Today we’re asking people:
How would you make an extra $1,000 in 30 days?
The methods for people to make a measly 100 bucks broke down like this (into three types):
1.) Just save the $100 – (also called “The Boring As Shit” method):
- Save $100 by preparing your own meals and not eating out.
- Cut out a gym membership.
- Other boring methods to save $100.
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2.) Doing more of what you already do to make an extra $100 – (Fair enough):
- If you have a job = work 3 extra hours.
- If you’re a bartender = Work one extra shift.
- If you’re a freelancer = Find one extra gig or raise rates.
- If you have extra electronics = Throw a yard sale or sell them on eBay.
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3.) Making an extra $100 by HUSTLING up some money – (Ok now we’re using some imagination)!
- Becoming an Uber or Lyft driver over the weekend.
- Go to TaskRabbit and grab some gigs.
- Mowing lawns, installing peep holes in doors, detailing cars, plowing snow etc…
- Go up to a business and say “I need $50, I can do anything you need.”
- Buy water from supermarket, keep it cool, sell it at the beach.
- Post on Craigslist to design a webpage or do SEO for cheap.
- Take pictures with a nice camera in tourists destinations, charge $5 and email the pictures.
- Sell your body to desperate old ladies (I’m assuming this one was a joke).
- See yesterday’s comments for a crap-ton of other ideas.
Basically put relatively little effort into making this extra $100 because it’s easy. So let’s make this comment thread even MORE interesting:
How Other People Would Make $1,000 In A Month
Ashley: I would sleep on my friends couch on the weekends and list my apartment on Airbnb.
Todd Pilcher: I would rent a space at the local Farmers Market and sell my cocktail mixes. Then go to all the C-stores, Grocery Stores in the area to get them to buy 1 case of product. Basically just need to get off my ass any hustle the side gig. Consider these done!
Ben: I would register for as many freelancing websites as possible and offer small one off services. Press releases or small SEO jobs. If I can profit $50 off each job then I need to do 20 in a month.
John Gonzalez: I would buy a lot of wholesale merchandise and sell them retail at a swapmeet.
Gigi: I would my food photography services. It’s a natural badass talent that I very rarely use.
James: I would make far more than $1000 a month with pre-bookings for fantasy football draft parties in my home town, Chicago.
Amanda: I would hit up Craig’s list and find a car for sale for around $5000, I would bring $3500 cash to purchase it. I’d clean it up, wash it, detail it, get an oil change and turn around and sell it for $7500 and hope to get offered $6500. So flip a car basically!
Another thing is I would go I to goodwill and buy men’s shoes, they are $2 a pair but in eBay men will pay $50-$150 for shoes that are brand name.
Dave Tolsma: I would find a 100 local companies. See if they have a website, if they do, see if it needs to be updated.
Create a free 30 day trial square space account for each business. Mockup a simple 3-5 page business website, send the companies an email with a link to the squarespace site of what their site could look like. Include a buy now button.
Collect the setup fee, transfer the site to the business, and Offer upgrade package to include more features/pages.
Javi Pastor: I would make an analysis of online presence of all the business in my city (89.000 people leave here) and made them an 50% discount just for this month for making their website, setting online presence and basic local SEO.
Neel: I would visit forums and groups where my audience hangs and offer a 4-week free email course. I would upsell it with a $29 and a $49 package. For this upgrade, I would offer them personal access to me by webinar and one-on-one sessions and some more special benefits.
Did this recently, the outcome was few times more than $1000 bucks! All done in a month. :) This is not theoretical advice, practical approach that has been implemented.
Thomas: I would still paint curb addresses and install peep holes but for 10 Days approx. Then I could stop or continue to make another $1000. Combine this with saving on getting unnecessary things and you’re golden.
Chris Kent: I would find 20 people that needed lawn work done. Find a few people that needed work, broker the transaction.
Dave Bross I would go to a local source point for a lot of businesses that everyone else hasn’t worn out already (biz associations = worn out).
Ian: I would go around to a bunch of local businesses and sign up as many people as possible for a “learn to do your own digital marketing for your business” seminar.
Corina Frankie: I would walk into a co-working space and ask new startups to tell me a little about their products or services. I’d figure out who in my network could benefit from their particular service or product and get permission to sell it for a commissioned fee.
Teresa: I would write an eBook for Kindle on sex tips for people over age 50 $$$$
Stephanie: I would choose an industry, and offer to help businesses in that industry increase their email subscribers with a Facebook contest. I would set up the campaign for $1000, so I would only need a client. If there’s another challenge tomorrow I’ll show how I would turn that $1k into more.
A-ron: I would put together a “hacking” contest for local programmers. I’ll pick some simple game, like connect 4 or checkers or something, and have them build a program to compete in a tournament. I’ll charge, what, 20 buck, and limit the tournament to 100 programmers, and maybe charge others who just want to watch a small entry fee.
First prize will be $500, runner up $250, then $250+ goes to some charity. I’m not sure I’ll be able to pocket all $1k, because I have to think about renting a space, and maybe providing some refreshments, maybe hire security, whatever.
Jack Reamer: I would cold call 10 SEO companies and ask them if they’d like me to send them new clients. (I assume 100% would say yes.) Then I’d ask them for just $300 for every client that signs up with them. (I assume 50% would say yes because SEO is usually a 2k-5k investment)
Then I’d run facebook ads that targeted consultatns who blog and have a household income of 70K+. The ad would be a giveaway for “100 free SEO tips for consultants.” Then I’d use e-mail marketing to show them how SEO can make them more money next year (and how it’s a pain in the ass to do it yourself). Then I’d use KILLLER KOPY to get them to sign up for the best SEO company that agreed to my $300 affiliate deal.
John Bushkar: I would work for seniors doing things they cannot do. Living in st pete, there’s no shortage of OPs (old people). Or teaching basic computer lessons to seniors. I’d either make $1000 or shoot someone.
Curt Nelson: I would do Real Estate Wholesaling – I would drive around my local town and come up with a list of 20 absentee owners. These are the properties that look like their not cared for. I would get the addresses, look them up online to see if the owner lives out of state, if no one has bought the property in last 10 years or more (15, 20 years even better), and also specifically look for PR deeds and quit claim deeds.
These 20 houses before I call them would have to fit all this criteria. Then I would call the owners and see who wants to sell. On the flip side of this since I wouldn’t be buying the house, I would be wholesaling it, I would have to create a list of cash buyers and landlord buyers, the people who like holding real estate long term as rentals so I could wholesale house to them.
Gabe: I would put together a photo booth.
Talk to all the local photographers and tell them I have a photo booth to rent and if they convince their upcoming weddings to rent the booth for $499/4 hours I’ll give them $100 in commission.
Spencer: I would share my hobby of woodworking and love for fatherhood and create a monthly subscription craft/hobby box designed for parents to MAKE time to spend with their children building each months craft. Extra effort and design would be poured into ensuring each months craft was custom, unique and made to last. Goodbye stock paper and wire cleaners!
Oscar: I would message all my friends and offer a basic car detail for $35.
Seema: I would build a quickie training or eCourse, write an awesome sales page for it and promote the heck out of it on Social Media and Reddit etc. Even if you sold four courses @297 each you could make $1000 in a month.
Winson: I would go to the local climbing centre and offer beginners a free 30 minutes coaching session. After each session, I will offer them a coaching package. $40 for a 2hrs session or $120 for 4 * 2hrs session (once a week).
Danielle: I would donate my plasma two times a week for the whole month. You are able to donate up to twice a week. I’m a healthy young lady, so this is easy money for me!
I have crazy curly, thick hair that is healthy, long and everyone wants it. Seeing quite a few people I know have lost their hair from chemo, I have been growing out my hair to donate it. I can make hundreds from this, even a thousand from selling my hair because of the thickness and length of it.
Dillon: I would add a bootcamp class. Charge $10 per person and make the bootcamp 3x per week with 10 clients in the class or more!
Iyas: I would take all the ideas here, tidy and structure them, get them into a great looking eBook, price it at $10 and ask Neville if he’d send a link to it to his list for 50% of the take.
How about it Nev – If I do the work, would you get it out to your list?
Let’s say I kidnapped your dog, and won’t give him back unless you come up with an extra $1,000….
How would you make an extra $1,000 in 30 days??
Sincerely,
Neville Medhora
P.S.Interested in seeing how others would make different sums of money each month? Checkout everyone’s answers for:
- How would you make $100 in a month?
- How would you make $1,000 in a month?
- How would you make $10,000 in a month?
- How would you make $100,000 in a month?
- How would you make $1,000,000 in a month?
P.P.S. The more people that comment on this, the more interesting it makes. So I’d really appreciate you adding your ideas on how you would make an extra $1,000 in a month!
Great ideas in here. What I’d do is to set up a coaching class for aged people in my communtiy. I could charge a $30 bill per month. My target would be to get at least 35 subscribers in.
Alternatively, I simply purchase an MMO product, use it and get result. If I get good results that anyone could easily replicate, I’ll make my own ebook and do massive advertising.
I should be able to pull past $1000 in 30days.
I believe in the food business. People got to eat, no? From breakfast to dinner. Getting fresh produce from the local market would be easy. Time would be the only sacrifice I would make and walla! within 30 days, $100 in my pocket!!!!
Love this question! Here’s how i’d do it:
1: Sell a roadmap strategy session (3k)
2: Email my list for 2 opens spots for a consulting session (1k each)
3: Run a promotion on my courses and Amazon book
4: Run a beta of a new service or course and sign up 3-10 people (around 300 each)
Maybe write short stories and send to publishers for 10 cents per word?
Stand in line for people
Rent a space at the local Farmers Market and sell my cocktail mixes. Then go to all the C-stores, Grocery Stores in the area to get them to buy 1 case of product. Basically just need to get off my ass any hustle the side gig. Consider these done!
If I were a fair copywriter, which maybe I am after reading your book and going through the first month of kopywriting kourse.
It recuires also a little research. I could find a big website and a product that would be a good fit for them to promote.
I would write an article promting that product. The big website eould receive an affiliate comission from tha product vendors and I would get a percentage of those commissions.
The numbers could look like these.
Article readers – 100.000
Buyers – 0.5℅ – 500
Commission for the big website – 5000
My CUT – una mila.
I would register for as many freelancing websites as possible and offer small one off services. Press releases or small SEO jobs. If I can profit $50 off each job then I need to do 20 in a month.
Hi Nev,
I am from Malaysia.How much are making now?
Can i add another half of what you’re making?
Here’s the plan.(of course if permitted)
Copycat marketing!
I would translate everything you’ve done to teach “kopywriting” from English to Bahasa Malaysia Language!
Definitely my version will start as “My Mentor taught me……
Imagine capturing 10% of my 40 million online user in Malaysia!
Now, can i earn 1000 in 30 days?
Majority here in Malaysia speaks and understand the Malay language.
By profession i was a sales trainer.In my earlier post, i would buy and sell stuff to make *100 in 30 days”
Create a product quick that can bring you $35 (or more) per day.
Like one really good info product with high demand (did I hear somebody shouting “keyword research”? yes you are right, you need that indeed) and make it $7. You only need 5 sales a day then.
i would probably take care of kids lol i dont really know
Sleep on your friends couch on the weekends and list your apartment on Airbnb
I dig this idea Ashley. Very original and humbling.
Kidnap the dog of an old lady and ask some money… (inspired from your email last sentence…)
My Plan to 1k a month:
Wait til Neville :…….
Compiles the data from the comments listed here.
Busts his ass working feverishly to create a blueprint to make 1000.00 a month.
Purchase Blueprint from Neville for 1/10th of its actual value.
Curse Neville for having to pay for something my lazy ass should have done on my own.
Follow blueprint. Make Money…
Apologize to Neville for Cursing him.
How I’d earn $1K, if I desperately needed money. Minus the desperation, I live this, so what I wrote yesterday to earn $100 still stands (copied below)…
That said, let me think creatively again…
How about:
List all the friends I have with a book they want to promote, then reach out to them one by one on the phone.
I’d craft a script to highlight their book, and help promote it.
I’d invest a small fee at the next book event in my are. That fee is to book a table to talk about my book.
I don’t have a book.
Instead… I’d use that table to open Max’s Library. A catalogue of the books of people I know.
When I make that call, I’d pitch a nominal fee for me to promote their book(s) and sell them directly. The first 10 people pay $100 meaning I earn $1K, and prime real estate for ten copies of their book. After that, the price goes up to $150, and that’ll help me pay off the investment costs.
Finally, people who don’t want to pay that much, can create a flyer for their site, which I’ll display at my booth.
For those who say yes, I’d read the book, if small, or read the most important chapters. Then I’d talk it up when the best readers came across.
My booth will be laid out like a real library, in sections so people know where to go for the books that represent their likes and needs.
If I do this well, I’d earn $1K before the book event.
Word.
What I wrote to earn $100 still stands too…
I’m obsessed with email, plus I’m an email copywriter.
1 – I’d offer an hour of my time to my reader. Give them an email critique where we can focus on what they’re doing well, and where they can improve.
2 – That first option is presumptuous. Maybe they don’t want that. So I instead ask a few Great questions. “How do you feel about your current email strategy?”, “You joined this list to learn more about email best practices, what is one thing you want to learn to help you with your current challenge” or questions still. The response would teach me how I can help. Then I’d offer a $100 offering to do so or…
3 – Draft a $10 Report to sell directly so they can address the concern themselves. This would be a first round ofdering, I’d take the testimonials and results to beef up a second round, maybe add a video or conk station the package, and offer it as a premium product in the future.
4 – Host a live event. Like a brunch where people can have roundtable access to me for an irresistible price than usual. I’d have fun so money wouldn’t be the goal here.
5 – Finally I sell every day via email, so I’d focus on one product for an extra hour to craft an irresistible story that weaves into how my product will help them accomplish what they want.
Aside for my that 6 – I just ask like abum for $10 . If I’m desperate for rent, he’ll yes that’s what I’m doing. Bums can make that in a day by asking. So I’ll do that. Even put on a show. Anything to keep a roof over my head.
I’d take all the ideas here, tidy and structure them, get them into a great looking eBook, price it at $10 and ask Neville if he’d send a link to it to his list for 50% of the take.
How about it Nev – If I do the work, would you get it out to your list?
OK thousand in a month.hmmm ….wow this exercise is making you get out of the comfort zone.
Okay I will still do something related to my blog.No seriously I have no idea.
I am earning $1000 per month with my website http://www.inetjobworks.com
So in this case, if you had my dog, the truth is that I’d probably sell everything I had to in order to get the $1000 NOW cuz I love my dog. But in a different scenario, where I just needed $1000 more next month, the honest answer is that I’d probably just work more. The interesting thing about my current ‘box’ is while I have the knowledge to create something different, I don’t have a lot of free time to put it together and get it out there in the world (too busy doing this for others’ businesses). This is a great eye-opening exercise though ;)
Buy a lot of wholesale merchandise and sell them retail at a swapmeet.
I would import one half skid (40 cases = 480 bottles) of premium olive oil @ $3 profit per bottle on a special order and sell it through stores on a monthly special basis.
I’m actually in this situation now where I need to raise $1000 before the end of next month. So I’m thinking I sell my food photography services. It’s a natural badass talent that I very rarely use.
Step 1: Build a quickie website showcasing my work and write some MEAN sales copy.
Step 2: Run a <$20 Facebook ad (or Reddit ad) targeting the food industry. Have it redirect them to the website.
Step 3: Make a media kit that I can automatically send to them with the 3 Tier Pricing options to let them decide on what services they want, i.e., $75, $100, or $150 + expenses (if necessary) when they opt-in for more information.
$1000/$75 = 13 Customers
$1000/$100 = 10 Customers
$1000/$150 = 6-7 Customers
Oh and offer some upgrades, like designing the graphics for advertising your recipe or food on Pinterest so it takes up some real estate.
Ska-doosh.
I will be totally honest, this one would be a little more difficult. I could do some freelance work most likely, but how easy it is to get an extra $1,000 on top of what I am already doing might be difficult. Not enough time in the day (need to stop trading time for money).
I’d market some furniture for my in-laws.
The bar stools I sold for them made over a third of that amount, last month.
My friends and I have an annual fantasy football draft party. We do it big. Hotel, food, booze, music, events, the whole 9 yards. After several years of this, I’ve become pretty great at organizing and throwing these parties.
I would make far more than $1000 a month with pre-bookings for fantasy football draft parties in my home town, Chicago.
Find a 100 local companies. See if they have a website, if they do, see if it needs to be updated.
Create a free 30 day trial square space account for each business. Mockup a simple 3-5 page business website, send the companies an email with a link to the squarespace site of what their site could look like. Include a buy now button.
Collect the setup fee, transfer the site to the business, and Offer upgrade package to include more features/pages.
Dope idea.
Hey Nev,
I just got the email, but it seems I’m at least a month later than the rest of the gang. Good for you for testing what would get me to open… And respond.
Love the idea. Years have gone by where I wanted to make some extra on the side, but (fortunately or not) I’ve been ok. Comfortable enough that I haven’t forced myself to a higher standard. Now that you have my dog (and attention), here are the steps I’ll try to make the 1k to get my dog back: 1. Chat with a local business owner on what challenges they have. 2. Find a solution that makes them more money or less angry. 3. Figure out how to deliver it if they want it. 4. If that doesn’t work try the process again, or ask for insight from someone (cough you cough) who has done something similar to improve my approach.
I’ll make an analysis of online presence of all the business in my city (89.000 people leave here) and made them an 50% discount just for this month for making their website, setting online presence and basic local SEO.
This will give me my 1000 $ and using affiliates for hosting and themes I’ll earn the money faster. Even, thanks to the hosting, I’ll earn some money every year from affiliates.
I did this in the past and I earn just 500 € for two projects, just making this tactic with 20 business. There’s a lot more to be found :D
I would help set-up simple 4 pager WordPress sites for businesses in my city using outdated websites which may be hurting their sales.
Intend to get them to pay $50 for the site, but must buy hosting and the theme from my affiliate link. This would add up to $100 + $20 +$50 = $170 per site.
Would need to create 6 sites if done myself. However will surely outsource boring theme installation and set-up so let’s say $130/site. 8 sites then.
To reach $1000 quicker, can upsell better Kopy for them, and other services. Also create a landing page, with URGENCY such as 7 sites left at this ‘deal’.
One option would be to find a business that has a terrible digital presence. Promise to deliver a social media suite (whichever platforms are relevant) + a mailing list of at least 500 people within a month, in exchange for $1000.
I would hit up Craig’s list and find a car for sale for around $5000, I would bring $3500 cash to purchase it. I’d clean it up, wash it, detail it, get an oil change and turn around and sell it for $7500 and hope to get offered $6500. So flip a car basically!
Another thing is I would go I to goodwill and buy men’s shoes, they are $2 a pair but in eBay men will pay $50-$150 for shoes that are brand name.
Ghost writing a book for $1000 is probably the only thing I can think up (I know…I’m horribly boring). But that’ll take months no? I’ll probably ask for a 50% advance payment and then give you this and I’ll expect you to hold on to the other half of my dog until I receive the rest of my payment.
Round 2 – From $100 to $1,000
Hi Neville,
I also posted on the $100 challenge about coordinate unique SCUBA trips for Tourists. To make even more money I would plan a week long SCUBA Excursion in the Bahamas in December. My target market would be the snow birds from New York.
Potential Itinerary:
* Reef Shark feeding SCUBA adventure.
* Cage dive with humongous Tiger Sharks.
* See the world’s only pick sand beach.
* Swim with native pigs in crystal clear water.
* 5 Star dining at Graycliff Restaurant in Nassau, home to the 3rd largest wine collection in the world.
* Sunset dinner for 2 on a remote island.
* Visit historic pirate ports and strongholds narrated by Professor Johnson from the University of Miami.
* Paddle board yoga with exotic birds in Mangrove forests before breakfast.
* Professional chef on board serving food and refreshments 24/7.
To find leads: I would offer a finders fees to SCUBA shop and boat brokers to send me customers. I would try physical advertising at exclusive local marinas, hotels, and restaurants. I can also experiment with some online marketing. The “tourist” excursion websites are very easy to spot. I would make sure my messaging and website resembled a concierge travel agency.
Logistics: Once a locked in customers and dates I would charter a yacht and crew. I would like to invite a Pirate historian to join the yacht to give lectures and host tours on different islands we visit.
Assuming I can fill a small/medium sized yacht I would earn at least $1,000 in net income and experience a fun vacation.
So… what are you doing in December Nev?
-Christen
In line with the new technology, I would advertise on Craigslist that I can help people upgrade to the new Windows 10, and get them set up so they won’t have to be afraid of doing the process themselves. $100 per session – 10 people – voila!
YOU…are chasing money!
That ain’t the answer, whats wrong with building a REAL BIZ solving PROBLEMS…and getting f***ing RICH, instead of chasing chump change!
I tend to agree – although I’m not convinced getting f***ing rich is the answer either…
Wealth is what I’d prefer over being rich; wealthy in relationships, in health, in LIFE — the stuff money doesn’t buy you — like my three boys under age 5 that I get to wrestle and laugh with every day! Not missing them grow up while I chase “the dream” – stuff you can’t get back… ya know?
I want to chase something even some of the richest of the rich may not have: WEALTH.
And yet… here I am looking for ways to get an extra $1000… trying not to get distracted. Gah! haha
Talk about real gold mine of ideas here, thanks guys and gals. With implementing these ideas I would simply just buy the NevBox. What is the NevBox anyway?
I would help small business with “Discovery Meetings” which will let them figure out their market segment, goals, competition online and craft a unique referral marketing, online, print marketing and branding plan. All without paying a big agency for a flat fee. Then help them implement this ideas on a retainer based fee for them with Guaranteed ROI for their investment.
I would also take the idea posted (use current client as proof) in 100$ a month and scale it up to like 10x, hire VA’s to help and add multiple new services to help local businesses. Offer the service to local agencies and service companies to help them generate more revenue as well. Did do this and made a lot more than 1K.
I would rent out one of the rooms in my apartment on Airbnb $1000 for 1month
If you were in San Francisco during Salesforce’s “Dreamforce” convention, the AirBnB people DID do just this very thing. Except some were charging upwards of $900 a night. So this idea, in that context, would be more like “How to make $10,000 in one month.”
Howdy,
Here’s what my family did when I was Age 14 to make $1,000 in the month before Halloween.
We planted an entire garden full of Pumpkins. Not the leetle jack-o-lantern ones.
The big round ORANGE – 100 pounder sizes.
Then here’s what you do:
#1 – Get a Burlap Bag or Heavy shower curtain.
#2 – Two people roll the 100 lb pumpkin onto the Burlap bag.
#3 – Tip it into the Front Seat of a VW beetle, Toyota echo, or jetta, or other small compact car.
SO the Pumpkin looks HUGE with the seat belts around it.
#4 – You drive from Car Dealership to Dealership – bring the Sales manager
(OR the owner if you are lucky enough to find him there) OVER to your car and open the door.
#5 – You say, “This is the Biggest pumpkin we grew this year. It would look GREAT in your front window. Or sitting on the hood of a BMW. And you can take it home
and Let the kids Carve it for Halloween.
#6 – “Only $100.00 or I’ll take it across the Street and Ask the Dealer over there.
99% success.
I remember one Guy DID say “No” and we DID take the pumpkin
across the street and sell it to his competitor.
We were not lying either.
We DID start with the biggest pumpkin. 110lbs – then the next biggest 107lbs.
and so on.
AND we ran out of pumpkins Before We Ran out of Car Dealers.
10 car dealers X $100 = $1000.00
Thanks,
Glenn Osborn
Set up a coding challenge that makes people pay me $100 to join on top of them paying for a class.
Give a small benefit of a metric sheet and a few other things that aren’t hard to upkeep.
All I would need is 10 people to sign up. BAM $1000.
It’s pretty funny, but I’m just going to jump on in anyway.
The thing is Neville is a respected professional copywriter. He can make $1000 in an hour, he’s not getting rich off the coding challenge, in fact he’s probably losing quite a lot of money based on what he could have earned in the same timeframe.
He’s learning a little about how to code, and inviting other people to join him should they so wish. I’ve been in the coding challenge SlackChat and there seems to be some pretty good encouragement going on in there.
Also, I would challenge you to make $1000 by getting 10 people to give you $100 to join a class with you. If I wasn’t already a coder I would consider joining the class because I’m pretty sure Neville would make it fun.
It’s like the plumber who fixes a boiler in 5 minutes and the householder refuses to pay. You’re only seeing the end product, not the years of slow improvement. Neville has a following which has taken him several years to build.
Nicholas,
I think you have misunderstood the purpose of the original post and the purpose of the comment.
Great comment defense, even though it wasn’t an attack to anyone.
Oh man, my apologies, I missed the joke. Have a great day.
Howdy,
Here is how a STREET BUM Earns $2800.00 – $4200.00
CASH MUNNY a week – in just two hours a day.
My Ex-CIA Friend Randy Told Me The Story of how he Discovered
this munny making machine –
AKA “Street Bum” in Dallas, TX.
After 2 Tours in Iraq Randy can’t sleep. So he visits a Buddy
working at an all nite 7-11 Type store.
One nite he found a big wad of munny – 850.00 in cash on the floor.
Turned it in to his Army Buddy. Said, “Let’s put up a sign and give the munny
back to the owner who KNOWS the exact amount.”
Army buddy says, “You’re Crazy.”
But he Puts up a “Big Roll of Cash Found” – SIGN.
NEXT DAY Randy gets a call.
His army buddy says, “YOU WON’T BELIEVE Who the owner of the Munny is. You gotta come down here. The owner of the 850 bucks
wants to Thank you in person.”
Randy walks in the door and here is a guy dressed in RAGS.
Carrying a plastic bag for his stuff.
A Street Bum.
The Street Bum is EXCITED and Thankful at finding such an Honest man.
Insists on Rewarding him “BIG TIME.”
Pulls Randy outside.
They sit on a bench.
The Bum Looks Left and Right then lowers his voice to a whisper.
I – “I own my own Home.
II – “I make 400.00 to 600.00 a day
III – “Takes me 2 hrs
“Here’s my secret…
“My Thank You Reward to you is I’m gonna’ TELL you how I do it.
HIS SECRET –
The BUM goes to 2 or 3 Busy Gas Stations a day
and picks up old Instant-Scratch-Off Lotto tickets
and goes thru the Trash to find more.
(EDITORS NOTE – He has a really Slick way of getting
any Gas Station Clerk to let him do it too.)
Turns Already Scratched-Off LOTTO tickets in AND MAKES 400/500/600.00 a day CASH because Half Asleep DRIVERS Don’t notice
they have a WINNER!
YIKES.
Seemed nuts so I tested it myself. Made 100’s.
Shared the idea with a few friends.
THEY Made moolah too.
So I Wrote up all the details in an E-book which became a Best Seller
on my website.
The Title:
How A Street BUM Bought A House for CASH
& Makes 400.00 to 600.00 Seven Days a Week
90 Minutes a Day –
No Reading/
Writing Skills –
No Expenses –
That’s 200.00 an Hour
NOW YOU Know the SECRET too.
Thanks,
Glenn Osborn
Millionaire Mastermind Marketing Association
P.S. – Almost forgot…
Here’s an email I got from one of the guys who got my “Bum Book.”
Hey Glenn,
Tested out the Bum’s Idea today. The 1st Place I only made 93.00 – I got there too early I think. I arrived right after the shift change.
The previous guy had already emptied the trash cans out at the 4 gas pumps. Out of a couple dozen tickets.
I got 3 – ONE DOLLAR wins.
ONE – 40.00 and ONE 50.00 winner.
Spot #2 was a lot busier. Much better results – 211.00
100.00 – from a 5.00 ticket.
2 – 50.00 wins
2 – 5.00 win
6 Singles
Thanks,
Charles
I would love to know if this is actually real or not. Sounds unlikely.
Thanks Nickolas,
Pretty Weird, huh?
We’ve been interviewing self made millionaire Entrepreneurs for 24 years.
WE
ARE
ALL
WEIRD.
I have a 365 day 100% munny back Guarantee
on all 94 of my WEIRD info products.
Only 1 Refund on the “Bum Book” so far
after several years of sales.
Did you know that Germany has Zero Instant LOTTO Scratchers? Only
State Lottery programs. So the Bum Book idea is Dead there.
Had to Refund Siegfrieds purchase.
Glenn Osborn
Master of Ceremonies at the Billionaire Watching New Idea
Testing Network
P.S. – WEIRDER YET – My Customers have to Take a GOLDEN RULE Test before they are allowed to Buy. If you can’t Give Away a LOTTO Ticket
or a 1.00 Bill (And send me a Testimonial about what happened) – Like the 97 VIP’s at http://www.NLPBrainBuzz.com
then You Don’t Qualify to Buy.
Find 10 clients to who need a diet and charge them $100 each
First thing I would do is quit smoking. Thats an easy $250 in my pocket.
Next would be to utilize my auction house connections. Im an avid auction hunter and buy and resell antiques all the time. This alone actually nets me $1000 a month.
After visiting all the auction houses in my area and getting to know the people Ive noticed that most of them either…
A) dont have a website
or
b) their site is pretty shotty. The ones who do have one look like its from 1995.
Furthermore they are run like mom and pop outfits and very chaotic.
I have already drawn up an outline to provide a decent service helping them become more functional and bring them into at least 2005.
Im not going into detail as I dont like giving away my plan, but it just 1 client would bring me in over $1k with what I would offer. It would be a yearly plan with tons of value. I just need to get off my ass and start selling.
P.S. I really dont want my dog back. He poops and pees in my shoes all the time.
Hello people!
Although doing some elance/odesk writing project would be an option, since i already use computer too much, i’d rather use some different activity:
a) I’d wrote an ad that i’m experienced dog/cat keeper/walker, and drop the pamphlets into the mailboxes in some elite neighborhood (+posted online ads)
b) I’d do the same for making plant terrariums, ikebanas, jewelry, cleaning or anything that i know how to do or i can learn from some you tube video in few minutes
c) if i really need the money asap, i’d go to all the famous bars and asked them do they need help on weekends- this is often a hard work, but drunk people give excellent tips on weekends :)
d) do haircuts at my home
e) give lessons in math or something from elementary school to the kids- lots of parents needs help with this
f) re-sell stuff from ebay | refurbish old stuff i buy at the local market and sell them online for more money
g) repair noisy computers or installing/cleaning Windows/Linux
i) teach kids some small wifi hacks
It probably depends on persons interests and urge of the situation…
But hope i contributed to community and earned my Nevbox
(gimme myyyyy precious) :D
Honestly I think the bartender method would quickly get to $1,000!
That would be the quickest way, but wouldn’t earn me 1 k in a month. Since i don’t live in the US (or anywhere near the civilized world :) ), i thought more about the combination, since 1k is considered a huge amount for 70-80 % of people in my country. But it’s doable, yes. Everything is.
So many SEO suggestions. Fuck SEO, that shit’s dead, just gotta publish useful stuff. Fuck SEO.
Anyway, extra 1k, I think the most efficient way is the find a problem solve a problem approach. I just want to add maybe setting up that landing page and beating the streets and attending relevant events. Business card or you could simply jam the address in their iPhones for them to check out later.
I used the get basic jobs, see where the most ‘clogups’ happen, so inefficient practices/systems/programs/methodology and then sell the solution to their competitors. Everyone seems to copy everyone so they are all always making the same mistakes. If you can find a startup for that particular industry you can be damn sure they need solutions and will pay well for it.
Anyway, time to have a butchers at this $10k effort, thats a tall order!
This is nice theory…..but see if you can find a real example to use in the $10,000 comments post!
https://copywritingcourse.com/10000-in-a-month/
Neville,
Here’s the thing: Starting from scratch I would visit forums and groups where my audience hangs and offer a 4-week free email course. I would upsell it with a $29 and a $49 package. For this upgrade, I would offer them personal access to me by webinar and one-on-one sessions and some more special benefits.
Did this recently, the outcome was few times more than $1000 bucks! All done in a month. :) This is not theoretical advice, practical approach that has been implemented.
Nice, cool to see you ACTUALLY did this and made even more than a grand :)
I would start a kickstarter dedicated to the promotion of myself as the most famous man in the world. My whole premise for promotion would lie in giving back, and being the coolest famous person ever, like an extra dope Bill Murray.
I’d hook the public up with limo rides all the time, be a great role model and promote great causes for free from my new title as “Most Famous Man in the World”.
Once the kickstarter was up and running, I’d just get out there and hustle my way to Most Famous Man in the World…I’m sure I could make 1K off of that after a month. T-shirt sales alone would be through the roof!
Bahahah…..GOOD LUCK COOL BILL MURRAY!
– Hit the phones and make more sales calls for Rocketcases (ie. make Nev buy some AppSumo branded cases =) )
– Create some niche Kindle books
– Create a Udemy course
– Figure out something super easy (not time related) to sell on Fiverr
– Find a group on meet up and do a talk for them then sell your services/products afterwards
– Pitch some web services to friends’ businesses
True, any of these could make an extra G in a month……wait for tomorrow’s question, you might have to think harder ;)
I’d still paint curb addresses and install peep holes but for 10 Days approx. Then I could stop or continue to make another $1000. Combine this with saving on getting unnecessary things and you’re golden.
Yup, you could totally pull $1k really fast doing the curb painting and peep holes thing!
Find 20 people that needed lawn work done. Find a few people that needed work, broker the transaction, and get my dog back.
I’M NOT GIVING YOUR DOG BACK!!!
1 – Go to a local source point for a lot of businesses that everyone else hasn’t worn out already (biz associations = worn out).
Example: small print and copy shop (forget the big ones, they usually don’t know their customers) or a parts store for automotive.
2 – offer to do a free short seminar, just for their customers, in something you know and can assemble quickly.
Example: marketing, or niche it down to Auto Repair Shop Marketing.
This makes the person who sets this up for you look good and credentials/pre-warms you to their customers.
3 – Do the free seminar, give them a lot of good info, then close the seminar with an offer to follow up with them personally to have a free 1/2 hour look at what they’re doing. Mention that there will also be a paid seminar soon if there is enough interest.
Be sure to get names and contact info on everyone at the free seminar.
4 – Follow up – if they take you up on the free 1/2 hour have a questionaire or a series of questions that will make it glaringly obvious to them what’s the problem in their marketing or whatever other skill you’re doing this with.
Don’t suggest ANYTHING in the way of how to fix things (you’ll lose their respect for giving it away free), just ask probing questions.
Keep following up with those you don’t hear from.
5 – Offer either consulting for big money or the paid seminar you’ll be doing soon as the solution.
Seminar is the easiest to sell (less expense/committment for them) and can price in the $2-500 range to fill seats quickly/easily.
This should turn up $1K in time to get your dog.
That’s actually a great solution Dave, maybe even NevBox worthy!
I have an email list of 1000 I almost never pitch to.
I’d spend 10 days writing emails, then do 6 emails every 3 days pitching.
I have about 6 ebooks I sell, so, at say $15 each….
Oh man, you could probably easily make $1000 from a 1,000 person list if they like you!
I plan on doing this next week:
Create a Udemy course on a hole that I see. There are three courses on the subject and two are totally weak. One has over 2000 students and is well reviewed but is a year old.
I’m going to create this course over a few days. Create the outline, paint a wall in my office for video, turn the outline into keynote slides and produce.
Once edited I am going to post the course with 475 free coupons on a site that is known to have people scoop them up and enroll. Thus I start to create social proof.
At the same time I will post on reddit with 500 free codes offering them in exchange for a review. Most people won’t leave a review but even a few will help.
I will take the last 25 codes and ask a few chosen friends and family to enroll and review. Suddenly, 1000 students and at least 20 reviews.
Priced at $39 I need to sell 52 to make my grand, and that’s assuming the people come in though Udemy’s portal where I have to share the revenue. I plan on driving facebook ads to help drive signups through my link, since I get 97% of that $39 if I get credit for enrollment.
The niche is targeted to specific set of entrepreneurs so finding 1.7 people to sign up should not challenging, but not impossible.
Hey Michael!
1.) Yes this can work.
2.) I think going through Udemy though totally rips YOU off. They basically try to get hundreds of people to signup to your course for free (so they can grow), rather than drive paying traffic to it.
I’ve seen countless instructors help grow the Udemy platform this way (it’s basically how they tell everyone to promote their courses), but the instructor ends up with VERY few paid signups for the overwhelmingly large part.
And most paid signups are through those 75% off promotions they do, meaning your $39 course will net you like $2/each.
But thanks for the comment!
OMG!!!! I wasn’t going to comment today because I didn’t think I had any great ideas, but I contacted someone I used to do work for and, long story short, I’m picking up a $1000 check NEXT THURSDAY! I guess the reality is, it doesn’t always take a brilliant idea, it just takes initiative… THANKS NEV! (box please!)
WHAT!!! Nice job Alicia!! I guess instead of commenting you’re actually picking up a check, so that’s a fair substitute :)
So my way of earning $1000 a month would be to set up an Ecommerce website with dropshipping. My “Raison d’être” is that it can be fully automated, and someone else will do all the hard work once it is set up. Of course this requires that you invest in a website, install an ecommerce solution, find a dropshipper and do a lot of gruntwork to get it up and running and then set up some sort of advertising. A lot of work up front, but the benefits are lasting and will give you that extra insulation against any future problems paying the rent.
This could totally work….my only concern is that drop shipping is getting harder and harder each year. That’s why I exited that game in 2011
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.
Idea one is gold
Hahahha, interesting tips on saving
I’d make a list of skills I had that are marketable, aka people want. Then I’d use google keyword planner to see which of those skills are searched for (atleast how to learn them) the most. I’d take the top 3 and see what the market for these courses look like on Udemy. Is there already a shit ton of courses with students signed up in them? Do those courses have bad reviews? Are there barely any courses for that skill on Udemy? Are there a bunch of courses, each with no students in them? Find which skill of the top 3 looks like it has the greatest market potential and then create a course on it.
I’m curious why you would make a course on Udemy, rather than just DO these services for people?
Probably would make hella more money than selling a course through Udemy (where people rarely see much money for their courses)
If I wanted to make $1000 in 30 days, I would go around to a bunch of local businesses and sign up as many people as possible for a “learn to do your own digital marketing for your business” seminar.
I think it would book solid pretty quick since these businesses are getting called everyday by all of the other Kommentors on here to sell them these services ;)
$100/ head @ only 15 takers I could book a nice conference room, get some good cookies (not cheap crap-ass cookies), and do my presentation. Walk away with $1000.
Probably make another $1000 immediately in referral business just from attendees feeling overwhelmed by all of the material – even though I would give them a great presentation. Most people just have no desire to do the work.
OR – Create the same presentation and sell it as a product to other go-getters that could do the same presentations in their city. $100 a piece. Spend $200 in FaceBook ads, get only 3 sales a week and and crush the $1000 mark.
OR – go back in time 10 years, build a niche site, and wait 10 years for it to make $1k from adSense
That last one might not work…
Oh man, good one Ian! A class like this would smash $1k in no time. Wish I could send you another NevBox….you already got one in the mail from yesterdays contest :)
To make an extra 1000 dollars a month, I’d walk into a co-working space and ask new startups to tell me a little about their products or services. I’d figure out who in my network could benefit from their particular service or product and get permission to sell it for a commissioned fee.
-Corina
Nice one Corina…..you’d be able to do this hella fast!
In order of effort:
Rent out unused garage apartment for $600
Car wrap – up to $400/month
Write an eBook for Kindle on sex tips for people over age 50 $$$$
Serve as movie extra for Walking Dead filmed in my town for $50-100/day
Publicize my ability to write/edit compelling business plans – more than $1000 per
I think the AirBnB’ing of your apartment would be an awesome extra side income
This is bunch of theory. How about some tested ideas?
Last August I sold 3000.00 worth of tickets to my house concert series. No theory here. :)
BOOYAH!! Nice Will :)
@BrokePoland -Some of these are theory, many are not. Including mine. I wrapped it around a goofball story, but the ideas I mentioned at the end have made myself and many other MUCH more than $1k.
If I get too specific, I don’t know how much that would help people since most of us have different careers, skills, etc…
Personally, the easiest way for me would be to find an affiliate product that my email list of buyers needs and wants, give a few irresistible bonuses with a time limit to take me up on the offer, and hit the send button. $1k+ easy.
Or…
I could survey my list on exactly what they want and desire, create it, and sell it to them. $1k+ easy.
Or…
I could contact my current clients and friends, not via email or text, but actually PICKING UP THE PHONE AND CALLING THEM, see how they’re doing in business and life, and see if they need help in my field of expertise. After 2-3 calls, I’d likely very easily have a few projects to start on. (I know this because I’ve done it, several times.)
Or…
I have the skill of making people money through automated newsletters online. I could very easily scour the interwebs for a few hours, find 10-20 “ideal” clients to work with and that “direly” need my help, and I contact them.
I’ll write the email sequence, build out the marketing funnels, and work with them ’till they’re getting their first sales in, or maybe even past what they’ve paid me depending on the profit potential of their business (That’s why I’d find the ideal client to work with)…
Again, all that’s more specific to what I do, and have done. But maybe that will help some out. I hope it does!!
I think the biggest thing is to take an idea that works best for us personally, validate the idea quickly, and then massively DO IT. Start putting in the wrench time. You’ll probably make more than $1k, but the way will be differently from where you originally started or how you’d thought you would do it.
Cheerios,
B
NICE Brandon!
Most of the ideas presented here have been done many times before, so they’re not theory at all.
It’s all theory until you try it.
Any Entrepreneur knows that.
Hi there, I was trying to resist this one, but can’ t help myself. Here you go:
1. Frugality can be fun.:-) Not only that, I can achieve a measure of health. Eat mostly rice, beans and oats for one month and forage for fruit and vegetables – super fun and adventurous and super cheap, lose weight! Also, ride my bike everywhere – no gas or transit charges and I get free exercise. That would cut back $1000 for me since we eat out a lot. I know it sounds weird, but this is fun for me. Use extra time to catch up on reading.
2. More proactive idea – and something to do in the evening whilst not watching TV. Divide $1000/30 and don’t let a day go by without making $33. Sell some shoes, tutor a kid, babysit (after child is asleep you can plan the next nights $33), hand out fliers, mow a lawn or two, weed a garden, shovel snow, do my friend’s taxes or help them on computer. The key is to not let a day go by. But that’s just an extension of the $100 one…
3. A very festive way to make $1000 is to host an event. Since I am raising money for my puppy dog, it’s a no-brainer. I would host a Save-My-Dog event. Put up a web site asking for money to save-the-dog. Invite all my family and friends, neighbors to the party where I auction my stuff and events such as group bike rides or hikes for money for the save-the-dog fund. I would probably make a lot more money than $1000 if I market my effort all month using Neville’s ideas. :-)
Cutting back is one way…..but that’s not the ideal situation. Ideal situation would be to MAKE more money.
P.S. I’m still not giving your dog back :)
It’s totally fine, you can have the dog — did you read the whole post? I also do not think that being frugal is the only way to go.
i want a nev box real damn bad hook me up!!!
You want a nevbox so bad that you couldn’t even answer the question to try and win one?
Ha…..good luck with THAT lame comment :)
1) I would choose an industry, and offer to help businesses in that industry increase their email subscribers with a Facebook contest. I would set up the campaign for $1000, so I would only need client. If there’s another challenge tomorrow I’ll show how I would turn that $1k into more.
2) We have two cars my husband is thinking of giving away. We could sell them and make at least $1k.
3) Start a local advertising co-op, sell 15 spaces on 9×12 postcard to be mailed to 10k homes for $495 -$695 for the month. Postcard spaces can be sold out in 4-6 weeks. After expenses profit is way more than $1k, but I would definitely have at least $1k in revenue by the end of 30 days.
4) Contact new local businesses and offer print collateral (letterhead, business cards, brochures, etc.) I know an awesome low-cost high quality printer who can also handle graphic design, or I could outsource graphic design if needed. I could easily profit $200 plus off each job, charging extra for any graphic design or copy (I would provide the copy), and would only need 5 customers.
5) Choose an industry and create marketing campaigns to help them get more customers and sales. License it to 20 founding business owners for $49.95 per month with the promise the fee will never increase as long as they remain members and allow me to test the campaigns. This will validate my idea. The fee will rise significantly for future business owners once the campaigns are proven.
6) Similar to above, only with SaaS. Just learned about this recently. Choose an industry, speak to business owners to uncover their pain points and develop software to solve their problem. How many founding members needed would depend on the problem and solution. I would make sales upfront to cover the cost of development and profit at least $1k.
Great exercise Neville! This falls in line with something I just started trying, thanks to James Altucher’s book Choose Yourself, where you come up with ideas every day. But ideas aren’t jack unless you do something with them!
Awesome that you came up with so many so quickly Stephanie! Awesome ideas
Give 50 blowjobs for 20 bucks each.
At least the numbers part of this works out
I’m 16 years old; how can I make an extra $100?
Literally tons of solid answers here:
https://copywritingcourse.com/100-in-a-month/
Hustle. Hustle, hustle, hustle.
1) Sign TWO website clients – which would generate over $1k.
OR
2) Hustle the hell out of my network to get TEN people to pay me $100 each for edits to their sites, or tips on how to build their network, or business coaching, or whatever knowledge I have that they need to grow their businesses or websites
OR
3) Sell off $400 worth of stuff from my house, panic that I won’t make another $600 bucks, then go back to steps 1 and 2.
OR
4) Cry, and consider getting a second job (though truth be told, I did this a few times, and it didn’t work).
OR
5) Comb Neville’s site for more ideas, implement the hell out of ONE of them for two weeks until results were clear, then turn the volume wayyyy up on that one thing.
OR
6) Figure out the ONE THING I know how to do that’s worth $1000 to one other person, and deliver the &$*(()^$$&$! out of that one thing.
Boom. Whether I win a NevBox or not, this just helped me answer my own freakin’ question THAT I JUST ASKED MYSELF YESTERDAY: “What do I know how to do that’s worth $1000?”
Hahahhaa, love how you just answered your own question Maria! Now go do it!
Rent out your apartment or house on AirBnb. This should generate over 1k in revenue. Then stay with your parents for a month, boyfriend/girlfriend, or if you live in a very desirable location like I do in SF you can even pay a friend a portion of the revenue to stay at their place. Even more interesting and I did this once, you can do AirBnb arbitrage by renting out your entire place and stay in a private room on AirBnb and pocket the difference.
Hahahha I like the AirBnB arbitrage idea!
Since I live close to a bunch of rich SOBs, and those rich SOBs have children, I’m thinking I could kidnap one and hold them for ransom? I could probably get a lot more than $1k, so, suck it.
But I assume doing illegal things is out of the question, so I’m going to put together a “hacking” contest for local programmers. I’ll pick some simple game, like connect 4 or checkers or something, and have them build a program to compete in a tournament. I’ll charge, what, 20 buck, and limit the tournament to 100 programmers, and maybe charge others who just want to watch a small entry fee.
First prize will be $500, runner up $250, then $250+ goes to some charity. I’m not sure I’ll be able to pocket all $1k, because I have to think about renting a space, and maybe providing some refreshments, maybe hire security, whatever.
Oh now THIS would be a cool thing to do!
Not only would it be making money for you, but also building a community of smart programmers around you.
Actually a clever little idea A-ron!
1000$ / mo is the end game for my current project, but I’m just starting out.
1. Source goods though Aliexpress (when demand is better move to Alibaba for reduced prices)
2. Ship product to Parcel receiver in US. (Im in Canada)
3. Drive to US (only hour drive) re-ship items to Shipwire fulfilment center / Amazon Fulfillment
4. Use cheap American shipping (especially cheap fulfilment center shipping) to sell on Amazon/Ebay
5. Set up shopify with Shipwire integration to automate business while I try my hand at marketing (only cursory knowledge right now) and drive sales through website
Thats the theory anyhow…
Perfect, then maybe you can start implementing these this week and make that $1k!
My friends and I ran into a money issue last month prior to the iPhone 6 release. So what we decided to do was get a group of our friends together and charged money to those super Eager to get their hands on one of the new iPhones, but couldn’t spend hours waiting in line. We charged $100 to wait in line at local neighborhood Apple stores, AT&T, Tmobile, Verizon, & Sprint stores. People would let me know how many hours in advance of the store opening they’d like me to arrive. Once I neared the front of the line, I would contact the buyer so they could switch places with me and make the purchase themselves. It worked out really well as each of us were able to stand in line for people at at least 6 different locations throughout the day. We simply took advantage of the usual Apple Hype to charge people for the ability to skip the boring waiting and go directly to enjoying their new device.
Oh wow, you ACTUALLY did this??
How did you find the people who wanted to pay you to wait in line?
Yes, We actually looked on craigslist and found a ton of people looking to sell their iPhone 5s early prior to the iPhone 6 going on sale. So we just used the contact info to connect with people and offer the service. We were turned out a lot, but were surprised at how many people were desperate enough for the phone yet to lazy to stand in line. :)
My grandma is a therapist and she’s actually a really good one. Last year she traveled a lot doing talks for couples in trouble (sad, but true), but this year she had a lot of personal and health problems and couldn’t travel to do the talks. She also always talks about writing a book, but she never actually started one. I would ask her to prepare a talk and since I work with video I would record it and sell the talk online dividing profits because I would also do the mkt. Since she is really known around the country the video would sell like water, specially now that she is not able to travel. Then I would plan a blog for her and offer to manage it whenever she have any trouble. Bam! I think it would make more than $1000. And I’d be helping an old lady <3
Hmmm, if she really is a very well known therapist then it might be interesting to just throw live webinar-type events where people pay to join.
Or a 4 week class where they get to see her talk once a week to solve a problem in their relationships.
How to make $1k in 30 days?
I’d cold call 10 SEO companies and ask them if they’d like me to send them new clients. (I assume 100% would say yes.) Then I’d ask them for just $300 for every client that signs up with them. (I assume 50% would say yes because SEO is usually a 2k-5k investment)
Then I’d run facebook ads that targeted consultatns who blog and have a household income of 70K+. The ad would be a giveaway for “100 free SEO tips for consultants.” Then I’d use e-mail marketing to show them how SEO can make them more money next year (and how it’s a pain in the ass to do it yourself). Then I’d use KILLLER KOPY to get them to sign up for the best SEO company that agreed to my $300 affiliate deal.
Other Assumptions:
I can reach 50,000 consultants in my target audience with facebook ads
I can get a 1% CTR (500 visitors)
I pay 1$ per click (Spend $500)
I can convert 25% visitors to opt-in (125 subscribers)
I can convert 5% of e-mail subscribers to customers ( 6 new clients worth $300 each)
I can do this in 30 days
—
Total commission: $1800
Total ad spending: $500
Profit: $1300
—
BOOM SHAKALAKA.
Oh snap! Nice NevBox-worthy comment Jack! Really like the actual breakdown :)
Is this something you’ve ever done?
I could make this $1000 easily by getting off my A$$ using some of the copy tips that I have learned from you emails.
Contact some small businesses and hustle 20 $50/mo sponsorship packages (unlimited impressions) to my website.
Why am I not doing this?
Why am I using Neville’s contest for therapy?
Come on Gerald do it today — Make it Happen!
Yeah Gerald, why are you NOT doing this already!?
Neville,
I think I could work for seniors doing things they cannot do. Living in st pete, there’s no shortage of OPs (old people). Or teaching basic computer lessons to seniors. I’d either make $1000 or shoot someone. Ciao.
I know people who make full time living teaching older people how to use Mac’s!
1. Real Estate Wholesaling – I would drive around my local town and come up with a list of 20 absentee owners. These are the properties that look like their not cared for. I would get the addresses, look them up online to see if the owner lives out of state, if no one has bought the property in last 10 years or more (15, 20 years even better), and also specifically look for PR deeds and quit claim deeds.
These 20 houses before I call them would have to fit all this criteria. Then I would call the owners and see who wants to sell. On the flip side of this since I wouldn’t be buying the house, I would be wholesaling it, I would have to create a list of cash buyers and landlord buyers, the people who like holding real estate long term as rentals so I could wholesale house to them.
2. I would create a lead magnet/trip wire offer for a service based business that I would turn into a product based business. First I would create a lead magnet for a service… say: How To Design A Responsive Website That Actually Sells Your Products or something. I would find sites that would bring the distribution to me or customers rather. For example, I could sell this for $5 on Fiverr and then upsell my next services. Give really great service and then get business strictly from referrals. Could use other sites too like Freelancer, oDesk, Elance, etc…
Once this service business was clearing enough money to support myself and 1 worker I would create several products and splinter off all the best core ideas and sell them.
3. If a person wants to go the Hustle route you could combine something like GigWalk, Task Rabbit, Shyp, Lyft, User Testing, Air BnB, and Relay Rides
Curt
Hmmm, the investing aspect of finding distressed homes this way is enough to be NevBox worthy! Thanks for the comment Curt!
Hi,
We live in the boondocks of Baltimore Maryland – up near Pennsylvania. It’s
been colder than usual here this fall.
80degrees during the day in August – 60degrees at night.
Sept – 50 at night
October – 48 degrees last nite
Looking at my Dad’s fuel oil heat bills from last year – I see he was spending
1000.00 a mo in Sept & Oct.
3000.00 a mo Nov/Dec/Jan/Feb
14,000.00+ for six months.
In August I got 10.5 cords of seasoned oak wood – for $1350.00
from a Pennsylvania company that does Tree Removal.
$14,000 – $1350 = $12,650.00
So far – Sept and Oct – haven’t run the furnace at all. If I can keep heating
the house with the WoodStove (As I did in 2013) I’ll bank 12,000.00
$1000.00 a mo
Thanks,
Glenn Osborn
Holy Moly….it’s THAT much to heat a house there!?!? Yeesh!
Where do you live Glenn, Im right on the PA line as well sounds like the same area. Hampstead/Manchester?
Okay this looks pretty straightforward.
I would read through this post, get the 10 best ideas. Package them up in my own words as a report on 10 great ideas to make an extra 1000 a month.
Use my skills from the kopywritingkourse and write a killer sales letter and then sell the report for $17 and have an upsell of $197 for a months coaching.
Might just go and do that actually. Have fun all.
Bahahhaa, several people suggested it.
Doubt it would work crazily well :)
Unlessss…..you were to go through each business idea, DO IT, then document it, and show people step-by-step to replicate each one
I am a professional software developer, so I have two options
1) Freelance gigs. I could reach out to my network for entrepreneurs who need something built yesterday and get it done for them. The downside of this is the pay will come in after the work gets done.
2) Teaching software development. I already happen to be working on a course to teach development in Python through another organization, and it seems to be way more lucrative than I expected. If I needed 1k in a month I would scale out to different languages and technologies and run several concurrent classes. The challenge here will be reaching enough students in time, but they’ll pay up front.
1.) You can have them pay half upfront and half later. Solves the problem!
2.) If the online course doesn’t work, I bet you could even host a class in person.
Jeez.
You’re telling me I gotta work now? And for $1000 in a month?!
Well, I do love my dog. So here we go….
I’d go to business that don’t have anything set up on Facebook and I’d make them a profile and set up a Facebook campaign for them.
I’d charge $100-$150 per business and there are plenty of businesses that need a social media guy! (Me)
I’m still not giving your dog back Social Media Boy!!
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!
Glad to light a fire! This is all VERY plausible stuff for you if you already have an in.
Only question is: Have you started yet?? :)
Get out there and do it!
I actually have started it, but not with the motivation of my dog being held at ransom!
Here are several ways as a musician I would generate at least $1000.00 in a month.
1) Start a monthly acoustic concert series in my front yard. Sell 10 season tickets to my fan list for $100.00 each and voila, $1000.00 generated. Sell 50 = $5k. Not easy, but completely achievable!
2) Book 10 acoustic house concerts in 30 days. Charge $100 minimum to fans or make $100 in donations at each show.
Want more? Got more…
1.) Wow, could you really do this?
2.) Awesome you can easily get so many gigs!
….wait for tomorrow’s question to answer more :)
I’d put together a photo booth.
Talk to all the local photographers and tell them I have a photo booth to rent and if they convince their upcoming weddings to rent the booth for $499/4 hours I’ll give them $100 in commission.
2 weddings = $800 to me
To hit $1,000 I could do a third at a reduced rate if I had to
Oh nice, I wonder if this is common in the photography industry?
Okayzeeze…
First, keep the dog. That alone will save me $50mo. ($1,200 2 yr.) on dog food. Without the dog around, my allergies will get better, which will give me more energy to do more, earn more, and be more awesome-saucy.
(Side Benefit: Now I’ll be able to get the iguana with the schwwweeeet tattoo of David Hasselhoff on it’s back, from Bob’s Exotic Pets around the corner from my place.)
But let’s not stop there…
I’d take some of the bones saved from ditching the dog, by a nice pair of shoes (ladies love ‘dem shoes), and head out on the town.
There I’d let girls sign their name on my flabdominal muscles. ($50 a pop of course.) I’d make up some fake cause, like I’m doing it to save my dog, who once saved me from a burning building, while I was saving an old lady who was saving her dog. Who knows how much I’d make here.
After I let the “ladies” buy me a few drinks, (cha ching, cha ching, cha ching!), I’d head to the dancefloor, kick on the mic, and ask who’d like to see the world’s worst breakdance. I’d insist whoever can, pony up something, ANYTHING for the chance to experience the awesomeness about to follow… And as they’re paying, I’d hit ’em with an upsell. Sign my flabdominals for a one-time discount of only $25. And I’ll throw in my golden boy *wink* as a free bonus. (cha ching, cha ching!)
Surely I’ve made several geeeez by now, the nights late, and I need my beauty sleep. So just one last stop…
Off to Starbucks I go! There I’ll borrow their interwebs connection. After bribing a little kid with my last two MineCraft Collectors Cards for a few bucks, so I can get a Skinny Soy Venti Peppermint Mocha With 2 Extra Shots, Hold The Whip Cream, Add a Touch Of Nutmeg (Mmm…), I sit down to write a little sumpn’ sumpn’ on my Mac.
The way I see it, it’s been a VERY interesting day. Waaaaay out of the norm for me even. SO, I decide to email all my friends and acquaintances. I tell them about my day. The dog, the autographs from the hotties (I attach a pic), the breakdancing for dollars, the free drinks, the several grand rolled up in my pocket (Is that $5k rolled up in your pocket or are you happy to see me?), and yes, even the Steamy Peppermint Mocha firmly grasped in my hand at this very moment.
I tell them this: “Hey home slices! Waaaasssssup! For the first 3 of you fools that take me up on this offer, next friday night, I’ll take you out for the night of your life! We’ll have a whole new experience just like this one. Even Better. I’ll teach you to be a BOSS! I’ll be your friggin’ Yoda. One GameChanger night. $500 bones a peep. Only 3 spots and this is going out to over 300 of my closest friends. I’ll never do this again. First 3 “cool” guys to reply back get in. Everybody else misses out…”
Alrightee, not all of us are blessed to live an awesome life like this.. :) :)… so let’s break it down for all.
One, get creative.
Two, have a Cause for doing something. (Why do you need $1k?)
Three, add an upsell to whatever you’re doing. What compliments your upfront offer? Offer that. RIGHT AFTER the first sale.
Four, have a high ticket offer that kicks butt. Make it more irresistible than a Cinnabon Cupcake sprinkled with fairy dust.
If you already have offers like this, (upfront, upsell, high ticket) then be BOLD this month. Get UNcomfortable and ask for the sale 10x over the next 30 days.
Five, do awesome EPIC stuff, care your face off, and have fun in the process!!
I dunno what you were on when you wrote this, but that was POWERFUL stuff :P
Haha… thanks.
Hey Neville,
This may sound crazy but could I offer all your courses in a bundle deal? Or…
I’d probably take the minimally viable product, a recording session about how to buy Flippa sites, and offer it up to someone like yourself and ask for only $1 from every sale on my page. I’d then get a few weekend webinars and sell then to customers as additional addons for $25 or something.
Okay, that’s what I would try to do.
But worse case scenario, I’d probably go to Target or Walmart and ask everyone if I could take there groceries to their car for a donation. :)
If the security were to kick me off the property, I’d probably offer SEO coaching conversations.
Excuse the lack of proof reading.
I will forever hold your lack of proofreading against you :-P
Bwahahhaa…..yeah I think you should stick to SEO as that might be more lucrative that stealing….I mean…..taking people’s groceries out from Wal-Mart!
Maybe if you faked a handicap you’d get bigger tips ;)
#evilideas
I’d sell some ninja internet marketing skills that will drive customers to small businesses in less than 10 days (immediate results).
I’d build a quick power point (60 min or less) that gave away 95% of what to do (but not specific how to do) info.
I’d run some facebook ads on my super specific potential customer avatar in conjunction with a FB contest. People go to FB to have fun (not buy stuff) and contests are f’n fun!
I’d hold at least 3 webinars a day for a week pre-selling a ninja marketing program. Example: How to sell $2,000 in product/services in less than 10 days or your money back. Added bonus double your email list and set-up the Tornado Alley F5 email marketing funnel (I just made that name up).
I’d charge $287 for a complete hand holding 4 part webinar series along with email support, FB group, etc. I’d only need 4 customers to go over the $1,000 goal.
BTW I am working on this right now. I have no idea if it will work, but I’ll never know unless I try.
Be awesome!
Curt
This could probably totally work…..update me on how it goes! It would probably make a great publishable case study for others!
As I mentioned last time (cue cheezy organ music), I often think about former clients I have either written copy for, or performed WordPress magic for. I keep in semi-regular touch with most of them, sending them occasional links to goofy stories that reminded me of the time they’d mentioned X. And then I’ll send them an email with an offer for me to do something amazing for a deal. This works some of the time.
The second idea started as a lark but is paying off.
Last month, I purchased an ebook by a top dog in wordpress related something-something, and since his first language is not English, I made notes of sentences that weren’t super clear. I then contacted his company and heaped lots of praise on him (because he’s super helpful for free), tip-toeing around the fact that there were some parts in his book that could be stronger and clearer and, given that english was not his first language, it’s amazing anyway, but would he and his team like to see my notes? I was really careful about offering criticism because a) who am I and b) this dude didn’t need me to already be making a killing off of his products.
But someone from his office emailed and said YES, so I sent back my notes in chunks so as to not overwhelm. They responded immediately to chunks 1 & 2, saying “We looked over your notes and appreciate them – please send us ALL your notes.” So I sent out chunks 3 & 4 and got another Thanks. I was kind of hoping that they would offer me a premium thingamabob, but didn’t bring it up because I didn’t know how to do it without sounding scammy.
But, I realized that what I had done for him and his team = work. So I added his name to the list of my clients and just last week I landed a gig based on my ‘work’. This gig has led directly to another gig I just finished up, and is in the process of 3 other gigs. All based on my work for the ebook that I purchased, read, and commented on …and then my actually applying the knowledge to other peoples’ websites. I should be at or well past the $1K this month just from this.
I think doing this exercise for the Dude actually gave me enough Nerve to a) add the skill to my list of services — I had been reading him for years and didn’t do this until giving him my feedback and b) price my rates higher as a result of the Dude, rather than the same old low elance rates.
Oh NICE!!! It’s cool when you do “work” for someone with a following, then get more work based off doing work FOR them.
Keep this up and your business will slowly snowball into something larger!
I would share my hobby of woodworking and love for fatherhood and create a monthly subscription craft/hobby box designed for parents to MAKE time to spend with their children building each months craft. Extra effort and design would be poured into ensuring each months craft was custom, unique and made to last. Goodbye stock paper and wire cleaners!
Cool idea, now you gotta sell some subscriptions. I bet you could co-host a virtual session on spending time with your kids by building stuff with blogger with an audience.
Here’s another one. Become a curator for quarterly.co. They pay 10% so you need to get 300 subscribers of $100 each.
Hmmm, interesting idea!
$1000 in 30 days?
That’s $33.33333333 a day.
1) Hm, what can I do to get someone to give me $33.333333 a day?
2) Message all my friends and offer a basic car detail for $35.
3) Do 2 day fitness camp and give them a diet plan to follow for 2 weeks.
4) Offer youth goalkeeper training to coaches/clubs.
5) Look around at garage sales and find some valuable thangs to resell (some people have no idea what they’re selling).
6) Hit up my friends and tell them to give me $30 and I’ll make them a more product-goal reaching human being
7) Write an autorepsonder. 1 for $1000, or 2 for $500, or 3 for $333.3333, etc…
8) Team up with a local after market company to give me a discount/part, do a car meet up, raffle off tickets to win the prize
9) Do an SEO audit on websites for $250, 0r $500, etc…
10) Luxury shave + massage (I’m a huge straight edge razor enthusiast) charge $20 per person.
11) Look on craigslist for ‘crew’ gigs (primarily moving stuff). Take my bros with me to make that guap $$$$$$$
12) Look for stuff I don’t need and seellllllll
13) Write a white paper and sell it to my very small email list
Great way of thinking about it Oscar! By breaking it down by the day, it really doesn’t seem so intimidating. And maybe just a few days work with some of these ideas can get you to $1,000!
NevBox Worthy list!
Whad’ya know! Actually went bust this month. Looking for a way to make an extra $something before the bills are due.
Guess I’ll go through suggestions in your previous post, pick the ten most promising ones and hope for the best.
If this fails, I’ll take all 200 of them, put each on a separate page and publish it as “200 Ideas For $100 A Month”. Are blog comments subject to copyright?
Finally, if this fails as well I’ll just go and take great pictures of people jumping with a bungee nearby. They have at least 50 people jumping daily – should be enough to get 6 of them to pay me a fiver.
And if all else fails I’ll just have to get back to e-commerce consulting. Ew, boring :D
There’s actually a bunch of decent suggestions here!
Martin
Did you do anything?
I actually need an extra $1k right now…
I got Noah’s course on how to make 1,000 per month. My idea was a jazz piano course called Modern Jazz Piano Improvisation Course. I sold 2 already, working on the third one!
Oh snap! How much money have you made off them so far??
Using my 12+ years as a teacher, I’d make an online forum where I post revision material for the students in my region. Half the content would be accessible to anyone who wants to view it, but the rest only to subscribed members – that’s how I’d charge each student/teacher $2 per month; so 50 of them would make me my $1 000. I’d have live Friday Q&A sessions only for subscribed members, to encourage them to subscribe monthly.
500 of them; NOT 50!
Oh wow…..that price sounds WAY too low! You could probably charge students $20/month easily.
Only problem would be getting people to signup
I would collect my best blog posts and create an ebook out of them, which I would then sell through Fiverr and my website. Fiverr would likely generate about $250, while I would market the version on my website as a deluxe edition with never-before-seen content and charge $27 a copy. I have over 1,000 readers so if at least half of them purchased, that would put me well over the $1,000 mark.
P.S. My articles are about writing and designing for the Web.
Hamma Yamma…..your prediction of HALF your readers buying is quite high!
I’d really ramp up acquiring more customers for my subscription box. I’d expand the product line, offering more than just natural oral care products.
Then I’d also try to get the Laro Box into boutique hotels, I’d start with ones that have similar clientele. Since the products do not spoil I could sell bulk orders. :)
For those interested: http://www.larobox.com
Hmmm….if you’re selling unique products I bet just ONE large hotel contract could make you that extra $1000!
Very true, guess I got a bit greedy!
I would find a local business with a crappy website, redesign it in Squarespace since I don’t know HTML or CSS, and then pitch it to the business owner for $100 or $1000 depending on what I think they could afford.
Hahahha…..this actually would probably work!
You could spin using SquareSpace as:
“Most developers will make you a site YOU could personally never change without a coder…..on this platform you can easily change anything around!”
$1K this month? I’d ask a few friends to become angel investors in a great idea. They feel ‘big’ by buying in early, and the extra $1K helps gets things off the ground.
Sounds like quite the hoax….hope the subsequent lawsuit doesn’t cost more than $1k :)
I’d ask all of my friends and followers on how they would make $100 extra and compile all of their comments and responses in to an ebook, then I would tell everyone who responded that I mentioned them in a new book and encourage them to buy a copy. Then I’d repeat the whole process but this time the challenge would be for $1000 in 30 days and make another book and sell it.
BAHAHAHHA!!! This is a great idea :-D
I woooonndderrrr if I should do it? :-P
So many options – must we pick just one?
1. Build a quickie training or eCourse, write an awesome sales page for it and promote the heck out of it on Social Media and Reddit etc. Even if you sold four courses @297 each you could make $1000 in a month.
2. Become an affiliate for an online product and do a behind the scenes video or webinar or training series and promote the heck out of it. I live in India, but I would do something similar if I could sign up as a promoter for Stella & Dot, or Miche Bags or any of these really awesome companies. You could make more than $1000 if you could get other people to sign up under you.
3. Create a site which lists the top ten gifts for every one for the upcoming holidays. i.e. Top ten for Grandma, Top Ten Gifts for your Dog. Make sure you are an affiliate for all the products you are busy promoting.
4. Create a surprise box – I have so MUCH stuff lying around my house much of which is in mint condition. I could create lucky draw boxes and sell them for about $50 a piece. Get rid of clutter AND make $1000 all in one go.
5. I don’t have physical products to ship out but I do have a ton of online courses and products that I create (I am a content producer and developer), I could start a virtual learning box which ships out every month with a new course :) How about $30 a ‘box’ and I only need to sell about 40 boxes. Nev – I am bad at math.
4.
I LOVE these ideas especially #2 & 3.
Awesome job Seema!!
I love all these….NevBox worthy!
Oh please — Seema should have won with that thought!!
The “boring as shit” method is actually the “powerful as all hell” method. Saving money eventually leads to never having to work for money ever again!
Id”retired” at age 27 with $65k in student debt, and after only working a $40k/yr job for 13 months, and a $63k/yr job for 10 months.
By the end, I was saving 87% of my take-home pay.
As a result, I now have passive income that covers my living expenses and student loans, so I don’t need to work for money ever again.
I’ve used my freedom to travel internationally (on airline miles of course) to Rajisthan and Zambia, and road trip around the western USA National Parks with my girlfriend.
I’ve been not working for about 9 months, and my net worth has steadily increased this whole time.
So yes, saving is “boring as shit”, but, unlike hustling, the benefits are permanent, and compounding. I don’t have to do any hustling this month, and my balances will grow, even as my work-free life is paid in full.
All while increasing self-reliance and happiness through Stoic principles.
The 2 blogs that gave me the knowledge and sparking me on the boring journey to financial freedom were http://www.earlyretirementextreme.com and http://www.mrmoneymustache.com.
Now, I would say that ” boring”ness is actually frugality’s chief strength. Saving WILL WORK for 100% of people who try, whereas, pro-blogging, SEO, or other hustles that aim to create extra monthly revenue DO NOT work for 100% of those who try, and, once they stop hustling, the extra money quickly stops flowing in.
How did I save $3,000 extra per month? Really, it boils down to 3 biggest expenses: housing, transportation, and food.
So get a roommate (can be a significant other or family), move into a room/apartment close to school/work ride a bike/take the bus, and learn to cook your own meals.
These 3 changes saved me at least $1k/Mo, for people spending a lot on rent (like Nev’s downtown San Antonio digs), it will save even more!
More importantly, these 3 simple changes + investing the savings will make everyone who does them more physically fit, less whiny and excuse-makey, happier, and able to retire within 5 years!
Work becomes so much better when it isn’t done for money, and yes, most people dont realize it, but money becomes “boring as shit” when you have ENOUGH.
This is really true. Saving is the way to get rich slow, something I’ve been learning recently.
Yes I understand you can save…
–but–
You can only save so much. Whereas if you try to earn more money, you can earn an infinite amount more.
Also I don’t wanna be living with a roommate and eating PB&J everyday.
I save, but not to where it hinders the fun of life.
I agree with Neville. I went through a series in life where I focused on saving b/c I “thought” that was the one true way to get wealth. What I found was that I became a negative, shitty person to be around b/c I felt like I could never go have fun or eat out. I also found my goals and dreams in life to not be as important as they once were, my drive was stifled b/c I was fixated on saving.
I now focus on being content, but striving for more. NIGHT and DAY difference. My hustle and drive is back, I’m working my dream job as a co-founder in a startup that is currently being funded and my wife and I are adopting a 1yr old boy. Saving would of never lead me down this path, but finding ways to increase my happiness while being content is the trick! Saving is good, but increasing income and finding a healthy fun level to live at is better!
Hey Nev,
Funny you ask this question because I have been living this. Any possible way to make some money. I found that printing out flyers with basic message “looking to save some extra money to move my business to California” and I specialize in “yard work, pressure washing, & computer/phone help”. Been helping my neighbors with their computers and iphones turns out every mom over the age of 45 has no f****** idea how to use technology. Tried to sell water bottles and it was during the day, so the foot traffic was low. But I convinced a local hotel to give me free ice, and they said they are interested in getting their logo on water bottles. SCORE! So I am talking with local bottling company to get some bottles made and make some money off top of that!
Love these posts. I said it once and I will say it again, BEST BLOG EVA!
Oh wow, so you’re literally living this right now….crazy timing eh?
You know what would be cool? TO post ads like this one I posted on Craigslist and works EVERY TIME….except instead of camera rental, post one of your services:
http://www.appsumo.com/validate-idea/
$1k is exactly the price of a general website here in Hungary so I would ask all my friends, all of the businesses where I go regularly if they need a new site.
My target would be TWO contracts. Each contract would be like this: Pay half price at the beginning, half price at the end. So even if my work sucks (I’m just a hobby developer, so no guarantees), I got 2x$500 in advance :)
Oh snap, I like your thinking on this Adam!
Getting the payment in ADVANCE to make the $1,000 quickly. Smart ;)
Training is my most profitable gig. I’d spend a couple of days improving the SEO and content on my training site, then set up some adwords, and possibly some LinkedIn advertising.
I’d set up a course date and try to fill it with individuals, but really I’d be looking for a single biggish corporate client.
Now I’m assuming your going to say “How would you make 10,000” now go do it! Well I’m already on the case. I’ve got my couple of days booked in at the end of this week!
Oh nice…..good job on already doing this instead of just talking about how to do it!
FYI your answer might be the same for tomorrow’s question then :)
I am good in sport climbing so I will go to the local climbing centre and offer beginners a free 30 minutes coaching session. After each session, I will offer them a coaching package. $40 for a 2hrs session or $120 for 4 * 2hrs session (once a week).
To reach $1000 quickly, I will set up a referral system. For each friend they refer to join the same session, they and their friend each pay $5 less per referral. So if you have 2 other friends join the same session, each of you pay $10 less. $30/pax for 2hr session or $110 for 4 * 2hrs session. This way I earn more per session.
Realistically, this is my assumed scenario: I get 3 clients and each refer 2 friends, I will have $990 by the end of 30 days.
Still $10 short. So I’m going to hustle and offer to be a belaying assistant for 1 hour in exchange for the $10. If no taker, I’ll ask the climbing centre if there is anything I can do for them (sweep floor, belay, set routes, whatever).
Nice! I bet you could call your sessions “Double Your Climbing Speed In 30 Minutes” to get people a bit excited.
Very niche sport, but could def make you an extra $1,000!
1) Find a How-To article about whatever: It could be something technical that most people can’t do by themselves or simply don’t have time. Sell it for $100 each to 10 people/businesses.
2) Host a webinar for businesses about How-To ‘X’ and sell it for $100 each to 10 businesses. This is more scaleable because you can get the $1k in the same day.
I always thought it’d be cool to host a free WordPress class for beginners where everyone brings their laptop. The only catch is all the services they signup for (hosting, aweber, themes, plugins), get bought through your affiliate links
Nev,
I’ve actually tried putting this to work but had some problems in the execution. I was hoping you could give me your opinion on what I may be doing wrong.
You see… It seems that a lot of people don’t know what web hosting is, so even though you offer them a free class / free website they get all angry at you because it’s not “free” (all they have to do is sign up for web hosting which is like $4 a month and I still tell them how web hosting is something that EVERYBODY has).
Anyways… I explain to them how everything works (how they need web hosting, I will build them a 3 page website for free, bla, bla bla, ) but it seems that people don’t care as much since it’s free.
They take long to sign up / put it aside because well… it’s free!
Or
They think your trying to scam them in some way.
Oh… and let’s not forget the people who wan’t you to build them a world class website as well. (Yes… I also tell them that I will build them a 3 page website composed of an about us, services, and contact page).
I saw a video of yours once where you said that you used to build “resume websites” and you had an experience similar to the one I’m having, where people are asking you to ” build them a revolutionary state of the art website for free”.
I figured you’ve faced the same problem and was able to resolve it.
So I’m kindly asking you….
How did you resolve this problem?
How can I get people to sign up on my affiliate link (and not put it off to the side and forget about the offer) so that I can make them a free website?
Because honestly… I think it’s a good deal.
It has value.
A lot of the people I contact are promoting their businesses through craigslist and local classifieds. They have no online presence but yet they promote their businesses through “online mediums”.
I also instruct them on the VALUE of having a website.
I think you get the idea…
I look forward to hearing from you.
(love the content you put out, man).
Best regards,
Thiago
I would do it in real estate. It’s easy to find a property that needs work, if you do not have the skill set you can refer the property to an investor for a bird dog
Never heard the term “Bird Dog” before
I know it’s not very original but I would offer to build a website with proper SEO for my hairstylist. She’s looking to drum up her own business and would appreciate being on the first page of Google locally. If that’s not enough to get $1000, I’d also approach other service providers I use, such as massage therapist, etc.
You could TOTALLY do this pretty quickly!
Personal Training: Add a bootcamp class. Charge $10 per person and make the bootcamp 3x per week with 10 clients in the class or more!
$10 x 10 = $100 (per class/hour!) x 3 (3x per week) = $300 x 4 (for the whole month) = $1,200!
Dam…. Something I really should already be doing!
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Solving Real Problems: Using Noah’s course, I would have found a real problem and at least 3 paying clients within 48 hours. My next goal would be to find 5-10 new clients depending on the profit generated by the work.
Essentially scaling the idea with more clients/customers.
I like the class thing, although you could probably charge more.
I always wish a trainer would do a class called like “Leg Blast Day” or something…..and have a circuit, and one of the stops is a masseuse
….basically something more creative that JUST a bootcamp
This is a great idea Neville. I could charge more for the bootcamp and need less people or simply make more per hour.
I would set up a Kickstarter campaign with a Liam Neeson from Taken theme. I would ask for funds to get my dog back and backers would be rewarded with a chance to star in a Taken parody alongside my dog (once I get my dog back).
Bwahaha……I’m still going to kidnap your dog!
I would kidnap one of your family member, get my dog back and charge you 1.000$. Don’t kidnap my dog.
Please do not report this (creepy) message to the FBI, I’m just being creative.
Luv’ the content btw, keep up the good work :)
Dear Thomas….I love dogs so much I probably actually WOULD puppynap your dog :)
I would renegotiate my salary
Actually this would probably make you the $1,000 almost instantaneously. My friend Ramit teaches a lot about this stuff and does a great job at it!
Good Morning, Neville!
I have two very selfless ideas on how to make an extra $1,000 a month. First idea: donate my plasma two times a week for the whole month. You are able to donate up to twice a week. I’m a healthy young lady, so this is easy money for me! Second idea: I have crazy curly, thick hair that is healthy, long and everyone wants it. Seeing quite a few people I know have lost their hair from chemo, I have been growing out my hair to donate it. I can make hundreds from this, even a thousand from selling my hair because of the thickness and length of it.
Thanks for reading! :)
Oh nice, didn’t realize giving out extra body parts could pay so much!
The idea came yesterday, I could write a course about how to make extra money by flipping Internet domains. Selling the course at $25 I just need to find about 50 people interested to break even and make the extra $1K.
True, you could do that and it would probably make you the $1,000. You could probably even offer to help people actually pick a domain for $500/piece!
Last month I was desperate for making extra cash. So I was talking to my friend and he said he wanted to sell his car but had no time or will power to do it. So I said to him: “give me the car and I’ll sell it”. I live in an area with no parking problems and I work from home, so I’m available to show the car anytime. He was happy as a Clam and I took his car to have oil change, revision, etc and posted an ad. A month later another friend of mine moved to a part of Madrid where he couldn’t keep both his cars. So same deal. I had the 2 cars here for a month one of them and for a week the other. Sold both cars on the same weekend :) Result, 500€ profit for one of them (sold at 7000€) and 300€ profit + dinner invitation for the other one (sold at 3000€).
Then, since I still needed some cash, called my former employer (Translation company) , eventhough I swore I would never work for them again (they weren’t nice) and said I could work for them as a freelance (hey, I needed the money, please don’t judge me). So they sent a document I’m working on right now that will pay approx. 400€. So…voilá! approx. 1200€ extra this month.
Oh, and I talked to one of the bars near my house and I’ll be playing with my guitar there next week, for 100€ ;)
Amazing! Congrats #Hustle
Thanks Jacqueline! My main problem is not focusing on ONE thing ;)
I love this idea. I may try and steal it ;)
Go for it A-ron!
Oh nice job Monica!
Isn’t it crazy how much hustle drive being desperate gives you??
“Insecurity is a wonderful motivator”
How I’d make an extra $1000 in 30 days? You don’t need any existing conections for this one… It’s the same one as yesterday’s… With an addition of a smart strategy…giggity ;)
I’d just find an idea for a product/service, create a landing page, start collecting emails. I’ll then promote it on reddit, HackerNews, Product Hunt, email bloggers in the same niche and give ’em a sample of it to show to their audience.
Once enough people subscribe to my email list I’ll take that as a “mini-validation” for my idea. I’ll then start emailing them, asking for feedback.
And how do I make sure my email subscribers would be ready to pay for the product/service? I’ll create a smart landing page with smart kopy, which would include three different pricing plans. This’ll make sure only people who’re ready to pay would subscribe. Clicking on any of the Buy Now buttons would open a pop-up saying “We’re close to launching. Put in your email and we’ll let ya know when we’re ready…” At least this mentally prepares the visitor that the product/service is a paid one.
What ya say Neville?
Yup, this would work.
Typical [Create landing page] + [Collect Emails] + [Sell them something] = Certain percentage would buy kinda thing!
Erm yesterday’s I would have put dig out some more boxed star wars toys and sell them. But I only have so many of them left so can’t make a grand off that.
Spent a week learning a new skill so I could put that to work. A little nervous about it though.
Just don’t forget to feed the dog okay?
What’s the new skill you’re learning Cathy?
I would look up local small businesses on Yelp, and see which ones didn’t buy their domain names.
I would focus on a vertical market so it was easier to productize, i.e. dry cleaners or bakeries, and purchase whichever local stores didn’t buy their domains.
Then I would register with Google’s Get Your Business Online so I owned it and spent $0 on it (not too mention, I think it offers you free hosting).
Next, I would create a WordPress website using a WordPress theme I already own, such as the X, which is super customizable, and make these real businesses websites. Then I would go into the stores with my laptop, show them their website.
Cost: $1,000
How could they refuse that offer? I’d even throw in a free training course. Bet I’d even get a few retainer clients out of this.
Depending on where you are they might be able to sue you for “squatting” their company domain name. I wouldn’t do that.
Omg Lauren….I USED TO DO THIS!!!
I remember buying my first one, it was a restaurant in Austin called Marisco Grill (or something like that).
I did this for a bunch of places, then offered to sell them the website for $100 (I was kinda dumb back then and didn’t really know how to price).
I’m not sure if it was classified as web design or extortion :-P
Oh boy, good thing they didn’t sue you for copyright infringement or else you’d be handing it over for free plus a bunch of lawyer fees.
Sounds like a early version of YELP lol :)
Or they might tell you to hand it over for free or sue you if you don’t.
Using googles “Get your business online” would be committing fraud if you’re not the company the website is for and you don’t have permission to do it on their behalf.
Apart from which this is some serious copyright infringement.
Using their registered business name, putting their logo on the website, using the same font the business uses if it’s a custom font, and each individual image belonging to the company are each a seperate copyright infringement.
A single copyright infringement could be a minimum of $750 and could be anything upto $50,000 or more. And that’s a seperate bill for each and every infringement without even counting the fraud charge or the lawyers bills. Which a good copyright lawyer is quite common to cost in the thousands on a per hour rate. So even if they work say, 3 hrs a day 5 days a week for a month, then that’s $90,000 just for paying the companies lawyers multiplied by however many lawyers they hire. And considering this idea is highly illegal, chances are you would lose the court case and have to pay the companies lawyers as well as your own.
And to top that all off, you’d also potentially be forced to hand over the website to whatever business it was about for free.
Of course because you’d be targeting small businesses the chances of them suing you are a lot smaller then a bigger business, but still risky if any of the owners know the legal side of things and decide to enforce it.
Calm down everyone.. (yes don’t target some multi national)But.. In reality, whats really going to happen, some may say yes, some might get pissed so just take down the site, give them the domain if you want… Who is actually going to bother to take legal action.
Unless you start trying to hold that business to ransom, its a great idea, as long as your intentions are good and just trying to help if you can, no problem if not.. all this legal talk is crazy
I’d work out my most valuable skill and take the chance that people will pay me to do it for them, starting at the beginning of the month find the best place to advertise then work out how much time people would need – find the time and name the price by the middle of the month, then shout your head off!!
Perfect plan! But maybe make it more specific, then you could actually DO this!
I have to say, Neville, I’m PISSED I didn’t get the box yesterday. There is no failing today. So here are three ways I would do it, always coming from the “I have no skill and no money” frame.
1. Advertising Pooling : Start a new advertising medium in your community. Something like the free maps people get at hostels, with advertising on it. Could be restaurant table mat, could be a niche booklet (guide of antique shops in X state). There are hundreds of opportunities in this field, just look what exists elsewhere, and do it where it doesn’t exist. It’s a number’s game : profit = advertisers * fee – ( printing cost + distribution cost ). When it’s setup, you can profit from this for years by doing it again and again every year.
2. Affiliate selling : Find a service that gets you a MONTHLY percentage every time you refer someone, and sell that. How ? By adding a “free” gift if people buy through you. For example : free website if they buy hosting through your link. Free phone if they buy their phone contract through your link. 3 free hours of computer training if they buy their internet through you. It takes a while to setup, but you’ll get the monthly commissions for a long, long time.
3. Go door to door and ask companies what problem they have that would be worth $1000 to solve :) Or better : what they would pay $500 a month to solve. Present myself as a “fixer” of some sort, a guy who solves problem. It would probably take a while to get an answer so cold emailing could save time here. The copy will be something like “hey, I’m just a relentless guy with two hands and a phone, let me simplify your life”. Once ONE company baits, you can be sure others will have the same exact problem.
A last one for pleasure, but you need money / investors for this : there is a lot of money to be made at auctions. Find a field you really know, and look for stuff in that field. Just last month a company went bankrupt in my area and auctionned 10 computers in bulk for around $50 a piece. Very easy to clean them and flip them on ebay for double that amount.
If you have even more money, do that with cars : cheap cars generally sell close to market price at auctions. But expensive cars don’t : I’ve seen cars go for close to half their market value. And you could be driving an awesome car all the time, which is not a bad bonus.
Ok Thomas, that was actually a pretty good list! I actually like the affiliate thing because that definitely works PLUS provides a helpful service for people.
NevBox worthy ;)
After yesterday’s post, I did two things: 1) I made an extra $100 I wasn’t planning on:-), and 2)I hired out (for the first time ever!) a freelancer to write a plugin for me that is beyond my current capabilities. He will have the plugin ready for testing in a week. This saved me at least three weeks of random coding, checking, coding…. checking….
This actually means that I will be able to finish one of the projects I’m working on almost a month ahead of schedule, which should make my client pretty happy. Two things come out of this: 1) I now know where I can go to get expert work done in record time, and 2) even though it costs me 41% of the total project, I can move it up in the pipeline, and take on more projects (that are out of my league) and SCALE!… Oh, and 3) the plugin actually has potential to scale and be used for other small-to-mid-sized companies, which could license the plugin for a yearly basis… Recurring AND hitting a pain point… More on that in the future…
For now, specifically, to make an extra $1,000 a month, I would continue to take on projects bigger than I can handle (sell and hustle:-)), and start building a network or virtual team around getting the project out the door quickly, efficiently, and professionally…
To do that, it’d be REALLY nice to have some amazing examples of kopy at my disposal… NevBox #1 or #2… I’m looking in your direction… O_o
Excellent Nate. Kudos and high fives! You totally deserve today’s NevBox!
Hint @Nevmed
I couldn’t agree more, Jacqueline!:)
Didn’t see you’re reply on here… What would you do to get an extra $1,000/month. Coaching? Big Dreamer sales?
Oh snap, nice job Nate!
So it looks like you have something going already where you can just tack on some extra hours and come up with the $1,000 bucks.
Let’s see tomorrow how you’d make 10 grand in a month ;)
Haha. I thought you’d be asking about $10K/month. I’ve got my answer refining and almost ready. Just waiting for you to post the question. Pretty sure I’m going to need a NevBox for it, though ;)
Seriously, this has been one of the most helpful series of posts ever.
Wanted to mention (and maybe beat you to the punch) that you could probably scale the (group) coaching idea to reach $10,000.
Or use the group coaching to sell a monthly newsletter or physical box.
If you do 2 10-person sessions per day (at $25 each), you could make $500/day or $10,000 / month.
But then what if you pitched a $25-$100 monthly deal? Surely you could get 1-2 subs for each session you run.
I bet you could charge more money for a monthly mastermind and make the $1,000 in one call :)
Yeah, I bet you could. That would be easier to scale to $10,000 per month too, instead of daily like I was thinking above.
That could serve as a price anchor too, huh? Assuming you had additional value to give, of course, $1,000 for a monthly mastermind could open the door to $x,xxx+ consults, seminars or (info) products.
PS – I like the way the last 2 posts are making me think. ;)
Nothing fancy–
1) Raise rates 15% and/or
2) Write an extra article every day
Another thought (and a current goal / challenge of mine)…
Improve and/or learn a new skill. For example, I’m pivoting from SEO copy to email and sales (more ROI focused) copy. That’s worth more to businesses — it’ll be worth more to me too.
Aaaand another one:
Coaching – This can be a quick way to earn $1,000, especially if you have any kind of network to tap into. When I played poker there were always guys that wanted feedback on their game or 1-on-1 time for Q & A. Even as a newer player I was able to charge $25 per hour. Charge $35 per hour, do 1 hour per day, and you’ll pocket $1,000 with time to spare.
If you don’t want to spend that much time though, you could charge $20-$30 per head and do a group session for 1-2 hours. Do 10 people per session, book 4-5 sessions for the month, and you’ll earn your $1,000. And you’ll only spend 4-10 hours doing it versus 30 hours coaching 1-on-1.
And what if you don’t feel like an expert? I can’t remember who said it, but on a scale of 1-10, if you feel like you’re a 3, there will always be 1’s and 2’s that want to be where you’re at.
Or in my case (playing the $6 games at the time), there were always guys playing the 1 and 3 dollar games that wanted to be where I was at.
Last thought — you can always create a product. That way you’re not just earning $1,000 -this- month, you can earn $1,000 (or more) the following month/s too.
I really love this … “if you feel like you’re a 3, there will always be 1’s and 2’s that want to be where you’re at.”
Agreed! I’ll be chewing on this one all day.
Great answer(s) Matt! Looks like you have a lot of options to knock out the extra $1,000.
I especially like the “learning a new skill” method because you might actually hit upon something that’s greater than your current business.
Also at this $1,000 level I agree, creating some sort of product you can sell over-and-over starts making sense.
Thanks Matt! NevBox worthy answer!
Oh man… completely agree with you
“And what if you don’t feel like an expert? I can’t remember who said it, but on a scale of 1-10, if you feel like you’re a 3, there will always be 1’s and 2’s that want to be where you’re at.”
I first heard it from the launch coach guy – I forget his name. He had a few gigs with Naomi of ittybiz.
I’d scale the business I wrote about in yesterday’s post. I’d grab all my friends, rent costumes for all of them and we’d all go down to the local beach to hustle some sales off tourists until the cops asked us to leave – then I’d move to the next beach/tourist spot :)
Nice….so same idea of selling bottled water and snacks, but now that you have to make $1,000 you would get friends involved. Smart!