Greatest Hits #3 - Selling a Blog For $9m with Ramon van Meer

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Shaan (@ShaanVP) interviews Ramon Van Meer (@ramonvanmeer) on his journey to selling his blog. Ramon has never seen a soap opera. Yet somehow, he built the most popular soap opera blog on the planet - and was raking in millions per year! Today's conversation is about how he got the idea and flipped a $49 WordPress theme into a multi-million dollar payday. --------- * Want to be featured in a future episode? Drop your question/comment/criticism/love here: https://www.mfmpod.com/p/hotline/ * Support the pod by spreading the word, become a referrer here: https://refer.fm/million * Have you joined our private Facebook group yet? Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion and join thousands of other entrepreneurs and founders scheming up ideas. --------- Show notes: * (7:32) Who is Ramon van Meer? * (10:50) Why Ramon decided to focus on soap operas * (16:25) Ramon's mindset while building his business * (21:31) How Ramon built a 350k mailing list with quizzes * (30:00) How Ramon comes up with ideas for businesses * (35:30) The moments Ramon thought he would fail * (39:55) Why did Ramon decide to sell?

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