0$ to 1000000$ in 12 Months! (Ride Along)

[JAJT]

Can you give me some constructive criticism?

Sure:

You seem to have "shiny object syndrome" and are basically the definition of a wantrepreneur, right now anyway.

From your intro:

- You've never held a job
- You couldn't finish college, twice, and apparently couldn't even complete a single paper.
- You thought you could learn coding when you thought you could get rich from it but quit before you ever got good at it, and it seems fair to assume you never brought a single app to market. But at least you bought lots of books!
- You quit coding when you read about info products, your new way to get rich but never developed a single info product. But at least you read a bunch of material and bought a bunch of courses!
- You quit info products when you heard about FBA, your new way to get rich but never imported a single product. But at least you bought a bunch of courses!
- You quit FBA when you learned about drop-shipping, your new method to get rich, but never drop shipped a single product. But you spent months perfecting a site that couldn't integrate with one of the merchant processors and it would take too long to fix and you couldn't think of any other way to fix this issue so you quit again, never selling a single product.
- You tried info products again but don't have the patience to create any info! You outsourced it and tried one single promotion which got removed so it was back to the courses again and buying more crap.
- Now you're onto freelancing, new (yet again) way to make money. Once again you didn't have the patience to write your own anything, so you copied the top seller on fiverr like a rip-off artist.
- You are threatening suicide if it doesn't work now? Man, come on.

You are not going to make a million dollars in 12 months. I'm all for being optimistic and hopeful but you have a really, really solid track history of spending money on education, not having the patience to do anything yourself, and switching before you get good at anything only to spend more money on books, courses, software, etc...

Here's my constructive criticism:

1. Get a job. You need money. Jobs give you money. You just have to follow orders instead of doing what you don't have the patience for - creation.

2. Stop buying courses, software, and books. You're addicted to stories of success and need to cut that out. You won't find your answer in a book.

3. When you aren't working at a job, create something and sell it. You already know enough to do this from everything you've read and bought already. You just need to DO IT.

- Start by trying to make $1. Then $10. Then $100. Then $1000. Don't even consider $10k until you can hit $1k.

- Do not spend anything you make. You are trying to build a business, not pay yourself, not right now. Re-invest it all into your businesses. Ads, new products, tests, etc... Every dollar back into your business. If you can't figure out what to spend your revenue on - just save it. When you grow as an entrepreneur you'll stop having this problem and can re-invest the savings.

- Try to add value to this world. You don't add value by stealing other people's things or following a pre-set formula. Help people. Get good at it. Money comes to you from helping others solve something.

Once you have the discipline to create something for yourself, sell it, and add value to this world, then and ONLY then can you set loftier goals to scale up.

A million dollars in 12 months is not happening for you my friend. Not at this stage. You need to learn to make $1 without copying someone else first. Until you have the patience to sit down and create something from start to finish for yourself and have that thing help someone else - you will be stuck on the never ending hamster wheel of chasing the next, new shiny object.

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

why? Doesn't @MJ DeMarco say trading time for money is slavery? Doesn't Robert Kiyosaki said "Getting a job is for losers?"

Wow, talk about taking something out of context just so it can fit your narrative.

It truly does sound like you need a job. There's nothing wrong with it if it fits your long-game vision.

I had at last a dozen jobs before my entrepreneurial ventures started to pan out. And my recommendation to many young people with zero experience and a case of money chasing-itis is just that... get a job.

Your challenge seems to be mental toughness. As soon as something gets hard, you quit and move on to the next newer, seemingly easier "money making" venture. And from what you've written, I don't see much talk about value, but just a lot of talk about yourself. This self-centered disposition rarely creates value, and just chases money from one thing to the next.

Re-read @JAJT post... he said it better than I could.

And NO, this doesn't make you a loser... it just makes you lost.

Hopefully we can help right your ship, that's why we are here.

 

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[JAJT]

Action Steps:
Getting the order:
0. Create a questionnaire to ask my clients,
1. Create a unique angle for my gig,
2.Rewrite my gig copy, title, change images, price, etc
3. Give me 5 Star rating from another account,
4. Try to market it with free resources available,
After getting the order:
1. Over-deliver and develop goodwill,
2. Go an extra mile and offer them free consulting,
3. Get a 5-star rating from them,
4. Post the experience here.

Genuine question - are you afraid of actually taking on a customer and being responsible for something you create?

Almost everything you list is "busy work" (called "action faking" around here) that doesn't require you to actually get anything done.

Your action steps, IMHO, should look like this:

1. Write your profile/gig, if you are a copywriter this should take like an hour.
2. Go bid on jobs for the rest of the day.
3. Work on those jobs.

Don't create a questionnaire, don't come up with a new angle, don't worry about reviews, don't worry about marketing. Don't focus on over-delivering or developing good will, don't offer free consulting.

All you need is a profile that looks "good enough" and to bid on jobs you are capable of working on. Then do the work to the best of your ability. That's literally it.

I've made thousands of dollars copywriting on upwork. My profile took me like an hour to put together and I didn't do a damn thing other than take on jobs from that point forward. Then I did a good enough job that even when I wasn't an active freelancer I'd have old customers asking if they can use me again because they loved my work.

Right now you're a writer sitting at a typewriter who can't get that first word on paper because you think the key to a great story is a tidy desk and long walks through nature.

If you can actually copy-write well - go do that. Ignore all the fluff that doesn't matter.

 

[VentureVoyager]

Your goal (0$ To 1000000$ In 12 Months!) is totally unrealistic and the math doesn't add up, you know that? (I mean, there's no math).

Generating $1M in sales is hard and takes time. Saving $1M is even harder.
Your master plan is a total chaos.

Also, it looks like you want to do 3 totally different and unrelated things, but each of them takes lots of knowledge, effort, planning and TIME.

In your introduction you write that you dabbled in many different businesses and didn't make a dollar yet, do you want to now repeat the same mistake?

 

[broswoodwork]

Backstory:

INTRO - Dropped out of college (twice),Never held a job,4 years dabbled between many business models but didn't made a dollar online yet! (Updated)

Background I'm from India. Here education is everything. Popular opinion is education and white-collar jobs are the only way to get rich. Parents want their children either to be a Doctor or Engineer. If you pursue anything else then you're a loser in life. I'm an average kid in school. I have...

www.thefastlaneforum.com

Master Plan:
1. Make 1000$ freelancing,
1.1. Buy gifts for my mom & dad for supporting me all along,
2. Use the money from freelancing to create info products,
2.1. Create a passive income of 3-10k/month,
2.2. Buy a (Small) house in a big city and move there,
3. Using the money from info products create private label products and sell them on amazon,
3.1. Build a strong brand.
4. After it became a hit in Amazon sell it on my own Shopify Store,
4.1.Set up a physical office with at least 5 employees
5. Sell the products on own pop-up stores,
5.1. Sell to big-box retailers,
6.Using the money from this biz to fund my other capital intensive business Ideas.

Change the title to: $0 to my first replicable profitable sale in 12 days (hours if you're ambitious), and start from there.

Good luck, bro!

 

[S.Y.]

Your goal (0$ To 1000000$ In 12 Months!) is totally unrealistic and the math doesn't add up, you know that? (I mean, there's no math).

Generating $1M in sales is hard and takes time. Saving $1M is even harder.
Your master plan is a total chaos.

It is not unrealistic.
- 0 to 1billion is
- 0 to 100 millions is
- 0 to 10 millions is
- 0 to 1 million is not.

Forgot who, but someone here made 0 to 500k roughly in a year dropshipping. "Aim for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars".

Some people need huge goals to get moving.

If OP is serious, and this is not an action fake - even if he fails, he will learn a ton.

Think big!

Now, the plan is a different story.

 

[Ouroborus]

Hello,
I can relate to you because I am an indian & a college dropout.
I dropped out of college in the first sem itself, I was doing B.tech CSE from a very reputed government college.
And yes, my family was devasted too When I left the college.

But there's a little of bit difference, I was making money, When I dropped out of the college. Before dropping out I transfered 50k INR in my mother's account, which kind of shocked everyone in the family so it was easy for me to convince them.

Now the real story,
I started my IM journey when I was in 11th class, I started with creating animation videos & uploading them on YT,
From this venture I learned video marketing skills, & really started to apply these skills on other ventures.

Then after my 11th exams were over, I found out that I had very weird curiosity for system administration & Servers in general, So I learned & learned & learned.
I took a drop year after school & created my own server hosting business. Began cold emailing all the small hosting providers for resell services & rest is history.
Currently making 90+ USD/day = 180k INR/month after Tax.

So I think, I can give you some advice,
1. Stick to only one thing, at first.
2. Don't leave it until you become the master of it. Be the best.
3. Stop dreaming about all the things you will do after you will have money.
In one post you said that you gonna buy a new house in a big city after one of your ventures get successful, I don't personally know your circumstances but bhai that kind of thinking will lead you in a deep hole.
4. Rather than buying courses, please take action.
The ratio should be 1 day of course, 29 day of action.
5. Make some people your competitors, Yes in IM, you need more competition than friends

Also bhai one more thing, You should stop expecting any form of respect from indian society. Until or unless you have a white collar job working in a MNC, they will hate you. Even if you are making 1M a year. Also.. sooner or later your extended relatives will know.. I know this is really stressing you out, hence the best path is to tell all of them now.. tell them to fck off from your life & let you live the life on your terms.

Last thing my friend, It will take time, don't expect everything to happen just now .. It took me 3 years & hard dedication to reach this amount of cashflow..
The only thing that matters is that don't give up no matter how much the going gets tough, The more tougher the path, The more exclusive & hence more valuable it is.

PS: Ninda se ghabraker apne lakshya ko na chodh, kyuki lakshya milte hi ninda karne wale ki rai badal jati h

Nameste!!

 

[Guest70495]

Your goal (0$ To 1000000$ In 12 Months!) is totally unrealistic and the math doesn't add up, you know that? (I mean, there's no math).

Generating $1M in sales is hard and takes time. Saving $1M is even harder.
Your master plan is a total chaos.

Also, it looks like you want to do 3 totally different and unrelated things, but each of them takes lots of knowledge, effort, planning and TIME.

In your introduction you write that you dabbled in many different businesses and didn't make a dollar yet, do you want to now repeat the same mistake?

What a pathetic post, go attend any affiliate conferences and you will see how wrong you are.

@Vairavan You will see many people trying to drag you down, just focus on your goals. Most importantly, keep yourself accountable. I personally know many who have achieved far greater than a million in far less time starting from zero. It is not impossible.

 

[VentureVoyager]

It is not unrealistic.
- 0 to 1 billion is
- 0 to 100 millions is
- 0 to 10 millions is
- 0 to 1 million is not.

I'm not saying it is unrealistic in general.

It all depends on how and the time-frame.
IMO, it is unrealistic with the plan (or the lack thereof) the OP posted here.

Also, aiming high is definitely great.
But aiming unrealistically high without a plan can end up with a big depression or discouragement.
Things take time.

E.g. there is a big difference between
"In 2019, I will exercise four days a week, keep my diet of 3400 kcal daily and put on at least 12 kilograms of muscle mass"

and

"I'm gonna build 20 kg of lean muscle mass in the next two months, exercising 20 minutes a day and keeping diet!!!!!"

Some goals are better than others. The way they are formulated makes a big difference, imo.

Forgot who, but someone here made 0 to 500k roughly in a year dropshipping. "Aim for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars".

Yeah, there's many people who did it, or who "did" it.
500k what. Sales, profit? I know people who generate 1 M in sales a year but their profit is around 10-15%.
Then someone else might generate much less and it doesn't look so cool on forums and screenshots, but they don't have so much overhead and costs (e.g. they are selling digital products or have dominated a small undeserved niche), and are able to bank much more year after year.
I'm just saying, be more discerning.

The problem is the OP didn't specify if his goal was grossing or netting 1M, or maybe saving 1M etc.
I don't like unspecific goals.

It's like saying "My goal is to make 2019 awesome" or "my goal is to be more active".
But what does it mean? Nothing, really.

Can you give me some constructive criticism?

I'm not going to do all at once. I'm going to take money from one biz and put it in my next venture. It's just a big picture.

Yes. And keep in mind that I don't mean to bring you down man.
Alright. So you don't want to do it all at once, that's better.

But here are the problems that I see (keep in mind that it's only my opinion, and I'm not a millionaire or any big authority, however I have been living the more or less unscripted life since 2014):

1) Your goals are unspecific, and hence hard to track.

An example of a specific goal could be "I plan to create a digital product that I will price at $2000, and sell it to 500 people in a year. 500 x 2000 = 1 M yearly


2) Looks to me like you want to do to many things at once, which you have already tried and it took you nowhere.

You want to do freelancing, Amazon FBA and ALSO create/sell digital products?

The problem that I see is that each of these is a very big area in itself.
It takes time and focus to create your brand/name and traction in each of these things.

A friend of mine makes 2 MIL in sales a year on amazon FBA, but it took him 4 years to build it. And it was his ONLY focus. He would often work 14 hours a day. And his wife helps him a LOT.

They I know people who make lots of money freelancing, but they didn't do anything else for a long time before it took off and still are focusing on freelancing, so they can become experts and make 5 figures monthly.
Can't be a jack of all trades. And certainly you can't become an all-around successful guy in a year.

Pick one of those things and focus on it.
I only tried FBA once (and failed) in 2015, and I know it's much more expensive and harder now.
I'm not any kind of expert on it, but you can ask people who make tons of sales on this forum if it's realistic to start from scratch with no budget and get to 1 MIL in one year. Maybe it is, should be in theory. But I guess you would need lots of savings/deep pockets to pull it off so fast, or have a very original idea and a great execution.

Product creation? Maybe.

Freelancing? Sounds like something that would not require deep pockets to start with.

Also, I am not sure what to think about the idea of using one business as a trampoline to get to another, only to leave it too after some time to focus on something else. They all take time to get traction and start generating some nice sales. That's what's totally unrealistic in your thinking.

Why not focus on generating huge numbers as a freelancer or digital products creator?

Why would you take time and knowledge to become good at something ("2.1. Create a passive income of 3-10k/month" - 10k monthly is a very good money, especially in India...but even in Canada) and then leave it to pursue a totally different thing?

 

[Vairavan]

Journey of a thousand miles blah blah blah...

Be as enthused about that first step as you are now for transitioning some phantom product from fba to Wal-Mart.

Where's that first $1000 coming from, and what step can you take instead of responding to me will inch you closer to it?

Now,I'm not going to think about making 1000$. Now my only goal is to make my first dollar online. I'm going to change the description of my gig in Fiverr with my own copy. I may also buy from another account and give it a five-star rating.I also going to add a unique angle to my gig. After I get my first order I'll post here. I'll also over-deliver for my client and develop goodwill.I'm not going to concentrate on anything else until I do this.

 

[MILIANARD134]

Wipe the fking table if its follow your dream plan

 

[NursingTn]

Look up Lex threads on the forum in side hustle category. He talks about copywriting.

Read and go for it.

Also, do yourself a favor. Remember this principle: Make it easy to practice good behaviors and difficult to practice bad behaviors.

For example, someone who excels at freelancing would work on 1) developing mastery over a certain skill and 2) learning how to connect to clients.

How do you make it easy to master a new skill? Let's say you want to master copywriting. Then this means you need to practice writing content that tries to help people understand their problems and the benefits of your solution.

What would make writing easier for you? Write 100 words a day. Is that easy to you? To me, I would feel stuck and paralyze if I set such a goal. That is not easy to me. Easy to me is getting the laptop in front of me. That's it. Once I get the laptop in front of me, I just start writing. For me, the easy goal is get the laptop in front of me daily.

If you're not practicing some form of the behavior at all, then it isn't easy to you. You must make it easy to you. Conversely, you must make bad behaviors difficult to practice for you.

Like others have mentioned, you love reading all kinds of stuff but not buckling down and trying one idea out to the fullest. That's a bad habit, my friend. How can you make practicing this habit difficult for you?

Perhaps you can sit down, and reflect, "if others have been successful at it before, then I might be successful too. I won't give up until I make the first sale or until two to three months have passed". Or maybe you can put your laptop and phone locked up in a safe everyday so you are forcing yourself to focus on working one thing at a time instead of risking getting distracted by the internet.

I'll give you a personal example of how I made a bad habit difficult to continue for me, and it just dropped away. I used to lash out at people when I'm mentally overwhelmed. I made it hard to do this by practicing better coping strategies when I'm calm so I can instinctively use them when I get stressed. For example, I would practice deep breathing 10 repetitions 3 times a day when I'm calm. When I get stressed, I automatically deep breathe instead of lashing out at people.

I am taking this time writing to give you some insight into changing your behaviors. Motivation is fleeting; feelings of discomfort from "F*ck this" events will not last. You will grow complacent again - and again. Do not rely on your emotions, e.g. feeling peer pressured, ashamed, etc. to stay committed to a business venture.

A person's actions dictated by his or her emotions is like a leaf blowing in the wind. If you're angry, you'll take angry actions; if you're sad, you'll take sad actions; and so on. Similarly, if the wind pushes a leaf to the sky, it'll go to the sky; to the ground, it'll go to the ground. How can you get any work done if your emotions are pulling you in all directions?

 

[JAJT]

But I'm not in Upwork yet.

Is there a reason you aren't able to get on Upwork from India?

If Fiverr is "wait and see" and Upwork is "you get what you ask for", it seems obvious which one you should focus on first.

 

[Guest61835]

So here's my current path from start to finish. Thought my story should help. The moral is to never quit. Improve on one skill you can master and go from there. Even if it's hard. Adapt and overcome.

I worked at a grocery store as my first job in 2014 right after I graduated High school. Then I started community college later that year.
Dropped out of community college the next year in 2015 because of excuses.

2016 I went to a technical school and got an i.t. degree. Micro-computer Specialist. Graduated in 2017 and almost dropped out again but I DID IT.
I met my wife before graduation a few months prior. Mind you I'm STILL working at the grocery store. The same one for almost 3 years now. I made 70 to 110 dollars a week. I made JACK squat and still managed to graduate and somehow not die of starvation.
After graduation in 2017, I worked at a computer repair shop till April 2018.

I decided it was time to move out of my sh!t town and move to a better place with more than 10's of thousands of people. I started working at a call center in 2018 In April and that's when I moved.

I started to wonder if starting a free lance web design business would be worth it. I kept the eye on the ball and that's around the time I read TMFL and Unscripted and started to relearn HTML5 and CSS and java script from college. In August of 2018 I found a new job as tier 2 tech support which is the BEST JOB IVE EVER HAD and this was around the time I was engaged to my wife . I actually finished Unscripted a few months after I started that job.
In December, I finished Unscripted and started udemy classes online. We were getting married in April in 2019.
I decided to hold off on the business till we got some of our debt cleared up at the end of the year. Which we have now. And I'm still at that tier 2 job. Still a good job. And I have worked on a few Udemy classes now and use WordPress for my website design primarily. I use hosting services to host my website. And I'm moving forward with getting my business license application submitted this month. I'm almost completely finished with the site and I'm about to launch my web deisgn business. I have 1 POTENTIAL client without even looking for one. Now I'm moving forward to finishing up the last of my website and GETTING AFTER IT.
This is where I'm at. And there is no turning back. Every second counters. Every breath could be your last. Just do it.

I decided that dropping out from college was enough failure for me. Which it turned out as a blessing to find a MUCH BETTER PATH. If someone like me can survive only on basically 70 dollars a week and go to college and then move towards building a business before even 2 years have passed and now I make 575 dollars a week with PTO and saved enough and spent wiser to build the business, anything is possible.

 

[Sadik]

Hey Vairavan

I just read this thread. I didn't really know your background when I posted in your copywriting offer thread.

I understand that the money situation is weighing you down. And I totally get the whole family and relatives let down thing cos I am an Indian too...

I am not gonna give you much action steps for you have received a lot of that in this thread already. But I just want to show you a different perspective.

You know what's the most wonderful thing about you. You are only 24! I am a good 12 years older than you and gosh I remember what it was like! You are here at fastlaneforum, you are living in perhaps the most abundant time of human civilization, you have internet, you are already aware of the many business models online! Just wow! You are already ahead of perhaps 95% of the human population. Think about that, there are billions of people in this world who don't have many of the things you have. Just imagine how lucky you are!

For business, I will tell you that it takes time. It takes patience and it takes a lot of hard work. The abundance of our time has its curse of distraction. Even the best of the best suffer from it. The key to success in today's time is just this. Focus on one small thing and ignore everything else. You have picked copywriting on Upwork. That is a superb choice. Let me tell you I have over 15 years of experience in Freelancing and you are in the right place and in the right niche for starting to make some money. Don't give up, don't move to other things, don't get distracted. Do copywriting for at least one year now. By one year you will start to get good, earn some money and start being stable. Yes it takes that long. Don't look at all those people who say "From 0 to XXXXX" in 12 months etc etc. Some of them are lying. Some are outliers. The headlines are all survivor bias. 99.99% of people will have to slog it out.

Whether you succeed or fail entirely depends on whether or not you stick it out patiently in one field learning, adapting, improving. This is a great place for help. Ask questions, learn from advice given from people like JAJT. They are amazing people who take out time from their businesses to help newbie's like you.

All the best mate, I am rooting for ya!

 

[Vairavan]

The Master Plan:

1. 0 to 1K with freelancing,(3 months)​
2. 1k to 10K with Info Biz,(2 months)​
3. 10K to 100k with FBA,(4 months)​
4. 100k to 1M with Shopify, (2 months)​
5. 1M to 10M with Wholesaling. (1 month)​

The idea is not about using one business as a trampoline to get into another business. Actually, they are all interconnected. It's really about organically growing a business.
1 directly lead to 2.It is easy to create an info product with your freelance experience. You can also sell it to your freelance clients. Also, the money from freelancing can be used as seed money for your info biz. (You need at least 1k for paid traffic, funnel software, etc before you can make any money in info biz)After it succeeds it'll become a passive income.
Then you can focus on FBA which takes lots of time and money. The info biz takes care of your bills and costs associated with FBA.
Once you created a strong brand in Amazon then you can create a dedicated Shopify store. After that, you can move to wholesale. You should remember that 3, 4 and 5 are for the same product. They are not separate businesses.
This way we can hit the 1 million (or 10 million) mark in 12 months.

The idea is simple but not easy. Come and join the ride!

 

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[KeepGoin]

do you have trouble focusing on one goal op?

 

[BaiAnrui]

Sure:

You seem to have "shiny object syndrome" and are basically the definition of a wantrepreneur, right now anyway.

From your intro:

- You've never held a job
- You couldn't finish college, twice, and apparently couldn't even complete a single paper.
- You thought you could learn coding when you thought you could get rich from it but quit before you ever got good at it, and it seems fair to assume you never brought a single app to market. But at least you bought lots of books!
- You quit coding when you read about info products, your new way to get rich but never developed a single info product. But at least you read a bunch of material and bought a bunch of courses!
- You quit info products when you heard about FBA, your new way to get rich but never imported a single product. But at least you bought a bunch of courses!
- You quit FBA when you learned about drop-shipping, your new method to get rich, but never drop shipped a single product. But you spent months perfecting a site that couldn't integrate with one of the merchant processors and it would take too long to fix and you couldn't think of any other way to fix this issue so you quit again, never selling a single product.
- You tried info products again but don't have the patience to create any info! You outsourced it and tried one single promotion which got removed so it was back to the courses again and buying more crap.
- Now you're onto freelancing, new (yet again) way to make money. Once again you didn't have the patience to write your own anything, so you copied the top seller on fiverr like a rip-off artist.
- You are threatening suicide if it doesn't work now? Man, come on.

You are not going to make a million dollars in 12 months. I'm all for being optimistic and hopeful but you have a really, really solid track history of spending money on education, not having the patience to do anything yourself, and switching before you get good at anything only to spend more money on books, courses, software, etc...

Here's my constructive criticism:

1. Get a job. You need money. Jobs give you money. You just have to follow orders instead of doing what you don't have the patience for - creation.

2. Stop buying courses, software, and books. You're addicted to stories of success and need to cut that out. You won't find your answer in a book.

3. When you aren't working at a job, create something and sell it. You already know enough to do this from everything you've read and bought already. You just need to DO IT.

- Start by trying to make $1. Then $10. Then $100. Then $1000. Don't even consider $10k until you can hit $1k.

- Do not spend anything you make. You are trying to build a business, not pay yourself, not right now. Re-invest it all into your businesses. Ads, new products, tests, etc... Every dollar back into your business. If you can't figure out what to spend your revenue on - just save it. When you grow as an entrepreneur you'll stop having this problem and can re-invest the savings.

- Try to add value to this world. You don't add value by stealing other people's things or following a pre-set formula. Help people. Get good at it. Money comes to you from helping others solve something.

Once you have the discipline to create something for yourself, sell it, and add value to this world, then and ONLY then can you set loftier goals to scale up.

A million dollars in 12 months is not happening for you my friend. Not at this stage. You need to learn to make $1 without copying someone else first. Until you have the patience to sit down and create something from start to finish for yourself and have that thing help someone else - you will be stuck on the never ending hamster wheel of chasing the next, new shiny object.

Amen, no just joking. I totally agree with your oppion. Of course it is good to think big, but there has to be some base.

You learn bij taking the first small step, and during the road you learn alot. I can tell you, just 'recovering' from a failed merge, cost me money and time ( and a lot of Grey hear) but one of the best lessons I ever had!!!! Didn't want to mis it. That's why go out in the field, learn from your failures en keep working at your big idea.

 

[Envious]

Sure:

You seem to have "shiny object syndrome" and are basically the definition of a wantrepreneur, right now anyway.

From your intro:

- You've never held a job
- You couldn't finish college, twice, and apparently couldn't even complete a single paper.
- You thought you could learn coding when you thought you could get rich from it but quit before you ever got good at it, and it seems fair to assume you never brought a single app to market. But at least you bought lots of books!
- You quit coding when you read about info products, your new way to get rich but never developed a single info product. But at least you read a bunch of material and bought a bunch of courses!
- You quit info products when you heard about FBA, your new way to get rich but never imported a single product. But at least you bought a bunch of courses!
- You quit FBA when you learned about drop-shipping, your new method to get rich, but never drop shipped a single product. But you spent months perfecting a site that couldn't integrate with one of the merchant processors and it would take too long to fix and you couldn't think of any other way to fix this issue so you quit again, never selling a single product.
- You tried info products again but don't have the patience to create any info! You outsourced it and tried one single promotion which got removed so it was back to the courses again and buying more crap.
- Now you're onto freelancing, new (yet again) way to make money. Once again you didn't have the patience to write your own anything, so you copied the top seller on fiverr like a rip-off artist.
- You are threatening suicide if it doesn't work now? Man, come on.

You are not going to make a million dollars in 12 months. I'm all for being optimistic and hopeful but you have a really, really solid track history of spending money on education, not having the patience to do anything yourself, and switching before you get good at anything only to spend more money on books, courses, software, etc...

Here's my constructive criticism:

1. Get a job. You need money. Jobs give you money. You just have to follow orders instead of doing what you don't have the patience for - creation.

2. Stop buying courses, software, and books. You're addicted to stories of success and need to cut that out. You won't find your answer in a book.

3. When you aren't working at a job, create something and sell it. You already know enough to do this from everything you've read and bought already. You just need to DO IT.

- Start by trying to make $1. Then $10. Then $100. Then $1000. Don't even consider $10k until you can hit $1k.

- Do not spend anything you make. You are trying to build a business, not pay yourself, not right now. Re-invest it all into your businesses. Ads, new products, tests, etc... Every dollar back into your business. If you can't figure out what to spend your revenue on - just save it. When you grow as an entrepreneur you'll stop having this problem and can re-invest the savings.

- Try to add value to this world. You don't add value by stealing other people's things or following a pre-set formula. Help people. Get good at it. Money comes to you from helping others solve something.

Once you have the discipline to create something for yourself, sell it, and add value to this world, then and ONLY then can you set loftier goals to scale up.

A million dollars in 12 months is not happening for you my friend. Not at this stage. You need to learn to make $1 without copying someone else first. Until you have the patience to sit down and create something from start to finish for yourself and have that thing help someone else - you will be stuck on the never ending hamster wheel of chasing the next, new shiny object.

OP, this is the only advice you need. Get to work and in a couple years time, you'll be miles ahead of where you are now.

 

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[S.Y.]

I'm not saying it is unrealistic in general.

It all depends on how and the time-frame.
IMO, it is unrealistic with the plan (or the lack thereof) the OP posted here

Cool. I stand corrected. We are on the same page

But how can you get a job without education?

@VentureVoyager, well I think this proves your point. Pretty impossible for OP.

@Vairavan ,let me ask you this. If you cant get a job without education, how will you convince people to give their hard earned money?

Before even asking this question, have you researched how you can do that?

 

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[Mark Trade]

Earning the 1st million is the hardest, the 2nd is the easiest. After that it flows, if you do it right. For what it's worth and from what I've read, stay away from self help books, they are driving you full of false hope.

Oh and for the record, your hero, Robert Kiyosaki is bankrupt.!!!!! Fact.

How I made my 1st million. At age 15, I left school, having just passed High School Certificate, Came 1st in Science for my state and 2nd in Math for my state. Bombed in all other subjects, but I've never had a use for them anyway. If I need to know anything, I just ask someone who does. Who the hell uses Algebra.????

Till I was 20, I bummed around working on farms, and driving trucks. When I turned 21, I said enough was enough, I moved out of home and went to the city. I applied for a salesman's job, commission only with a $500 retainer. Yes me in my first suit, fitted like a loose condom. To cut the story short, I earned $260k in my 1st week. How, by keeping my mouth shut and my eyes and ears open. I was working for a big company, that had huge buying power and I mean "BIG". Just google Brambles. They were upgrading their fleet of vehicles, so I asked a simple question, if we buy more, does the price come down.????

The reply was yes, but we don't want to buy more, we already have a set order.!!!! So again, I asked, what if someone else was to buy the same vehicle, could we include them in the purchase.???? There was silence for about 5mins. The sales manager left the room and returned about 15mins later, I thought, ok, I'm a gonna, I've just lost my job. He said the GM wants to see you. I thought, now I'm really dead. My heart was pumping out of my chest, I was shitting bricks. To top it off, I was shaking. Years later I was diagnosed with Mild Anxiety.

After spending 30mins in the GM's office, listening to what he had to say, he gave me the go-ahead to find other companies who could benefit from Brambles buying power. I increased that purchase order from 13 to 19 Mack Trucks. 13 for Brambles over a 2 year purchase order and 6 for 3 other companies. Everyone was in a win - win situation.

How..................by going to the local pubs, where the truckies parked up and went for a cold one and sat and talked shit with them. Then I told them, what I could do, and what I could save them on a new Mack.

Years later, I went into finance, didn't know anything about it, but went to the pubs that the stock market guys drank at, made friends there, learnt their trade and made more money. Cross selling is a great way to earn income, use someone else's money and experience and bring them clients. Find the fit and create a win - win. You can adapt it too any industry.

Now I work from home, I'm sure you might have heard of Menulog, Eat Now or Just-Eat. No.??, well run the names through Google. 1 of those 3, is my sideline. My main income is from another source. This is income from doing nothing. Once it's setup, it runs itself. The only time, I leave the house, is shopping with the wallet drainer, or we go out for lunch or a visit.

You can do it, you just need to think first.

 

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[Vairavan]

1) Your goals are unspecific, and hence hard to track.

An example of a specific goal could be "I plan to create a digital product that I will price at $2000, and sell it to 500 people in a year. 500 x 2000 = 1 M yearly

I already have something like this (1000$ x 1000?). But I didn't specify.I thought I'll figure that out later.

The problem that I see is that each of these is a very big area in itself.
It takes time and focus to create your brand/name and traction in each of these things.

I never thought of this way. I now understand everything in business take longer than expected and there is a learning curve for everything.

I am not sure what to think about the idea of using one business as a trampoline to get to another, only to leave it too after some time to focus on something else.

I first heard it from Dan Lok. He calls it "Pyramid of Wealth".He said someone should not start a business before they are making 10K/mon in freelancing. Because the skills you need to make 10k from freelancing are the same for succeeding in business. Then they should invest the money they earned from freelancing in business. Then they should take money from their business and invest it elsewhere.
Also, I thought freelancing is good for going from 0$ to 1000$. Then with Info biz, you can go from 1K to 10K. With FBA you can go from 10K to 100K. And with Shopify & Big-Box retailers you can go from 100k to 1 million.

 

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[broswoodwork]

Now,I'm not going to think about making 1000$. Now my only goal is to make my first dollar online. I'm going to change the description of my gig in Fiverr with my own copy. I may also buy from another account and give it a five-star rating.I also going to add a unique angle to my gig. After I get my first order I'll post here. I'll also over-deliver for my client and develop goodwill.I'm not going to concentrate on anything else until I do this.

A star is born! Go get em dude.

 

[broswoodwork]

No.


Well, I thought of it. But since I already have a gig in Fiverr, I thought if instead of improving an existing gig I switched platforms it'd also be dabbling.(Moving from A to B coz B looks easier than A) Like how I moved from FBA to Dropshipping coz dropshipping doesn't cost that much money.

Do both. Think of it like advertising on Google and Facebook to sell an identical product, and diversifying platforms helps you get out in front of CONTROL on day 1.

 

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[A_Random_Guy]

Can you also tell me your full story? What you are going through now?I want you to succeed as well.

Not now, I plan on making my intro after I become a better person

 

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[Vairavan]

Day 2:

So far:

1. Rewrote the copy of my Fiverr gig,
2. Created a profile on Upwork and waiting for approval.

Let's see what happens.

 

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[Abood]

Cleaning tables will fetch you max 4-5$ a day for 12 hours work in India. But that's for the illiterate category.

You have swiggy, zomato and uber eats, big basket, or any other salesman job on per sale commission basis. Probably can earn 250-350$/ month through this route.

The good thing is you can take off anytime, any hour you want. You have the flexibility to work a few hours to extra hours based on your needs.


Your name is 'vairavantraders' in fiverr, no one is going to give a copy writing gig to a trader! Create a new account with a relevant name, please!.

 

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[jwhanke]

Re-frame a job as getting training at your employers expense. Obviously it depends on what you want to do but an example is if you want to learn Real Estate. Get a job at a brokers or agents office doing anything that fits your skill set. If you have little skills, self learn something that they need and offer it up. 90% of jobs don't require education (excluding technical like Engineering, Doctor, etc.). Any smart employer will take someone that works hard and has a genuine interest in learning.

Someone mentioned Uber, which you could view as a chance to work on your interpersonal skills.

@BJdeMarco gave some good advice how to learn through your Fiverr gigs.

It appears to me people take what @MJ DeMarco says about jobs always out of context. He mainly talks about the golden handcuffs or penny pinching into eternity. Getting a job isn't bad, it just depends on the situation.

@JAJT post is very actionable and good advice.

Good luck my friend!

 

[Vairavan]

Day 3-13:

Found it's impossible to change Fiverr username. Instead of creating a new Fiverr account, Decided to focus solely on Upwork for now. I also decided to post my progress here only after getting my profile approved.

My Upwork profile got rejected over a dozen times. First I thought it was due to my photo. I then got a professional photo taken. (It's just 1$ here.Perks of living in India).It got rejected again.

Meanwhile, I got to know about a new course releasing which focus solely on Dropshipping from India(which also covers complex stuff like GST). I also learned about a Saas product which makes it easy to sell ebooks from India. But, I refused to get myself distracted and focused only on getting my profile approved.

After a lot of research online, I found a foolproof way to get a profile approved. (It's not Black Hat. It's a bit of a Gray area. Find a skill which has lots of demand but few freelancers. Add it to your skillset. Remove all other skills. Select entry-level in the experience section Also, remove everything in the Education and Employment sections because it requires manual verification. Your profile will get instantly approved. It's easy as it gets. PM me if you want more hand-holding)

I first tested that with a fake account. It got approved immediately. Then I used it in my main account. It also got approved.

It's getting late here. Tomorrow, I have to change the skills to copywriting and rewrite the overview. Hope my account won't get suspended for changing to a totally unrelated skill.

Peace.

 

[Tourmaline]

Perhaps I missed where you talked about what your greater mission is, how you've found a market with a need that you're adding value to.

Really, JAJT said it quite well, no need to repeat

Although yes, when you're cash tight all you think about is money. 100% true.

How many business owners have you spoken to in person and offered your copywriting services to?