7 Poetry Business Success Stories [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: November 19th, 2023

Start A Poetry Business

Here are some real life success stories of starting a poetry business:

1. The Haiku Guys & Gals ($420K/year)

After realizing how much joy their Free Haiku service brought to strangers, the co-founders of Haiku Guys & Gals made it their mission to bring haiku to everyone. With an estimated 60,000 haikus written, over 600 events served, and over $600,000 generated in income for the poets working with them, the business has seen impressive growth and success. Their monthly revenue averages around $35,000/month, attracting and retaining customers through word-of-mouth and brand awareness.

How much they make: $420K/year
Current team size: 2

How We Started A $35K/Month Business Writing Personalized Poetry At Events

Haiku Guys & Gals is an entertainment service that writes personalized free haiku for guests at events; since launching in 2013, they've written over 60,000 haikus at over 600 events for a total income of over $600,000.

Revenue

Daniel grew the business to $35K/month

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4. Poetry Foundation

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 100-year archive of POETRY magazine.

Where they're located: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Website traffic: 7.82M/month

5. PoemHunter.com: Poems

Poems from different poets all around the world. Thousands of poems, quotes and poets. Search for poems and poets using the Poetry Search Engine. Quotes from all famous poets.

Where they're located: South Australia, Australia

So... can you actually make money with a poetry business?

Of course. There are millions to be made in this industry.

But how?

Research real, profitable businesses and see exactly how much money they make.
Study exactly what works, and what doesn’t.
Take action, because now you have the roadmap.

Join Starter Story and build your next big thing:

Start Now

7. ksdk.com

Latest news, weather, sports and traffic for St. Louis and Metro East from KSDK

Where they're located: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Website traffic: 2.04M/month