On: Ask HN: How have you made "quick" money before?

[petercooper]

Ran a course. Sold a screencast. (Over $10k within 2 months for both.) A little busy to go into details right now but there have been lots of posts with similar case studies on HN - one of the better ones was http://sachagreif.com/lessons-learned-from-an-ebook-launch/

[joonix → petercooper]

I'll never understand how people promote these things in the sea of noise that is the web, assuming they don't already have a solid presence.

[petercooper → joonix]

That's where I got lucky.

I've always had a passion for publishing and have tended to build up news sites, blogs, and now e-mail newsletters in the areas I find interesting. So prior to both the course and my screencast, I already had a five figure audience on the right topics and a huge home advantage.

I'll note, however, that this is by no means required, and people in my position frequently become friendly with others with such projects and help them out.

[sgdesign → joonix]

HN works pretty well ;)

But yeah, promoting the thing is a big part of "the thing", and requires its own strategy.