Clever affiliate site on track for $200,000 in Year 1 🚀

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).

Yes sir - currently we're getting roughly ~40,000 unique visitors per month. Highly motivated audience + direct partnerships with brands for higher % = awesome revenue.

Copy Sharks exceeded my expectations.

Mike and Tom helped me set up an excellent profile on Upwork. I got the perfect gig within a month paying $80/hour!

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.

In the last 5 months, I have worked with 8 awesome founders around the world and got their products come to life.

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.

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.

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.

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’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

I have been searching for a job as a Freelance Copywriter for a month now. I've reached out to over 300 companies of all types and sizes. Only five have responded, and it was just to politely decline my services. 

I worked as a B2B Writer for two years at a small company and have some knowledge in copywriting due to some small copywriting tasks. My goal is to make a career as a Freelancer in this field, but it's proving to be quite challenging.

I think you haven't found a job as a copywriter because LLMs like Co-Pilot, Bard, and ChatGPT make it very easy for everyone to write something that's good enough.

I recommend you check out how to send bulk cold emails. I tried sending 1500 cold emails a week and landed 2 clients.

In the past year I’ve worked with 100+ b2b companies and one of the main lessons was that selling generic offers is incredibly hard.

“We do FB ads”

“We do SEO”

Or even worse:

“We do SEO, Google Ads, Landing Pages, Recruitment,… really anything you’re willing to give us money for.”

There are a gazillion agencies offering the exact same thing…

Not a fun game to play.

when you start coining your own unique mechanism, you start playing a completely different game.

“Our ‘Growth Amplifier Matrix’ supercharges e-commerce brands to break 7-figure revenue ceilings.”

“Through our ‘Impact Velocity Method’, we drive exponential user engagement for mobile apps.”

No one else is offering this.

Suddenly you’re operating in a category of one.

Prospects will actually want to learn more.

Humans and curious by nature.

When they hear a new phrase they feel a pull to understand it.

All it takes is taking your existing offer, writing down every single tiny piece that makes it unique, and then coming up with a cool sounding name.

When I started writing and publishing open-source software about 15 years ago, I was pretty radical about it… Getting another A-category company to use my open-source libraries like Nodemailer was a badge of honor…

I even went so far that when a founder of a major transactional email service sent me an email regarding Nodemailer and offered to make a donation to promote my efforts, I rejected it.

A startup using Nodemailer was acquired for half a billion dollars.

I was financially not in a good place back then, and when I saw the news, I started to wonder – what did I get out of this?

Sending email notifications was a huge part of that service, and they probably sent millions of email notifications a day using Nodemailer.

At the very least, I saved them tons of developer hours by providing a free and solid library for sending these emails.

The subscription fee was 250€ per year…

Well, it turns out my business plan was bonkers. I only gained a few paying subscribers…

After a year and a half and 750€ in total revenue, I decided to jump ship — enough of providing free stuff.

I re-designed the UI of the app to look more professional and implemented a license key system [for paying subscribers]… I also changed the license… to a commercial license.

I kept the price the same, 250€ per year, and during the first month, I sold 1750€ worth of subscriptions.

That's like twice the amount I made in the previous year and a half, and it sealed the fate of the project.

Next, I started to increase the pricing; 250€ became 495€, then 695€ and 795€, and finally 895€.

The current MRR for EmailEngine is 6100€ [$6,622] and grows steadily, which in Estonia, where I live, allows me to pay myself a decent salary so that I can work on my project full-time.

The only regret I have is that I did not start selling my software earlier and only published free, open-source software…

Selling to business customers is definitely more reliable and predictable than depending on the goodwill of random people.

Hello! [Insert life story.] What should I do?

I’m thinking about [action]. What do you think?

I’m trying to A, and I’m having trouble. So far, I’ve tried B with result C, and D with result E. Now I’m stuck. Any guidance?

A month after completing the Copy Sharks course, I’ve been consistently getting jobs from Upwork and I’m starting to see the positive results of this course.