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Last week I launched the new StoryLearning app to my wider list, and so today I thought I’d document what happened and give a few thoughts. First, here are the headline numbers for the week, as always with last week’s numbers in brackets. The Launch So, last week I told the story of launching to […]
Welcome to week número dos of documenting the evolution of my education business, StoryLearning. I’m making the biggest move in 13 years by building a consumer app. And trying to do so without: You can read background about the project here, including results from the soft-launch of the app. The week in numbers: • Active users: 656 (351) • […]
Welcome to something new… Olly in Maker Mode. From here on, I’m going to focus this newsletter on documenting how I’m evolving my 13-year-old business, StoryLearning, by building a new AI-powered software product alongside it. The first milestone goal: $1m ARR. In my mind, if we can hit that in the next 12 months, it puts firmly […]
I spent most of 2017 working 50-60 hour weeks. Revenue stayed flat. I had a content calendar, a launch pipeline, three half-built funnels, a podcast I was trying to grow, and a product idea I kept tinkering with on weekends. I was busy. And I had almost nothing to show for it. If you’re running […]
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.
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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