Remote Closing Academy founder Cole Gordon became a millionaire in the most boring way possible. He doesn’t know diddly about stocks, didn’t get rich off some meme coin, and couldn’t code if his life depended on it. But what he did do was ignore all the fads and went back to timeless money-making principles that have been around for thousands of years. And it took him from broke bartender to owning two eight figure companies, fifty plus employees, and becoming a multi millionaire.
Stay at home moms, don’t worry, I’m not gonna tell ya to host home parties and guilt all your girlfriends and neighbors into buying vitamins or skin creams or essential oils. There’ll be no recruiting or three-way calls or awkward sales conversations either. And you won’t have to document your entire life on the internet, so stay in those sweats, momma, and that shower can wait. Here are some side hustles you can do without selling your soul or embarrassing yourself on TikTok.
Yes and no. The way Jeff Lerner advertises his Millionaire Shortcut book? No. Totally misleading. He says all these millionaires are being created every single day, and you can be one of ’em, and he’s got the shortcut, right? Just cough up your email and you’ll get free and instant access to this life-changing book. Only, it’s not a book, there’s a catch, and the so-called shortcut is a huge letdown and conveniently tees you up for that catch I was telling you about.
Readers are leaders. The more you learn, the more you earn. I agree with those statements somewhat. But which books you read and what you do with the information is what really counts. Let’s be honest: most business books are boring, rambling, and do little more than reword the other bestsellers on that subject. Sprinkle in a few new stories and quote some unique studies and call it a day, right? So don’t just read anything; be selective.
Jeff Sekinger was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but his family relocated to Columbus, Ohio, which is where he grew up. Both of his parents were entrepreneurs, and their family was pretty well off until ’08, when the market crashed. They lost most of their wealth, his parents got divorced, so he saw both ends of the spectrum. Life with money was better. After injuring his ribs during a high school football practice, Jeff was prescribed muscle relaxers and Percocet.
Christian Mikkelsen says, “If you’re trying to make real money online, you need to stop with the drop shipping, Amazon FBA, affiliate marketing, MLM, whatever else people are shouting at you to do right now. Because here’s the thing people need to understand: you aren’t the only person these online biz gurus are trying to sell to. So if a certain online business model is being talked about a lot, then it’s probably extremely competitive, saturated, and void of any opportunity.”
Tom Wang just did the most YouTube thing ever: he “quit” YouTube. That’s what the title and thumbnail of his most recent YouTube video said, anyways. Of course, as soon as you hit play, you realize you’ve been duped. “All right YouTube,” Tom starts out, “I’m gonna have a heart-to-heart with you because I’ve sold my soul to YouTube and I’m getting it back. Over the past few months, my content’s shifted into a lot of these beginner-focused topics.”
Rasmus and Christian get the same questions over and over about publishing on Amazon. Here they are, along with their answers. Question number one: Are you publishing other people’s books? Yes and no, say the twins. They’re not writing these books themselves, they’re outsourcing ’em. But still, they’re their books. Rasmus and Christian take the finished product, publish on Amazon and Audible, and pocket all of the upside. Make sense? Cool, keep reading.
Sophie Howard says there’s five main internet businesses she’s a fan of. The first, and arguably what she’s best known for, is selling physical products via Amazon FBA. You buy in bulk from China or India or wherever, do your own branding, list ’em on Amazon, and they fulfill. Once profitable, you could always launch your own ecom store using something like Shopify. The nice thing about physical products is they almost sell themselves.
Rasmus and Christian Mikkelsen are the twin brothers behind Publishing Life, where they teach ya how to make money on Amazon without selling physical products. Instead, you’ll be publishing books (eBooks, audiobooks, plus or minus paperback books). The Mikkelsen twins say they’ve published more than a hundred books themselves, combining for more than six figures in royalties. Should you buy their Audiobook Income Academy 2.0 course and do this yourself? Read on.
FBA Masterclass creator Tom Wang says, “If you wanna crush it on Amazon in 2022 and beyond, you have to get this one thing right. Trust me when I say this. I’ve sold my brand for seven figures, sold close to ten million dollars on Amazon since 2017. I have more than five thousand students in my Amazon FBA coaching program. So I have a lot of data points. I see why people succeed. And, at the same time, I see why people fail.”
Jeff Lerner says the ultimate goal is to be happy, to live a life of purpose, passion, fulfillment, progress. In fact, the more you close the gap between where you are and where you wanna be, the happier you’ll feel. “Progress toward our legacy is actually happiness,” he explains. “So I built this framework to make that happen for myself, and it’s what we teach our students inside Entre Institute.” All right Jeff, let’s hear it. What’s this magical happiness slash wealth formula?
Modern millionaires are a dime a dozen seems like. So how’re all these people making all this money on the internet? I’ll spare you the cliche advice about reading business books and goal setting and thinking positive thoughts and exercising every day and waking up at five o’clock in the morning. You already know all that, and maybe you even do some of them some of the time, right? So what else is there? What haven’t you tried yet?
Nate O’Brien is a YouTuber who makes content on personal finance, investing, and entrepreneurship. Here are his best business ideas for 2023. First is some type of influencer management. There’s no startup cost associated with it, which is nice. But basically, when someone like Nate gets a big audience, they’re constantly going back and forth with brands, trying to get sponsorships, negotiating, planning, scheduling, all that jazz. You could help with that, and get paid for it.
Roland Frasier is the cofounder of Scalabe.co, Traffic & Conversions, DigitalMarketer, and War Room. He believes you can get paid to vet deals that lead to cash and equity (meaning ownership). How it came about is, he got sick of everyone asking him for advice, so he was like, “Okay, sure, I’ll meet with ya. It’s eighteen grand for half a day.” It was more to protect his time than anything; he didn’t think anybody’d take him up on it. Until they did.