We’ve asked people how they’d make an extra $100/mo, and $1,000/mo, but big whoop.
Honestly, I don’t think it’s super-difficult for someone win the Western world to make an extra $1,000 in one month if they REALLY wanted to.
So let’s stretch our minds bigger and ask:
How would you make an extra $10,000 in one month?
It can be some new promotion in your own business.
It can be some crazy business scheme.
It can be sleeping with weird Japanese businessmen.
Some people have never made $10,000 in a single month before. But statistically there’s literally millions that do every year.
What could you do to make $10,000 extra in one month?
Here’s how other people would go about making $10,000 in a month
Freddy: I would how to sell vacation packages to mega churches.
Brian Thibodeaux: I would start s site where I invite women who wish to color their own hair at home, but want pro quality results…the proper way to color their hair at home. Explain the process, step-by-step, in easy to understand language. I will also include a list of the long-term benefits for their hair’s overall health by following my directions and doing it the right way.
Yves Farges: I would immediately open five (5) Shopify storefronts, each with a different offering, which gives you five targets of $500 to meet. That takes three hours. Set up ad streams for the five stores. That takes the rest of the day because you have the learning curve. Blog the process for yourself and possibly income downstream.
Julia: I would buy a house. Renovate the kitchen for $5000, then sell the house for at least $15000 more.
Nick Berry: I would find 15 independent insurance agencies who need pre-qualified leads, charge them a flat rate of $1,000 per month for 50 pre-qualified leads.
AndrewU: I would sell customers hair bundles to make their hair. The profit margin is about $50.00 – $70.00/hair bundle. All I would have to sell would be 200 in a month. That is 50/week. That is still a lot though. I would also try to do maybe wholesale joint ventures with hair dressers and other makeup artists.
TonyC: I would get in touch with all the casino’s within a 50 mile radius pushing some type of all inclusive package. Charge $25 a head 25×55seats=$1,375 ×3-5 buses. There are casinos that will pay for the bus as long as it’s filled. Total amount $6875-5 buses.
Winson: I would go to local furniture stores, electronic stores, or any other brick and motar store that sells high value items. I would offer to build and run an ecommerce site for them in return for commission for each sales. No risk for them. Just more sales if i succeed. with 10% commission for high value items, it should not be hard to reach $10k in a month.
Zach WG: I would host an endurance event.
Playing up on the gorgeous, varied terrain of the SF Bay Area (not to mention the outdoor-loving, deep-pocketed community which lives here), I’d throw some kind of running, biking, sprinting, crawling, climbing, jumping, mudding sort-of-thingy.
Daniel Reifenberger: I would invite a limited number of people for $500 to watch the Behind the Scenes of my product launch. They would get to be on the calls that my co-founder and I have about the launch. Watch us plan the pre-launch content. And see how we hire out the contract work to get the membership site and fulfillment up and running.
Sincerely,
Neville – A Kurious Kopywriter
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There are a lot of things to do to make $100 in a month. One of them is: I would approach Neville and ask him to let me market his books here in my country because we don not have many copywriters and I am pretty sure a lot of businesses will be willing to buy them to increase.
I would create a training (on site, not online) in an specific field (let’s say Photoshop), then I would make an online campaign for people to sign up to it (facebook ads and email sequence).
The course would be 8 hours long (1 day), I would charge US 90 and try to get as many as 30 people. That is 2700. Then I would do one of those weekly.
I want to get my self-published book “Abused…It Is What It Is” known so that I may become a motivational speaker to help victims overcome their status to gain back their power. The money I’d make from that would go towards the victims to help them get the help they want to move forward, to live a healthier, happier and abuse free, life.
While there are plenty of businesses one can start, I think offering a course plus book and workbook on how to fight your health insurance company and win might be worth something. Millions suffer from some excruciatingly painful trapped nerves and releasing those nerves provides great relief. No more lives wasted drugged out on narcotics. Find the right Doctor, the right health plan that covers the doctor, have the first surgery, and manage the pain until it is fixed and recovered. Then get back to life! It’ll probably make $100 the first day, $1000 the first month, and if I do a good job, $10,000 a month is probable.,
I am already making around $1000 a month from niche blogging. I know it’s not $10000 a month. But I am on the way of making more money with this idea. I actually do keyword research on a specific topic, build a content-based site and rank it on Google. Once it ranks, I promote affiliate products. So I earn whenever I get a sale. This is the concept I am mostly using to make most of my money.
I am a certified trainer and now, a copywriter. I would like to design a course or a workshop on copywriting, and pitch it to an agency with samples of my own copy (I am obviously taking a leaf out of your book, Neville!). I haven’t found a course or workshop for copy in my country yet. So I guess I can be hopeful.
I am learning (from my mother-in-law) how to sell vacation packages. She gave me the idea to sell group packages to mega churches. I get 15% commission, and starting at $5000 per person x (lets say) 20 people is $100,000 so my commission would be $15k. Now I have the inspiration to write an autoresponder to go out to every church I can find.
I also have been scheming ever since I got the email you sent about your friend that threw the convention and made a ton of cash. I live in Colorado and Im sure I could organize a convention for growers and have speakers that can inform on the latest growing techniques. I would charge $10 a head and find sponsors in state. Im sure that could yield 10k in one month.
You should contact people that have Airbnbs as a tourist experience and offer that or offer it as an Experience.
This question is very relevant to me right now.
For the tax man is extra greedy this year… Either that or I was too lazy to file quarterly estimated taxes last year. But the point is, I need to earn an extra $3k/month for a little while.
These are my ideas so far.
1). Do extra work for my freelance clients. As a freelance web developer, I bill around $100/hour on average, and my clients have no shortage of stuff for me to work on. If I work 20 days/month, I just need to work an extra 90 minutes each workday to earn an extra $3k.
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2). Offer productized services on Craigslist. Make the offer crystal clear, keep the kopy simple and see if people bite.
Here are some examples…
* I will design the perfect website for your business, in person, at a coffee shop, for $1,000
* I will make your WordPress website load in under 1 second for $950
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3). Pitch a high ticket, custom service to small local businesses. Focus on businesses with zero in-house technical expertise and a decent-sized online marketing budget (at least $5-10k/month). Dentists, lawyers, gyms, martial arts academies, real estate agents, plastic surgeons, personal trainers, etc.
The idea is to identify big, gaping holes in their online presence. For instance, I just noticed that this big, local pest control company is pointing their Adwords efforts to their homepage, instead of a dedicated lead capture page. And their email signup form doesn’t work. And they have little or no reviews on Google Places.
I can email them some of my findings, and offer to put together a report for them, if they’re interested. Then I give them a BIG list of things to improve, and offer to fix everything for at least $5k. It’s probably best to have a few different price points, including a very expensive option that fixes *everything*.
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4). Rank and rent websites relevant to local businesses with decent-sized marketing budgets. Like the ones I listed above… Dentists, lawyers, etc.
If I manage to secure the #1 Google ranking for “dentist columbia md,” I can quite possibly charge around $1,000/month to a local dental practice for an “exclusive sponsorship,” which basically means that I send all the leads their way.
The downside is that it’ll take time to dominate the search results, and it’s not a sure thing.
The upside is that it’s a mostly passive revenue stream (as long as I maintain my rankings), and it’s an “in” I can use upsell high-ticket consulting services.
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Those are the main options that I’m considering, but there are plenty of ways to skin this cat (meow).
* I could put together a training workshop, or a web dev bootcamp. A bootcamp would be a good way to earn $100,000 in a month… I’m gonna experiment with doing a workshop for a local startup incubator within the next few months.
* I could identify products that sell but are poorly rated, as that could be an opportunity to build a more polished competitor. For instance, WordPress survey plugins are popular, but their ratings are pretty mediocre. This approach works in any market… For instance, I could scrape App Store, Amazon or Udemy data to identify profitable products with poor ratings, and use those reviews to build a competing product.
Perhaps the best route is to focus on one specific kind of business (again, dentists, lawyers, etc.), create a polished productized service for them, and also pitch high-ticket custom consulting to get in the door. And try the rank-and-rent strategy in that niche as well, but don’t *depend* on it as an income source.
I actually have created a side business that nets over 10k/month!
About 3 years ago, I started a fitness blog. I just started writing. One article per week, then I upped it to two articles per week about a year in.
Clients slowly came. First year, I made roughly 10k. Year 2, it went to about 35k.
By Year 3, in 2015, I had done 126k in sales, and 2016 looks to improve on that number.
Secrets to success: Work really hard consistently and be unwavering. Provide an excellent service and treat all customers well. Be yourself. Always look to improve.
Boring secrets, but few follow through on them.
Thanks for this email course – I’m devouring it. :)
Jason
Awesome to hear your story Jason! I also have a blog in the fitness industry, would you mind if I emailed you to ask you some questions?
Thank you!
Coop
Go for it. Email is jason@anymanfitness.com
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I’d want to sell my $67 ebook to 150 people.
Damn! Feel so much better about my new online business.
OK…I am getting the idea. I have done haircolor for almost 30 years now. One thing I learned early on is that the majority of women either can’t afford pro color services every 3 weeks…or simply won’t. The result is usually the same…average looking results for “over the counter” hair color.
I could start s site where I invite women who wish to color their own hair at home, but want pro quality results…the proper way to color their hair at home. Explain the process, step-by-step, in easy to understand language. I will also include a list of the long-term benefits for their hair’s overall health by following my directions and doing it the right way.
Then, if they choose to go further, I can offer a video chat, personalized consultation where we discuss their special issues and desired results. Just like they were in my salon…and the conclusion would be that I could formulate a pro color line especially for them…in other words, give them the recipe for their color using professional hair color. Then for a small monthly fee, I can have their formula shipped directly to them, with a “one-time” set up fee to cover everything they will need, i.e. A color mixing bowl, an application brush, protective gloves, a timer & even plastic caps (if needed) along with personalized instructions, hair color & developer, & top it off with the proper shampoo, conditioner & rinse needed immediately following hair color services…that will not only cleanse the excess color, but re-balance the pH & stop the oxidation process, making the color last longer then any they have used in the past. They already pay a premium for “over the counter” color, so it doesn’t even have to be much higher a price point to make a profit. And it allows them to have pro color at a fraction of the cost. So now they have a monthly subscription, and if they desire a change, they simply pay a small fee so we can do another on-line consultation so I can reformulate to the new desires.
It needs a little tweaking…but I think this can work. It stays within my area of expertise and passion, but allows me to generate income without having to perform the service myself. That’s one of the biggest drawbacks of this business…one can only color a finite number of heads in any given 8-10 hour day. This still allows my regulars to visit in person, but generates a whole new income source without the restrictions of a typical salon. And again…the majority of women are doing their own color at home with no guidance whatsoever. So the potential is huge!
First I would go to the Amazon Kindle store and check out niches and the sales ranks of books in those niches. I would be able to narrow down from health and wellness for example and see that Paleo is big. I could further what is selling well and see what people like about it. Using this information I would go and create value by addressed a subniche in book form.
If I wanted to outsource the book writing task I would create the outline of the book with key points to include and post a job on Upwork. I could also hire an editor to go through and edit or I can do that myself. If I automate the kindle ebook writing process I can pump out more books more quickly.
These book(s) will help me establish myself as an authority in the field. I can see which books are selling the best and then use my book(s) as a feed to my funnel. My funnel will offer a cheat sheet PDF file in exchange for an email address. Then I can tap those emails to dig deeper into the pain that my market is feeling.
From there I can create a product (ecourse, ebook, coaching service, etc.). This process helps me develop my own space in a niche. The great thing about starting on Amazon is that people are already there to buy. They are looking to spend money.
NevBox worthy? Either way, I have some homework to do. Getting started on this tonight. =)
I would get crowdfunding so I could hire more employees, get more inventory, hire content marketers, do more advertising and get affiliates to promote my site. I would also try to get my website to rank on the first page of search results, therefore I’d make more sales, more money and maybe even make more than $10,000. a month on sales.
Couple of ways to tackle this, but my main concern is not the first $10k in one month, but would be much more concerned with a recurring revenue stream of $10k per month. Two ways to accomplish this: Have 100 people buy a $100 item, or 500 people buy a $20 item, or a 1000 people buy a $10 item; or one can subdivide the problem and have 250 people buy a $20 item and subscribe to a monthly service at $20 per month (or other combinations of purchase/subscription costs). I think the 250 people buying a $20 item and subscribing to a monthly service at $20 per month is probably a much easier task.
Next question is what sort of $20 item can you get 250 people to purchase and then either get another 250 people to sign up for a subscription service for, or get the purchasers to sign up for. First thought that comes to mind is something like an alarm service, or perhaps a vacation notification service of some sort that allows people to rent a short term alarm service that permits them to go on vacation and only pay for the alarm service while they are on vacation. Let’s say we allow them to either rent an alarm system for $40 for one month or allow them to purchase the alarm system for $20 and sign up for a six month subscription at $20 per month (solves both the initial purchase issue and the first month’s “rent”). If they want to continue using the alarm service, they can rent it for an additional $10 per month (assuming we have sufficient additional customers at the end of six months – not really a stretch for a low-cost value proposition).
Next question is equipment cost to support the $20 item price tag. Probably the easiest approach is to use a tiered pricing system – minimum equipment price starts at $20 for sensors at the front and back doors, add an additional $5 for two or three window sensors, motion sensors add another few dollars each, ability to turn on various lights at programmed or random times can be added, and so forth. The sensors can use either Bluetooth or WiFi to connect to a small router which is connected to some form of monitoring service (router assumed plugged into a power source as is the communications media). The option of renting or purchasing an uninterruptible power source should also be put into the equation – perhaps another $2 or $3 per month or a purchase amount of $15 to $20. A related question is how do I support an alarm service connection for the $20 per month, which is probably the easier part – several wireless phone providers offer a low-cost (or free), 500 minutes per month (or some number of Megabits) cell phone service. Much cheaper than a wired Internet connection through either the phone company or the cable service provider.
Final question is how does one find the equipment to do all this. I can do the design work and get the necessary boards designed, fabricated, and assembled, but it will take probably a month and a half – I don’t think you mentioned in the criteria when the first $10k month had to be, so let’s say two months hence. But, if you are wanting the $10k to be next month, I believe if there is a pre-launch purchase option – first 250 people can put down deposits of $50 and get six free months of service and the option of purchasing the equipment at half price, that would entice customers to get on board early.
The time frame of one month is actually the challenge since that sort of cashflow result takes preparation. So from a standing start, first you would have to clear the decks, which means giving ALL of your work up to people who probably do a better job than you do anyways.
Immediately open five (5) Shopify storefronts, each with a different offering, which gives you five targets of $500 to meet. That takes three hours. Set up ad streams for the five stores. That takes the rest of the day because you have the learning curve. Blog the process for yourself and possibly income downstream. Make something from scratch and sell it. For example, make a simple shelf of wood that holds coffee cups (12 of them) that allows a corporate logo at the top. Profit per shelf should be $25, cost (less labour) $20, sell $45, make 100. Sell them via ads, Shopify platform, and direct action. That covers $2500. Half way there. Last week advertise a forum at $50 a head on “How I made $5,000 this Last Month” and you will fill a room with 50 people. Rent a room, serve coffee and tea, and tell your story. Make sure to give them the blueprint and printed material. This idea covers $7,500. The last $2,500 comes from outperforming your goals. When this idea works it is continuous income and will grow.
Find two things that are doing well right now out there, and find where the intersect and what they have missed (tiny niche), like a twitter for doctors or a facebook for scientists, if you get what I’m saying here despite my lame examples (a facebook just for soccer moms, maybe? Oh, wait …)
1.I would find a niche market
2. Spend a whole weekend (Friday-Sunday) learning all I can about that market
3. Create an online course about that market (Both Free and Paid)
4. Use FB ads to get leads into my free course
5. Then have an automation email with follow-up videos of me just talking(to build relationships) to compliment the free course
6. Then sell them the full course with bonuses
7. Have a free webinar with the ones who didn’t buy then offer the full course again to them with different bonuses
P.S. Yes I am in the middle of the doing this lol
Buy a house. Renovate the kitchen for $5000, then sell the house for at least $15000 more.
I would launch a product, but it would take months, if not years, for me to build up to that point (and I am working on it).
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I found a Reddit post on starting a dropshipping business and its been the shortest and to the point guide to a dropshipping I’ve seen.
1.Form an LLC in your state. Fill out the actual legal forms online or fax them in. Don’t use Legal Zoom. This is required and will cost a couple hundred bucks but is needed to open an account with any distributor.
2.Open a Shopify store. Don’t worry much about the name. Keep it short and memorable. Pick a responsive, attractive theme. Only use stock images from brands for sliders (and product imagery later), and just use a simple & beautiful font for your logo. Don’t worry about branding.
3.Think of a product/brand you’re personally interested in, Google “[product/brand name] distributor”
4.Do some digging, find a distributor with lots of brands (dozens or hundreds, but probably not thousands – too many brands can be overwhelming and above the scope of a small dropship business)
5.Apply for and open an account – this should be free. Get the distributor’s product file/inventory feed.
6.Start doing market research. Go brand by brand in the product file, and search Google Shopping for ~5 products per brand. For each product, record the lowest price in a new column in the product feed.
7.Once you’re done finding prices for all brands, go back and do some math. If the lowest online price is below the wholesale cost of the item, or the gross margin (1 – Wholesale Cost/Online price) is less than 10%, it’s not a viable product. If neither of those is the case, then list the brand! Keep in mind the drop shipping fees for distributors, which I’ve seen range from $2 – $7 per shipment in addition to shipping costs.
8.Make a job listing and hire a VA on Freelancer.com for $2/hr to upload products. I’d say ~500 products is a good target starting out. Find the average discount for lowest prices per brand and set your own prices to be near the lowest price you found (while maintaining at least 10% gross margin), and use that discount across the brand to easily ballpark a competitive pricing strategy. Use the Power Tools Suite app to speed this up.
9.nstall the Google Shopping app in Shopify, and make sure all of your products have the requisite data for a data feed.
10.Create an AdWords account, make sure to get the free $100 in Ads (Google it, I think Shopify provides this as well), and push your data feed to Merchant Center. Create your Shopping campaign and take your ads live. I’d cap ad spend at $20/day and start all products with a $0.25 bid to see if you can get some traffic.
11.Flesh out the site a bit and link to a live Facebook account, Instagram account, Twitter account, and basic blog with an intro posting. These aren’t vital, but show that your site has a real live person behind it.
12.Keep a close eye on your ads, polish the site and graphics, create lots of collections and organize the site to reduce clicks, and make sure to do a test checkout to make sure everything is working properly.
Find 15 independent insurance agencies who need pre-qualified leads, charge them a flat rate of $1,000 per month for 50 pre-qualified leads.
Cost to acquire leads, @$3 each on average
50 leads at $17 profit per lead $850 per agency
$850 x 15 = $12,750
Neville, are you doing this and if so, how are you making 10k a month?
This site can give you some ideas – http://www.entrepreneurdestiny.com/
My wife does makeup for african american and african women. My have heard them talk about hair weaves. My idea to make $10000/ month is to sell these customers hair bundles to make their hair. The profit margin is about $50.00 – $70.00/hair bundle. All I would have to sell would be 200 in a month. That is 50/week. That is still a lot though. I would also try to do maybe wholesale joint ventures with hair dressers and other makeup artists.
P.S Neville, this is kind of motivating and makes a person think a little different and challenge yourself. I hope I win the NEVBOX,if it is still available
I would probably have a myriad of hustle’s to reach the 10k. 1. Get in touch with all the casino’s within a 50 mile radius pushing some type of all inclusive package. Charge $25 a head 25×55seats=$1,375 ×3-5 buses. There are casinos that will pay for the bus as long as it’s filled. Total amount $6875-5 buses. 2. Contact all local business offering an internship program giving them non paid workers on a 30 trial basis. Giving the interns real life experience in a field of their choice. Which then if the employer chooses not to keep them, the customer gets to list them as a reference. And the employer pays me $25. Me and a partner are doing this now just need a little more funding. Nev..maybe interested? Lol.
1. Create a premium info product and try and get a bunch of affiliates
2. Open up a premium tutoring agency catering to children of affluent families
OK – so since I’m the new kid on the block as far as copywriting goes I could realistically make $10,000 in one month by offering a marketing package where I write all the email auto responders, rewrite/critique the existing sales and/or squeeze pages they have out there, and consult and give detailed instructions for how they can revamp and improve their existing lead generation using either PPC, LinkedIn, or better content (then offer to build/manage that for them on a monthly basis for a set fee- 10k for the next month too!). That’s what comes to mind so I could earn 10k!
I’d call area businesses who have poorly-done websites and offer my son’s freelance services (developer/coder) to them. He would then tweak their sites and make them glorious. I’d be his agent. (win/win)
I love finding unusual jobs for people and have done so for many friends and family members, but I’m at a loss for how to monetize this. It would be the most fun.
My other talent is home staging. I’m no decorator, but I’m great at inexpensively making homes presentable for a sale. I can contact local realtors who may want to offer a 1 hour session to their new home listing clients. I’ll set up mini seminars at the local libraries to home owners who are considering listing their homes to gather referrals. I’ll write articles for the local business publication or newspaper about home staging. I can develop a Udemy course about the same subject.
I would teach stay-at-home mums that have a ton of time and depend on their husbands income, how to start generating passive income online.
I am still working on the idea and as I want to teach from the experience, still building my sources of passive income online.
With 3 payments of $250 for the whole course, I would need 40 new subscribers every 3 months (thanks Nev for the rule!)
xxx
Laura
This is very relevant article.
How We Earned $10,120 in 30 Days by Sending Horse Poop to People
http://www.shitexpress.com/blog/how-we-earned-10120-usd-in-30-days-by-sending-horse-poop-to-people-amazing-kickstart-of-a-marketing-experiment
I would out two fixer upper houses and put them under 45 day contracts with an option to assign the contract. Find one or two people at the local real estate investment club and charge a $5,000 assignment fee for each property to the investor. This would require some effort to get these properties before they hit the MLS but is achievable.
I used to work for a Volkswagen dealership and now an insurance agency, they have a huge list of customer database with high targeted, comprehensive personal and financial details.
I’d start with an arrangement for them trade their list with me keeping both copies, then start trading list with others who could potentially benefit from this, and finally start a list brokerage company and rent it for profit!
There are several ways I’ll go about doing it.
1) With my existing business in home lighting (currently 3k a month), I’ll get in touch with Interior Designers or contractors who have direct access to my target audience. I’ll offer them either a 10% commission (average cost of lighting per household is $1500) OR $50 for each customer they refer and showed up at our showroom (as an incentive, their customers get 5% discount). This way, it surely will triple or quadruple my business having so many hot leads coming through. I’m doing this once I quit my job at the end of the year. I’m staying because I’m honouring my promise to my current boss.
2) If I’m starting afresh, I would look for cafe around my area and speak to the owner about increasing the frequency of their customers returning. I would do it for free for 2 weeks and if he sees an increase of customer returning, he can hire me for $1k a month or sign an annual package at $10k. Repeat for 10 cafe. I’ll use the materials from kopywriting kourse to do email marketing in this case.
3) Again, if I’m starting afresh, I’ll go to local furniture stores, electronic stores, or any other brick and motar store that sells high value items. I would offer to build and run an ecommerce site for them in return for commission for each sales. No risk for them. Just more sales if i succeed. with 10% commission for high value items, it should not be hard to reach $10k in a month.
Host an endurance event.
Playing up on the gorgeous, varied terrain of the SF Bay Area (not to mention the outdoor-loving, deep-pocketed community which lives here), I’d throw some kind of running, biking, sprinting, crawling, climbing, jumping, mudding sort-of-thingy.
The going price for these is around $50-100pp.
If my basic math is correct, I’d need 100-200 people plus some extra to cover costs. If it’s just venue and people finding, costs are low (sometimes the places require no cost to reserve!). If it’s building obstacles, costs are higher, but it’s WAAAAY cooler and could charge more of a premium.
Schedule could look like this:
Week one: Find people/advertising (social networks, Craigslist ads, AdWords, emails – using Kreative Kopy of kourse…) and reserve weekend venue (Fri, Sat, Sun)
Week two and three: Create materials for course (flags, signs, barrier tape, awards, certificates, yada yada); intensify people finding; find people to help (preferably volunteers/friends/family)
Week four: Set up course, operate event (rinse-wash-repeat over the three days)
Say it’s $5k for costs, so now we need $15k profit.
At $50pp, that’s 100 people at the event each of the three weekend days.
At $100pp, that’s 50 people per day.
Either way seems totally doable to me with just extended networks and a month’s worth of cheap/free advertising with well written kopy.
…cue Neville: “well why don’t you do it then?”
I’d make an attempt at a real estate transaction. Buy a busted up old house in a decent neighborhodd, hire a contractor to paint and do minor repairs as needed, sell it for $purchase price + $contractor price + $10,000.
I see morons do it on TV “reality” shows all the time so it can’t be that hard. I think the hardest part is finding the prospect property, but that is probably only really hard if you’re shooting the moon to double your money or make $50k or more. I’d wager in my area I can find a $200k house for $150k that needs $10-$20k in repairs to sell back at $200k again. Boom, $30k net in my pocket. I’d imagine that can all be done in a month.
I would create a course targeted towards individuals who wanted to learn how to buy, rehab, and rent real estate. There would be tiers to the educational products all leading up to one another. The first one would start at about $500 and be all online. The next tier would be a 3 day in person training in your area that would run around $3000. This would allow us to bring in other speakers, show some rehab techniques, appraisal techniques, cost to repair estimation techniques etc. During this training the next training program would be pushed really hard. It would be a week long training conference in L.A. or Las Vegas That costs about $25,000. The price would be all inclusive, including flights, hotels, meals etc. There would be more training and at this conference and then you would be able to buy from my existing inventory of turn key rental properties in the 40-80K price range if you would like. Properties that have already been purchased, rehabbed, and have tenets in them making at least a 10 cap. (At first I would sell these properties on a high commission from the inventory of another company that only does turn key rentals. After building a strong sales funnel I would expand and build my own inventory to increase my margins.) I would also provide access to private money for situations where lending would increase profitability. This would take a little longer to compile the courses and I would need some help in the initial marketing but it would be a multi-million dollar company.
Here’s how I plan to make an extra 10k a month by January.
Get a raise at work 3k a month.
Take my sites from $500 a month to $2,000 a month by bundling offers and increasing my prices. Currently Each each site gets about 10 orders around 24 bucks each. By raising prices and bundling service I hope to get the average order from to $24 to $50. Then Increase the number of orders from 10 each to 20 each.
Sell 500 copies of my e-books each month (2 of them) at 5.00 price tag $5,000
Total $10,000
If that fails then sell an average of 200,000 dollars worth of advertising at my day job a month.
Hi Jeremiah,
How are you?
Congratulation for selling your products successfully.
Could you tell me some methods and advices to earn some money for living please? Thanks for your help.
An
Hey Neville
I wish I knew how to make 10k per month I just don’t think the market I am in is large enough. I am in New Zealand which is a challenge I can only do sales as that is where my background lies…I have tried selling supplements, coconut water , strengthwraps , I have done ure copywriting course and the appsumo 1k course, I recently built a health and fitness web page which I thought was a great idea but now I am stuck on marketing it and creating demand. I think of ideas every day but just have not found the breakthrough yet! It sucks man but I do enjoy ure blogs and how u challenge our thinking.
Maybe this segment could be the answer.
Luv ya man
Hey Neville, Don’t tell this to Noah but I’m getting more excited about your mails than his..
Now you really got me thinking… If I really needed to make an extra $10,000, The only way to really prove it is taking action right?
So I’m not only gonna talk about it, here’s the actual 4 weeks and 4 steps that I’m going to take.
I have a validated idea of a guided meditation and meditation course.
week 1: Build digital product, landing page, sales page and launch sequence
week 2: Get traffic into landing page
week 3: Start Launch sequence
week 4: Open Cart
Wish me luck.
Come back and let us know how it went when you are done!!
I guess I would just need another 5-6 clients. I sell email autoresponder sequences and ongoing email marketing.
So it’s do-able. I’m actually just trying to decide whether I want to do more client work or spend time creating my own products.
I’m thinking the latter unless I encounter some real rockstar potential clients personality-wise that I’d love to work for.
This series has really energized me and helped me look at things from a freshened point of view. Enjoying all the comments.
1) Took action on making $1k. I read yesterday’s email just 1 hour before I was scheduled to give a talk yesterday. Big cartoony light bulb above my head lit up: D’oh! There IS a way for me to sell services that I do NOT provide anymore but get requests for & am asked to speak about.
Was under a big time crunch, so I decided to send people to an affiliate who does the work. Just like I send people to a trusted “partner” for web hosting.
Scrambled & revised my handout AND created a new page on my website at the last minute. I highly recommend handouts. They are a trojan horse of 80% helpful, 20% selling. They are nice takeaway and note-taking device. People are so thankful and it costs less than 10 cents a person.Gives them something to drive traffic back to me later. Get lots of signups to my email list from these.
Will see how it goes. If not a great response, I’ll ditch the affiliate links, present as though I do the services myself but mark up a bunch and outsource. Greater revenue but more hand-holding because of some coordination.
2) As for making $10k: I want to make real stuff for a change. I’ve been talking with someone who has a CNC machine with extra capacity & is looking for opportunities. Is something that I can move on fast.
Have already identified several products that have little competition. The fastest way to get started and to figure out the products is to sell wholesale to companies that already have customers. They are looking to add to their product line. Builds cash flow quickly while figuring out what works. Also better than building traffic from zero.
:-)
What do you mean by sending people to an affiliate?
I’m doing a product launch right now and everyone is always asking about how to do one.
So….
I would invite a limited number of people for $500 to watch the Behind the Scenes of my product launch. They would get to be on the calls that my co-founder and I have about the launch. Watch us plan the pre-launch content. And see how we hire out the contract work to get the membership site and fulfillment up and running.
If feel where this launch is different than most is this is our first launch, so we will be building the product after it has been sold. We will also be physically shipping items to the customer and delivering content online. Something a lot of folks online don’t do.
To make $10,000 in a month, I would Emergency Supplies kits for businesses, targeting large office buildings in areas known for natural disasters (specifically large cities like San Francisco and Vancouver, which are on the Ring of Fire earthquake zone). California State law requires businesses to ensure it has adequate earthquake supplies for all of its employees. The BC government has even run “Zombie Preparedness” campaigns, assuming that if you’re ready for the zombie apocalypse, then you’re also ready for a natural disaster!
A five-person kit would cost $200, and a 10 person kit $300. I’d also offer home or car kits to the office employees at a group discount for those who would like to order for their families.
Each office kit sold would need a refresh every 9-12 months, so I would offer an incentive for an ongoing subscription, and a referral program. Initial targeting would be for companies that have demonstrated health and safety spending, like in-office CPR courses and high-rise office buildings with flu shot programs (very seasonal for this month, so easy to identify!).
For fun (and profit), I would attend Halloween events and Zombie Walks as well as Home and Design Show conferences for new clients.
For me, the answer two words and three letters: partnering for B2B.
I do not have a product to sell… YET!!!
But the way for me to go from $1,000/month to $10,000 (potentially) is to connect with an agency that is providing SEO and marketing services but NOT providing web dev or copywriting.
Actually, I’m partnering with an agency that has two dudes who are older than me (which is good here in Korea) who are really connected (also good in Korea), and we’re pitching a multinational company on Monday for multiple services (basic, business and premium/elite packages). We’re guessing they’re going to go for the elite package because it will be the most bang for the buck, offer a complete solution and because, well, it’s Korea, and they want the best (which is perfect for us). I’ll net somewhere between $10,000 and $15,000 for a month or two of work on this.
So, partnering with an agency to go up a few levels for B2B web and copy. They’ve got a crap ton of money and need help entering new markets. Since we’re westerners, we can provide that.
The main stumbling block in this is more mental than anything. This will be my first major client, so there are all these feelings of inadequacy and incompetence.
But, would I rather have an extra $10,000 a month or feelings of inadequacy and incompetence? I’ll take the $10k!
Rinse, wash, repeat.
Here are some dead easy tricks that don’t require any know how of anything!
1. Just buy a giant bag of soylent (www.soylent.me) and only eat that; then you wouldn’t even have to eat or buy real food! That will save you tons of dough!
2. Make your own clothes with hemp plants and a loom. No more buying outfits!
3. Buy solar panels and sell your unused electricity!
4. Make a windmill and sell that electricity too!
6. Donate your plasma once a week, sell a kidney (or two:) ), sell your feces (NO Joke- bit.ly/ZERrOZ)
5. Do high schooler’s homework for them (for a hefty fee)!
The best part about all of these is that you don’t need to do any real work, like blogging, advertising, and all that mumbo-jumbo seen above.
Hi Neville,
I love the Behind the Scenes of a Muse site! Can I still buy it?
I actually just made an extra $10,000 last month. Here’s how I did it:
I own a site called RetroSupply that sells Photoshop and Illustrator files to designers. I have a kit that includes everything I’ve ever made and retails for $599.
I found a handful of high quality partners (AKA awesome people with lists in my target market) and offered them an limited time affiliate deal (50/50 split) with a huge discounted price. Instead of charging $599 we discounted it to $197 and offered it as a special offer to their audience.
This made my partner offering the deal a hero to their audience while also making them some extra money. Doing a handful of different deals like this generated an extra $10,000.
#2: Bonus Idea ; )
Send a survey to your audience (using something like Survey Monkey) and ask them what product they would want if you could create a product just for them.
Analyze the results and make the most popular product (this months idea).
Thanks for this great series of posts, Neville!
Dustin Lee
Tried and true method with very little resources, tools, or expertise. Can be done by anyone with some basic tools and hustle mentality.
Summary: Find a lovely 3/2 for less money than it is worth, secure control via an assignable contract and flip the contract to another buyer for $10k.
Week 1 Goal: Secure control of Property below market value (i.e., Cost < Worth)
1. Scan CL/FSBO/network for the (3) D’s (DEATH, DIVORCE, DISEASE)
a. 3 D’s automatically identify motivated sellers
2. Determine Market value (methods explained)
a. Good – speak with owner, tour property, google county assessor value
b. Better – Good + trulia.com, Zillow.com, + contractor friend visit with you
c. Best – Better + offer realtor $50 or favor to run COMPS
3. Secure property 20-30% below FMV with contract that includes ASSIGNABLE clause (i.e., contract can be assigned to another individual)
a. Get contract free by signing up for Rocket Lawyer's FREE trial
Week 2 Goal: Find Buyer
1. Build buyer list of at least 20
a. Seek every “WE BUY HOUSE” sign and add to buyer list
b. Scan CL and newspaper ads for interested buyers
c. Go to the local real estate meet up and get cards
2. Call and offer buyer's home from week 1 the purchase price + $10,000
a. Ex. Week 1 PP is $50k, home worth $75k, sell to Buyer for $60k
Week 3: Goal: Iterate from Week 1 and/or 2
1. This week is time for due diligence from your potential buyers
2. Consider re-negotiating to lower price from WK 1 seller (ex. inspection determine I would need new roof, any chance I can get a credit toward to PP?)
3. May have to seek out more buyers
Week 4: Goal: Execute “BLIND” Closing
1. Buyer 1 (ME) from Week 1 agreed to sell for $50k
2. Buyer 2 from Week 2 agreed to buy Buyer 1’s property for $60k
3. Your spread: $10k received at closing
Why would this work? the sellers got a property off there hands, Buyer 2 got a property with little effort for at least 20% below market value and I just made $10,000. Now that’s a triple WIN.
p.s. Oversimplified some steps for the sake of brevity.
Please just send me a nevbox man. I am hopeless. have tried every damn thing to make money and I just fail. I need a light at the end of tunnel. I am such a loser how the heck do you do it man?
You don’t need to come up with your own idea, there are like a zillion good ideas in these comments! Just steal a couple, and see if you can make them work! As any good Nev student would do, try to sell it to somebody first before you put in all the leg work of like actually making the damn thing or doing all of the coordinating. You can do it! We’ve all been there! You don’t have to re-invent the wheel :) Cheers!
I’ve hit this mark both by selling a low-ticket products which will require more volume. And, I’ve done so via high ticket products as well.
My strategy would be to merge the two together.
Basically, I’d sell something low-ticket. Follow up for 7-10 days offering value. I’d check in on day 7 and see how they’re coming along and at this point I’d offer a higher ticket done-for-you service, something very relevant to the low-ticket item or a “step up” from it, or something of that nature. Or I’d at least see -if it’s a fit- if they’d be open to learning more about it, I’d send the info, and then follow up again the next day or so…
For example:
Let’s say I find several groups of UltraRunners on FB. (UltraRunners run 50k+) Collectively, about 50,000 people are in these groups, hypothetically.
I could create an awesome t-shirt, a free report that leads to a paid course on running your first ultra (I’d be targeting NEWER members of these groups in my advertising since they’ll likely be more newbies etc…), or something of this nature.
Maybe an UltraBox, RunnerBox or something like this. Which includes race gear, training manuals, samples, bars and gels, etc… (Actually a great idea!) Basically everything they need to be up and running, and could even be a monthly subscription with new training plans, etc. each month.
I’d keep tweaking, creating more ads, squeeze pages, adding more value etc…
Then day 7 I’d call them on the phone.
Would welcome them to the world of ultra running, get to know their goals, and if a fit, I’d offer them a high ticket deal. Custom coaching, training plans, nutrition, things that will save them years of trial and error. This could include email access to me, 1 30 minute call a week, and so forth…
I’d do 6+ months payments to get them committed. $2k a month=$12k upfront.
This would include one ticket to a private VIP retreat in Arizona with their fee. Meet in person, do a run together, work on their form, nutrition, have world class experts there and make it an awesome “experience” they’ll never forget.
Boom.
Best idea ive seen.
I’d focus on scaling my ideas from yesterday.
– Find more traffic / places my audience hangs out.
– Is there another angle I can take to sell to a totally different audience?
When I exhausted my options there I would then use stats and/or survey my audience to find further pain points I can create additional products for. They already bought from me once – they might buy from me again.
Then if/when I tapped that out, could I scale the business model horizontally? Can I take it to different niches / markets and duplicate the process/es?
I would do this for digital and physical (info) products. You could even build email lists/courses and integrate affiliate marketing into the mix where it makes sense.
Honestly the only way to make extra money in my country is to be involved in sales. My people’s (average) annual revenue only goes around the $10,000 per year so with such a “great” money share. $100 per month will change people’s lives, that’s $1200 more per year.
I’ve tried different things from a local business to multilevel models to online businesses to FOREX investments for me I’d say online businesses is the way to go as I’m not a people person. A friend and I made close to $200 that month by enrolling in the investment world for the first time also we did some click bank work. Between our investment gains and our click bank campaign we were able to make that extra money ($100 each).
I should say that next month our gains were a little lower since our ROI in FOREX is different every month but of course we are thinking about opening more accounts and try other click bank products. Also working with a likeminded person is so much easier than working alone you should try that sometime.
I think the lesson I learned from this experience is that training to become a salesperson is necessary, why? Before I actually could make any sales online I had to train myself with a couple video online courses, money mindset audios, reading books ( such as neville’s: this book will teach you how to write better ) and even studying more ‘english’ as it is not my native language but here I am. Making those $100 extra per month is not easy but also not impossible as Neville says almost anyone can make those $100 if they actually put the effort.
By the way I’m from central Mexico in case you were wondering.
Another thing I would do, is do market research and find out a primary keyword (for this example, lets consider dentists) that gets a lot of search engine traffic. I would then build a website targeted to local clients that search for that keyword and then rank it on first page of Google. This would take me around 3-4 weeks depending on the competition of the keyword.
Once the website is ranked, I will then make calls to the dentists in the locality that I targeted and tell them about my website and how they could easily get tons of clients through it. If they don’t agree, I will tell them that I’m going to their competitor with the same offer. Once a dentist agrees to get them exposure through my website, I will then charge them a monthly fee. For dentists, according to my research, $500/month is enough. And that’s it. I will then just have to make sure that the rankings are constant.
I would make a couple of these websites that would equal up to the $10,000 mark, and then start travelling the world and start investing in real estate and stocks because that’s what I really like :-)
More than one idea:
1. Hold an event – such as a marathon, trail race, 5k, etc. Or, put on an Internet Marketing conference. Actually, a conference of any type (real estate, internet marketing, etc). Charge for tickets, sell advertising, get sponsors to pay for the free gifts, etc. A lot of work, but easily clear 10k.
2. Get stuff for free on Craigslist, and sell… on Craigslist or eBay. Many companies going out of business or moving to a new location don’t want to deal with things they don’t use any more. Some of these things are garbage, some expensive. Take the garbage and scrap it, take the expensive and sell. In fact, don’t look on Craigslist — call companies that probably have big data centers, offer to come clean out there used junky equipment for free if they let you keep the stuff. I’ve worked for many companies that have thrown 10k in the dumpster because they don’t want to deal with it.
3. Full service website/marketing consulting — find companies that already spend a lot of money on marketing, but execute poorly. Find yellow page ads, tv commercials, radio spots, then visit their website (most times they direct people to their website) and target those who have the worst sites. Come up with 5-10 bullet points they could do to improve their conversion, get more (free) exposure, get social shares (word of mouth) etc., and present to them for free (email, letter, don’t call…) and those interested will contact you and see if you have any other ideas, how much it would cost to implement, etc. Go after the big fish (big ads in newspapers, etc) and they’ll have the budget to spend 5-10k. Then, just outsource the work but make sure it gets done correctly. 1-2 clients a month would net 10k in profits.
I’d approach 50 potential customers and offer them event marketing services to increase their customer base. I’d target companies that have a ton of events and money (law firms, tech companies, auto dealerships, etc). I’d offer 15 of them $10K contracts, 15 of them $5K contracts and 20 of them $2.5K contracts, and see if I could get to 10K in a month by selling at least 1-4 of the contracts!
This is what I did and what I would do (again). I make materials with special superpowers that I sell to big companies to incorporate into their products. I wanted to make more money, way more money, in fact, so I did two things:
1. I did the work for my customers to identify more opportunities to use my materials
2. I then went to companies that made similar products and said, “hey, you know your bigger, badder competitor has something you don’t, and I can give it to you for a lot less than you think it is going to cost.”
Doing the work for my customers
Say customer X makes refrigerators. Customer X makes refrigerators using plastic and metal and glass. They use my materials to make their plastic and metal and glass better in their refrigerators and thus make their customers happy and get them to spend more money on these refrigerators. Well, I also know that customer X doesn’t just make refrigerators; they also make freezers, and microwaves, and dishwashers… oh, and all those accessories that come along with these products (filters, ice cube trays, those spinning discs in microwaves that mesmerize little kids).
So, after company X has already bought into using my materials for refrigerators, I say to them: hey, you know what I think you might like… Using these cool new materials on your freezers and dishwashers and microwaves. Then, you can sell your customers more and give them an entire solution for their kitchens. Oh, and since you’ll be using more of our materials, we’ll pass along the cost savings we get by running larger production runs. So, you get to charge more (win) and save more (win). And you already know this stuff works (win). I think they call that win-win-win somewhere.
Selling to companies that make similar products
Selling to your customers’ competitors is nothing new. Unless you sell an exclusive right to one customer, you’d be a fool to not pitch other similar companies (cue Mr. T: “I pity the fool that doesn’t sell to all his customers’ competitors”). So, first, yes, if I want to make $10,000 more in a month, I would immediately find every close competitor, use a service like data.com to find the right contacts, and say, “hey, you know your bigger, badder competitor has something you don’t, and I can give it to you for a lot less than you think it is going to cost.” It’s amazing what a little nudge about competition will do to someone’s willingness to respond with interest.
But I wouldn’t stop there. I wouldn’t just go after directly competitive products. I would find all the substitute products (for example, a substitute for a small refrigerator may be a nice cooler). I’d also find all the complementary products that are relevant to what I am selling (for example, what complements a refrigerator besides a microwave, well, that could be many things, including food storage containers). I’d make my lists, check them twice (assuming Santa hasn’t patented checking lists yet), and then start reaching out to these companies by offering free samples, upfront pricing, and other incentives to get them moving now (heck, I only have about 30 days to make an extra 10k after all).
This is what I have done to make an extra $10,000 in a month, and this is what I am doing now to make an extra $10,000 before Halloween. And before you say, “oh well that must be easy when you have an established product”, keep in mind I do this on my own. Without a staff. It doesn’t matter how big or small you are. If you have the right solution and the right message, and perhaps a little bit of luck, it’s certainly possible.
Dizzam.
I suppose, the best way for me to do this is get more clients.
I do personal training at $200 a pop. So….increase price (add more value) and get more clients.
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1-2 software engineering job referrals
Find 10 local businesses willing to pay me $1,000 to show them how to get their existing customers to come back through their doors 3 – 6 times a month. p.s. – I know how to do it because my wife & I own a local business and have implemented this strategy ourselves.
Past three posts have been super interesting. Great ideas everyone.
Another possible idea i’ve had in mind for awhile as a side project:
Find professionals – dentists/chiropractors. These type of clients have a lot of money. Sell 10 local business apps for 1,000 a piece. 10 is a lot to chase after in a month so. Go after 5 and up sell certain features and charge more for each app to get to that 10,000 outcome.
Start with one to get going. I need to try this.
I would re-write my emails copy (4 part sequence sent out via http://www.quickmail.io), redo my landing page sales copy, re-engage the 2000+ contacts in my sales pipeline and try to get them to “pre-buy” my SaaS before its built.
Another option is I guess to go back to the big world of corporate consulting and make 15k a month.
I would start a Angel Investor network of professional poker players. The focus would be on businesses that can create an exceptional amount of fun for its clients.
Poker players have a very skewed sense of the value of a dollar, since the successful ones regularly play high limit poker. Just to see a hand it can be $400 and since pots grow exponentially they reach hundreds of thousands of dollars often.
Especially for small companies who could never attract traditional angels or vc money, for 10 poker players to throw $5k at a company that makes something they love seems realistic.
I would charge 15k a month to organize deal flow, manage the tech, recruit new investors, etc.
For less money than they regularly invest in a hand, they could invest in really cool products and inventors, and help them succeed.
I work a full time tech job. But I went to real estate school and obtained a real estate sales license, just because I could and figured it would be fun to have. I previously worked in the mortgage field so it was not difficult for me to pass the state real estate exam. But almost anyone can get the licensing if they put their mind to it. I started working real estate part time. I had only told a few people in my network that I was doing real estate. A friend referred a mutual friend to me and I earned over $10,000.00 commission on my first real estate transaction. It could be a while before I get a hit like that again but I’ll keep plugging away.
Buy the domain http://www.TheEbolaProblem.com
Put it up on Flippa and see what happens.
Silly, arguably but I did the first part already, doing the second part later today. ;-P
How would I make an extra 10 grand?
I live in San Francisco and finding apartments are TOUGH…so I’d start a business helping people find places to live.
Lets see, how could I do this?
I’d charge $50 per hour for consultations that would give the run down on the ins and outs of apartment hunting in SF. I could get 4 a day.
Then I’d create a product that taught people how to email potential landlords because the competition here is tough. That’d make $75 a day.
If I had to, I’d also start a service that’d help people buy stuff from Ikea. Since I have a truck this wouldn’t be tough but would take time.
I think this would get me to 10k,
Hi Sam-
I know this is old but how would you advertise for your services? I am thinking about doing this for my city.
Thanks!!
In the book “Multiple Streams of Internet Income” by Robert G. Allen, he made more than $94,000 in one day, live on TV, verified.
But, it’s not that simple. He had at least 2 key things that most of this audience does not: 1) a huge pool of subscribers, listeners, readers, previous customers; 2) a huge, expensive campaign building up to the live TV event.
Neville, you sold your Muse business thingy to a pre-built pool of customers too. Having an existing pool of potential customers is good – and I think everyone has one they could start with. For example, I could probably sell a one-on-one weekend with me to my grandmother for $10G. Done.
So, if the question becomes, how could you make $10000 in a month starting today with no pre-determined pool of customers (I mean cold-calling from day one of 30), then the strategy is quite different.
Either way, most of the principles of sales still apply in this situation. Exhaust your existing resources to create something valuable to other people and organizations, then sell, sell, sell!
Jim, it’s this one thing that drives me the most crazy about authors who promote their books and classes to number 1. They are not starting at zero, not even close. They have followers, affiliate programs. Perhaps it would be interesting to see how 1) their very first product/project performed on its own merits (not reselling it later) with absolute honesty. I might pay 100 Gs for that. We alot of times see the last thing without knowing all of the back history.
In all honesty though, I think Neville does a pretty good job of being transparent with this.
Yeah, the Nev is good-to-go in that respect.
I’ve noticed on this page so far, everyone (unless there are updates I haven’t read yet) is going it alone. What could “I” do, mostly by myself, to earn $10G quickly.
There is more power in teamwork. I bet the people on this blog could form a Corporation and make $10G in about 1 day.
If you read books by the likes of Robert T. Kiyosaki and Jim Collins, you would see that they understand too that it is more important to build the right team first, THEN decide what the business system should do.
Get the right people on the bus first, THEN decide where to drive it.
I’m more of a DIY person too, to be honest.
All of those folks who now have enormous number of followers or/and subscribers started with 0 (zero). But they started, and build their list. We can do that as well. With courses like http://email1k.com/ we can do that too. We have no excuse.
My personal numbers – 0 subscribers to my email list, but… 400 friends on Facebook, more than 500 connection on Linkedin, 2000 followers (mostly inactive) on Twitter. There is something for start.
I also keep thinking that I could use this drop ship idea to drive a wild science toy site similar to DealFuel where folks are emailed daily or weekly cool science deals to take advantage of on Amazon. I call it BigDealScience ( or SciFuel) Obviously, I am such the nerd.
Neville, this has been a most interesting challenge. The answer to your question is really: Eliminate your preconcieved limits on your income and hustle.
I would plan a peer-to-peer mentoring conference for healthcare organizations on some aspect of emerging healthcare such as patient centered medical homes, patient engagement in wellness, reduction of unnecessary hospital admissions, etc. These are topics that I could comfortably discuss and healthcare organizations can afford a decent admission fee. Use Eventbrite to manage registrations. Upsell conference CDs. I organize dozens of meetings for work each year and have never thought to embark out on my own. But even a modest conference fee of $500 x 50 people minus expenses would yield far more than $10,000. And, this is someting I could do throughout the region/country for additional travel expenses. Hmmm. I’m on it!
Don’t forget upselling to the next conference…. You could make a ton of money here if you offered more in depth training on the individual components (like a whole separate conference just on engaging people in wellness) and provide a discount to attendees who buy at the convention…
Great ideas everyone. And an interesting line of questions the past couple days, Neville.
I have a physical product called Hubble Star Cards (http://www.hubblestarcards.com) that’s just ripe for this sort of thing. Everyone loves the durable 60-card set that feature Hubble images, with some information about the object. The deck also comes with some simple card games like Sorting, Go Fish and War. For a short time, you’re holding the Universe in your hands. Not something you get to do everyday. It’s also in a few bookstores and science museums.
When it gets great word of mouth, it goes crazy. If someone big (hint Neville) mentioned it to their amazing followers, I could go number 1 and then make a mobile app as well as decks for the Chandra and Spitzer telescopes. It’s already out there, it just needs a push.
Start sending freebies to anyone on Neil Degrasse Tyson’s podcast.
This might sound unreal but I’ve already had a more than $10,000 month by selling physical products on amazon. I consider selling on Amazon is much easier than eBay (don’t ask me why until you do your own research).
So for this question, I would simply create an amazon funnel. I would create a facebook ad mentioning a $1 product that is only promotional basis on Amazon. This ad will then take the visitors to an opt-in page where they will have to sign up for my newsletter. Once they do that, I will then send them the link from where they can purchase that $1 product. Here’s the exciting part of it.
Once 50-100 people purchase that $1 product, I will then stop my facebook campaign because my product would already have increased in rankings for a particular keyword that I wanted to focus on. This will be one of the keywords that receive thousands of visitors on a daily basis. What I’ll do next, is increase the price of my listing to $30, or maybe $50, and let the sales pour in. I will do the same thing over and over with a couple of products targeted at high traffic keywords, and boom. $10,000 earned.
But just for the sake of increasing the length of my comment, I will then use that email list to market another similar product priced at $1 (just to increase the rankings of it). So not only this will be a recurring $10,000/month income, I could literally use this email list for “n” number of similar products that I want to sell.
One last thing I will do to earn $10,000/month, is create a fiverr account (don’t throw bricks at me unless you read the whole thing). I will create article writing, and photoshopping gigs (because those are one of the most popular one’s there). I will then start running ad campaigns on linkedin and other similar websites and social networks.
I’ll then hire 1-2 Phillipino assistants (because they are the most trustworthy people on the internet, and do deliver very high quality articles). Most of them wouldn’t cost much because they charge around $2-$3/article. Once the influx of orders start, I will then forward the topics to the hired assistants. And that’s it. I will keep running my ad campaigns until I reach the $10,000 mark. One thing I wanted to mention, is that if I were doing the fiverr thing, then I would really keep my eyes on my ad expense and do anything to make them more optimized because there is a huge chance of facing a loss here considering the $5 basic price that I would offer on fiverr.
Also, I’m just curious how long it would take for that NevBox to reach India?
Nabil do you have a blog or email address I could reach you at? Or you could hop over to http://isimongreen.com and contact me through there
Emailed you through the website that you mentioned.
That sounds awesome Nabil A. I would like more information as well. vmsmagazine@gmail.com
Hi Nabil, can you please email as well? – nishant.mehrotraa@gmail.com
I’ve been doing research with selling physical goods on amazon. Gotta question for you/
Your comment was one of the most thorough and well-written ones. It looks like it resonated with people trying to get into Amazon products.
I’d love to connect and get to know you and your story a little better. I’ve had some success with kindle, but I’m looking to get into physical products.
Can we chat? Email me at dardster2@gmail.com
Hey Nabil!
Awesome comment. I would also love to chat with you (and pay) to learn more in depth!
Let me know! sergio.rivas1@gmail.com
Nabil great idea..Enjoy your NevBox..
I am from Mumbai and i am planning to sell clothes on amazon, so got few question about your campaign trick..
Where are you from in India? Would love to chat..
my email id is – mihir.thkr@gmail.com
Hi Nabil,
I know this is an old post, but I have a question for you regardingthis funnel, could you please contact me on my email, tatimaio@yahoo.com.br.
Thanks a lot!
Tatiana from Brazil
Hi Nabil,
Old post I realise, but I’d love to learn the specifics of how you did this! Would you mind dropping me a line at dc3@lizzy.com.au?
Cheers!
David
Wowo! This is a great idea. This is an old thread, but i would love to speak with you about this idea. Please email me at therealbittermelon@gmail.com. Thanks.
Please send me your email. I need to contact you ASAp or simply write me at mine.
Oh also consulting works really well too btw just picked up a 20k client…first one of that caliber.
So if you know anything about any subject go get people to pay you on how to improve the problem they are having in that area!
skyler, I’d like to do some consulting; connecting people back to nature. My passion is to inspire people to reconnect, be rejuvenated and feel restored mind, body and spirit after a life-jolt such as loss of a loved one or job, or whatever. I want to do this by offering courses, lectures, workshops online and in person. Any thoughts? Thanks!
That’s beautiful Sue.
Glad you’re going for it!
I help awesome leaders like you in my work. Granted they’re further along in their idea and offering.
My advice would be to consider the ideal person you can help. Picture one person, who are they, where are they in life, and geography even.
What are their hopes, fears and biases around your topic?
Do this and then talk with people who fit this profile. They’ll tell you everything you want and need to know in terms of what they need and want that they’d happily pay for if you created it for them.
It’s so simple, and that’s how a promising business is formed.
There are plenty of course you can take to start a business or online business around this. But your first step will always be to choose one person you can serve and offer them what they want that you’re willing and able to create for them.
Anyone who teaches you otherwise is a hack.
I have two ways I could do it.
1. Get 10 new clients to pay me $1000 to set up their wordpress websites. I have a custom theme that I have built and it takes me about 5 hours to build on of these small business sites.
2. I work part time for a Detroit sports apparel company doing digital marketing. I make 10% commission on all sales that are made through the company’s ecommerce website, so all I’d have to do is sell $100k more per month in Detroit sports apparel. (p.s. the site is http://www.fanaticu.com if you need a new Lions jersey) ;)
For years now students, professionals and pro gamers have been using active compounds to enhence cognitive activity. Only problem, they are using compounds that are in some places illegal and often dangerous to the user. So why not make a legal product and jump on a market that has been tested and the users already hooked on illegal prodcuts?
Not gonna lie i’m already 2 years into this project and have a niche that will be targeted.
Man, $10k in a month sounds pretty awesome – and is something I have yet to achieve.
Anyways, if it came down to a $10k bill showing up in the mailbox (which it might be; doctors just found a growth in my wife’s’ neck) I think I would do the following:
Go down to a Medical Supply distributor and buy a few cases of PPE stuff, like masks, gloves, etc and build Ebola Survival kits. You could sell these to businesses, sell them on ebay, or just go door to door if you had the balls.
If you could net $100 a kit (whole house kits?), you would only need to sell 1000.
I bet you could sell several thousand right now on craigslist-Dallas ;)
Another great idea would be to connect with some organic turkey farms around the country. Get pricing and availability for Thanksgiving turkeys and sell the Bejesus out of them via FaceBook ads targeting well-to-do Moms that like organic/natural stuff.
You could also find 10 local businesses and build them out full eCommerce websites with a simple WP+Theme+WooCommerce formula. At $1k a pop, you could cover all of your costs with affiliate commisions from the hosting – and if you go with iPage, you can throw in all of the different bonuses as incentives ;)
Another opportunity I have never seen capitalized on is product photography. If you had a decent camera, you could do product photo sessions for $500 a pop for local businesses. One a day (maybe 3-6 hours) 5 days a week and you could be at $10k by the end of the month with nothing but your camera and Photoshop (or GIMP)
Or, I could probably sell my business.
Ian, that’s brilliant. If I still lived in North Texas, I would totes steal the Ebola survival suit business right now! I saw a poll last week that said something like 85 % of Wichita Falls residents (an hour from Dallas) were concerned about an Ebola outbreak!
Look at Google Trends – USA, last 30 days
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=ebola&geo=US&date=today%201-m&cmpt=q
Look at map – Texas and Oklahoma are clear winners.
Then in rising searches you have:
ebola dallas +3 500%
ebola nurse +2 650%
ebola in texas +1 150%
ebola texas +1 100%
:)
That is what it is all about – getting paid to help people
I like the idea of dollar bills being little $1 thank you vouchers for the value you have created for people.
If you can give some people a little peace of mind, what could be more valuable?
So the question stands, could this bring you 10k of those little thank you vouchers in a month?
p.s. I would definitely buy an organic turkey this Thanksgiving, only if Free-Range though. Many places offer organic, but not free range, which makes a difference to people who want ethically raised food. Not just for well-to-do moms, I know plenty of regular folk (including single people) who are incredibly conscious about where there food comes from and would pay extra for free range organic, which is difficult to come by in regular stores! Great ideas! If you’re serious about the turkeys, I can give you plenty of ideas on where your customers are!
Hey Ginny, I am not sure if Ian is interested in selling Organic/free range turkeys but I am. If you don’t mind, let’s chat I would love to get your insight on where potential customers are. Thanksgiving is right around the corner!!
I LOVE THE TURKEY idea!!! I am going to definitely do to that this holiday season!!
Thanks Ian!!!!
Hey Ginny, I am not sure if Ian is interested in selling Organic/free range turkeys but I am. If you don’t mind, let’s chat I would love to get your insight on where potential customers are. Thanksgiving is right around the corner!!
The turkey business is one of the ways i’ll make my $10, 000+ this december, thanks Ian
These are all really rock-star ideas! I’m motivated to have something sketched out by the end of the day.
hi Nev,
I would take my extra $1,000 / month plan and pump the mafocker up!
From yesterday:
“I would package up my existing freelance model and sell it as a start-up package/course for a very small, exclusive and specific group of wantrepreneurs that I already have an in with! I’ll also add consulting appointments, marketing help (first client acquisition support!) and general hand-holding for additional $$$. THREE PRICE POINTS AVAILABLE ;) …. Nobody is holding my dog for ransom, but maybe I will pretend they are! Talk about lighting a fire! Thanks Nev!”
In addition to blasting to the tight-knit-specific-wantrepreneur demographic I already have an in with, I would take my $10,000 / month plan even further.
1. I would personally email (using a form email with just the name copy/pasted) 100 contacts a day. ( I have had fantastic luck with cold-emails and have got ALMOST all of my clients this way) It’s just a matter of getting up a little earlier in the morning to do this mind-numbing task.
2. I would organize LOCAL In-Person seminars for my course/package in two different high-density locations within 90 minutes of me.
3. I will also offer monthly/yearly packages of support which consist of a private facebook group for subscribers.
My story: I built an Amazon affiliate marketing business to 10k a month, but it took 18 months of hard work.
I’m shooting for the 20k mark now, and I’m trying to speed up the growth curve by promoting products with higher margins and using SEO to target smaller markets (less competition = faster rankings).
A few people have mentioned rolling out a course, and I think that is stellar. It only takes a few hundred students at $47 a month to hit that $10k mark. All it takes is a little copy to get them inside! ;) I plan to roll one out in April.
I don’t think I saw Amazon Arbitrage listed. If I was really down and out, I’d pick up a part time job to create some cash that I could use to buy stuff on craigslist (or coupon it at walgreens!) and then flip it on Amazon or Ebay. Very intensive work, but many a persons makes 6 figures doing that. It’s my backup plan.
That said, wanna know the best way to make $10k/month? Find your passion and figure out how to market it to a larger audience.
Here are some success stories I personally know:
– I have one friend who makes six figures selling custom knives.
– Another friend makes 50k a year creating stationary on Etsy.
– Another friend who started a dropshipping store in a niche she loved and grew it to millions every year in gross revenue.
Passions + Customers = Profit + Satisfaction
I think Pat Flynn had an episode without someone making solid cash on Amazon arbitrage. Clean out big retailers of discounted product then resell on Amazon.
Passions – yes, exactly!
I have been coaching my teenagers and adult children on their up-coming career paths. I have been pushing them to be entrepreneurs rather than employees. When ever they ask (same question put different ways on different occasions) essentially, “What kind of business system should I build?”
I always answer by asking, “What are you most passionate about? What do you love to talk about, read about, dream about, and spend all your time on no matter what it is? That’s what you should develop into a business system. You’ll never ‘work’ a day in your life and you will be the best in the industry!”
I have a feeling many of the answers make $10k/Mo, but are built up upon lots of earlier work, which to me dilutes the earning rate / hour (or month) too far. I think everyone is much more interested in breaking into earning $10k/Mo for the first time, so I’ll share multiple ways I have made more than $10k/Mo.
1. Poker tournaments. I sometimes made $10k/Mo, and usually played online. I haven’t played in years, because, as Nate Silver writes in The Signal and the Noise, all the fish are gone. But the thing about entrepreneurs is, they follow the fish wherever the fish go. Here’s me earning $21.6k in 3 days at the World Series of Poker: http://www.wsop.com/players/playerprofile.asp?playerID=61122. Go find the fish today, and take their money. Maybe the fish are playing fantasy football, and you can use math to pick the right players and steal the fishes’ money. Maybe the fish are working at corporations, and you can sell them “consulting”.
2. Trading. I consistently earn profits ~$5k/Mo, and am maybe half the months earning $10k/Mo. I started with $10k, lost it all, and have now started over with another $10k. I began 2014 with very close to $20k in my account, and have roughly tripled it so far this year (Oct 22). Every trade ive ever made is VERIFIED here, losses and wins: http://profit.ly/user/1milliondollars/chart?aff=1117
As you can see, I mostly short scams. This is because its repeatable and profitable, and NOT scalable. Because you can only make a few million per year in this niche, hedge funds, algorithmic traders, and other “sharks” don’t play in these shallows. Grow your account in the safer shallow waters.
3. Arbitrage:
Read about how the US Mint offered a great arbitrage opportunity on Sacajawea Dollars. I made many thousands of dollars in cash back and airline miles depositing coins into my bank that were purchased on credit cards with free shipping. There are ALWAYS new arbitrage opportunities. For example, buy and sell products on eBay vs Amazon vs other sites (seriously!). If I didn’t mind devoting myself to this full time (I do), it could make pretty good money each month.
4. Internet traffic arbitrage
Someone in a comment above mentioned buying traffic and sending it through an insurance lead gen squeeze page. This is a real way to make $100,000s+ per month; however, it’s much more difficult and competitive these days than 5 to 10 years ago. You have to find good offers, buy traffic (AdWords or similar), and then test, test, test your squeeze pages until they produce more leads $ than the traffic costs $. Then you turn up the spending lever on buying traffic and rake in the dough. This takes an enormous toll on your musculoskeletal system, but you could get rich in about 10 months.
Amazing Thomas! Love your post. Great ideas.
what does this actually mean?
Buy products on sites where they’re cheaper. Sell on sites where they’re higher. This is arbitrage. The gap (or opportunity) between price points.
Tom – You seem extremely skilled at picking out what is hot and chasing it down. Any tips on how to hone this skill?
Do you have any suggestions on learning more about shorting scams?
It must scale. Product description in english language, reach many people, to go viral = be funny; make an impression and be somewhat cheap, so everyone can afford it; allow to be combined with something personal, so that people can be a little bit creative too when using it, then impress their friends. The onepager homepage description has a video or lots of screenshots, the checkout process is very simple; do only use existing tools for the sell, use very new services that are eager to be used so that they advertise for you on their customer story pages for free; create an animated GIF from the invented product so people can easily share it online.
And the best part is: While thinking about Nev’s question I now know the perfect example I can test it with. If it’s only for that Nev, I have to thank you, superexcited right now! I’ll keep you posted.
Well this is how I did it. I created a kickstarter campaign for a product idea. I raised 85k. After all expenses I will walk out with about 10k
Best part is the second time I do it I will keep more profit.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1337918833/you-need-these-dice
Wow, awesome Brit! That’s super cool.
I’m sure you learned a ton from your Kickstarter experience.
Do you have a blog with any take aways?
Thx Jacqueline. Im planning on doing one soon. still have a ton if work I front of me fulfilling all my orders!
There’s a guy in the product development space who offers this as a service. Not sure if links are allowed, so do a Google search on JCADUSA crowdfunding help :)
Start a new cryptocurrency.
The guy who started Dogecoin made millions. Peercoin. Litecoin. Darkcoin. All Bitcoin knockoffs that made bank.
I would develop the marketing for a new course on health, fitness, and prosperity, valued at $300, and offer it for $99, and try to convince 102 people to take that offer.
If people buy it, I’d actually develop the course.
If they don’t, I’d adjust the marketing material, offer, and our reach, until we find something that sells.
Hmm… Well, what I will do is start selling a package where small medium businesses get their wordpress site setup, with content, professional photos and a whole year of hosting and maintenance. Would sell it for 2000k a box. Additionally can provide Ecommerce capabilities on top of it.
If I hustle 5 customers in, then that’s 10 k in my first month in business. Can repeatedly make the same sales. And also recruit a bunch of affiliates who will sell the product.
I would develop a website and online course to train and/or recruit people to my line of work (development), giving them the basic, intermediate, and advanced details to teach them how to take on a new career path. It would include video and downloadable content for them to use. I’d charge three different levels (beginner, intermediate and advanced) or a huge fee for all three levels. Wow, thanks Neville. Just doing this gave me the realization I should be doing this NOW!
For me It’s completely mind blowing that someone makes 10,000 or more in a month. Really. I mean.. You have to be somekind of superhero, you have some rare skills, you’re not average. I can’t imagine myself having this much money. I know a lot of people do have it.. But I just can’t comprehend it.
Really my life would turn 180 degree. I would be completely different man.
What’s not to understand about it?
I a whole variety of white collar workers like doctors, lawyers, dentists, accountants, insurance salesman, businessmen etc often make this kind of money and more.
Perhaps you should start hanging out with a different crowd or reading more about this. If you can’t even imagine it’s possible, it’s likely it won’t ever happen.
Living in small town, in a family where “richest” member makes whooping 600 usd a month can have this kind of effect on your thinking ;)
There are no blue collars or rich doctors. Everybody who makes some meaningful money moved to bigger city.
As for reading, I have been reading various books, articles, etc.. Well for over a year now. And I do belive that It’s possible, just from my point of view If I had 10k A month, here where I live I would be treated like a king and guru (really)
And this is mindblowing.
Dude how is this not an advantage for you?
Thanks to Geo Arbitrage, all you have to do is make $1k a month and you are freakin rich!
What a positive spin… And totally accurate.
Read “Rich Dad Poor Dad” by Robert T. Kiyosaki.
The Millionaire Fastlane
-MJ Demarco
Read this book as many times as you can
Sadly, I would sell 90% of the music equipment I have that I haven’t used in roughly 8 years. :(
That WOULD be sad!
To reach $10k you need something that’s scaleable and has low costs. What I would do is develop a B2B SaaS tool. Look at Bitly, they’re monthly subscriptions start at $995!
The SaaS took I’d develop would be focused on CRM.
(Hit submit too quick !) anyway…
I’d develop a CRM tool that would be “smart” and automatically learn all of the details about current clients and new business. The details meaning, their email, title, location, key Twitter followers, etc. I’d develop something better than Rapportive.
Funnily enough I’ve done this with my old product PicaPica. And it just doesn’t work. The whole CRM industry is incredibly flawed. People don’t need to have the software solutions, they need the training in getting disciplined using their data. 99% of my customers just collected data, never reviewing it.
Cool idea….is this something you can actually DO? Why haven’t you yet?
What’s holding you back?
Well I currently do BizDev for a SaaS company, I’ve seen the endless possibility this space has. I am trying to develop it on the side but my 2 largest challenges are finding time to build this and also I have a very basic knowledge of code.
Would love to make this a reality— any advice?
I teach little kids to read because I couldn’t stand my desk job and I love my students!
Recently I realized parents always asking me what else they can do at home, what books kids like etc. so I want to design an e course for parents to teach their kids at home and give them a list of my favorite books. If the ecourse is $500(these parents are loaded so price is reasonable) I would only have to sell to 20 people a month. That’s doable!
Also, I will be the happiest girl if I get a nevbox :] I will send u a jar of kaya butter from Singapore *yumm*
Hmmm……have you ever asked them if they even WANT to teach their kids at home?
Just because people are loaded doesn’t mean they’ll automatically fork over money.
You might wanna ask around and see if this is something they want.
Hi Neville, taking a leaf from Pat Flynn’s book, I’d come up with a digital course on how to pass entrance exams for French engineering schools and as an up-sell, how to land engineering internships.
Hmmm…….everyone seems to only wanna make a digital course!
That includes me.
But after reading some of Gary Halbert’s stuff, and seeing monthly physical boxes (like yours), I’d like to do that too.
I’m excited to do that because I get excited when I know there’s something coming in the mail for me. Especially if it comes every month, is helpful and not boring (the same thing).
I think it’d be fun to do that for others.
Here’s the question I had to ask myself to get the creative juices flowing: “If I had a gun to my head, could I make an extra $10k per month?”
The answer is, of course, yes– we can do anything we’re forced to do….not sure why there has to be violence involved, but it works. Anyway, here goes:
1. I’m a part of a religious community that has a specific dress code.
We have many separate seamstresses, but none that work together.
The clothes that are made for us in one factory, are expensive and not made for everyday wear. So, lots of smaller seamstresses have popped up
or we have to buy “Western style” clothing and alter it.
I would create a site that collects the best seamstresses and offer their stuff in mini-boutiques a la Zappos style.
It would fill an enormous need without having to make these items myself.
I would be easily over $10k/month and we would all look smoking hot! Righteously, smoking hot, that is. :-)
Bahahahha, for some reason I’m envisioning your God seeing all these well dressed women and saying, “Heeyyy baaby ;) ”
Anywho, I bet you could test this concept really quick by throwing up a quick shopify site and taking pictures of some different garments and putting them up for sale.
If there’s no competition you could quickly get search engine traffic to the site. If people place orders, you fire it off to a seemstress and she sends it.
A quick way to validate with virtually zero money!
YOU WERE READING MY MIND! Been on Shopify and contacting seamstresses since I left the comment. Spoooky…or is it?
P.S. Great response so far!
Letitia, this is brilliant. You should totally do this.
Thanks Neville,
Good series of Challenges.
I’m Writing a Book series Called,
“Golden Rule Magic-
How to Get Your Customers
to Do Your Selling For You”
A customer Dared me to Beat his 2 Best Selling Cookbook
sales on Amazon-Kindle.
I’m Motivated –
So I just Finished Book #1 This Morning at 6:55am
But your Challenge Got me thinking Bigger.
Just Suppose I Did Joint Venture Deals with Business Owners I know with
Sm Biz Owner customer lists?
Cha-Ching – 10K in 30 Days
is Very Likely
50 Chapter Headlines
from The Book Come Mostly
From Interviews with Self Made Entrepreneurs
CHAPTER #1 – Rusted Truck UGLY Sign Referral System
CHAPTER #2 – ”How to STEAL A JOB” Referral System
CHAPTER #3 – 100 Million Dollars a Year MLM Referral System
CHAPTER #4 – 460 Million a Year Aussie Computer Warehouse REFERRAL SYSTEM
CHAPTER #5 – $100 Bill Referral System SO SUCCESSFUL It Got My Friend FIRED
CHAPTER #6 – Jewelry Store Kirlian Camera Referral System
CHAPTER #7 – Puppy Dog AWARD PLACQUE $300K Car Referral System
CHAPTER #8 – Tiny TV Jewelry Referral System
CHAPTER #9 – Skin Care Referral System at Trade Shows Makes Karen 3 Million a Yr
CHAPTER #10 -Referral System-JOIN Us For SHRED Day-Shred Your Old Papers for FREE
CHAPTER #11 – FREE DisneyLand Vacation Home Listing – Referral System
CHAPTER #12 – How to Satisfy A Woman Every Time” – Book Title Referral System
CHAPTER #13 – Glamour Photographer – Hot Model – 2X Referral Sales System
CHAPTER #14 – License Plate Frame Referral System-Small Business Consultant
CHAPTER #15 – Pizza Referral System Grows Jiffy Print by 300%
CHAPTER #16 – Chamber of Commerce Referral System – PRINT SHOP Grows 1200% in One Year
CHAPTER #17 – A Starbucks Gift Card Referral System
CHAPTER #18 – $5000 A Day ONE-FINGER-TOUCH Silicon Valley Waitress Referral System
CHAPTER #19 – Flashing Shoe Strings SHOE STORE Referral System
CHAPTER #20 – Retired Ski-Resort Salesman Shares his Secret to Staying #1 for 10 Years
CHAPTER #21 – Giant CHAIR Referral System
CHAPTER #22 – DON’T READ THIS – Retail & On-Line Referral System Examples
CHAPTER #23 – Smushed Direct Mail Letter REFERRAL SYSTEM
CHAPTER #24 – FREE WHISKEY Referral System Makes 2 Million for Chain of Clubs
CHAPTER #25 – 6 Hr Referral Seminar & My Client Vacations in Australia for a MONTH
CHAPTER #26 – Chamber of Commerce Referral System – PRINT SHOP Grows 1200% in One Year
CHAPTER #27 – FireTruck Angel Jewelry Parade REFERRAL SYSTEM
CHAPTER #28 – Beverly Hills Plumber Chocolate Rose REFERRAL System
CHAPTER #29 – Military Base STOP SMOKING Referral System
CHAPTER #30 – GUN CLUB Charity Telemarketing Referral System
CHAPTER #31 – How A Substitute Teacher Referral Program Got Milly 5X More Jobs
CHAPTER #32 – Garden Center MULCH Referral System
CHAPTER #33 – 3 Offices In One Reception Area – Referral System
CHAPTER #34 – GirlScouts BRIBE Referral System Breaks 18,000 Box Cookie Sales Record
CHAPTER #35 – Aussie Dentist -I Bought You Fruit Buns- Referral System
CHAPTER #36 – Hot-Girls-in-Bikinis-Standing-On-Chairs VEGAS Referral System
CHAPTER #37 – Free Envelopes, Postcards and Stamps RESORT Referral System
CHAPTER #38 – Glamour Photographer Referral System Adapted for Pool Furniture Sales
CHAPTER #39 – 10 CowGirl REFERRAL System Sells Guns for Colt in Las Vegas
CHAPTER #40 – Harrahs Casino Referral System – They Sell 1.00 Bills!
CHAPTER #41 – Ski Resort T-Shirt Referral Idea ADAPTED to Launch a Physical Therapy Biz
CHAPTER #42 – Legal BLACKMAIL Lead Paint & Asbestos Referral System
CHAPTER #43 – CHP Officers Referred My Client 100% of His Drug Testing Business
CHAPTER #44 – Bruised Duct-Tape Shoe Box Referral System
CHAPTER #45 – FREE Delivery in Chauffeur Driven BENTLEY – Referral System
CHAPTER #46 – Aussie PostOffice Idea TURNED into Chocolate Bar Referral Sales System
CHAPTER #47 – Millionaire LANDSCAPER – Tree Tag Referral System
CHAPTER #48 – 3 Step Endorsed-Referral System That Made Robert Allen #1 in MLM Company
CHAPTER #49 – How A Hospital Supply Salesman Raised His Sales By 500%
CHAPTER #50 – Brisbane Australia Real Estate Brokerage MANICURE Referral System
CHAPTER #51 – Millionaire Realtor Cooks a Steak Dinner for Each Home Buyer
CHAPTER #52 – Weird $100,000 –Aura Handshake—Realtor Referral System
CHAPTER #53 – Los Altos-California ARTIST Drawing New House REFERRAL SYSTEM
CHAPTER #54 – 20 Million MLM Mentor Looks 20 Years Younger Than Her Age
CHAPTER #55 – Bird Store Owner Painted Giant YELLOW Arrow in Road-Now Owns a Maserati
CHAPTER #56 – How The Eeny/Meeny/Miny/Mo’Munny Consultant Gets Clients
CHAPTER #57 – The NYC Taxi Driver Lotto Ticket Tipped When They Got INTO his Cab
Thanks for Challenging me to Think
Bigger and Wider,
Glenn
Hey Glenn, I bet you could take each of those referral systems and do a joint venture type thing (where you give a free webinar to the persons audience about a particular referral system they’d be interested in, then the last 10 minutes pitch your book), that could probably actually work really well!
DO IT!
Hi Glenn,
so awesome stuff and would like to buy. I would also like to hear your background, your previous work experience. would appreciate if you can send me the link of this book when completed.
thanks
A company that runs ambulances around bar scenes in major cities. They pick people up and registered nurses administer IVs to hydrate people while they drink. They feel hydrated and can keep drinking with no hangover the next day.
There’s actually a bus in Vegas that comes around and does this!
http://www.hangoverheaven.com/our-bus/
Well crap. Even so…I bet I would make a ton :)
Just because Vegas has one doesn’t mean Scottsdale does or Phoenix or Seattle. How much would you charge and then you better start looking at franchising it. Making sure that ambulance doesn’t look like a real one unless you are prepared to do all the things necessary in case of emergency.
I would steal all of neville’s awesome copywriting and make an epic auto responder to drive people into buying home and auto insurance through me. It may sound boring but that would create recurring revenue every single year! (Giggity)
Adam
Oh yeah this could totally work, and you’d put a new spin on selling auto insurance by using an autoresponder…..I don’t THINK that’s a common practice.
Some people I know who sell insurance make pretty pretty ridiculous money.
My only question, WHY DON’T YOU ACTUALLY DO THIS?!
Actually I’m setting this up right now with a few other sales funnels. My main sales funnel will be my cash-flow app that’s in development right now. I will have to take your auto-responder course beginning of 2015 if you open it up again!?
-Adam
Have you set this up yet? How did it go?
Hi Adam,
seems super innovate and also rare business approach. We would be grateful if you can elaborate this business model in an article.
thanks
It’s only fair I share first….
Outside of businesses that were slowly built up and made good money, the projects that were totally new that would bring in $10,000+ in a short period of time are usually consulting based gigs (SEO, copywriting, etc).
But that’s not as interesting as this:
The first time I built something TOTALLY OUT OF THE BLUE that made more than $10,000 in a single month was my original “Behind The Scenes Of A Muse” course that showed how a business I used to own (HouseOfRave) operated.
It was weird how I would show advanced computer science friends this dinky little drop shipping business, and they were BLOWN AWAY by how it operated. They always thought it was so complicated using CRM systems and advanced tech support funnels….when they saw it was all just Gmail accounts and simple ecommerce software, they couldn’t believe it, and were inspired to start their own (knowing if I could do it, THEY could definitely do it).
So I made a course about how I started everything and run everything. I thought it would geared at people not necessarily wanting to start a drop shipping company, but people just wanted to see the inside of ANY company.
I made my very first landing page here:
http://www.behindthescenesofamuse.com
I was so proud of it! I essentially copied the style elements from a landing page on 37Signals.com and made it my own through a combination of Photoshop and Frontpage 2003. (Yes, I’m old school homie).
The first day I offered this course in a blog post it sold 27 copies. Then more in the subsequent days. People loved it, and so we put the course on a then nubile AppSumo and it sold super super well. I netted well over $10,000 from that random experiment of building this thingy.
Instead of just doing a single venture, I think I would invest 1K to do 10 ventures and then invest the return in those ventures that stick. Eventually I would get 10K recurring revenue. The biggest problem for me is the opportunity cost in doing these ventures, hence why I am splitting them up and not just focusing on one.
Would probably work like this:
1. Find a market
2. Discover their needs
3. Make a product
4. Sell it to that market
The biggest challenge I face is that this type of way is Booooooring! It doesn’t involve my unique snowflake idea or really help the world. I want to make products that help the world. That would be ideal. An extra 10K by helping others in things that interest me!
Tim,
You said you want to help the world, well, you could start by helping me make any income whatsoever.
I am married and have 4 kids, broke my back 5 years ago, and now need money very much.
I am a Copywriter, but have never had an actual job doing that with anyone other than Textbroker (they barely pay at all), and that’s not saying much.
I hope to hear from you.
-Clint
Hi Tim.
I am very interested in your comments. As I’ve done – I see market demand for blog templates with the blogspot platform, pretty high. And generally, they want their existing blogspot that already exist, can work multipurpose like wordpress.
Currently, I have successfully created a widget code that can be used on bogspot in order to run multipurpose as well as blog website, can also work for youtube video (video background style), salespage, squeezepage, demopage, and recommended-page (affiliate site) – without losing the main functionality of templates and widgets that are already running well on your blogspot.
The widget code I created works well 100% for any blogspot template you use. Hopefully this widget code can reach the market well.
Awesome how you swiped the 37signals page. I do that all the time with copy and code.
I’m actually going to swipe ALL of the ideas from these last three posts. Muahahaha….