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What would George Clooney do?
An excerpt from The Obstacle Is The Way, explaining a perspective shift that helped George Clooney go from struggling actor to global superstar… George Clooney spent his first years in Hollywood getting rejected at auditions. He wanted the producers and directors to like him, but they didn’t and it hurt and he blamed the system for…
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Call bullshit on yourself
Trevor McKendrick shares magic words from Noah Kagan (AppSumo, Mint, Facebook) that motivated him to start making money online: So Noah’s like “dude, make $1 dollar in the next 48 hours or you just gotta call bullshit on yourself.” Whoa. […] I ended up sending an email to my email list offering a paid, live webinar and…
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How I built a $1 million online business and became a digital nomad
I left my last real job working in a corporate office back in 2007, and then became a full-time digital nomad in 2012. Here’s how I did it.
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Starting a custom sock store in 5 days
In this 19-minute video, a successful ecomm entrepreneur challenges himself to create a new product – 🧦 with your 🐶’s face on them – and start selling it within 5 days… Great insights into what it takes to build and market an online store in a saturated market. My notes: Those last two points help explain why I…
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Script for raising your rate with existing clients
Courtesy of Ramit Sethi: Hey, I think you’ll agree that since we’ve been working together, I’ve helped you increase profits by X% while simultaneously cutting costs by X% and generating $XXX,XXX in revenue. I value you as a client and enjoy working for you — but in order for this to make sense for me,…
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Earning $328 per hour on Fiverr
So says Mike Nardi in a new video series on YouTube 📹 My notes from skimming the first three videos: Mike writes on Reddit: Funny enough, when I started raising my prices I started getting more orders. It’s strange but I think there is a breaking point on fiverr that separates buyers who only care about cheap $5…
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18,514 Startup Ideas
Many of the ideas on this massive list could be executed remotely. A few I picked out while scrolling through:
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Fake Client Briefs
FakeClients.com is… …a website to help you practice logo design, UX, web design, graphic design and illustration. Press ‘start’ and a random design brief will be generated so you can practice your design skills and fill your portfolio, working for fake businesses. Cool idea, but if you’re looking to gain experience and build your portfolio, first…
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$500 for writing the same word 100 times
A random dude with 3,000 followers tweeted on Wednesday: for $5 i will write “yikes” under one of your ex’s selfies Apparently more than 100 people have taken him up on the offer so far 🤯 Meanwhile, here are 9 websites that will pay you to write short stories. (Some of them also pay for poetry and…
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Where to find the hours
Wise words from Derek Sivers: 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 felt awful on…
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How to get email subscribers
Lots of ideas in this Substack thread. A few that stood out to me.
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Just graduated college, now making $50/hr freelancing
That’s the story of a web designer posting on Reddit. He’s self-taught – “googled pretty much everything I know” – and has been finding clients on Upwork with a mostly copy-pasted proposal. Two things he mentioned caught my eye. First: I quickly put together a website in less than 8 hours showcasing my skills, and…
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Income School Project 24 Review
An in-depth, hands-on Project 24 review, the popular course by Income School. We reveal DISCOUNT info and CRITICISMS of the program…
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What’s the story, like?
#27 from that batch of Momentos: Seth Godin says good marketing is just telling a good story, compelling and authentic. My no-fly trip was a good story. Might be time to tell another. The new one could also be about a journey. Not to circumnavigate the globe, but to earn $1K per day from my site. I came…
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Always park at the back
I really enjoyed this blog post from Skyclerk, about small, subtle things that shape the business you build, and how your customers experience it. Key excerpt: My father was an insurance agent with his office in a big 3 story office mall. The parking lot for this building must have had room for 500 cars and…
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