🚀💡 Dan Koe: Getting to $2.5m per Year - CreatorBoom

Noah Kagan talks to Dan Koe about how he started and grew his online businesses. He made $10k in his first year as a freelancer. Last month he made $400k and projects a $2.5 million year.

Dan started with freelance web development and is now sells online courses and a paid community.

This is a great story about how obsessing over something for a long time can lead to a successful business.

Maurizio Leo started a blog about making sourdough back in 2013. For the first 5 years "no one cared."

"Since then, Maurizio’s business has grown a lot. The Perfect Loaf has nearly 100,000 email subscribers with an incredible 72% open rate. He has nearly 300,000 followers on Instagram and a growing YouTube channel as well. Recently, he even published a New York Times best-selling cookbook!"

$150k per year from a San Francisco tourism tips website.

Big Idea:
Niche websites can be lucrative. 60% of revenue comes from Mediavine (automatically inserted ads) and the other 40% from promoting affiliate offers like tours and events in the city.

Chenell Basilio examines how Daphne Gomez built a successful business to help teachers find new careers.

Big Ideas:
► Daphne uses an online quiz to segment visitors then offers a $9 upsell which generates $120k per year. 
► Her main product is a $179 course.
► Search drives 1500 to 2000 clicks per day.
► Daphne has grown her Instagram account to over 110k followers by promoting members of her audience.

Glen Allsopp has a detailed analysis of the 16 companies dominating affiliate search results.

"If you wonder where SEO and publishing content online is heading in the age of AI, there’s probably no one better to track and analyse than the companies whose search engine rankings are worth billions of dollars."

Dylan Redekop shares how you can fix these common mistakes with your newsletter.

Interesting look at how Brennan Dunn segments his email list and sends automated emails to new subscribers in ConvertKit.

Related Link:
How Brennan Dunn is Designing and Pricing His New Course Product

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