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$2.5K/Month Selling Resume Templates
Ana Colak-Fustin does that via her Etsy store, including more than $11,000 in two years from this one template 👈 (Check out the slick product images for that template – very well done.) Per a recent interview, Ana had four years of corporate experience working as a recruiter before launching her business in July 2018. It took several…
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$1 Million From These Daily Actions
Alexander Cortes writes about how he’s “made $1 million through Twitter, an email list, & ebooks.” His key habits… Tweet every day, for 5 yearsWrite every day, for 5 yearsOne video a week, for 5 yearsOne hour a day devoted to a skill, for 5 years Success is built on the compounding returns of these daily…
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Your Story of Resiliency
Jim Harmer writes in Work Energy about building his photography blog up to $30k/month. But then revenue declined sharply, and he had to lay off employees. It was an especially tough time for Jim because he’d let his company’s success become a core part of his identity. Accordingly, when the company struggled, he became “truly depressed” 😔…
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Why It Costs That Much
Next time you have a client or customer complaining about price, soothe your frustrations by looping this explicit little ditty… First thing I thought when I heard that: this song would crush on TikTok. Sure enough, a few TikTok videos have used it and racked up millions of views 👀
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$0 Revenue SaaS Sold for $4.5K
Richie McIlroy launched Recover.so last November 🚀 It’s a SaaS to “recover abandoned Stripe checkouts.” Two months later, the business had $0 revenue and Richie wanted to focus on other projects, so he listed Recover for sale on MicroAcquire. Within a couple of weeks he’d sold it for $4500. Takeaway: don’t underestimate the value of a “failing” business. Even though…
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5-Year-Old Website: $500,000/Year
Starter Story is a platform sharing interviews with successful entrepreneurs. Founder Pat Walls automated tasks to streamline operations and grow revenue to $500,000 annually.
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10,000 People Paying Him $1/Month
I’ve been using this screen capture Chrome extension for years and only recently saw that it pulls in $10,000/month 🤑 The premium version costs $12/year (ie. $1/month), so it’s got about 10,000 paying customers. Peter Coles launched the extension way back in 2012 – originally to scratch his own itch – and only monetized it years later when it had amassed…
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Building A Local Newsletter Business
Nathan Barry writes about the first year launching and growing From Boise. It’s a local newsletter for Boise, Idaho (population ~230k) that goes out twice weekly. Here’s a recent edition 📫 Nathan has outsourced pretty much all the work, spending $62k to grow it to 10,000+ subscribers. Though he estimates he could have saved $34k if he had done…
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$8 Million A Year Selling Slime?
A 20-something-year-old named Andrea could be earning as much as $8 million a year selling slime via TikTok (4.4M followers), Instagram (1M) and YouTube (1M) 🤯 That’s according to some public math by Codie Sanchez, who includes a quote from Andrea… “My business would not exist if it wasn’t for social media marketing. We haven’t spent a penny on paid ads, which is very unusual…
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Freelance > Agency > SaaS
Check out Molly Wolchansky’s business journey 👈 She started out as freelance marketer. Her first client was her mother, a real estate agent. Molly gradually took on more clients and evolved her business into an agency. Eventually, feeling “overworked, overwhelmed and underpaid,” she leveraged her deep knowledge of marketing for the real estate industry to launch a SaaS called The Agent…
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Parking Ticket Hustle to $210M Valuation
A great example of starting small and simple is DoNotPay.com, which recently hit a $210 million valuation 🤑 Today the site is touted as a “robot lawyer” service; basically a chatbot that provides legal services, such as refunds on flight tickets, filing small claims, and notarizing documents. But it was started by 18-year-old Josh Browder back in 2015.…
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The $500K Productivity Course
Back in 2015, Khe Hy quit his high-level job in Wall Street and took off traveling with his wife and toddler, trying to figure out what he wanted to do next. He’d started a newsletter a few months earlier, recommending some interesting articles to 36 friends 💌 As that newsletter slowly grew, Khe began including stories from his…
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$8000/Month Advising LEGO Investors
Discover B2Side-Hustle businesses for generating side income. Examples include PrettyMerch Pro and All Things LEGO. Explore subscription models like research-as-a-service, community/coaching, and tools for success.
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AI-Powered Productized Service
AI-powered blogging service Blogbeagle offers human quality assurance. Explore other productized services using AI tools. Find tools on AppSumo for inspiration and deals.
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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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