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Jane Austen’s Frequent Distractions
Jane Austen died more than 200 years ago at age 41 but is still renowned for writing such novels as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma 📚 According to a profile on her work habits in Daily Rituals – fantastic book, btw – Austen did much of her writing on scraps of paper between frequent interruptions in the family sitting…
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Roadmap to $10k/month
Help local businesses with digital marketing. Charge a retainer, deliver leads monthly. Learn from Samuel Thompson’s thread to go from $0 to $10k/month in 60 days.
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Random Pizza
Subscription service delivering random pizzas monthly based on your preferences. Founder prioritizes concept over financial success. Think “Serendipity as a Service” for other items like flowers or notes.
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Think About Your Hero
From the book Mindset by Carol Dweck: Think about your hero. Do you think of this person as someone with extraordinary abilities who achieved with little effort? Now go find out the truth. Find out the tremendous effort that went into their accomplishment—and admire them more. Related: how to work hard
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$50k/Month in 5 Hours/Week
Check out LeadCookie.com. You sign up for their service and they do outreach on your behalf to generate leads for your business. Here’s an interview with Jake Jorgovan, the founder of the company, who says he started it “for virtually no costs” and runs the whole thing using no-code tools (Airtable, Zapier, etc.) Now it generates…
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Her 6-Figure Side-Hustle
An article about Steph Smith: Create 6-figures and 3,000 customers by NOT quitting your job Steph works for The Hustle and has leveraged her day job to build a big audience and successful side-business of her own 🤑 That’s a great example of how the right job – especially the right remote job – can be a shortcut…
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$150,000 in 12 days
Kickstarter project success story: Portable blackout curtain raised $120k in 12 days. Founders quit jobs, did prep work, got advice, and hired help. Opportunity in offering Kickstarter services.
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Zero to 7 Figure Exit in 8 Months
About a year ago Danny Postma started building Headlime, an AI tool for writing marketing copy. This week he announced – at age 27 – that he had sold the company for more than $1 million 💰 An interesting nugget buried in Danny’s AMA on Indie Hackers… I got lucky my 4th startup was the big winner. For some…
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The way it works for most people
Jane Friedman writing about how much authors earn… This is the way it works for most people. You don’t earn that much at first, but you keep at it. If you can stay in the game longer than others dropping away from discouragement and disillusionment, it’s possible to see results. Along the same lines, Sam Parr did…
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Journey to $10k per month
Jessica Pereira is a freelance writer documenting her journey to earning $10k/month at Freelance to Fortune. She started 18 months ago and just had her best month, earning $4919.93 in June 🥳 Sean Ogle will tell you that freelance writing is one of the best ways to start earning online, and I tend to agree. I love how…
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Shopify app developers rejoice…
…because Shopify just announced that they’re reducing revenue share on apps to 0% for the first $1 million earned each year, down from 20%. That amounts to as much as $200,000 annually back in the pockets of each Shopify app developer 🤑 App Radar has a good overview of fees charged by app stores, and it seems to…
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4 Kinds of Side Business
Entrepreneur Justin Mares breaks down 4 strategies to start a business, including buying assets and launching products. Check out a site for acquiring small web projects under $5000.
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Tokenized himself for $20,000
That’s 23-year old Frenchman Alex Masmej 🇫🇷 He writes: Last year I “tokenized” myself, meaning I created a tradeable cryptocurrency whose ticker, utility, and goal centered on me. I raised $20,000 in just four days… $ALEX was funded by patrons who would receive 15 percent of my income over the next three years Whenever I…
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$78k/month niche YouTube channel
This is one of the craziest YouTube success stories I’ve seen in a while. 23-year-old Anthony Baroud started a channel about dental hygiene last September. A month later he tweeted that he’d hit 100 subscribers. Now he has 3.6 million subscribers and Social Blade estimates he’s earning at least $78k per month in ad revenue (and possibly more than $1 million…
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Buying Facebook Groups
Buy Facebook groups to drive traffic to niche sites and boost valuations. Mushfiq from The Website Flip bought a group for $2,500 and made $500 per shoutout. Potential for various online businesses.
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