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Case Study: Anatomy of a $10M Education Business

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Why Building a Team Is the Hardest Part of Scaling to 7 Figures

Scaling to a 7-figure business means building a team, but the hard part is mindset. Here are the 5 fears that stop solo creators, and how to beat each one.

Careful use of “free” can boost sales by 35%+

There’s a strategy I’ve been using for years to get extra sales that involves giving a certain amount of stuff away for free. I used this strategy again last week, and it brought in 4-figures of extra revenue. So I thought I’d share it here. Here goes… So, I just launched a new intensive course, […]

Holy s—, you’re the guy who wrote those books!

There’s a comment I get fairly regularly on my StoryLearning YouTube channel that always makes me chuckle: “Oh, you’re the guy who wrote those books I’ve got!” See exhibits A, B and C… See, in the StoryLearning world, there’s a circuitous pathway that people take to becoming a customer. Often it starts with discovering our […]

I’m lazy… so I started another YouTube channel

Last year, I had a problem. Email leads at Story Learning had dropped to offensively low levels. Our SEO traffic – which had been a reliable source of hundreds of leads every week – had dried up completely. I needed to replace it. And fast. The target? 500 to 1,000 new leads a week. That […]

16 things I believe about business (that most people don’t)

Recently, I sent a rather self-congratulatory email about how my preference is to build lifestyle businesses. You know… businesses that kick off large amounts of profit, and don’t require you to work all that much… So you can enjoy life in the here and now. Online education businesses are uniquely suited to this kind of […]

Just what the h*** is everyone smoking?

Is it me, or is it suddenly cool to talk about ‘lifestyle businesses’ again? I dunno… For years, everything I’ve seen on social media has been “how to [hundreds of millions] and 10X in 37 minutes, and if you’re not literally bleeding from the eyeballs you’re doing it wrong” type vibe. Whereas now, everyone be like: “How to […]

5 lessons from my business mastermind

A curious thing happened in my mastermind group this week. For context: My mastermind is a group of 8 education entrepreneurs. (plus me, so 9 in total) We meet in-person 4 times throughout the year… this Wednesday we had our third meeting of the year… (Only one member of the group didn’t make it this […]

I’m struggling with my new book.

I’m working on a new book. Or at least, that’s what I’ve been telling people. In reality: …but have I written a word of it? Have I ****! My glorious new book is just sitting there in my notes app, a bunch of disjointed scribbles and concepts, waiting for an intervention of some kind to […]

What’s working this Black Friday (will boost sales)

There’s something that’s been working really well for us this Black Friday at StoryLearning and I thought I’d tell you about it. If you’re running your sale through the weekend and into Cyber Money, you still have time to implement this. In short: Personalised offers to unique customer segments. So, all this year you’ve heard […]

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Case Study: Anatomy of a $10M Education Business

Blueprint Of A $10M Online Education Business