- What were my first three high income skills?
First of all, back in the days,
I didn't have a name for these skill sets.
Simply because I was trying to make a living,
and after 13 business failures,
I had to stop and ask myself, "What is not working?"
And I asked myself one simple question
that forever changed my life.
And the question was,
"What is the one skill that I could develop,
that will free me from financial struggles
and worries forever?"
Then I found my first mentor, Alan,
and Alan taught me and transfer the skill
of copywriting to me,
which is the ability to write sales copy
to sell a product or a service.
And from that point on, that was my first high income skill
and because of that skill, and thankful to Alan,
then I was able to generate $10,000 a month
basically six figure income in my early 20s as a copywriter,
and I thought that was great.
Now, it may or may not be a lot of money for some people,
but for me back then, as a young guy, 20 somewhat years old,
that 10k a month, it was life changing for me.
And so from that point on, I was working with clients
and writing copy for companies and business owners.
And what I didn't expect is then later on, they came to me
as I was writing back then direct mail
and sales copying campaigns.
They were asking me for feedback and input
in terms of the marketing ideas and strategies.
So before you know, and I'm now charging
to consult with business owners.
So my first high income skill is Copywriting.
Then my second high income skill is Consulting.
So I was consulting with them and from there
and some of those are the same clients
so they hire me to consult
and then later on to hire me to write copy
or they actually hire me to write copy,
then later on also add on the consulting.
So I didn't actually have a lot of clients,
but because they were paying me a good amount of money
to do one or the other, or both,
so I was making very good money.
I added another six figure income as a consultant
to what I do so, which is great.
So that's my second high income skill.
It wasn't intentional, it was more,
"Oh, the client needs this kind of service.
And they see the value in what I do. And that's great."
And I started charging money for them before you know it,
that kind of high income skill, right?
So after developing these two high income skills,
I still need clients.
I still want to continuously to grow
and grow my client base because what I was charging
for my consulting and copywriting, it wasn't cheap.
I wasn't a cheap service provider.
I wasn't competing on price.
I needed a better way to sell clients and convince them
why they should hire me and I tried all kinds of techniques
but they just didn't work for me
when it comes to closing these kind of high ticket services.
So I had to develop my own way
of closing these high ticket sales
because the traditional sales method just,
they didn't work for me. Right.
So accidentally then I developed my third high income skill,
which was High ticket closing.
So I realized not only I could utilize
my own high ticket closing skill to close my own services
and products, but I could use it to close for other people
and earn a commission in the process.
So those were my first three high income skills.
One of the most common questions
that I get from my fans and my students is
which high income skill that I should focus on
when you are just kind of getting started.
I say that you have to pick something
that resonates with you that feels true to who you are.
Let's say if you are an introvert
and you enjoy writing and you enjoy studying marketing
and you enjoy seeing offers and you're fascinated by them
maybe copywriting is something that you should focus on.
Or if you enjoy talking to people,
you enjoy connecting with people through the phone,
then maybe Closing is your high income skill.
or you enjoy working behind a computer,
you enjoy coding and programming,
then maybe programming is your high income skill.
Or if you enjoy building funnels,
you enjoy working on the funnels and the steps,
then maybe funnel building is your high income skill.
You got to pick something that you like
and something that resonates with you,
but something that you know that you don't need
a lot of clients in order to earn a significant income
and then later on when you get good,
you could do what I did, which is stacking on my skill sets.
And nowadays, I have multiple high income skills
that I could utilize and I still use those very same
high income skills today to grow my companies.
They are the very same skill sets.
If you are interested in developing
your own high income skill
or you're interested in learning from me
my first high income skill which is copywriting,
you could click on the link below
and join our free training.
It gives you an overview of how
the copywriting industry works
and what do you need to do to get started
if this is something that you want to do.
Until next time, I will see you in my Bentley.