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Michael Lim | Solopreneur LaunchĀ®

I'm a šŸ† 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.

I'm on another adventure

G’day, G’day friend, I’m about to board my 2nd flight in 2 days to Hanoi. I stayed overnight in Singapore to visit my dad and grandmother: I've missed the food in Singapore I’m now at Changi Airport this morning, writing this email: I'm also sipping on my Starbucks Cold Brew, I'm about to fly to Vietnam to celebrate my mum’s 65th birthday. 2 years ago, we visited Da Nang and Hoi An for her birthday My mum loves to travel, and Vietnam is a country she loves. So I decided to book a week to...

Distribution is king

G'day G'day friends, I’m about to catch a flight from Bali to Singapore. I’m currently enjoying my pre-flight ritual of fish tacos, fried squid, and coffee at Revs. Weird combo, I know. But it’s freakin’ delicious, i tell ya. Anyways, flying to another country always makes me reflect on my life. On the Grab bike ride to the airport, I was thinking about how the world of business has fundamentally changed since the introduction of AI in 2022. It’s wild to think that in the last 4 years, the...

you don’t need a big audience, but

G'day G'day friends, I’m about to cross 93,000 followers on Medium: 52 followers until 93,000!! To even say I have that many followers is f*cking craaaazy. (Pardon my French). When I started writing, I never thought I’d even get 10,000 followers. Let alone the 100,000 followers across all platforms. I looked up in awe at people with huge followings. Now people email me saying the same thing. But after writing online for over 7 years, I realize this: The most important milestone is the first...

Flowers and alpacas

G’day, G’day friends, I went to a flower workshop in Bali a few weeks ago. It was hosted in this futuristic city funded by Russian billionaires. It’s a bit of a controversial place, given the "alleged" corruption. Bali can be a wild place sometimes. The purpose of the workshop was to learn the Spiral Technique instead of using a plastic block to make a bouquet of flowers. The spiral technique is more sustainable and cheaper. The flowers also last longer. Here's how you do it: You start with...

the O.G life hack

G’day friends, I once coached an MBA graduate to help her grow her business. She paid over $100k and 2 years of her life for this degree. She thought it would help her start a business. When I asked a simple question: ā€œWhat’s an offer?ā€ She couldn’t answer. Imagine that. You just made the biggest education purchase of your life and gave up two years of prime earning years for a ā€œbusinessā€ degree, and you still don’t know what an offer is. An offer is the most important business concept in the...

The only skill AI can't replace

G'day G'day friends, I got a lot of questions about AI. What skills should I learn? What business models will survive? How do I keep ahead of the competition? I answer everything in this video: Let's Launch Together, Michael ā€˜The AI Guy’ Lim. You're one Launch away from your dream life and business *** P.S - I'm hosting a LIVE masterclass on: How To Grow & Monetize An Online Audience As An Expert In 2026 on Thursday, September 24th 2026. You can get your masterclass tickets HERE. The super...

the trillion dollar opportunity

G'day G'day friends, I’ve been sitting on a trillion-dollar idea for almost 6 months. And I’m bursting at the seams to talk about it (feel free to steal it): People kept asking me: ā€œMichael, what do more experts get wrong when monetizing?ā€ And tbh I kept saying, ā€œa lack of positioning.ā€ Which is still 100% true. But not the whole answer in a world of AI. I just didn’t want to say it out loud unless I was sure. I needed to know AI couldn’t copy it in six months. Then my 31st birthday happened....

i need your help

G'day, G'day friends, I got an email yesterday: This is a question I get a lot. Currently, I don't focus on audience growth. But I'm reconsidering given the feedback I've received from many people. My question for you: If I hosted a once-off Masterclass in September on growing an audience to monetize your expertise, would you be interested in attending? I'd draw on my real-world experience growing to 92,000 followers on Medium and leveraging that audience to secure book deals, international...

Monetize your expertise like this

G’day, G’day 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 Let’s Launch Together, Michael ā€˜new monetization models’ Lim. You're one Launch away from...

Why this health expert can’t 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...

I'm a šŸ† 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.