Author: Gabe Johansson

  • Digital Product Business For Busy Parents: The 2026 Starter Guide

    Most parents believe they are too busy to start a side hustle, but as a busy dad of 3 running my own digital product business, I’m here to bring you some good news: There are still ways to make it work, and that’s exactly why I wrote the guide you’re about to read. We’re about

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  • How To Get Paid To Write Online (Even If You Failed English Class)

    One of the funniest things to me is how I failed English class twice but have been paid thousands of dollars by writing words on the internet. Naturally, I had to include that in the caption below my photo on my ebook sales page. So how is that possible when actually good writers struggle to

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  • Why I’m Playing The Long And Slow Digital Product Game On Purpose

    In light of yesterday’s post about taking a whole year to sell 500 copies of a low-ticket ebook, I wanted to talk about why I’m taking the slow approach to business… There are a few reasons I’m doing it this way despite knowing about faster ways to more revenue, which I’ll get into right now:

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  • My Stupid Simple Plan To Sell 500 Ebooks In 2026

    My stupid simple plan to sell 500 ebooks in 2026 pic.twitter.com/iD42WWVFRe — Gabe Johansson (@GabeJohansson) December 26, 2025 Building a digital product business doesn’t have to be complicated. I truly believe in the old platitude that it should be made as simple as possible but no simpler. Meaning… You can’t skip steps, but you don’t

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  • The Greatest Christmas Gift I’ve Ever Received

    About a decade ago, I was one step away from being the Grinch, although quite a bit less green. My family stopped making Christmas a big deal, and one year I even spent the night completely alone because my mom and half-brother were out with extended family where I didn’t really fit in and all

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  • The Christmas Eve Rush

    Life has been an absolute blur since my son was born a few months ago, and especially so now that I’m back at work. Christmas is tomorrow and well… I ain’t ready yet. And that whole “opposites attract” thing must be true because my wife has been wrapping a few gifts a day for a

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  • The Case Against Starting A Digital Product Business

    My whole goal with my daily emails and posts is to inspire people to start their own digital product business. I get paid to help you start, and you get paid to help people solve problems you already solved. It’s a really cool thing if you ask me. But it’s not for everyone, and here’s

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  • 10 Ways To Collect Payments And Deliver Digital Products Automatically

    One thing not enough people talk about is how to actually collect payments and deliver digital products, which is interesting because without that you can’t run a business online. Then when you get to that point in the process, there are roughly a thousand different options and ways to set it up. You can go

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  • Avoiding Social Media Burnout As A Digital Product Business Owner

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    Earlier this year, I went through all the accounts I follow on X and what I saw was both surprising and kinda sad: At the time I was following around 350 people, and now I’m following 219. Here’s what happened: As I was going through the list I started seeing names I haven’t seen in

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  • The Cool Thing About Digital Products As A Side Hustle

    What’s the difference between someone who makes no sales and someone who makes daily sales? Rejection and eyeballs. Because I’ve been on both sides selling the exact same product in the past… What took me from not making sales to consistent sales is the ability to get enough traffic to get rejected 96% of the

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