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Clever affiliate site on track for $200,000 in Year 1 🚀
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New Affiliate Site On Track For $200,000 in Year 1
Build A Profitable Freelance Writing Business in 6 Weeks
$50,000 in 5 Months Thanks to His Crazy Offer
He Made $664K From 65 Videos About Lego
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He Started Charging For His Free Tool, Now Earns $6,000/Month
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Clever Affiliate Site On Track For $200,000 in Year 1
Check out Routines.club, a simple site that lists out the daily routines of highly influential people like Bryan Johnson, Andrew Huberman, James Clear, etc.
Here’s an example of James Clear’s routine throughout the day along with affiliate links to purchase the products he’s using 🤑
(Nice touch with the custom images as well, likely generated by AI.)
The site only has 13 pages indexed on Google, but founder Hamza J Alamtab tweeted back in December 👇
I launched Routines.club 6 months ago. It's mostly been on auto-pilot and is on track for $200K in EBITDA. Will do at least 3-5X that much in its second year.
Getting some acquisition requests (NOT SELLING).
(EBITDA = earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization)
💬 Asked if it’s all affiliate revenue, Hamza replied…
Yes sir - currently we're getting roughly ~40,000 unique visitors per month. Highly motivated audience + direct partnerships with brands for higher % = awesome revenue.
Hamza doesn’t have a big following, so it sounds like all that traffic is via SEO 📈
I reckon there could be a site like this in many niches.
With increasing skepticism of product reviews on Google and YouTube, consumers seem to be turning to industry leaders for recommendations.
Hamza isn't an industry leader himself, but he does a good job of collecting and presenting their recommendations 😎
Might be worth doing some research for a niche you're interested in, see how many people are searching for recommendations and what sites are currently serving them.
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$50,000 in 5 Months Thanks to His Crazy Offer
Manoj Ahirwar tweets…
I can't believe it 🥹 $50K in 5 months.
After leaving my Job, I started UniqueSide. My expectations were low but I went all in.
UniqueSide is Manoj’s Minimum Viable Product (MVP) studio where he works with founders to bring their product to life in 15 days.
Pricing starts at $6K per project 💰
Manoj adds…
In the last 5 months, I have worked with 8 awesome founders around the world and got their products come to life.
Elsewhere he mentions how it all started…
You just need one person to have faith in you!
In August, When I was just starting UniqueSide, I was failing to get any customers and that's when I decided to do something crazy.
I posted a tweet that I will build an MVP in 7 days. Yes, you read it right.
Many people start sh*tting in the comments but the founder of one company was interested and that's when it all started.
Here’s his original tweet – Manoj only had about 2000 followers at the time – and the founder who took a chance on him.
Apart from building for founders, Manoj builds a lot of his own products, all listed here 👈
Back to his first tweet…
I built it in 7 days (It was an Android app with a Python backend)
Sometimes you just have to do crazy things to get you started if nothing is working out.
2 things you need for a successful business…
A valuable product or service
A good way to promote that product or service
Manoj sharpened his skills by building lots of projects for himself over the years.
Then he came up with an eye-catching offer that got lots of attention on Twitter… 15k views on that tweet 👀
All he needed was one person to take that offer, then he worked his ass off to deliver and leveraged that success to land more clients.
Five months later, and he's earned $50,000 🤑
What "crazy thing" could you do to promote your business?
🗂 He Made $664K From 65 Videos About Lego
From the archive, published February 2023…
The YouTube channel is called Brick Experiment Channel and it has about 3 million subscribers 👀
I couldn’t find the name of the guy who runs it. Looks like he never shows his face or even speaks in the videos. He writes…
I’m a Finnish middle-aged guy and I run the channel by myself. I have worked for over 10 years as a software engineer. This video creation hobby combines the things I have always liked – physics, engineering and visual arts.
Some of his most popular videos…
He has a post here from November of 2022, detailing the earnings and growth of the channel 📈
I started Brick Experiment Channel in December 2017 and got accepted to YouTube Partner Program in June 2018. Now, October 2022, the total earnings are 664 thousand USD. That is 12500 USD per month. This is the money Google sends to my bank account, from which I pay taxes.
That was from only 65 videos on the channel, the average length of the videos being about 6 minutes. And it’s not like they have super-high production quality.
How to explain his success? There are tons of lego channels on YouTube and the vast majority get almost no views or subscribers.
What is this guy doing differently? 🤔
That’s a difficult question. I think some of them just make videos that have been done 50 times already. For example speed builds of common Lego sets. Sometimes the videos are too long, could be easily edited to 1/3 length. Or the entire purpose of the video is unclear. Many Technic videos show only the end result and therefore lack story. Annoying background music or a bad thumbnail may also have an effect. But often you don’t know. I never know which one of my videos will succeed