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How Nicole Burke Built a $6M Business Training 2,000 People to Compete With Her


Nicole Burke charges $3,000 to teach people how to run her exact business. Almost 2,000 of them have paid to be a part of it. They open up new ...

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How Nicole Burke Built a $6M Business Training 2,000 People to Compete With Her

How Matt Giovanisci Built a $1 Million Pool Care Business That Barely Needs Him


In 2017, Matt Giovanisci announced to the world that he was going to turn his “silly little blogs into behemoths in their respective industries.” Today he runs Swim University, ...

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How Matt Giovanisci Built a $1 Million Pool Care Business That Barely Needs Him

How Tiffany Uman Turned The Unwritten Rules of Promotion Into a $1.1 Million Business


Tiffany Uman spent thirteen years climbing L’Oréal from the inside, and she was very good at it. Seven promotions in under ten years, finishing as a senior director with ...

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How Tiffany Uman Turned The Unwritten Rules of Promotion Into a $1.1 Million Business

How Lars Tiger Made $1 Million Releasing Music Under Fake Names


Lars Tiger spent 30 years building a name in the music business. He wrote #1 songs, ran a label, and even mentored artists on Idol. Through all of it, ...

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How Lars Tiger Made $1 Million Releasing Music Under Fake Names

How Tiago Forte Made $2.15M For Ideas He Hasn’t Finished Testing


Tiago Forte has spent more than a decade teaching one method. It’s called Building a Second Brain, it made him one of the best-known names in productivity, and the ...

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How Tiago Forte Made $2.15M For Ideas He Hasn’t Finished Testing

How a Boss She Couldn’t Afford to Leave Built Tori Dunlap a $4 Million Business


In 2019, a 25-year-old marketing employee in Seattle walked out of her corporate job. That walkout became a brand, then a bestselling book, then a company that brings in ...

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How a Boss She Couldn’t Afford to Leave Built Tori Dunlap a $4 Million Business

How Emanuel Cinca Turned a Newsletter for Affiliate Marketers Into a €3 Million Business


In 2018, Emanuel Cinca had an idea to start a newsletter. He’d come up through affiliate marketing, and before that, poker. Both had trained the same instinct: he could ...

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How Emanuel Cinca Turned a Newsletter for Affiliate Marketers Into a €3 Million Business

How Graham Cochrane Made $160,000 a Month Working Five Hours a Week After 18 Months On Food Stamps


Graham Cochrane makes about $160,000 a month, and most weeks he works around five hours to do it. He picks his daughters up from school every afternoon, and the ...

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How Graham Cochrane Made $160,000 a Month Working Five Hours a Week After 18 Months On Food Stamps

How Ellen Yin Grew A $3 Million Business By Killing Her Most Profitable Offer


Ellen Yin dropped out of corporate life at 23 and built a creator business the way you’re supposed to. The webinar that ran while she slept. The low-ticket products ...

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How Ellen Yin Grew A $3 Million Business By Killing Her Most Profitable Offer

How Sam Vander Wielen Built An $8M Business On Templates The Legal Industry Never Thought To Sell


In 2016, Sam Vander Wielen was a corporate attorney in Philadelphia, with awards on the wall and a career it had taken years to build. Then she quit, and ...

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How Sam Vander Wielen Built An $8M Business On Templates The Legal Industry Never Thought To Sell

How Sarah Renae Clark Turned One Coloring Problem Into a $5 Million Business


When Sarah Renae Clark sold her first coloring book, she didn’t own a single colored pencil. She’d designed the thing in a day, posted it into a Facebook group ...

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How Sarah Renae Clark Turned One Coloring Problem Into a $5 Million Business

How An Appliance Repairman Made $1.8 Million On YouTube Using Sales Techniques Older Than The Internet


Ben Schlichter has been fixing washers, dryers, and refrigerators out of a small appliance shop in Circleville, Ohio since 2018. In 2022, almost on a whim, he put on ...

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How An Appliance Repairman Made $1.8 Million On YouTube Using Sales Techniques Older Than The Internet

How a Tech CFO Built a $500K Newsletter by Taking Notes Nobody Else Would


In late 2020, a new tech CFO opened a Substack as a notebook for an audience of one: himself. He was learning the job faster than he could remember ...

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How a Tech CFO Built a $500K Newsletter by Taking Notes Nobody Else Would

How Julia Taylor Built a $600,000 Business That Her Audience Doesn’t Pay For


In 2024, Julia Taylor’s business made $867,000 and was going backwards. GeekPack had been running six years. There were 180,000 followers across social, a 25,000-person newsletter, a flagship course, ...

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How Julia Taylor Built a $600,000 Business That Her Audience Doesn’t Pay For

How Milly Tamati Sold $114,000 In a Single Weekend From a Scottish Island of 191 People


In 2022, Milly Tamati wrote a LinkedIn post sheepishly from a Scottish island with a population of 191 people. She asked if there were any other “generalists” out there. ...

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How Milly Tamati Sold $114,000 In a Single Weekend From a Scottish Island of 191 People

How a VP of Product Turned a Substack Newsletter Into a $1M Business


For fifteen years, Aakash Gupta got paid to figure out why people buy things. He had done it at Google, then at Affirm, then at Apollo, where the company ...

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How a VP of Product Turned a Substack Newsletter Into a $1M Business

How Olly Richards Turned a 118-Page Google Doc Into a $1.2M Business


Olly Richards had spent ten years building a language education business called StoryLearning. By 2023, it had crossed ten million dollars in sales and was running on about four ...

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How Olly Richards Turned a 118-Page Google Doc Into a $1.2M Business

How Leonie Dawson Made $15 Million Selling Everything She Knows for $99 a Year


Leonie Dawson has been making things and putting them on the internet since 2002, and for the past sixteen years, the thing she’s made most is courses. Whatever she ...

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How Leonie Dawson Made $15 Million Selling Everything She Knows for $99 a Year

How David Perell Built A Course Everyone Loved And A 7-Figure Business That Couldn’t Survive It


David Perell built a writing course that students called “life-changing” 39 times in a single round of post-cohort surveys. More than 2,000 people enrolled at prices reaching into the ...

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How David Perell Built A Course Everyone Loved And A 7-Figure Business That Couldn’t Survive It

How Kat Norton Made $2M a Year Selling Excel in a $15 Market


Microsoft Excel might be the most taught skill on the internet. YouTube has thousands of free tutorials covering every function from VLOOKUP to pivot tables. Udemy sells courses for ...

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How Kat Norton Made $2M a Year Selling Excel in a $15 Market
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