. Unless you’d been trained. You wouldn’t. So instead of only desiring an outcome, also wish to transform into the kind of person who can handle that type of outcome. If you become that…
-

Watch this before buying an online course
This video from James Jani should be required viewing before spending a small fortune on any online course… In particular, be wary of anyone marketing a course by showing off a dream lifestyle, or telling you that success is easy to achieve. I’ve reviewed quite a few expensive courses now and these are the only two…
