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Pre-selling $3500 in 5 hours
Lim How Wei has built up an audience of 5000+ followers on Twitter. He mainly shares SEO tips on there, from his experience growing followchain.org to more than 2M monthly visitors and $20,000 in monthly revenue, mostly from display ads. Recently he announced on Twitter that he’s writing a book about SEO, and pointed people to a sparse pre-order page. 5 hours…
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$50 Million a Year From Ads?
From about the 17-minute mark of a recent podcast, Sam Parr estimates that SpeedTest.net earns $50 million a year from display ads, cashing in on their 10 million visits per day 🤑 … Meanwhile, the guys at Authority Hacker debate the pros and cons of monetizing a website with display ads vs affiliate marketing… They highlight a couple of sites that…
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When It Counts
Words from Noah Kagan – founder of the $100 million business AppSumo 💰 – at about the 28:45 mark of his recent appearance on the My First Million podcast… The times that you don’t want to show up is when it counts… it’s the things you’re doing when no one else is watching that matter… like going to…
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6 High-Level Affiliate Marketing Tips
Matt Diggity shares them in this 10-minute video… In brief… The second tip reminds me of Mushfiq from The Website Flip buying two Facebook groups to drive traffic to his niche sites and increase their valuations. Mushfiq shared insights on a 54,000 member group he purchased for $2,500. He had some success driving traffic and was able to…
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$12k/month part-time design agency
Carsten Pleiser is the founder of Design Buffs, “a productized service to hire pre-vetted designers.” Clients pay Carsten $849 to $1499 per month for 2-4 hours per day of design services. The work is handled by Carsten’s dedicated team of creatives 👩🎨 So it’s basically an agency setup – though Carsten prefers not to call it that –…
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Shopify-Amazon Bridge: $500,000/Year
ByteStand is a suite of apps for Shopify. Started by Todd Trimakas, it began with a tool to move Amazon inventory to Shopify, now making $500k annually.
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How to Negotiate a Lowball Offer
👇 4-minute video from Chris Do of The Futur… My favorite part… When a client lowballs you, just ignore the number. Say, “That’s not going to work. Can you come up with another number?” Let them negotiate against themselves. A related tip from Alex Hormozi’s book, $100M Offers… Whenever trying to close a deal, never discount the main…
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$100/day from 3759 subscribers
6 months ago, Aprilynne Alter started uploading once a week to her YouTube channel. 5 months later, she reported 3759 subscribers, 187K views, $100/day recurring revenue, and “countless sponsorship offers.” A month later, she’s got more than 12,000 subscribers 📈 I enjoyed reading Aprilynne’s thread and interview about starting, growing and pivoting her channel. Even though she achieved success on YouTube relatively…
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6000 followers, $1000s per deal
Check out 20-year-old Laur DeMartino on Instagram (6159 followers) and YouTube (4280 subs). With such a small audience, Laur is considered a “nano influencer,” but she’s still been able to land brand deals with big-name companies… “When she posts social media content that’s sponsored by brands like Lululemon and SeatGeek, she charges anywhere from a few hundred dollars to…
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90% Of Success
Shane Parrish on Twitter… Ninety percent of success can be boiled down to consistently doing the obvious thing for an uncommonly long period of time without convincing yourself that you’re smarter than you are. Via an Alex Hormozi video…
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$1,000/Month Selling Online Courses
Preetam Nath writes how his first online course – Programmatic SEO – earned $15,000 in about 7 months, and how you can do similar. I like that most of his advice is around building an audience, which IMO is crucial to the success of any course launch 🚀 Preetam mainly launched his course to 3,000 followers on Twitter……
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$30k/Month Podcasting as a Service
Ben Krueger started Cashflow Podcasting with $800 in 2013, growing it to $30,000/month. He leveraged an internship into his first client, leading to referrals. Look for tasks you do daily that could be productized.
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How Success Actually Works
Damon Chen’s journey reminds me of the mindset shift Miles Beckler talked about in a recent video… Basically, most people think success and failure works like this… failure ⬅️ 😕 ➡️ success But it actually works like this… 😕 ➡️ failure ➡️ success Actually, more often like this… 😕 ➡️ failure ➡️ failure ➡️ failure ➡️…
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$0 to $150k ARR in 13 Months
Damon Chen did that with Testimonial.to, a service for collecting video testimonials 🤩 He did an AMA a few months back when he crossed $100k annual recurring revenue, and this week announced his latest milestone… I was a mediocre software engineer. I spent 8 years growing my base salary from $100k to $150k. Now, I’m a founder. It took me…
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How to Get Lucky (Without Being Rich)
George Mack has some good ideas in this thread. My favorite is the Luck Razor 🪒 If given 2 options, pick the one that has more luck potential.E.g. Cocktail party vs watching Netflix.Which one has the highest potential for future luck?
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