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How much money do Skillshare teachers make?
You can sign up to Skillshare as a teacher and earn money for every minute someone watches one of your classes. Here are a few income reports I found from Skillshare teachers on YouTube, all within the past year: That last video is from Ali Abdaal, a 26-year-old junior doctor who earned about $31,000 from his day…
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Passive Income Makes No Sense
From a book called The Road Less Stupid… Passive income makes about as much sense as passive health or passive relationships. You would scoff at the idea of a passive weight loss technique or a passive gold medal in the Olympics or a passive marriage. But financial shamans write hundreds of these books every year counting…
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$1 Million a Year Cloning Photoshop
This is one of the most fascinating solo-entrepreneur stories I’ve seen in a while. Seven years ago, Ivan Kuckir started building Photopea, a free web-based version of Adobe Photoshop, coded mostly in JavaScript. He started monetizing it four years ago and reports that he’s earned “almost $1 million in the last 12 months, 90% from ads” 💰 Ivan remains…
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How To Earn $75k Affiliate Marketing
Khris Steven writes about how he started promoting ClickFunnels as an affiliate back in 2018, and went on to earn over $75,000 in commissions in the last ~2.5 years 😎 He breaks down several SEO strategies he used to achieve that result, many of which you can apply to other affiliate programs and/or niches. Note also…
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Bought For $16K, Sold For $625K
SEO pro Matt Diggity details in a new video how he bought a website 2.5 years ago for $15,811 and recently sold it for $625,591… In total, he invested $57,905 into buying and growing the site. It earned less than $100 in affiliate commissions the first month he owned it, but over the 2.5 years it earned…
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I Happily Paid $200 For This
It’s a service where you hire someone to handle annoying tasks for you, like filing a trademark application. Look for similar opportunities in business admin, research, legal filings, etc.
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How To Get Good Clients
You might remember Tom Hirst from a previous article, noting that he’d earned £500K+ from freelancing in 4 years 💰 Tom shares in this thread how to get good clients and avoid bad ones. Definitely check it out if you’re on the freelance path, lots of great advice in there. This one got the most likes: The lowest paying clients…
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7 Ways To Lose Money
Tongue-in-cheek Andrew Tye shares seven anti-wealth tactics you can use to lose money fast 📉 He goes on to share five tips for actually making money. The last is “think for yourself”… You can find so many guides for how to make money online or how to get rich quick or how to make money from home.…
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She launched multiple 6-figure courses
Lauren Valdez writes that she’s helped launched multiple 6-figure courses, and gives three pieces of advice for launching your own 🚀 I can’t emphasize the first enough: build an audience before building your course. Lauren is especially bullish on building an audience in the form of an email list… The critical breaking point is about 5,000…
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50,000 YouTube Subscribers
Janet Newenham surpassed that mark on her YouTube travel channel last week 🥳 What does it take to reach that level? Janet wrote on Facebook a few days ago… Well, it only took 2 full years of working my absolute butt off on YouTube (posting almost daily videos, and often not taking a day off for months…
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5-Figures a Month via OnlyFans
Fascinating interview on the Indie Hackers pod with two OnlyFans creators who consistently earn 5-figures a month. If you’re not familiar with OnlyFans, it’s basically Patreon but for adult content 🙈 The two creators interviewed – Savannah Solo and Aella – are apparently in the top 1% of earners on the platform, and Savannah has earned…
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Disaster Girl just made $473,000
Disaster Girl is a famous meme (see it here), showing a 5-year-old Zoë Roth smiling knowingly in front of a house fire in 2005 🔥 The BBC reports that Zoë – now a college senior – recently auctioned off the original copy of the meme as an NFT for $473,000 worth of crypto. BuzzFeed has a short video of…
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Busy? Overwhelmed?
The following two articles might help 👇 The first, by Scott Young, shows how biased we are towards adding new tasks and responsibilities, even though subtracting them can often bring better results. That article also provides a handy alternative to saying “no” to everything. Second is an old blog post from Tim Ferriss that I think about often: The Art…
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How To Self Promote On Reddit
Reddit is notoriously tough on self-promoters, with many mods deleting posts that hint at self promotion. YesPromo put together a list of 100+ examples of successful self promotion posts on Reddit, so you can see what works and try to emulate. Click here to jump straight to the list 👈 Three favorites:
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Be Like The Beatles
Without spending a dollar, Alex Garcia apparently built his Twitter following From 1k to 40k in 50 days, and his email list from 0 to 7k in 2 months. He shares his 9 secrets for building an audience fast, including… Seth Godin says, “The Beatles did not invent teenagers. They merely decided to lead them.” You’re…
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