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Jay-Z’s Unpaid Internship
Here’s a story about the world’s first billionaire rapper 😎 From the book Empire State of Mind, describing a then-19-year-old Jay-Z… Upon returning to the United States, Jay-Z talked his way onto the tour bus of Big Daddy Kane, a successful rapper from hip-hop’s golden age in the late 1980s and early 1990s. A host of…
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$7000/Month Rapping On Fiverr
Here’s another trend on Fiverr… Searches for composing a song grew 5,000% between early 2021 and early 2022, according to a rep from the site. Michael Burton started on Fiverr back in 2016 and has rode that wave. Per a recent profile, he apparently earns “between $7,000 and $9,000 per month” selling customized raps on…
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Fiverr’s Top 6 Trending Searches (Q1 2022)
Fiverr trends for Q1: NFT, YouTube promotion, website development, voice over, resume, graphic design. Consider offering services in upcoming trends to stand out and earn big.
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5 Strategies for Idea Generation
Kevin Conti shares five strategies for generating business ideas: Scratching Your Itch, Audience-Driven, Audience-First, Agency-Driven, and Market-Driven. Practical tips and real-world examples included.
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$100K/Month Productized Design Service
Quentin Gilon is the co-founder of ManyPixels, a design service where clients pay a flat monthly fee (starting at $499/month). He recently shared all the acquisition channels they have used to grow the business 🚀 and the results of each. When they launched back in 2018, their early success was “a combination of community building, personal branding,…
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Self-Taught Coder Raises $690k
Marie Ng taught herself to code 2 years ago and started building a productivity app called Llama Life 🦙 She has built it to 700+ customers as a solo founder, and recently announced that she raised $690,000 for the project in a pre-seed funding round. There’s no shortage of productivity apps on the market, but Marie’s seems to have…
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Competing With Giants
Yes, finding a niche within a niche can help you compete with big players. ConvertKit targeted bloggers, Plausible focused on privacy-conscious website owners.
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350k words / 840 days / $100,000
Michael X. Donovan shares 27 months of data from his blogging journey 📈 He doesn’t reveal his blog – “too many copy cats in this space” – but it’s fascinating nonetheless. Highlights… Michael recently tweeted… I’ll pass $100,000 in total revenue from my #blog this month.To get here, I wrote ~350,000 words of content over the span…
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8 Months to 6 Figures
A pregnant woman got laid off during COVID, built a six-figure income on Instagram in 8 months with coaching, courses, and partnerships. Leverage past job skills for online success.
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At The End Of The Day
Words from billionaire investor Charlie Munger… Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Systematically you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. Nevertheless, you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts. Slug it out one inch at a time,…
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#1 Lesson For Freelancers
Lots of great takeaways for consultants and freelancers in this article by Patrick McKenzie 👈 Patrick is a programmer, but stopped calling himself that once he realized it made his services sound like a commodity. Now he chooses to frame his services in a much more lucrative way… “I solve business problems — occasionally a computer is involved.” Also…
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Blueprint: $600k/Year 1-Person Business
Inspired by the success of Nomad List – a $770k+ per year 1-person business – Ben Tossell lays out the blueprint in this thread. A rough summary… However, as the founder of Nomad List notes, “only 4 out of 70+ projects I ever did made money and grew.” So knowing when to quit vs persist is key 🔑 Seth Godin has some good…
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Online Solitaire Site = $10K/Month
Holger Sindbaek’s Online Solitaire site earns $10,000/month from 1 million visits, monetized through display ads. Started as a Mac app, chose solitaire based on market analysis, not passion.
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6-Figure Bird Blogger
Scott Keller worked as an insurance agent for many years before getting into blogging. Initially he blogged about finance, but soon got bored of that and turned to blogging about his passion: birding 🐦 Scott’s site is called Bird Watching HQ, and according to a recent profile… In 2018, the blog made over $30,000. In 2019, it made…
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1 Month Selling a Course = $53,000
Randall Kanna helps job seekers. She apparently earned $53,000 in February alone 🤯 with a course that helps developers prep for job interviews. Two years earlier, Randall spent months creating another course. She gave that one away for free and ended up with only a couple of students. The difference between that product and my course generating $53,000? I spent time…
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