WLW #26

Last week my little one-person business crossed $1.3M in revenue.

It took 810 days, I ran zero paid ads and operate at a ~98% margin.

Here are the 14 steps of my strange journey:

Hope it's helpful to someone.

[🧵 thread]— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) October 26, 2021

1/ On How Short Life Is

A few years ago, I was walking around in a blizzard in SoHo (New York). It was late, midnight, and it was beautiful.

Some friends, about 15 blocks away, called: "come over?"

It was late, it was cold, was tired, thought "maybe not worth it" but then…

— 6529 (@punk6529) March 26, 2022

On Aug 1, I woke up and didn’t want to get out of bed.

I felt…blank. Hollowed out. I’d felt this way for months.

I couldn’t enjoy anything.

I didn’t care about work.

I didn’t want to talk to anyone.

I wasn’t necessarily depressed. Objectively life was amazing…

— Andrew Wilkinson (@awilkinson) October 6, 2021

Threads falling flat?

The problem is your hook.

9 viral hook templates to level up your Twitter game (fast): 🧵

— Joe Portsmouth 🧲 (@joe_portsmouth) April 24, 2022

💉 As a dermatologist, I think 95% of the truly scientific skincare tips that you should know can fit into one Tweet thread. All Instagram/YouTube/TikTok skincare education videos just repackage a few core principles with different dances/ brand names. Let me prove it… 🧵 1/

— The Dermatologist (@usamasyedMD) January 22, 2022