Hey Jeff Lerner here and in this video we are going to look at five different
businesses that you can start with no money. This is in general response to
hundreds and hundreds of messages and comments and questions that I get from
people basically who want to level up their life, want to do more fun stuff,
want to not be so stressed about the future, wanna make some extra money to
pay off their student debt and they're always looking at how they can start a
business or generate more income without having to either lock themselves into an
additional set schedule and or also having to invest a ton of money. So I'm
going to show you five different things that you can do online actually all on
the internet to start generating additional income and run your own
business without having to spend much, if any money.
What I'm not about to tell you are five things that you can do that require no
skills and no specialized knowledge. Anybody that tells you that is lying.
Anybody that tells you that is ultimately going to try to cost you
money and take your money and not give you any value in return because it is
total BS to say, Hey, not only you don't have to spend any money but you also
aren't going to have to invest much time and you aren't going to have to have any
knowledge or skills or value
to offer the world and you can make money that doesn't even make sense. That
said, here are five things you can do that do require some amount of skill
implied in that is that like you might have to spend the money or the time to
acquire the skill. For example, the first thing which is being a freelance
writer. Well you gotta like be proficient at writing in the primary
language. Let's assume that it's English language writing cause that's where the
most opportunity is. You're not going to be a well-paid freelance writer if you
suck at writing. So you might have to like take a class or at least practice.
Where should you go to actually parlay that into money? I'm going to give you a
couple of different sites. First of all, it's probably the biggest site online
where you can do freelance type work, not only writing but we'll talk about
some other types of jobs you can do there too. But that is Upwork. It used
to be known as oDesk and Upwork is probably the biggest freelancer
marketplace online. And then there's another site called FlexJobs and
FlexJobs I like because for you as a writer you go on there and set up your
profile and they actually verify the job listings. So basically you're not going
to get hired to do a bunch of work and then not get paid. They actually verify
that they're not scams and that they
are legitimate, credible employers or you know, project retainers and you
don't get screwed over. But it is also a paid service, like many things with
value comes costs, so it's a paid service, but in the long run it can, it
can save you a lot of time and money not getting screwed and wasting your time
doing bogus jobs online. The next three sites and I'm going to, you are actually
technically agencies where you sign up essentially as a agency client, as a
writer and then they book you jobs or they they find you jobs and those are
writer access, which I can say from personal experience, I've used writer
access on multiple projects back when I had an agency we would retain writer
access to create content for some of our clients and some of our internal
projects and really were very pleasantly surprised. I mean sometimes you go in
expecting it to be eh and writer access was really good. They actually have
different tiers of writers that you can use on, on the customer side and for you
as a writer then you, there's different tiers that you can kind of qualify into
and the better tiers obviously get better pay. Also another agency is
called Text Broker. I haven't used it but I have read good things about it.
And another one is called Constant Content and again, the agency approach
is, you know there's a security in
that because essentially you have an intermediary that's getting the jobs for
you and kind of protecting you a little bit like an agent like this where your
agent does. Right. The next job that you can do or or business is actually social
media management. So you know, if you, if you like social media, I will say
this from experience, from having run an agency and interviewed for this
position, somebody shouldn't be a social media manager if they don't A like
social media and B they aren't really organized. So if you're really organized
person and you also find yourself to be pretty sort of natural and fluid in the
social media environment and you don't get annoyed having to spend time on
social media. For me, if I have to spend too much time on like Facebook, like the
Facebook feed makes me crazy. When I owned my agency it was one of the most
requested things that we got from businesses. There is huge demand for it.
Every business, large and small needs more social media content and there's
this sort of omnipresent awareness that people constantly feel behind. Frankly,
that's one of the things that the social media platforms have done a really good
job of is making like every business owner in the world feel like they're
behind and they're deficient in their social media content, their social media
strategy. So there's a lot of work for good social
media managers. There's a site called Toptal. It's T O P T A L which is short
for top talent. They're sort of pitch is that they offer up the top 3% of talent
in any niche. So to list yourself as a service provider with Toptal, you would
need to have some experience, but you, you know, obviously the, the corollary
of that is that they find better jobs, better paying jobs. They connect a lot
of freelancers with big companies that have bigger budgets. And then the final
site, if you maybe don't have that experience to get listed at Toptal would
just be Fiverr. F I V E R R. Two Rs in Fiverr and Fiverr actually, I've had a
lot of social media projects done at Fiverr. I've had people do posting. I've
had people handle engagement. I've had people field direct messages for me at
volume that I couldn't handle. I've had people even grow niche profiles, like if
you'll launch an Instagram profile that focuses on like a certain category, not
my personal one, but like let's say I want to focus one that's just on
entrepreneurial motivation. You can literally hire people on Fiverr to just
grow that and do everything that goes with that. So if you know how to do
those things, sell your services at Fiverr. The third thing that you can do,
third business you
can start for, no money is the same way. It's actually this thing that I started
with back in 2008 affiliate marketing. I actually in 18 months paid off over
$400,000 in debt. That's how screwed I was. I was 400 grand in debt. I had
tried to start a franchise restaurant, lost my butt on this franchise
restaurant. I had this giant bank loan that they never should have given me,
but it was back in 2007 when they were passing out bank loans like girl scout
cookies and they gave this 27 year old jazz musician a $300,000 plus bank loan.
And then when I defaulted on it a year later, my restaurant went out of
business, add up all the fees and lawyers and you know, busted leases and
back due taxes and all that. I was over 400 grand in debt, paid it all off in 18
months with affiliate marketing. So I get kind of a special, a special lift
and smile when I talk about affiliate marketing. It's literally the business
model that in many ways saved my life since then, just from affiliate
marketing generated well over $20 million in gross sales online. Now that
doesn't mean that I personally made $20 million from affiliate marketing. That's
gross sales online and you know, to get to that level, you're probably running a
lot. Or in my case, you're definitely running a lot of paid ads, doing a lot
of paid promotion. You have tools,
you probably have a staff team members. There's a lot that goes into doing it at
that level, but you know, again, I did pay off over $400,000 in debt my first
18 months over a decade ago as a otherwise broke jazz musician. So
definitely a special place in my heart for affiliate marketing. If you want to
learn more about affiliate marketing, actually below this video there's a
signup to be an affiliate in my company, which is called ENTRE Institute, my
teaching company, and we have an affiliate program. Affiliate marketing
basically just means selling other people's products and getting paid
referrals or getting paid commissions. It doesn't mean you work for them,
doesn't mean you're their employee. Again, I have training videos on my
channel here, numerous chain training videos about different affiliate
networks and different types of affiliate marketing. But I do say, and
admittedly it's a little bit self serving for me to say this, that I
believe the best way to learn about affiliate marketing is to sign up as a
completely free affiliate for my company ENTRE Institute. And we actually have
training that we provide you as one of our affiliates that you know, for
obvious reasons the best training I could possibly want to deliver would be
to people who are going to promote my stuff. So that's really, we've, we've
put a lot into creating some amazing training about affiliate marketing for
our affiliates. So if you sign up as a
free affiliate below, and obviously like I said, again you can get videos about
affiliate marketing here on my channel, but that link below will give you access
to some really specific and tactical training of like how to do it step by
step. And I did. This is probably a good place for me to insert sort of a general
comment about affiliate marketing that you know, you go online, you'll find a
zillion affiliate programs. I talk about them and you know, many of my videos,
whether you're looking at Amazon or you're looking at ClickBank, you're
looking at JV Zoo, you're looking at CPA networks. You know, most of those are
predicated on kind of earning a lot of small commission. Send people to Amazon.
They buy a yoga mat and you make $4. There's a niche within affiliate
marketing. There's a specific type of affiliate product offer called high
ticket affiliate marketing. For example, let's say that you become an affiliate
of like, like a Tony Robbins company, the Tony Robbins companies, right? Tony
Robins has an affiliate program and you sell his book, awaken the giant within.
Let's say that book sells for $20 and you make, and I'm throwing these numbers
out. Let's say you make $5. I don't know that that would actually probably be
high, but what if the person who bought that book goes to one of his events? And
what if at that event they sign up for his diamond, platinum, whatever, crazy,
most intensive
mastermind trips to the moon experience, right? Let's say they go 80 grand or
whatever it is. Well you're not going to get a commission on that 80 grand just
because you sold the guy the book and the guy bought a ticket to the event and
the guy went to the event and bought, joined the mastermind and bought the
ticket to the moon with Tony or whatever. They're not tracking you all
the way through that chain and going, well let's go back to the guy that
bought the book and let's make sure we give him 10 grand or 20 grand, whatever
the same percentage would be. Right? But there actually are some affiliate
programs that do that. My training program is one such program that's, you
know, kind of a fundamental distinction between general affiliate marketing and
high ticket affiliate marketing. And again, I think that's one of the
reasons, like I said, it's self serving, but it's also true why my program is a
good place to learn because it's also becomes a great place to earn. Let's
move on to the next one, which is actually becoming an SEO consultant and
man talk about a whole other big subject that I frankly need to do more videos
about and will do more videos about here on YouTube. But I have a ton of
experience with this. I literally 2013 when I had kinda gotten burned out on
affiliate marketing, not really
burned out, but just kind of looking to change things up. I started a little
agency initially out with my friend in his garage and then we actually ended up
hiring my son's friend's mom to be my assistant who helped me make some calls.
And basically what we were doing was we were calling local businesses and this
is, I'm about to tell you how to be an SEO agency. We would call local
businesses and we'd say, Hey, we'd like to help you get more leads to your
business. And they say, Oh, well how does that work? What do you mean? And
you'd say, well, you're a, you're a plumber, a roofer, you do HVAC, you're a
carpenter, you're a contractor, you're a chiro I'm using a lot of home services
it doesn't matter, right? Every business needs more leads and we can say, Hey,
we're going to help you get ranked higher in the search engines. And that
can either mean we'll take the website that you have and we'll do some stuff to
it that'll get you ranked higher in the search engines or later it started to
mean we'll create additional peripheral like social content and build your
profile that way. Or it can mean, Hey, we will just take, create a separate
property that's designed to get leads for your type of business. We did this
with insurance, we did this with mortgage, we did this with security. We
did
this with a lot of different niches where we would create a website that was
optimized locally to get the leads for that industry and then you would just
send the leads to the providers and they pay you for the leads. There's a variety
of different ways you can do this. Again, I need to create more content
about it here on my YouTube channel, but I do also have a course of course called
agency millionaire secrets that or the agency millionaire masterclass that
literally teaches this stuff in depth. My goal here in this YouTube video isn't
to sell the course, but I will just say there's a whole world of information out
there about local marketing, local agency marketing, SEO, and it is
definitely something that is intensely powerful. In fact, the course that we
created for this inside my company ENTRE Institute was actually put together by
one of my best students. He's actually somebody that I've worked with since
2009, so whatever that's been over a decade now than he was a student of mine
and he actually went off and did and just focused on that one tactic and
created a multiple seven figure business for himself. Just working from home with
a couple assistants who were virtual who, who cost him very little, providing
SEO services for local businesses. He was based in upstate New York and again,
built a multiple seven figure business for himself, like ridiculous quality of
life. I'm
not talking like just, you know, all he replaced his job, I mean made really
insane money, like baller money, just doing this for certain types of
businesses. And anyway, we created a course and we teach in my program, but
the point is to just tell you how big that opportunity is. Like what I just
described as the words were coming out of my mouth, it sounded kind of like oh
like you could gloss over it, but like don't gloss over it. If you take the
time to really learn more about what I just said. And if you know, heck, if you
want to know more, ask questions, post comments below and I can, you know, it's
always useful for me if I know like what people are interested in and what people
are attracted to. And if you say, Hey, I want to know more about that, then it
pushes me to create more content about that. Anyway, the fifth business model
that you can get into for, again, little to no money is actually just web design
and you might think, Whoa, what is this guy talking about I'm not going to be a
web designer, I don't know, HTML or CSS or JavaScript or any of the backend
scripting languages or code or eh, here. Here's the deal now with whether it's
Click Funnels, Squarespace, whether it's Wix, whether it's Groove Pages, Lead
Pages it doesn't matter if you're building sales funnels, doesn't
matter if you're building brochure websites, if you want to build local
business websites go sign up for Marketing 360. There's so many platforms
now that make it really easy to build websites. I would say building websites
now is much more along the lines of being a social media manager where like
you don't have to know code and you don't know have to know design to manage
somebody's Instagram profile. You just have to know how the platform works and
be able to create content. That's literally how these website builders are
now. You just drag stuff around. It's actually easier than I would say. It's a
whole lot easier than managing like a Facebook page. Facebook pages are not
intuitive to me at all. You've got to really know how they work. These, these
drag and drop website builder systems, they make it so easy now and it's just a
knowledge gap. What you're doing is you're monetizing the gap of
understanding and a gap of time. You walk into a business owner and say Hey,
listen, I can build a website for you. It'll look beautiful. All I need you to
do is go sign up for Squarespace and give me a login. And they go, Oh, it's
20 bucks a month. Okay, and you're like, yeah, I'll do it for 1000 bucks,
whatever. They don't know what they don't know. They don't know what it
would be like
to go in and try to do that. And the fact is, if they're a successful
business owner, if you're a struggling young person who's trying to make some
extra money and they're a successful business owner who needs a website,
technically their time is more valuable than yours, so you might be going, well,
they could just log in and do it themselves and it would take them 8 or
12 hours or whatever. Well, yeah, first of all, that guy probably isn't as
technically proficient as you 8 or 12 hours of his time or her time is
probably worth paying you $1,000 to do it. I certainly know for me that I have
staff, I have team members that do things for me all the time that I
technically could do myself and I'm actually proficient enough to know how
to do them myself. It's just not worth my time. Being a web designer I think is
a huge opportunity nowadays that a lot of people disqualify themselves from
because they think it's way more technical than it than it is because
they maybe checked it out five years ago before these platforms either existed or
were as mature as they are now. So let's recap that. Being a writer, being a
freelance writer, being social media manager, being an affiliate marketer,
sign up below being an SEO consultant and or being a website designer, that's
five different businesses that you can start for little to
no money in this world. And it all just kind of comes back to the point that I
make all the time, which is there's just no excuse in the world. We have any
more, you know, Jack ma, who's delightfully politically incorrect and
one of the richest people in China. He says, you know, if you're 35 and you're
poor, it's your fault. Now that may be a little bit harsh, but the point that
he's making is I think even Bill Gates said that, or maybe it's one of those
quotes. We like to just attribute things to Bill Gates, but I know somebody said,
and I think it's pretty quotable, they say it's not your fault if you, if
you're born poor, but it is your fault if you die poor and they're making the
same point, which is that there are so many opportunities in the world now to
generate income without having to trade away all your time like you do with a
traditional job or get over extended and over leveraged like you traditionally
have with either brick and mortar business investment or you know, like
real estate investing and stuff like that. There's just so many opportunities
and take it from a guy who was a 28 year old broke jazz musician living in his ex
wife's parent's house, spare bedroom out of sheer pity and disdain who locked
himself in a room for 16 months and came out having generated
almost half a million dollars. We live in a dramatically different world than
our parents did now. And you know, to me the biggest, the biggest travesty in
this world is that most people haven't gotten that memo. Frankly, my channel
here, my mission is committed to getting that message out to the world, spreading
the good news. If that sounds cool to you and you want to know more and more
about how to parlay this into a great life, then subscribe to my channel.
Maybe join my movement. I started ENTRE Nation. There should be a link below to
join ENTRE Nation, become an affiliate of mine, and I'll give you a bunch of
great free training. Anyways, lots I have to share with the world, but I'm
not going to try to cram it all into this video. I do thank you for your time
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