@austin_rief
Let me fix this for you:
YouTube Q4 revenue: $8.6B
Netflix Q4 revenue: $7.7B
YouTube estimated will pay to content creators: ~$16B
Netflix content budget: $14B
Note: bottom two are years... top two are quarters.
How to spend $100 to make $1,000
Pay yourself $10 per hour to make a video course.
Make:
@Loom
is free
Sell:
@Gumroad
is free
Promote:
@Twitter
is free
@ProductHunt
is free
@morqon
The nuance is lost here. OpenAI is not his first venture. If you're starting out, young, and want to make something. Then do it fast, with little money and talk to users. Great advice for someone starting out!
Get to $3k/Month
What can you do?
❌no coding
❌no consulting
Here's 10 ideas you can do with just Google Sheets &
@Gumroad
1. Lead Generator
Capture data to a Sheet. Sell access to a sheet via Gumroad Memberships &
$100 a month to 30 customers
@Austen
Startups also get "crushed" by acquirehires.
The Deck couldnt keep up with ads.
Medicine Films couldnt keep up with YouTube
You dont know what google crushed because its crushed.
$100k in 2 years selling Google Sheet tutorials and Google Sheets.
👍82% from Memberships
✍️16% from Info Products and Scripts
🤝2% from Workshops and Consulting
AMA
How to start a Curated Newsletter:
1. Set up google alerts for your industry
2. Add more google alerts until you can at any moment read 100 good articles.
3. Read 100 good articles.
4. Include 10 great ones in a curated list.
in 6 months start to add your own writing.
For 18 months, BetterSheets has been a side project, a side hustle.
It's a bootstrapped course, community, and sorta a google sheets product studio (OnlySheets, Twitter Templates, and many more to come)
no more.
BetterSheets is my job now.
I acquired a SaaS in one weekend.
This is that story
I had been a user of
@thepatwalls
's
@TryPigeon
for Gmail for well almost 2 years.
I loved it. I wrote about it. I wrote about my love for it.
Explore the Newsletter Virtual Mall
A smorgasbord of 56 newsletters for every taste.
🎮 Nintendo News
🇨🇳 C-Pop
👶 Business and Babies
🏅 Underdog stories in sports
👩🍳 One for home cooks
Let's go for a stroll.
Note: Newsletter goodies in the food court.
Turning 38 years old today
❌🍺Haven't drank in 2 years
🚭Not a smoker
🍔Still fat
🍼Had a baby
☕️Still drinking gobs of coffee
🍟Can't stop downing the gummies
📖Reading more than the last few years
🧠Facing the idiot inside me, head on
🧘♂️At peace with my anxiety for once
I'm writing a book.
A book I should have read 4 years ago but it didn't exist.
There's a lot of business books but not much in the indiehacker, solo founder realm.
Got more suggestions?
Make -
@levelsio
4 Hour Work Week -
@tferriss
Embedded Entrepreneur -
@arvidkahl
@mgreiler
I was on a meet and greet call. My son was a few weeks old sleeping on my lap.
At some point late in the call each person shared something that made them smile.
I raised the sleeping baby from my lap to the camera.
It was quite a splendid reveal.
💰💰 January 2023 Revenue for Better Sheets 💰💰
$9,556.44
TL;DR
👍 96% via
@AppSumo
Marketplace
👎 Few sales via
@Gumroad
(RIP)
🚀 Sales increasing on
@udemy
🧠 Need to "double down"
Celebrating the 3rd year anniversary of
@BetterSheets
Launched April 3rd 2020
🚀 $200,000 Revenue
🚀 5,238 Members
🚀 318 Tutorials
🚀 10 Courses
🚀 4 Google Sheet Add-ons
I legit searched for a new domain name to buy... it was taken...
I went to check what was on that domain.
It redirected to a gumroad page.
MY OWN gumroad page.
I bought the domain last October.
All Facts, No Brags
$10k Revenue in July 2022 for
@BetterSheets
↳$8,667 in LTD memberships via AppSumo
↳$410 in products via Appsumo
↳$587 in products via Gumroad
↳$499 in consulting via Stripe
🚀Launching Today on Product Hunt🚀
100 Sheets you can add to your Google Sheets instantly.
🛬Lovely Landing Pages
🎯Delicious Dashboards
✅Hand Crafted To-Dos
🐦Social Shares
Built by
@BetterSheets
🚀 Start a youtube channel in 100 minutes:
→ Find 10 questions you can answer on 1 topic.
↳ Record 10 looms (less than 5 minutes each)
↳ Download the looms
↳ Upload the looms to YouTube.
You are a YouTuber.
It's been 2 years
+ 177 videos
+ 3,000 members
+ Countless Google Sheets
+ Google Sheet info products
+ Google Scripts and Software
+ Google Sheets Templates
+ Over 25 hours of tutorials
Better Sheets is finally on Product Hunt!
Check it out, meow
Doing a little study.
Finding out the true usage of spreadsheets >>>
Just 10 questions asking how do you use spreadsheets.
Those who respond get to see the results first!
Public results coming July 31st, 2023
Write 1,000 posts that each average 82 visits per month.
That's only 33 posts per day.
On average that's about 14 minutes each.
Here's how I would do it....
If you want to sell a site for $100k, this is for you.
You need to create a site with a monthly profit of around $2,858.
At a $35 RPM, you'd need 81,680 monthly visitors.
You can create:
100 posts averaging ~816 visits/month
Or
250 posts averaging ~326 visits/month
How to Build in Public for people who don't like to promote themselves.
All Facts.
No Brags.
State the stats and your experience. No need to use hyperbole or buzzwords. Document your progress and path to where you are at.
A
#GumroadDay
experiment
I've created 10 Single Use Coupon Codes for Better Letters
Normally $79
Get between 90% and 99% off if you use one of these codes.
Only 10 available.
One for each Percentage off.
If it doesn't work, it's been used.
To celebrate
@BetterSheets
' price increase to over $50 here is a list of products under $50 that will actually change your life.
Feel free to reply with anything that changed your life for less than $50.
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Seeking someone who
✅Loves Creators
✅Codes Ruby on Rails
✅Can work with Stripe API (at least be able to read the Docs)
✅Wants to build a SaaS for Creators
Bonus points if you've got a profile on
cc:
@joemasilotti
DM me something you made.
Announcing Spreadsheet Automation 101
Deep dive into Google Apps Script so you can automate your business in Google Sheets.
📺 29 Tutorials
🕰️ 2 Hours and 53 Minutes
👍 Watch and learn at your own pace
It costs less than $100/month to run
@BetterSheets
.
✉️ $6/m for Gsuite for customer service
💳 $10/m for
@gumroad
for sales
🏠 $4/m for
@carrd
for homepage *yearly pricing
🧑🤝🧑 $25/m for
@memberspace
for new site
🎥 $8/m
@Loom
for making videos *yearly pricing
8 Alternative Sources For Your Curated Newsletter
1. Industry Studies/Reports
2. Reach out to Journalists directly
3. Statista
4. Archive . org
5. Company Blogs
6. Primary Sources
7. HARO
8. Wikipedia
4/10
Charge Something Now!
Do anything you can to monetize sooner.
Use
@buymeacoffee
or
@PayPal
.me
Create a 10 page PDF on
@gumroad
Create a Google Sheet swipe file you sell for $10.
Don't wanna use money?
@tryrollhq
will issue you social currency.
Make $1,000 a month from Google Sheets
- Sell 100 copies of a $10 Local Travel Guide
- Sell 10 Audits of a $100 SEO Audit
- Sell 5 Lists of Qualified Leads for $200
- Sell 20 Video Courses at $50 of Unlisted YT videos
Just under $10,000 gross revenue for Better Sheets in October, 2022.
$9,757.00 Total
🚀 95% via lifetime memberships
🛠 3% via templates and tools
💬 2% via consulting
96.06% via AppSumo
1.52% via Gumroad
2.42% via Stripe
99.6% One-Time Payments
00.4% Recurring Revenue
Every newsletter writer, or curator can and should create a map of their industry.
Not to see what there is.
Not to show what there is.
But to see the gaps.
And show what's not there.
And revel in what is yet to be.
"On Writing" by Stephen King can be summed up in one habit he has: write 6 pages a day.
For the past 6 months I've had SEO on the brain, and been pushing the ball up the hill every day.
Turn that into 6 years and I think it'll be an absolute success.
8 Lead Magnets For Your Community
... that you can build in Google Sheets for free.
1. Community Calendar
2. Event List
3. Coffee Chats
4. Match Making
5. Skill Share Sheet
6. Community Map
7. Content List
8. Virtual Library
The number 100 is daunting and glorious.
everyone can write "10 hacks to..."
"10 tools...."
"15 people to follow"
Put a list of 100 together.
Make it sortable.
Make it filterable.
Make it fun.
Make an index.
Make it a map.
Make it visual.
Wanna livestream coding or building a new site?
But scared of messing up, like me?
Use
@loom
Record it.
You can always stop a loom.
You can always resume a loom later.
You can always restart a loom.
How to Support Newsletter Writers without Paying for their Substack.
• Reply w/ how you've used their writing/curating
• Forward their email to someone who will subscribe.
• Send them a Starbucks card
• Email them interesting stuff you've read
• Tweet about'em
How to Tweet about Your Newsletter
- Celebrate Every Milestone: 3 months, 6 months, etc. 10 issues, 20 issues, etc. 100 subscribers, 500 subscribers, etc.
- Write about your sources: What do you read? What do you consume?
- Summarize your newsletter each week in a thread.
You know SaaS but do you know SaaP?
Sheets as a Product
Sell a google sheet as a product
sell on gumroad
sell on appsumo
sell on
100 business ideas that could be google sheets
AppSumo accounts for 92% of my revenue. The other 8% is made up of selling individual google sheets. Templates I make and show how to make for members are also listed on Gumroad to buy individually. In the first 14 months, I generated $56,000 of revenue.
In the past 3 months I've sold $1,048 of Google Sheets / Google Scripts on Gumroad.
I think 1,000 people could make $1,000 on Gumroad by the end of 2021 using the exact templates and guides I write.
a few things in this thread are free, cheap, and useful.
I went from making less than $30k/yr to over $70k/yr within 2 years because I learned Google Script.
Built badass spreadsheets.
At times, automated away the need to hire.