Starter Story - Starter Story’s Sunday Breakfast #6

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Today, I’m sending you something a bit special: what I’m calling our Sunday Breakfast 🥞.

What is the Sunday Breakfast?

It's 5 bite-sized case studies to get you motivated for the week ahead. You can read it in 2 minutes or less.

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I hope you enjoy it:

This social media agency grew to $1M/year

A great thing about this business? It requires zero initial investment. You could start it with just whatever you’re using to read this email.

Another thing I love is that her first customers were people who previously worked with her. That’s the power of starting a business in a field in which you have previous experience.

Key takeaway: People that you’ve worked with, probably will want to keep working with you if you start your own thing. Leverage those relationships to get your first customers.

This Reddit search tool made $60K in 12 months

Just like Youtube was initially a private website that someone used to share a video from the zoo with their friends, this tool was intended to be an internal ‘guerrilla marketing tool’ for Reddit. 

After sharing a post about the tool, it was obvious that others were also interested in using it, and that it had the potential to be bigger than the ‘main’ product.

Great learning: He nailed his pricing strategy after speaking to a customer who had just canceled.

These guys convinced 140 people to buy a private island

After having the domain letsbuyanisland.com parked for almost 10 years, one night these friends finally decided they were doing it. They were going to buy an island.

They put together a website and some materials and convinced enough investors to buy a tropical island in Belize.

Plans for the future? Build a hotel, sports activities, having a venue for events,... the sky is the limit once you have your own island!