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- From Nothing to Something (How to Become Wealthy Online As A Complete Beginner).
From Nothing to Something (How to Become Wealthy Online As A Complete Beginner).
Here’s the truth: If you are building a business online, you have more opportunities than ever before.
In the year 2000 there were 14.7 million people in the world who were millionaires.
Today that number has grown by 400% and there are 59.4 Million people in the world with millionaire status.
Here’s the truth: If you are building a business online, you have more opportunities than ever before.
Almost too many opportunities…
When I first started my journey of being an online entrepreneur 2 years ago, I had zero knowledge and zero experience with anything.
For the first 6 months that was extremely noticeable.
So what allowed me to make my very first dollar online?
Skills.
“There is no skill called ‘business.’ Avoid business magazined and business classes”
-Naval Ravikant
So after 6 months and 5 thousand cold emails later, I still had no clients and no money to my name.
The major skills I was lacking were:
Being able to create an irresistible offer.
Sales
Marketing
Persuasion
Although I didn’t get very good at sales until this year, my ability to create an offer was what allowed me to start making money online.
A great offer will sell itself.
What would I do if I had to start from Zero?
Surprisingly, my first step wouldn’t be to create an irresistible offer which is what changed the game for my business initially.
If I could go back in time 2 years ago to when I made my very first digital foot print online. I would have started creating content.
See, documenting your journey and building an audience along the way that can see your ups and downs which ultimately brought you to your current state is priceless.
This builds an infinite amount of trust and credibility between you and whoever watched you along your journey.
While documenting your journey you will likely build a following of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people
Being able to reach millions of people means being able to provide value to millions of people.
Ultimately, providing value to as many people as possible is what will make you successful.
“You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get. At scale.”
-Naval Ravikant
At scale means using leverage.
To give mass amounts of people value your form of leverage can be code or media.
Using content we will be leveraging media to distribute value to a mass amount of people.
Lets run a step-by-step of how we can do this the right way:
1) Build Expertise
Start by building expertise in a certain domain of your life.
Ask yourself:
What problems have you solved in your own life that could help others?
What unique skillset, education, and experiences do you have that could be of value to others?
We ALL have problems that we have solved in our own life.
Whether you:
Were skinny and started body building
Had no fashion and now you know how to dress
Were broke and built a $1 Million dollar business.
2) Create valuable content
Here, you want to be a synthesizer not an influencer.
Meaning you create value for people and educate them, rather than entertaining them.
These are pieces of content that help your audience attain their goals in a specific domain of life.
There are people who have similar goals to you and you have already solved some of the problems along the way.
This means you have value to give to the world.
3) Building an Offer and Monetizing
Here is where we see the key difference between your typical content creator and a synthesizer.
A typical content creator will monetize their work through ad revenue they get from platforms and brand deals/sponsorships.
The synthesizer monetizes through a business he has built off the traffic he has generated from his audience.
This includes:
Courses
Programs
Service based business
Coaching/consulting
Templates/frameworks as a digital product
Ebooks
Memberships
All of these are essentially a next step to the percentage of your audience that wants to learn more from you.
Andrew Tate teaches people how to be a “High Value Man.”
Something fundamental that he teaches to being a high value man is making a lot of money.
So how do you make a lot of money? Join his program “Hustler’s University”
In his program he teaches drop shipping, affiliate marketing, etc…
But is he making his money through these avenues?
“If you want to replicate someone's success:
Don't do what they say. Do what they do.”
-Toussaint Gilbert
Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed this one.
-Toussaint