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The Blueprint to Make $$$ Online From Day 1 (with AI)

wYHs2l6mWdo — Published on YouTube channel Adam Enfroy on October 14, 2024, 1:01 PM

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- Speaker A is covering how to make money online from day one and shows some student wins in the video. #MakeMoneyOnline #MakeItToday. - Speaker A and Speaker B talk about how to monetize a business from day one without needing all of the traffic and views. They talk about affiliate marketing, ads, and selling someone else's product. - Speaker A: have to build an actual audience. Speaker C: start selling simple services from the very beginning. Speaker D: offer services for people a little bit further ahead than you. - It's about client work, delegation, and getting other people to do some of the work for you. We're going to cover what we're selling and how to sell it in detail. - How to make money with services for blogs and websites. Speaker A is keyword research and the content strategy. Speaker B is link building. - Speaker A and Speaker B are talking about how to build a target audience. Speaker B suggests they start with local businesses and then cover software companies with lower domain ratings. Speaker C suggests using crunchbase to find companies.

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We all want passive income, but you can't have it until you create active income, first. So in this video, I explain how you can make money online from day one by selling services with the help of AI tools. If you're a digital nomad, or just trying to earn some money on the side of your nine-to-five, you'll learn how possible it is to create a freelance or agency business in your spare time.

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TOC:
00:00 Intro
00:49 3 Ways To Make Money Online
04:33 What Are We Selling?
08:56 Finding Your Target Audience
13:20 Who To Sell To And Outreach
22:13 Pricing And Packaging
26:54 Doing The Work
29:44 Earning Potential

How I got here…

If you’re new to my channel, my name is Adam Enfroy. I’m the founder of https://AdamEnfroy.com, a blog that I launched in 2019. With two VAs, I grew it to $1M/year business in two years. In 2021, I launched this YouTube channel, now a $4M/year business. So in total, I make $5M/year with dead simple content - I’ve never gone viral, I don’t have millions of followers, and I’m not all that interesting.

I created this channel to combat all of the “guru” clickbait on YouTube that promises too much, delivers too little and makes you feel bad by comparison.

My life wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows to get here:

At 22, I got kicked out of college after failing 9 classes. At 24, I got back in and finally graduated (with student loans, an alcohol problem, and a degree I didn’t know how to use lol). For the next two and a half years, I worked at a pizza place making $9/hour. It then took me the next 10 years of turning my life around to get here. If I can pull myself out of that mess, I want to give people hope that they can too. It just doesn’t happen overnight.

FULL DISCLOSURE
I make YouTube videos to make money. I try to condense as much tactical advice as I can into my YouTube videos for free, and you never have to buy anything. However, if you like these videos and want to work with me regularly, I run a community called AI Income Blueprint, which has hundreds of hours of video content, 6 coaches, and live Q and A's every week for a one-time fee. You can join here: https://incomeblueprint.ai/training/

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Speaker A: In this video, I'm covering how to make money online from day one. So I'm going to show you some of our student wins, too. So this is people who just started out with no experience and started making up to $15,000 a month with the strategies outlined in this video. So we have a lot to cover. You know, this is the business model that made me my 1st 100k online back in 2019. And it was the launching pad to a million dollar a year blog and a multi million dollar a year YouTube channel. This one right here. So when you think about creating content, we know that Google is the biggest search engine in the world. We know that YouTube is number two. But what are the ways we can monetize a business from day one without needing all of that traffic and views? Well, let's get creative. Let's get into it. So, a really quick backstory when we think about the ways that we can make money online. You know, passive income, the word has been around since like 2006, 2007. It's 2024. It still exists. But how do we make money online? Well, there's really just three ways. It's really simple. You either sell someone else's product. So that's affiliate marketing and ads. You sell your own product. So that could be e commerce or.

Speaker B: A course, or you sell services.

Speaker A: So with selling someone else's product, affiliate marketing and ads, you need traffic. You need to build content, right? If it's YouTube videos or blog posts, you need to get views and attention to get people to click links to buy things. Same thing with ads. It takes a lot of traffic to make money. So second is selling your own product now to sell your own product, whether it's ecommerce or of course, that also takes time. You have to build an actual audience. You have to sell a course to people that know, like and trust you, which takes time. It can take a year or two to build enough trust with an audience and create consistent content to do that.

Speaker B: So the third way is services.

Speaker A: Services is the only one where you can start from zero without an audience. So you don't need some huge resume or a bunch of testimonials. You can start selling simple services, really from the very beginning. This is how I first got excited about starting an online business. I remember I was working full time working for a software company in Austin, and I was driving to work and I realized, like, I started doing some blogging. I started, I built a website and I started doing some simple services for other software companies. So I was doing link building. I was writing a lot of guest posts and I was just doing link building for different companies. But I was driving to work, I was doing the math in my head and I was like, you know, the quickest way to leave my job would not be to try to get a bunch of passive income at the beginning. It would be to get two to three clients under my belt. Two to three people paying two to $3,000 a month each. I did the math in my head and I realized this is actually quite possible. If I had three clients paying me $3,000 each, that's $9,000 a month, over $100,000 a year. Like, I would love to do that and not have to drive an hour to work every day. So when you're just starting out, we want to build content. Putting content out there, whether in YouTube videos or blog posts, is like little investments in into your future that will pay you back over time. But when you're just starting out, sometimes it can be disheartening when you're not getting traffic and views in the first three to six months. So selling services is a good way to do this. Why not offer what you're doing, but for people a little bit further ahead than you? So you're going to be doing the same thing anyway. So why not charge brands for it and make money yourself? So I want to show you a couple student wins. To show you that, no, you don't have to be an expert, you don't have to be some crazy content expert to get people to pay you to do stuff. You just need to learn it and then implement it for others. So this is Mick. He's working right now to grow his agency to $50,000 a month. He's currently sitting at $15,000 a month. He's learning in one of our communities and, you know, he's just killing it. It's really about client work, delegation, getting, you know, this agency business model. It's getting other people to do some of the work for you so that you can kind of manage this as a business. So that's fifteen k a month. Here's Molly. She disappeared and came back from her epic win. She signed a single client for five k a month. Retainer got paid close to closing a couple more as well. Here's Diva. She hit five k as well, launching her niche website in June, setting up workflows and processes. Close two deals worth 2500 each. And there are tons and tons and tons of other students doing the exact same thing, coming in with really no experience and coming in and selling services after they learn the process of how to do it. If you're interested in learning more about that, plus all of the AI blogging stuff, how to start a real online business in the 2020s, make sure to click the link in the description below. I'll send you my ten favorite AI prompts and my free AI masterclass so you can start doing all of this stuff for yourself once and for all. Right, so that all sounds pretty cool, but what the heck are we actually doing? Well, we're going to cover what we're selling, how to sell it, how to close it, how to do the work, and it's actually a lot simpler than you might think. So first is what are we actually selling when we're talking about simple services or this agency business model? Well, we can sell a number of different things. Things. It's really based on the strengths, what you're comfortable with. I'm going to cover some in detail. So first is content writing. So very simple. If you want to write blog posts, why not write them for somebody else and get paid for it? That's the first one. And there's a lot of AI tools I'll show you later in this video that can do a lot of the heavy lifting for you at the beginning, especially going from keyword to like a draft where you just edit, editing and publishing. There's actually some agencies that are using tools like machines AI to publish thousands of articles for bigger brands now. So it's really easy. It's a new kind of thing. So another one is like keyword research and the content strategy. So if we're talking about making money with services for blogs and websites, there's really two things. You're either doing the implementation of the work, so the writing itself, or you're kind of driving the strategy. So you're doing keyword research, you're doing the full on content strategy. What keywords are we going after? What's the blog, what's the content calendar? All of that. That requires a little bit more experience, but it's another service and it can be higher value. Sometimes the strategy is higher value than just the implementation. Another one is just SEO in general. So local businesses are not very good at marketing. So you think about the local dentist office, the pizza place, the local law firm, accounting office. All of them don't really know much about marketing. They're busy running their business. They're actually the easiest local businesses, like the easiest potential audience to serve because they might not pay you $5,000 a month, but they could pay you $1,000 a month to do very simple services for them. So we'll cover what all of these are. Another one is link building. So you can do link building for any type of brand, an e commerce company, software company, a blog, any of those. I've had clients that were software companies and e commerce brands and some other big content sites that were buying links from me. And then you can get creative. Think of your strengths. Like some of the agency services that I have paid for specifically are things like YouTube short editing. So short form videos, you know, the ones with like the captions on the bottom, edit those and publish them for a creator, boom. That could be a five to $6,000, up to $10,000 a month agency model. If you, if you do it right, or YouTube thumbnails, maybe you're really good at graphic design and you want to create thumbnails. That's an entire thing that you could offer as well. YouTube strategy, YouTube scripting, sales funnel optimization. So let's say there's a creator and you're good at setting up sales funnels. So it's really, it's all kinds of marketing services. You just have to find the one that you like and the audience that you want to serve. So we're going to get into how to actually find these companies and these people. But first we have to kind of talk about one distinction. That's the difference between an agency and just freelancing. So with freelancing, you are doing all the work yourself, you're doing all the writing, you're doing all the implementation of the work. It's just you solopreneur with the agency model, you are managing the business as a business owner, and you might have one to two to five other people doing the work. So you're not doing the busy work and doing the content writing. You are getting new clients, negotiating the sale, meeting with them once a month, making sure they're happy, and just running a business. So that's really the only distinction is freelancing is solo, which you can do. Agency is eventually hiring more people and scaling it out. And what's great about the agency business model, it's very scalable. You bring on a client, you know, you do everything yourself. For your first client, we'll cover exactly how to get started. Once you start bringing in two, three, four, the number of clients just scales up with the number of people that are employed or helping you. So it's really that simple.

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Speaker A: So we covered a little bit about the services you can offer. We'll get into more of that in detail, but first we need to build a target audience. Right? What is the audience that you want to serve? So we're going to cover the different Personas and the different people you'll be reaching out to. Again, this is outreach. Do you need a website? You don't even really need a website for this. So this is a way to make money blogging or make money online, but you don't necessarily need a website. This is primarily done through outreach, email, closing deals and then doing work. It's really that simple. So we have to think about it. Who's going to be buying services from individuals? An individual person? Well, it's not going to be Shopify or wix or some giant company. It's going to be local businesses and then it's going to be software companies with lower domain ratings. You know, maybe they're new, maybe they just got full funded. They're not huge already. They don't have ten SEO managers. So there's company size, local businesses, early growth stays companies and e commerce brands. So let's go through them one by one. So first is local businesses like we discussed, they're not great at marketing, they're smaller, they don't have big budgets. However, they're super easy to find. Target and it's the easiest type of marketing strategy I just put into chat GBT. Give me 50 local businesses in the Denver area that might need help with SEO. Boom. It just gives me all of these. You can google it, find them, find different companies, just do some simple outreach that way. So I would keep it. If you're doing local business, focus on the local area that you're in and you can help serve that audience. We'll cover what to actually offer them because it's a little bit different. Local business needs different things than a software company does. Next is software companies. So software company, I would say with a domain rating between 40 and 70 is a good thing. That's a good one to look for. We don't want some giant company that already knows everything. They're not going to hire a single like an individual person to help with content or SEO or YouTube or anything like that. What we can do is we could use something like crunchbase. And I have one thing in here. So you can add, you can do build a query on companies. You can say, you can add different filters. So I added in like monthly visits are between 10,100 thousand. So they're getting some traffic but not a huge amount. Number of employees is between eleven and 50. So this is interesting. When you're thinking about a software company that's going to pay an individual, it's, it could be zero, it could be one to ten or eleven to 50, maybe even 50 to 200. But it's not going to be Dell or Microsoft, right? They already have teams. They just do it all in house. People that don't do things in house and require an agency are a little bit smaller in the growth phase. So I put eleven to 50. They have money to spend at this size but they're not huge. And then you could also say last funding date. So this is interesting. In crunchbase you can see like this company just got funded. They did a seed round or a series, a, b or c or something like that. I just put it recently. So the last like three months or so, a couple months. And you can see there's 221 results here. So Crunchbase Pro, you can do tons of searches on here. It's like $300 though or something for the year. But otherwise it's a pretty good tool to use to just find very specific software companies for list building. Alright, so we covered local businesses, software companies. Another one is e commerce brands. So brands selling physical products online. And again you don't want to go after Nike here or some giant company, but ones that are growing mid tier, doctor, from 40 to 70 or things like that. Especially like there's even some local businesses that sell online. Like for example a local ATV or motorsports company. They have their inventory, they're pre owned and new inventory on the site but they don't have like a blog strategy or a Google my business strategy or all of that. So ecommerce brands is another one. Or other creators. If you're, if you're going to be selling services like YouTube thumbnails, YouTube scripting short videos, it's going to be other creators. It's a little bit harder to like get blogs to pay you for content. Sometimes they have to be pretty big if it's just an individual blogger. That's why I focus more on software companies for content. But other creators too, especially on YouTube or lead Gen. So the last one's lead gen. That could be things like realtors, high end service pros like H vac, plumbing, commercial construction, things like that, where they might have a website, they might want to do lead Gen for themselves, but they don't know what they're doing. So you can really help them. Like if there's a realtor, a local realtor that needs help, you could help them with a YouTube strategy, you could help them with lead generation through a website. So you really have to think about it. Who do you want to serve? Who can you help? What service do you want to learn and get good at? Again, if you click the link in the description below, you can watch the free masterclass. You can kind of see more about, you can learn content marketing and writing and SEO. And so you can learn that in like a week if you take a course or something like that, right? It's not like you need to go to college for something like that. Same thing is true of YouTube. You can learn this stuff pretty quickly and then implement it. So next, you know, you want to create a list of like 50 companies, 50 potential targets based on your audience list, people you want to serve in one specific audience. And it's important you find that one specific one, because sometimes it's harder. If you're just targeting all software companies with generalized SEO services, you're going to fill, you know, be in a sea of competition and you're not standing out. You don't have a good offer. So it's really about the offer. What is the specific service you're offering? Is it. I'm going to scale your content with 30 AI optimized articles a month that are human edited. Is it YouTube? Is it something else? You need something very specific that your audience needs. So we have the list, you know, put it in a spreadsheet. 50 companies, let's say you start with, then you have to find the name of the person to actually reach out to. So name finding is next. And there's a couple ways to do that, one is just like LinkedIn. So I went to LinkedIn here. I searched like Mailchimp, and what you would do is you go to the company page. So you find the company, then you go to people and you look at the different people at the company and then you search by keyword. I would do SEO for like SEO manager or something like that. And then you can find these people here. So Seomanager at Mailchimp hit Connect. You don't even have to really send a message with your connection request. Just send a connection request, see if they answer. If it's a bigger company, you'll see like there's quite a few. There's an international manager, an analyst manager, global director. So they have four people. I always try to aim for like the manager or director level, the decision makers, right? Not like the junior analyst that has to check with their boss necessarily, but you can connect with them and then just kind of wait. And then we put the name in the spreadsheet. So you just take the name, take it. Put that in another column in the spreadsheet. All right, so you have the name, you have the company. Now we just need the email address because we're going to be sending emails. So to do that we would use Hunter. Hunter IO is a tool you could use. I put in mailchimp and it gives you the format of the email. So it says first name, last name is the format that is used. You can find that some of these people have their emails on LinkedIn and then it shows you. So you'll notice there's a couple different ones. Like this one has a first name only. But, but I think that first name, last name is the format. So now that you have the company, you have the name. Now you have the email because you have the format. If you're looking for a more advanced option for outreach and list building, you can use something like Apollo. Although it is a paid tool, I've used it before, it's pretty good. It has its own database. You can do something like create a Persona. So for example, you can plus Persona. And I'm going to say the Persona name is SEO managers in the US. So you can say the job title is SEO manager. Then you just put that in. You can say, you can choose the location, the industry, the keywords. You can just say United States. All SEO managers in the United States at companies with eleven to 100 employees. And you save that. And now you can view it. So you can see it now there's 566, 565 different people that you could reach out to with that. So it's a way to kind of automate the list building and then do the outreach. So you can create email sequences in here, send emails and follow ups in an automated way. So it's another option. But again, it's paid. At the end of this video, I'll show you the exact free way to do this whole thing. So at this point, all we should have is a spreadsheet with three columns, company name, email address. So now what do we actually send in the email? This is going to be the important part to figure out, this is a lot of email, what to say in the email. This is all interpersonal email skills and psychology. So we are reaching out, doing cold outreach to get people to eventually hire us. And this is done all the time. So it's a skill that is actually good to build, but it's all psychology. So first you want to be casual, not pushy or demanding. So I get a lot of emails that are like, add this link to your blog post. Like, no, there's nothing in it for me. You're demanding something out of me. I'm not going to do it. But you want to be very casual, very friendly tone. You want to lead with an intro and then your most impressive statement. So, for example, when I was first starting doing link building for clients, I didn't say, hey, my name is Adam and I have a blog with zero visitors because that was the reality in 2019. At the time. I said, my name is Adam and I am the digital marketing director at the company I was working for. So you can use, you know, try to find your most impressive statement. Maybe you've been a photographer for ten years or you've been gardening for 15 years, something that is the most impressive possible business statement you can make for yourself. So that's kind of leading to say, hey, this is who I am. Shorten to the point. And then in the email, you want to get to something specific. So the more specific the better sometimes. Now, if we're scaling this out and mass sending emails, that's one strategy. But at first I think it's good to be a little bit more targeted and specific. So if you're doing local businesses, for example, and you say, okay, there's local dentists in Chicago, you can look at one and you're doing outreach, you're doing SEO services, you want to get this client, you can say, you know, I see that you're ranking on page two for some type of dental surgery in Chicago, some specific service they offer. I notice you're on page two for this. That's it, right? I was wondering if you'd be open to me helping you with this strategy, in fact. And then testimonials. I've helped these other brands do it as well. Now, you're not going to have those at first, but over time you can. So you're saying something specific, especially at the beginning. This is the really hard part. Right? When we're first starting out, we're doing initial outreach and we feel like we're not an expert, we feel like we're not good enough. We feel like we shouldn't even be messaging this person. You can still do it. So something specific. Hey, I see you're ranking on page two for this. Wondering if you'd be open to helping with this future testimonials. Let me know what you think. Looking forward to hearing back from you. Something casual. Don't be demanding. End it that way. And you can do follow ups at days four and seven ended at that. Most of the time they're not going to answer. Some of the times they will answer, and then it's all about getting them into an initial meeting. Now, when I was doing link building, I actually didn't have any meetings. I just did it all through email, back and forth and back and forth. I think it is actually easier in this. It's considered solution based sales. So any agency work is solution based sales. So you're going to set up a meeting, say, hey, yeah, I'd love to talk to you about it. Get a calendly link. Feel free to book in my calendly. That's the fastest and easiest way to get somebody to do it rather than going back and forth. Are you free on Wednesday at two, Thursday at one? Just have a calendly link. Now in this meeting, this is solution based sales. So all you're doing is asking questions. That's all you're doing. You're trying to find the biggest pain points. You're trying to see how you can help. Because every single client is going to be a little bit different. Their needs are all going to be different. You can't just blast the same exact offer every single time. You want to tailor it to the individual potential client. And what I found here is like chat. GBT actually came up with some good ideas here. I said, give me ten questions I should ask. Ask for local business during initial consulting meeting. I want to uncover their pain points and get them to hire me for $3,000 a month. So you want to find out what they're currently doing, how to potential. How do potential customers currently find your business online? What challenges are you facing in attracting new customers? Are you currently tracking any, you know, what's going on? Are you tracking traffic? Are you getting sales? How would you rate your website performance? Have you been approached to do this in the past? Do you have any keywords you want to rank for? How often do you update stuff? Have you received any feedback? Are you currently using Google my business local directories? What would success look like? So these are really good questions because you're just trying to figure out what's going on right now, what are their problems and how you can help them. Now with local businesses, it's more like they need Google my business listing. So that's optimizing the listing to get on the map. They need local simple SEO services. So literally just pages related to their services, plus city names. So if you're a dentist in Chicago, there's going to be different words around types of surgeries and teeth whitening in Chicago and all these different, like ten to 20 different things that they offer and you just add those in as simple pages. So the local strategy is going to be a little bit different. We'll cover each one. But really you're just asking questions in this meeting. You want to keep it casual and friendly, but not like overly friendly, ridiculously friendly, where you're calling them your best friend and like giving them a kiss on the camera, on zoom. Be professional, be honest. You know, if you're saying like, hey, I'm just starting out, I'm kind of new to this, but I'll do it, you know, I'm doing it a really reduced rate because I've seen a lot of, you know, I've been taking these courses, I've seen a lot of success, blah, blah, blah. Do you want to be honest? You don't want to lie. Be like, how long have you been doing this? Ten years. I'm an expert. No. And sometimes it does take taking on one free client. I would say one max. Take a free client, have one person as a testimonial, maybe someone you know locally. I actually did that when I was working at a pizza place when I was 26 years old. After college, I started doing just free marketing work for the pizza place. And then I leveraged that into an early getting a second client. Early on, even before I started my career, I was kind of dabbling in digital marketing. And then you end it. So you can end it with a pitch if you're really prepared like, if you feel like I can help this person, I know exactly what I'm going to offer. You can end it, but typically you'll want to end it, say, this is all great, let me, let me plan something very specific and I'll get back to you. And then you just send the proposal via email. So next is pricing and packaging your offer. Now, if it's something like content writing, you do like two to $300 an article. Scale it up to how many articles you're doing or more. Offering bulk discounts is good, but typically it's done in a good, better, best format. So three options, three prices with most people landing in the middle. So the high end price is like the nuts and bolts, everything. I'll do your keyword research, your content strategy. We'll do 20 articles, we'll do all this stuff, and it's $8,000 a month. The middle option that most people will pick is what you actually want to do, what you think is the best option for them. So that could be something like if it's YouTube services, YouTube shorts, editing, I will edit 15 short videos a month, do all the captions, all the thing, all the uploads, all of that. Or that could be, I'll do one a day for you captions, all of it. And that's going to be five grand or six grand. And then the lower option is like the cheap option that they probably won't do with very limited service offerings. So it's really, the pricing is like, are you doing just the implementation? Like, are they doing all the strategy? And then you're just doing writing, then you're going to kind of charge a little bit less because it's only writing. Are you doing all the strategy? You can't really put a price on good content strategy because really, agency work is all based on the ROI. If you can get, if you do a keyword strategy and the brand starts making a ton of money, then it could be worth tens of thousands of dollars. So strategy makes more money, but it requires you to have a little bit more experience and have some clients under your belt that you've done this for, but it's a little bit different. So for a local business, the easiest thing is you run Google, my business, maybe a Facebook page for them, and you create ten blog posts for them based on their services, plus the city name. Ten individual pages, very simple. You charge $1,000 a month for, and we want a minima minimum of three months. Typically we don't want to say one month only. They're going to try to push that, but you're going to want to say three months is kind of the minimum because we have to actually get this thing going and get it rolling right. Software company, they need a potentially, you know, for content strategy. They wouldn't need thought leadership content that probably their own internal team is writing, but then what I call glossary content. So all kinds of different articles. For example, if they're a cold email outreach software company, they're going to be writing tons and tons of articles about email. Cold email, Gmail things, Gmail extensions, add ons, all kinds of different things that are searched for. So you can kind of drive that content strategy, but it's all in one very specific niche with the goal of the content leading into them getting paying customers, going to their feature pages and starting a trial. That's for software. For other bloggers, creators websites, it's really driving. A content strategy is going to be broader, so you're going to stay in their niche. But like, if you're doing YouTube strategy, for a creator in the finance niche, there could be all kinds of video ideas, titles, thumbnails, everything from the stock market, nfts, creating crypto, real estate. It really depends. So content creators go a little bit broader with their strategy because it's mainly done through affiliate marketing, ad sponsors, courses. So you can go broader, but really you have to think about when you're offering this, what can your target demographic afford? A local business might pay you $500, maybe $1,000 a month if they're very successful local business like a doctor's office or a dentist's office or something like that. A software company that's in their growth phase, that just got funded might be able to pay you $10,000 a month without batting an eye. It just depends on the type of company you're going after. So next step, then you send a proposal. And I actually had chat GPT create a pretty good one here, too. I said, create an SEO proposal template. Make it 10 00, 30, 00, 50 00 a month. What you're going to send is something very simple like this. So you wouldn't use this exact thing, you would make it your own. But it has a title it's like prepared for. Here's the date. Thank you for considering us. A little intro. And then what are the objectives? So you cover what they talked about, what the what, the answer to the questions you asked them, and then you break down the services. Good, better, best format. Here's all the things they'll do. Do this many blog posts, we'll optimize this many pages. We'll do monitoring, we'll do all this stuff. You can have a plan breakdown and you email it. You can also say, hey, you want to jump on another quick call and I'll run you through this because a lot of sales happens over a Zoom call or over the phone. But really, I think something simple, keeping it really simple and saying, hey, here's what we offer. I think the middle tier option is the best. Let me know what you think. Leave it at that. If they don't answer again, you follow up probably in this one, you follow up two days later and then two days after that again. But this is a pretty simple template. You get them and then they sign the proposal and then you invoice them. You can invoice via Pandadoc for free. You can do a PayPal invoice, really simple. All right, so they sign it, they close it. You just made $3,000 a month for three months. Congratulations. That's awesome. Now you gotta actually do some of the work, right? So the question is, are you doing it yourself or are you hiring somebody to help you? Well, I think at the very beginning you should be doing everything yourself to learn this process fully. You should always learn everything before you outsource it. That's true of YouTube, of blogging, of anything. You have to do it yourself and get good at it before you can actually train somebody to do it. They're only going to be as good as you are. And if you're not good at it, then they're not going to be good at it. So there's a couple ways that we can do this. We're scaling out content. We can use something like machine AI that I told you other agencies use. So this is like you put in a bunch of keywords and you get to this page. So this is one I did for just something like back workouts. Really simple. And then it creates this cluster. It has 21 articles in here and you can literally have it, you know, this is back exercises with cables. Best dumbbell back exercises. This is just an example, but you can say, I want it to be very long. Use chat, GPT, do a friendly tone, first person perspective and then write it. You click write, you can get all the way to just publish it, right to WordPress. So you can publish drafts immediately through here. You can see here's like cable back workouts. This is what it came with. Featured images taking a minute to load, but you can see understanding back muscles, anatomy, all of this stuff is just completely done automatically in about a minute. So it's pretty quick and you can get a ton of articles done this way. Bye. Using AI, but then editing them, so you don't want to, you know, publish just straight up AI articles when you say you're going to write them yourself, right? So there has to be a clear understanding that if you're using AI to scale content, that you're telling your client that and you're editing them. Now, editing requires humanization, so that requires, based on the client writing an introduction that includes more things about them or their business or things that are very specific, written in the first person, and then also internal linking, which this tool does by itself, adding images in. But it's a much faster way to do this. You could hire a single AIO writer, AI optimization writer, and they can take these, edit it in your own way, humanize it, add some expertise, authoritativeness, trustworthiness, and then add the images in and publish, and they can get an article done in a few hours or an hour rather than 10 hours. So it's a way to scale things a lot faster using a tool like machine, aih. So no matter what you're doing, here's how to get it more automated. Because really, when we think about passive income, any business can get passive over time. It just requires you doing the work first. You could start a lawn care company and get that thing passive over time once you hire a few people to help you, right? So it's about building the thing first, doing the work, learning it, getting clients, getting your hands dirty, and then hiring and scaling it up.

Speaker B: So first you have to do all.

Speaker A: The work first yourself. Make sure the clients are happy, understand? Over deliver under promise, and over deliver on the first one. For sure. You could use an AI tool like machine to scale the publishing process or something like that. Now I think the math here is what it would look like. So if you're getting, say, $3,000 a client, you get one client, do everything yourself, that's $3,000 a month. You don't want to hire somebody for 2000 when you're making 3000, right? The profit margin on that is not good enough. But if you get a second client paying you 3000, now you have 6000 a month, now you can start looking at, alright, I'm going to hire an AIO writer on something like the pro blogger job board, and I'm going to pay them $100 to edit and optimize and publish each of these articles. So the math works where now it's like I'm going to pay $1,000 to somebody making and I'm going to be making six. So you're making 5000 out of 6000. I'm not good at math, but that's something like 80 something percent profit margin, I think, I don't know, 82.5. That's my guess. And then by third client, now you have three clients paying you 3000 a month. That's 9000 a month. Now you can scale that up, you can pay that person more, you can pay them two or 3000. Now you're making six take home. So it's really, the agency model is great because you just simply get more clients and scale up. The key is offering. It all comes down to offering the right service that you're comfortable with, learning it really good, getting good at the outreach, figuring out what that, you know first sentence is in your email, that's really going to get people to answer you. And then testing over time, you know, not getting discouraged because this is a sales driven thing. If you, it's really simple. If you want to make money online from day one, you have to sell stuff. Passive stuff can come later when people are finding you naturally through the attention economy, finding your content at first, it's basically how money is made. You sell things. And when you're not selling your own product, which requires a big audience, you're selling services that you can just do. So it's not the most passive, but nothing can be passive immediately. And then what we can do is we can take these writers, these people that are doing the agency work for us, and then all we do is we flip it over here and say, hey, start doing this for my site too. So now you have a content writer for your own site. So that's what I did. I hired a writer that was doing stuff for the agency that I built. I funneled them over to my own blog, and then I started building the passive income streams. Once I had a base of money every month and I was doing it full time because I left my job. That's the hardest part, taking a business from doing it on the side as a side hustle to a full time business. And I would argue that starting a website and doing services is the fastest monetization stream to do it because it brings in revenue. You can build the agency business model, you can hire one to two people and then you shift them over and start building the passive content streams into your own life, whether that's YouTube videos or blog posts. So it's how I started in 2019. I had one writer, one assistant. Through that I started, you know, really scaling, was writing every single article myself too at the beginning. Hired one writer and then got it up to 80,000 a month with one writer and one assistant, two vas, basically. Now my blog's pretty much fully automated. I have one content manager. We published 20 articles month. All I do is spend about 5 hours a month on it, doing some keyword research for the month. That's pretty much it. I spend some time on doing other things, some PPC strategies, some affiliate negotiations and things like that. And I have all the time back for YouTube videos and teachings. I like doing that too. So why am I teaching this? Why am I not just doing the blog thing? Because teaching on YouTube can also make money. It's more fun. You can build a community and build an audience. So you saw a lot of the student wins. We teach a lot in both AI income blueprint and income university. So income university, we teach YouTube blogging, agency work, all of that stuff. AI income blueprint. We teach specifically AI content creation blogging. Both are really good communities. You know, we're constantly updating the stuff in there every single week. We have live Q and A's. Students really love it. So I think it's the number one way to build a personal brand, build a website, start selling services, start building content, start learning. Just start learning the process and taking action. You saw the wins. I think you can, you know, see that it is possible. It's not that complicated, but it will take some work. It's not get rich quick scheme, right? So if you're interested in joining me and learning more about this, make sure to again click the link in the description below. I'll send you my ten free favorite AI prompts. I can pretty much just write articles for you. You plug it into chat, DPT or clawed and it just writes the entire thing, finds your niche, does all these different things. So it's really cool. Plus my AI masterclass. Make sure to click that. Give it a watch. I hope you found this one useful, like the video. If you could subscribe to the channel if you have not already, and I will see you in another video. Thanks for watching.