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Recently, I was doing some 360º feedback on myself, and I asked my COO at StoryLearning: “What could I do better?” His reply: “Focus on things that excite you. Good things tend to happen when you’re working on things that excite you.” Of course, this is code for: “You’re a giant PITA when you’re not […]
A reader asked me a cracking question: “Olly, why do you publish your email newsletters on your blog? They don’t look optimised for SEO at all, so what’s the strategy?” Astute observation. There are four reasons I put (some of) my newsletters on my blog, and none of them are about gaming the Google algorithm. […]
After working with 200+ education businesses this year, I’ve noticed that growth tends to break down in three different ways: Knowing this, you can take a first-principles approach to growing your business to the next level. Let’s explore… $0-500k: More At the $0-500k range, your business is still getting off the ground. You’ve hit on […]
[September 2015. Boise, Idaho.] Russell Brunson called my name. I got to my feet. It was Day 1 of his Inner Circle mastermind. 20 heavy hitters. (More accurately: 19 heavy hitters… and me. Little old Olly, with an 18-month-old blog, a couple o’ courses and a whole lotta dreams. I didn’t know my arse from […]
Welcome to my annual review from the year that was 2024. Here’s the context: My rationale for starting this newsletter business in the first place How I made $175k in the first year of business (2023) My plan for making $1 million Now, let’s dive in… The Year in Numbers: The numbers from my business […]
While I was in Japan, I received a voice note from a friend. He was, what I can only describe as, “stewing” about the future of his business. “Olly, I think I want to sell my business.” It was “stew” that I’ve encountered many times before, both in my own thinking, but also in other […]
I recently changed my mind about passive income.In this blog post I’m going to explain why.Understand:What you’re about to read comes from someone who has made tens of millions of dollars in passive income…So I feel like this is an informed perspective. In order to explain what I’m talking about, we’re going to start with […]
After someone buys a product from you, the best thing you can possibly do is send them a automated sequence of post-purchase emails. I call this a “consumption sequence”. Now, I can’t remember if I came up with this name, or if I stole it from someone else. Let’s just assume I stole it — […]
Recently, I was looking back over my business career, searching for the key inflection points. I discovered something quite profound: Every “big break” I had was the net result of a huge, long process of slow work. I’ll give examples of these in just a second. But here’s why this is meaningful for me: Spending […]
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