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$20K per month from reading Reddit posts out loud 😱
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$20,000/Month Reading Reddit Posts Aloud
Coffee Website Replaced Their Full-Time Income
Helping Local Businesses = $800K Per Year
She Makes $240K/Year Writing Resumes
He's Earned $2+ Million From Selling Blogs
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$20,000/Month Reading Reddit Posts Aloud
Check out this video on YouTube 👇
It's basically 15 minutes of someone reading out this popular Reddit thread with video game footage in the background.
The video has almost 10 million views in less than 2 years 🤯
It's on a channel called Am I The Jerk?, described as…
Voice actors acting out Reddit stories and adding insight / commentary
The channel only started in October 2021 and already has more than 1.1 million subscribers 📈
Here’s their first video, same idea.
They've pumped out 3400 videos like that so far, which is an average of 4.1 per day 💪
They have a podcast with the same content, and that somehow has racked up 9900 ratings on Spotify so apparently a lot of people are listening to it.
Social Blade estimates the YouTube channel to be earning as much as $100K/month from ads, but that's best-case scenario.
I'm guessing they're earning more like $20K/month on average 💰
They also have a sister channel called Am I The Genius?, which follows the same model but for different types of Reddit posts.
That one could easily be earning $5K/month 🤑
Next, check out this video from coder Lewis Menelaws…
He noticed the popularity of these types of videos on social media and created Reddit Video Maker Bot, a free tool that lets you easily create such videos yourself.
The voice that the tool outputs is computer generated 🤖 so it doesn't sound as good as a voice actor.
But even videos with the obvious bot voice can get a lot of views, like this one posted a couple of weeks ago on TikTok, 3.4 million views already…
Here’s an idea if you’re a developer 👇
Create a version of Reddit Video Maker Bot that uses the latest AI voice solutions from Eleven Labs. Sounds way better than the typical bot voice.
Or if you're really ambitious: let people create a voice model using their uploaded voice samples, so the bot sounds like them reading out the text 🤓
Coffee Website Replaced Their Full-Time Income
Today's email is brought to you by The Authority Site System (TASS).
I've now done in-depth reviews of 40+ popular affiliate marketing courses, and TASS ranks #1.
That ranking isn't just based on my own extensive experience with the course – the 52 student reviews we've collected have the biggest say in the ranking 🤩
A recent review…
My wife and I worked through the material and found it immensely helpful. Based on the AH training, we began The Coffee Folk, an affiliate marketing website. It started slowly, but reached the point that it was earning around the amount either of us would make with our full-time jobs.
Another…
What ultimately won me over were the numerous positive reviews of the course and the fact that they don’t make false promises of quick wealth. Instead, they provide a blueprint to steadily build a successful, profit-making affiliate website in a couple of years.
Helping Local Businesses = $800K Per Year
Daniel Thompson is a co-founder of Vancouver-based Saltwater Digital 🇨🇦
They provide “digital marketing solutions for small businesses” … so services like web design, SEO, paid ads, etc.
💬 In a recent interview, Daniel reveals…
We generated $800,000 in revenue and ~$150,000 in net profit in 2023.
Might not seem like a ton of profit, but that's likely after paying the salaries of the 2 founders, plus they have several employees and contractors.
Daniel again…
My partner and I got started in 2011 building niche sites. We would rank websites, put affiliate links on them, and earn a commission.
But…
In 2014, we made the switch to start serving local businesses.
The main reason, it was a lot easier to rank a local business than it was for lucrative affiliate terms.
I'm sure that still holds true for most places. Might be worth doing some keyword research for your local area, see what you could rank for 👀
Daniel reckons local businesses are always looking for help…
Most businesses need some form of digital marketing. Trying to find solid providers at a reasonable cost is difficult. Bigger agencies tend to be very expensive and working with freelancers can be a coin flip in terms of quality.
🤑 How Saltwater got their first client…
In 2013, we signed up our first client who was a referral from a friend. I think we charged him $400/month, and I spent a ton of time working on his campaign. And we grew from there.
He adds…
The beautiful thing about service businesses is they are incredibly simple to launch. There are virtually no upfront costs outside of our own time.
Plenty of services you could try this with 👇
Web design
SEO
Paid ads
Google My Business listing
Social media management
Email marketing / Newsletter service
Etc.
Last words from Daniel…
Starting a side gig has never been easier. There are so many good ways to make money and learn a new skill or two. And once you start you never know where it’s going to take you. I never imagined that learning SEO would lead me down the path I’m currently on.
My first site sucked, and whatever you do at first also won’t be very good. But you just need to start and start practicing.
🗂 She Makes $240K/Year Writing Resumes
From the archive, published January 2023…
Mary Southern is the founder of Resume Assassin, a resume writing service 📝
Starting out, Mary didn’t think she had many skills to start a business, and had narrowed down her list of business ideas to…
dog walking
dog poop cleanup 💩
alcohol delivery service
resume writing
Fortunately, she decided to give resume writing a go, and one of her first “great decisions” was to reach out to a resume-writing company in her local area (Austin) and ask them for some advice…
The company that I reached out to was willing to set up a phone call and chat… they gave me some great advice and pointed me in the direction of a professional organization created specifically for resume writers and career coaches.
IMO, this is a severely underrated and underutilized tactic when starting a business.
What if you reached out to 5 people who have created a successful business that you’d like to emulate? Even if only one of them agreed to have a quick chat with you, that could be a game changer.
Also of note from Mary’s story: she found her first clients by keeping her prices low. Her packages started at just $100 and some projects would take her 8+ hours to complete 😩
Five years later, having grown her business from $32K per year to $26K+ per month, her prices look like this…
$499 for an entry-level resume, $549 for a mid-level resume, $599 for a leadership resume, $649 for an executive resume, $150 for a cover letter, and $349 for LinkedIn optimization.
Mary mentions that she struggled with confidence when starting out, but she didn’t let that stop her from building a successful business 💪
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