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• 3 easy businesses you can start TODAY!

• How to make your first dollar online!

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3 Businesses You Can Start Today With $0

12 months ago I made the biggest decision of my life. I quit my 12 year career and went all in on the internet. I did it by slowly building a side hustle while maintaining my 9-5.

It took me 2 years to go from starting my online business to quitting my job and learned a TON along the way.

The biggest lesson I learned is ANYBODY can start making money online, as long as you work on the right things.

In this newsletter I'm going to go over 3 businesses you can set up TODAY with $0 of start up capital necessary. If you have the internet and a device to connect to it you're all set. These are all business models I've set up myself and am generating revenue from every single day.

Let's get into it:

Consulting Business

Every day 1,000,000 new accounts, projects, and companies pop up, and 99% of them don't know what they're doing. You've got knowledge of content creation/writing/video creation/ programming etc. You spend hours doing research. Now it's time to monetize it.

This doesn't just go for the internet either, almost every industry is looking for consultants to provide second opinions.

Here's my quick and easy process I used to launch my consulting business:

1. Gain deep understanding of a chosen subject

2. Analyze what works and what doesn't

3. Offer potential clients unsolicited free advice (e.g., suggestions for their website or content)

4. If they like it, schedule a call

5. Offer free services (1-hour consulting calls)

6. LISTEN to their problems and take notes

7. Provide solutions and advice

8. Gather testimonials after successful engagements

9. Use testimonials to attract more clients

10. Start charging

11. Increase your fees with each new client

12. Repeat

Growth hack: document challenges, create templated solutions, and sell them as products or lead magnets.

Newsletter Mogul

Anyone who enjoys writing should start a newsletter. Worst case scenario it's a creative outlet to support your brand. Best case it becomes a massive business supporting your life. Newsletters offer limitless earning potential through ads and premium subscriptions.

1. Start a newsletter

2. Write daily or weekly newsletters (doesn't matter if you have 0 subscribers. Get the practice in)

3. Write tweets and link to your newsletter (drives so many subs)

4. Keep writing and finding your voice

5. At 5,000 subscribers, start reaching out to projects asking if they want to advertise (I began at 7,000. Also bonus hack: if you have a lot of X followers projects will reach out to YOU)

6. Start by charging a little per ad (I started with $200 per ad)

7. If you have a lot of demand, raise the price. If you don't have any demand, lower the price.

8. Hire someone to DM projects for you. Offer them 10% of all deals they sell.

9. When you get a strong enough subscriber list (I started at 18,000) start a premium tier

10. Communities are the future of newsletters. My premium tier is access to my private community of builders. Start a Discord and build a community around this tier.

11. Scale everything up

This process was enough for me to turn my newsletter into a business that sustains my life. It also feeds into everything else I'm doing because it's an incredible distribution channel.

Start building your newsletter. It's an asymmetrical bet on yourself.

Product Builder

With AI taking over, ANYONE can start building an app. You can build a website, app, game, or service with ZERO experience.

We are in revolutionary times right now. Seriously. Anyone with an idea can go from thought to product in minutes.

Doesn’t matter if you have a 9-5. If you spend 15 minutes tonight learning AI, you can have an app launched the same night and make money instantly.

Learn AI and learn Cursor.

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All three businesses can be built alongside a full-time job. It's what did when I started. I've dedicated days to my full time gig and nights to my side hustle.

It started with just the newsletter, then moved into consulting and community building.

I promise with enough sacrifice you can build these businesses too. The best part is they cost NOTHING to build, just your time.

Have any other gigs you're working on that you would recommend to the community? Let me know in the comments below.

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-Alex