Day 12 of collecting rejections - changing my job board prices I'm now offering unlimited posts on my job board if companies pay a subscription of $299. I had considered this idea for my job board for self-taught and bootcamp developers
Ben Tossell makes $50,000/m with Makerpad Ben Tossell has been leading the charge of no coders in the past couple of years. His fast growing business Makerpad is currently making $50,000 per month. As barriers
Day 11 of collecting rejections - Meet Your Heroes recap In September I am going for a rejection each day in order to get out of my comfort zone. I did my first ever video interview on Monday with my Meet Your Heroes series talking to founders. I have obviously done about one hundred
Day 10 of collecting rejections - first Meet Your Heroes talk In September I am going for a rejection each day in order to get out of my comfort zone. Today I have the first live video interview with a founder
Day 9 of collecting rejections - asking for more Asking for shoutouts on Twitter I'm collecting rejections all this month in order to put myself out there more and get better results for my businesses. Today I sent a private message to some of the founders that are appearing on my Meet Your
Day 8 of collecting rejections Another day of collecting rejections in order to get better and make more money! I'm on track to make $3,000 this month which would be awesome - that means aiming to make $100 each day. At the moment I've made $1,075 in
Day 7 of collecting rejections - launching Meet Your Heroes I'm making an effort to put myself out there more this month. Today I launched a new project on Product Hunt - Meet Your Heroes. It's a weekly Zoom call
Day 6 of rejections - asking for more feedback on Revenue Report I've made a new product Revenue Report - 5 min reports on how different founders make their money, their pricing strategies and their marketing tactics. There's lots of information out there which is out of date and there are new and exciting makers making
Day 5 of collecting rejections - approaching newsletter sponsors Today I approached someone I had previously contacted about sponsoring my newsletter. They had said previously that their product wasn't quite ready yet but that was a couple of months ago now. I'm making an extra effort to put myself out there just now
Collecting rejections day 4 - trying Tiktok I made my first Tiktok video just now! It's a demo of a great site I use a lot, Startup Name Check. I wrote about it previously here. There is
Collecting rejections day 3 - getting a newsletter sponsor I'm putting myself out there more and sharing the results. Today I got $125 for one newsletter advert for No CS Degree. Bear in mind I started this only a
Day 1 + 2 of collecting rejections Something I'm really big on is getting out of my comfort zone. It's essential as an entrepreneur because working for yourself is , well, just incredibly uncomfortable! Collecting rejections is based
Validate your ideas by asking for money with pre-orders In 24 hours I've made $400 in pre-orders for my Monetize Your Newsletter course and my upcoming revenue reports on how companies actually make money and how you can too.
How Key Values makes $300k a year with one founder Hey, I fancy trying out some more of my own analysis on how companies make revenue. This is my analysis of Key Values. I first heard about this business on
I'm making a newsletter course I get loads of messages about how to make money from a newsletter. I made $1450 in one month just from newsletter sponsors recently. So I decided I would make
What happened when I took a weekend off work No deals fell through, no sites failed and there is no reason to work weekends again. The problem with not having a boss is there is no-one to tell you
What tech stack do I use? It doesn't matter. Don't ask founders what stack they use - ask how they make money. It's something I remember obsessing over as well when I was starting out. I'm not trying to
Sales tips for indie hackers A few indie hackers asked me about pricing products. It's good to share sales tips publicly so more entrepreneurs can learn and make money online. When to charge? As early
June 2020 open report for No CS Degree: $2,523 June was my best month yet for No CS Degree with $2,523 in revenue! Selling more newsletter ad spots was definitely a game changer. I also published an ebook
Mailchimp vs Email Octopus and how to combine the two! I've recently moved my No CS Degree newsletter from Mailchimp or Email Octopus. I compare them and show how to get the best of both worlds! Mailchimp vs Email Octopus
Review: Daniel Vassallo's Anyone Can Build a Twitter Audience course I bought the Everyone Can Build a Twitter Audience course last Monday. My next tweet got 1,000 likes and 100 retweets. My previous best was 250 likes. I gained
How you can self-publish a book for free I wanted to explain how you can write and publish an ebook for free. I've made $275 from my Imposter Syndrome ebook on Gumroad. Here's how to self-publish a book
How these 12 open startups performed in April 2020 I thought it would be fun to see how some people did with their businesses over the last month. I've added profit where it's available. Lots of entrepreneurs are sharing
Open startups report for No CS Degree - April 2020 Revenue: $1,465 (up 46.5% from March)Costs: $165Profits $1,300 I had a really tough start to the month and had only made $45 two weeks in. Still,
I have now made $10,000 with my No CS Degree website I've made this money from a variety of income streams and it's generally pretty good to not be reliant on one source of money. Here's a quick breakdown: Newsletter sponsorshipThis
