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This week we are guest-free so we decided to run through a monthly report for our business in January. We cover income, traffic, podcast downloads, youtube subscribers as well as some exciting things we are up to.

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• Sean Ellis from growthhackers.com and Qualaroo
  
• Charlie Hoehn and Play it away and his delicious.com links
  
• Joelle, Michael and Matt from howtobuildarocketship.com
  
• James Altucher (Al-tu-cher) and his podcast with Ryan Holliday
  
• Traction Book about startup growth
  
• Spencer Shaw from the business growth podcast our first live commenter
  
• Brent Shepherd from Woo Commerce Subscriptions
  
• Andrew Warner from Mixergy
  
• Neville Medhora from AppSumo
  
• Tim Grahl How to sell your first 1,000 copies
  

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• Will be about first time business owners, the mistakes I’ve learnt from and how people can think about building a real business.
  
• 12,000 words put together in the last week.
  
• First draft will be ready today or tomorrow.
  
• Sample chapter
  
• It will include topics like startup validation, execution and saying no.
  
• No idea how to market it.
  

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• Dan – Leave us an iTunes review pretty please!
  
• Claff – Testimonial from Damian Thompson from linchpin.net “WP Curve is EXACTLY what my business needed. All of these little issues on my site started to become a real problem but I didn’t have the time, or inclination to hire someone full time. The WP Curve team respond to all of my development needs quickly and the work is excellent. I am afraid to recommend them too much, I want to keep them all to myself.” DT
  

MRR

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• $11,329 up from $9,812 (15% growth)
  
• 200 monthly customers
  

Content

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• 24 pieces of content shipped (including this podcast)
  
• A few more offsite ones done just not published
  
• What we’ve learned from shipping 24 pieces of content so far
  

Our book

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• 12,000 words done in the last week
  
• First book will be about growing a real business
  
• 2 other potential books in the works
  

Self publishing and other people’s books

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• Claff is banned from editing – comments only!
  
• How to build a rocketship
  
• Traction book
  
• Your first 1000 copies
  
• Chatting to Charlie Hoehn next week
  
• Charlie Hoehn’s delicious links on self publishing
  
• Charlie Hoehn’s book – Play it Away
  

Traffic

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• 20,758 (down 14%)
  
• WP Curve pretty steady
  
• startupchat.co up to 6,720 (18%)
  
• Automation sequences will boost traffic to our other sites like ConvertPress
  

Relaunch x 2

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• Community update still outstanding
  
• ConvertPress landing page still outstanding
  

Podcast downloads

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• Typical month with the old podcast 2,000 downloads
  
• January 6,126 downloads
  
• Neil Patel episode was particularly popular
  
• 351 RSS subscribers
  
• No iTunes reviews this month
  

Youtube

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• Here is our youtube channel (needs work)
  
• 5,714 views
  
• 45 subscribers
  

Alex’s networking

Claff is having a ton of fun meeting San Francisco entrepreneurs at local events. Get in touch if you’re in San Francisco!

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• Startup Live event – part 1 and part 2 videos
  
• WordPress ecommerce meetup
  
• Growth Hackers Meetup
  

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