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Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?

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Post by nekopa »

bdunn wrote: post #168

I have an email course (autoresponder) -> course sales funnel setup for Double Your Freelancing Rate which nets about $1-1.5k a day in sales, mostly on autopilot. This is by far the most successful funnel I've created for any of my products, and is performing really stinkin' well. Product: http://doubleyourfreelancing.com/rate/ Email course: http://doubleyourfreelancing.com/free-pricing-course/

I have to add that your free material is full of value. I am not affiliated with bdunn in any way, but I have gotten a lot of use just from some of the ideas in his free email stuff. Most recently it was regarding writing proposals, help me up my game in that arena.

So if anyone else is thinking of setting up this kind of autoresponder email course, make it valuable. I've been through a bunch of these kind of deals and there is a lot of crap out there.

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Post by cx42net »

I'm surprised to see that no one talked about money they make by selling themes or modules on sites like ThemeForest.

I personally make around 400/500€ per month by selling a few modules on the Prestashop platform, and this month I'll pass the 1.000€ bar, which feel awesome. I made around 3800€ in 8 month with just a few support, and this feels great !

We also launched the new version of VoilaNorbert (https://www.voilanorbert.com) that aims to find email of people with a slick and easy to use interface. Since the new release (two weeks ago), we made around 250$.

It's not much, but it's amazing :)

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Post by chrisdew »

jasonkester wrote: post #202
tjbiddle wrote: post #53

Just wanted to add a note: Most people who aren't making anything won't be posting, so results will be drastically skewed. So for anyone here getting discourage because they think their a minority - think otherwise (And then get back to work on trying to get your own setup ;))

I wonder if it skews both ways. I tend not to post on these threads because a.) they come up so frequently and b.) it sometimes files like it's just bragging to keep telling everybody that my business stuff is successful. I definitely agree on not getting discouraged. It's not in any way as hard as you think it is before trying. And you get better at it the more times you try. My history of products looks like: - Hey…

Yes, my first paying side-project (virtsync) was the fourth or fifth thing I'd started. I currently have three other ideas I'm working on, but I find it difficult to focus on one.

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Post by jmnicolas »

heliodor wrote: post #242
aembleton wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://pizzacharts.com doesn't work for me (get an SSL connection error) and my ISP (Virgin Media in UK) blocks http://pizzacharts.com

Would you be able to provide more details on that SSL error? The http url should redirect to the https (if your browser doesn't do it for you first).

It's even worse for me, the site is blocked by Sophos. It tells me it contains Mal/HTMLGen-A

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Post by drsintoma »

s3nnyy wrote: post #293
drsintoma wrote: post #4

My German job board https://englishjobs.de started generating around $50 per month on some link referrals, but the site is still on dippers.

Do you scrape the jobs from somewhere else or from where do you get the content from?

Everything, I get proper referral feeds, RSS feeds, some scrapping and on-site posting. Everything that is not posted on-site is a just link to the original source.

https://englishjobs.de/faq#sources

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Post by itengelhardt »

thepredestrian wrote: post #309
itengelhardt wrote: post #306

I make about $1,400 MRR from my SaaS app LinksSpy ( https://www.linksspy.com ). LinksSpy is a tool for SEO agencies that helps them find better link opportunities for their client's websites. I started it at the end of April 2014 (7 months ago) and it has grown ever since. Considering that I am moonlighting the app, it has been quite successful so far. AM(A)A

What did you do to market your app?

A bit of posting on reddit; spent a few bucks on FB/StumbleUpon/Reddit ads; Retargeting through PerfectAudience; Drip email campaign using GetDrip.com;

Word of mouth plays a huge part as well.

In addition to that I use LinksSpy to build more links to LinksSpy.

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Post by abrugsch »

edent wrote: post #223
abrugsch wrote: post #166

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wow... that rule of thumb makes it virtually impossible to buy-to-let in my neighbourhood. a "Cheap" 2-bed apartment is £150,000 and MAX rent for that kind of place here would peg somewhere about £600, but definitely nowhere near £1500. Even at a liquidation auction or lowballing a desperate seller, there's no way to buy anything habitable for under 60K

I do BTL in the UK. For our market, look at 1% of the mortgage . So, if you put down a 50% deposit on a £150k place, you'd want rent of £750. Actually, it depends very much on your circumstances, attitude to risk, how much you're happy to pay in agency fees etc. Also, in the UK, we don't tend to have 30 year mortgages, which makes predicting a stable price very tricky. The UK also has vastly different tax rates - and…

OK, those numbers are a little more favourable. Good to know if i'm ever in that position again.

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Post by bdunn »

imjk wrote: post #302
bdunn wrote: post #275

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I just crossed $200k in sales since I (re)launched in May, so yeah - about that.

That's awesome, congrats. How did you create your sales path? Did you use another model. Also, do you still work a salaried job? I assume this is your main source of income.

Haven't had a salaried job in more than 6 years, so no. All of my income is through the course I referenced, my SaaS (https://planscope.io), and a few other courses/books I offer.
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