How I Got Paid $57.48 Today (Automatically) Just for Growing My Newsletter

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I posted a Thread yesterday that blew up a little bit, and it resulted in about 25+ new subscribers to my email newsletter.

Not this one, but The Reading Life, where I mostly talk about books. This one, The Competitive Advantage, is more business/creator-oriented, and I like to keep them separate for various reasons.

Anyway. About 25+ new subs. And this is where I take you behind the curtain a little bit and show you how I made $57.48 today without any of those new subscribers paying me a dime:

The $468.80 is all-time, since I opened this new revenue stream inside my business a few months ago.

So it’s not exactly a “cash cow” or anything, but it’s close to $100/month, pretty much passively, which is NOT nothing.

That’s separate from my newsletter ad revenue (which my email service provider, Beehiiv, makes super easy to start getting paid with), and also separate from Premium subscriptions, which is my lowest-earning newsletter revenue stream, but it’s still something.

Bear in mind, my other newsletter isn’t massive - just around 4,500+ subscribers or so. These revenue streams will just grow and get crazier over time though.

So what’s the $468.80 from?

Recommending other great newsletters people might like right after they sign up to mine.

Those are paid recommendations that people see, where I accept or decline a newsletter operator’s offer to pay me to recommend their newsletter.

Audience trust is important to me, so I reject a TON of offers.

But when that Thread took off and 25 new people signed up to my newsletter, some of them opted to sign up to a few of the other newsletters I recommend, and I got paid for that.

This is DEAD SIMPLE for you to set up in your business, too, and I’ll help you for free.

Literally for free, all you have to do is use my Beehiiv affiliate link (which comes with a discount) and I’ll help you set up your newsletter for free, including letting you know how to set up all of these revenue streams.

We’ll spend about an hour going over everything, and I usually charge $150/hour for personal business consultations, so you’re getting $150 in coaching completely free.

By using my link, you also get a 30-day trial + 20% OFF your plan for 3 months.

Just reply to this email when you’ve started your Beehiiv newsletter and I’ll help you set it up and optimize it. Again, completely for free.

Let me say one more thing though.

I will NEVER tell people that scaling an internet business or personal brand is easy, or super fast, or anything like that. It CAN be, but that’s not the norm.

It took me several years to work up to earning $5,000/month from my personal brand, but I’ve done it, it CAN be done, and I can help you do it too.

Start your Beehiiv newsletter and I’ll help you win the internet money game.

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1. Born Rich, by Bob Proctor

Within My Direct Control:

Finish Reading 20 Great Books | 19 Books Left

Publish 8 New Course Videos | 8 Videos Left

Publish 15 YouTube Videos | 15 Videos Left

Publish 150 Medium Articles | 142 Articles Left

Completely Update My Social Media | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Patreon Page | Incomplete

Completely Update My Newsletter Platforms | Incomplete

Completely Update My Entire Main Website | Incomplete

Launch Affiliate Program for My Paid Community | Incomplete

Update 30 Patreon Book Notes | 18 Book Notes Left

Network with 600 New Authors | 580 Authors Left

Not Within My Direct Control:

Get Monetized on YouTube | 3,484 Watch Hours Left (12.9% Complete)

Negotiate 12 Newsletter Partnerships | 12 Partnerships Left

Organize 12 Instagram Collaborations | 12 Collaborations Left

Reach 119,000 Instagram Followers | 4,843 Followers Left

Reach 24,000 Threads Followers | 4,700 Followers Left

Reach 11,000 Twitter Followers | 3,225 Followers Left

Reach 4,000 Medium Followers | 2,054 Followers Left

Reach 2,000 Facebook Followers | 691 Followers Left

Reach 2,000 LinkedIn Followers | 1,131 Followers Left

Reach 10,000 YouTube Subscribers | 8,476 Subscribers Left

Reach 10,000 Reading Life Subscribers | 5,562 Subscribers Left

Reach 1,000 Competitive Advantage Subscribers | 449 Subscribers Left

Reach 50 Competitive Advantage Members | 11 Members Left

Reach 50 Patreon Supporters | 21 Supporters Left

Note: I’ll update follower counts once per week, since it’s such a waste of time to go through all of them every single night. Also, Threads annoyingly doesn’t give exact numbers. Oh well.

Read 5 New Books | 4 Books Left

Publish 2 New Course Videos | 2 Videos Left

Publish 3 YouTube Videos | 3 Videos Left

Publish 35 Medium Articles | 27 Articles Left

Upload New VSL for Skool Community | Editing Now

Upload Skool Community Testimonials | Gathering Now

Upload All Old Podcast Episodes | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Instagram Profile | Almost Finished

Completely Update My YouTube Profile | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Website | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Newsletter | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Patreon | Almost Finished

Update 10 Patreon Book Notes | COMPLETE ✅

Network with 140 Authors | 120 Authors Left

Note: “Week One” Runs From September 1st-7th

Woke Up: 1AM

Sleep Quality: 85%

Pages Read: 115

Workout: Rest Day

Work Completed:

Posted 1x on Instagram

Posted 3x on Twitter

Posted 3x on Threads

Posted 2x on LinkedIn

Posted 2x on Facebook

Scheduled 2 Medium Articles

Worked on Updating My Website

Worked on Current Author Campaigns

Worked on My Next Book Breakdown

Messaged 10 New Authors About Collaborations

Managed Paid Competitive Advantage Community

Completely Organized My Workflow for Tomorrow

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Man, today was awesome. Really moved a bunch of projects forward, and I feel GREAT about what the rest of September has in store. I also bought a bunch of new books, so that’s always cool!

But hey, it’s 4:00AM here right now (yikes!) and I’m going to bed!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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