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Demonstrates the easiest way to success. Just tell others how to be successful - live a crazy life that seems awesome and blog/write about it! Pretend you know

Demonstrates the easiest way to success. Just tell others how to be successful - live a crazy life that seems awesome and blog/write about it! Pretend you know something they don't so they stay hooked on your "personal brand". Voila!

tyrw 9y ago
I've always wanted to write a "how to get rich" book in which I simply describe how to write a "how to get rich" book. If done right it might actually work, and if it did you really couldn't argue with the method.
- tvmalsv 9y ago
  When I was looking to get rich quick back in the eighties, I saw several methods that focused on teaching you how to get rich quick by selling people information via classified ads. And, of course, you would find these products by reading the classified ads. Not really any different than today's video courses on how to get rich by making instructional videos. In both cases, for some people, it does indeed work :)
  - zaptheimpaler 9y ago
    Did it work for you, is the question :p
    - tvmalsv 9y ago
      Sadly, no. It's not that the ideas were invalid, I learned that I'm simply lazy and unmotivated.
- JBlue42 9y ago
  There's a version of that in the travel blogger / digital nomad market where they shill their e-books about how to be a successful travel blogger / digital nomad. I assume Step 1 is to write an e-book.
pieterhg 9y ago
Hold on. That’s not how I make money. I make my money bootstrapping companies like a remote job board called Remote OK (~$10,000/m) and Nomad List, a social network (~$20,000/m) and Hoodmaps ($0 still) that lets you find neighborhoods to stay. The majority of users come from my companies/apps (not me!) being covered on Reddit, HN, Product Hunt, and mainstream press, not my blog. I have a book about bootstrapping startups that’s completely unrelated to digital nomads that makes $1,500/m in pre-orders, so that’s 5% of my revenue. Hardly a blip in terms of overall revenue and not the goal of my blog (I’ve had this blog for 7 years). I write about anything from building code projects like https://levels.io/hoodmaps https://levels.io/hoodmaps to dealing with my anxiety http://levels.io/anxiety http://levels.io/anxiety to logging my travels https://levels.io/los-angeles https://levels.io/los-angeles. In this case, I received a message of someone on Twitter who asked me what would I do if I was 18 now, that’s why I wrote it. It’s my subjective perspective.
- zaptheimpaler 9y ago
  So sorry, I did not take the time to learn more about you before posting. I can't delete/edit my post now or I would.
  - pieterhg 9y ago
    No problem, thanks!
michalpt 9y ago
The problem with your post is that he is probably the last person that would fit this description.

tyrw 9y ago

I've always wanted to write a "how to get rich" book in which I simply describe how to write a "how to get rich" book. If done right it might actually work, and if it did you really couldn't argue with the method.

tvmalsv 9y ago
When I was looking to get rich quick back in the eighties, I saw several methods that focused on teaching you how to get rich quick by selling people information via classified ads. And, of course, you would find these products by reading the classified ads. Not really any different than today's video courses on how to get rich by making instructional videos. In both cases, for some people, it does indeed work :)
- zaptheimpaler 9y ago
  Did it work for you, is the question :p
  - tvmalsv 9y ago
    Sadly, no. It's not that the ideas were invalid, I learned that I'm simply lazy and unmotivated.
JBlue42 9y ago
There's a version of that in the travel blogger / digital nomad market where they shill their e-books about how to be a successful travel blogger / digital nomad. I assume Step 1 is to write an e-book.

pieterhg 9y ago

Hold on. That’s not how I make money. I make my money bootstrapping companies like a remote job board called Remote OK (~$10,000/m) and Nomad List, a social network (~$20,000/m) and Hoodmaps ($0 still) that lets you find neighborhoods to stay. The majority of users come from my companies/apps (not me!) being covered on Reddit, HN, Product Hunt, and mainstream press, not my blog. I have a book about bootstrapping startups that’s completely unrelated to digital nomads that makes $1,500/m in pre-orders, so that’s 5% of my revenue. Hardly a blip in terms of overall revenue and not the goal of my blog (I’ve had this blog for 7 years). I write about anything from building code projects like https://levels.io/hoodmaps https://levels.io/hoodmaps to dealing with my anxiety http://levels.io/anxiety http://levels.io/anxiety to logging my travels https://levels.io/los-angeles https://levels.io/los-angeles. In this case, I received a message of someone on Twitter who asked me what would I do if I was 18 now, that’s why I wrote it. It’s my subjective perspective.

zaptheimpaler 9y ago
So sorry, I did not take the time to learn more about you before posting. I can't delete/edit my post now or I would.
- pieterhg 9y ago
  No problem, thanks!

michalpt 9y ago

The problem with your post is that he is probably the last person that would fit this description.