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Cohort-based writing challenge and course.
How Dickie acquired customers
Tools used to build Ship 30 for 30
In December 2020, Dickie Bush tweeted: 'is anyone interested in doing a daily writing challenge for 30 days?'
Around 20 people joined a Slack group. Six days later, they had 50 people. He got 300-400 form responses.
Nine months and 1,800 students later, it became an immersive cohort-based course. Now 4,000+ students with millions in revenue.
Start with a simple tweet to validate demand
Leverage Slack for community before building custom platform
Money-back completion incentive drives accountability
Scale from 20 to 1,800 students in 9 months with cohort model
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Dickie achieved 4 milestones on the path to $100K ARR
$17,000
$25,000
$100,000
The journey, decisions, and context behind this milestone
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