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New business ideas: $1.5M from 1 video, $11K/mo live selling, $1750 article writing 🤑
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Hey, it's Niall 👋
I get this question a lot…
What’s the most reliable way to make money online?
My answer is always the same: freelancing.
Not just because it worked for me — but because I’ve seen it work for thousands of others over the years.
It’s the path most people can start with right away, and it tends to lead to all kinds of opportunities 💪
Take Amber Daughn, for example. I mentioned her in my last email — she built a cool business that lets her travel the world (think Australia, Switzerland, Hawaii...) while organizing events.
But like many others, she started with just a simple freelance gig. Within 6 months, she was earning $7,000/month — and kept building from there 🚀
If you trace back most entrepreneurial success stories, you’ll usually find freelancing at the root of it.
It’s not flashy. But it works.
Alright, here’s today’s batch of ideas 👇
Niall Doherty
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LIVE SELLING
$11,000 Per Month Selling Plants On This App
🔒 Paywalled article but I'll explain…
Featured there is Sandi Liang, who earns $11K per month live-selling plants on Palmstreet.
Imagine if TikTok and QVC had a plant-obsessed baby... that’s Palmstreet 🪴
Sandi Liang always loved plants and found a smart way to sell them online with little backend work. She makes anywhere between $2,500 and $3,000 in just a few hours a day…
Since joining in July 2023, she has sold over 35,000 plants, with an average order of $50.
Another lady on the platform makes $148K/year working 20 hours per week 🤑
Worth trying this yourself if you love plants.
Bigger picture, eventually there could be an app like this for every niche.
Whatnot does it for collectibles and was recently valued at $5 billion 🤯
What other niches would this kind of app work for?
SAAS
10 AI SaaS Ideas From a $5M/Year Founder
Romain Torres is the founder of Arcads.ai, and AI tool for creating video ads
💬 He tweets…
Today, arcads.ai reached $5M ARR with a team of 5
we’re on track for $100M with fewer than 10
how?
… internal ai agents (and 10x engineers)
He goes on to list…
10 ai agents we use EVERYDAY to keep the team tiny
Strikes me that any one of these agents could be its own SaaS 😎
For example…
google ads ai agent
> generates new keywords based on results
> creates landing pages for each keywords with Claude
> adjusts automatically the bids on Google ads
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APPS
4 Years to $8000 MRR With His Piggyback App
💌 From another newsletter a few months back…
Dylan crossed $8K MRR with RCKit. It’s a third-party app to keep track of your RevenueCat reports
RevenueCat is a platform that makes it easy for app developers to enable in-app purchases, used by 38,000+ apps 🔥
Best I can tell, Dylan was developing another app when he saw some shortcomings with RevenueCat and built RCKit to fix them.
Classic piggyback strategy 🐷
What apps / tools / services do you use that could be improved by a third-party product or service?
Other examples of successful piggyback businesses 👇
MEME BREAK
When You Start Your Own Business…
TEACHING
He Made $1.5 Million From 1 YouTube Video
👀 Jordan Bown reveals on YouTube…
Everyone knows me for my free 18-hour dropshipping course I posted on YouTube. It was completely free and ended up getting 2.5 million views…
What blows my mind is that the average view duration is only 11 minutes and 39 seconds…
overall, the video has made me $77,000 in YouTube ad revenue alone…
The course is filled with a bunch of different affiliate links for companies that you genuinely need to use to run a successful dropshipping store.
I also have my own course platform called Jordan’s Library, and we have 600,000 people signed up. If people still need help after going through the 18-hour course, we offer a $100/month community group.
When you add up everything that came from that one free course video, we’ve probably generated around $1.5 million – which is just insane.
Nice business model: teach what you know for free on YouTube, earn money via ad revenue and affiliate links to useful products 💰
FREELANCE WRITING
Freelance Writers: Earn up to $1750 for 1000 Words
With all the hype about AI writing tools, you'd think high-paying freelance writing gigs would be a thing of the past.
But sites like The Cut are still paying well for original content 👇
What we’re looking for: Smart, generous, funny writing that engages with the Cut’s readers and finds a natural home on our website under one of our four verticals: POWER, SELF, STYLE, and CULTURE. We’re always open to essay, column, and feature pitches.
📝 Essays and columns…
$500 minimum for 1,000–1,500 words
💥 Features…
$600 minimum for about 1,500–2,000 words
How to pitch via the above link.
Another site that pays well for freelance writing is Mother Jones…
For print, rates start at $1.75 per word. For online, rates start at $0.75 a word.
So 1000 words = minimum $1750 for print, $750 for online 🤑
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