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Nothing Else Matters
Dan Norris has been an entrepreneur for 13 years. During that time he started tons of businesses but has “only done 2 things that have ever worked.” One was an unlimited WordPress support service – which got acquired by GoDaddy – and the other a brewery 🍺 Dan writes… The reason your business is not…
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A Six-Figure, One-Person Newsletter
That’s trends.vc by Dru Riley. Dru uses a freemium business model, putting out a free version of his newsletter each week, and offering a premium version for paid subscribers. Wes Kimbell has a breakdown and insights from Dru’s business success here, estimating that trends.vc pulls in as much as $300,000 per year, despite only launching 18 months ago…
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Origins of a 27-Year-Old Billionaire
🎙 Acquired recently put out an episode about Ethereum and its founder Vitalik Buterin… If you thought Mark Zuckerberg IPO-ing Facebook at $100B by age 27 was something, just wait until you hear the story of this high school junior creating $500B (!!) of market cap by the same age… It’s a crazy story, but what especially…
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$1 Million Selling Slime
Jacob Karram tells his story via CNBC Make It on YouTube… He started the business at age 17 with $100, and now sells 4000 jars of slime online each week. Took him years to get to that point though, and apparently he still works 65 hours per week 😱 Some other videos from CNBC Make It that…
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8 (Realistic) Passive Income Ideas
Noah Kagan shares 8 passive income ideas in a 14-minute video, earning $40,000 weekly. Active income builds wealth, passive income sustains it. Master active income first.
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Piggyback Software
Create a business by piggybacking on the success of a popular product or platform. Build complementary services or tools that enhance the user experience and provide value.
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$200k/Year Teaching Mailchimp
Chimp Essentials is an online course teaching Mailchimp email marketing. Creator Paul Jarvis earns $200k/year with 99.5% profit margin. Marketing to a built audience is key.
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Impressive Copywriting Robot
Copy.ai is an AI writing tool that helps generate ideas and speed up copywriting. It’s like having an AI assistant for your writing tasks. Free trial available.
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Jane Austen’s Frequent Distractions
Jane Austen died more than 200 years ago at age 41 but is still renowned for writing such novels as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma 📚 According to a profile on her work habits in Daily Rituals – fantastic book, btw – Austen did much of her writing on scraps of paper between frequent interruptions in the family sitting…
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Roadmap to $10k/month
Help local businesses with digital marketing. Charge a retainer, deliver leads monthly. Learn from Samuel Thompson’s thread to go from $0 to $10k/month in 60 days.
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Random Pizza
Subscription service delivering random pizzas monthly based on your preferences. Founder prioritizes concept over financial success. Think “Serendipity as a Service” for other items like flowers or notes.
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Think About Your Hero
From the book Mindset by Carol Dweck: Think about your hero. Do you think of this person as someone with extraordinary abilities who achieved with little effort? Now go find out the truth. Find out the tremendous effort that went into their accomplishment—and admire them more. Related: how to work hard
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$50k/Month in 5 Hours/Week
Check out LeadCookie.com. You sign up for their service and they do outreach on your behalf to generate leads for your business. Here’s an interview with Jake Jorgovan, the founder of the company, who says he started it “for virtually no costs” and runs the whole thing using no-code tools (Airtable, Zapier, etc.) Now it generates…
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Her 6-Figure Side-Hustle
An article about Steph Smith: Create 6-figures and 3,000 customers by NOT quitting your job Steph works for The Hustle and has leveraged her day job to build a big audience and successful side-business of her own 🤑 That’s a great example of how the right job – especially the right remote job – can be a shortcut…
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$150,000 in 12 days
Kickstarter project success story: Portable blackout curtain raised $120k in 12 days. Founders quit jobs, did prep work, got advice, and hired help. Opportunity in offering Kickstarter services.
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