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$45K/Month Making PowerPoint Presentations
3 Course Recommendations (On Sale Now)
His Side Hustle Did $10k in Its First Two Days
Do You Mostly Produce or Consume?
$1500/Month Directory Website (With A Twist)
24-Year-Old Earning $10K/Month With ChatGPT Product
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$45K/Month Making PowerPoint Presentations
Aayush Jain started INK PPT in 2015 š
Officially it's a "presentation design agency" but essentially they help clients make better PowerPoint presentations.
Several years on, the business has 30+ team members and averages $45,000 in monthly revenue š¤Æ
Aayush shared the origin story in a recent interviewā¦
The idea for INK PPT was born out of my own experiences [working at a big IT company]. I frequently found myself tasked with creating presentations for executives within the organization.
Aayush was a software developer at the company, but he really enjoyed creating those PowerPoint presentations š
So he decided to take it furtherā¦
To validate the idea and my abilities, I began taking on freelance projects in presentation design. The positive feedback and growing demand for my services reinforced my conviction in the field of design.
Then came a misstepā¦
INK PPT was started as a Presentation template marketplace offering $1 pre-made high-quality templates for anyone who needs them. The marketplace business failed to attract a lot of eyeballs.
So Aayush had to pivotā¦
After 3 months, I made all the templates free of cost and launched a custom presentation design service for brandsā¦
Since then, we have been getting a great deal of work requests from Start-up founders, and Fortune 500 companies for custom presentation design & training needs.
š¬ In terms of getting the word out, Aayush saysā¦
Our marketing and traffic efforts primarily revolved around organic growth. We did not rely on paid ads
SimilarWeb estimates that INK PPT now gets ~50K visitors per month š
Last words from Aayushā¦
Not being unique is okay, if you hold the position tight for a long time, competition may fade away.
I love that, reminds me of a statistic about the top 1% of all podcastsā¦
Your competition is not the 2 million podcasts. Itās the 20,000 podcasters who didnāt quit.
In other words, persistence is a big competitive advantage šŖ
To wrap up here, think back to jobs you've had in the past. Was there a specific task you were really good at and/or enjoyed doing?
Aayush identified such a task and turned it into a $45K/month business.
Could you do similar? š¤
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His Side Hustle Did $10k in Its First Two Days
š From the archive, published November 2022ā¦
Via Trends.coā¦
Dr. Kendrick Scott was a triple threat ā an ex-college football player with multiple degrees, teaching business strategy full-time as a university professor, and consulting on the side with major brands.
Most would have stopped there. But Scott recently launched another side hustle, InfoAthlete, that coaches student athletes in their journey of āgetting to, and through, college,ā and transitioning into careers.
Apparently the business pulled in ā$10k in its first two days, $20k in its first week, and $40k+ in its first month.ā š¤
And the good doctor did it without any ad spend or a big social media following.
It seems he mainly found leads for his coaching business by posting about it on his personal Facebook profile.
A post he published last May went like thisā¦
Hello everyone I am doing interviews for my athletic coaching and consulting business If you are a parent or know someone who is trying to get exposure for their athlete to get to the next level. HMU. I want to interview you or them to understand what their needs are. I had no offers after my senior year walking across stageā¦within 2.5 months we had 9 full ride offers. Post here or inbox me.
Iām guessing many of those interviewees eventually became coaching clients.
A key takeaway from Dr. Scottā¦
Donāt underestimate the value of your personal network, or chase outside traffic before tapping connections you already have. Not only is your inner circle a great way to find those early clients, itās also a great way to learn what value your customers think you offer.
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Do You Mostly Produce or Consume?
Stoop Kid tweetsā¦
there are many axes on which you can slice people, but my favorite is:
does a person have predominantly productive or consumptive tendencies?
productive: writing, athletics, cooking, building, studying
consumptive: TV, dining out, video games, leisure reading, shopping
It's a simple framework and a useful lens for gaining awareness into how you spend your time ā³
Are your habits weighted towards productive activities that build skills and create value?
Or do you lean more towards consumptive activities? š
Consumption is fine in moderation of course. But it's the productive tendencies that help you get ahead in life and business.
A reply to Stoop's tweetā¦
Do social activities count as productive or consumptive?
Parties, dinners, etc. Most successful people I know spend a majority of free time on these.
Stoop repliesā¦
Strongly agree though about socializing. It can be incredibly productive. You can view it as a long term productivity play, an investment. Just like studying is temporarily consumptive but long term productive if you do it well.
So there's a lot of nuance here, and what counts as consumptive for me might be productive for you.
But a handy framework nonetheless.
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$1500/Month Directory Website (With A Twist)
OpenAI recently released DALLā¢E3, a powerful image generation engine that unfortunately rendered something called AppLogoCreator obsolete š„
AppLogoCreator is an indie project created by David GutiƩrrez. Apparently it was earning $500/month before it got crushed.
But David has bounced back strong, recently tweetingā¦
My AI app AppLogoCreator was killed by DALL-E 3 š
So I thought... screw it, let's launch something FAST
1000tools was born
32 days after and it's doing $1140 MRR šø
Don't lose faith and keep shipping
1000.tools is a simple directory site, with a twist.
David explains š
After submitting AppLogoCreator to multiple directories, I found it was getting no views/visitsĀ Ā
I thought it made sense because if you're 1 of 100000, who is going to look through the whole list?
So it crossed my mind, let's limit that to 1000 and have people pay a small fee to filter out the baddiesĀ Ā Ā
To give everybody a fair spot at the top, we'll rotate the list daily
You have to pay $6/month or $60/year to get on the list. That gives you a nice dofollow backlink on a site with rising authority š
The scarcity aspect is clever, reminds me of The Million Dollar Homepage.
Might be worth trying if you start your own directory site.
Looks like most of 1000.tools' growth came via David's Twitter and his successful Product Hunt launch, where his directory ended up #1 product of the day š
His advice for growing on X (Twitter)ā¦
I used to get 2 followers on a good day
In the last 28 days, I got 1245 followers
This has taught me one thing:
Shipping like a madman [and tweeting about it] is the best marketing strategy
š”Ā Another tipā¦
One X hack is replying early to big accounts
Yesterday @ThePeterMick wrote a "Pitch your startup" post
My reply got the most likes and as a result, was shown first
Peter's post went viral and 1000*tools had the second most visits in one day since launch
As of writing this, 317 slots have been claimed on 1000.tools, which adds up to $1585/month if we go by the yearly prices š¤
Although I should point out a potential issue with David's approach: even though people are paying for them, the links on 1000.tools aren't marked as sponsored. Which goes against Google's guidelinesĀ š
So the site could eventually be punished by Google and lose rankings. Which would make it pointless for people to keep paying for listings.
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24-Year-Old Earning $10K/Month With ChatGPT Product
š From the archive, published April 2023ā¦
The Twitter bio for Bhanu Teja Pachipulusuā¦
24yo indie maker. I quit my software dev job to make it as an independent maker.
Bhanu is from India š®š³
In 2019, he graduated from university with a degree in computer science and engineering and landed a job as a software dev, earning about $2050/month.
Bhanu quit that job within a year to launch a startup with a friend. They worked on it for 14 months and earned $0Ā š©
Then Bhanu turned to freelancing and earned $17,000 within a couple of months š¤
Despite that success, he never gave up on building his own thing.
He created a āNotion to Blogā software called Feather.so that is now earning him about $4000/month.
But thatās nothing compared to the product Bhanu launched a few weeks backā¦
Almost there at $10k MRR with SiteGPT.ai
It hasnāt been a month yetā¦
[ā¦] My year end goal was $10k MRR, now my goal is $25k
SiteGPT is a āpersonalized chatbot trained on your website contentā š¤
Visitors to your site can type in a question and ChatGPT will reply back, but only using your site content as reference material.
Seems to work well, and looks especially useful for sites with tons of content.
In terms of marketing, I get the impression that Bhanuās main weapon has been building in public. Heās quite active on Twitter and had about 10k followers there at the start of the year.
That audience helped him spread the word about SiteGPT when he launched š
My launch tweet on Twitter went viral.
My product got on the first page of Hacker News for several hours.
My product became the #1 product of the day on ProductHunt.
Other key factors in Bhanuās success, in my opinionā¦
Heās clearly become a skilled software engineer.
Heās worked his ass off on this product.
The AI craze is real.
The latter means that good products in the space donāt need much of a push to go viral š
As Sahil Lavingia (CEO of Gumroad) once saidā¦
The market youāre in will determine most of your growth.
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Latest Momentos
My latest batch of personal ramblings is here if you fancy a look š
From November 2ndā¦
Struggled putting together the newsletter this morning. Still not entirely happy with this next edition, but I'll ship it anyway. I try to keep the schedule sacred, send it out every Tuesday and Friday, even if it's not perfect. Regular rugged reps, better than occasional flawless steps.
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Thanks to Fardeen Khan for helping me write and research today's newsletter.
Hasta la prĆ³xima, rock on with your legendary self šŖ
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