Closing Credits
👤 Buford Taylor (Ex-Reforge eng lead who first built Casting Call Club - a 600k voice-actor audience he later sold courses to.)🌐 site𝕏LinkedIn
He ran a free voice-acting community for years at a loss, then sold courses into it: $10K MRR in 30 days.
Will it work? · our read
Own the audience. The courses are commodity. The 600k voice-acting community he built for years, at a loss, is the real business. Distribution came first, product second.
01How the money moves
Built Casting Call Club free: 600k voice actors, years at a loss
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Launched Closing Credits courses into that captive audience
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Members buy courses, experts rev-share: $1K in hour one, $50K/mo
02The numbers
$50K/mo
Revenue, mid-2022
StarterStory
$10K
MRR by day 30
founder
600K
Owned audience (CCC)
castingcall
Revenue is founder self-reported in a 2022 Starter Story interview - a snapshot, unaudited. Starter Story
$50K/mo (about $600K/yr), self-reported, mid-2022
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Starter Story - founder interview ($50K/mo, $500K in 11 months, $10K MRR in 30 days)Closing Credits - official site (still live)Casting Call Club - the 600k voice-acting audience it launched intoBuford Taylor - LinkedIn (Eventbrite hire #10, Reforge eng lead)
$50K/mo is self-reported by Buford Taylor in an Aug-2022 Starter Story interview - first-party but unaudited and a snapshot that may now be stale. $500K-in-11-months, $10K-MRR-in-30-days, the 600k audience, the 700k email list, and the 20% gross margin are all his figures from that same interview. No fabricated numbers. Competitor prices (Udemy/Skillshare/Gravy For The Brain) are approximate market estimates, not first-party. The cold-start 'dies' logic is our read, backed by his stated fact that the first 8 months were 100% Casting Call Club members. We never score you.