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Parr: A $300 subscription price is 'no man's land' and kills conversion
“300 dollars. What I learned early on is no man's land. You should either charge thousands and thousands or tens of thousands of dollars or like a 150 bucks. 300 dollars is no man's land. That's, it was a bad, I really screwed that pricing point up, and the res…”
Success comes from copying proven business models, not inventing entirely novel concepts
“The name of the game is basically like, that's why I read biographies. It's just copy what others have done that's worked and try to avoid the mistakes that cost them a lot of like headache. And I'm not trying to invent anything new. We can, I can get real phi…”
Hampton generated $1M in the bank before launching a website or posting
“Hampton had a million dollars in the bank account before I even shared it online. We didn't even have a website.”
Founders can reach $1M revenue with six months of full-time manual sales
“Hand-to-hand combat stuff, like, really works, and it's still really effective, and it's not that hard to get to a million a year in revenue doing that stuff if you give it six months of, like, every day, 40 hours a week.”
Cash-strapped founders should prioritize market demand over personal passion
“However, if you're poor, like I was, if you're just getting started out, I would rank The passion part the lowest, and I would rake the, what the world needs and what they're willing to pay for the highest.”
Parr validates business models using audience size and advertising rate arithmetic
“Most of my businesses are very, very simple arithmetic, where it's like, hey, look, if I can get a million or two million people to subscribe to this thing, And I get, if I can get ads at this rate and fill this many ads, I think this could make like a hundred…”
Kevin Ryan conceived Gilt Groupe by copying a French business model
“Kevin Ryan taught me that that's how he got the idea for guilt group is he saw that guilt was happening in France and he like took it into America.”
Founders should piggyback on public company reports to spot emerging market trends
“And my opinion is like a company that has billions of revenue or is a public They have so much data and intel on, like, where the world's heading that I can just piggyback off of their intel.”
Parr: Smaller initial exits give founders breathing room to build legacy companies
“In my opinion, entrepreneurs who basically had a smaller exit compared to what they eventually launched, But in doing that small thing, it gives you a lot of freedom and breathing room to kind of focus on what you can do to create legacy, to create something m…”
Parr: Not picking a goal or timeline is founders' biggest mistake
“So before I do anything, and this is probably a huge mistake that most people make, is they don't pick a goal Or a timeline.”
Parr: Direct web traffic is most valuable, while social traffic is worst
“Direct means that someone's typing a website to their URL, and that's the most important, because if you really love a website, like Netflix, you're gonna type in netflix.com. Search is really important, because if you rank high in Google, that means someone's…”
Parr: Tech product review affiliate models have much higher margins than physical goods
“I've learned that it's an incredibly profitable business model if you can rank high in Google and refer people to a tech product that costs hundreds of dollars. The reason being is it's a tech product versus... A consumer, like a deodorant or some type of cons…”
The Hustle's Trends product reached roughly $5M ARR in its first year
“But I think in the first year it ended at like something like five or six, I forget, maybe five million in recurring revenue. It could have been a little more, a little bit less. I don't remember.”
Parr was building a NewsPicks clone for The Hustle before its acquisition
“Newspix, I was going to launch this product, but we got acquired. I was right in the middle of making it for the hustle.”
Parr: Financials of £10M UK private companies are available for free
“If that's basically in the UK, I think it's ten million. If you're a privately held company with at least ten million in revenue, You have to display your financials and put out a report, and it's all free, and you can, like, learn anything you want from them.”
Parr spent $10,000 to build service directory SamsList using no-code platform Bubble
“And then I spent 10,000 dollars
and I built a website called samslist.co.
We used bubble and I listed all the people there.”
Parr's directory SamsList generated $15,000 in total revenue, mostly in month one
“And the business has only made 15,000 dollars.
I think it may, it's made maybe 10,000 in the first month.”
Sam Parr set a $20M net worth goal before launching The Hustle
“So that's how I came up with that number, twenty million dollars, and so I said to myself, I want twenty million dollars by the age of 30, and that was my timeline, and that was my goal.”
Comparitech generated 14.8 million pounds in revenue in 2021
“In the year, 2021, this company did 14.8 million pounds in revenue. What's that? I think that's like seventeen million dollars in revenue. I don't know what the conversion is. But, so let's just say they did fifteen million in revenue, and get this, they did t…”