This week's additions focus on founder stories, marketing, and finance, with a new digest from Noah Kagan. Highlights include Growing outside your niche beats competing with the same travel audience Over-promoting content is a sign the content itself is the problem.

Case studies

YouTube

How Nomadic Matt built a seven-figure travel blog from scratch

Noah Kagan October 27, 2017

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Case studies 9

Content marketing 7

SEO 6

• Growing outside your niche beats competing with the same travel audience
• Spam sites taught the SEO skills that scaled a real business
• Affiliates and owned products outlast sponsorships and text link fads

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Content marketing

YouTube

How Simple Pickup built a multi-million dollar YouTube business

Noah Kagan October 24, 2017

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Content marketing 9

Case studies 7

Bootstrapping 5

• Over-promoting content is a sign the content itself is the problem.
• Remix proven viral trends into your niche instead of inventing from scratch.
• Peak revenue hit $2.5M/year at 80% margin with just two videos per month.

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