What's going on everyone, I'm Marissa and in today's video we're gonna show you
step by step how to start from nothing with no money
and take the steps necessary to crack a thousand dollar day
in your online business. This is kind of like a profitable online business
tutorial and the reason I'm choosing to talk about this
is because not too long ago, the other week, I had a 13 almost $1400
day in my business with just my digital products and that doesn't include my
affiliate commissions or any other type of income that I produce, it was just
based off the digital products that I sell so I thought "Hey, you know what?
Let me share some fast track ways that my subscribers
can realistically use and implement and take away" and that's what we'll be
talking about in this video so if you like the sounds of that go ahead and
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the first step in all of this to making your way up to a thousand dollars a day
in your online business is you really want to be clear
on which type of online business you want to build, okay? There's probably 10/15
different online business models out there and you really got to evaluate
which one you know is going to serve you,
is the one you really want to do and build because entrepreneurship and
online business is a full-time job, at least the first
few years, probably the first five years, okay? And
so you can really grow a team, outsource a bunch of things, you're
really going to be working a lot, like a full-time job, sometimes more,
sometimes less, so you want to make sure you like the business model that you're
doing, okay? It could be anything from e-commerce, it could be
trading, day trading which I have no idea on how to do
but you could be doing that, it could be online coaching or consulting so
a little bit pretty much kind of the same thing, so coaching you can be
an influencer, content creator, there's so many things that you can do
and you really got to get clear on what it is you want to do with your
online business because I gotta tell you a lot of these
online business models are not created equal and a lot of them take
a lot more upfront cost than some of them, okay? Some of
these you can get started for absolutely free,
some of them are more risky like trading and e-commerce because
you have to up front invest money in trading, right? With e-commerce you have
to invest money upfront with the cost of the good
and most likely advertising unless you're building up an e-commerce store
on Etsy or Amazon Merch or something like that that has
its traffic source already, but if you're running a Shopify drop shipping store
you're gonna have to run facebook ads, you have to consider which one of these
are you going to need the least upfront cost.
My advice is to start with a business model where you could start for free
because that's the best way to not dig yourself into a sixty thousand dollar
hole like I did when I first got started online back in the day
when I started with e-commerce. So in this first step, in the evaluation stage
what i really want you to do is just make a list
of the pros and the cons of each model. I also wrote down courses,
having an advertising agency, doing affiliate marketing, because those are
also online business models that you can do
but definitely take a step back and just evaluate
the pros and cons of each type of business model that
you're thinking of getting into and, realistically, how much money it's going
to take. Maybe it won't take any money, but it'll take more time
so what's the cost investment? What's the time investment and what business model
looks the most attractive to you? Alright, step number two on your way to
building thousand dollar days in your online
business is to really niche down, and no I don't mean pick an industry, no
I don't mean pick a very broad market, what I mean is to pick a specific niche,
know who exactly you're serving, know what problem you're solving, know what
that client avatar looks like because a lot of you
watching this video are probably thinking "oh my gosh, I'm stuck
on this part and I get it. I've been there, I have several students in our
program that are stuck on this step and can't
move past but you have to really evaluate a couple of things the
interests and the expertise that you have, because everybody has knowledge and
expertise in something, versus the profitability of
that niche that you're thinking about. Evaluate the demand
of crocheting versus something else like, I don't know, getting into the
yoga or motivation niche. See what products and what
services are out there already that are already profitable and that'll
give you a clue to what you would want to do because you do have to have an
interest and preferably a specialty in what it is
you want to teach online or what it is you want to
center your business around, and let me give you a hint. The more you can solve
people's problems the more money you will make, and it is true what they
say, the riches are in the niches, or niches, sorry, but the more you
narrow down, okay? And hone in on that one niche, the more money
you're going to make, okay? So you might be thinking "Well that sounds
like kind of the opposite of what I thought because I can serve so
many people and my product is good for all kinds of people and it probably is,
but this is the way you're going to grow your revenue online so the third step to
all of this coming off of niching down is write down
a list of your interests and expertises, okay?
And I know you might think, you're like "Well I'm not really an expert at
anything," I truly beg to differ because there's
people that are so scared and have imposter syndrome to get started online
because they think "Oh my goodness, I need a certain certification, I need a certain
degree, I need a certain amount of hours or
qualification of doing this," no! As long as you're better than
somebody at doing something then you're an expert in their
eyes, okay? I had a client or a student
actually who said that they didn't feel qualified
to talk about a certain topic but yet they had 25
years of experiences in this niche, I'm like "Oh my gosh!
Are you- yes, you have so much to offer!
You've overcome challenges, you've learned so much, you've seen people grow,
you know solutions to this problem that people
are having," so please don't underestimate anything that you
think "Oh, I don't know enough," I guarantee there's something that you
know. For example, back in the day when I was an engineer, one thing that
I could have taught that I didn't realize at the time was
how to teach other up-and-coming engineers how to be a good
engineer and how to have a successful and enjoyable job. I didn't really know I
had that talent, but I did, right? So you just have to pull it out of
you, so get a notebook and brainstorm on what your interests are, what people ask
questions, why people ask you questions, what they ask you questions about, and I
guarantee you'll find something in there where you
can turn it in to a six figure business online.
Okay, so once you've gone through these first few steps of picking the business,
of niching down, and knowing your expertises and what
you're going to do, the next step for sure hands down is to create a lead
magnet. So a lead magnet is something like a
really irresistible piece of information that you give away for free that people
will not hesitate to give you their name, their email, and sometimes even their
phone number. So a lead magnet could be anything along the lines
of a pdf, it could be a free webinar, it could be a
free video training series like free videos,
okay? It could be a free ebook, it could be a cheat sheet,
it could be a list, an explanation of the top
tools that you use for something, it could be really anything that people
would perceive as valuable and that would want to
opt in to your list, right? Because the whole point of this is to build your
email marketing list because, really, that's
where the real money is is when you have and start to build your list,
it doesn't matter how big or small your list is but this is the power of having
a lead magnet is so that you start to create a very powerful source
of instant traffic for you and your business aka your list of leads,
leads meaning name and email, people interested in taking that next step,
that next action with you. And so many people get discouraged about like "Oh my
gosh, I have to write an entire ebook or create a pdf, like
don't worry about it, if you were to go to canva.com and
sign up for free, it's a free resource online, then you can create an
outstanding, stunning looking ebook or lead magnet,
whatever you want because they have tons of templates for flyers, for posters, for
pdfs, for ebooks, for social media posts, really it's your one
stop shop for all of your branding ideas and
little digital products that you create online. So I would definitely check out
canva because the templates are already done for you
you would just have to go in there and list out the content so you could
easily create a beautifully branded lead magnet within a day using
canva and even if that intimidates you a little bit what you could do is
outsource it, go to fiverr.com, maybe invest anywhere from
fifty dollars to seventy dollars, I'm not sure, for somebody to help you with the
lead magnet creation, they would actually probably help you write it and do some
of the branding and design, but definitely creating a lead magnet should
not be anything intimidating or scary. Alright this next step is very
important and that is to be legal, so especially in the u.s if you're
going to be doing anything online making money at all, so many people ask me
Marissa is it required that I get an llc or a business entity? And I don't say yes
because that's not that's not my profession, I'm not a cpa,
I'm not a lawyer, however, if your plan is to make money online
yes, you should at least get a sole proprietorship or
llc some type of business entity in your name so that way you can have an EIN
number instead of using your social security number to file
taxes. So I would just google it in the state that you're in, I just mostly know
about US, if you're in Europe or
Australia or another country in the world, I would probably form
a legal business entity whatever country you're in because
it is to safeguard you and the activity that you're doing online. The next thing
that you want to be doing to getting your business
up and off the ground into going for a thousand dollars a day online
is to tell your family and friends, and you may be thinking "What? That's so
dumb Marissa, what the hell?" But it's so true, like I was so embarrassed
to do this, this was probably the hardest part in the beginning was telling my
audience, the little audience I had, my friends and my family, that I was
starting this business but it's really important because one,
you're committed to doing it, two you start to feel that pressure, you're like
"Okay, well this is real, I am holding
myself accountable and I'm going to do it. So I know it may sound lame,
but the other reason it is super important why you do this is because
what it's also going to do is to show you who's not on your side
because there's gonna be friends and family out there that are like "Uh,
what are you doing? Just stick with your job, you just got your degree,
like make your degree work for you," like no, and so you're gonna know who the
toxic people are in your life once you announce like "Oh, I'm starting this
business with blah blah blah" so that is really important to tell your
friends and family. Alright, so the next three components
are pretty simple, but they're pretty complex at the same time and so one of
those things is traffic, okay? You're going to want to
figure out a way to generate traffic to your online
business, so with an e-commerce store, with Shopify for example, drop shipping,
you're most likely going to have to do paid advertising
like facebook ads unless you create your store
on a platform like Etsy that has traffic on it already, it already has a search
engine, search bar, SEO built into the platform, so this is
something that you're going to have to decide
what you have the budget for if you have money for traffic,
a thousand and two thousand dollars a month then, okay? Go for the paid
advertising side but if you don't you're going to have to
put up enough for an investment of building up your audience with content
creation on the organic side and with that being
said I definitely want you guys to download my
subscribers to sales blueprint if you haven't already because it goes over how
I generate massive traffic with my YouTube channel
to my products and services online and how I built a multiple six-figure
business leveraging the power of youtube, okay? So
go ahead and download that subscribers to sales blueprint, and I guess the main
thing I'd want you to take away is if you can
build up your organic audience, it doesn't take millions of followers, it
doesn't even take a hundred thousand followers, you can
be profitable with just a thousand followers, a thousand true
fans, so if you're starting your Instagram account and your YouTube
channel, you don't need that many subscribers and followers to
have people who respect what you're doing online and are interested in
buying from you, I see it all the time, people making their first sales from a
really tiny audience so don't be intimidated by going the
organic traffic and freeway. The next thing you're going
to want to do is to create a sales funnel,
if you're like "What is a sales funnel?" I have so many different videos
on sales funnels, I'll leave some of the videos in the links in the description
but, basically, it's a way to funnel your customers
into your business and eventually sell to them so this model kind of looks like,
I told you in the earlier steps you're going to
want to create a lead magnet, so this is your lead magnet,
there's going to be a page that says "Hey, download this free
whatever," okay? And when they opt in, they're going to go to another page
and this is going to be the thank you page where it says "Thank you,
blah blah blah," and a call to action button for them to download or for them
maybe to click on an affiliate link. There's so many ways to do funnels and
if you're a little bit confused I would say
check out Kartra because that is my sales funnel builder that I use, it's
actually my all-in-one business platform that I use, it's email
marketing, it's funnels, it's everything in one so you don't have
to sign up on different platforms to get the same services, it's all right there
and the important thing about Kartra is that your leads are going to sign up
with you on your lead magnet then they're going to go
to a list and this list is going to automatically
market to them. This is called an autoresponder or an automated follow-up
sequence, and the cool thing with Kartra is that
it already has a bunch of built-in beautiful templates for you with sales
funnels, so it's literally going in there, modifying the
title and the main points, and then putting it all together to form your
first sales funnel. Alright, so the next thing i wanted to talk to
you about is your irresistible offer. Now, this is what's going to make you a
thousand dollars a day, two thousand, ten thousand dollars a day
and beyond, so that is your irresistible offer
and this could be so many things, okay? This could be a digital course that you
create, this could be one-on-one coaching, this
could be group coaching, this could be a membership site, maybe you're a fitness
coach, an online fitness coach and you have a membership site with different
nutrition plans and exercises for your clients, that is an irresistible offer
and so as you develop these first you know seven, eight steps that I talked
about, you're going to know what model, what offer fits your business,
okay? Because there's, for example, life coaches,
they probably wouldn't create a course, they're probably more
one-on-one coaching, okay? And maybe something like
credit repair where you're working one-on-one with
clients, it's more of a consulting type of offer,
so you'll know what type of offer to match with your expertise in your niche
as you go along. For example, in my business I've always done
affiliate marketing which is promoting other people's products, but now
I've transitioned heavily to where i offer my own
digital course which comes with group coaching, so it's a group coaching that I
offer once a month which is something that I'm
very comfortable with as a business owner and a model that works perfectly
for my business. Alright, if you're loving this video and are still here, why
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