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It seems the pandemic is making paid communities a more viable business model 🤗 Channing Allen writes about the trend and shares examples on Indie Hackers. These three examples, he notes, are all just a few weeks or months old:

This week I heard from a subscriber who recently started freelance writing and quickly landed an $800+ job on Upwork 🤑 writing product descriptions and blog announcements. These were the resources he found useful for getting started (all free): Related resource I came across this morning: a video showing how Mike Nardi learned copywriting and started earning $3000/month via Fiverr…

What have you learned about business that you wish you knew earlier? 🤔 Share your answer on Facebook or Twitter.

⛳️ Via Hacker News: Sales is a lot like golf. You can make it so complicated as to be impossible or you can simply walk up and hit the ball. I’ve been leading and building sales orgs for almost 20 years and my advice is to walk up and hit the ball. I reckon online business is…

Harry Dry of Marketing Examples explains how he did it 📈 What I find most insightful is a related comment he posted on Reddit: I do around an article a week. 5 days writing each piece. Then one day (8 hours) promoting it and replying to the comments, answering questions etc 5 days of writing to end…

Molly Conway writes that this is a trap, and quotes Adam J. Kurtz: “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life work super fucking hard all the time with no separation or any boundaries and also take everything extremely personally.” Which, aside from being relatable to anyone who has tried to make…

A follow-up to that Wired article I mentioned a couple of weeks back: ‘It’s bullshit’: Inside the weird, get-rich-quick world of dropshipping Dan and Ian from the Tropical MBA Podcast discussed that article last week and provided some much-needed nuance, though their conclusion is essentially the same: be wary of dropshipping as a business opportunity. However, as…

This Reddit post lists some sites that will pay you to be part of mock online juries 👩🏽‍⚖️ Things to know:

Mark Zuckerberg went live on Tuesday to announce Shops, which basically allows businesses to sell products direct from Facebook pages and Instagram profiles 🤑 Do you know any local businesses that are already on Facebook/Instagram and looking to sell more online? Could you help them get set up and optimized on Shops?

Three historic companies that usually sell products via regular stores and supermarkets: But now, due to coronavirus, all three are selling direct to consumer via the internet. No coincidence that ecommerce platform Shopify is booming right now 📈 Even famous brands like Heinz and Heineken using it for their online stores. At the risk of sounding like a broken…

Four upcoming online chess tournaments will have $1 million total prize money 💰 Seeing that news this morning sent me down an esports rabbit hole. This site shows you which esports players and games earn the most money. Overall it looks like esports hasn’t been immune to coronavirus: total prize money for last month was down 57% compared…