How I Started A $6.5K/Month Business Selling Digital Files For CNC Machines

August 16th, 2020
Ahmed Nassar
Founder, DXFforCNC.com
$6.5K
revenue/mo
1
Founders
1
Employees
DXFforCNC.com
from Cairo, Egypt
started October 2016
$6,500
revenue/mo
1
Founders
1
Employees
market size
$7.25B
avg revenue (monthly)
$19.5K
starting costs
$20.3K
gross margin
89%
time to build
240 days
growth channels
SEO
business model
subscription
best tools
Etsy, LinkedIn, Pinterest
time investment
Full time
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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

Hello, I'm Ahmed Nassar a freelance designer for more than 10 years and the founder of DXFforCNC.com one of the most popular websites that provide 2D designs for CNC machines.

I started to learn the digital design 10 years ago as an amateur because I loved the arts and spent more time with self-studies watching tutorials and follow the inspirational websites of arts and I thought to get benefits from these learnings I have and worked as a freelancer until I started my online business website at 2016.

If you are a beginner or professional designer and want to start a low-cost online business that will be a part-time business with max 4 hours/day I think this story may change your life. What you need to have is some basic design knowledge and some part-time, what you need to do are very simple silhouetted 2D designs using rules of CNC machines, what you can gain is a standalone running business with revenues could be about $7K monthly. The 1st month I started the business I got only about $140 and started gradually increasing to be about $6.5 now.

The CNC machines I mean here; the kind of machines controlled by computer software and...

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