Never been a better time in history to make digital dough.
Here's 42 ways to make your first $1 online:
Tactic:
Sell a Notion template
Strategy:
Create a template for a common process you go through in Notion. Add explainer sections on each page for context. Make the page public. Set up a product on Gumroad.
Make a short 1-hour course from a topic you know well. Use a mix of video and text to display the info. Ask for feedback often and improve the product.
Build a storehouse of social proof by doing 10 free website audits. Create a landing page to sell the service and include this work already done. Record video audits and send links to customers after.
Write an in-depth outline first. Make sure you have legitimate value to add. Record a 30-minute training for a specific skill or idea. Sell on a marketplace.
Find a product you really like that has an affiliate program. Connect with their community manager or marketing team. Start selling their product for them.
Teach companies how to use Notion, Asana, Hubspot, etc.
Strategy:
Pick a tool you have mastered. Set up a Twitter search for "tool"+"help" or something similar. Look thru results regularly and DM people with a consulting offer.
Tool to help:
Twitter Advanced Search
Tactic:
Start a paid community
Strategy:
Pick a very specific topic to discuss. Create premium content regularly around that topic. Put it inside a gated community. Invite people inside the community and build relationships.
Search for smaller YouTubers and other video creators you could help. Find them in Twitter Advanced Search by searching "video editing"+"help". DM potential opportunities.
This one will take a while. Start writing about an interesting topic. Publish weekly for a year to build the muscle. Turn on ads when you have a bit of traffic.
Determine your 3-5 content buckets (topics you'll write about). Write a backlog of 10 emails. Set up a welcome email sequence. Publish for 6 months. Start accepting sponsors.
Make great content on your website. Publish consistently. Place a "Buy me a coffee" link under each article. Encourage people to support you, but give everything away for free.
Gather a few leaders in your niche. Agree to start a monthly mastermind group. Each month, you'll meet and instruct the group on core topics. Charge others for entry.
Make a calculator that solves a specific problem in your niche (e.g. a TAM calculator for your startup idea). Gate it on your website and charge for access.
Always be compiling. Gather valuable articles, ads, snippets, etc. from the web and place into your swipe file. Sell access when you have a good amount of content.
Write a monthly handwritten letter and charge to send it to people
Strategy:
Who says handwritten letters are dead? If you wanna stand out, this is one way to do it. Write your newsletter the old-fashioned way and send one out monthly.
Create an online course, but split up the content into a 7-day email drip instead. Sell access from your main landing page and give instant access. First email sends out right away.
Find popular creators. Design comic strips of their recent content. Ask them to share with their audience, and offer your services to make comics for anyone else who wants to buy.
Set up a direct process in Bannerbear to take an image of a tweet in a folder, and transform it into an Instagram post. Sell these to any who wants to order.
Create a small community around a niche topic. Treat this as a mastermind group and a way to share extremely valuable info. Sell access to the Slack group on your landing page.
Identify a small problem you have in your workflow. Ask other people if they care about solving the same problem. Build a tiny solution. Share it with the world.
Determine your 3-5 content buckets (topics you'll write about). Write a backlog of 10 emails. Set up a welcome email sequence. Sell access to the newsletter.
Never been a better time in history to make digital dough.
Here's 42 ways to make your first $1 online:
Tactic:
Sell a Notion template
Strategy:
Create a template for a common process you go through in Notion. Add explainer sections on each page for context. Make the page public. Set up a product on Gumroad.
Make a short 1-hour course from a topic you know well. Use a mix of video and text to display the info. Ask for feedback often and improve the product.
∙ It encourages conversation
∙ It answers a specific question
∙ The idea comes with a clear format
∙ Your audience wants to know the answer
∙ It does deep in one topic, not shallow in 7
2. Know that all content creation is self-promotion.
Every time you post, you are hoping for engagement and traction. All posts are promotions. Make it worthwhile for your community by giving out good info.