Issue #7: This week’s 5 most popular stories, tools, ideas, and books

Top courses:

1. Beyond Online Writing Bootcamp: a 3-Day LIVE experience to turn your writing into a profitable business without working 24/7
2. 3X the Email Subscribers from LinkedIn: Get the secrets on how to capitalize on LinkedIn’s latest changes
3. Start writing online in 30 days: a cohort-based course that has taught over 4,000 students the fundamentals of writing on the internet

Top stories:

1. How to Turn Your Side Hustle into a Thriving Online Business—by Sinem Gunel
2. Afraid to Hit the Publish Button? Read This—Zulie Rane
3. This One Conversation With My Business Mentor Helped Me Create a Six-Figure Consulting Business—by Michael Lim
4. The 5 Most Important Lessons I Learned From 2 Years of Weekly Podcasting — by Aaron Dinin, PhD
5. Yes, You Can Get Your Website on the First Page of Google Without Backlinks—Christopher Kokoski

Top free resources

1. Build your online business: A step-by-step framework to launch your online business
2. Grow and monetize your LinkedIn audience: a free 3-video mini-course teaching you how to explode on LinkedIn
3. Elements of a successful online education business: Learn how to make money by sharing your ideas and knowledge with the world

Top ideas:

1. “Don’t build anything until you’ve collected 50–100 emails from your target audience. I did this with Zero to Marketing. If you can’t get them now you won’t be able to get them after you’ve built it either.” — Andrea Bosoni
2. “How to make millions of dollars: • Entertain 1 person • Save 1 person some time • Make 1 person more money • Help 1 person improve social status. Then, put your solution on the internet.” — Dickie Bush
3. “How to build a $1,300/month side business for $19. Here’s the entire 17-step business plan for you.”—Justin Welsh
4. “Qualitative evidence shows up before quantitative evidence. This is why word of mouth is the leading indicator of growth, for any business, project or initiative you are trying to grow.” — Hiten Shah
5. “Write the thing. Launch the podcast. Finish the book. It’s all a learning process. Act accordingly and stop over-analyzing.” — Kaleigh Moore

Top tools:

1. Tweet Hunter: Grow and monetize your Twitter audience.
2. Hopin: Create immersive virtual, hybrid, and in-person event experiences for your audience, no matter where they are.
3. Copy AI: Introducing the end of writer’s block: generate marketing copy in seconds.
4. Transistor.fm: Record your podcast and Transistor will distribute it to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts.
5. Looka: AI-powered platform to design a logo and build a brand you love.

See you next week,

Start it up team

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