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How Trump is making people money online ($3681 from 1 sticker) 🇺🇸
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How Trump Is Making People Money Online ($3681 from 1 Sticker)
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His Mini Apps Earn $21K/Month From 300 Customers
This Habit Helped Him Build a $38M/Year Company
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How Trump Is Making People Money Online ($3681 from 1 Sticker)
📝 An article from The Verge…
An excerpt…
Within hours of a shooter attempting to assassinate Donald Trump at a rally on Saturday, countless products emblazoned with an image of Trump, bloodied and fist raised, were for sale on e-commerce platforms.
For example, listed as bestsellers on Amazon are this $12 mug and this $16 t-shirt 👕
Lots of similar products on Etsy, including a bunch of digital downloads.
This $7.50 digital download is listed as "popular now" and I wouldn't be surprised if it has sold 100s of units already 📈
I also found this $11.49 gag gift on Etsy. It's basically a fake donation receipt to the Biden-Harris campaign that people can send to Trump supporters.
Etsy Hunt estimates that 867 sales of that product = $9,961 revenue 💰
Perhaps more impressive is this Trump Merica Svg.
Priced at $2.66, Etsy Hunt estimates 1384 sales = $3,681 revenue 🤑
And that's a digital download, basically just an image, no shipping costs. People buy the image to put it on t-shirts, stickers, etc.
Back to that Verge article…
Any enterprising sellers with two free minutes and a Redbubble account can get in on the action — and so far, platforms seem willing to accommodate the merch. And if there’s money to be made, you can bet someone out there will try to make it.
Btw, I posted this on X a couple of days ago with some other examples 👍
And now that Biden has dropped out of the race, I guess there will be a market for merch related to whoever replaces him.
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His Mini Apps Earn $21K/Month From 300 Customers
Sorin Alupoaie from Ireland 🇮🇪 is the founder of Swifteq where they create "Zendesk Apps to help Support teams"
(Zendesk is a popular customer support software with 100,000+ customers.)
📝 In a recent post, Sorin writes…
This month, I hit an important milestone — over €20,000 [$21.7K] in monthly recurring revenue (MRR) and over 300 customers with Swifteq…
Swifteq is completely bootstrapped (no outside investors), solely founded and profitable, which is a great feeling.
Here’s their entire suite of 11 apps listed on Zendesk Marketplace.
🧐 What worked for Sorin…
Built useful tools: I’ve focused on creating apps that make a real difference in my customers’ day-to-day work. All my recent apps have paying customers, and some are driving a lot of our recent growth.
Automated routine tasks: I’ve freed up my time by automating parts of the trial and customer lifecycle processes that used to take up too much of my day…
Started taking marketing seriously: I’m still new to this, but I’ve made good progress recently.
Looking at Zendesk Marketplace, there’s 3 ways you can work with them 👇
For app ideas, you could look through the marketplace and find poorly rated apps. If lots of people are complaining about one, there may be an opportunity to build a better alternative.
You could take the same approach with themes 👍
And the consulting side of things can also be a big business, as we've seen from this Asana and Pipedrive consultant…
💬 Last words from Sorin…
Building great products for my customers is still my priority, but I’ve learned that it takes more than that. You need to build a business around your products, and that means marketing, sales, support, and everything else.
🗂 This Habit Helped Him Build a $38M/Year Company
From the archive, published Nov 2023…
Nathan Barry is the founder of ConvertKit, an email marketing platform that earns about $38 million per year 💰
In a recent interview, Nathan was asked about the most important habit he’s developed as an entrepreneur…
His reply…
Patience… someone described me as short-term impatient and long-term patient.
I’ve also heard this referred to as: impatient with actions, patient with results 😎
Nathan adds…
With ConvertKit it took two years to get to $2,000 a month in recurring revenue and then the very next year we went from $2,000 to $100,000
So Nathan had to be very patient during those first 2 years.
The key, he says, is to focus on the things you can control 👇
Say we’re tracking revenue as our goal for building a software company, that’s not actually within your control, that requires a bunch of [other] people to say yes…
… you have to set the goal at something that you can control.
Trent Dyrsmid, a good friend of mine, talked about his first business, he was selling IT services.
He knew the thing he could control was how many cold calls he made to pitch his IT services.
And so every day he had two jars on his desk. One had 50 paper clips in it, the other was empty. And he was done for the day when he had made 50 cold calls and he had moved all the paper clips from one jar to the other.
That’s something you can control.
(Btw, Trent sounds like the real deal.)
What are the key tasks in your business that you can control, and can chip away at day after day? 🤔