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Using the same strategies I've used to build millions of subscribers across multiple newsletters, you can do it too. The post How To Build A Profitable Newsletter In 2024 appeared first on Scott DeLong.
With the rise of artificial intelligence and content being mostly commodotized, what's the future look like for websites? Let's predict it. The post My Predictions For The Future Of Content Sites (And How To Navigate Them) appeared first on Scott DeLong.
It's been fun (kinda). Here's where it ended up and where I'm going next. The post Weeks 48-52: My Final Update appeared first on Scott DeLong.
As this challenge comes to an end, it feels good to be at a point where I'm about as immune as possible to looming threats The post Weeks 44-47: The end is near appeared first on Scott DeLong.
The second to the last update is focused and short. I have just one goal: convert subscribers into paying customers. The post Weeks 40-43: A $5k Month and Billion Dollar Idea appeared first on Scott DeLong.
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Highlights Why am I making slower progress than I’d like on my book? I optimize my Asciidoctor write and preview workflow. I’m working on a side project to track Hacker News performance in real-time. Goal grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those goals: Write a blog post about lessons from Kickstarter Result: Published My $6k Advance as a Self-Published Technical Author Grade: A I originally set out to write a guide that focused on Kickstarter, but the more I wrote, the less I felt like Kickstarter was the interesting part. I was more excited about crowdfunding as a path for self-published authors, and Kickstarter is just one way of crowdfunding.
Marc Lou has made millions of dollars by doing marketing extremely well. Most of his revenue has come from his NextJS boilerplate, ShipFast. As someone remarked on YouTube, it's something any developer could have done. So why was Marc successful? Because he's great at marketing. Here&
I just received $5,947 in advance sales for my first technical book, even though it’s only 25% complete, and I’m self-publishing it. The book is called Refactoring English, and it’s a guide for software developers to improve their writing. In March, I ran a three-week pre-sale for the book on Kickstarter. The pre-sale raised $6,551 from 191 customers. After Kickstarter’s fees, I get $5,946.92, or 91% of the total. Proceeds from my pre-sale on Kickstarter
Just hunted Boxo AI on Product Hunt which offers a key missing puzzle piece for mobile app developers
Suppose you host your podcast on a platform like Libsyn or Podbean. What happens if you decide to switch podcast platforms? You already gave everyone a RSS URL that pointed to your old platform. For example Libsyn gives your podcast an RSS URL like this: https://feeds.libsyn.com/12345/rss When you submitted your podcast to Apple Podcasts and shared your RSS URL with your listeners, you pointed them directly to your podcast platform.
