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Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?

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Re: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?

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Post by heintzsight »

wesbos wrote: post #34

I wrote a book and video series on Sublime Text - https://SublimeTextBook.com It's done about 80k in sales in 3 months - I'm in the process of writing a blog post about how I did it, what worked and what didn't. It's not inexpensive, but it pays for itself quickly so people are fine with spending the $45 on the book + videos. Feel free to ask questions here so I have content for the post.

Hi Wes, I would very much be interested in the case study of what you did for marketing of the book. What did you do? How did you go about it after you wrote the book?

Thanks! Matt

Re: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?

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Post by heintzsight »

Although we haven't hit the $1K/mo just yet, we're getting close. Perhaps overly ambitiously, we started https://ceanow.org - we saw a need with the bad advice that was given to startups and wanted to educate the "advice-givers." Our audience is primarily accountants and lawyers. It's a SaaS model in education and there's been a lot of interest. The big problem is the time bandwidth.

Re: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?

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Post by extc »

smhanov wrote: post #310

I have three side projects that together became my "full-time" job. I'm able to spend a lot of time with my kids since I can work fewer hours. I'm tired all the time due to a 4 month old baby, so I'm not doing a lot of things I should. My method is simple and has only four steps. 1. Write something cool and put it online for free. 2. Wait 4 to 5 years. 3. Gather all the emails asking if they can license it or pay you…

Strangely, this is a 404: http://rhymebrain.com/en/

Re: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?

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Post by xrobotx »

Exuma wrote: post #355

I started a personal project last year that's currently pulling $350,000-$400,000 profit a month. Currently I'm working on scaling very hard. It was a good year, and it feels good that 15 years of insanely hard learning have paid off... It feels surreal, like I'm dreaming and I'm going to wake up.

what type of business is it ?

Re: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?

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Post by xrobotx »

jchatelaine wrote: post #91

I made https://QuickMail.io for lead generation (making +$5,000/month) This is the quick (1 min video) version of how I did it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0y28HmcqUo&feature=youtu.be This is the longer version: http://blog.quickmail.io/category/journey-to-1k-paying-custo...

congratulations, how do you get new customers ?

Re: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?

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Post by tonixx »

I've written some articles regarding bootable USBs and I've put them online: http://BootableUSB.net

With more than 330 comments, this is the most popular post: http://bootableusb.net/install-windows-7-usb-drive-easy-way/

The site brings about $700 per month from AdSense

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