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ZipTraderU Review
12 things to know about ZipTraderU, Charlie Plattus’ trading course. Essential info, hidden costs, red flags, controversy alternatives…
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$1M After 3 Years of Self-Employment
That’s Daniel Vassallo’s story. And he’s done it via multiple income streams: an online course, a paid community, info products, freelancing, affiliate marketing… In the same thread he shares 3 forms of self-employment income for developers… 🔴 SaaS: Takes a long time for meaningful returns.🟢 Info Products: High volatility, unpredictable, potential for extremely high ROI.🔵 Freelancing: Predictable, stable, choose your…
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Are NFTs All Scams?
The Freakonomics podcast has put out a smart 3-part series about crypto called What Can Blockchain Do For You? The episodes: Also a good listen is a recent episode of This American Life called The Reluctant Explorer, about a guy who became a multimillionaire in a week and a half after an “NFT archaeologist” contacted him about…
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0 to $325K Revenue in 18 Months
Muntasir Rashid is a co-founder of Postpace, an AI-powered SEO writing tool 🤖 They launched the company from Bangladesh 🇧🇩 in November 2020 and Muntasir has shared the following updates along the way… Muntasir and his co-founder Moin had previously run a SaaS development agency, so they had lots of experience building SaaS solutions. But from reading Muntasir’s updates it’s…
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1-Minute Strategies To Boost Sales
Josh Spector lists ten of them 👈 My favorite is the 9-word email… Send an email to previous leads that says:“Are you still looking to ____?”It re-starts a conversation. If you’re a freelancer, set a reminder to do this with previous clients every few months. Or prospective clients that faded away a while back.
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Her App Made $5000+ in a Week
Serial maker Alyssa X writes about her experience building and launching a MacOS app called Later, which clears and restores your workspace with a couple of clicks. (Check out the slick demo of the app on the landing page.) Alyssa had the idea for the product at the end of January, built and launched it over the next two…
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Broke Student to 6-Figure Freelancer
An inspiring story about Komal Ahuja, who was a broke 20-year-old professional dancer studying literature when the pandemic hit 🦠 She started writing online “about anything and everything” and eventually stumbled into a freelance gig when a company DM’d her via LinkedIn. It’s been a tough couple of years for Komal – “there were days I…
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$1,400 in Pre-Sales (Digital Product)
Gene Maryushenko writes about his experience pre-selling a digital product via Gumroad, to the tune of $1400 💵 The product is Tailwind CSS React Application Components. Yeah, I’m not sure what that is either, but no worries. The important takeaway is that Gene was able to leverage his audience of ~5000 followers on Twitter for the pre-sale. Gene’s advice if…
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James Schramko’s Diagnostic Service
Below excerpt from the book Work Less, Make More by James Schramko. He did it for his SEO agency, but many service-based businesses could do similar. We charged people $20 to look at their website and provide a report on what state it was in, how well it was optimised, and what they should change. We then said…
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0 to $15K/Month in 1 Year
Sam Shore announced this milestone back in April… Typeshare just hit $15,000 MRR 🎉A year ago, I hadn’t even made $1 online.Amazing what can happen when you launch something and slowly improve it! Typeshare is a writing platform that lets you write content once and have it automatically formatted and posted to different platforms (eg. Medium, Twitter, LinkedIn). More…
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How Much Money Do Freelancers Make?
Lots of answers to that question in the comments here: Freelancers and consultants, what are your rates? 🤔 Including… Also a great comment there from full-stack developer Rohan Malhotra, which highlights how you can raise your rates steadily over time… I’ve been freelancing for the past 4 years. In the beginning, it was peanuts compared to now. Example:…
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Here’s How Much Money People Make
Salary Transparent Street showcases professionals revealing their salaries on social media. With over 1M followers, they post short interviews and a detailed spreadsheet. Monetization potential is high.
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Other Ways To Monetize A Podcast
Selling ads ain’t the only way. Many podcasts are used more as a marketing channel, providing stand-alone value with regular reminders that they have related products or services for sale 📣 Patreon is another option. Select examples via this Gaps article… My favorite example, from the same article… There’s literally a podcast making over $2,000 per month giving…
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30K Weekly Downloads = $100K/Year
A recent article from Cal Newport in The New Yorker: The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class Deep in there Cal drops this nugget 👇 According to an advertising agency I consulted… a weekly podcast that generates thirty thousand downloads per episode should be able to reach Kelly’s target of generating a hundred thousand dollars a…
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$100,000/Month Helping You Tweet
Tweet Hunter is a suite of tools to help you build and monetize an audience on Twitter. Co-founder JK Molina tweeted about the milestone along with a photo of himself at a local bazaar. The caption… Me selling perfume and shirts at the local bazaar in 2017. That day I sold 1 shirt and made $14. Today I…
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