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Justin Welsh Profile picture
@thejustinwelsh
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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:

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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.

If you enjoyed this thread, then:

→ Follow me @thejustinwelsh for weekly info like this.
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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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May 13
I’ve now Tweeted 579 days in a row.

And added 357,000 followers.

Here are 4 simple lessons learned:

1. Share one useful thought every morning.
2. Be active under large accounts.
3. Engage with 5 growing friends.
4. Write 1 thread per week.

That's it.
Hope that's helpful.
Note: Sharing one thought per day feels hard.

But here are 4 prompts to make it easy:

- What's 1 thing I learned today?
- What's 1 interesting thought I had?
- What did my friends & I debate about?
- What's something someone taught me?

Find 30 min. to write about one or two.
To make sure you engage with 5 friends, do this:

- Sign up for BlackMagic
- Install their Twitter extension
- Build a list of 10-15 friends of yours
- Throw 15 minutes on your calendar to engage

Pretty easy to systematize this. Image
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May 12
Spend your precious time on the most important 20% of your business.

Use the "Impact-to-Time" exercise.

Here's how it works: Image
1/ Brainstorm and List Your Tasks

Step one is to get everything out on the table - and I mean everything.

Go old school with paper and pen, and make a list of all the tasks you juggle for your business.

It’s not important to filter or prioritize yet. Image
2/ Choose Primary Outcome & Score Your Tasks

Next, decide what the highest priority result is that you want to achieve.

This will be your: Primary Outcome

Then, give each task on your list an “Impact Score” from 1 to 10 as it relates to that Primary Outcome. Image
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May 11
How to build a one-person business that supports your dream life.

The Japanese Ikigai concept: Image
Ikigai is a Japanese concept that helps you find your true purpose in life, including your business.

It's perfect for Solopreneurs.

It combines your passions, skills, & the needs of the world to create a life of true purpose and service.

Here’s how you find yours:
1/ Find Your Passion:

Start by truly understanding what you're passionate about.

What makes you feel excited, energized, & inspired?

For example, I love:

- Social media
- Marketing
- Online business
- E-commerce

Working feels like play to me.

I absolutely love what I do.
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May 10
My business started growing when I realized that nobody was going to teach me how to do everything to be successful.

Threads, articles, peers, mentors, colleagues, friends, & family are all great, but in the end, solopreneurs thrive when they start and learn.
Starting is hard.

What, when, how?

Keep this simple 3-step formula in mind:

1. Work on improving yourself
2. Take a copious amount of notes
3. Share those notes where people hang out

That's a great way to get started.
Choose an obsession & study it.

Become better by actively participating in it daily.

Then, turn your obsession and experience into a roadmap that others can follow.

Like this: justinwelsh.me/blog/dont-pick…
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May 10
The 2023 layoffs at tech companies should remind us:

We're all useful until suddenly we aren't.

If you're fortunate enough to have full-time employment, now is the time to start preparing for a "what if" scenario in your life.

Here's how:
1. Show Up Daily:

- Familiar face
- Familiar name
- Familiar content
- Familiar opinions

People should know when to expect you, and what to expect from you.

It's cliché as hell but play Moneyball.
For example, here's my social media strategy:

- Tweets: 2x per day
- Threads: 2x per week
- LinkedIn Posts: 2x per day
- Weekly Newsletter: 1x per week

Then, each morning I spend ~45 minutes interacting with people.
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May 9
Success is just boring consistency applied to the 20% of stuff that actually matters. A graphic showing that it's...
@milanicreative You’ve probably heard of Pareto's Law:

80% of our results come from 20% of our actions.

But the big challenge is figuring out which actions make up that 20%.

So most solopreneurs focus on 100% of their tasks:

- Admin
- Marketing
- Content creation
- Customer service

Yikes.
@milanicreative There's a simple 5-step process to solve this:

1. Brainstorm & list tasks
2. Outcome & task-scoring
3. Time identification
4. Impact-to-time ratio
5. Prioritization & focus

On Saturday, I'll send a free guide to 110,000+ newsletter subs.

Sign up here:

justinwelsh.me/the-saturday-s…
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