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Success stories from other web businesses to learn. Tactics, tips, development, measurement of success and process explained in detail. Reading these stories will teach you some tactics used by these successful businesses. Even if any particular case study is not relevant to your business you can find similar patterns that can be applied to yours just by reading these case studies. When you learn new things that knowledge resides in your brain waiting for right moment to be used. As you read more of these stories, some business and marketing patterns will form even if you will not realize them initially. So keep reading every case study and never give up on learning and growing your business.

StudioPress – how to sell WordPress Themes

This is story about journalist Brain Gardner, who made magazine like worpdress themes and sold them. StudioPress has roughly 40.000 paid customers. This is story about how he started and grew this business working on regular day job.

  • While working he was interested in building a magazine like website and installed wordpress to his own host.
  • Started to tweak wordpress design. Then he wanted to provide free theme and get his name out and see what happens. There was inspiration from other guys who were providing free themes and reaching big audiences.

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Envato: success story of WordPress themes and PSD tutorials business

If you have a wordpress blog then it is more likely you heard of themeforest, marketplace for wordpress, joomla, opencart and many other CMS themes. Envato is parent company that manages 30 web properties on separate niches. This is story of how it is started and what make them successful. As success measurement we measure income that they generate. Envato don’t disclose precise numbers, all they reveal is they are more than a million on revenue per year.

Here are notes from Envato success story.

  • Marketplace business: They started as a website for selling flash compopnents called FlashDen in 2006. Then renamed website to ActiveDen due to getting warning from Adobe regarding using name Flash in domain.
    • They created mini portfolios and used their flash components, fonts, videos and then shared that portfolio to show how easily you can create such portfolio.
    • Items were selling for couple dollars, and created by others. Developer would get 25% then as sell more they will get 40% revenue share from the market. Nowadays those numbers are 50% at beginning then 70% as they sell more.

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Build passive income in spare time and sell for 200.000$

This simple guide explains how a person with full time job committing one hour per day builds niche website earning 2000$ per month in passive income and sells it to advertiser for 200.000$. Patrick Meninga have done it in 4 years but could be accomplished faster if he knew what he learned during those 4 years. He started in area that he personally had experience with and his main goal was to reach 1000$ per month and quit full time job. Patrick reached that goal in 4 years and after 3 month he reached 2000$ per month milestone. His project that sold for 200.000$ is help resources to quit alcohol and other harmful addictions. Website link to his project displayed at the bottom of this post.

Patrick followed 3 simple steps to achieve this success.

  1. Setup wordpress site by buying domain and hosting.
  2. Write content every day. 90% of workload.
  3. Write guest post every month. 10% of work load.

Let’s break down steps of this business idea:

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Software developer earning 200,000$ passive income

Most software developers feel like they work day and night, they need some freedom to live their lives. I felt same when I was working as software developer. You get salary every month but you have to put same effort every month in order to get paid. And writing code is very intensive brain work, it is not like being and accountant and using your software periodically and increase your salary as company that you work for gets bigger. While you work hard on client projects some of them get very successful and make 1000 times more in terms of money while you don’t get any share of it after project is finished. So every software developer after a while start thinking to start their own software company or small business that can grow or keep earning steady income every month for future 20-30 years. Having a product and improving it is much easy than writing new product for every new client every month.

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Earn 1 million $ per year with email newsletter business

To earn decent amount from email newsletter you need attract interested subscribers and useful information to publish. This is success story of a newsletter service that helps reporters find right business to write about in their report. Peter Shankman founder of Help A Reporter Out – HARO explains how business works, where revenue generated, how to deliver newsletter and other interesting aspects.

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Success Story: Harry Potter fan site business

Have you ever wondered how a fan website can generate money? I thought about it and only revenue model that comes to mind was advertising. Because site visitors would be young to purchase goods and hard to target specific products I thought advertisements will have very low CPM rate and revenue. Reading this success story of Harry Potter fan site I found more useful details about fan site revenues and revenue streams. It turns out other big revenue stream is book publishing. Here are notes from story. Site owner, Emerson Spartz, also reads lots of books and interviews, takes notes to review them later and apply to his businesses.

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Success story: Theme business RocketTheme

Theme business for free content management systems like wordpress, joomla, drupal, magento is another profitable business idea to look at. We looked at other success stories on themeforest and woothemes, this is another succeed internet business that earns more than 2 million $ per year. As in every business there are easy and hard parts to it. Easy part is you spend your energy to build a theme and then sell it several times through subscription. Every subscribed customer can use any theme that they provide and change whenever they want to new or other theme. Difficult part is to deal with client requests and address theme related problems while explaining other related issues and custom development needs.

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Success story: How to build Promotional codes business

Promotionalcodes.org.uk is UK centered retail affiliate website offering promotional coders to consumers. Site is built with 6 month target to become profitable to support a family. Site had profit of 145,000 pound first year, 1 million pounds second year and 2 million pounds third year. After that was sold for several millions to other company. Site has 1 million visitors each month, 90% of traffic comes from search engines.

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Success story: Replicon – time tracking and invoicing software

Two software developers (married couple) start their own business in 1996. Now they have 20 million $ revenue in 2010. They worked at night to develop their software. From 18-03 every day after day job. Their time tracking and invoicing software as service called replicon.

Here are some notes from interview:

Success story: Easy Video Player

Video player story how to make useful product that sells good. Good for video marketing to sell any product.

Notes from interview:

  • Search for developer (PHP for example) in related forums, search for active users and contact them directly.
  • Video player has many features that will guide you through while you watch. useful if you search for some specific feature of product but don’t have time to watch whole video then this is handy.
  • A-B test, to see which viewers convert better, buy product

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