What's going on everyone? My name is Marissa, and what most people don't know
about me is that I have already built two successful online businesses that
have crossed six figures and I'm currently working on my third which is
expected to be the most profitable, and so in this video I'm gonna go over
your six-figure blueprint, and if you are starting from zero you will have a clear
roadmap after this video on how you can realistically start from zero and go to
$100,000 online in one year. So, if you have a background similar to mine, if you
don't know already, I previously was in the engineering field, when I was in the
nine-to-five, and when I was a civil engineer I made about $75,000 per year
at my prime, and so I thought that was really good, but my dream ever since I
was 19-20 was to make six figures in my career. And when I reached the "top," so to
say, when I reached the point where I'm like "Okay, now I'm at $75,000 a year but
how am I gonna get to six figures?" I realized the only options to making six
figures in the positions, and I said to myself I definitely don't want to do
that at all, I don't want to be in those team management positions and work 16
hours a day to make a hundred and forty thousand dollars a
year. That was not the path I wanted to take and so that is when I realized I
had to go the online route and build an online business that had no salary cap
and would allow me to achieve not only six figures, but multiple six figures
online. And so the first tip I have for you guys on your road to 100k online is
to do your research. What do I mean by this? There's so many models of online
business that you can do. There's trading, there's ecommerce with Shopify, there's
Etsy stores, there's being a service provider and charging money for your
services, there's digital products, there are so many different business models
out there, and another popular one is freelancing, for example, but you don't
know which is the right business model for you and which one you are the most
passionate about and so it really is up to you to do your research and figure
out what business model resonates with you. If you're somebody who has a strong
skill set in graphic design or video editing or one specific skill,
then maybe freelancing could be for you. And maybe, for example, you're already
doing coaching, or you're doing something that helps serve people, then maybe that
business model is the right thing for you. So it's up to you, really, to do your
research in what it is you want to do and which business model you're going to
dedicate to be your online business. So if you're a little bit confused about
what I just said, check out this video right here where I talk about what I
would do if I was broke and starting all over in business, and I go more in depth
on different business models and how I would start from absolute zero with no
money. Alright, so tip number two is to get a mentor or a mentorship as fast as
possible. Now, depending on your budget, this might look a little different for
everybody. And so what I mean by mentorship, it could look like the form
of a digital course training, having a one-on-one coach or mentor, maybe you are
in a mastermind group which focuses and specializes on how, let's say you're a
fitness coach, and this mastermind group teaches you how to build an online
fitness business, or maybe you want to look into trading or something very
specific like that. You're going to need to get a mentor to fast-track your
results to where you want to be. And I want to give you this really great
example of when I left my nine-to-five, when I left my engineering job, most
people don't know that I actually started working for a company called
TecaDemics, and so back in the day when I lived in Scottsdale, Arizona, this company
had started in that same area and I thought "Wow, they are actually an
internet marketing college" and I thought "I could definitely apply and
work there so that I could learn marketing and learn what I want to learn"
and so their specialty when they opened was ecommerce, and there was an
opportunity to work there as an intern. And so my job was, basically, to learn the
knowledge and learn how to do ecommerce, learn how to do Facebook ads, and all of
these things, and then, in return, help customers learn how to do it so it was
really great. It was almost like free mentorship. Although I was
making like next to nothing, the stuff that I learned
there was really great. I took a huge pay cut from like $75,000 a year to like
minimum wage basically, and I wasn't there for too long, just a few months,
because I knew that with my own e-commerce business I could
scale it to the moon. So I quit working there, but the point is I learned a lot
from working there for next to nothing. I learned about Facebook Ads, like really
specialized skill sets within Facebook Ads, like how to create a look-alike
audience, and how to scale, and how to write copy for advertisements, how to put
products in a store, so I learned all of these things being in that environment,
every single day helped accelerate my growth like crazy and if I wouldn't have
taken that job it probably would have taken me a full year to learn the things
that I learned within two and a half months. And so the point is once you
shift your mindset to think that you really can benefit from a mentor or a
training that is going to package it up for you and show you the direction and
cut your learning curve in half, your journey to creating that profitable
business online will cut in half. Okay, so the third tip I have for you after doing
your research and getting a mentor is to dream big and set realistic goals. I
can't emphasize this enough because I made this crazy mistake that when I was
first getting started, online I thought that I was gonna make six figures in
my first 60 days. Like I was just like pumped and amped and had that like "Yeah
screw the nine-to-five!" energy and this Marissa would have looked at the old
Marissa and be like "Honey, you need to get real here, like it's cool
you have all these exciting dreams and all but let's let's not get too excited,
okay? Your end goal is to make 250,000 dollars in a
year, more money than you've ever made at your 9 to 5, great, however what is it
going to take to get there? You're really missing what the steps are to
achieving that a quarter of a million income."
Let me break it down to you like this: let's say there is a guy who wants to
gain 11 pounds of muscle, yet he has not even established a routine of going to
the gym five times a week, better yet, he doesn't really even go to
the gym. He hasn't really evaluated his diet
habits and like how much he needs to be eating, like how many grams of protein
and carbohydrates a day, how much water he needs to drink, how much sleep he
needs to get. All of these aspects of getting to a certain goal
need to be broken down into different steps in achievable categories so that
along the way you can incorporate something little into your daily routine,
because you can't go from zero to going to the gym six days a week and eating
a pound of chicken a day or however much protein it takes to gain
eleven pounds of muscles, that's a lot of muscle, right?
And so it's it's the same thing with business, if you want to make six figures
or a million dollars or whatever, amazing! Keep that vision, keep that goal, but what
is it gonna take? Are you gonna need to outsource some tasks? What is it in
your business that you hate doing? You need to learn to outsource that and
if you're somebody that doesn't understand the importance of outsourcing
yet then you have to get develop that mindset first and that's why I was
in for a super rude awakening when I first started my online
business. My goals were just way too freakin high, and so that goes back
to point number two of getting a mentor, because if you're not investing
into a mentor or some type of course or training to help you accelerate stuff,
what is that going to cost you, of not having a mentor? Is that going to cost
you two years of your life? Three years of your life? Of time wasted and more
money wasted on trying to figure it out by yourself? So that is why I emphasize
the first three points, because literally these first three points of doing your
research, getting a mentor, and setting your goals, are the foundation of your
100k year. And so my fourth tip for your six-figure blueprint is to build a
monetizable skill. Really, no matter what business model you choose, whether it's
freelancing, ecommerce, trading, affiliate marketing, you are building a monetizable
skill. Pick any one of them and there are at least a few monetizable skills within
that category. So take freelancing, for example ,and let's say you are really
good at copywriting, so you're really good at writing emails for people,
copy on sales funnels, on advertisements, unique copy
virtually everywhere in your business, right? Okay, so what other skills are you
gonna develop from that? Well, you need to learn how to design a sales funnel page,
most likely, so you can design a sales funnel and you can write the copy, right?
And what other skills do you learn? You learn communication, you probably learn
outsourcing, so you're eventually gonna have a workload that
you can't handle on your own as a freelancer, so you're going to have to
outsource people to come help you, and so you're going to learn all of these mini
skills within your expertise and those are going to be
invaluable and those are going to be your monetizable skills. So another
example I could think of is an agency. There's people that become experts at
learning how to run paid advertising, so Facebook Ads, Google Ads, YouTube ads, and
that there is another huge example of a monetizable skill, because companies
do not have the time to learn how to do these things on their own, so they hire
you with the monetizable skill and they'll pay you, eventually, as
much as you want. I mean, obviously, there's there's a cap, but they'll pay
you more and more because you're really good at driving traffic to their
services and their offers. And so the more valuable you make yourself, the more
value you can add to the marketplace, the more money you are going to make, so
focus on creating one monetizable skill and improving and making that skill
better and better. And so this was a game changer in making six figures in all of
my online businesses. And coming in at number five, that is selling high ticket
products, so these high ticket products can be either your products, or a product
that you are an affiliate for. So let me break this down more simply, what is a
high ticket product? So a high ticket product is a product or service that
costs, minimum, two thousand dollars and if it's you that create the
product, or offering the service then you get 100 percent of the profit. But let's
say you're an affiliate marketer, and you're marketing a product that costs
$2,000-$3,000, then you get a commission for that high ticket product, and
speaking of affiliate marketing, this was my second business model that took me to
over six figures, because I got really good at driving traffic to an offer, a
high ticket offer, where every time I got a sale,
I got a thousand dollar commission, and I had to do no work after that. And on this
channel, I used to talk a lot about affiliate marketing and if you're
interested in learning more about affiliate marketing and wanting me to
create a video for on affiliate marketing for beginners, comment below
"affiliate marketing" and I'll create an affiliate marketing for beginners
tutorial, because I know that if you don't have a product, if you really don't
know where to start, affiliate marketing is a great way to get your feet wet with
online business and to really bring in a profitable income, if you do it right. So
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like this weekly. Okay, so we've talked about the first three steps, we've talked
about building monetizable skills and then charging a higher ticket price for
those monetizable skills or promoting a higher ticket offer, now I wanted to talk
to you about building your audience, which is my sixth tip. And when you're
teaching people what you know for free, your audience is gonna grow. Your
followers, your subscribers on YouTube, your pins on
Pinterest, whatever it is. So whatever you focus on growing, that audience is going
to grow, whether it's Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, if you guys are interested on
how I built a wildly successful business on YouTube and how I believe it is the
greatest platform to help you grow any business on YouTube and to hit six
figures, go ahead and download my subscribers to sales blueprint, it'll be
the first link in the description below. And so back to building an audience, this
shouldn't be too complicated, and people get intimidated to start building an
audience because they think "oh I have no followers, I have no email list, I have
nothing, I'm nothing." It's like, okay, well obviously if you stay, if you don't do
anything, that's the way it's going to stay, and nowadays having an audience
that is smaller, a thousand person following or whatever, it is good
because that means you have a micro niche which is very sexy to these
companies that want you to help promote their services and products, and so
future entrepreneurs and business owners think that they need this massive
audience of hundreds of thousands of people in order to make money online and
that's not the case. And so again that is another thing my blueprint goes over, if
you download it in the first link, is how you can really like make a lot of money,
and I mean a lot of money, with not that many subscribers on YouTube, and the same
thing with Instagram, or Facebook, the only thing that's keeping you
from achieving that income and building that audience is you. It's like, usually,
it's imposter syndrome and you think like "Oh I don't know enough" or
"I'm not certified to teach this" or "I haven't achieved this yet so I can't
talk about it." Like, no, just document the journey, teach what you know,
your experiences, you have a powerful story, and you have powerful information
to share with people, and so once you break that mindset it's
get in front of the camera and start creating that content for whatever
social media platform. You will start to see a difference right away, so if you're
digging this video, I know for a fact that you are going to like this video
right here where I talk about ten multiple streams of income that make you
$100 per day or more and that video starts
right now. When I was an engineer, I thought "Man, I just don't know how to
make more money and produce another stream of income," it was so confusing to
me, it is how some people that I know in the online marketing world are making
multiple six figures per month with one digital course, you can get paid to show
people around your city, like how cool is that? You can take people around, show
them the best nightlife, the best restaurants museums, whatever it is.