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His Blog Post Made $466 Profit in 7 Days via Facebook
Boost Work Productivity With ChatGPT
Free Spy Tool To Boost Your Business
$8.7K/Month Helping People Write Thank-You Notes
His Pitch Deck Templates Make $15,000/Month
Latest Momentos
$5600 From Her Drop Servicing Biz in the First 6 Days
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His Blog Post Made $466 Profit in 7 Days via Facebook
💬 Hasib Alic tweets…
Facebook arbitrage is working really well, just like in the old days.
We spent $127 in the past 7 days to boost this article on Facebook and made $593 on Mediavine. That's a 360% ROI.
(Mediavine = Premium display ad network.)
Per Hasib's bio, he and his team are…
Managing a portfolio of 20 content sites with 15M+ visits a month.
He also runs Strevio, which offers…
A centralized dashboard to easily track, analyze, and report on the performance of Facebook pages.
Hasib goes on to lay out how he achieved that $466 profit on one article in 7 days 🤑
(He doesn't reveal his website or the exact article, btw.)
The first key is choosing the right article to promote 👇
1. Log into your Strevio account, select the timeline for the last 2 weeks, and sort your best-performing posts by number of clicks.
2. Check the CTR for those posts. It's a really important metric.We look for a CTR of 5%+ to make sure the arbitrage works.
3. Visit your Mediavine/Raptive dashboard and review the RPM of these posts. It needs to be at least $30 to be effective. The higher, the better.
Hasib uses his own paid tool (Strevio) for steps 1-2, but you could probably use Facebook’s own analytics for free or another FB analytics app instead.
Next step is to create a Facebook ad to promote your article 📢
Hasib's tips…
1. Standard link posts are the best for arbitrage
2. Target the US audience, ages 30 and above, and use really broad interests within your niche
3. Set a daily budget of $10
4. Track performance daily, comparing earnings on Mediavine against what you've spent on FB ads. If you see a positive ROI, gradually increase your daily budget, but do so cautiously, with a maximum of 50% daily budget increase.
5. Scaling can be approached in two ways: either increase the budget on one post or create multiple posts to boost. Both methods are effective.
I thought the days of Facebook arbitrage for bloggers were long gone, but apparently not.
And given Google’s recent updates and rise of AI, it makes sense for bloggers to diversify their traffic sources and not be so dependent on search engines.
Lastly: how about turning this idea into a service business? 🤔
Reach out to some established bloggers you like and offer to run Facebook ads for them, following Hasib's tips above.
If they're hesitant, tell them they only need a budget of $10/day for the ads, and you could work for free until they see results. Or figure out some kind of profit share 👍
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Want to get the most out of ChatGPT?
Revolutionize your workday with the power of ChatGPT! Dive into HubSpot’s guide to discover how AI can elevate your productivity and creativity. Learn to automate tasks, enhance decision-making, and foster innovation, all through the capabilities of ChatGPT.
Free Spy Tool To Boost Your Business
👉 Check out F5Bot…
a free service that emails you when your selected keywords are mentioned on Reddit, Hacker News, or Lobsters. Use it to monitor your brand, your projects, or just topics that you're interested in.
Heard about it via this tweet from Guilherme Oenning, where he jumped in a Hacker News conversation and subtly plugged his product, resulting in a sale 😎
Could be worth trying for your product or service.
But of course don't go overboard and use it to spam people.
Guilherme writes…
I don't plug on every notification I get, only when I feel like it's relevant (like when they ask).
💬 Someone replied…
F5bot is awesome, but not only for monitoring your mentions. I also use it to monitor similar products like me, to know what people said and check if i can do the same in a better way.
So you could also use this to keep an eye on your competition and get ideas to improve your own product or service 💡
🗂 $8.7K/Month Helping People Write Thank-You Notes
From the archive, published May 2023…
Heidi Bender’s website is Tons of Thanks.
According to a recent interview, Heidi started the site in 2014…
I started my website… to help people write thank-you notes. Before becoming a full-time writer, I worked as a data management consultant for twenty-two years.
Nowadays, Heidi says the site receives millions of visitors each year, with 99% of the traffic coming from search engines, and she’s earning $8,700 per month via display ads 💰
Heidi learned about blogging a couple of years before she started her website, and brainstormed a few different ideas she could focus on…
One idea that I shortlisted was thank-you note writing. My mom taught me at an early age to write thank-you notes, and I continued writing them as an adult. I surveyed my friends about the idea and learned that some had never written a thank you.
To further validate my idea, I found websites already helping people write thank-you notes. And several books had been written on the topic.
However, many of the example messages others were providing felt too generic. I could provide better examples of what a good thank-you note looks like, which would help people write their own meaningful thank you messages.
This is the origin story of many successful businesses: someone looking around for a particular thing, not finding the existing solutions to be good enough, then setting out to make something better 😎
It was a long slog for Heidi though. Sounds like the site earned less than $1000/month for several years, and she only started earning enough to quit her day job in 2021.
All that said, I can’t help but wonder how sites like Tons of Thanks will survive ChatGPT 🤖
Today, my first instinct if I want to write a thank you note is not to google around for a template. Instead, I go to ChatGPT, write a quick prompt, and instantly get back something good enough.
What do you think?
Will info sites like Heidi’s soon be a thing of the past? 🤔
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His Pitch Deck Templates Make $15,000/Month
Maximilian Fleitmann is an entrepreneur based in Berlin 🇩🇪 and the man behind BaseTemplates, which is a collection of pitch deck and fundraising templates.
Max shared in a recent interview…
The business right now is making $15k+ per month on amazing margins.
🤑 Max didn't actually start the business but acquired it…
In 2019 I was still operating my education startup, but was always attracted to test out new ideas. With one of these ideas, I wanted to participate in a contest. As I needed to build a pitch deck quickly, I searched for a great-looking and easy-to-use template.
And somehow, I found BaseTemplates Pitch Deck Template, bought it, and won the competition.
He adds…
Some weeks later, I found out that the guy who had initially created the product wanted to sell the whole business, and I was on fire right away.
So I jumped into the numbers right away and talked a lot with the founder about what already worked…
As a result, I made an offer right away, and luckily, we quickly agreed.
But 👇
When I took over BaseTemplates, just one product and a small content section existed. But there was already a regular stream of customers.
The first thing I did was create a plan that made it possible to 10x the business…
Almost four years later, BaseTemplates now offers a wide range of products and several free resources and tools. Not only was I able to massively increase the number of users who are coming to the website every day, but I was also able to increase the revenue massively.
Creating SEO-focused content was key…
When I took over BaseTemplates, there was mainly organic traffic which came from a couple of blog articles… I wrote 30 new blog posts and created specific pages for long-tail keywords like “Pitch Deck Business Model Slide”.
I see Max has recently introduced BaseTemplates Pro, which is a software that comes with templates, a CRM to reach out to investors, and gives you access to investor databases.
With that, Max has taken BaseTemplates from a simple template website to a multifaceted business with increasing revenue 📈
To follow in his footsteps, think about the products you buy online, especially digital products.
If you find a product you really like or with potential, you could inquire about buying the business, or perhaps start your own (better) version 💪
Latest Momentos
My latest batch of personal ramblings is here if you fancy a look 👀
From March 18th…
Some complaints about the newsletter are legit. Others seem to be people frustrated with their own struggles, annoyed that we haven't given them a highly customized foolproof step-by-step plan to achieve success. I try to tell them gently that such a thing doesn't exist, and never will.
🗂 $5600 From Her Drop Servicing Biz in the First 6 Days
From the archive, published March 2023…
This video from May Ng is from 2020 but I reckon there’s still plenty of opportunity to emulate her success.
She basically set herself up as a middle-woman 😎 providing services such as video editing, web design, SEO, etc.
May started with video editing and targeted property agents, as she had contacts in that line of work and they often need video editing services to show off their available properties.
May then found a well-reviewed video editing service on Fiverr, and copied the listing to Carousell.sg. Carousell is a goods and services marketplace for Singapore, where May is based 🇸🇬
She then took orders through Carousell, directing her property agent contacts to that listing.
After jumping on a call and sending her some work samples, one of May’s contacts signed up for the following service…
12 months premium package – $3997
– Cap at 15 videos
– Free 1x video ad promotion
She went on to sell some more packages within a few days, including SEO and web design services that clients requested from her.
After six days, she had earned $8000 Singapore dollars ($5600 USD) 🤑
Sounds like May outsourced most of the actual work to service providers on Fiverr. It’s unclear how much she paid those providers in total, but the pricing displayed for one is only $15 per video. So she probably paid just $240 USD for the package listed above, thereby earning herself a very nice profit.
All that said, don’t go thinking that drop servicing is a super-easy business. You still need some serious skills to succeed at something like this.
Skills like…
Sales
Identifying and hiring talent
Project management
If you can develop and master those skills, the sky’s the limit with this business model 📈
Btw, I found May’s video via this report from Trends.vc…
$250 Giveaway
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Thanks to Fardeen Khan for helping me write and research today's newsletter.
Hasta la próxima, rock on with your legendary self 💪
Niall Doherty – Canillo, Andorra
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