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5 Most Productive Words
Shane Melaugh shares advice from Seth Godin that helped him turn “a group of people into a highly capable marketing team.” The 5 words: Your job is to ship. Sounds underwhelming, I know. But when your main focus is to constantly get projects out the door and into the real world, you will make fast progress.…
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$30K/Month Solo Travel Blogger
Back in 2012, Kristin Addis was burnt out from her career in mergers and acquisitions. So she quit her job, bought a one-way ticket to Bangkok 🇹🇭 and started a blog called Be My Travel Muse. Per a recent profile, it took Kristin about 2 years to earn “a liveable wage” from her blog, and within 6 years…
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$38,202/Month Arseblog
Arseblog.com is not a blog about arses, but a fan blog about Arsenal Football Club ⚽️ An Irish chap named Andrew Mangan started it way back in 2002 and it looks like he made little-to-no money from it for a long time, instead earning a living primarily as a freelance voiceover artist. Best I can tell, Andrew launched a Patreon for the…
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Simple Spreadsheet to $823K/Year
Nomad List is another project that was launched quickly 🚀 It’s a site for digital nomads and remote workers to compare cities around the world. According to a recent profile, Pieter Levels started the project as a simple spreadsheet back in 2014… It ended up becoming viral and Pieter was able to build a first version of Nomad…
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$218 MRR SaaS Sold For $10K
Indie hacker Joe built and sold Mugshot Bot, a tool creating social preview images. Launched in one month, reached $218 MRR, sold for $10,000 to focus on new projects.
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Free Digital Marketing Courses
Check out the SEMrush Academy for a bunch of high-quality free courses related to marketing and SEO. A few that caught my eye 👇
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$1.3 Million Company at 21 Years Old
That’s Joe Binder, as profiled here 👈 Joe’s company “helps CEOs and founders build their personal brands on social media.” He started off freelance and now has an agency with 16 employees. When I see stories like this, I’m always curious to hear how they landed their first client. Here’s how it happened for Joe… to get my first client, I…
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No Money Hack: Triangulation Deals
James Schramko shares how to start a business with no money: pitch a “Triangulation Deal” to businesses for resources in exchange for applying your learnings to their growth.
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$20K/Month Online Business Evolution
Indie hacker Matt Bochnak turned his passion for motorcycle repair into a $20,000/month business through premium videos, physical products, YouTube ads, Patreon, and affiliates.
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From “Dumb Blog” to $70K Profit/Month
Alex Goldberg shares how he co-founded a “dumb blog” – Fin vs Fin – that became a portfolio of sites that profit $70,000 per month 🤑 It’s a great example of how important it is to just get started, because Alex and his co-founder didn’t have much of a plan initially. But once they were rolling, they were able…
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30 Minute Call = 2.5 Hours
Stephen Wise shares what he’s learned from 4.5 years of freelancing. I especially like his point about client calls… A 30 minute call will take 150 minutes of your day.60 minutes before the call (not wanting to start anything)30 minutes on the call60 minutes after the call (following up and regaining focus)Calls are important, just use them…
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$6M in 18 Months LinkedIn Outreach SaaS
Expandi automates LinkedIn outreach. Founder Stefan Smulders grew it to $6M revenue in 18 months. Solve your own problem to create a successful business.
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Difficult and Boring = $$$
An excerpt from the book Unscripted by MJ DeMarco… In this Amazon coaching course, they include a ranking chart on potential product strengths in terms of market, demand, and shipping viability. Products that my friend would avoid like the plague were ranked highly desirable. Namely, easy to sell, easy to import, and easy to ship. His product?…
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$100K in 1 Month Selling Notion Templates
Thomas Frank started this YouTube channel about Notion back in October 2020. Here’s his first video… He built up his audience there, on Twitter, and via an email list with a steady dose of free tips, tutorials and templates that helped people make better use of Notion. At the start of April he launched a premium product for…
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$114K/Year Listerine Mouthwash Royalties
Check out RoyaltyExchange.com 👈 It’s a marketplace where you can buy and sell royalty rights. The highest listing on there right now is for Listerine Mouthwash Royalties. That pays out $114,253 per year, and the listed price is $1,795,000. Buy it for that price, and you’d earn your investment back in about 16 years. After that, seems like it’d be…
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