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Oct 2024
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$500,000 From Course Pre-Sales in a Week...

Edward Sturm
About this episode

E460: How Josh Comeau built a small social media audience and email list in a year, then launched a course to it, doing $500,000 in a week-long pre-sale.

The course was only 50% complete when the limited pre-sale launched to his audience.

This is one of my best episodes yet, and I am hyped by the information in it.

From: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/launched-my-first-course-earned-over-us-500-000-ama-4382405cd5

Josh’s website: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/ Josh’s 𝕏: https://x.com/JoshWComeau Mentioned in the episode - how Avni Barman built a 70,000 subscriber newsletter in 8 months: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWZVCo06Wxw

00:00 Intro: $500,000 Pre-Sale Success 00:35 Course Overview and Early Access Launch 01:22 Journey to Full-Time Indie Hacking 02:00 Unique Course Platform 03:15 Launch Strategy 05:14 Growing an Email List and Social Media Following 07:02 Customer Feedback and Personal Branding 11:30 Why It Became a Success 13:53 Magic Key

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