$10K per month helping people get into yachting 🛥️

We help aspiring adventurers with little or no experience in boating or hospitality, begin Yachting without wasting their time and money.

it has grown into a full-time business earning $10K/month.

In late 2022, Hugo began putting together some basic resources to help aspiring yacht crew members. This included PDF guides on how to create an effective CV/resume, a list of top crew recruitment agencies, and checklists outlining the steps to get started.

To get things going, Hugo turned to Facebook groups related to yachting and began engaging with the community, answering common questions, and adding value wherever he could.

Anytime someone asked a common question, Hugo made sure to answer it thoroughly. At the end, he’d say something like “If you want more resources on this topic, I’ve got a great guide here,” and include a link to opt-in to his email list.

… his first $299 sale for a basic package that included a 1-hour phone consultation and those same PDF guides he had offered as opt-in incentives.

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.

All-in-one Vacation Rental Software and Channel Management System

Uplisting possessed 1,500 customers and made $3 million in [annual recurring revenue].

When Vinny left for university in 2005, his parents bought a guesthouse with 16 rooms.

Seeing a new business opportunity, his mother [Sian] opened a school in the guesthouse for other mothers. She taught them how to cook cheap and healthy recipes, and it was a local success.

Vinny thought the world might want to participate in his mother’s classes, too.

Secured half a million in VC funding for his new startup…

Building a business under pressure from hard-won investors was also a pain. Sian’s Plan acquired roughly 10,000 customers…

In 2015, after three and a half years of effort, Vinny and his mother quietly laid Sian’s Plan to rest. But Vinny was far from defeated.

A general manager… at an Airbnb competitor in London called House Trip.

While working at House Trip, Vinny noticed a common customer complaint. Hosts would forget to update their property’s availability and pricing because they were too busy focusing on Airbnb.

Even when hosts tried to maintain listings across multiple sites, they’d run into trouble. “An Airbnb booking, for example, wouldn’t block the dates on other booking sites,” Vinny adds. “So they would eventually end up with a double booking which cost them money.”

Fortunately, it was easy to find customers. The industry craved a system for syncing rental stays. However, it was often challenging to integrate Uplisting with major booking sites…

After a couple of calls to Airbnb’s Ireland office over the first two years of operation, Uplisting secured an integration, even becoming a preferred provider.

Listening to customers and building for their needs helped in a big way. When you’re a bootstrapped company, every product decision has to make money. You make better decisions.

Vinny had put together a strong SaaS business that even his mother, Sian, was using.

I always like to remind people that the book was actually 5+ years in the making (learning and distilling the expertise) when I answer this question.

I think I originally heard of Jack Kerouac’s book written in three weeks and an interview where he’s asked “How long did it take you to write ‘On The Road’”, to which Jack replies, “Three weeks”.

But when Allen asks, “How long were you on the road for?”, Jack says, “Seven years”. In other words, Kerouac spent seven years and three weeks writing that book.