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This Made Julius Caesar Cry
Julius Caesar is one of the most accomplished leaders in history. But there’s a famous story about him as a 33 year old, weeping because he’d accomplished so little compared to Alexander the Great at the same age 😢 In case you can relate, here are a couple of lists of entrepreneurs who had accomplished “nothing” by age 30. Including……
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$10k/Month Productivity Timer
Indie dev Philip Young built a profitable Pomodoro app, making $10k/month. Stood out in a crowded market by scratching his own itch. Split sales between App Store and SetApp.
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He Built 100+ Shopify Stores
Itay Haritan built and sold a web dev agency, then created RTL Master app for Shopify. Leveraged SEO to dominate Hebrew market. Opportunity in non-English-speaking countries.
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$100,000 with 2 Google Sheets
Flexiple is a kind of match-making service for freelancers and tech companies. They’ve been around for about 5 years and did +$3 million in revenue in 2021. Co-founder Karthik Sridharan recently shared in an interview… we got the first $100,000 just by using Google Sheets! We had two sheets, one called ‘Companies’ and other, ‘Freelancers’. We used…
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Nathan Barry’s Growth Hacks
Nathan Barry founded ConvertKit, which does $2.4 million in monthly revenue as of this writing. Nathan recently broke down how he scaled the business from $1500/month to $100K/month in only a year 🚀 I especially like the email template he shows there for reaching out to customers of competing software (he had previously connected with on social media…
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Journey to a $1 Million ARR SaaS
To drive home the point that SaaS is hard, check out the journey of ScrapingBee, a web scraping software built by two French guys. In their own words… it took us almost five years and multiple failed projects to grow a sustainable and almost bootstrapped SaaS… In November [2020], we finally reach $10,000 Monthly Recurring Revenue.…
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Talent Stacking to $3.4 Million Revenue
Testimonial Hero helps businesses gather video testimonials. Founder Sam Shepler shares how he grew it to a $3.4M revenue business by talent stacking and starting with a service over SaaS.
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Failed Blogger to $1.5M/Year
Mohit Tater shares how he built a $1.5 million a year business by flipping and investing in websites. The most interesting part to me is how Mohit blogged for a year in 2012 and “all I heard were crickets. No traffic, no income, nothing to show” 😔 Instead of letting that get him down… I thought to…
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Pre-selling $3500 in 5 hours
Lim How Wei has built up an audience of 5000+ followers on Twitter. He mainly shares SEO tips on there, from his experience growing followchain.org to more than 2M monthly visitors and $20,000 in monthly revenue, mostly from display ads. Recently he announced on Twitter that he’s writing a book about SEO, and pointed people to a sparse pre-order page. 5 hours…
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$50 Million a Year From Ads?
From about the 17-minute mark of a recent podcast, Sam Parr estimates that SpeedTest.net earns $50 million a year from display ads, cashing in on their 10 million visits per day 🤑 … Meanwhile, the guys at Authority Hacker debate the pros and cons of monetizing a website with display ads vs affiliate marketing… They highlight a couple of sites that…
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When It Counts
Words from Noah Kagan – founder of the $100 million business AppSumo 💰 – at about the 28:45 mark of his recent appearance on the My First Million podcast… The times that you don’t want to show up is when it counts… it’s the things you’re doing when no one else is watching that matter… like going to…
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6 High-Level Affiliate Marketing Tips
Matt Diggity shares them in this 10-minute video… In brief… The second tip reminds me of Mushfiq from The Website Flip buying two Facebook groups to drive traffic to his niche sites and increase their valuations. Mushfiq shared insights on a 54,000 member group he purchased for $2,500. He had some success driving traffic and was able to…
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$12k/month part-time design agency
Carsten Pleiser is the founder of Design Buffs, “a productized service to hire pre-vetted designers.” Clients pay Carsten $849 to $1499 per month for 2-4 hours per day of design services. The work is handled by Carsten’s dedicated team of creatives 👩🎨 So it’s basically an agency setup – though Carsten prefers not to call it that –…
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Shopify-Amazon Bridge: $500,000/Year
ByteStand is a suite of apps for Shopify. Started by Todd Trimakas, it began with a tool to move Amazon inventory to Shopify, now making $500k annually.
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How to Negotiate a Lowball Offer
👇 4-minute video from Chris Do of The Futur… My favorite part… When a client lowballs you, just ignore the number. Say, “That’s not going to work. Can you come up with another number?” Let them negotiate against themselves. A related tip from Alex Hormozi’s book, $100M Offers… Whenever trying to close a deal, never discount the main…
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