Michael Lim | Solopreneur LaunchÂŽ
I'm a đ x 5 Award-Winning Entrepreneur. Sold my first one-person business at 28. Living and working across Southeast Asia. Sign-up below for my daily (Mon-Fri) Solopreneur Snacks.
Monetize your expertise like this
Gâday, Gâday friends! We are living in the solopreneur revolution. But only if you can monetize your expertise properly. There are rules of online monetization. You won't get any good answers from AI or Google. So, I wrote an entire Substack article for you. Read it here: https://michaellim.substack.com/p/the-most-profitable-one-person-business-741?r=2888jo&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Letâs Launch Together, Michael ânew monetization modelsâ Lim. You're one Launch away from...
Why this health expert canât sell
I recently interviewed a health expert on my podcast. He spent over a decade as a gym owner in his home country of Canada. Recently, he jumped into solopreneurship and moved to Southeast Asia. But the problem was turning his analog experience into a digital offer. This is an entirely different skill that most solopreneurs do not have. They're used to selling their analog experience in person, not online. So his problem wasn't that he needed more expertise or more technical knowledge. His...
storytell and than storysell
G'day, G'day friends, I stumbled upon a Steve Jobs quote I love: âThe most powerful person in the world is the storyteller. The storyteller sets the vision, values, and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.â love AI, but the one thing that's happened that drives me mad: Everyone sounds exactly the f*cking same. Not just a little bit, but a lot. I immediately scroll when I see the bland, generic slop on social media. All stories that you read follow the same structure, cadence,...
The Freelancer vs Solopreneur debate
G'day G'day friends, Short one from me today. I woke up with a cold and feel like I've been punched in the face. My nose is partially blocked, my throat hurts, and I've got good ol' brain fog. Apologies in advance for any spelling mistakes. But as I slowly get up and enjoy my morning coffee, I took a look at my emails. I made $80 USD in digital product sales: ThriveCart notifications I also made $50.04 USD in article revenue on Medium: Medium backend stats I also had someone join my community...
The Odyssey is entrepreneurship
Gâday Gâday friends, Iâm going through a frustrating business season. My book has been delayed longer than I expected. Clients have churned at a higher rate during this summer slowdown. I find myself bored by the lack of travel and adventure. But I'm also tired of the travel and adventure that I've been doing. The irony doesn't escape me. That's why I felt so seen when I watched Christopher Nolanâs The Odyssey. Every monster in the Odyssey is an entrepreneurship lesson: Trapped in...
this will kill your solopreneur business
G'day G'day friends, A nerdy fact about me: I spend most of my spare time reading books about the lives of entrepreneurs, athletes, and world-class investors. Moly the dog being cute While they are all radically different, they all talk about the same thing over and over again: Habits. By now, I've read hundreds of biographies and watched hours of interviews.What makes or breaks most entrepreneurs isn't talent, but their habits.The daily things they do or don't do. The bottom line is this:...
Iâm going to say something mean
Gâday, Gâday friends, Iâve got something mean to say. Iâm not proud of it. But I need to get it off my chest. If I see another 22-year-old life coach promoting some get-rich-quick scheme again, I might just barf up my durians. And durians are bloody expensive here in Bali. Thatâs how sick I am of it. Iâm sure youâre sick of it, too. young pup with no experience making bold promises with little rreal-worldproof. They have all style, but absolutely no substance. Zero real idea of how to build a...
independence = 100% responsibility
G'day, G'day friends, As you know, Iâm living in Indonesia. Today is very special on the country's calendar. Why? Today is Indonesiaâs Independence Day. The exact phrase is Selamat Hari Kemerdekaan. Feel free to impress all your Indonesian friends with that bit of Bahasa Indonesia. In the lead-up to this special day, Iâve been doing a lot of reading on Indonesia's history. Like all history, itâs complex and has been politically rewritten over time. Even my birth country, Singapore, celebrated...
I met my doppelganger
G'day G'day friends, Two weeks ago, I was at a conference in Singapore. During one of the Q&A sessions of the keynote speeches man stood up and said, âMy name is Michael LimâŚ.â My ears shot up. I looked around, and my friends looked back at me. My phone buzzed with others in the conference room telling me they heard another Michael Lim. Out of the thousands of attendees in the room, we shared the same name. This is the first time Iâve experienced this. There was another Michael Lim at this...
these 5 habits determine success
G'day G'day friends, I've been in the solopreneur game for a little-bitty while now. I started part-time, then full-time, then part-time, and then full-time again. This is over the course of 8 years. Every iteration of my solopreneurship journey has been unique. I've experimented with different business models, monetization, and approaches. But I've also been around a lot of solopreneurs. I observe the ones who fail, and the ones who succeed. I'm convinced success has got nothing to do with...
I'm a đ x 5 Award-Winning Entrepreneur. Sold my first one-person business at 28. Living and working across Southeast Asia. Sign-up below for my daily (Mon-Fri) Solopreneur Snacks.