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$4.5 Million a Year with No Ads: How to Build a Hit Shopify App
Learn how Ericos, a designer, started a successful app business on Shopify. He focused on making the app easy to use and getting great reviews. This guide is for anyone wanting to start their own software business.
Want to start your own software business online? Maybe you see stories about companies getting lots of money from investors. But what if there’s another way? A way to make millions of dollars each year, keep most of it as profit (like 90%!), and spend almost nothing on ads?
Ericos used to be a designer earning just $2 an hour. Now, he lives in Paris and runs a Shopify app business that makes $4.5 million in yearly income. His first big hit was an app called Kaching Bundles.
What’s really amazing is how his business grew so fast in just a couple of years without spending tons of money on ads. How did he do it? He understood how to build things for a specific place (the Shopify platform), focused on what users really needed, and figured out how to use the power of a platform.
Ericos’s story gives great ideas for people wanting to start their own business, especially if you don’t have a lot of money for ads or a huge following online.
We talked to him to find out exactly how he did it. Here are his lessons, explained simply, so…
