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Bad Marketer Earning $2000/Month
Fernando Pessagno reveals how he earns $2000 per month from ResumeMaker.Online, despite the fact that he’s “far from being a good marketer” 🙈 Fernando launched the site 3.5 years ago, and has mainly worked on it on weekends while holding down a full-time job. His main traffic source is SEO and at first he was struggling to generate…
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Flipbook Software Makes How Much?
Check out Flipsnack 👈 It’s a tool for creating a digital flipbook. Which is basically a PDF hosted online with a page-flip effect that makes it look like a real-life book or magazine. Sounds simple enough, but how much revenue do you think the company earns each month? a) $10,000b) $100,000c) $400,000d) $800,000 Well… According to a recent…
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Failing Forward To $100 Million
Nathan Barry recently announced that his company ConvertKit has passed $100 million in lifetime sales 💰 He goes on to list all the businesses he tried before hitting it big with ConvertKit… Nathan also notes that it took a while for ConvertKit to take off. He was working on it for two years before it reached $2000 MRR, using…
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Sold Her Website for Mid-6 Figures
Alexis Grant started The Write Life, a website for writers, back in 2013 and recently sold it for “mid-six figures” 🥳 Digging into the details, apparently the site earned only $10,000 profit in all of 2018 and Alexis almost gave up on it a year earlier… I’d just had my second baby, and we were preparing to move from D.C.…
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$5,800/Month in 7 Months
That’s Ticker Nerd, a paid newsletter about trending stocks. The two co-founders reached 300 subscribers and $5800 MRR in only 7 months, then sold to a $500 million fintech company. The sale price wasn’t disclosed, but “part of the deal was getting equity in the acquiring company.” 🤑 One of the co-founders posted about the messy origins of…
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The Changing World Order
Billionaire investor Ray Dalio recently published a book called Principles for Dealing with the The Changing World Order. It’s based on a massive study of human history and details “the big cycle” of the rise and decline of nations, and where the USA currently is in that cycle 🇺🇸 Watch this excellent 45-minute video where Ray condenses everything…
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$700 to $8500 MRR in 15 Months
Back in December 2020, Norbert Hüthmayr went on Flippa looking for a business he could buy and grow 🧐 He ended up buying AutoForward SMS for about $10,000. It’s an app that can automatically forward SMS messages to an email address. It was earning $700/month when Norbert bought it. Now, some 15 months later, he has grown the business…
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$85K/Month Explainer Videos
Animation Explainers make animated explainer videos for business clients (examples). 🇮🇪 The company was started by two Irish guys in 2018, who identified the opportunity while working as research interns for a SaaS in Dublin. They found their first clients via LinkedIn and hired local animators to create the videos. Citing one book that inspired their…
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$420k/Year One-Person Business
That was Makerpad, a “no-code education and community” that sold to Zapier a year ago. Ben Tossell writes that he got Makerpad’s revenue to $35,000 per month as a solo founder working on the business part time, and without being able to code 🤯 His costs were apparently less than $500/month. Ben’s advice to other entrepreneurs… Get customers…
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Ramen Profitable Notion SaaS
HelpKit is a $1000/month SaaS leveraging Notion to create professional help centers. Founder Dominik Sobe shares his journey and success through building in public on Twitter.
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$80K/Year Airtable Plugin
Andy Cloke built Data Fetcher, a plugin for Airtable, with 190 paying customers and $6500 MRR in a year. His strategy: find growing platforms, replicate successful tools, profit.
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Death to Affiliate Marketing
Matt Giovanisci earned $284,009 from affiliate marketing in 2019, and still earns more than 6 figures a year as an affiliate 💪 But now he writes… Affiliate marketing is dying a slow and painful death. And I won’t be dragged down with it! … Affiliate marketing is dead to me. I’m no longer making it a priority in my…
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$250k/Year Sorority SaaS
According to a recent write-up… The company was Select-A-Sis, a web-based voting and data management system that helps streamline sorority recruitment processes. It was founded in 2011 by [four college friends], and sold in February 2018. The business was apparently pulling in $250,000 to $300,000 in annual revenue before selling for $1.2 million. The four friends…
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6 Skills To Be A Successful YouTuber
A few weeks back I mentioned Aprilynne Alter’s NFT-focused YouTube channel, which was earning $100/day only 6 months after she began uploading consistently. She recently posted a thread with 40 tips that helped her succeed on YouTube, including a list of the 6 main skills required… Writing ✏️Filming 🎥Editing 💻Storytelling 🎙️Branding 🏷️Public Speaking 🗣️ Check out the full thread for tips on…
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