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    How would you make a million dollars in one month?

    Holy crap, this is an interesting question…..

     

    How would you make a million dollars in one month?

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    But seriously, let’s say I kidnapped one of your kids (and not the ugly one, but the good one)….and you had to come up with a $1,000,000 bucks by the end of the month to get him back.

    How would you do it?

    I already asked how would you make:

    This is a pretty difficult question to answer, so I again asked some very very successful friends in varied industries how they would make $1,000,000 in around a month to help jog your mind before you answer in the comments. 

     

    SOFTWARE BACKGROUND GUY:

    “HOW WOULD YOU MAKE AN EXTRA $1,000,000 IN A MONTH?”:

    To people with billions of dollars, a million dollars is a thousand dollars. Solve a problem that someone with billions of dollars has.

    I would create a custom piece of software that saves a large company money, and sell them that custom solution. I would find WHO to sell it to through LinkedIn.

     

    INVESTOR & FINANCE DUDE:

    “HOW WOULD YOU MAKE AN EXTRA $1,000,000 IN A MONTH?”:

    There’s usually no way to inherently increase the value of an investment by 10x or 100x very quickly, unless it’s inherently super risky.

    So in this situation of making a shit ton of money quickly, I’d find a small pharmaceutical company that’s on the verge of an FDA approval announcement, and bet heavily for (or against) them.

    That’a the only way I can think of increasing an investment that rapidly.

     

    REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER:

    “HOW WOULD YOU MAKE AN EXTRA $1,000,000 IN A MONTH?”:

    Well you’re talking a little crazy about making $1,000,000 that quickly, so I’ll give a crazy answer.  The stars have to align for this to happen, but I HAVE seen it done several times:

    You go and find a large apartment complex that’s in trouble and running under terrible management.  Perhaps a complex that owes $20million to bank, but their property is only appraised and worth $15million, and they are about to go bankrupt.

    You approach their bank and step in as a “solvent entity” to take over that loan.

    You say, “I don’t think the property is worth $15,000,000 as appraised…..but I’ll still offer you $16,000,000 and you don’t have to go through with the foreclosure process on the property.”

    The bank might be happy to sell you the loan, because they don’t wanna deal with the whole bankruptcy and foreclosure process. So you might be able to buy this $20million dollar loan at a SIGNIFICANT discount at around $16million.

    Now if the property forecloses, YOU get full ownership.  You can usually put in just a few hundred thousand dollars to increase the value of that property to $18million.  So now for roughly $16.5 million you sold a property for $18million.

    You just made $1,500,000 in profit in a super short amount of time.  

    The stars have to align for this to happen, but I’ve seen it done.

     

    SF TECH GUY:

    “HOW WOULD YOU MAKE AN EXTRA $1,000,000 IN A MONTH?”:

    If I wanted to be shady I'd make a pyramid scheme? Otherwise I'd borrow from friends or investors? But if you break down one million dollars, it requires an investment of $10,000 from only 100 people.Like....you just need to have 100 customers for something. That's doesn't sound totally unreasonable.

    An interesting way to look at how to make $1,000,000 in one month would be to break down the numbers, for example: Using this product pricing calculator you can work backwards:If you sell a product, to make $1,000,000 in one month:make a million dollars pricing breakdown

    • You need 5,000 people to buy a $200 product.
    • You need 2,000 people to buy a $500 product.
    • You need 1,000 people to buy a $1,000 product.
    • You need 500 people to buy a $2,000 product.
    • You need 300 people to buy a $3,333 product.
    • You need 200 people to buy a $5,000 product.
    • You need 100 people to buy a $10,000 product.
    • You need 50 people to buy a $20,000 product.
    • You need 25 people to buy a $40,000 product.
    • You need 5 people to buy a $200,000 product.

    Breaking it down in this way can makes generating a million bucks far more attainable. Can you sell 100 people a $10,000 product or service? That would be $1,000,000 in revenue! It might be difficult to do this from scratch, but thinking about this problem backwards can really help you plan out how YOU would make a million dollars in a month.

     

    Hope this $1,000,000 exercise stretched your mind a bit!  Go through the comments below, there’s some good suggestions on how people would make a million dollars in a month.   Also comment with the way YOU’D make a million dollars in a month, or how you’ve seen it done before.

    Sincerely,

    Neville Medhora – A Kontinuously Kurious Kopywriter

    Interested in seeing how others would make different sums of money each month? Checkout everyone's answers for:

    P.S. If you need help coming up with million dollar ideas, use this Business Idea Generator to kick around some ideas! Or if you start a membership program use this recurring revenue calculator to see how much to charge people per month to make a million bucks.

    P.P.S. Comment on the post with your plan/scheme/plot to make $1,000,000 in about a month, or how you’ve seen someone else make $1,000,000 in a short period of time.


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    I like the idea of the $1,000,000 dollar lucky winner. But wouldn't that be considered internet gambling and illegal?
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    You could just ask for a million dollars on the Internet and you might actually get it...
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    Guest rico rocr

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    I know how to do it and I've done it several times, but it's a closely guarded secret. For $1,000,000 I'll tell you though.

    Rico

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    Guest Twohands

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    First off, the kidnappers isn't all that smart, if they had done their homework they would have known that you didn't have the million dollars in the first place! I would come up with about half of the million, because come time of the transaction, they already proved to be a bit off in the first place. They won't stick around to count the money even if they can count that high! It's a common police tactic. So you just cut the ransom in half. Has a lot to do with profiling.
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    Guest Steve

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    When I was younger, my father would post ads in the newspaper. The ad would say - "Make money in newspaper ads, send $2.00."

    When the order arrived he would mail a photocopy of the same ad. A purchase was made, and a product given.

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    Guest Bianca

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    So Mr. Benny Big Bucks, for your bright idea I'm asking you for $100.00 bucks!!! Reason behind it, that I actually learned and that alone should be rewarded hahahahaha ;) Love your comment!
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    Guest Twohandsfull

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    It's weird that you brought this up. I've been trying to come up with 2 million to open up a factory to manufacture a new brick I invented. It's going on 6 years now. If by chance I do ever get my amazing new bricks to market, I know that I can make over a million a week! After all no one orders just 1 brick There is over 32 BILLION bricks sold in the U.S. alone and only around 20 factories here. My bricks can be placed even by kids. They don't need water or cement, and get this. They float on water so they can be easily transported anywhere in the world. When I get my factory going, I can produce over 1 hundred thousand bricks every 4 hours. If I can take just 10% of the brick market in my first year, I can make in the billions with no worries.

    Good luck on your making 1 million. I'm going to have twice the trouble coming up with 2 million!

    P.S.. Where do I send the flowers?

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    Guest Selwyn Thomas

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    If it was true to make money that fast how does one go straite to the top using what is said on these suggestions. Are they for real.
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    Guest Allen L. Brown PhD

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    To make a million in about month. Is a straight forward answer. Money leveraging. Offer an investor or someone that has access to 10 people that are looking to invest 100,000.and two friends that have the same. that will be 30 people.

    You have now collected 3,000,000. When duplicating this process you will

    see that making a million dollars each month will be the minimum.

    All in the mind set.

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    Guest Fake Finder

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    I really hope no one listens to this person. It is an apparent scam.

    If you are hurting for money look at others ways of making it.

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    Guest Laura

    Posted

    I will make a course for Corporate Lawyers on how to get leads from LinkedIn.

    Price it at $2.000 for the whole course.

    Then I will reclut a power team of legal influencers with large audiences.

    I will offer them a 50% commission per sale. That's $1,000 per sale.

    I will follow growth hacking to build

    social triggers and Jeff Walkers PLF to rock the launch.

    I then need 1,000 sales.

    Thanks!

    Laura

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    Guest Quantella Owens

    Posted

    Dear Mr. Medhora,

    I have no idea how to do this but I really want to thank you for running these. I have been clicking on highlighted links and learning a lot of tactics and tips I never would have known/thought about otherwise. You really are turning this blog into a real "connecting" platform. Hats off to you and I wish you great success.

    PS: You are very generous, I'd probably charge people to comment with their business links. :-)

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    Guest fatumata

    Posted

    I not having penny in my bank and not even work,at moment ,and I need to earn more inorder to sent my four be lover kids , and the about course 20 ,000,pound year ,in year before it is too late ,because ,I would like give them a good education before they get grow and take their own responsibility how can I do that.They it is because I have low education back grand ,and I dnt my kids , to be like me when they

    grow.

    thank you

    fatumata

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    Guest Tom Bradford

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    i have a couple of ways but as everyone else says things need to go your way. You become a fuel wholesaler on an international version you find a seller who as access and the ability to purchase fuel from a Russian or Nigerian Refinery preferably JP54 Jet fuel or Bonnie Lite a very good grade of oil. Then you go on to energy sites and hunt for a buyer of 5,000,000 barrels. Then you become the facilitator working with the buyers mandate when you arrange the purchase you tell buy he must pay for the fuel before it leaves refinery you charter a few ships by showing that you have an Irrevocable Corporate Purchase Order that means you have a deal then you pick up the fuel delivery to the site that buys it at the port and when it is delivered in the contract the buyer makes 5.00 per metric ton and the seller makes 5.00 metric ton you walk away with a cool 3.5 million in one month. this is done everyday in the fuel market. It is not about what you know though it is about who you know. It is a little tougher than what it sounds but believe me it could be done in one month.
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    Guest JustMe

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    There are so many errors in this story it aint even funny. The best way to make money is to know something nobody or VERY few other people know. Period!
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    Guest shehan Jayawickrema

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    I just have 100usd. I invest it to trade I am strong signels and platforms in my trading system so their is a few risk with few hours or minutes its make 40% 90% profit I do trade it with full day. I think it gets 8hours. the same day I do my freelance and online job. I think I earn 2000 or more in one day. with 1 week I got 10000usd. then I invest as a broker I hav3 many clients and commisions the I touch the real estate with 4 weeks I got the target
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    Yes, I like how doable it is and can be applied to several niches.

    Real and resonable numbers due to high margin.

    Instead of a info product, you can offer a SaaS tool or flat subscription.

    The discount is a good catch to get them involve.

    Imagine how Amazon launched Prime TV Beta just for 30d at $69/yr

    Then, you improve the funnel strategy numbers.

    You need 771 to hit $1mm. Or the following:

    just 77 to subscribe for a upsell of $1,000/mo.

    or just 7 to subcribe to another upsell of $10,000/mo.

    Those upsells will provide a 5x value to be worthy.

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    Yes, you can sell the rights but main cities and add scarcity to bring the first 1000 fast. Awesome
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    Some people are going to negotiate even with Saint Peter when time arrives.
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    3 ideas to raise $1mm in 30 days.

    I am currently pursuing the 3 of them.

    1) How to turn $10k into $1mm in 7 yrs but only working the initial 30 days.

    Research rising startups in my niche. Invest seed capital with them. As less as possible, since the only goal is to get in contact with ceo and key people. Interview them separately to find out what resource they are missing. Then find out who else might have the solution to accelerate their projects. Finally connect them all. You will be orchastrating their success and you can get prefered stocks.

    2) Today everything is ecommerce, either b2b or b2c, so be part of it.

    Start an b2b ecommerce biz in a niche. Tell suppliers you will always pay with delivery. Since your are newm that is the only way to buy from them anyway. Find prospects and offer a 10% discount. So your margin will be less than anybody else. You keep lowest prices for one year to develop the relationship with both suppliers and customers. Then you raise prices and offer backend offers to increase margin. Once profitable, you can sell it to a competitor or to the best supplier to integrate vertically.

    3) Umbrella corporation. Build a list. Cross promote. Backend sales.

    Start your ecommerce biz in a niche. Go to 10 complementary suppliers to deal with. Offer 50% of profits if you bring them a new backend sale to his list of customers. Build an aggregated list with the 10 of them. Cross promote those business. Send NevBoxes to everyone after the first sale. And Keep improving my saleskopy.

    Regarding the kidnaping. I will explain to my suppliers or partners my problem to raise the money from them in exchange of stocks in any of these 3 business.

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