The Edward Show

E465: This entrepreneur had a super dumb startup idea. But he went and built it anyway. And even though it didn’t make him much money, it was so dumb it went viral!

I love this - crazy ideas that are so crazy they have to go viral. When you do this, you get tons of positive SEO signals. Great thing to leverage.

+ Eight pieces of advice that would have made a successful entrepreneur hit milestones twice as fast. Learn from this person’s failures!

Post about the dumb startup idea: https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/1fwtdgq/the_dumbest_idea_i_had_made_me_my_first_internet/

“8 Nuggets That Would Have Made Me Successful Twice as Fast:” https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/1fz8h4g/8_nuggets_that_would_have_made_me_successful/

00:00 Introduction to Backlinks 00:35 Viral Websites 01:30 A Dumb Idea That Went Viral 05:07 Google's Positive Ranking Factors 06:12 Eight Nuggets That Would Have Made Me Successful Twice as Fast 12:25 Conclusion

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E464: YouTube Shorts is extending to 3 minutes.

It’s happened with Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels, TikTok Duets, Stories, pinned comments... the list goes on. When a platform introduces a new feature, content utilizing that feature gets pushed - or at least that’s the theory.

From: https://x.com/xNickOnline/status/1843879939306598855

00:00 YouTube Shorts Opportunity 00:09 New 3-Minute Shorts Feature 00:24 Faceless Social Media 00:59 Capitalizing on New Features 01:32 Preparing for the Shorts Launch 02:17 Strategy and Tips 04:38 Final Thoughts

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E463: 4 self-employed indie hackers who are making either tens of thousands MRR or hundreds of thousands USD - and the marketing they’re doing to get their customers.

If you need some inspiration from people making it with in-depth details of how they’re doing it, you’ll like this.

Mentioned:

Memelord Technologies: https://memelord.tech/

Stage Timer: https://stagetimer.io/

AWS and Twitter Info Product: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-i-made-210-822-selling-a-pdf-and-a-video-on-the-internet-RjdFakSXxnxtCGu09RmI

AWS and Twitter Info Product (PODCAST): https://youtu.be/JcMQf6ISt3Y

CSS for Javascript Devs Info Product: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/launched-my-first-course-earned-over-us-500-000-ama-4382405cd5

00:00 Indie Hackers and Marketing 00:25 Jason Levin 05:00 Stagetimer 08:58 AWS and Twitter 13:01 CSS for JavaScript Developers: 16:54 Final Thoughts

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E468: Nik Hulewsky (https://x.com/CoFoundersNik) shares local marketing hacks that are overlooked and profitable anywhere. Tricks that anybody can do now.

Local SEO and Google Business Profile Optimization - Local Newsletters and how to grow them

Then we talk about content marketing success stories (going deep into the details of how they happened) and a story of how him and Chris Koerner used Reddit marketing to get a new business to 1,000,000 in profit (10,000,000 in revenue) in just 3 months of launching.

I had a lot of fun recording this one, you’re going to like it.

Nik Hulewsky’s podcast, Nikonomics - https://www.youtube.com/@NikonomicsPodcast

00:00 Introduction 00:45 Early Entrepreneurship 04:12 Customer Acquisition in Healthcare 05:16 Local SEO Is Overlooked 11:25 Google Business Profile 17:25 Local Newsletters Are Crazy 23:22 Monetizing an Audience 27:14 Authentic Content 27:22 Simple Tools 28:01 Content Over Production Quality 28:34 Subject Matter and Engagement 29:02 Meeting Chris Koerner 31:10 Chris's Ideation and Validation Phase 32:14 Launching a Crypto Mining Business 32:42 Challenges and Successes in Crypto Mining 38:32 Operationalizing and Scaling 40:00 Perfume Vending Machines 43:04 Sales and Marketing Strategies 47:37 Data Management and AI Integration 50:42 Conclusion

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E467: This is seriously one of the most surefire ways to go viral.

Recently, I had one of my most viral videos. I share exactly how I made it and how I’ve reused the strategy time and time again.

In fact, I used it just last night, and that video is also going viral.

If you need some hits and want content that performs above average, this is a surefire way to do it.

The first video mentioned: https://youtube.com/shorts/X7F2pGi5F8o?feature=share

The viral video from last night: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBFClcKCHpP/

00:00 My Most Viral Video 00:25 Viral Video Statistics 01:11 Viral Subject Matter 02:30 Formula for Virality 02:47 Combining Proven Concepts 04:54 My Hook Secrets 06:27 Examples and Strategies 11:26 Summarizing the Lesson 13:13 Episode Wrap-Up

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