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Starting a newsletter businesses is the hot business model right now, and justifiably so. But many people on X have been questioning whether we are in a newsletter bubble: I think it’s about to go 10x due to AI. In this story, I explain how to leverage AI tools to make operating newsletters far easier, and why this trend will displace agencies. But first, let me explain why I think newsletters will become the gateway online business model drug, taking over from the SEO blogs and content sites we currently see on all the big marketplaces such as Flippa and Empire Flippers. The Rise of Newsletter Businesses The cost of starting a newsletter is $0, with platforms like beehiiv that make it simple to launch, monetize and scale. And by building and nurturing a newsletter audience that engages with your content, and trusts your picks and expertise, you're able to unlock sponsorship revenue at far higher CPMs (cost per 1000 opens to advertisers) than you can make with websites. Website advertising platforms such as Ezoic can generate a strong $10-$20 earnings per thousand views, but newsletters typically command a $50 CPM in the business niche, with investing being higher, and AI a bit lower. https://hackernoon.com/the-35-best-ai-newsletters-on-beehiiv?embedable=true So with a 50K email list, and a 50% open rate, an email send with just one ad unit (you should have multiple) will earn you $2,500. And you can also monetize in so many other ways: Subscription fees
Paid recommendations
Sponsored editions
Own products
Community access
Lead generation
Affiliate marketing As you own your list, the newsletter business model is much more defensible than building niche sites that are dependent on SEO traffic, something I used to do and wrote about back in 2018 (when Hackernoon was on Medium) with Want To Hack Wealth? Flip Websites Not Cryptos. And you can sell these media assets for currently $2-5 per subscriber plus a multiple of revenue on the newsletter marketplace Duuce. https://hackernoon.com/i-built-and-sold-a-newsletter-for-5-figures-heres-how?embedable=true The key part missing right now, which takes up the majority of the time operating newsletter businesses, is the sourcing and writing of news stories. Fortunately there are now AI solutions to help with this burden, and we’ll start with the usual suspects, before moving to new dedicated newsletter software. AI Optimization Just like AI has been revolutionizing content sites, it’s now hitting newsletter businesses. And I’ve been using it to help with my own newsletters such as Digital Asset Investor, and within my newsletter agency Letter Operators. We’ve sifted through 100s of applications for writers, given test stories to the best ones, and quickly realized that AI summarizes and generates output better than 90% of them. And obviously with no grammatical errors. We now take the AI output and give it to human editors who add a layer of opinion that all newsletters need to compete in an increasingly AI dominated world. Although I’m sure a forthcoming ChatGPT 5 would be able to give such thoughts! This AI content + human editing model was first created by Content at Scale, the AI platform that enables website owners to output SEO-optimized content, who coined the term Artificial Intelligence Optimization (AIO). They even teach people how to make money in this new role as an AIO editor, or AIO agency owner where you can boost your agency profit margins from a decent 40% to over 70%. The AIO Process for Newsletters So what does this AI optimization look like and how can you implement within your own newsletter business? We’ll start with the usual chat suspects, and then move to a new dedicated newsletter tool. First up, you need your sources, where you will find stories from in your niche. Sure you can create a spreadsheet listing all the top blogs and news sites in your niche, but it’s far easier to pull the RSS into a tool that aggregates them and makes it easier to check. Or you can simply ask the AI chat bots, although as Chat GPT can’t search the web out of the box (you need access to the browsing plugin), you’ll need to use Bing Chat and Google’s Bard for this. With Bing Chat, you simply ask what the top stories have been over the last week and it gives you the results plus web links: Bard isn’t as good or simple as you need to click on ‘Double-check response’ to get the sources and then hover over the coloured parts: The output is better formatted for a newsletter, however, with short summaries. Even though shorter stories will result in higher click through rates which helps email deliverability and also enables your sponsorships to get more clicks, most operators will likely want longer-form stories, 150+ words. As such, select a particular source and ask the AI for the wordcount you want. I picked a recent top story on Hackernoon then asked each chat tool to summarise the URL. ChatGPT can’t do this out of the box, even with paying for GPT-4 so that’s a instant fail: You have to copy and paste the content in, and no-one has time or the desire for that. Fortunately Bard can summarize URLs, and outputted in 130 words to my 150 word request: You can also use a ‘TLDR’ prompt, this is the output from Bing which generated a 107 word summary: AI Newsletter Software If you want a tool that will automate the above sourcing and summarizing for you you need to check out Neural News. First up, its content discovery engine creates a newsfeed for you based on your niche or keyword, here is one about startups: You then simply select which are the most relevant stories for the AI to summarize, and on the next screen select a tone (I went for ‘engaging’) and desired word count: It then generates a newsletter with stories that have a title, email and view source link, and you copy as rich text directly into your newsletter platform, such as beehiiv in my case. When it’s in your beehiiv account you can use their artificial intelligence built for newsletter operators where the smart editor will simplify, shorten or extend the output, or change the tone. There’s also a bunch of other features, such as AI image tools where you can generate images such as the featured image for the web post, from directly inside the editor (just like you can here at Hackernoon): The Death of Agencies Whatever you feel about this AI powered newsletter reality, there is no stopping it, the only thing to do is embrace it. It’s going to kill most $5K/m newsletter agencies, so I thought I’d be the one to disrupt myself. I now use the above tools (and others) to offer a produtized service at Letter Operators to deliver 6 stories a week uploaded into newsletter operators’ beehiiv account, ready for them to put their own spin on it. These stories are AI + human sourced and then AI summarized + human edited. I’d much rather own a business with 500 customers paying $500/m than 50 clients paying $5K/m, especially one that involves complexity due to human labor. This anti-agency is anti-fragile in comparison, and is an asset that’s much easier to sell and will achieve a higher multiple. In the niche website space, we’ve already seen the fall of a large content writing agency with 100+ writers due to the disruption of AI: https://twitter.com/Charles_SEO/status/1677010332475174912?embedable=true One of the owners stated that: The steep rise in AI content resulted in an incredibly quick decline in revenue. Being such a large business with lots of staff and high overheads, we were unable to cut costs quickly enough. I don’t want to be this guy. Conclusion Platforms like beehiiv, which I run my Digital Asset Investor newsletter, make launching and running a newsletter business simple. And newsletter businesses are the simplest model I know, yet can be monetized in every way possible. The AI tools above (and future ones being created) will enable so many more people to launch, operate and make money from newsletters, without the weekly grind of having to find and summarize news stories. Instead, creators will be freed up to focus on crafting opinion pieces and their own products. Ultimately, this will indeed cause peak newsletter, where there will be so many more publishers competing for sponsorship dollars. The bubble or top will certainly be in then. However, I’m bullish that media buyers will start directing a much greater percentage of their budgets into newsletters with engaged subscribers, vs just giving it to the big platforms targeting cold traffic. And finally, to not be displaced by AI, you need to incorporate it into your business, whether you’re the end-user, or an [agency provider](https://Letter Operators). Starting a newsletter businesses is the hot business model right now, and justifiably so. But many people on X have been questioning whether we are in a newsletter bubble: people on X I think it’s about to go 10x due to AI. I think it’s about to go 10x due to AI. In this story, I explain how to leverage AI tools to make operating newsletters far easier, and why this trend will displace agencies. operating newsletters But first, let me explain why I think newsletters will become the gateway online business model drug, taking over from the SEO blogs and content sites we currently see on all the big marketplaces such as Flippa and Empire Flippers . Flippa Empire Flippers The Rise of Newsletter Businesses The Rise of Newsletter Businesses The cost of starting a newsletter is $0, with platforms like beehiiv that make it simple to launch, monetize and scale. beehiiv beehiiv And by building and nurturing a newsletter audience that engages with your content, and trusts your picks and expertise, you're able to unlock sponsorship revenue at far higher CPMs (cost per 1000 opens to advertisers) than you can make with websites. Website advertising platforms such as Ezoic can generate a strong $10-$20 earnings per thousand views , but newsletters typically command a $50 CPM in the business niche, with investing being higher, and AI a bit lower. earnings per thousand views https://hackernoon.com/the-35-best-ai-newsletters-on-beehiiv?embedable=true https://hackernoon.com/the-35-best-ai-newsletters-on-beehiiv?embedable=true So with a 50K email list, and a 50% open rate, an email send with just one ad unit (you should have multiple) will earn you $2,500. And you can also monetize in so many other ways: Subscription fees Paid recommendations Sponsored editions Own products Community access Lead generation Affiliate marketing Subscription fees Paid recommendations Sponsored editions Own products Community access Lead generation Affiliate marketing As you own your list, the newsletter business model is much more defensible than building niche sites that are dependent on SEO traffic, something I used to do and wrote about back in 2018 (when Hackernoon was on Medium) with Want To Hack Wealth? Flip Websites Not Cryptos . Want To Hack Wealth? Flip Websites Not Cryptos Want To Hack Wealth? Flip Websites Not Cryptos And you can sell these media assets for currently $2-5 per subscriber plus a multiple of revenue on the newsletter marketplace Duuce . And you can sell these media assets media assets Duuce Duuce https://hackernoon.com/i-built-and-sold-a-newsletter-for-5-figures-heres-how?embedable=true https://hackernoon.com/i-built-and-sold-a-newsletter-for-5-figures-heres-how?embedable=true The key part missing right now, which takes up the majority of the time operating newsletter businesses, is the sourcing and writing of news stories. The key part missing right now, which takes up the majority of the time operating newsletter businesses, is the sourcing and writing of news stories. Fortunately there are now AI solutions to help with this burden, and we’ll start with the usual suspects, before moving to new dedicated newsletter software. AI Optimization AI Optimization Just like AI has been revolutionizing content sites, it’s now hitting newsletter businesses. And I’ve been using it to help with my own newsletters such as Digital Asset Investor , and within my newsletter agency Letter Operators. We’ve sifted through 100s of applications for writers, given test stories to the best ones, and quickly realized that AI summarizes and generates output better than 90% of them . And obviously with no grammatical errors. Digital Asset Investor Digital Asset Investor my newsletter agency quickly realized that AI summarizes and generates output better than 90% of them We now take the AI output and give it to human editors who add a layer of opinion that all newsletters need to compete in an increasingly AI dominated world. Although I’m sure a forthcoming ChatGPT 5 would be able to give such thoughts! This AI content + human editing model was first created by Content at Scale , the AI platform that enables website owners to output SEO-optimized content, who coined the term Artificial Intelligence Optimization (AIO). Content at Scale Content at Scale Artificial Intelligence Optimization Artificial Intelligence Optimization They even teach people how to make money in this new role as an AIO editor , or AIO agency owner where you can boost your agency profit margins from a decent 40% to over 70%. AIO editor AIO editor AIO agency owner AIO agency owner The AIO Process for Newsletters The AIO Process for Newsletters So what does this AI optimization look like and how can you implement within your own newsletter business? We’ll start with the usual chat suspects, and then move to a new dedicated newsletter tool. First up, you need your sources, where you will find stories from in your niche. Sure you can create a spreadsheet listing all the top blogs and news sites in your niche, but it’s far easier to pull the RSS into a tool that aggregates them and makes it easier to check. Or you can simply ask the AI chat bots, although as Chat GPT can’t search the web out of the box (you need access to the browsing plugin ), you’ll need to use Bing Chat and Google’s Bard for this. browsing plugin browsing plugin Bing Chat Bing Chat Bard Bard With Bing Chat, you simply ask what the top stories have been over the last week and it gives you the results plus web links: Bard isn’t as good or simple as you need to click on ‘Double-check response’ to get the sources and then hover over the coloured parts: The output is better formatted for a newsletter, however, with short summaries. Even though shorter stories will result in higher click through rates which helps email deliverability and also enables your sponsorships to get more clicks, most operators will likely want longer-form stories, 150+ words. As such, select a particular source and ask the AI for the wordcount you want. I picked a recent top story on Hackernoon then asked each chat tool to summarise the URL. recent top story on Hackernoon recent top story on Hackernoon ChatGPT can’t do this out of the box, even with paying for GPT-4 so that’s a instant fail: You have to copy and paste the content in, and no-one has time or the desire for that. Fortunately Bard can summarize URLs, and outputted in 130 words to my 150 word request: You can also use a ‘TLDR’ prompt, this is the output from Bing which generated a 107 word summary: AI Newsletter Software If you want a tool that will automate the above sourcing and summarizing for you you need to check out Neural News . Neural News Neural News First up, its content discovery engine creates a newsfeed for you based on your niche or keyword, here is one about startups: You then simply select which are the most relevant stories for the AI to summarize, and on the next screen select a tone (I went for ‘engaging’) and desired word count: It then generates a newsletter with stories that have a title, email and view source link, and you copy as rich text directly into your newsletter platform, such as beehiiv in my case. beehiiv When it’s in your beehiiv account you can use their artificial intelligence built for newsletter operators where the smart editor will simplify, shorten or extend the output, or change the tone. artificial intelligence built for newsletter operators artificial intelligence built for newsletter operators There’s also a bunch of other features, such as AI image tools where you can generate images such as the featured image for the web post, from directly inside the editor (just like you can here at Hackernoon): The Death of Agencies The Death of Agencies Whatever you feel about this AI powered newsletter reality, there is no stopping it, the only thing to do is embrace it. It’s going to kill most $5K/m newsletter agencies, so I thought I’d be the one to disrupt myself. I now use the above tools (and others) to offer a produtized service at Letter Operators to deliver 6 stories a week uploaded into newsletter operators’ beehiiv account, ready for them to put their own spin on it. Letter Operators These stories are AI + human sourced and then AI summarized + human edited. I’d much rather own a business with 500 customers paying $500/m than 50 clients paying $5K/m, especially one that involves complexity due to human labor. This anti-agency is anti-fragile in comparison, and is an asset that’s much easier to sell and will achieve a higher multiple. In the niche website space, we’ve already seen the fall of a large content writing agency with 100+ writers due to the disruption of AI: https://twitter.com/Charles_SEO/status/1677010332475174912?embedable=true https://twitter.com/Charles_SEO/status/1677010332475174912?embedable=true One of the owners stated that: The steep rise in AI content resulted in an incredibly quick decline in revenue. Being such a large business with lots of staff and high overheads, we were unable to cut costs quickly enough. The steep rise in AI content resulted in an incredibly quick decline in revenue. Being such a large business with lots of staff and high overheads, we were unable to cut costs quickly enough. I don’t want to be this guy. Conclusion Conclusion Platforms like beehiiv , which I run my Digital Asset Investor newsletter, make launching and running a newsletter business simple. beehiiv And newsletter businesses are the simplest model I know, yet can be monetized in every way possible. The AI tools above (and future ones being created) will enable so many more people to launch, operate and make money from newsletters, without the weekly grind of having to find and summarize news stories. Instead, creators will be freed up to focus on crafting opinion pieces and their own products. Ultimately, this will indeed cause peak newsletter, where there will be so many more publishers competing for sponsorship dollars. The bubble or top will certainly be in then. However, I’m bullish that media buyers will start directing a much greater percentage of their budgets into newsletters with engaged subscribers, vs just giving it to the big platforms targeting cold traffic. And finally, to not be displaced by AI, you need to incorporate it into your business, whether you’re the end-user, or an [agency provider](https://Letter Operators).

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I first read the by Tim Ferriss back in 2012 and six months later I set up my first FHWW muse attempt . Four Hour Work Week iPanorama Prints Yup that’s me At the time the thing that held me back six months was the emphasis on creating your own product along with spending the $500 or so that Tim recommended on ads. This was to see whether ad spend would be profitable sending traffic to a sales page you created for the product you are testing (for the audience you understand and belong to). That $500 was just too much of a psychological barrier at the time as a new entrepreneur in the freemium only mindset. However, the book changed my perspective on what was possible online more than any other I’ve read and this post is therefore no criticism (I am a big fan of Tim), however I think it’s hard for new entrepreneurs to: Create a product (even an info / digital product) Build a sales page Learn paid ads (such as Google Adwords or now Facebook) What I think is easier for new entrepreneurs is to ; businesses who have already created their own converting sales pages or product pages for you to send your traffic to. simply sell other people’s products as an affiliate This way you don’t need to have a paid ad budget. You can simply generate traffic by creating your own content, in whatever medium you are comfortable with, getting it to rank in Google and promoting on platforms you are familiar with whether that’s Twitter or forums. Tim actually mentioned in the tools and tricks section of ‘Income Autopilot I Finding A Muse’ experimenting with products through affiliate networks such as Clickbank and Commission Junction as a proof of concept to find your own products to create. . In this post I argue that it’s easier and better to simply market other people’s products as an affiliate without the intention to create your own In this article you will learn: Why I believe building a content “authority site” is the best strategy for generating enough monthly passive income to replace a full time salary. The three best business models / monetization methods I know for achieving this. How to set up marketing funnels to generate leads and convert into customers. Muse Math — Defining The Challenge Our goal is to build a web based business that generates the average US personal income as quickly as possible with less than 4 hours of the owners time involved per week. According to wikipedia, the which works out at $3709/m. Let’s round that figure up to a target of $4k/m (or Total Monthly Income as Tim states). average US personal income is $44,510 As mentioned I feel that a $500 ad budget is mentally too much for new entrepreneurs to throw at something. To make this challenge interesting to experienced online entrepreneurs as well I’m going to say we only have an initial budget of $50/m to invest in generating that $4k/m. So what is the best option in 2019 for achieving $4k/m passively month on month as soon as possible with a starting budget of only $50/m? As Tim mentioned in the book, when building a muse online business you want to . make sure you are entering a market that is big enough With my first muse attempt I failed to do this. I bought a domain focussed purely on printing panorama photos that people took on their iPhone rather than a larger site focussed on say iPhone photography. I was limited to the type of content I could create, the types of products I could offer and therefore the amount of keywords (search phrases people were using) I could focus on. , and just couldn’t get revenue above $1500/m. To better understand the difference between niche sites and what is authority sites there’s a , a and an . For example a niche site would be however an authority site would be . I had built a niche site rather than an authority site great post on nichepursuits.com discussion on authorityhacker.com argument on empireflippers.com Family Tent Center Outdoor Gear Lab The income from the print business wasn’t enough to live on but I did end up on Empire Flippers for a couple of years of profit (nowadays you would get closer to 3 years of profit). selling it in 2016 Engineering a Muse in 2019 Back when Tim wrote the book, clicks on Adwords for were typically 5–15 cents and you could generate a 3–4x return on ad spend right off the bat by sending cold traffic to a sales page. Tim mentions doing this with his BrainQuicken supplement in his addition to the book. buying intent keywords muse math The thing is in 2019, clicks are typically at least 10x more expensive and making buying intent clicks instantly profitable for anyone who isn’t an Adwords expert is incredibly hard. Instead you need to extract more money out of every visitor using methods such popups, and marketing funnels to cover your acquisition costs. email marketing automation Fortunately Facebook ads and funnel software have filled this gap but require a different strategy to what was in the book. Cost per click on Facebook is in my experience less than half that of Adwords and you can target niche audiences with their tool in ways which are impossible on Google. audience insights However, people are not in a buying state on Facebook and you have to attract their interest through great informative content that then leads to product review style content. How to Build An Authority Site For those new to building content sites, here’s a quick top 10 list of how to get started. Pick a niche, one you understand and can write at least 50 pages of content on (even if you are ). This niche should be a two or three word phrase such as “women’s snowboarding”. not the one who ends up writing it Buy a for your niche that does not limit you. You want to start focussed on a sub niche but be able to add additional sub-niches to become the authority — I use as I’m a Brit but also . brandable domain 123 Reg Godaddy Then do keyword research to find a sub-niche within the niche that is ideally a three or four word phrase. Use a tool such as to look for “best” keywords such as “best women’s snowboard”. These phrases should be relatively uncompetitive but should have at least a few hundred search phrases. Ahrefs Keyword Explorer Buy hosting — I use a shared account to get going then spin out profitable websites to their own managed hosting. Dreamhost Install and pick a theme, free is fine to start, I tend to use for my sites. Wordpress Thrive Themes Create a account and grab the code and install a to add the code Google Analytics tracking code wordpress plugin Install the to optimise your content for the keywords (search phrases) people are searching for who could purchase the products you want to promote as an affiliate Yoast SEO Plugin Write individual for the top products in your sub-niche and also a comparison post that compares them to each other. product review content Find the best for your sub-niche keywords using or . informational content buzzsumo.com Ahrefs Content Explorer Write and and through to websites that linked to the existing content. better content promote on social channels email outreach How to Make Money From Authority Sites For me it comes down to one of three options. 1) Amazon Affiliate The easiest way to get going is to write content that mentions products that are being sold on Amazon. As you can imagine that’s not very restrictive being the world’s largest online marketplace. You simply sign up for an and then grab an affiliate link for the products you want to make commissions for (typically around 6%). Amazon Associates account This is made really easy using the that appears at the top of Amazon after signing up where you can grab a simple text link, image or both. Amazon SiteStripe For a full explanation Authority Hacker have a . great guide Pros Super simple to monetize Cons Requires a lot of content and traffic to get to $4k/m Tung Tran is an amazon affiliate expert and on his excellent blog he is running a challenge to get to $10k/m from one authority site — . In he mentioned it had taken a year to get to $4k/m which required over 150,000 visitors a month generating over 50,000 clicks through to Amazon a month. cloudliving.com thankyourskin.com one of his updates Looking the site up in google at the time(site:thankyourskin.com) it had 170 pieces of strong content (has over 500 now). What’s super interesting to see is that Amazon product pages converted for him at over 6% — a good conversion on your own ecommerce site would be 2%. shopify 2) Clickbank To potentially achieve quicker results, promoting other people’s digital products on is worth looking at. Clickbank is one of many performance marketing networks that offers a wide variety of ebooks, online courses and memberships in a large number of niches. clickbank.com For example if you are into Paleo you could promote a cookbook: The way to make money is by sending people to a sales page on clickbank that’s optimized so that a certain % of people will purchase. In our example the sales page is and shown below: here However you will first want to make sure you collect the emails of people before sending them over to someone else’s page and offer. How this works is you create awesome content then offer what’s called a within the post which offers more information about what they’ve just consumed in exchange for leaving an email. Once people optin you can either send directly to the offer on Clickbank but typically you will need to send them to what’s known as a bridge page where you congratulate them for opting in, introduce yourself or brand and then recommend that they also check out the offer on Clickbank. content upgrade Once you have someone’s email address you need to setup an autoresponder to nurture that lead into customers. Typically less than 2% of people you bridge over to the offer will end up purchasing so you need to try and convert the remaining 98% through a series of emails that gives value and reintroduces the offer. Also through creating a longer sequence you can add in multiple offers on clickbank which will dramatically increase the lifetime value of a lead however this is hard to track. I recommend and use for this which now has a $0 free plan and I wrote why I moved from . Drip Mailchimp to Drip Clickbank Affiliate Marketing Funnel Structure Content > content upgrade (lead magnet) > bridge page > clickbank offer. The thing with this approach is that a couple of great pieces of content that convert into leads is all you need to get to $4k/m. The guys at got one of their blog posts on their authority site to $2500/m through this type of funnel as mentioned in . authorityhacker.com healthambition.com this podcast episode Pros Only need a few pieces of great content to get to $4k/m Cons Need to maintain traffic to maintain sales month on month, hard to work out customer lifetime value 3) Recurring Software Commisions The reason why Software As A Service (SaaS) businesses have high valuations is their predictable business model of monthly recurring revenue (MRR), high margins and high lifetime customer value (LTV). Due to this, software companies can pay generous recurring commissions to affiliates to sign people up to their platform. I’ve been doing this for years for and and all the other companies on my but it wasn’t until I actively started such as affiliate programs with my previous business that I realised I could make a full-time living doing just that. Leadpages Drip tools page promoting software such as clickfunnels Funnel Engine Pros Affiliate income builds every month, you’re building an asset with a much higher multiple. I sold Funnel Engine for . over $50k Cons Somewhat limited to the make money online space unless can be creative and target niches who can benefit Closing Thoughts I think the easiest business model to understand and get going with is amazon affiliate, writing content and linking to products on Amazon and there are some . excellent AMZ courses If you already have experience with funnels then Clickbank can be a good way of monetizing your traffic. However for me there is nothing easier than simply writing about the web & marketing software you are already using and earning commissions by linking to them. You can read more about why I prefer to promote software . here

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Over the last year I lost my focus. Something gripped me like nothing has since online poker back in 2009 when I quit my job and had plans to go pro. The Crypto Bug™ found me. Before this happened I was happily making money through building up and selling online businesses (profit generating websites, not just domains). I sold my first website on back in the summer of 2016 and I bought my first Bitcoin with the proceeds. I knew nothing about blockchain technology back then, but my entrepreneurial friends were into it which was good enough for me. Empire Flippers For the next 9 months I continued working on my websites and listed and sold my 2nd online business on . Funnel Engine FE International Then in March 2017 I refreshed my Coinbase balance and saw I was up 600%. That blew my mind. I’ve since spent the last 12 months going deep into understanding Bitcoin, blockchain and this whole new . altcoin market I ended up buying 60 different altcoins at the end of November 2017 just before the market went nuts. As an internet marketer, I’ve got used to following the money from niche to niche and I saw how much was being raised in and I wanted in. ICOs I got involved in two different ICOs and learned how to best convert traffic into subscribers and subscribers into Telegram communities (the classic ). I even set up a . ICO Marketing Playbook Flipping Cryptos facebook group I actually managed to sell all of my 60 altcoins near the top of the market at the start of January, 3 days before it started its fall (win). But even though I took some profits into cash, I HODLd most of it in BTC through a 70% correction (fail). Unpredictable asset value and no revenue from cryptos How to flip websites as assets Crypto is speculative butonline business is predictable. Over this crazy crypto year I’ve actually made less money than if I were to just focus on flipping websites for profit (the topic of my Podcast). Flipping Websites . The multiples of online businesses have been rising If you can build a that earns just $1500 per month you can now flip it for $50k (a 33x monthly profit multiple). content website Once you understand how search traffic works (the main traffic channel I focus on for my sites) and leverage SEO tools such as , it’s really not that hard to monetize the traffic you are building. Ahrefs I focus on what’s called affiliate marketing, where you earn commissions by promoting other people’s products or offers using the . This can be or simply sending people to Amazon and earning 3–6% commissions through their . I ended up promoting software as an affiliate for a living after trying . best affiliate tracking software promoting software products Associates program every different type of monetization I wrote a piece on in terms of how to snowball a $100k investment into $1MM within three years through from just 3 website flips, holding these online assets for the shortest period of time. website investing As a hodler, my trading days are behind me. And I know that I will make more money and build real wealth over the next 12 months through focusing on building and flipping websites rather than praying for the next alt season. As Steve Jobs says, focusing is about saying No: Liked this article? Please give it a clap below :)

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