eBiz Weekly #119
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£500K+ from freelancing in 4 yearsA Gold Mine of Newsletter OpportunitiesHow to Get a Great Remote JobDeal of the Week: Uppbeat Music Library$60k her 1st year low-content publishing$4885/month for sharing wifiOne of these for every remote skill$4,104 in March from 3.7k subscribersLearn Skills, Earn CryptoHigh-level authority site trainingSmall efforts, day in and day out£500K+ from freelancing in 4 years
That’s the story of Tom Hirst, a freelance WordPress developer.
(£500K = $687K, so about $170K per year.)
Some key takeaways from Tom’s thread:
95% profit7 years in business before his first £100K yearBig on niching down3-4 hours per day of focused work is plentyAnd my favorite part:
Doing free work on the promise of paid work rarely works out.
Work for free for yourself to build enough reputation so that “clients” never ask you.
How to work for free for yourself:
– Self-initiate projects that prove the results of the service you want to sell
– Write articles and tutorials that make your expertise obvious
– Build an audience of connections that see you as an authority by helping people
Learn more about freelancing here.
A Gold Mine of Newsletter OpportunitiesThat would be Reddit, according to Keevin at brainstorms.io.
Each community, or subreddit, is 1) organized around a topic, 2) has engaged members, 3) consume written content.
These are the necessary ingredients of a successful newsletter.
Keevin shares examples and includes a break down of the income opportunities for free vs paid newsletters.
Related:
Ryan Sneddon’s insightful tips for creating a great newsletterSubstack Local: apply to receive up to $100,000 to create a local newsletterHow to Get a Great Remote JobJump ahead to the 27-minute mark of the latest episode of the Tropical MBA Podcast 
You’ll hear an entrepreneur who has hired 100s of people and reviewed 10,000 resumes talk about how you can stand out when applying for a remote job.
My key takeaways:
Keep your resume short, ideally one page. Employers are busy. Save them time.Emphasize experience over skills. Employers care more about what you’ve actually done than what you say you can do.Tailor your resume to each job you’re applying for.Don’t just say where you worked and when. Say what you accomplished, what results you achieved for previous employers.Include a smiling headshot (use photofeeler to find your best photo)Absolutely do not write formal crap like dear sir, dear madam, to whom it may concern, etc.Great advice from host Dan Andrews on that podcast as well:
How do I get a job if I don’t have 3-5 years of experience? Well, you do something that is equivalent to 3-5 years of experience, and then you explain why that’s a better value proposition for the potential employer.
For example, if you’re a newbie copywriter, you could try rewriting the sales page of the hiring company (this free tool will help). If they’re impressed with that, they won’t care how new you are.
Related: how to find remote jobs | best remote job boards
Deal of the Week: Uppbeat Music LibraryUppbeat is a music platform and library for creators, where you can download unlimited tracks for use on your YouTube channel, podcast, TikTok videos, etc 
The Uppbeat Premium plan usually costs $6.99/month, but this lifetime deal costs only $59. (That amount would usually only get you 9 months of access.)
$60k her 1st year low-content publishing
Low-content publishing is selling books that don’t have much content. Think journals, diaries, notebooks, etc 
Rachel Harrison-Sund reports that she earned $60,000 creating and selling these kinds of books online back in 2017, while only working on the business part time.
She then went on to earn $140k in 2018 
In a recent video, Rachel says that competition in this space has increased dramatically in recent years, but it sounds like there’s still opportunity there if you’re skilled and committed.
Also see this 2019 interview with Rachel and two other successful low-content publishers.
$4885/month for sharing wifiHere’s something from the premium Trends newsletter (reviewed here with $100 discount offer)…
It’s basically a wireless router you can buy, and then give other people access to. You earn cryptocurrency as you share the access.
From the Helium website …
By deploying a simple device in your home or office, you can provide your city with miles of low-power network coverage for billions of devices and earn a new cryptocurrency, HNT.
Here’s an example of a Helium device in Austin, Texas 
Click the rewards tab on that page and you can see that the device has earned 315.60 HNT over the past 30 days, which works out to about $4885 at the current price of HNT.
The device itself costs about $400 and there are ~26,000 in service already, most of them in North America and Europe.
One of these for every remote skillIf you have multiple properties in the same town, a Helium hot spot in each could offset the cost of the mortgages. If you don’t own property, partner with local business owners or Airbnb hosts, setting up Helium rigs in their buildings in exchange for a portion of the monthly output.
Aleksandr Volodarsky is the Ukrainian 
cofounder of Lemon.io, “a marketplace of vetted offshore engineers.”
He’s aiming to grow the company from $2.7 million to $10 million in GMV this year, and is tracking his progress on Twitter.
In a recent interview with Andrew Warner on Mixergy, Aleksandr talked about other opportunities for marketplace businesses, such as marketplaces for no-code developers, Notion experts, Salesforce experts, etc.
Paraphrasing Andrew:
For every remote skill, there should be a managed marketplace like Lemon.io.
Aleksandr’s advice is to build a very niche marketplace, easier to get traction that way.
An example is Funnel Rolodex, a marketplace for freelancers who offer services related to building and optimizing funnels. That business does $58k in monthly revenue.
$4,104 in March from 3.7k subscribersThat’s a YouTube channel called Your Friend Andy, started 10 months ago.
Only four videos on the channel have more than 10k views 
So how the hell did it earn $4,104 in March alone?
Andy himself explain in this Twitter thread.
Worth reading the whole thing but here are his key takeaways:
Learn Skills, Earn Crypto1) Pick a profitable niche
2) Commit at least 6 months
3) Focus on creating content that gets into search results
4) Start using affiliate links early
5) Constantly improve your video quality
6) If you do these things, the algorithm will eventually reward you
1729 is a newsletter that “offers $1000 in crypto per day for completing tasks & tutorials.”
I’ve been keeping an eye on it for a few weeks. They don’t actually post a new task every day – only 3 posted in April so far – and $100 in Bitcoin seems to be the most one person can earn per task.
But it’s still pretty interesting 
You can see all the tasks here.
The latest requires you to read an essay on quantum computing, answer a few questions about it, then keep up with subsequent emails.
High-level authority site trainingAuthority Hacker’s pro training is available again from this Sunday (April 18th) at 1pm EST.
The doors will be open for about a week.
Be aware that the training is NOT for beginners – see their TASS program for that – but if you’re already earning $1000’s per month from your website it’s well worth checking out 
A quote I came across this week, attributed to Robert Collier:
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
Let’s get to work.
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