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Take-Home Income: Less Than Expected
Lenny Rachitsky generates more than $500,000 in annual revenue with his paid newsletter on Substack. But deep in this thread from 2020 he writes… After the Substack fees (10%), Stripe fees (2-4%), and taxes, you’re lucky to see half of what you think you will make (1,000 subs at $10 is closer to $5,000/month after fees and taxes). Keep that…
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$15,000/Month Generation Effect
Anne-Laure Le Cunff built a successful business by teaching what she learned in neuroscience through a newsletter and a paid community, earning over $15,000 per month.
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Non-Expert Author: $160K Earnings
Indie hacker Greg Lim made $160,000 selling 40,000 non-fiction books on Amazon in 6 years, while juggling a full-time job and family. Learn from his research-driven, beginner-friendly approach.
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Turn Bad Things Into Good Things
Here’s the story of MonetizeMore, an ad exchange business that has done $83 million in revenue in twelve years 🤑 Founder Kean Graham started the business after getting laid off during the 2008 recession and taking a break to travel around South America for a few months… “I like to turn bad things into good things,” Kean says.…
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$1.2M/Year Digital Agency
Dylan Ogline turned his struggling freelance business into a 7-figure digital marketing agency by focusing on one service. Now earns $100,000/month.
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The $1 Million Freelancer
Doug Shaw started freelancing on Upwork almost a decade ago and recently surpassed $1 million in total earnings. Per a recent profile… Doug has been working full time for Upwork clients as a Google Ads expert but also advises on funnel marketing and development using YouTube, TikTok and Linked-In. Sounds like Doug taught himself Google Ads…
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Small Podcast: $200K/Year
Sarah Peck has a fairly small audience, generating about 2000 downloads per episode of her Startup Parent podcast 🎙 She sells sponsorships for the podcast, but the big money comes from her paid mastermind program for working moms, most of whom are listeners of the podcast. The price of enrollment in the program: $4,800 to $7,800. As Simon Owens…
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$10K/Month Automated Website
I’m not going to link to the site because it’s pretty spammy, but it’s ForNoob.com. Phil from 4 Day Week tweets… This site generates ~$100k in traffic value / month. It’s entirely written by GPT-3. A commenter on Phil’s thread estimates the site publishes hundreds of articles each day and probably earns +$10K through display ads 🤑…
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$300/Day Crypto Ponzi Scheme?
Nat Eliason writes about his experience using STEPN, a play-to-earn fitness app that “allows you to earn crypto from walking, jogging, and running.” To start playing the game, Nat bought about $12,000 worth of STEPN’s virtual sneaker NFTs. After two weeks he reports earning $300-400 a day “just for going outside and spending time with my wife,…
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$1 Million Per Year Invisible Man
Carrd: One-page website builder making $1 million/year. Founded by mysterious AJ. Started as a side project in 2016, now a success story. Focus on learning.
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Hard Work Isn’t Enough
Words from Robert Ringer’s book, Winning Through Intimidation… Have you not seen, with your own eyes, that working long, hard hours does not by itself assure a person of success? In this regard, I often think of my Uncle George… This kindly little gentleman owned a corner grocery store and worked fourteen- to sixteen-hour days all…
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$400k+ With Marketplace Freelancing
Vasco Monteiro reports earning more than $400,000 from freelance marketplaces like Upwork and Fiverr, but he warns against looking for work on such popular sites now… the single biggest thing that made me attain such a milestone was that… I was in early. I joined in 2018 as a beta user of this new marketplace that had…
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How To Find Clients On Twitter
Andrew Davison writes about an automatic monitoring system he set up to help his agency find clients via Twitter. Thanks to no-code tools – mainly Integromat (recently rebranded as Make) and Airtable – all Andrew has to do is check a spreadsheet each day to see a list of filtered tweets from people who may have…
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$16K/Month From 2 Websites
Hilary Erickson is a former nurse who started and runs two websites… In a recent profile she reveals that she earned $193,000 combined from the sites last year 🤑 58% of the revenue comes from Hilary’s own courses and ebooks, most notably her Online Prenatal Class for Couples. 28% comes from display ads and 14% from affiliate marketing.…
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Be Ready When They Slip
Jakob Greenfeld’s eBiz Facts offers a trustworthy alternative to review platforms like Trustpilot, utilizing a unique algorithm to provide accurate ratings based on user contributions.
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