It's not like Bingo Card Creator let him quit his job overnight. In fact, if you look at the profits from BCC (not revenues) it's far from his main source of income.
As I understand Patrick's story (someone please correct me if I'm wrong):
* He accidently found something that produced small profits.
* He built on that and iterated.
* At no point was BCC insanely lucrative.
* But at every point, it made sense for him to work on it.
* He didn't need to put in many man-hours to increase returns.
* If BCC's ROI for time invested ever became negative, he could have stopped.
* Once he hit that point, he put it in maintenance mode
* Based on his BCC case studies, people wanted to hire him.
* Consulting is where he makes most of his money.
Steps for someone wanting to replicate:
1. Find a niche where you can make some amount of money.
2. Work at it, intelligently, until you hit a maxima.
3. Talk about the good stuff you do.
4. Look for logical extensions of your business where you can leverage your new
experience (more lucrative niche, consulting, better job, etc.)
> It's not like Bingo Card Creator let him quit his job overnight.
That's true, but it was consistently making about enough to pay my rent one year later. I would consider that to be an astonishingly good return on just a few hours of work per week.
> 1. Find a niche where you can make some amount of money.
I suppose that "some" there is the important part. I don't think finding a niche where you can make $500 a month profit right out the gate is that easy. It's not a ton of money, but I'd consider that very encouraging.
As I understand Patrick's story (someone please correct me if I'm wrong):
Steps for someone wanting to replicate: