Yesterday, my little one-person business crossed $4M in revenue. It took 1,352 days, I ran zero ads & operate at a 94% margin. Here are the 20 steps of my wild & strange journey: Hope it's helpful to someone. [🧵 thread]

At your job, you might get a 5% pay bump each year. $40k salary this year. $42k next year. That's a 96 cents an hour raise. Here's another option:

If you know how to sell, there's nothing better than selling yourself.

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The systems you install today will dictate what kind of business you have in 2024.

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The SEO impact of creating content is massive. I've gone from 23 backlinks to 726 in 2 years with zero "backlink begging". The result has been a massive increase in my domain rating from 14 to 62. If you don't have a personal website, please build one.

Twitter + LinkedIn + Newsletters + SEO is turning out to be a helluva traffic strategy:

Here's how my overall organic growth has changed: Pretty staggering. Going to keep on investing.

A solopreneur’s best capital is intellectual, not financial.

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If you are single and in your 20s, please start building something of your own online, and spend a lot of time traveling the world. Your 30s and 40s will be epic from the lessons you learn.

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Myths of solopreneurship: - You work 10-12 hour days - You can't take a vacation - It doesn't scale My reality: - I work 11a to 3p most days - I took 4 days off last week - Revenue was ~$20k those days - I'll take 3 more days off next week Don't believe everything you read.

Most people are asking: "Was it always like this?" Of course not. Every path you choose has a long, long journey. Employee, solopreneur, entrepreneur...they are all extremely hard. Choose the hard for you and be ready to go on a long journey.

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The ability to teach yourself is the most valuable skill you can develop. Learn how to learn. Then go wherever that knowledge takes you.