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She launched multiple 6-figure courses
Lauren Valdez writes that she’s helped launched multiple 6-figure courses, and gives three pieces of advice for launching your own 🚀 I can’t emphasize the first enough: build an audience before building your course. Lauren is especially bullish on building an audience in the form of an email list… The critical breaking point is about 5,000…
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50,000 YouTube Subscribers
Janet Newenham surpassed that mark on her YouTube travel channel last week 🥳 What does it take to reach that level? Janet wrote on Facebook a few days ago… Well, it only took 2 full years of working my absolute butt off on YouTube (posting almost daily videos, and often not taking a day off for months…
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5-Figures a Month via OnlyFans
Fascinating interview on the Indie Hackers pod with two OnlyFans creators who consistently earn 5-figures a month. If you’re not familiar with OnlyFans, it’s basically Patreon but for adult content 🙈 The two creators interviewed – Savannah Solo and Aella – are apparently in the top 1% of earners on the platform, and Savannah has earned…
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Disaster Girl just made $473,000
Disaster Girl is a famous meme (see it here), showing a 5-year-old Zoë Roth smiling knowingly in front of a house fire in 2005 🔥 The BBC reports that Zoë – now a college senior – recently auctioned off the original copy of the meme as an NFT for $473,000 worth of crypto. BuzzFeed has a short video of…
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Busy? Overwhelmed?
The following two articles might help 👇 The first, by Scott Young, shows how biased we are towards adding new tasks and responsibilities, even though subtracting them can often bring better results. That article also provides a handy alternative to saying “no” to everything. Second is an old blog post from Tim Ferriss that I think about often: The Art…
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How To Self Promote On Reddit
Reddit is notoriously tough on self-promoters, with many mods deleting posts that hint at self promotion. YesPromo put together a list of 100+ examples of successful self promotion posts on Reddit, so you can see what works and try to emulate. Click here to jump straight to the list 👈 Three favorites:
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Be Like The Beatles
Without spending a dollar, Alex Garcia apparently built his Twitter following From 1k to 40k in 50 days, and his email list from 0 to 7k in 2 months. He shares his 9 secrets for building an audience fast, including… Seth Godin says, “The Beatles did not invent teenagers. They merely decided to lead them.” You’re…
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1 Person Million Dollar Businesses
Noah Kagan profiles three of them in this 12-minute video and pulls out some nice takeaways from each… The three businesses: As Noah says in the video, the people building and running these businesses aren’t much different to you. They don’t have anything you don’t have or can’t learn 😎
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How to Ask Useful Questions
This article by Josh Kaufman is the most important thing you’ll read today. Especially if you’re struggling with making money online and need to ask for help. I get emails every day asking things like: “Hello! [Insert life story.] What should I do?” “I’m thinking about [action]. What do you think?” Those are bad questions, and I’ve given…
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$50K/Month One-Man Design Service
That’s DesignJoy by Brett Williams. I’ve mentioned it here a couple of times before. It was at $15k/month about a year ago. Then $25k/month back in January. The latest update is that Brett has hit $50-60K in monthly revenue with less than $200 in monthly expenses and working 50-60 hours per week 💪
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Weird Goes Mainstream
Embrace weirdness in business. Examples: Dirty Rotten Flowers, Scam Rappers, Branded Fruit, Maskalike. Stand out in a world run by algorithms. Weirdness is power in 2021.
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HubSpot Academy (Free Courses)
I’ve been browsing the free courses offered by HubSpot and they look good, nice and concise. Some even offer certifications 🎓 Courses that caught my eye: Don’t expect much depth from any of those courses, as most are 3 hours or less. But you can use them to get a feel for different topics and specializations, see…
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Amazon Sellers Ain’t Happy
And they haven’t been for a while. Here’s a good write-up of how things have gotten worse over the years for people selling products on Amazon. The article is from 2018, but as you can see when you visit the Amazon seller forums today, many of the top posts speak to sellers leaving or expressing frustration 🤬 For…
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42 Ways To Earn Your First $1 Online
Sell access to a curated Google Sheet or Airtable database. Create valuable info, organize it neatly, and charge for access. Example: Community List made $2000 one week after launch.
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Creative Link Building
Create link-magnet content for clients like in the Authority Hacker video. Offer calculator tools like Healthy Eater for link building. Combine with outreach service for effective results.
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