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Building A Local Newsletter Business
Nathan Barry writes about the first year launching and growing From Boise. It’s a local newsletter for Boise, Idaho (population ~230k) that goes out twice weekly. Here’s a recent edition 📫 Nathan has outsourced pretty much all the work, spending $62k to grow it to 10,000+ subscribers. Though he estimates he could have saved $34k if he had done…
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$8 Million A Year Selling Slime?
A 20-something-year-old named Andrea could be earning as much as $8 million a year selling slime via TikTok (4.4M followers), Instagram (1M) and YouTube (1M) 🤯 That’s according to some public math by Codie Sanchez, who includes a quote from Andrea… “My business would not exist if it wasn’t for social media marketing. We haven’t spent a penny on paid ads, which is very unusual…
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Freelance > Agency > SaaS
Check out Molly Wolchansky’s business journey 👈 She started out as freelance marketer. Her first client was her mother, a real estate agent. Molly gradually took on more clients and evolved her business into an agency. Eventually, feeling “overworked, overwhelmed and underpaid,” she leveraged her deep knowledge of marketing for the real estate industry to launch a SaaS called The Agent…
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Parking Ticket Hustle to $210M Valuation
A great example of starting small and simple is DoNotPay.com, which recently hit a $210 million valuation 🤑 Today the site is touted as a “robot lawyer” service; basically a chatbot that provides legal services, such as refunds on flight tickets, filing small claims, and notarizing documents. But it was started by 18-year-old Josh Browder back in 2015.…
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The $500K Productivity Course
Back in 2015, Khe Hy quit his high-level job in Wall Street and took off traveling with his wife and toddler, trying to figure out what he wanted to do next. He’d started a newsletter a few months earlier, recommending some interesting articles to 36 friends 💌 As that newsletter slowly grew, Khe began including stories from his…
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$8000/Month Advising LEGO Investors
Discover B2Side-Hustle businesses for generating side income. Examples include PrettyMerch Pro and All Things LEGO. Explore subscription models like research-as-a-service, community/coaching, and tools for success.
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AI-Powered Productized Service
AI-powered blogging service Blogbeagle offers human quality assurance. Explore other productized services using AI tools. Find tools on AppSumo for inspiration and deals.
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Bad Marketer Earning $2000/Month
Fernando Pessagno reveals how he earns $2000 per month from ResumeMaker.Online, despite the fact that he’s “far from being a good marketer” 🙈 Fernando launched the site 3.5 years ago, and has mainly worked on it on weekends while holding down a full-time job. His main traffic source is SEO and at first he was struggling to generate…
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Flipbook Software Makes How Much?
Check out Flipsnack 👈 It’s a tool for creating a digital flipbook. Which is basically a PDF hosted online with a page-flip effect that makes it look like a real-life book or magazine. Sounds simple enough, but how much revenue do you think the company earns each month? a) $10,000b) $100,000c) $400,000d) $800,000 Well… According to a recent…
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Failing Forward To $100 Million
Nathan Barry recently announced that his company ConvertKit has passed $100 million in lifetime sales 💰 He goes on to list all the businesses he tried before hitting it big with ConvertKit… Nathan also notes that it took a while for ConvertKit to take off. He was working on it for two years before it reached $2000 MRR, using…
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Sold Her Website for Mid-6 Figures
Alexis Grant started The Write Life, a website for writers, back in 2013 and recently sold it for “mid-six figures” 🥳 Digging into the details, apparently the site earned only $10,000 profit in all of 2018 and Alexis almost gave up on it a year earlier… I’d just had my second baby, and we were preparing to move from D.C.…
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$5,800/Month in 7 Months
That’s Ticker Nerd, a paid newsletter about trending stocks. The two co-founders reached 300 subscribers and $5800 MRR in only 7 months, then sold to a $500 million fintech company. The sale price wasn’t disclosed, but “part of the deal was getting equity in the acquiring company.” 🤑 One of the co-founders posted about the messy origins of…
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The Changing World Order
Billionaire investor Ray Dalio recently published a book called Principles for Dealing with the The Changing World Order. It’s based on a massive study of human history and details “the big cycle” of the rise and decline of nations, and where the USA currently is in that cycle 🇺🇸 Watch this excellent 45-minute video where Ray condenses everything…
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$700 to $8500 MRR in 15 Months
Back in December 2020, Norbert Hüthmayr went on Flippa looking for a business he could buy and grow 🧐 He ended up buying AutoForward SMS for about $10,000. It’s an app that can automatically forward SMS messages to an email address. It was earning $700/month when Norbert bought it. Now, some 15 months later, he has grown the business…
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$85K/Month Explainer Videos
Animation Explainers make animated explainer videos for business clients (examples). 🇮🇪 The company was started by two Irish guys in 2018, who identified the opportunity while working as research interns for a SaaS in Dublin. They found their first clients via LinkedIn and hired local animators to create the videos. Citing one book that inspired their…
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