The easiest side hustle you can start in Web3... 💯

GM friends 👋

Hope you’ve had an awesome week. In this episode I’ll cover:

🌎️ My World: How Michael Jordan Inspired My Next NFT Drop
🪂 Care-Package: Frank DeGods, Increasing Engagement & Intermittent Fasting
📈 The Easiest Side Hustle You Can Start in Web3
🧗‍♂️ Building in Public: The Newsletter

Let’s get into it… 💯

🌎️ My World: How Michael Jordan inspired my next NFT drop

This week I experienced something pretty surreal.

Since I was 9 years old, I’ve been obsessed with sneakers. To me they were the original NFT.

Ever since I found out who Michael Jordan was, I was addicted.

My first pair of Jordan’s was the ‘Fire Red’ Jordan 3s (pictured below).

Well…

This week I got to sit in the cinemas and watch a film about how the Air Jordan was born (AIR - in cinemas now)

And then go home and work on perfecting our NFT sneaker that we’re releasing to our Bricktopian community: The Brain Boot.

That movie was about how one character (Matt Damon) saw something that others didn’t.

The next generation of the sneaker world (which went on to become a multi-billion dollar industry, and generated $160m+ in its first year).

And now, I’m sitting here, with that exact same feeling.

Seeing how physical collectibles will be enhanced by digital technology, and experience the explosive growth that comes with being community driven.

Nike already knows this and that’s why they went all in on CloneX.

But if they are Goliath, we are David. Jumping in as one of the only other players in this emerging Web3 sneaker world.

This movie got me fired up, hungry and inspired.

Now time to get back to building ⚒️

🪂 Care-Package:

A weekly package to help you Grow Faster 💯

🧲 Attract an audience:

Speak in the 1st person.

One of the simplest changes I made in writing my content that led to the biggest growth was speaking from my own perspective (rather than telling people what they should do).

Read these two hooks and tell me which one you think sounds better:

Hook #1: “Since I started using these 3 tactics, my following doubled in 3 weeks.”

Hook #2: “You should start using these 3 tactics if you want to double your following in the next 3 weeks.”

Hook #1 raises curiosity and makes it authentic by speaking about my own experience.

Hook #2 feels like it is telling you to do something, and you don’t know if you can trust it.

People don’t like being told what to do, but they do like learning from other people’s journeys.

Wherever possible, speak from your own experience and you will get more engagement.

🍄 Become Better:

How Frank DeGods built a $250m Multi-Chain Empire

Whether you want to start a business, grow a personal brand or launch an NFT project…

This interview with Frank is an absolute masterclass. As a project founder, I’ve taken so many gems out of it.

Put this on while you drive to work, you will not regret it:

🌿 Feel f*cking fantastic:

Intermittent fasting

Yes… this is mega played out, but hear me out.

2 years ago I tested intermittent fasting in the form of ‘time restricted eating’ (no food before 12pm or after 8pm), as a strategy for losing weight (I lost 20 pounds in less than 3 months).

What I didn’t expect was how much it would improve my mental clarity.

In the past 2 years, I haven’t stopped, and my productivity has boosted massively.

If you’re considering it, I highly recommend reading The Fast 800

📈 The easiest side hustle you can start in Web3

If you’ve been looking for a side hustle that you can start whilst working a full time job, this is for you.

Become a ‘middle-man’ for newsletter sponsorships.

As a content creator and full time founder, I’ve found that I personally have one key problem.

I have grown a newsletter that is now worth monetising.

But I have zero time to find sponsorships, negotiate them and implement them in my newsletter.

I’ve spoken to many other newsletter writers who have also had the same issue.

There is a simple and clear pathway to starting this business, and monetising the content of other creators.

If you want the full breakdown and step-by-step of how to start it, I wrote this thread:

🧗 Started from the bottom now we’re here…

^{If you’re new here, one of the core principles of the content I share is that a newsletter is the most linear and simple business you can start in Web3. It has high sponsorship revenue and can go from being a side hustle to a full-time business in under a year. I am building this newsletter in public, to share the progress each week so that you can be a part of the journey. Now let’s get into it 👇}

I’m now beginning my next chapter of this newsletter, with new goals. But before getting into them, let’s start with the numbers.

This Week:
Subscribers: 2,215 (+56 subscribers)
Open Rate: 44.6%

🏆️ Tracking my NEW goals:

🚂 Get my first sponsorship: I’m currently in negotiations for my first sponsorship.

🚂 2,215 / 3,000 Subscribers: The climb continues.

🧗‍♂️ [Stretch goal] Pay my rent with the newsletter: $1,000 per month. This will require frequent sponsors booked in and me hitting my subscriber growth targets.

The NFT market may be focussed on sh*tcoin season for the moment, but we never stop grinding. On to the next week 💪

— Alex

Thanks for reading this week’s episode of Grow Faster 🫡

I’ve been in Web3 for 8 years, ETH since $45 and am building on my NFT project Bricktopians every single day.

If you want to join my world, and be a part of a project that grows with me.

Grab a Bricktopian NFT and let me build for you 💯