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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