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January 17, 2020
eBiz Weekly #54
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January 14, 2020
How I earn $3500/month online, writing about cannabis and cryptocurrency
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Zoë BiehlFrom New York, USAFounder of Wild Lotus Content
Business Model: FreelanceAgency$3,500monthly revenue$3,300monthly profitAll info self-reported by intervieweePublished January 15, 2020Reviewed and edited by Rita Epps
Who are you and how do you make money online?
I’m Zoë and I am the founder of Wild Lotus Content.
I write and edit for many different businesses and publications around the world, mostly in the niches of emerging technology, the cannabis industry, and higher education. I have a small team of writers that help me create content for my clients.
I make a rough average of $3,500 in revenue a month, with around $250 or so in expenses on average, making my monthly total profit around $3,250. My expenses are when I outsource my writing to other freelance writers who I pay directly.
That said, this number does fluctuate quite a bit from month to month. For instance, I made about $4,600 in August 2019, while in September I only made $2,750 in profit.
What does a typical workday look like for you?
I wake up whenever I feel like waking up.
The only time I set an early alarm for myself is if I have a big deadline that day and need to get a lot of work done.
I usually work from home, but I try to go out once or twice a week to work at a cafe just to get myself out of the house.
I will work 2 to 3 hours in the morning and then take a lunch break. I usually like to take a little nap for working so hard. 
January 10, 2020
eBiz Weekly #53
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January 8, 2020
Tai Lopez Social Media Growth Review
You probably landed on this page while looking for a review of the new Social Media Growth program by Tai Lopez.
While I haven’t yet seen inside the program myself, this article should help you decide if it’s worth buying.
(Spoiler alert: it’s probably not.)
Tai Lopez Social Media Growth – Key Points
About
The newest program on offer from professional internet marketer Tai Lopez.
On becoming a career coach, resume and LinkedIn expert while raising kids in Madagascar
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Alison RakotoFrom Boulder, ColoradoCoach, Life Work Purpose at alisonrakoto.com
Business Model: Freelance$6,500monthly revenue$5,500monthly profitAll info self-reported by intervieweePublished January 9, 2020Reviewed and edited by Rita Epps
Who are you and how do you make money online?
My name is Alison, I am a human potential coach with a background in applied positive psychology and career coaching. For the last year, I’ve also been studying life coaching to increase my capacity to support my clients to achieve success.
As a coach, I offer career, executive, and human-potential coaching to empower smart, hardworking individuals, to achieve their dreams with confidence, joy, and grit.
I do this by leveraging my passion for human potential, my knowledge of positive psychology, my strengths as a career coach, and my own experience as a working mom, former executive, expat, and business owner.
My primary focus is women aged 30 to 45 and in particular mothers.
However, I also work with single women, women with no kids, and men who have similar goals/challenges to some of my female clients, such as being immigrants/expats/fathers and/or seeking out a pivot career due to a desire to connect their work to something bigger.
My primary revenue source is the career and executive coaching and resume writing/LinkedIn strategy.
For the last year, I’ve been transitioning my revenue model to the one that is more reliant on coaching, and moving away from the resume writing (and LinkedIn profile writing), except as part of my coaching service.
I am slowly working to build passive income streams, but I’ve not adequately leveraged this yet in my business.
What makes me unique is that I’ve managed to:
create my business while raising two kids – with one of whom I was on bed rest for the entire pregnancy;being a military spouse – whose husband was deployed for 8 months out of 12 until 2018;going to school online and remote;learning to work with and manage PTSD as a coach (supporting my husband);and all the while building my expertise as a career coach.
Over the last two years, I’ve invested about $12,000 in my education, obtaining an Applied Positive Psychology Certificate from the Flourishing Center in New York and then studying coaching through the International Coach Academy.
I’ve now paid for all my studies and I’ve started to also work with two coaching groups (HireClub & Collective Gain), in addition to my private coaching practice.
As an independent worker, my revenue varies.
But in general, I make about $2,500+ per month on my resume packages and about $2,000+ per month on individual coaching sessions.
I get periodic bumps to my revenue through small group coaching, special events or consulting contracts.
We also rent out our house in France for $1,300/month, and we make about $1,200 in Airbnb revenues through two bungalows we own in Madagascar (where we currently live).
For my current fiscal year, this means that I am averaging about $6,500/month in 2019.
And I’m on track to increase my revenue by another 30% in 2020 – by offering a twice a year blended group and private coaching program.
Start-up costs and educational fees have made for high expenses in the past.
However, I recently made my final payment for my continuing education, so now my expenses will consist of things like:
Web hostingActiveCampaignLinkedIn PremiumAndCoG SuiteGoogle Fi (referral code link for $20 off)and a few other memberships.
In total, this is an average of $450/month.
Previously, my monthly expenses were about $1,000 because they included $510 for my coaching program.
January 5, 2020
Recommended Resources
I’ve been earning a full-time living online since 2010.
Below are the best tools and resources I’ve come across for building and running an online business.
Most of them I’ve used personally, and we continue to use many here at eBiz Facts.
Web Hosting | Email Marketing | Courses | Productivity | Admin | Travel | Miscellaneous
Quick disclaimer: please do your own research and due diligence before using or purchasing any of the resources listed below. Just because something has worked well for others doesn’t mean it will work well for you.
January 3, 2020
eBiz Weekly #52
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January 2, 2020
On building a $48k/month business with no money, skills or experience
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Victor ThomasFrom Tiburon, CaliforniaOwner at Thomas Digital
Business Model: Agency$48,000monthly revenue$20,000monthly profitAll info self-reported by intervieweePublished January 2, 2020Reviewed and edited by Rita Epps
Who are you and how do you make money online?
Hi there, my name is Victor Thomas and I own a website design business based out of San Francisco, California.
We specialize in designing and developing custom WordPress websites for small and medium-sized businesses, typically in the service industry. Our pricing ranges from $5k-$35k per website project, with the average website project being about $7.5k.
As of writing this in December 2019, I have 11 full-time employees. They all work virtually, with most of the team being in the Philippines.
So far this year we made just over $540,000 in revenue for the business.
It wasn’t always this way.
I started my business broke, desperate and clueless.
In my first year in business, I think I made something like $35,000 in total. This was about 9 years ago.
Since then the business has steadily grown each year.
Profit and loss so far this year (mid-December 2019)What does a typical workday look like for you?
What I love most about my business is that I get to live life on my own terms.
I have the flexibility to make my own schedule and work when and where I want.
My typical day starts at around 5:30am.
I usually spend the first couple of hours working at a coffee shop a couple of blocks from my home which I walk to.
I use this time to work on the important but not urgent tasks for my business, which for me is usually content writing or general strategy.
$100k/month in FREE Google trafficThen I usually go for a run, come back home and check my email.
If it’s Monday I’ll do a team meeting with my team. We meet once a week via Google Hangouts.
Most of my team is in the Philippines. Even though they work remotely they are my full-time employees. I’m lucky to have a very loyal and dedicated team, with my oldest team members dating back 7 years now.
I don’t really like doing meetings, so we only do one per week just to make sure we don’t forget what everyone looks like.
Working hard at my home officeI like to run my business out of Asana and block off my calendar each day for times to talk to new leads and existing clients.
I block off Tuesdays and Thursdays for no calls so I can focus and work on developing my business and catching up on project work for existing clients.
I have two small kids, so sometimes my day ends as early as 2pm when I have to pick them up. But mostly I’m working till around 5pm.
I don’t work weekends and spend quite a bit of time with my family, at least 3-4 hours a day, which is pretty good given my workload.
December 27, 2019
eBiz Weekly #51
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December 19, 2019
eBiz Weekly #50
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