Starter Story - 4 Business Ideas I'm Loving In 2021 📈

Dear starters: Today, I’ll be sharing 4 business ideas I'm loving in 2021.
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Dear starters,

Welcome to the Starter Story newsletter. In this issue, I’ll be sharing 3 business ideas that I love for 2021 + 1 bonus business idea for our premium members.

I'll be sending the 4th business idea tomorrow at 12:15PM EST to founders who are subscribed to our premium newsletter. Sign up here.

 

1 - A Paid [insert_topic] Instructional Wiki

I just heard about this product called Newsletter OS created by Janel from Barcelona. She reported having made over $22K in just a few weeks.

What is it? It’s an instructional wiki for people that want to start their own newsletter.

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(1) It took her about 150 hours to create
(2) It grossed $1K on the first two days after launch.
(3) She's reported sales of over $22K now

I believe this can be replicated over 1000s of topics & industries. For example, you could create a wiki for:

• Learn to code
• Get into a good college
• Get into law school
• Getting into coding bootcamp
• Get started with tennis
• Running a marathon
• Getting set up as a therapist
• Buying stocks
• Starting an e-commerce store
• Email marketing
• Woodworking
• ANYTHING from our 3,000+ business ideas

You get my point… On Twitter, I wrote a bit more about why I love this idea.

 

2 - A TikTok-first product

What's the hardest part about business? Marketing, of course.

That's why I love to see founders building an audience before product, like Reid Simokovitz.

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Reid sells a funny-looking neck shaver that is taking off on TikTok.

We interviewed him a few months back, and he was making just $2K/month. Now his product is sold out and he's had 3.4M likes on TikTok.

See how Reid is taking over TikTok.

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3 - Ancillary services for e-commerce brands

E-commerce grew 40% in 2020. Insane.

One way to capitalize on this is to offer services to e-commerce brands.

Why? Because founders of e-commerce brands are so busy right now that they are willing to contract out services for just about anything...

For example, Tsour is making $540K/year helping brands take photos of their products. He helped 500 brands just in 2020:

Tsour product photography

There are hundreds of ways to help e-commerce brands, here's few more:

• Packaging design
• Fulfillment ($60M/year)
• More product photography (Kyle is making $1M+)
• Email marketing ($15K/mo agency)
• Supplier ($1M/year clothing manufacturer)
• Website design ($20K/month)
• TikTok expert

 

4 - BONUS Business Idea

I'll be sending the 4th business idea tomorrow at 12:15PM EST to founders who are subscribed to our premium newsletter. If you would also like to receive it, join the 2,000 other founders today:

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