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Free registration at the forum removes this block.Yes. Make a website where you provide secrets and tips for people to pick up girls. They pay you a fee to join your INSIDERS site.
Also, use YouTube to advertise yourself for traffic. For example, make an ad on how to pick up girls. People see it, get interested and click your link to your site. They take out their card and pay you.
At first it'll be slow but you have to build a reputation.
So write the book, put it out, keep doing what I can to promote the channel and the book, and really try to sell the hell out of it?
Ok, this is great, you guys are really helping me narrow it down.. I am definitely going to do product reviews and try to make money off of marketing the products by linking the amazon link in my description.. And as far as product, is the BOOK the best way to go, or should I do a website and offer the monthly service like suggested? <--- (This) The only problem with the monthly site and paying is I'm not exactly how much content I would need to put up and how often.. and exasctly how that would work..
Thank you guys, based on all of the advice please tell me if you think this is a good map:
1) Keep keep READING ofcourse.
2) Keep my teaching job, but STOP doing the real estate course
3) Focus on youtube as my side hustle after work. Make money by giving Lifestyle advice AND doing reviews for products and linking them to my description to make commission off of people buying these products from amazon.
4) Write a book so I have a product to sell that the youtube will drive people to.
5) Work on a website/subscription service for people to join for monthly videos..
6) Get rich
Yeah, take massive action on these. Good luck.Thank you guys, based on all of the advice please tell me if you think this is a good map:
1) Keep keep READING ofcourse.
2) Keep my teaching job, but STOP doing the real estate course
3) Focus on youtube as my side hustle after work. Make money by giving Lifestyle advice AND doing reviews for products and linking them to my description to make commission off of people buying these products from amazon.
4) Write a book so I have a product to sell that the youtube will drive people to.
5) Work on a website/subscription service for people to join for monthly videos..
6) Get rich
I think you are a little bit over simplifying the big steps when you can actually take small steps first.Sound about right?
Read the book. Chapters 38 and 39 need to get read asap. You're overthinking too much. It's like POA (paralysis of over-analysis) is crippling you.
It's honestly just a lot to think about guys. And I don't mean to keep going back and fourth but the more I think about it the more it doesn't make sense.. Just being totally objective.. It's like.. I have 82 subscribers now with 12,000 views TOTAL. Even if I got to say 10,000 subscribers in 1 year, and sold say a book to 10% of them for $20 thats ONLY $20,000 profit before taxes. And say I made some money off affiliated products that I talked about in my videos and pretend I made an additional 10,000, thats still only 30,000 for the year..
And when I think about it more, yes there are a lot of lifestyle/life coaches out there. After a year, what else could I sell? Consultation services, and/or subscriptions to a website.. But I would have to sell A LOT of both of those to make this a big enough thing where I could quit my current full time job.. so this is tough.. It seems like its difficult to not just make a lot of money in this, but to make it a sustainable business.. PLUS, i'm working for the money, its not like its passive income thats just coming in..
This is your gut talking. Your gut is saying that you don't have anything of value to offer.
It doesn't matter what any of us say.
Your gut thinks it's a bad idea.
So can the youtube plan, and lets move on to something else.
Also, you're chasing doing what MJ calls in the book, "chasing money". Instead, you're thought process needs to be: "Am I adding value, or am I not"... NOT, "Is this going to pay my bills, or not".
Find something you know you can add value in. A problem you know you can solve.
Then, work RELENTLESSLY at it.
And you find that your bills have no problems paying themselves.
Like others said before me, you are chasing money, not needs. You will never get money by chasing it. People don't give you their money because you want it. They give you money because you have something they want. Figure out what they want and the money will come.
That's literally all you should think about. Forget about every idea you have had up until this point. Write down on a piece of paper "What do people want?"
Go sit at a bus stop and watch people. Ask yourself what each person wants. Do that and nothing else for as long as it takes for it to click in your mind. If you're wondering if it clicked yet, it hasn't. Do that and you will figure it out.
Someone already mentioned above but with your position, I would go in heavily on YouTube BUT use it to funnel to something else. So you'll have a double sourced single project. For instance, you could set up a coaching website to coach the youth or coach other teachers, etc. And you could funnel Youtube traffic.
At that point 6,000 views won't get you paid much BUT if 1 of every 6000 viewers go on to buy your coaching/product, then now you have maximized profit from the single stream, while at the same time using similar time commitment and little to no overhead.
The 6,000 views isnt actually legit for that one video because I paid for it through advertisment so, i dont know if i can claim that to be honest.
Sure, just for example but even though it's paid- the views are supposed to be people who suggested your video and would be interested anyways. So your paid traffic probably has the same or higher potential to convert if you did that again in the future.
@JohnBuffet The dating website concept could work.
Although it's a little "Me-Too" and the barrier of Entry is low, there is still a HUGE and timeless audience for dating advice.
This model could probably work *IF YOUR DATING ADVICE IS GOOD* and you have a DISTINCT audience / personality / approach.
Keep in mind the Online Dating market is already pretty busy, a lot of Titans and Gurus already set up -
How do you do things different than them?
What NEEDS are not being satisfied by the big guys?
What type of guy can you help the most?
Make sure you are capturing email addresses from the very beginning.
With the model you're proposing, the only meaningful profits will come from *repeat sales*. These will be men who trust your dating advice, who return for more (you probably have their email address), and who believe so strongly in your professional advice that they'll buy whatever you recommend.
Essentially what you're proposing is:
- Get eyeballs by creating your own content.
- Capture Leads by turning eyeballs into Email Addresses (give them AWESOME freemium rewards for signing up via Email)
- Consistently send great content to those email addresses.
- Periodically push some products / sales emails.
Just a word of warning... you probably aren't going to Get Rich off Amazon commissions alone.
Those things are like 6-7% and the cookie only lasts 24 hours.
You have to sell HELLA stuff to a big audience, over and over, to actually Get Wealthy from this.
I'm sure it can be done, but with 6% commissions, I'd just rather be selling my own products or services whenever possible... *much* higher profits.
And, you get much more "Control" in terms of the CENTS criteria.
I have much more I want to say to you! I'm only a year older than you and would love to see you succeed at escaping the rat race.
It's something I'm also working on... and I want to be *wealthy*... not just well-off.
I also am a teacher / tutor, with 7 years teaching experience in addition to my time as an entrepreneur.
Always looking for more participants in our future super-yacht race meetups from the forum
Put the wind to your sails!
Thanks a lot! I appreciate your time, and post.
I have officially put up www.2mlifestyle.com - I will sell fitness programs, and fashion and dating consultations. My goal is to help guys (or girls) to be successful in the dating world, successful at achieving a certain level of fitness, and successful at dressing well!
The fitness market is saturated, but I haven't seen too many consultants for dating, and not many for dating, fitness, and fashion. So, hopefully I can solve this need to people. I remember when I was younger I was always looking for better ways to dress, better approaches to talk to women, and how to get in shape. Now that I've found the answers to all of these 3 I figure I could make a business teaching other people.
I want to get out of the rat race asap!
I only recently found the right mentors and got started on my fastlane. If I were you, I'd read the gold threads until you feel something that clicks. If it aligns with your strengths, that's when you stop reading altogether and take massive action. For me that meant reaching out to a lot of successful fastlaners to get where I am. I respect that you are on youtube and put yourself out there but to me it feels like the guru type material on "how to be a millionaire" from a broke guy.So, if you guys were me, what would you do?? I am still confused as heck!
Thank you guys, based on all of the advice please tell me if you think this is a good map:
1) Keep keep READING ofcourse.
2) Keep my teaching job, but STOP doing the real estate course
3) Focus on youtube as my side hustle after work. Make money by giving Lifestyle advice AND doing reviews for products and linking them to my description to make commission off of people buying these products from amazon.
4) Write a book so I have a product to sell that the youtube will drive people to.
5) Work on a website/subscription service for people to join for monthly videos..
6) Get rich
This does not help.so i am stressed and confused..
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