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Jacky Chou (buying online businesses up to $1m)

@indexsy

Oct 31, 2022 • 11 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X

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Pepper your angus, it’s time.

I made $173k from 7 different revenue sources in October. This is up $32.2k from last month.

In the following thread, I’ll cover...
- Revenue sources
- YTD and AVG performance
- General thoughts on the respective businesses

ps: ask me anything👇

Here are the highlights..
YTD: $1,873,675
AVG: $187,367
Margins: 73%

Weight: 85 kg (-1 kg from Sept)
Height: 188 cm
Overall mental health: Solid, very content with where I am in life.
Current location: Taipei, Taiwan

$89.1k from Binance affiliates, up $53k from Sept. Got lucky this month, pretty sure one of my referrals is a market maker. Was paid like $10k a day for a couple of days.

$58.9k from agency work at Indexsy, this is up $4.4k from Sept.

Quite happy with the final numbers especially since we lost a client this month. The reason for leaving wasn't performance, but rather they found someone cheaper in an Asian country.

I'm sure they'll be back.

$12.5k from my 8-unit short term rental property in Lisbon. This is down $7.9k from last month. The drop is 100% from seasonality, however, there are some reports of rental vacancies around the world. Nothing here yet.

Anyone else seeing this?

In case you care, as it's an FAQ, here are the details of the purchase:
- 30 years fixed mortgage @ interest of 2.4%
- Monthly payments of 3.4k Euros
- Purchase price: 1.5m Euros

$8.5k from Amazon associates, this is up about $1.4k from September, but down $55.4k from highs in February 2022.

Google clapped tf out of my sites, F in the thread to pay respects.

$5.5k from Mediavine, this is up $500 from last month. Solid jumps in our main site right now.

Blended RPMs: $25.9
Sites on Mediavine: 4

$3.4k from VPN affiliates, this is up $1.6k from last month. Will start creating YouTube videos for this business, seems to be way too easy of a channel to ignore.

Friendly reminder to get on that.

@NicheDown

$239.81 from Ezoic, testing things out with @NicheDown's account manager. With his help, our RPMs are going up.

Will do a proper test between Ezoic vs Mediavine and do a video on this.

Blended RPMs: $4.8 (lol I guess still a work in progress)
Sites on Ezoic: 2

@NicheDown

@NicheDown That's it for this month, if you like seeing someone bring transparency in an industry where everyone is ambiguous give me a follow 👀 @indexsy.

Oh and I'll give my thoughts on why our KS failed in my newsletter which is coming out in the next couple of days.

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Jacky Chou (buying online businesses up to $1m)

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Jul 15

Repeat after me

Email scraping is the most overlooked way to scale your cold emails to $10k/mo

Here's my complete SOP to scrape over 100k emails per day (bookmark for later):

Before we get started, if you're going to consume my free content

The least you can do is give back

Like + comment + bookmark the post above

1. I'm going to start at the most important part.

Validating your emails. What does that mean?

Even after exporting from the tools I'm about to mention, a lot of the emails will bounce because employees have quit etc.

YOU NEED TO VALIDATE THEM. MORE THAN ONCE. SOMETIMES EVEN THREE TIMES.

I personally use Verimail (Appsumo LTD), but most people use something like NeverBounce. This just checks that your email can be sent.

If too many emails bounce = your campaign is cooked because your domains will get blacklisted etc.

So after you export your emails, remember to validate.

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Jacky Chou (buying online businesses up to $1m)

@indexsy

Jun 13

Repeat after me

Local seo is the fastest way to grow a local business to $50k/mo in 2025

Here's a 65-point local seo checklist (bookmark for later):

Before we get started, I'm a firm believer that you can't optimize what you're not tracking...

So use localrank. so to track your local rankings, build hundreds of citations in a single click, and utilize our ai agent to automate all the boring stuff with local seo.

1. GBP Tweaks
- Claim and Verify Your Google Business Profile (GBP).
- Provide a “Real” Address. Make sure it can be consistent everywhere.
- Use a Local Phone Number.
- Cull Duplicate or Wrong GBP Listings.
- Choose the Best Primary Category.
- Add Secondary Categories (Up to 9).
- Complete Every Section of Your Profile.
- List Your Products and Services.
- Add Plenty of High-Quality Photos (and Videos).
- Set a Cover Photo and Logo.
- Keep Hours Accurate (Including Holidays).
- Use Google Posts (Localrank. so helps with this)
- Monitor and Answer Q&A.
- Link to the Correct Website URL.
- Maintain Profile Health Over Time.

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Jacky Chou (buying online businesses up to $1m)

@indexsy

Apr 28

Repeat after me

On-site SEO for local is stupid easy and shouldn't take more than 30 mins

Mfs always try to overcomplicate it with buzzwords and acronyms for no raisins

Here's my complete checklist (bookmark for later):

You didn’t think I’d give you the sauce without paying taxes right?

Take literally 5 seconds, and like, comment + bookmark the post above

If you're starting a local seo agency, you're gonna need a rank tracker

Might as well go with localrank. so right? Starts at an industry low price of $29/mo

1. Local Business Schema Markup
- Add Local Business schema to every page (Localrank. so has it for free under free tools)
- Include: business name, address, phone, email, hours, logo, and description
- Use Google’s Structured Data Testing Tool to validate

Then move onto the next step

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Jacky Chou (buying online businesses up to $1m)

@indexsy

Apr 22

Repeat after me

Local SEO is the ONLY type of SEO with any longevity in 2025

Here are some absolutely savage tactics that are working right now (bookmark for later):

Hey you, yes, you.

You didn’t think I’d let you get all this free sauce without paying your taxes right?

Give the above post a like + comment, and drop me a follow if you like free actionable advice like this.

If you’re starting your move to local seo, you’re going to need a local rank tracker.

Why not start with Localrank .so?

1. Exact match domains work SO well (sadly)
Eg. Vancouverseocompany .com will most likely outrank indexsy .com despite

This is true for both organic AND local seo

You’re low key better off rebranding to an EMD right now lol

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Jacky Chou (buying online businesses up to $1m)

@indexsy

Apr 17

Repeat after me

Doing Local SEO is the easiest way to $15k/mo in 2025

Here's my 65-point SEO checklist (bookmark for later):

Hey, so you know the drill, if you bookmarked this, why not give it a like, comment, and give me a follow as well?

Appreciate you, and if you’re in the market for a local rank tracker, then check out localrank. so

1. Google Business Profile Optimization
- Claim and Verify Your Google Business Profile (GBP). Lol obviously
- Provide a “Real” Address. Make sure it can be consistent everywhere.
- Use a Local Phone Number.
- Cull Duplicate or Wrong GBP Listings.
- Choose the Best Primary Category.
- Add Secondary Categories (Up to 9).
- Complete Every Section of Your Profile.
- List Your Products and Services.
- Add Plenty of High-Quality Photos (and Videos).
- Set a Cover Photo and Logo.
- Consider a 360° Virtual Tour.
- Keep Hours Accurate (Including Holidays).
- Enable Google Messaging (If You Can Respond).
- Utilize Google Posts Regularly.
- Monitor and Answer Q&A.
- Link to the Correct Website URL.

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Jacky Chou (buying online businesses up to $1m)

@indexsy

Apr 12

Repeat after me

Cold email copywriting is the most important part of scaling cold emails to $10k/mo

Here's the complete formula to get a 10%+ reply rate (bookmark for later):

Before we start, we need to talk

I've giving you everything for free

The least you can do is return the favor

Like + comment on the post above

1. The 3-Part Structure

Every great cold email comes down to this:

Personalization (or pattern interrupt)

Value prop (aka the offer)

CTA (low friction, easy reply)

You’re not writing essays. You’re trying to spark curiosity. That’s it.

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