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Paul Minors
Productivity B2B

Paul Minors runs paulminors.com, a productivity website and consulting business centered on teaching people to use productivity tools such as Asana.

paulminors.com · Founded 2016 · 10 public sources · Updated 12 days ago

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How Paul Minors Makes Money

Asana and Pipedrive consulting and training for businesses

How did Paul Minors monetize?

Summary of the sourced claims below

Paul Minors earns money from consulting and setup fees for helping teams set up and train on software products, and from reselling software. He also earns affiliate and referral commissions on software tools, including recurring commissions per user on accounts he refers. He has sold a one-time product and has sponsorship revenue from his podcast, which he aims to use for audience growth.

Revenue sources

7 sources · grouped by how Paul Minors makes money

  • Services & consulting

    · 3 mentions · 2 sources
    “People started booking calls with me to get help with Asana... it would very much snowball into, okay, can we get on another call to set up some of these projects in Asana or build out some templates? Or actually, can you do a training workshop with my team? And so I did that outside of Clarity.”
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    “UPDATE: I'm now offering Asana Consulting services, so if you are just getting started with Asana and need some help setting up your account and training your staff, be sure to get in touch!”
    high
    “We make money by 1) Charging consulting fees to set up and train teams on how to use these two software products and 2) Reselling the software or earning a commission for referrals.”
    high

  • Affiliate / referral commissions

    · 2 mentions
    “each of them come out with affiliate programs so with pipe drive for example you earn 20 per user per month ... if I sign up an account that has 30 users you're earning 30 times whatever their monthly fee there is they're paying it could be 25 dollars per month recurring and that's for the life o...”
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    “We make money by ... earning a commission for referrals.”
    high

  • Course / training sales

    · 2 mentions
    “In 2020 I designed a support program for each of the tools we offer support on. The programs include video training, private consulting calls with an expert, weekly group coaching, and support via a Slack group.”
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    “Or actually, can you do a training workshop with my team? And so I did that outside of Clarity.”
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  • Recurring subscriptions

    · 1 mention
    “In a typical month, we’ll make about $90,000 in sales from consulting and subscription fees.”
    high

  • Sponsorships & partnerships

    · 1 mention
    “i have sponsorship revenue on my on my podcast but that it's really with the goal of promoting or building an audience you know building my newsletter list”
    high

  • One-time / lifetime deals

    · 1 mention
    “how to automate pipe drive 500 bucks click here to buy it is that become a significant piece of the pie for you like are people buying that stuff yeah yeah that's something i released earlier this year so it's it's actually been live for only a couple of months and yeah like i've sold it a few ti...”
    high

  • Add-ons & upsells

    · 1 mention
    “so with the audit and training i think i said before yeah they range from about 450 to 1000 and i tell people if you book one of my audit packages you'll get my how to automate pipe drive videos at a discount at 20 off or with the i have an asana video it's like a 90 minute getting started with a...”
    high

How 2,721 businesses make money

Of businesses with mapped revenue sources, the share using each — Paul Minors’s highlighted.
  • Recurring subscriptions
    65% ◀
  • One-time / lifetime deals
    30% ◀
  • Services & consulting
    25% ◀
  • Physical products
    21%
  • Affiliate / referral commissions
    14% ◀
  • Course / training sales
    11% ◀
  • Usage-based fees
    10%
  • Add-ons & upsells
    10% ◀
  • Advertising revenue
    9%
  • Sponsorships & partnerships
    9% ◀
  • Marketplace commissions
    4%
  • Licensing
    2%
  • Donations & tips
    2%
  • Setup / onboarding fees
    2%
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