🚀💡$30k/Month Lifestyle Blog - IdeaEconomy💡 🚀

Jen Biswas of Paisley & Sparrow is interviewed on NichePursuits. Jen's main site is making $30k per month now with 250k to 450k monthly traffic.

She also started several new sites that are getting more traffic and revenue. 

Big Idea: Niche websites like this are an underrated business opportunity for creators.

Related Link: Everything You Need to Know About Building Authority Sites
 

Daniel Vassallo's Twitter course has made $200k and still sells $4k per month.

Big Ideas:
► Portfolio of Small Bets: Everything you make and sell is an experiment. It's not an identity or something you need to do forever.
► Try Many Things: You never know what will work in advance.
► There is a lot of randomness in business. It's important to be at the right place at the right time.
► Err on the side of undercharging. Don't get greedy in the beginning.

Good reminder that you don't have to be an expert to get started as a creator.

via @producthabits

Big Ideas:
► Personal Enterprise Approach - Small tiny companies can be super powerful with the internet and technologies like AI.
► When you go audience first, you will make more money by creating different offers for the entire spectrum of your audience.
► Most creators start with client services. That helps you build and audience and get expertise.
► We don't want to advertise products. It's better to get people on your email list and sell them later.

My one-person business does $169k/mo in revenue. It costs me $623/mo + 2.9% to run it. Here are the 11 no-code tools in my tech stack.

YC Group Partner Jared Friedman shares a framework for how to get and evaluate startup ideas. 

Big Ideas:
► Start with a problem
► Avoid tarpit ideas that are very difficult to solve.
► Think of your first idea as a starting point
► Competition is good. It shows there is a market for the idea.
► Don't worry about your passion for the idea. Ideas grow on founders if it starts to work.
► Look for ideas in your area of expertise for Founder Market Fit.

via @getfounder

$100MBA has a short summary on Stephen King's famous book, On Writing.

Big Ideas:
► Anyone can be a great writer if they put in the work.
► Ideas are out of our control. Great writers make sure they capture new ideas when they come.
► Don't stop when it's hard. Go towards the pain. That is where your best work is.
► Writing is lonely. Make sure you have someone to support you.
► Make your writing easy to read. Don't try to use big words.
► Write with the door closed. Re-write with the door open. Make sure whatever you want to communicate is on the page before you ask for feedback.

Here are some more great links I discovered this week.

How to Find Niche Keywords for SEO in 3 Steps - ahrefs

5 Proven Tips To Improve Your Newsletter's Open Rate In 2022 -marketingexamined

How to build a great community - learningculture