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Free Games Site = $13K/Month 🎰
Welcome to a fresh edition of eBiz Insider, my free newsletter packed with tips, insights and opportunities to build your online business.
Today...
Free Games Site = $13K/Month
Starting Monday: Free 5 Day VA Challenge
Acquired Product: From $0 to $8K/Month in 6 Months
Jay-Z’s Unpaid Internship
Accidental Entrepreneur Now Earns $100K+ Per Year
My Big TV Appearance Last Week
From VA to $600K In Only 2 Years
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Free Games Site = $13K/Month
Nigel Hall is the founder of DemoSlot, a site that lets you play 100s of free demo casino games 🎰
Nigel kindly shared his latest numbers with us via email…
I recently had a 12k euro ($13K USD) month…
I started the site in 2021 and I would say it took around 6 months to start making 1k consistently a month.
🚀 How it started…
I got into the niche as I had worked in land based amusements in the UK for over 20 years so was well versed in slot machines and gambling.
I played online myself so trying to find a way into the niche was always something I had in mind, and demoslot in the end seemed the best way to do it.
DemoSlot itself is free to use as all the games are just fun play, no payment required.
💰 The site earns money via affiliate programs to paid casino games, like the ones listed on this page.
Nigel tells us…
Yes, this is all affiliate revenue and SEO [Traffic].
Additionally, if you look at the site header, there are a few language options, which surely helps Nigel attract a bigger audience 📈
Nigel's advice for others…
Concentrate purely on personal development and focus on the things you can change rather than those you can’t...
… and no matter how many times you feel like giving up, dig in, persevere and never give up.
My top takeaway here: Nigel leveraged knowledge he gained from previous work experience to build a successful website.
What niches or industries have you worked in before? 🤔
Could you leverage your knowledge and/or connections there to build an online business?
Starting Monday: Free 5 Day VA Challenge
Today's email is brought to you by The 5 Day VA Challenge.
This is a free challenge by Hannah Dixon to help you get started as a virtual assistant 🚀
You'll learn…
What skills to focus on
How to find clients
How to sharpen your entrepreneurial mindset
It starts Monday, April 1st (no joke).
One person who went through it before wrote…
I met super cool people and got a client by the end of the challenge!
Acquired Product: From $0 to $8K/Month in 6 Months
Tibo Louis-Lucas recently tweeted…
6 months ago, I acquired Typeframes - I thought I’d lose it all.
The tool had an awfully high churn rate (around 30%).
And the space is one of the most competitive I've ever seen 😱
Fast forward to last month, Typeframes reached $5K [Monthly Recurring Revenue] and just crossed $8K MRR 🤯
Tibo explains what Typeframes does in another tweet…
✅ create videos from text-only
✅ auto-sync with music beats
✅ generate a voice and talking avatars
✅ generate custom AI video footage
✅ access tons of video footage and animations
The goal: to make it so easy to create videos that you actually start creating some, and grow your business much more
Tibo acquired the business back in September 🤝
Unclear how much he paid, but it sounds like it was about to be abandoned by the founder so he likely got a good deal…
I wanted the tool to stay alive!
So, I made a proposal for it.
Typeframes didn't have any recurring revenue when Tibo bought it.
But just a couple of weeks later he tweeted that it was earning $377/month…
Typeframes growing slowly! 🎉
You may wonder why it was at 0 2 weeks ago?
Because it was not a subscription model and I quickly changed that.
Current challenge: justify the subscription model and find people who constantly need to build new videos.
Typeframes was a fairly simple text-to-video tool when acquired. Then Tibo started adding AI features like talking avatars, AI video and stock footage.
He's shared his progress via X, see all his tweets about Typeframes here 👈
To grow the business, it surely helps that Tibo has a big audience on X (114k followers).
But methinks his November launch on Product Hunt was a big turning point…
1700+ upvotes
#1 product of the day
#4 product of the month
Of course, that wasn't Tibo's first rodeo.
As you can see here, over the years he's gained a ton of experience building products and launching them on Product Hunt 💪
One of those "overnight success" stories that was several years in the making.
Anyway, here's an idea for you 👇
Start a service business with tools like Typeframes and Slant it.
Use them to create nice demo and promo videos for businesses.
Practice for a few weeks and get good enough to charge $500+ per video 🤑
To find your first clients: pick some businesses you admire and make some free videos for them, then reach out and ask for testimonials.
Leverage those samples and testimonials to find more clients.
🗂 Jay-Z’s Unpaid Internship
From the archive, published April 2022…
Here’s a story about the world’s first billionaire rapper 😎
From the book Empire State of Mind, describing a then-19-year-old Jay-Z…
Upon returning to the United States, Jay-Z talked his way onto the tour bus of Big Daddy Kane, a successful rapper from hip-hop’s golden age in the late 1980s and early 1990s. A host of hip-hop luminaries joined Kane on tour, including Queen Latifah, MC Serch, Shock G, and a young Tupac Shakur.
As a member of Kane’s posse, Jay-Z would sometimes go onstage during intermissions to entertain crowds with his spitfire freestyle delivery. Though Jay-Z today grosses millions per show, he spent four months in 1989 working the hip-hop equivalent of an unpaid internship—rapping for room and board, which consisted of a spot on the tour bus floor and a free pass at the buffet.
Gotta start somewhere, right?