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Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective
Veritasium shows the impact of titles and thumbnails on YouTube video success. Great insights for YouTubers and marketers. Potential service idea for optimizing titles/thumbnails.
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He worked at an ice cream shop…
Dylan Lamey filmed himself working at Coldstone Creamery 🍨 and built a massive following on TikTok (10M followers) and YouTube (1.6M subs) in only 18 months. Check out The Publish Press for more on that story. One of Dylan’s most popular videos… TikTok is absolutely crushing it as the most downloaded app in the world for the 6th month in a row.…
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$10,000+ From A Niche Ebook
Last week Úna-Minh Kavanagh released a super niche ebook: DIY Gaeilge: 150 Online Irish Language Resources 🇮🇪 She earned €2000 off it on the first day, and revealed in my private FBB group this week that she’s now up to €3500 in sales (that’s about $4100). Pretty incredible for an ebook about a language that less than 100,000 people…
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Low-Competition Business Ideas
Andy Cloke shares a strategy to find low-competition business ideas: identify growing platforms, replicate successful tools from mature platforms, build equivalent tools, and profit.
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How to become a digital nomad
Sober advice on this topic from Wandering Earl, who has been doing the digital nomad thing for almost 20 years. One excerpt: I would also highly consider applying for actual remote jobs as opposed to trying to create your own stream of income. It’s a far easier and more stable path to a successful digital…
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13 ways to get attention online
👉 Jake McNeill shares them here, with lots of great examples. My favorite is YouTuber Sweet Anita, from the section entitled, Turn your insecurities into your trademark. Anita has long struggled with Tourette’s Syndrome, but when she “faced her fears and started streaming. Anita blew up almost instantly. Tourettes is her trademark.” What apparent “weakness” or insecurity is…
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Brilliant people tend to do this
Justin Pots writes about imposter syndrome, and how actual imposters rarely experience it. Instead, it’s the brilliant people who tend to doubt themselves: If you’re not actually a con artist, and you’re experiencing impostor syndrome, you should find comfort in this. The fact that you’re wondering whether you’re a fraud probably means that you’re not…
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$1000/Month From Display Ads
Back in 2019, Dan Richardson started building a website “hyper focused on one tiny topic.” He doesn’t reveal the topic, but in this 11-minute video (and accompanying article) he shares some juicy details: If you factor in the time Dan spent on the site, his ROI isn’t all that great. But I’d argue that the biggest win…
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How to Monetize Your Newsletter
Pete MacLeod has a website and newsletter called No CS Degree, featuring interviews with self-taught developers like Shaquil, who went from $0 to $5000/month in a year 🚀 With less than 5000 subscribers, Pete was able to sell ads in his newsletter to the tune of $1,450 in a single month. Then Pete went and packaged what he’d learned…
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Living on the beach full time
An inspirational piece from Jason Kester, who explains how he built a business that lets him live on the beach full time 🏖 Jason started off as an in-office employee programmer in the late 90’s, then switched to higher-paying contract gigs so he only had to work ~6 months of the year. As the internet…
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Before It Gets Easy
Andrew Garfield is an actor you may know from movies like The Social Network and Spider-Man 🕷 Here’s a story about him and movie legend Robert Redford (source)… Back in the early part of Garfield’s career, once the pre-audition upchucking had subsided and he’d been cast in his first movie, 2007’s Lions for Lambs, his scenes consisted mostly of…
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$50k/month Creating Book Lists
All these websites are owned by the same guy, Graeme McGaw: None of them look all that impressive, but Graeme has been publishing book lists online 📚 for more than a decade and his mini-empire is now earning $50k/month, mainly via affiliate links to Amazon. Graeme tells his story in this recent interview, noting that he…
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Outsight > Insight
Darren Joe has been working online for about a decade. He lives in Vietnam and has apparently achieved the magical four-hour workweek 😎 In a recent episode of the Tropical MBA Podcast, Darren shares a concept that has been crucial to his success… The idea of outsight is, in times of transition, when you’re starting…
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The Handyman Strategy
Become a tool expert, offer freelance services using tools like Ahrefs or Airtable, and charge $50+ per hour. Start with one tool, expand skills, and grow your rates.
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The ATM Strategy
In this 16-minute video, Miles Beckler breaks down the strategy he’s used to earn millions of dollars online… First build your audience, usually via a search engine or social media. Then build trust with that audience, usually by getting them on an email list and sending them regular free value bombs 💣 And lastly monetize…
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