Dec 17th - Skool Community

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🚀 From zero to side hustle. From broke student to business owner—one noodle packet at a time. This is The Ramen Hustle, your weekly playbook for turning side hustles into main income streams. No fluff, no theory. Just moves that pay.

IN TODAY’S EPISODE

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FRESH IDEA

Nick Saraev runs a solo Skool community generating $300K in recurring revenue. Zero employees. One weekly call. 95% profit margins. He showed up every day for 400+ consecutive days and became the #1 community by revenue on the platform.

Here's why this works: unlike courses (one time purchase), communities charge monthly. You're not selling information. You're selling access and accountability. To start, pick a niche where people pay to solve a problem. Fitness coaching, business automation, real estate investing. Charge $50 to $500 per month, depending on the value you deliver. Show up consistently and let the community become self-sustaining.

Startup cost? Just $99 per month for the platform. That's it. No tech stack. No complicated funnels. Skool handles payments, content hosting, and member management in one place. The real barrier isn't money. It's showing up daily when nobody's watching. Nick posted for months before momentum kicked in. Most creators quit before the compounding starts.

Sam Ovens built Skool specifically for this model. Alex Hormozi invested heavily and runs the Skool Games competition that awards $1M+ in prizes to top communities. The infrastructure exists. The playbook is public.

👉 Your move: find one specific problem you can solve. Start a free community to prove demand. Convert to paid once you hit 100 engaged members.

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HUSTLE TOOL

Smart Brevity is the methodology behind Axios — designed to make every message memorable, clear, and impossible to ignore. Our free toolkit includes the checklist, workbooks, and frameworks to start using it today.

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HIDDEN GEM

Fireplace channel with 103K Subscribers

The Fireplace 10 Hours YouTube channel earns an estimated $7,700 to $174,000 monthly according to analytics platforms. 103K subscribers are watching fire crackle. No talking. No editing wizardry. Just a loop.

Millions of people search for ambient content during winter. They want cozy background noise for studying, sleeping, or holiday vibes. They leave videos playing for hours, which crushes watch time metrics.

The math is straightforward. YouTube pays $3 to $5 per 1,000 views on average. A 10 hour video that gets left playing racks up serious ad impressions. One video uploaded once can earn for years. Stock footage of a fireplace runs $20 to $50. Or film your own for free. Add crackling audio. Upload. Optimize the title for search terms like "fireplace ambiance" or "cozy fire 10 hours."

The competition exists, but the pie is massive. Rain sounds, coffee shop noise, nature ambiance. Pick a niche within ambient content and own it.

INSIDER ACCESS

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It’s a rent (or mortgage) - destroying game engine.

You plug in multiple variables, and this thing instantly turns that scary number into a bunch of tiny, winnable missions:

It basically taps you on the shoulder and says:

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COMPETITIVE EDGE

The best marketing ideas come from marketers who live it.

That’s what this newsletter delivers.

The Marketing Millennials is a look inside what’s working right now for other marketers. No theory. No fluff. Just real insights and ideas you can actually use—from marketers who’ve been there, done that, and are sharing the playbook.

Every newsletter is written by Daniel Murray, a marketer obsessed with what goes into great marketing. Expect fresh takes, hot topics, and the kind of stuff you’ll want to steal for your next campaign.

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BRAIN SPARK

Before you build anything, read this.

90% of startups fail. Most failures could be predicted by answering three questions before building anything. This is the exact framework used by Y Combinator and top investors to filter ideas.

Question 1: What problem are you solving? If you can't articulate a specific pain point in one sentence, you don't have a business. You have a hobby. "Helping people get fit" is vague. "Helping busy dads lose 20 pounds in 90 days without gym memberships" is a business.

Question 2: How big is the opportunity? Research how many people have this problem and what they pay to solve it. Small market equals ceiling on growth. Paul Graham says the best ideas come from scratching your own itch in a market that's bigger than you realize.

Question 3: What makes you different? Competitors always exist. Why would someone choose you? First mover advantage is a myth. Better execution wins.

✨ Apply these ruthlessly before writing code or spending money. Most ideas die at question one.

RISING WAVE

Don’t Build AI Tools. Connect Them Instead.

While developers race to build the next AI tool, smart entrepreneurs make money connecting existing tools. Make.com, Zapier, and n8n let you build custom automations for businesses without writing code.

The opportunity is obvious. Businesses use dozens of software tools that don't talk to each other. Manual data entry between systems costs them hours daily. You become the translator. Connect CRM to email marketing, automate invoice processing, sync AI outputs to spreadsheets, or build chatbot workflows. Charge $500 to $5,000 per automation plus monthly maintenance fees.

Nick Saraev (the $300K/month Skool guy) built his audience teaching this exact skill through LeftClick. The playbook is proven.

Getting started: learn one platform deeply. Document case studies. Target businesses drowning in manual processes. Your first client is a local company wasting 10 hours per week on tasks you can automate in an afternoon.

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