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$601,530 PowerPoint Template
GraphicRiver is a marketplace for buying and selling graphic assets, such as fonts, illustrations, business card designs, etc. A few months back, Jakob Greenfeld crunched the numbers on the bestselling GraphicRiver products and shared his data 👈 The #1 product was this PowerPoint template, which has now racked up more than $600,000 in sales since its release in 2015.…
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Dropshipping Is Like Being Pregnant
Kiril Kirilov with an analogy that could apply to any successful business… Dropshipping is like being pregnant – Everybody says “congratulations”, but nobody knows how many times you got f—ed That’s from an interview with Kiril about how he co-founded Rush, a Shopify order tracking app that is now doing $20,000 per month in revenue and recently raised…
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$13,000/Month Blog
Anil Agarwal is a good example of discipline and determination paying off. He started learning about SEO in 2005 and started a site called BloggersPassion.com in 2010. Anil struggled to make much money from his site for the first few years, but eventually was earning enough to quit his job in 2018, and in 2021 he pulled…
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How To Become A Master
From Chet Holmes’ excellent book, The Ultimate Sales Machine, which I’m currently reading for the third time… How do you become a master of anything? How do you help others become masters? The key lesson I’ve learned again and again, ever since I was a kid studying karate, is that mastery is not about being special…
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$100,000 Selling 💩 In A Box
That’s ShitExpress.com, a service that lets you anonymously send different kinds of animal poop to “the people who annoy you the most.” It launched in 2014 and got some early coverage by VICE, which reported that the business did more than $10,000 in sales the first month. Crazy thing is, payment was only accepted in Bitcoin, which…
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Take-Home Income: Less Than Expected
Lenny Rachitsky generates more than $500,000 in annual revenue with his paid newsletter on Substack. But deep in this thread from 2020 he writes… After the Substack fees (10%), Stripe fees (2-4%), and taxes, you’re lucky to see half of what you think you will make (1,000 subs at $10 is closer to $5,000/month after fees and taxes). Keep that…
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$15,000/Month Generation Effect
Anne-Laure Le Cunff built a successful business by teaching what she learned in neuroscience through a newsletter and a paid community, earning over $15,000 per month.
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Non-Expert Author: $160K Earnings
Indie hacker Greg Lim made $160,000 selling 40,000 non-fiction books on Amazon in 6 years, while juggling a full-time job and family. Learn from his research-driven, beginner-friendly approach.
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Turn Bad Things Into Good Things
Here’s the story of MonetizeMore, an ad exchange business that has done $83 million in revenue in twelve years 🤑 Founder Kean Graham started the business after getting laid off during the 2008 recession and taking a break to travel around South America for a few months… “I like to turn bad things into good things,” Kean says.…
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$1.2M/Year Digital Agency
Dylan Ogline turned his struggling freelance business into a 7-figure digital marketing agency by focusing on one service. Now earns $100,000/month.
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The $1 Million Freelancer
Doug Shaw started freelancing on Upwork almost a decade ago and recently surpassed $1 million in total earnings. Per a recent profile… Doug has been working full time for Upwork clients as a Google Ads expert but also advises on funnel marketing and development using YouTube, TikTok and Linked-In. Sounds like Doug taught himself Google Ads…
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Small Podcast: $200K/Year
Sarah Peck has a fairly small audience, generating about 2000 downloads per episode of her Startup Parent podcast 🎙 She sells sponsorships for the podcast, but the big money comes from her paid mastermind program for working moms, most of whom are listeners of the podcast. The price of enrollment in the program: $4,800 to $7,800. As Simon Owens…
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$10K/Month Automated Website
I’m not going to link to the site because it’s pretty spammy, but it’s ForNoob.com. Phil from 4 Day Week tweets… This site generates ~$100k in traffic value / month. It’s entirely written by GPT-3. A commenter on Phil’s thread estimates the site publishes hundreds of articles each day and probably earns +$10K through display ads 🤑…
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$300/Day Crypto Ponzi Scheme?
Nat Eliason writes about his experience using STEPN, a play-to-earn fitness app that “allows you to earn crypto from walking, jogging, and running.” To start playing the game, Nat bought about $12,000 worth of STEPN’s virtual sneaker NFTs. After two weeks he reports earning $300-400 a day “just for going outside and spending time with my wife,…
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$1 Million Per Year Invisible Man
Carrd: One-page website builder making $1 million/year. Founded by mysterious AJ. Started as a side project in 2016, now a success story. Focus on learning.
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