$40,000 per month from her little membership 😎

She had just signed a huge copywriting contract worth $20,000… her biggest one yet. But instead of excitement, all she felt was dread about the massive project she now had to take on.

And as a single mom, she knew the importance of creating a business that would support her lifestyle and allow her to be present for her family.

An idea hit her: by selling her “sawdust”—those newsletter templates she made—she could solve a recurring problem for her audience in a recurring way. All while minimizing her time investment…

She got the idea from helping clients one-on-one and seeing the problems they usually have with email marketing.

You know, relatively small, not a lot, but not a little.

She sent [her subscribers] an email with the subject line, “Can I have $9?” and shared her goal of reaching 100 members in 30 days.

“I’m gonna send you a newsletter template every single week. It’s $9. If you’ve been on my email list for a while, you know my stuff is awesome. So why not join?”

This strategy of public accountability created a sense of urgency and excitement around the launch, and within 28 days, Liz hit her first 100 members!

She decided to create an affiliate program to incentivize sharing. Offering 50% recurring commissions on every $9 membership was lucrative enough to drive strong promotion.

After only 3 months, she grew to 700 members with the help of these affiliate partnerships.

Liz’s membership sits at around 4,500 active members.

I can honestly say that without the CCA my copywriting business wouldn’t exist. Nicki walks you through everything you need to know, from the nuts and bolts of setting up a business from zero to how to write great copy. 

Thanks to her guidance, I’m making six figures and can work from anywhere.

Digital courses and newsletters are all the rage right now. There’s a million to buy and thousands on how to create them and Pip Decks is essentially a course.

But it’s a physical product so it’s instantly differentiated.

– It’s quicker (to create and read) than a book. It’s easier to reread than a book.

– It can be a write off. The product is bought by a lot of businesses on behalf of their employees. That lets you price the product higher.

– Coles notes for books, but in card formats. Could include multiple books in each theme pack.

– Take other peoples digital courses and create decks for them to sell.

– Decks for life stages.
–– 100 thoughts for your first 100 days in college.
–– 100 thoughts for your first 100 days working after college.
–– First 100 days as a parent.

– Workout decks. Could even have spaces to track progress.

I’ve always said that the key to finding success on the platform, is putting yourself in your clients’ shoes… This is why, in addition to freelancing on the platform, I also occasionally use the Upwork platform to hire

I was born in Venezuela in the ‘90s and grew up in a wealthy family that became poor due to a lot of circumstances…

In 2017, after another failure in business due to the country’s complex financial challenges, I had no choice but to leave Venezuela under very precarious conditions, only with 400 euros and a bag.

I went to Italy, to the house of a cousin who offered to host me for three months, yet after barely eight days, they kicked me out, and that’s how my life in the “first world” started.

Sleeping on the beach, broke, and using a restaurant’s former toilet as a storage room.

where I played poker for a living until I found my first job as a sales agent for an online broker.

That’s how I entered the financial space for the first time…

I was a teenager, I researched and read non-stop about forex, stocks, and trading overall, just out of a passion to learn about it.

So I could get a relocation package benefit and move to the island of Cyprus, where I thought I could find better opportunities.

One evening as I worked answering customers’ live chat questions, I thought to myself, “Someone should make a course or some resources that are truly beginner-oriented so people stop asking all of these silly questions.”

There were no high-quality beginner resources that could actually help people learn about finance and trading…

I bought the domain in February 2019 and parked it until September, when I launched my first basic HTML pages.

I never used a keyword research tool to do any of this; I used knowledge. Nowadays I would do it differently for sure, but that was my experience at that time.

I started writing articles about whatever I thought wasn’t covered in finance. Answers to questions about forex trading, broker reviews, etc.

We didn’t make money from people; we made money from companies. It was a B2B business. Brokers would pay us to advertise on our site.

Instead of focusing on a high volume of traffic, we focused on ranking for specific high-value, high-intent keywords.

All of our traffic was from search engines. SEO was the core of the business.

The strategy was simple: write content in the finance space and make sure that it’s high-intent articles for long tail keywords and also geo-targeted, to ensure the highest chance of ranking.

The site earns well over 5 figures every month and my latest hosting bill is still only around $20 [per month].

A freelancer sent me an email in ALL CAPS and I needed it in the normal case, so I built a prototype in around an hour rather than retyping it all.

I try to add a new tool around once a month and continue to invest in SEO and content optimisation. The site continues to grow.

The site started off ad free, but once traffic started picking up, Adsense was added. I’ve since migrated to a header bidding solution and try to recover adblocked traffic too as much as possible.