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Don’t Launch Products, Launch Ideas
Dean Walton founded Endorsal.io back in 2019. It’s a SaaS that helps businesses collect reviews and testimonials 💬 Dean writes on the company’s one-year anniversary that it’s going well, in large part because he validated the idea before he built the product… I began fleshing everything out in my mind and visualised exactly how it should look, feel and,…
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Selling Her Notes For $22,000
Pat Walls tweets about newsletteros.com, described as “an instructional wiki for people that want to start their own newsletter.” Janel Loi apparently put 150 hours into creating it and has earned $22k since launch on November 19th 🤑 The product is essentially just Janel’s notes about creating, growing and monetizing a newsletter. It’s packaged as a Notion project and…
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Step-By-Step Guide To Landing Pages That Convert
Leverage marketing knowledge from articles to improve landing pages for free. Use results to land paying clients. Offer free service in Facebook Groups to build portfolio.
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Hack For Exploring Any Type of Online Business
Search “site:mixergy.com [type of business]” to find insightful interviews with founders in that space. Andrew Warner from Mixergy has likely covered it, providing valuable insights for your business idea.
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$500,000 For Deep Frying a Turkey
Several weeks back I wrote about Snapchat paying users $1 million per day to post videos to their new TikTok-like platform called Spotlight. Now the New York Times is reporting that some folks have been making a killing doing just that, including one teenager who has earned nearly $3 million in a couple of months 🤯 Another jaw-dropping success…
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Tips For a Better Life
Conor Barnes has 100 good ones 👈 Three of them… 8. When buying things, time and money trade-off against each other. If you’re low on money, take more time to find deals. If you’re low on time, stop looking for great deals and just buy things quickly online. 30. If you listen to successful people talk…
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Zero Subscribers, 1 Million Views
Charlie Hoehn shares how he made a YouTube video for a client that got 1 million views in 8 months starting on a channel with no subscribers and without any promotion 🤯 Charlie mentions that he used Pixar’s story structure to plan the video: – Once upon a time…– And every day…– Until one day…– And because of that……
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Doctor’s 6 Online Revenue Streams
Ali Abdaal has a YouTube channel about life as a doctor 🩺 He started it as a medical student in 2017. Stats for the first 6 months of his channel… Fast forward to today and his stats look like this… Ryan Gum has an excellent Twitter thread breaking down the growth of Ali’s channel and six revenue streams… 🎬…
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Million Dollar Comeback
Mike Black writes… [Six months ago] I left behind everything I own, the money I’ve earned, my entire network, stepped away from my seven figure business, and I took on a new identity and went homeless. I set out to make $1 million in 12 months starting with nothing aside from one pair of clothes…
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$100,000/Month Making Up Names
Phillip Davis tells the story of how he started a $100,000/month branding business from his basement 💰 I work with companies worldwide to create new names for their businesses, products, and services. One of the names I created was PODS – Portable On Demand Storage. With a business like this, I’m always curious to hear how he…
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Buy for $10. Sell for $75.
Nathan Gotch tested keyword research services, finding similarities between UpWork and Fiverr. UpWork freelancer charged $75, while Fiverr gig costs $10 – a profitable drop servicing strategy.
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New Freaky Artificial Intelligence Thing
It’s called DALL-E and it creates images 🌅 from written prompts ✍️ See examples here. Such as: The images are quite small so it’s hard to judge the exact quality, but impressive nonetheless.
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The Psychology of Money
This article has the most wisdom per word of anything I’ve read in a long time. My favorite parts: When most people say they want to be a millionaire, what they really mean is “I want to spend a million dollars,” which is literally the opposite of being a millionaire. This is especially true for young…
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Pitching is a Numbers Game
I mentioned Bamidele Onibalusi in another article. He’s a freelance writer from Nigeria who regularly earns $1000+ per month. Some numbers from Bamidele’s latest cold-pitching challenge… So roughly speaking, for every 360 pitches Bamidele sent out, he ended up with one client. That conversion rate isn’t going to impress anyone, but Bamidele earned $1,050 from those…
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Can I Make Money as a Freelance Writer in Africa?
I occasionally get this question via email. The person asking is usually concerned that high-paying clients might be reluctant to hire writers from Africa. I always point them to the blog of Bamidele Onibalusi, a freelance writer from Nigeria 🇳🇬 who has shown several times how he cold-pitches clients and earns $1000+ per month. He’s been able to…
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