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$3000/month website about a popular TV show 🦈
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$3000/Month Website About a Popular TV Show
Running A Lead Gen Agency From an RV
Tips To Avoid Busywork & Shiny Object Syndrome
The Surprising Way A Gay Travel Vlogger Earned $995K
AI Made a Theme Song For This Newsletter in 20 Seconds
His User-Friendly Wrapper Made $8000 in 3 Months
$50k/Month in 5 Hours/Week
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$3000/Month Website About a Popular TV Show
Check out Shark Tank Recap, a site about the companies and products featured on the popular TV show Shark Tank 🦈
They have info on all the startups featured on the show. Eg. which shark funded them, latest updates, and an Amazon affiliate link to the product if available.
However, display ads are likely the main way the site makes money 🤑
SimilarWeb estimates the site gets about 400k visits per month, though organic (search engine) traffic is estimated to be only around 50k/month according to tools like SE Ranking and Keysearch.
A recent profile stated that Shark Tank Recap is pulling in $7K/month.
That number probably comes via the Google AdSense Calculator, where 400k monthly visits in North America under the Business & Industrial category works out to about $88,000 a year 💰
Let's be conservative though and say the site is earning more like $3000/month total from display ads plus affiliates.
That's still pretty good 👍
And it got me wondering if sites like this could exist for other popular TV shows.
It would probably work best for shows where there’s some kind of product tie-in so you can be an affiliate.
I asked ChatGPT for some suggestions and it came back with 👇
Dragon's Den
A recap site for the UK version of Shark Tank, following entrepreneurs and their pitches. Affiliate opportunities would be similar to those for Shark Tank Recap.
Hell's Kitchen
A site summarizing the chefs, challenges, and signature dishes from Gordon Ramsay's intense cooking competition show. Affiliate links could include kitchen equipment, cookbooks, or even restaurant reservations.
Blown Away
A site summarizing the glassblowing challenges, artists, and creations from this Canadian competition show. Affiliate marketing could focus on glassblowing tools, classes, or even finished glass art pieces.
Next step if you want to go further: do some proper keyword research to see if many people are searching for info on those shows 🧐
If that looks good and you decide to build the site, you could use AI tools like Video Mood or Video to Blog AI to help you summarize or write blog posts from a given video.
Or use this free method to do it with ChatGPT 🤖
Running A Lead Gen Agency From an RV
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Tips To Avoid Busywork & Shiny Object Syndrome
📝 Despite being an entrepreneur in full control of his schedule, Jakob Greenfeld writes that he was working "normal hours" from about 8am to 6pm each day…
It’s what everyone else does, so I just did it too.
Now I realize that this approach is far from optimal.
What was always happening is that I would work on things that didn’t really matter just to fill the time.
I rationalized this by thinking that every single little thing I can do helps.
You never know what task is the butterfly wing flap causing a hurricane.
Also tiny efforts compound, right?
🤔 But he eventually realized…
When you’re working so many hours and work on dozens of tiny tasks, you lose clarity of thought and quickly stop seeing the forest for the trees.
So you enter this spiral where you work on fewer and fewer tasks with truly big leverage.
More busywork starts to creep in.
And you start to feel like you’re not making progress.
So he switched to a new "productivity protocol"…
I keep a big Master List of tasks I could be working on.
Every morning I pick a maximum of three key tasks from the list.
When I get these tasks done I consider the day a success in terms of work. I can stop working without feeling guilty…
But here’s the key.
I’m not allowed to add any new tasks to my daily todo list during the day.
All new tasks go on the Master List first.
This stops him getting bogged down in busywork 👍
Also, to combat shiny object syndrome…
There’s always a 24 hour waiting period before I can start working on a new task.
Quite often it turns out the task no longer needs to be done or seems important/urgent enough to be worth my time.
Some nice ideas there you might want to test out for yourself.
🗂 The Surprising Way A Gay Travel Vlogger Earned $995K
From the archive, published May 2023…
Ever heard of Damon Dominique? 👀
He was part of the duo who amassed 500+ videos and 1.2 million subscribers on YouTube before calling it quits in 2019.
Their channel description…
We’re Damon and Jo – two 90s kids who got tired of cheesy travel shows and cookie-cutter travel hosts, so we took off around the world and made a travel show for the social media generation: Shut Up and Go. We post videos in English, Portuguese, French, and when we’re feelin’ lucky, Spanish, German, and Italian.
Damon has since been building up his own channel, with 100+ videos and 421K subscribers.
He likely earns a good income from YouTube ads and video sponsors 🤑
But a recent article reveals probably his biggest income stream…
The travel YouTuber Damon Dominique’s foreign language courses, for instance, are full of funny and beautifully edited videos in which he teaches students conversational French or Spanish, interspersed with entertaining stories about his escapades hitting on men at European raves.
[…] So far, more than 5,000 people have taken his $199 French course.
That works out to $995,000 in revenue.
Damon launched that French course in a March 2021 video, so it’s earning him about $500k per year 💰
If he had come to me 3 years ago and said he was going to launch a $199 course to teach people French, I would have told him not to waste his time.
After all, why would anyone pay $199 for a course like that when there are tons of free YouTube videos teaching French, and a bunch of awesome free language learning apps like Duolingo?
Goes to show the power of building an audience 💪
Apparently, if you forge a strong enough connection with people online, they will happily buy what you’re selling even if there are much cheaper options available.
AI Made a Theme Song For This Newsletter in 20 Seconds
The latest AI tool that's blowing everyone's mind: Suno AI 🤯
You basically give it a text prompt and it will create a song for you.
I fed it this prompt…
An upbeat song about my twice weekly newsletter, e-Biz Insider, all about online business ideas, insights and opportunities. Great for aspiring online entrepreneurs. In the style of modern hip hop.
It came back in ~20 seconds with this.
Really impressive, though the lyrics are pretty cringe 😬
I refined the prompt and tried again…
Upbeat song about my 2x weekly newsletter, e-Biz Insider, all about online business ideas, insights & opportunities. Great for aspiring online entrepreneurs. Modern hip hop style. Tone down the hype.
Give it a try yourself.
A free account lets you generate 5 songs per day 🤖
Listen to lots more examples here.
Incredible stuff.
My buddy Thomas Sorheim wrote about it 👇
AI is pretty much killing Google. Now Spotify is up…
Imagine what Suno and Sora will do for music and video. Stock images, stock video, stock songs, etc.
Crazy stuff!
Where will this all be in 2-3 years???
So much disruption coming!
(Sora is the AI video generator we featured a few weeks ago.)
This also got me thinking about another feature from the archive…
That guy was writing and selling custom rap songs on Fiverr, and making a good living doing it 💰
I guess those days are quickly coming to an end.
His User-Friendly Wrapper Made $8000 in 3 Months
(This one's a bit technical but has a non-techy takeaway.)
Hieu Dinh recently shared how he built CompressX, a macOS app that helps you compress images and videos locally on your machine 🤓
He explains…
FFmpeg is a powerful tool for converting, streaming, and recording audio and video content. I created a user-friendly wrapper for macOS that simplifies the process and adds some extra features for users.
FFmpeg is a command line tool which does not have an graphical user interface and can only be used via Terminal (the coding black box you see in movies).
Hieu basically put the whole code thing behind a nice app that anyone can use 😎
He adds…
I started CompressX as a weekend project to serve my 9-5 jobs, primarily to compress demo videos for uploading to GitLab or sending to my colleagues. It took me 2 weeks to make the first working version. I shared the demo on Twitter and the reaction was extraordinary…
Three months later, I hit the $8,000 mark in revenue. I never expected to make a dime from this project, let alone eight thousand dollars. It's been a surreal experience, but it's also been incredibly rewarding.
Not an uncommon approach: building a software business on top of other software.
For example, Jasper.ai got to a $1.5B valuation and all they really did in the beginning was help people get better results from openAI and other AI models 🤖
Another approach here is to find some complex software that lots of people use, become a certified expert, then start a consulting business.
Two examples of that 👇
🗂 $50k/Month in 5 Hours/Week
From the archive, published July 2021…
Check out LeadCookie.com.
You sign up for their service and they do outreach on your behalf to generate leads for your business.
Here’s an interview with Jake Jorgovan, the founder of the company, who says he started it “for virtually no costs” and runs the whole thing using no-code tools (Airtable, Zapier, etc.)
Now it generates $40-60k in revenue each month while he spends 4-6 hours per week on the business 🤯
How he found his first customers…
I reached out to a ton of people i knew and sold 15 customers in the first two weeks by going to people in my network.
Are there people in your network who might pay for your product or service?
Or might they know someone who would?
…
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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