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“Powered By” Marketing
Darko from Zero to Users analyzed hundreds of interviews with successful founders and noticed that many of them gained traction by using “powered by” marketing. A good example is RightMessage. You’ve probably seen their pop-ups on various websites, with the “Powered by RightMessage” link at the bottom. (Scroll down the RM homepage and you’ll see it.) But my…
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9 mistakes first-time entrepreneurs make
Noah Kagan lists them out in this video… In brief: Do any of those ring painfully true for you? 🙈
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Pub Desks
BBC.com reports that some pubs in the UK are catering to remote workers during the pandemic: In this village pub in Kent, a tenner gets you a table by a plug socket, wi-fi, lunch (I went for a halloumi wrap) and unlimited tea and coffee. (Pints, sadly, are not included.) They had me at “unlimited tea…
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3 questions from a $1 million/year SaaS
Sarah Hum writes about co-founding a SaaS called Canny in 2017 and growing it to $1 million annual recurring revenue 💰 Canny in a nutshell: We help software companies build better products by doing a better job of collecting and understanding user feedback. Sarah recommends asking yourself 3 simple-yet-impactful questions at the beginning of your business journey:
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Monetize with Zoom
Zoom recently launched OnZoom, described on Product Hunt as… A new marketplace to schedule, monetize, and attend virtual events. From cooking classes to lectures to stand-up, fitness and more. OnZoom features built-in tools for selling tickets, scheduling, and promotion. There are a few classes and events on there already, but not as many as I expected given how…
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Great example of recycled content
That short TikTok video from The Futur is taken from this longer video they posted to YouTube 4 years ago… The YouTube video has racked up more than 3 million views, and a 3-minute excerpt from it in 2018 got another 50k views… The TikTok video was posted last week and already has 1.6 million views 🚀 They posted two other clips from the…
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Punished for being good
Nice short video by The Futur on TikTok, explaining why charging by the hour doesn’t always make sense… Most business people value time. If I can do a logo for you right now and you love it, in five minutes, are you saying it’s worth less or is it worth more now? Because I saved…
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Shelby Church – Tech and Lifestyle YouTuber
Shelby Church is a tech and lifestyle YouTuber with 1.5+ million subscribers. Find out how much money she makes from YouTube…
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Logan Paul – YouTuber
Logan Paul is a YouTuber with 28+ million total subscribers across his channels. Find out how much money does Logan Paul make…
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PewDiePie – Gaming YouTuber
PewDiePie is the most subscribed solo YouTuber with 100+ million subscribers. Find out how much money does PewDiePie make…
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Jeffree Star – Make-up Artist and YouTuber
Jeffree Star is a YouTuber with 17+ million subscribers. Find out how much money he makes from YouTube…
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Typing practice
Probably the most overlooked productivity hack for working online is learning how to touch type. I learned at age 30 for free with TIPP10. Today I came across a neat website that lets you practice by retyping classic novels 📚 Good way to improve your typing speed and finally read Moby-Dick 🤓 (Probably the second-most overlooked productivity hack: increasing your…
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Self-taught coder earning $600k/year
That’s the aforementioned Pieter Levels, according to a recent profile on No CS Degree. You might have heard of Pieter’s more famous projects: Nomad List and RemoteOK (reviewed here), both of which apparently pull in $300k/year. Pieter is well-known for rapidly building and launching businesses. From the profile: Pieter adopted his now familiar approach to coding and business – build…
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Selling onions on the internet
Pieter Levels tweeted about a guy who buys random domain names and then tries to turn them into businesses. For example: The guy’s name is Peter Askew and he wrote about the onion business here 🧅 Highlights: Apparently the business is still going strong =💪
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Marketplaces for trending products
Two things I’ve seen buzz about recently: This week I came across marketplaces for both: No idea what kind of money those sites are making, but something like iOS Icons in particular might be worth emulating in other niches. It was built “overnight” and isn’t a typical marketplace, in that they’ve simply listed iOS icon…
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