#1458 - Q&A: Does the "Evernote Essentials" model still work?
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Years ago, a simple user manual turned into a huge moneymaker for one savvy Evernote user. Can you still profit from writing a guide to a popular software program?
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| 0:57.0 | Kelly, many years ago in the $100 startup and then on the tour for that book. |
| 1:01.0 | This was a very popular story. |
| 1:03.0 | His side of this will become a tremendous success. |
| 1:06.0 | Brett authored a guide to Evernote. |
| 1:08.0 | You know the software Evernote? |
| 1:09.0 | If you don't know it, it's some software that allows you to keep notes. |
| 1:12.0 | And Brett wrote a guide to this software called Evernote Essentials. |
| 1:16.0 | He wrote a guide, he sold it for a pretty small amount of money, I think $15. |
| 1:20.0 | A copy, maybe $25. |
| 1:22.0 | A copy. |
| 1:23.0 | Whatever it was, it changed his life in many ways, first of all financially, |
| 1:27.0 | but then also in allowing him to leave his job and write other guides while relying on what was largely passive income |
| 1:34.0 | of thousands of dollars a month coming in quite reliably. |
| 1:37.0 | So in the book, I explained a few characteristics of why that kind of project was successful, |
| 1:42.0 | but that was a while ago. |
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