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May 14, 2023 16 tweets 9 min read Read on X
My little one-person business does ~$189k/mo in revenue.

It costs me $1,446/mo + 2.9% to run it.

Here are the 12 no-code tools that run my business:

Website (and more): @Kajabi

Kajabi makes my life very easy.

It bundles my website, landing pages, forms, customer CRM, and courses together.

It's truly a great tool for the cost.

Cost: $399/month Image
Email marketing: @ConvertKit

I recently moved my email marketing to ConvertKit.

I'm currently building out automations, a welcome sequence, and beginning to segment my readers.

The Creator Network adds thousands of new subs to my newsletter each month.

Cost: $783/month Image
Payments: @stripe

Stripe connects directly to Kajabi, so it's easy to take payments.

I get paid out every weekday, so I'm not held hostage while a company holds my money for interest.

Cost: 2.9% + $.30 per sale Image
Social Publishing: @hypefury

I use Hypefury for Twitter posting because it's flexible and powerful.

- Auto-retweets
- Auto-plug my newsletter
- Auto-unretweet
- Mass DM'ing
- Inspiration templates
- Etc.

A super powerful publishing tool

Cost: $49/month Image
Newsletter Templates: @typeshare_co

To produce a high-quality newsletter, I need templates to riff off of.

Typeshare helps me draft my newsletter in 45 minutes, by providing a number of templates to help.

Built by digital writers for digital writers.

Cost: $20/month Image
Web Analytics: @usefathom

I find Google Analytics to be difficult to use and understand.

That's OK because Fathom Analytics is amazing.

It takes less than 2 minutes to set up and gives me all of the analytics I need in one simple dashboard.

Cost: $24/month Image
LinkedIn Analytics: @getshieldapp

Shield is way more than just LinkedIn analytics.

It's the perfect tool for repurposing, saving old posts, and truly understanding what's working.

With 410k+ followers, it's a must for me.

Cost: $16/month Image
Testimonials: @testimonialto

@damengchen has built a unique testimonial tool.

I embed it inside of my courses and let users record videos or write a text testimonial.

With one click, the testimonial gets approved & automatically added to my landing page.

Cost: $60/month Image
Business CRM: @NotionHQ

The complete hub of my entire creative business.

- Company roadmap
- Daily/weekly to-do
- Complete content system
- Networking and connections
- Etc.

It literally keeps me organized unlike anything else.

Cost: $10/month Image
Scheduling: @TaplioHQ

Taplio is my new go-to scheduling tool for LinkedIn.

It comes built-in with AI for brainstorming, inspiration from top-performing posts, and many other features.

It's now the best LinkedIn publishing tool on the market.

Cost: $55/month Image
Course recording: @loom

Forget complicated, expensive setups for recording my courses.

I simply install the Loom plugin, open up my presentation and get creating.

This has saved me a ton of money and time when building out my video courses.

Cost: Free Image
Custom Integrations: @zapier

To connect any tools that don't work together, I use Zapier.

Hell, sometimes I just sit around and dream about what automation I can build.

For all of the sticks that I have, this is the glue.

Cost: $30/month Image
@zapier That's a wrap.

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If I wanted to put this together cheap, here's what I'd use:

- CRM: Notion
- Publishing: Buffer
- Website: Carrd or Dorik
- Course +Email: Gumroad

This stack would be about $70 a year + 10% fees from Gumroad.

It's what I used for 2 years and crossed $500,000 with just this!
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X hates LinkedIn.

But I just passed 690K followers and generated $2.41M from the platform last year.

Here's how I use LinkedIn unlike anyone else:
Inside of this thread, you'll learn how to:

1. Design a profile that converts
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3. Recycle for 2x engagement
4. Interact with top creators
5. Leverage little-known features
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Let's dive in...
1. Design a profile that converts:

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- $4.15M+ in revenue
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- 700 new 5-star testimonials
- Spoke at three events
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One great business win and one great personal win.

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Here's the entire 12-step business plan for you:

1. Clean up your X profile to reflect what you do for people.
2. Create daily content that talks about one specific challenge you solve.

3. When people ask questions about your content, reply back or send them a DM.

4. Ask them if they'd like to talk for free to see if you can help.
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7. Then go to Stan Store and open up a free 30-day trial.
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X hates LinkedIn.

But I just passed 670K followers, and I'll generate $2.39M from the platform this year.

Here's how I use LinkedIn unlike anyone else:
Inside of this thread, you'll learn how to:

1. Design a profile that converts
2. Write content that goes wild
3. Recycle for 2x engagement
4. Interact with top creators
5. Leverage little-known features
6. Funnel people to your website

Let's dive in...
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2) Clicks your profile
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How to make your first $1 online:
1. Talk to people

You can't make a dollar without understanding people's problems.

Go talk to your prospective customers.

3-5 conversations per day about their biggest and most frustrating challenges.
2. Grow a small audience

Once you've talked to people, next up is sharing info they care about.

Post daily about the problems you heard and how you think they can solve them

Show them you care about solving the problems you learned about!
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I've made $3.7M from email marketing without spending a dime on ads.

Most "email experts" overcomplicate it.

I keep it simple.

Here's my exact playbook:

The raw numbers first:

- 200K subscribers
- 55% open rate (avg: 21.5%)
- $3.7M in revenue
- 89% profit margin
- $0 spent on ads

No luck or magic required.
Just systems that work.
People think a bigger list = more money.

They obsess over:

- Fancy automation flows
- Complex sequences
- List size

Meanwhile, you can make a lot of money by solving *real* problems for real people.
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