Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak: Recent Episodes
Yaro Starak
Learn how to start-up and market your own Internet business. Yaro Starak shares his knowledge through how-to articles and podcast audio recordings on Internet business, online marketing, search engine optimization, e-commerce and entrepreneurship.
Why Most Product Launches Fail Before They Begin You can't launch a product in two weeks. I know that sounds contradictory given what I just promised, but hear me out. The actual launch—the two-week period where you're releasing videos, opening your cart, making sales—that's just the finale. The real work starts six months earlier. I've […]
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Founder burnout often starts when delegating is no longer optional, yet still feels out of reach. What if hitting your next revenue milestone meant doing less, not more? I recently met up with a SaaS founder who'd crossed $10,000 MRR. This was a big deal for him. The guy bootstrapped the entire venture, and in […]
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This year, to grow my company (InboxDone.com), we're doing something old and something new. The big change is we are moving budget away from paid ads to re-invest back into a content marketing strategy. This is not new. I started the business with a strategy that included articles, videos, podcasts and other forms of link building. […]
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2026 is one of the most challenging years to start a new business. One of the reasons why, is how easy it is to get started. That's a good thing, but it also lowers the barrier to starting, meaning everyone is doing it. Take for example, the critical step of building a website. When I started […]
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I'm excited to announce that the first release of our new website and brand – 50hrs.com – is now live. This new brand is a spin-off from InboxDone.com, the company I started with my co-founder Claire all the way back in 2017. InboxDone has grown to a team of 80 executive assistants who specialize in […]
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Have you ever felt there is a ‘ceiling' capping how much money you make? You have goals and targets but for some reason your business income seems to get stuck at a certain point. I've felt this. My first agency business struggled to get past $3,000 a month for most of the time I owned it. Then […]
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Late last year my lead generation methods started to fail. We had solid growth in 2023 and throughout the start of 2024 focusing on Google search ads and LinkedIn video ads. They both started to decline late 2024. Nothing I did changed the results. I can't say why this happened — but I expected it. […]
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You live in a bubble. I live in a bubble too. Today I really got a reminder of this… I've been planning a marketing experiment for my company. The short version of this plan is to go after larger clients. Right now our positioning is focused on the entrepreneur, leader, CEO or expert. We help […]
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Once on a podcast Tim Ferriss was asked to describe what his day is like. His answer was deceptively simple… “I spend most of my time thinking.” I'm paraphrasing here, but this was the general message. He didn't talk about tasks or goals or morning routines or anything specific. He went on […]
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I recently came to terms with a brutal truth about scaling a business. We did an analysis of our company churn rate (client subscription cancelations) and the numbers came up pretty good. The data showed 2.5% to 3% churn on average (we lose 3% of our clients each month). If you're not familiar with industry churn rates, under 5% […]
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A friend recently said this to me… “You got out of blogging just in time. Blogs don’t work anymore.” I responded by first saying I haven’t stopped blogging — or creating content, but yes it is true that I no longer rely on my teaching business as my main source of income. She explained to […]
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It was almost midnight in Brisbane, Australia. This night was the culmination of three months – or really two years – of preparation. I was about to click SEND on an email to my newsletter announcing the opening of my first product. This was MY product. 100% made by Yaro. I was 27 years old. […]
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I wish someone told me earlier how important business models are. When I first became an entrepreneur my ideas were basic. Find something people want and sell it to them. That was my plan. At first I sold something physical, Magic: The Gathering trading cards. Then I sold a service, essay editing for university students. […]
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Let’s start with the big win for 2023… At the start of the year my company InboxDone.com finally surpassed the benchmark $83,333/month in revenue. This is the number that means your company is a ‘7-figure business‘ because you’re doing a million a year in revenue. We’re doing $100,000+ months now, which on some level is […]
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This is a (not exhaustive) list of marketing techniques I’ve used to grow audiences and attract customers to my companies in the last 25 years. Posting in forums and newsgroups (back in the early early days) Putting up posters on university campuses Sponsoring events (getting my company featured in print handouts, listed as an event […]
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I was recently listening to a tennis podcast. The hosts were recapping the results from the US Open. One of them brought up this concept he titled ‘Cumulative Pressure’. He was specifically talking about it in the case of Coco Gauff, who happened to win that US Open. He explained how Coco would continue to […]
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Anthony Zhang is the co-founder of Vinovest.co, a platform and marketplace for investing in wine and whiskey as an asset class. Anthony explains in this podcast how to add wine and whiskey to your portfolio and takes us through the origin story of his startup. This is an interesting business model, with one part […]
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What is the difference between ‘intent’ based marketing and ‘discovery’ based marketing when growing your online business? Listen to this solo episode as I break down these two very important online marketing concepts. Enjoy the episode. Yaro
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Do you know how to sell consulting services? In this article, I will offer my personal experiences, insights, and practical tips to guide you as you take your first steps into the world of consulting. Straight off the bat, here are a few key takeaways: Collect and showcase client testimonials using SurveyMonkey. Use Canva to […]
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Do you know how to sell coaching services? As an entrepreneur, blogger, podcaster, and digital nomad, I’ve traveled the path of the coaching industry, gaining unique insights and knowledge about how to effectively sell coaching services to different markets. However, it’s not just my own experience I’m about to share. Successful coaches from various niches […]
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Brian Nichols in 2014 had an offer to work at Facebook, Twitter or Lyft. He chose Lyft. This was just one of the early startups he worked out, many of which turned into great experiences, but no big financial gains. This lead Brian to realize he’d rather have a small piece of lots of […]
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What are the best tools for life coaching? As a life coach, you’re dedicated to helping others improve their lives, reach their goals, and create a sense of fulfillment. To succeed in this noble mission, you need the right tools and software. When it comes to life coaching tools, the digital landscape offers an unprecedented […]
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In 1998 I registered my first domain name. It was MTGParadise.com, a website about the Magic: The Gathering card game I still played back then as a teenager. This was the first website I built that made money. I learned so much during this period, probably more than any other time in my life. At its best my new […]
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Several years ago I became frustrated with the label of ‘blogger’. I was frustrated because I felt the skills a person develops by writing a successful blog are really ‘Content Marketing’ skills. Not only that, you learn ‘Search Engine Optimization’ (SEO) and ‘Copywriting’ skills too. You learn how tell stories to engage people and build […]
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I’m excited to release a brand new report – The Flagship Course Formula: 16 Insights That Helped Me Go From $7,000 To $700,000 In Sales Of My Flagship Course This handout is for anyone who currently sells or intends to sell an online course. You can download the entire guide for free in PDF right […]
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Back when my full-time job was blogging and writing my email newsletter, I would always complete an end of year recap post in December. I enjoyed doing them because I could think back, month by month, and remember what I was focusing on with my business and where I was traveling to if I was […]
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Matheus Riolfi Co-founder & CEO of Tint.ai, an AI powered insurance solution for companies to embed insurance as part of their product offering. A good example is Turo, a peer-to-peer car sharing service, which requires custom insurance for each part of the world it enters. Matheus previously worked as the head of international expansion at Turo, which gave […]
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I started teaching online business, specifically blogging and email marketing, in 2007. During that time I became intently interested in a certain issue — why people failed. …and not just failed, but how they could continue to show up with motivation, take action, then come back again reporting that they’d made no progress. I wanted […]
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Krish Ramineni is the co-founder & CEO of Fireflies.ai, a meeting assistant and voice intelligence platform. In this interview Krish shares the story behind his two previous startup ideas — a drone delivery company and an AI chatbot, which he built along with his co-founder. These companies are directly connected to what Fireflies is today, […]
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I woke up, checked my email, and there it was. I’d made a sale. This was not the first product sale I’d ever made, nor was it for a lot of money. Just $29 for an ebook and some bonuses. However, what made this sale special was because it was the first sale I’d ever […]
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I have a short video for you today, taken from my members-only Laptop Lifestyle Academy. The topic of this presentation is How To Position Your First Offer. It was created for people who struggle with conviction due to having too many directions to take with your content or your business. In particular, this video is […]
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I’ve been writing a newsletter about online business since 2007. During those years, many times I’ve been sent emails from my subscribers with some version of this question – Is there a low cost business idea that you can guarantee will bring me $5,000 to $10,000 a month in passive income within six months? There […]
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Yoav Vilner is the co-founder and CEO of Walnut.io, a SAAS platform creating an entire new category of no-code, cloud-based, product demonstration technology. Walnut gives sales and marketing teams the ability to create stable interactive product demos and collect insights on their usage. They are growing very fast, as you will hear in this interview […]
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Yahya Mokhtarzada, along with two of his brothers, founded Truebill, which was acquired by Rocket Companies for $1.275 billion. We dived into Yahya’s background, exploring his first two companies, one started with his brothers that he left (but did enjoy a big exit of over $100 million) and an advertising company that was a true […]
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Many years ago I coined the phrase “Pillar Article” or sometimes called, “Pillar Content” or “Pillar Post“, to describe how to create great blog content. To my surprise, it caught on in the blogging about blogging community and many thousands of bloggers use it to describe what good blog content is. If you have never […]
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Michelle Tascoe is based in LA and has one of the longest running private one-on-one financial advice coaching practices. She’s now earning over half a million a year, but it wasn’t always like this. It’s been a long and steady journey to become a seven figure coach. The numbers break down like this – Year […]
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Welcome to a complete overview of the steps to launch what I call a Services Arbitrage business. If you’re not sure what this is and you’ve never heard the story behind how I launched an online editing company, make sure you read Part 1 and 2 first. Here are the links: How To Start An […]
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For seven years, from 2001 to 2007, BetterEdit.com was my main online business (I later sold it for $100,000 USD and eventually it was merged with some other companies by the new owners). You can hear a short background story of how I started BetterEdit.com by pressing play on the video above. This was the […]
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This is Vested Capital episode 32, featuring Thomas Smale, the founder of FE International, a leading M&A firm. I first interviewed Thomas 9 years ago. At the time his company had helped to facilitate over $5 Million in deals. Now that number is over a billion dollars in business acquisitions. I asked Thomas what led […]
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I can remember the feeling so well. It hit me while sitting in a lecture theatre at university, trying to pay attention to what my professor was saying. I could be riding the bus home from university, thinking about my day and what I have to do when I get home. Or I could be […]
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If you follow me on Instagram you’ve probably seen some photos during 2017 and 2018 of my apartment renovation project in Ukraine. As the months sped by the progress of the renovation continued, turning what was a very old and run down Austrian Empire era apartment, to a modern western style renovation. To say the […]
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This is a solo podcast episode recorded at the start of 2022 to recap recent investment performance, including crypto, property and angel investing. I also explain why I made the decision at the start of the year to close down my flagship course, Blog Mastermind 2.0. Given 2022 started out with dramatic falls in the […]
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Over the years I’ve had many one-on-one coaching clients who have paid anything from $300 to $3,000 for private calls with me to get advice on how they can grow their online business. I’ve also had rare opportunities to be the client for one-to-one time with various mentors and coaches, all of whom run multi-million […]
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Mikkel Thorup hosts The Expat Money Show podcast (I was on episode 155) and has spent over 21 years in continual travel around the world, visiting more than 100 countries including Colombia, North Korea, Zimbabwe, and Iran. Mikkel runs a consultancy to help high net worth individuals move overseas, providing guidance on tax structure, visas, […]
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I have an idea and I’d love to support a fellow entrepreneur (or entrepreneurs!) to get this business off the ground. I’m busy with my current business (InboxDone) and a SAAS side hustle (Candid). I love these projects and they are just about all I can handle, but I can advise and support the right […]
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I recommend before you read the following list of 10 tactics for growing your audience with content, you read the ‘prequel’ to this article – What I Learned From 10 Years Writing A Blog. In that post I highlighted many of the changed conditions we face as content publishers looking to earn a living online […]
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I wrote the following advice when I hit my ten year anniversary as a content creator. By this point people where calling me an ‘OG’ and a ‘pioneer’ in the blogging industry. It was nice to hear, but I certainly wasn’t ready to retire! The one thing that time gives you is perspective. I’ve seen […]
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Arthur Menard is the CEO and co-founder of Lambs, a clothing brand that blocks 99% of EMFs (cellphone, 4G, 5G, Wifi, Bluetooth radiation) as well as 10x the amount of UVs compared to traditional clothing. His company is doing 8-figures in sales, having got their start selling men’s underwear online — which I actually purchased […]
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One of the most recent success stories to emerge from my coaching programs is Tien Chiu. Tien is a weaver, and in particular a color specialist. Don’t feel bad if you don’t know what that means — I really didn’t understand myself until Tien came along and made me aware of her world of people […]
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One of the first marketing concepts I learned about in business school is called positioning. This concept is particularly important when it comes to selling your own product or service. I was taught about positioning in the context of competition. You position what you sell in relation to what other people currently sell. It’s the […]
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