Society needs to stop confusing age with experience.
I've met:
- 20 year olds on their 4th business.
- 50 year olds afraid to launch their first.
I know which one I'd take advice from.
Age is irrelevant in entrepreneurship.
The Solopreneur Starter Pack:
1. Join Twitter
2. Tweet 19348 times a week
3. Grow fast
4. Call yourself a growth expert
5. Sell a course
6. Tell students to do the same
An interesting business plan. Looks awfully like a pyramid 🧐
"I just closed a $2k a month client, I only start learning {thing} 4 weeks ago"
I see these posts every day.
If I saw somebody I just hired go straight to Twitter to post that, there wouldn't be a second month.
This will hurt.
But it needs to be said.
Stop copying Justin Welsh, Dan Koe, and Kieran Drew.
People want to hear YOUR story.
We want to see YOUR style.
Trust in yourself.
My feed is:
45% - High school ghost writers
45% - Twitter growth ‘experts’
10% - People actually building stuff
I’ve clearly confused the algorithm.
Time to recalibrate ♻️
Under 25?
This will hurt.
Jake Paul and Andrew Tate are the Kardashians for men.
You're just monetizable eyeballs to fund their next lambo.
If you want to be an entrepreneur to build a better life.
Stop cheerleading, start leading.
Find mentors who care about your success.
Want to enjoy Twitter again?
Click more > Settings and privacy > Privacy and safety tab > Mute and block > Muted words.
Block the following:
"Like + RT & comment"
"Free for 24hrs"
"Must be following"
Let's put an end to it!
I spent 3 months with less than 70 followers (Booo)
Then grew 1000+ in 43 days (Yaaay)
I made a free video showing what I changed to get results.
NOTHING is required (no email, RT etc.)
(L*nk in comments) 🙏
I’ve never met a successful person who was a complainer.
They all understand a fundamental truth.
Nobody cares.
You want a great life?
You gotta do it yourself.
Sorry copywriters.
Only about 28% of your work actually gets read.
80% of time on websites is spent looking at the left side of the page.
People skim in an F shape.
They are not there to read.
They are there for information, fast.
Build accordingly.
It seems everybody on here makes 6 figures a month.
In reality.
Those 6 figures are $000000
Follow people for their knowledge.
Not for made up numbers that make you feel bad about yourself.
In my first year on X, I've observed a pattern.
99.99% of people I've come across in our corner of X are kind, supportive and helpful.
All on a similar path.
All looking to share what they know.
All showing up each day to better their circumstance.
Here's to another year 🥂
My dream was to pay my rent with internet money
In 2014 that was $800 a month
So I moved to Thailand to rent a $200 apartment
I instantly made my goal 4x easier
Do whatever it takes to get to your freedom number fast
Freedom of time is the ultimate leverage for a Solopreneur
Your landing page needs to QUICKLY tell me: (Above the fold)
- Who you help
- What you help me achieve
- And how you're going to help me achieve it
Bonus point for telling me who you don't help
How to make $20,000 a month?
Step One: Stop reading posts on how to make $20,000 a month.
Money is only the by-product of the skills and knowledge we obtain.
Focus on those.
SEO is easy. Agencies have overcomplicated it for years to line their pockets.
- Get a plugin
- Find keywords
- Optimise content
- Source some backlinks
- Fix user experience (speed etc.)
- Wait about 3-6 months for the results
It's really not a big deal.
Alex Hormozi broke copywriting forever.
He thought a generation that to sell we need to create an irresistible offer
Unfortunately reading comprehension seems to be at an all-time low
New copywriters seem to think that means just making wilder claims than the next guy
"I'll
Business X is becoming the TikTok of text
Desperate consumers looking for hope
Desperate creators over promising
Don't trade your reputation for fast growth
The internet never forgets
When you see a super-successful person, pay attention to how you feel.
Jealousy or Curiosity.
If you're on the wrong team, you need to do a lot of work on yourself.
I've tried all the organization apps.
I always end up using the notes app on my mac.
Why?
One-click and I'm writing.
Reducing friction in your business is the real low-hanging fruit.
My 10 years of travelling have finally come to an end
And the number 1 lesson I've learned
People are more important than places
No amount of sandy beaches or snowy peaks can beat being surrounded by the people you love.
A foolproof 2-year plan
- Pick a topic
- Build an audience
- Offer programs to solve problems
How to win?
- Pick something you enjoy, or you'll quit too early
- A platform you like spending time on
- Teach in the format you're best at
Nothing complicated, don't get distracted
@tibo_maker
For purely practical purposes, yes.
But there's a lot more to language than simply knowing the words.
Internalising a new language and its nuances integrates us with the culture and reshapes our perception of ourselves.
"To have another language is to possess a second soul'
Instant unfollow.
When I follow somebody and get an auto DM saying "Welcome to my tribe" or some variation.
Followers are not NPCs here to inflate your ego.
If you truly want to connect and serve people, treat them as equals.
Leave the guru nonsense at the door.
I accidentally ended up in the best corner of Twitter.
My feed is full of incredible people.
- Creating amazing products (you know who you are)
- Supporting & helping other creators
- Building their dream future
Who should I follow to make it even better? 👇
Contrary to every screenshot in your feed right now
It's hard to sell 100 products a month at $50
Unless you have a massive following
Unless you plan on going viral, don't sell cheap products
The numbers don't add up
Selling 10 at $500 is much more achievable
To compensate
To the X gurus crushing it 7 days a week:
- We don't believe your income screenshot
- We don't believe your anonymous client results
Good marketing builds trust.
Cheap tactics destroy it.
It only takes 1 day to:
- Build a website
- Start a newsletter
- Launch an agency
- Create your course
- Start an eCom Store
- Build an affiliate blog
- Create a Youtube Channel
You have 185 Days left in 2023.
Less talking, more doing!
If somebody keeps liking your posts. Put their names into a spreadsheet.
- Come back daily and like and comment on their stuff.
- Avoid wasting time on the feed.
- Build two-way relationships with a small group.
It's how I plan to grow in 2023.
What are you doing to grow?
It's no coincidence that personal brands are rising in tandem with AI.
When information becomes so cheap and abundant
Human connection will be the most valuable way to build brand equity.
Just seen someone boast that they went from 0-1300 followers in 8 days
They also posted an image, $900 in sales
I snooped about
It's all true
But they left out the fact they have 120k IG followers
They've been selling for years
We rarely hear the full story
Massive Untapped Organic Traffic Source🔥
Actually untapped, not clickbait untapped.
And it's not social media.🧵THREAD
It's called Google Discovery. It's a feed of short form content google pushes on Android & Google Mobile
It can also give you a massive boost in your SEO
I was so shy as a kid that I forced myself to learn to work online.
Only so I wouldn't have to go to job interviews.
Using fear as fuel works just fine 😅
Whatever gets it done!
People assume you need to be a millionaire to travel the world.
I’m not, and I’ve done it for 10 years.
The secret is cash flow.
Make $2k a month independently and the world is yours.
The smartest people are giving their best stuff away for free.
But 99% of people are not paying attention.
Here are 10 blogs to get 1% better each day.
I started travelling in 2014
- My rent was $200 p/m (Asia)
- Expenses $800 p/m.
I figured out how to earn $1000 with my laptop
I used 100% of my free time to grow, learn and earn.
2023, I'm still going.
The number you need for a life of freedom is a lot less than you think!
Day 1: "I just want to make my first dollar online"
2023: Wow I've made $1000 🥳
2024: Wow, I've made $5000 🥳
2025: NO, I've only made $3000 😢
It's easy to forget the progress you made. Zoom out and remember where you started.
There's usually a lot to be grateful for.
I’ve been travelling for over 10 years.
The biggest lesson I learned.
Our sacrifices are proportional to our rewards.
I traded:
- Friends
- Stability
- Possessions
for:
- Resourcefulness
- Independence
- Freedom
You can live your dream life.
But you can’t have everything.
@hi_gaganthakur
If financially free here just means your monthly outgoing is lower than your income as an entrepreneur then I’d do 2 things.
(Numbers are examples obvs, I don’t know your situation)
- Reduce your outgoing as much as possible. If you need €3k a month, see how low you can reduce
To be in the 5am club and be healthy you need to be sleeping by 9pm.
This is fine.
If you're 7 years old.
Waking up at silly o'clock is not an entrepreneurial flex.
Let's stop using the words funnel and leads.
❤️ Build a value ladder instead of a funnel. Free, affordable & premium.
❤️ 'Leads' are people with fears, hopes and desires just like you. Not cash machines.
Let's put some humanity back into marketing.
The entrepreneurs dilemma:
- We know we can build it
- But we don't know if we can sell it
There’s an easy fix
It takes months to build a product
But just one day to make a landing page & product mock up
If nobody buys you just saved weeks of time
Market first, build later.
A lot of entrepreneurs have fragile egos:
- Programmers dislike Wordpress
- Designers dislike Canva
- Writers dislike AI
Just because you spent years learning it doesn't make it the best option.
Don't let bias get in the way of getting the job done.
Testimonials are not just good social proof.
They're good for the soul.
A few kind words at the right time can have a massively oversized and lasting impact.
Make the next engagement in your feed an honest compliment.
You will make someones day, maybe even change a life.
The 1 thing I noticed on profiles with over 10k followers
They always have over 10k tweets
There are some optimizations
But no substitute for doing the work
I hate Facebook, You hate Facebook. I get it.
But something big is happening 👀
🔷 Recently added 'Professional Mode'
🔷 Dishing out Reel impressions like candy
🔷 Allowing creators to monetize
🔷 Paid plan for 'wider audience promotion'
Opportunity, or too little too late?
I took a full month off X
I've missed:
- Giveaways that everybody wants, but nobody uses
- The '100x your income' DM bros
- Countless platitudes
Don't fall into thinking your business is going to fall apart if you take a break
The best of life still happens in the real world
The worst way to gauge how well you’re doing?
Compare yourself to others.
Don’t use Twitter to measure your success.
Compare yourself, to your old self.
I recently forced myself to get comfortable making video content.
Why?
- Evergreen Growth
- A hedge against AI
Post your best ideas once, and benefit 365 days a year.
Modest results, but steady and up and to the right is all that matters.
Evergreen strategies = The long game
Not showing your pricing is one of the worst user experience choices you can make.
If only frustrates potential customers.
If the price is variable, give a range.
Give nothing and they'll go check out the competition.
I love a good growth hack, even some sketchy ones.
But I don't understand using Ai to write posts.
If you've nothing interesting to say, that's a red flag 🔴
🧠 Educate yourself
🧠 Have more experiences
🧠 Learn more skills
Don't rely on Ai to be an interesting person.
The single biggest lie Twitter creators tell themselves. (and others)
“Quality over quantity”
The truth is:
Quantity = Quality.
- More repetitions
- More terrible first drafts
- More trial and error
There is no avoiding the number of reps needed to improve.
Earnings are a lagging indicator of progress when you're working for yourself.
You need to frontload the work, the rewards come later.
This stops 99% of people from staying the course.
If you want to make money this weekend
- Google "Accountant {your city}"
Look at how shit their 1960s website is.
Make them a fancy one
Email on Monday and tell them you'll get it live for $3k
Does it work?
Yes.
But that's not the point.
Accountants understand one thing,
Celebrity worship is a crazy thing.
A big account posts a platitude.
People gush.
Falling over each other to show appreciation for this revolutionary insight.
A small account does it…
“Ugh, another one”
Don’t get swept up in the hysteria.
Seek knowledge, not a hype train.
✅ Pays €11 a month
✅ Networks with others
✅ Posts thoughtful content daily
🤖 "He must be a bot"
🙂 Logs back in
🤦♂️ Comment section full of bots
This is almost a daily occurrence
If you don't diversify your personal brand to reduce platform risk you're playing with fire.
Be honest. Why are you trying to grow on Twitter?
For me...
- More social proof
- To connect with influential people
- To leverage a large audience for future projects
Truthfully, why are you investing the time?
Imagine wasting 6 months of your life.
Working for free with no guarantee of a reward.
Entrepreneurs are a rare breed.
It's hard.
So cut yourself some slack every now and then.
If criticism ever gets you down.
Just remember Mr Beast gets hate for curing blindness.
Some people live and breath negativity.
Their opinions can be dismissed.
A large part of SEO will soon be taken over by AI.
Don't wait to get steamrolled.
- Diversify into multiple social media channels.
- Infuse your personality into your brand.
- Video content is a life raft.
It's time to reinforce your marketing strategy.
Motivational content always performs better than actionable.
People want to feel good.
They don't want to work hard.
Unfortunately for them, only one gets results.
High-pressure sales websites set off customers' alarm bells.
We all know:
- The fake scarcity clock will auto-reset
- You're not giving us a $9997 discount
- You'll be upselling us for weeks
Here's a neat solution.
Stop trying to trick customers and treat them with respect.
I've read the Biographies of Newton, Einstein, Da Vinci, Franklin & Galileo.
They all had 1 clear thing in common:
- Extreme curiosity.
Their secrets?
- Ask more questions.
- Ask better questions.
You don't need to be a genius to get the benefits.
Posting a 365 day streak isn’t a flex.
It’s obsessive.
If you’re worried about breaking a Tweet streak.
You’re thinking short term.
Missing a few days doesn’t matter when you’re playing the long game.
This is modern marketing:
Step 1: Make friends at scale
Step 2: Give, give, give
Step 3: Get rewarded at scale
Reciprocity and familiarity are more powerful than any marketing campaign.
How I get 100 leads on LinkedIn every week.
1: Pick a competitor.
2: Connect with anybody commenting on their latest post.
3: Add them to a list.
4: Engage with them 3x per week.
5: After 4 weeks send an intro DM.
Stop sending cold intros. Build relationships.
We're all happy to build in public.
But afraid to fail in public.
In 100 years nobody is going to remember me or you.
Worry less, experiment more and enjoy it!
"Grow on 1-2 platforms"
I strongly disagree.
Content creation is 90% of the battle.
Repurpose it everywhere.
With a tiny audience, you can EASILY get 1000+ impressions each day when you add all platforms up.
A bare minimum of 365,000 eyes on your brand a year, with 0% luck!
Everybody struggling to work online needs to hear this.
❌ Stop searching to
"Make Money Online"
You're going to get fake gurus exploiting your desperation.
✔️ Instead start searching
"Learn Valuable Skills Online"
Money is the byproduct, stop looking in the wrong places.
🟢 Receiving a personalised DM just after following you
🟠 Receiving an auto DM just after following you
🔴 Receiving an auto DM pitching me something just after following you
Short-term thinking gets short-term results.
90% of my Google searches end with the word "Reddit".
The results from Google page 1 are outdated and vanilla.
The future of information is short-form, direct & raw.
The way it should be.
😴 Google sits on AI for years.
🧠 Microsoft take advantage.
🤡 Google have a 'Code Red' meeting to rush their AI out.
If you don't keep innovating, somebody else will do it for you.