"Tim managed to combine a personal problem with alcohol with his passion for writing and grew that into a $ 250,000-a-year side hustle."

Big Idea: Directories can be a lucrative creator business opportunity. (I'm working on one now.)

Related Link:
How To Build A Profitable Business Directory Business 
Tim shows exactly how directories work in this video.

This is a LinkedIn masterclass.

Big Ideas:
11:12 The importance of a strong hook. What's the one thing you want to teach? That is your hook.
16:00 Rehook: add something that answers the biggest objection. It keeps them reading.
25:30 Images matter. The best images include your face. Generate hundreds of headshots with Secta.ai.
1:02:00 Why comments are so important.
1:29:00 The 1+3 comment strategy. 1 comment plus 3 replies to other comments.
1:33:00 The primary tool he uses for LinkedIn is Authoredup.

via @fortheinterested

Sam Parr and Shaan Puuri explain how Kevin Espiritu grew Epic Gardening to over $27m per year.

"He gets paid one to two million dollars a year for his YouTube stuff and content on his blog...  and that's his customer acquisition channel, so it's like kind of an unfair advantage."

Related Link: Kevin Espiritu explains his online business journey
(He tried a lot of things on the way.)

via @ nichemediapublishing

Big Idea:
Liz Wilcox sells done-for-you email templates for $9 per month. Most creators struggle to publish regular emails. The templates solve a real problem and provide recurring revenue.

Part 1 in a roundup of best practices from 11 different newsletters featured on Sparkloop.

Two of my favorites:
#4 How SEOFOMO used free giveaways to grow.
#9 Bundling ad sales from several cooperating newsletters to reach bigger advertisers.

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