Issue #6: This week’s 5 most popular stories, tools, ideas, and books

Top free resources

1. Build your online business: A step-by-step framework to launch your online business
2. How to build your personal monopoly: Uncover your strengths, clearly communicate your value, and start building your reputation online.
3. Grow and monetize your LinkedIn audience: a free 3-video mini-course teaching you how to explode on LinkedIn
4. Elements of a successful online education business: Learn how to make money by sharing your ideas and knowledge with the world

Top ideas:

1. “An easy way to write more Twitter content: 1. Write a Tweet 2. Rewrite it in six different ways 3. Schedule it once per month for six months 4. Repeat. Learn to say 1 thing 1,000 ways. You’ll never run out of ideas.”—Justin Welsh
2. “I once asked Neil deGrasse Tyson how he speaks so eloquently, and he told that 95% of what he says in public is something he’s written down before.”—David Perell
3. “Social media is no longer social — it is interest media. While you might still follow friends, most of the content you consume is from complete strangers. And in some cases, those strangers with strong interest-alignment become friends, resetting your social graph entirely.”—Steph Smith
4. “Why should content creators learn to write like journalists? 1) Helps you better understand how to collect + organize info into a compelling story 2) Improves interviewing skills 3) Develops impartiality and ability to present info as-is” — Kaleigh Moor
5. “You’re better off reading 1 book and spending the next 51 weeks applying it than you are reading 52 books and never applying any of them.” — Dickie Bush

Top tools

1. QuillBot: Rewrite literally any sentence using state-of-the-art AI.
2. Taplio: Grow and monetize your LinkedIn audience.
3. Looka: Design your own beautiful brand.
4. Copy AI: Introducing the end of writer’s block: generate marketing copy in seconds.
5. Typeshare: Everything you need to start writing online.

Top stories:

1. I spent 7 months gathering the very best free courses I could find on the internet—Jano le Roux
2. I’ve made nearly $10K from my Gumroad passive income business — Here’s how—Jenn Leach
3. The only 9 tools I use to write great articles in three hours—Eva Keiffenheim
4. I’ve had a side hustle for 2.5 years. It’s easier than I thought.—Eve Arnold
5. 6 affiliate programs I use to monetize my website content—Victoria Kurichenko

See you next week,

Start it up team

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