Questions For Solo Justin (Netizen Asks)

The truth is, working for yourself is wonderful.

It's also unbelievably challenging and complex.

But mid-day, 7-mile hikes followed by burgers and beer with my favorite person make it all worth it.

Hope to see you all building cool shit this year. pic.twitter.com/23Vv2tsKIR

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) April 24, 2023

Questions For Solo Justin (Netizen Asks)

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(1) You are a solo entrepreneur. No assistants? Not even virtual assistants? Have machines so displaced people?

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(2) You did pretty well before this solo track. What did you do? How well did you do?

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(3) Did you get tired of the big money?

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(4) You basically sell one course. For 200 dollars. Is that it? What are you hiding?

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(5) Why 200? Why not the more clever $199? What's up with that price point?

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(6) What does time freedom mean to you?

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(7) List the top 10 digital tools you personally use in order of how important each is to you.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(8) Do you pay for all of them?

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(9) So tough luck for those who can't afford to pay?

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(10) Why pay? Whatever happened to the ad model of doing things?

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(11) Did you take a pay cut because you already had plenty of money?

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(12) At what point do you have too many fans?

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(13) You are laser-focused on Twitter. Why one? Why Twitter? They say Twitter is elitist.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(14) Are not all eggs in one basket? What if they change the algorithms? There's no telling what Musk might do.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(15) Why is your course on Kajabi?

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(16) Was your course an instant hit?

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(17) Are there future courses you are cooking?

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(18) Any honorary doctorate yet? Do you want it?

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(19) Where do you actually live? People think you live on Twitter.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(20) Have you always been a good teacher?

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(21) Could you teach the same course in a live classroom?

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(22) Do you think teachers in general get enough respect?

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(23) What are your revenue goals for 2023? 2024?

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(24) Top tips for course creation.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(25) Is Kajabi for knowledge commerce or k-commerce what Amazon was for e-commerce, say, in 1998?

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(26) What makes Kajabi different from other similar sites?

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(27) Are solo entrepreneurs lonely people?

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(28) Which year does the word solopreneur enter the Oxford dictionary? Selfie made it.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(29) Who is Justin the person? How might friends and family describe him?

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(30) What does a day off look like for Justin?

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(31) Justin Welsh. Are you Welsh?

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(32) What are top causes you believe in?

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

(33) Do you donate?

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

Request: My tech blog Netizen is looking for ads. The ad at the blog is $300 per month or $1499 for six months. It is my humble request to you that you please place an ad for six months. PayPal to paramendra at yahoo

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

Alternatively, it is only $2499 for a year. Deep discount. https://t.co/zu7UkaTdVa Or Zelle. paramendra at gmail

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

The Circle of Competence is a simple & powerful mental model for staying focused and unlocking growth in your business.

A short thread on how it works: pic.twitter.com/hupPqByAvQ

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) April 26, 2023

Using Twitter, you can go from $0 online to $100k in one year.

- No career path
- No daily meetings
- No "can I have a raise?"
- No performance reviews
- No, "we don't have the budget"

Just heads down for 12 months.

A predictable system.

And uncapped earning potential.

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) April 25, 2023

How to keep your business small (and win big).

The 2-Pizza Rule from Jeff Bezos: pic.twitter.com/kPsu24KG7i

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) April 25, 2023

I got the chance to sit down with a $1.7M/year solopreneur 🤯

- $2.5M proj revenue in 2023
- Has 0 employees
- Runs the biz on $620/mo

I asked him EVERYTHING about his business, & he didn't hold anything back.

What he's built is amazing. So inspired

(link to full vid below) pic.twitter.com/nu6X9Gcmro

— Pat Walls (@thepatwalls) April 25, 2023

Thank you @thejustinwelsh for letting me into your business, and being so transparent about everything.

Even though we had to film in below freezing temps 😂https://t.co/bytskXgycl

— Pat Walls (@thepatwalls) April 25, 2023

Questions For Solo Justin (Netizen Asks) https://t.co/nE50oswkbu

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2023

Plate Discipline

Solopreneurs don't need viral content.

Marketing is about getting on base every day.

- Familiar face
- Familiar name
- Familiar content
- Familiar opinions

It's cliché as hell but play Moneyball.

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) April 11, 2023

The poll has closed. Results are in.

Team @acquiredotcom is sending team Twitter some cakes. https://t.co/2A35Gy0ioF

— Andrew Gazdecki (@agazdecki) April 11, 2023

Build for customers, don't chase competitors.

— hiten.eth (@hnshah) April 11, 2023

Twitter is one of the best places to market yourself.

But it requires:

- A great profile
- Consistent output
- Social networking
- Analysis and iteration

Here's how I'd add 5,000 followers if I only had 90 days:https://t.co/xi6yiSwQbl

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) April 11, 2023

To give you a sense of my "Moneyball":

- 548 consecutive days
- 341,000+ followers
- 18,800 Tweets
- 200+ threads

Less than 1% of my content has gone "viral".

It's just reps.

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) April 11, 2023

Wow. Love that formula, Ben.

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) April 11, 2023

Super overrated.

I make more money on days when my content hits with my niche versus going ballistic with a bunch of people who have no interest in starting their own business.

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) April 11, 2023

I love that. That's such a stealable line. Ha.

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) April 11, 2023

Wow. Love this, Sachin.

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) April 11, 2023

For sure.

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) April 11, 2023

You're right, Marc.

Check it out: pic.twitter.com/vCShKJyt3u

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) April 11, 2023

A thought I have never once thought to myself:

"I'm really glad I waited for the perfect time to get started."

— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) April 11, 2023

Let's talk about Craigslist. Bootstrapped.

With annual revenue of over $1 billion.

Without ever changing their design.

The site looks straight out of the '90s.

How did Craigslist become the internet behemoth that it is today?

Here's the story. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/HcqSGtz005

— Andrew Gazdecki (@agazdecki) April 11, 2023

We launched Netflix 25 years ago this week. In celebration, I’ll be sharing some of my favorite memories—from the initial idea through the years I spent at the company.

Welcome to the Netflix Chronicles.

We’ll start with the question I get asked more than any other: where did…

— Marc Randolph (@mbrandolph) April 11, 2023

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From training AI to search, Wikipedia is the source of so much information, thus having verifiable facts matters (though only 0.3% of readers click on citations)

This paper shows huge progress in adding good references to Wikipedia https://t.co/o2XwQZdvdy pic.twitter.com/0uXCooVY4u

— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) April 11, 2023

It’s a fact of entrepreneurship that for every good idea, there are a thousand bad ones. And sometimes it can be hard to tell the difference. Personalized shampoo. Customized baseball bats. Customized dog food. These were all ideas I pitched to my co-founder Reed Hastings. I thought all these ideas were better than the one that would eventually become Netflix.

Order here: https://t.co/d6hER2dZNc
More here: https://t.co/CiP2TkPmNA pic.twitter.com/WS2pkjMNh0

— Ducon.space (@duconspace) December 2, 2022

People give up reporting crime when no action is taken or the criminal is immediately released. They actually call it “catch and release”.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 11, 2023

MELODY OF THE NIGHT - oil painting by L.Afremov - $168 free fast shipping worldwide https://t.co/kTmyBbIeCG pic.twitter.com/prs7MH2UFa

— Leonid Afremov (@afremovartcom) January 12, 2023

Seems like the trains are running at reasonable speed here. Suzhou to Zhengzhou still takes about 5 hours, but must say it's very comfortable. And the mobile network works perfectly too :) pic.twitter.com/Z2TwAjG45u

— Peter Vesterbacka (@pvesterbacka) April 11, 2023

The court proceedings will hopefully illuminate this matter

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 11, 2023

Who cares. Have you been through a Federal criminal case? It takes years and the people you love give up on you and you break from stress and isolation and financial ruin until there's no reason to live anymore.

I'm not suicidal but if I knew what the last 3 years would be like…

— Ari Teman (@AriTeman) April 11, 2023

if you enjoy headaches, 10/10 recommend event planning! 🙃

— Meagan Loyst 🧚‍♀️ (@meaganloyst) April 11, 2023

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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 11, 2023

After 9 months writing online:

• I had under 100 followers
• I wrote blogs no one read
• I was ready to give up entirely

But in the 2 years since then, I've added 380k followers & grew a newsletter to 70k readers.

So what changed?

These 6 "perspective hacks" ↓

— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) April 11, 2023

3. Realize: no one on Earth is thinking about you as much as you think

I still remember the first time I hit publish.

I expected a wave of criticism from every single person I ever met to pour into my inbox.

But much to my surprise, that didn't happen.

Here's what did:

— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) April 11, 2023

I hit publish on that first blog post—and heard nothing but the internet's crickets of indifference.

Turns out, these people I thought would read every word (mostly my high school friends) were way too busy thinking about themselves.

And now I think about this graphic daily: pic.twitter.com/GHms3ZtHFK

— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) April 11, 2023

People don't want to learn from "experts."

Why?

Because most "experts" are out of touch with beginners.

Instead, it's much easier to learn from someone a few steps ahead of you.

It's why 3rd graders always love to learn from 4th graders (not 8th graders).

Now for the last 2:

— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) April 11, 2023

5. Optimize for progress, not perfection

I thought before I started writing, I needed to have:

• The perfectly designed blog
• The perfectly optimized note-taking system
• The perfectly planned content calendar

Turns out, I didn't.

Here's why:

— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) April 11, 2023

Chasing the "perfect" system is nothing but procrastination disguised as productivity.

Truth is, you have no clue what the ideal system looks like—so you're going to waste hours building & rebuilding it.

And if this sounds like you, come back and read this thread later: https://t.co/ySNv1BKbV8

— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) April 11, 2023

To recap, try these 6 "perspective hacks":

1. Embrace the empty gym
2. Realize: no one is looking at you
3. You do not need to be an expert
4. Think in percentages, not absolutes
5. Optimize for progress, not perfection
6. Don't compare Step 1 to someone else's Step 9

— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) April 11, 2023

Different casting techniques, baiting techniques, reeling techniques.

You name it, he's bought the book on it.

And of course, he's watching the fishing channel every night for hours, learning from the best of the best.

A few months later, he finally feels ready to fish.

— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) July 28, 2021

Turns out, the second fisherman had already sucked the lake dry.

— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) July 28, 2021

But on the eighth day? His first nibble.

And every day after, he honed his technique.

He found a baiting technique that worked a bit better.

Or a new spot with a few more fish.

And after three weeks of iteration, he found the winning combination.

— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) July 28, 2021

He did all of this while the first fisherman sat around gathering gear.

Sure, the first fisherman felt productive. He was "learning" after all, right?

But there was one difference: feedback.

— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) July 28, 2021

The moral of this story?

Get to action as quickly as possible.

When you find yourself gathering gear, grab a shitty rod and start fishing.

— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) July 28, 2021

Michael. https://t.co/yJooByLxHD I'd love to train your entire corporate team. This is a 80% productivity boost. https://t.co/n3LflBC6LP #ChatGPT #GPT4 https://t.co/4gvxsikYEh

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2023

Twitter Hacks By Justin Welsh

10 powerful Twitter hacks every user should know:

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) May 31, 2022

1/ Most popular Tweets

Ever wanted to find someone's most popular Tweets of all-time?

Or maybe their most popular recent Tweets?

Install @Twemex App and instantly find them all. pic.twitter.com/Xi4AIxfiKo

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) May 31, 2022

2/ Most active times

It's best to Tweet when your followers are online.

Do you know when they are most active?

Twitter doesn't tell you, but @Followerwonk does

Get more engagement with better timing. pic.twitter.com/wnPBFNABop

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) May 31, 2022

3/ Auto-retweeting for growth

The shelf-life of a Tweet is about 24 hours.

One great way to get more engagement is to Retweet yourself.

I RT myself 9 hours later using @hypefury

The best part? They UN-Retweet 24 hours later.

That keeps your profile nice and clean. pic.twitter.com/MFyGMehLNv

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) May 31, 2022

4/ Auto-plugging for subscribers@Hypefury will also auto-plug your newsletter.

- Select the number of likes/engagements.
- Create your custom message to add-on

Voila.

If your post reaches the threshold, it will auto-plug your newsletter.

Great for products/services too! pic.twitter.com/0E1MRcIv15

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) May 31, 2022

5/ Hyper-fast engagement

Engaging with top accounts is crucial.

I use @blackmagic_so to create my list of important accounts.

It shows me how many Tweets I've missed from them.

Then, 2x per day, I engage at hyper-speed to keep growing.

You can do it right from the sidebar! pic.twitter.com/FBm8iu5Tk5

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) May 31, 2022

6/ Personal Twitter CRM

Struggle to remember everyone's kid's names?

Or maybe how you met? Or if someone introduced you?@blackmagic_so also has built-in CRM functionality.

Never forget another important detail. pic.twitter.com/PuDwxRZx1Z

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) May 31, 2022

7/ Bookmark folders

Want to save and organize your favorite Tweets?

With @TwitterBlue you can build out an entire file cabinet of bookmarks.

Just sign up, build out your folders, and get saving. pic.twitter.com/MX1RmUs9aM

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) May 31, 2022

8/ Creating powerful lists

Lists are a powerful way to organize a relevant Twitter ecosystem.

Just create your lists and add your people.

Once you do, you can visit lists to see all relevant Tweets from that group.

Great for groups, local meetups, and any other organization. pic.twitter.com/30ICULbDBj

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) May 31, 2022

9/ Mute conversations

Ever get mentioned in a tweet & you start getting hundreds of notifications?

It clogs up your whole notification feed.

Expand the details of the tweet and click the 3 dots on the top right-hand corner.

Then, click "mute this conversation." pic.twitter.com/dzz9PoaX3q

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) May 31, 2022

10/ Hide Twitter Trends

Twitter trends are usually negative.

And they can be distracting and detrimental to your mental health.

Unless you install "Hide Twitter Trends".

This plugin will let you focus and regain your sanity by hiding the trends section.

Highly recommend. pic.twitter.com/ownR5eCX4b

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) May 31, 2022