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January 29, 2024
Started With $500, Then Earned $30K in 60 Days
Joe DaviesSerial Entrepreneur $30,000 revenue in 60 days Published January 29, 2024 by Fardeen KhanReviewed and edited by Niall Doherty In a recent video, Joe Davies reveals how he earned $30K in 60 days with his WordPress plugin, Query Hunter 
…
It all started when…
I came across a bit of a problem when using Google Search Console and editing my WordPress website. I found Google Search Console to be very hard to use and not very user friendly.
I couldn’t cross reference it against my content well enough so I decided to make a plugin that essentially told me what keywords I was missing that I was being found for.
But…
I’m in no way technical. I don’t know how to code. I don’t know how to build WordPress plugins.
So, he hired a freelancer on Upwork to build it for him…
I paid $500 for the first iteration of Query Hunter, which was quite advanced in some respects because it was connecting to Google Search Console. But at the end of the day it was just pulling through Google Search Console data.
He adds…
You want to do the least feature version first, get it done as quickly as possible. What’s the main feature you want? You want the MVP of it, just get that built.
(MVP = Minimum Viable Product)
Joe does have 20K+ followers on Twitter/X, which surely helped him promote the plugin 
But if you don’t have an audience, he recommends…
To get initial traction, contact the large X profiles that might want to use this.
Give it away, ask them what they think of it and ask them if they want to promote it to their newsletter, to their X page, activate the affiliate program [and] give them a big percentage.
If you’ve got an idea…
don’t be scared of getting on Upwork and giving a developer your dream list of a plugin. You might be surprised with what they come up with… Get it on Gumroad and see if you can create a nice little side hustle.
His advice for working with freelancers on Upwork…
For a simple plugin that does one or two things and probably doesn’t use any advanced tech, you’re probably looking at between $250 and $500 [to get it built]…
You want to find people who’ve built plugins before… if you’re building an SEO plugin hopefully they’ve made an SEO plugin before. If you’re building a plugin for some other industry, hopefully they’ve built a plugin in that industry…
I always recommend getting on a call before you hire them… it’s only when you quiz them on certain things that you kind of get the real answer… you need to go through your list of specifications and you say can this be done [or not].
Joe has since introduced Query Hunter 2.0, available as a WordPress plugin or a Chrome extension.
Is there a Chrome extension or WordPress plugin you wish existed? 
You could try getting it built like Joe suggests, see if it could become a nice earner for you.
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She Earned $110K in 1 Month From 2 Websites
Nina ClappertonFounder of She Knows SEO $110,000 revenue in 1 month Published January 29, 2024 by Fardeen KhanReviewed and edited by Niall Doherty Nina Clapperton runs multiple niche websites and shares her revenue numbers online 
Her post from a few months back…
How I Made $110k in a Month in June 2023
The vast majority of her earnings come from two sites.
Site one appears to be her travel blog, Nina Out and About, easy to find by googling her name.
Nina’s numbers for that site last June
Pageviews: 202k
Age: 6+ years
Affiliates = $21,810.72
Ads = $5,729.10
Courses = $182.00
Total = $27,648.67
Site two is all about SEO and blogging: She Knows SEO
Numbers for June
Pageviews: 11k
Age: 1.5 years
Affiliates = $8,287.91
Coaching/Services = $24,764.00
Courses = $52,254.30
Email Sponsors = $200.00
Total = $85,506.21
Nina believes that her success “is entirely replicable in any niche”…
I showed up. I proved myself and built trust. I connected with my audience and offered them a ton of value. And then I asked for sales later.
Sure, She Knows SEO has only existed for 18 months, but long before that I was showing up in FB groups helping people out – even if it was misguided sometimes cause I thought I knew what I was talking about but I definitely didn’t.
And I kept helping people for free until I felt confident in my skills and had the stats to back them up. Then I monetized it.
Helping people for free seems to be key…
My audience saw a lot of me as I enacted my “Costco free sample policy” – aka. Letting them try an egg roll before they commit to a box of 800 egg rolls…
I like to help people grow with my free tips so they can 1) see that it works and 2) start earning the $$ to afford my services.
Get a feel for Nina’s free content via Twitter and YouTube 
Also, Nina’s story reminds me of that of Anne Moss…
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January 25, 2024
$10K+ Per Month Sharing His Boots Expertise
Nick EnglishFounder of Stridewise $10,000+ monthly revenue Published January 25, 2024 by Fardeen KhanReviewed and edited by Niall Doherty Nick English is the founder of Stridewise, described as “Boot Expertise for the Modern Man” 
In a recent interview, he shares…
The site generates 5 figures per month.
The income is from many sources: affiliate commissions, on-site ads, YouTube ads, and more.
Before Nick started his site…
I worked as a health and fitness writer, mostly covering nutrition for outlets like Men’s Health, Popular Science, and World’s Strongest Man.
After a few years of working at a fitness content startup, I had a decent idea of how to grow a profitable website and decided it was time to strike out on my own.
Sound familiar?
I’ve profiled a good number of people who’ve turned their previous job experience into a profitable side-hustle.
Could you do something similar?
How Nick came up with the idea for his site…
Found a consultant to help me find out what I had the best chance at making a living from.
The consultant noticed my boots and asked if that was an idea I’d be comfortable pursuing. I thought that was a great idea, he ran the numbers, and Stridewise was a go-ahead.
If you can’t afford a consultant, try chatting with friends and family, see if they have any good prompts or suggestions.
You could also try using ChatGPT for this 
How Nick’s site evolved…
I thought it’d just be my hands holding a pair of boots and talking about the pros and cons, but as video became a more and more important part of digital marketing, I wound up doing videos on everything.
He started his YouTube channel in March 2018 and has since grown it to 87K+ subscribers 
As of this writing, I see 371 videos on the channel, so Nick’s been cranking out a video each week for almost 6 years now.
The most popular video on the channel is from August 2018, with almost 1 million views…
The 5 Best Men’s Boots You Can Buy…Keys to the growth of Stridewise, according to Nick…
Publishing regularly, maintaining a YouTube channel, and working with link building agencies
Advice for anyone looking to follow in his footsteps…
be prepared to go years without making a profit!
… It took about three years of part-time work on my weekends to get to a point where I could quit my job.
If you’re eager to make money right away, consider doing some freelance writing like Nick did to start.
You’ll learn a lot while earning a decent income much faster
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Albert Einstein Said This Is Better Than Genius
From a speech by Peter Kaufman…
Albert Einstein once listed what he said were the five ascending levels of cognitive prowess…
Number five he said, at the very bottom, was smart. Okay. That’s the lowest level of cognitive prowess is being smart.
The next level up, level four, is intelligent.
Level three, next up, is brilliant.
Next level up, level two, he said is genius.
What? What’s higher than genius? He must have that backward. No, he doesn’t. Wait until you hear what number one is according to Albert Einstein…
Number one is simple. Simple transcends genius.
I’ve noticed this with many of the stories we’ve shared in this newsletter.
It’s rarely the “genius” ideas that become successful businesses. It’s more often the simple ideas executed consistently at a high level 
Translation: you don’t have to be super smart or talented to build a successful business.
It’s enough to just focus on a simple idea for a long time, and strive to execute better than your competition.
$74K From a Self-Published eBook in 1 Year
Sandro VolpicellaCo-author of AWS Fundamentals $74,792 first year revenue Published January 25, 2024 by Fardeen KhanReviewed and edited by Niall Doherty 
Sandro Volpicella and Tobias Schmidt self published their book, AWS Fundamentals, which is…
A Book & Newsletter That Teaches You How to Use AWS in the Real World.
AWS = Amazon Web Services, a bunch of cloud computing services offered by Amazon.
And AWS Fundamentals is a digital book, no physical copies available 
A recent article by Sandro…
1 year after self-publishing my AWS Book – $74.792 and 1.712 orders laterThere he shares some secrets to the book’s success…
Our approach was based on doing everything in public. We talked about writing an AWS book very early on…
We created a very simple landing page on carrd with an initial thought of the table of contents.
We started out with 500 subscribers but grew very quickly up to 2,000 subscribers!
… This validated [the idea] and we decided to write a book
Looks like these were their announcement tweets in mid-2022…
SandroTobiasToday, they have a combined following of 24K on X but it looks like they only had a combined 10K back then
Sandro adds…
One amazing benefit we got through writing in public is a shout-out from Jeff Barr!
Jeff is a VP at AWS and he is the OG in creating technical content about AWS. He authored over 1,000 blog posts. Getting a shout-out from him gave us the biggest boost + credibility boost ever.
That shout-out post on LinkedIn has ~2K likes
Unclear how that came about, but I’m guessing Sandro and Tobias’ do-everything-in-public approach had a lot to do with it.
More from Sandro…
Via Twitter we shared a lot of progress of the book. We always included CTAs to our landing page which had a waiting list form on it. This channel works out quite well.
(See their tweets about the book here and here.)
Email marketing has been key…
Having a direct connection to the inbox of interested people is the best way… it is still the best-converting tool if you create great content.
Sandro also lists “the three best resources that helped us”
– Adam Wathan’s talk and blog post about Nailing your first launch…
– Nathan Barry’s book Authority
– Rob Fitzpatrick’s book: Write Useful Books
Main thing I love about this story: they validated the idea of the book before writing it.
Most people first write a book and then try to figure out a way to market it. But clearly the approach Sandro and Tobias took is far superior 
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$3,300/Month in a Tiny Niche Down Under
Emma ToddFounder of My RIG Adventures $3300 average monthly revenue Published January 25, 2024 by Fardeen KhanReviewed and edited by Niall Doherty Emma Todd is the founder of My RIG Adventures, a website about “all things caravanning, camping and road tripping Australia” 
In a recent interview, she shares…
MY RIG Adventures is averaging 130,000 page views per month, earning over $5,000 AUD [$3,298 USD] a month.
She monetizes via display ads, affiliate offers and digital products
How Emma got started…
I first created MY RIG Adventures in 2016 as I was packing up my life to hit the road as a full-time nomad with my (now ex) husband and two kids.
Once we hit the road, I blogged about my different experiences, plus some camp reviews and helpful tips for caravanning and living on the road.
And…
I was also sharing our monthly budget stats on Facebook, using a spreadsheet I’d created…
That turned out to be so popular that I put it up for sale on the website, which ended up doing really well. It was at that moment that I realised I could actually make some money out of this, which would help to fund our travels.
I’m guessing 
this is the same spreadsheet for sale on her site.
After Covid…
As local travel was popping off, my website kept growing.
Since 2021, I’ve been blogging full-time and working to build the website as much as possible.
Love that it’s a tiny niche, focused on Australia, a country with a population of only 26 million.
Last words from Emma…
My biggest piece of advice for those who are embarking on the blogging journey is that it’s a long game, not a “get rich quick” scheme.
Once you set up a good foundation and can keep adding more content to your website, you can definitely make a sustainable full-time income out of blogging.
That’s true of pretty much any business.
If you’re in it for the long run, you have a big competitive advantage
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January 22, 2024
Scaled Their Business To $50K/Month Within a Year
Chris PanteliCo-founder of Linkifi $50,000 monthly revenue Published January 22, 2024 by Fardeen KhanReviewed and edited by Niall Doherty Chris Panteli is the co-founder of digital PR link-building agency Linkifi 
From their site…
Get Featured on Large Publications. We’ll pitch journalists and land powerful links on your behalf.
So they basically help you get more links to your website, which should increase the traffic you get from search engines like Google
According to a recent interview, Chris started the business with Nick Biggs and it took off fast…
Just over two years ago the duo started a PR link-building agency called Linkifi. The business quickly went on to clear $50,000 per month within the first year.
Chris says…
My interest in the digital world sparked during the pandemic. I created my first website which gained traction rapidly.
Pretty sure he’s talking there about his finance site, LifeUpSwing, which he has listed on his LinkedIn.
Chris on how Linkifi came about…
The inception of our business is rather serendipitous. My introduction to my business partner came when I outsourced some guest post link-building work for my personal finance website. He took note of the significant links I had acquired through PR requests and was genuinely impressed.
But they didn’t go all-in initially…
I was engaged in a full-time job and my business partner managed his own agency, we ventured into this as a side project, serving a handful of clients.
After the initial traction…
The influx of referrals and repeat orders from satisfied clients made it evident that juggling both was becoming challenging.
I began to reach out to influencers and peers in our domain… Offering them a glimpse of our prowess at no cost, with the understanding that they’d become clients if satisfied, proved to be a game-changer.
And…
Within our first year, we quickly surpassed $50k per month and maintained a commendable growth trajectory thereafter.
So they’re likely earning more than $50K/month now
Pretty cool how Chris got into all this by starting his own finance blog.
Through that venture he found he had a knack for building links, and that became its own highly-successful business.
Goes to show how the big opportunities tend to present themselves once you’re already in motion, already working on something.
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Changed Monetisation Strategy = $650/Month Job Board
Morgan GaoFounder of EchoJobs $650 monthly revenue Published January 22, 2024 by Fardeen KhanReviewed and edited by Niall Doherty Morgan Gao is the founder of EchoJobs, a job board for software engineers 
In a recent interview, he shares…
I had this idea when I was looking for jobs two years ago. I was interested in a specified type of companies, tech stack, etc.
But…
Websites like Indeed, LinkedIn have a lot of jobs but I found it really hard to search and filter through the jobs I want.
That inspired him to start EchoJobs…
I spent about 3 months on the first version. It included scraping jobs from most of the popular application tracking systems, parsing job posts for all kinds of information like title, tech stack, level, location and salary.
By May of 2022, I had a working website and released it to the public the first time.
Morgan adds…
I gained some traffic from posting jobs to Twitter and Reddit and by February 2023, I had about 30k monthly visits.
In a since-deleted Reddit post, he shared EchoJobs and got 2.4K upvotes (which, if you’re not on Reddit, is a pretty big deal 
)
After seeing the traffic that generated…
I put up a plan so employers can post jobs. I tried to reach out to businesses and companies who are hiring but no one posted jobs on my site.
So I kinda stopped there. I knew I got my first sale about a month or two later… Since then I have got about 5 paid job posts so far.
But it has been a while since I got any paid job post.
So Morgan tried something different…
I pivoted to charging job seekers. I think EchoJobs provides more value to job seekers than employers at this point.
With just 5 dollars a week, they can get a whole list of jobs that match their skills, preferences.
That change has worked out well…
It’s been two months now and I have about 20 active subscribers and a total Monthly Recurring Revenue of roughly $500.
Besides that, I promote Indeed jobs on my site and that brings an additional $150 per month. This is done through the Indeed Trusted Partners Program.
It would have been easy for Morgan to give up on the project when his first attempt at monetization didn’t work out.
Kudos to him for sticking with it and trying another approach
If you’re struggling to get traction with a project of your own, step back and test the assumptions you’ve made along the way.
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Sold His Alternative to a Popular App for $100,000+
Abzal AssembekovFounder of ContactInBio $100,000+ sale price Published January 22, 2024 by Fardeen KhanReviewed and edited by Niall Doherty Abzal Assembekov is from Kazakhstan 
and the founder of ContactInBio.
It’s basically an alternative to Linktree, a tool people use to link from their social profiles and it lands you on a page with all their info and links
In a recent Reddit post, Anzal shares…
I sold my link in bio tool for 6 figures.
Origin story…
My story begins in 2015 when, as a second-year university student… I raised around $65,000 in Dubai and opened a product- and service-based company. We built multiple iOS apps…
Although we broke even, we couldn’t sustain it further, and the venture failed by 2017.
After that, Abzal went the bootstrapping route…
I asked myself what tool did I pay for while being a business owner?
And the answer was an Instagram automation tool, so I bought a ready code online and published such a site, within weeks users started to pour in reaching $700 MRR, until Instagram blocked it.
When he says he “bought a ready code online,” I suspect he’s referring to scripts you can buy on sites like CodeCanyon. You can buy ready-made software, host it somewhere, and sell it to your customers 
I’m guessing Instagram blocked Abzal’s software because it didn’t align with their policies in some way 
But he didn’t let that deter him for long…
I analysed what customers were using besides my tool and it was LinkIn.Bio and Linktree. I went ahead and built ContactInBio and by 2021 it grew to over 100,000 users as a side project while I was working full time.
How he got traction…
I launched an Instagram/Fb ad, then answered lots of related questions on Quora. Quora was big back then on Google, always on top of many search results. Then published on ProductHunt, BetaList.
In 2021…
I finally left my full time job as income has been more than my salary for many months and within a month got connected to Taplink founder, it is a leading link in bio tool in CIS region.
(CIS = Commonwealth of Independent States. More or less the former Soviet Union.)
Abzal ended up selling ContactInBio for 6 figures ($100K+) though the exact price is undisclosed 
His advice for other founders…
Find startup ideas based on what you or someone you know is paying to use.
In other words, it doesn’t matter if there’s competition out there already.
In fact, that’s a good thing: it proves there’s a market
Ideally though you’d enter a different segment of the market, or put your own spin on an existing product somehow.
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$300,000/Year: Love, London & Digital Coloring Books
Jessica DanteFounder of Love and London $300,000 estimated annual revenue Published January 22, 2024 by Fardeen KhanReviewed and edited by Niall Doherty Jessica Dante is the founder of Love and London, a tourist blog and media brand about all things London 
She says in a recent interview…
It all started back when I moved [from New York] over to the UK in 2013, I set up a little blog to document starting my new life as an American who moved to a foreign country.
A couple of years in, a bit bored with writing, I started creating YouTube videos about travel and giving tips for people visiting London. The London videos started garnering an audience.
This was probably her first video and how she got started on YouTube …
Jessica also has a video revealing her revenue from 2021… looks like it was around £50K GBP ($63K) back then…
But that wasn’t a great time for the business…
The low point was ABSOLUTELY COVID-19 times. We had almost two years of very little profit, no matter what I tried to launch and how many “pivots” we attempted.
I’m really happy we’re through that period now, it was extremely hard to deal with in many ways.
Nowadays Jessica has…
a team of 14 helping me make it all happen, and generating a healthy six figures in revenue.
And on her personal site, she writes…
In 2023, shop sales averaged £16,000 [$20,000] per month.
Looks like the shop is all digital products and guides, so probably ~90% profit on them
I especially like their digital coloring book for adults. Every location-specific site could have a product like that, makes an easy gift purchase around the holidays.
Here’s Jessica promoting the coloring book recently on Instagram, where she’s built up an audience of 402K followers
All told, I expect Love and London is generating around $300,000 a year in revenue
Jessica’s advice for others getting into content creation…
Know what you want to get out of it business-wise.
It can be fun to make content, but ultimately it needs to pay the bills and keep growing for it to be a sustainable business.
So how will your channels do that?
Will your Reels bring in leads for your graphic design work? Or will your YouTube videos get you in front of CEOs so you can be hired for consulting work?
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