3 Businesses You Can Start Right Now for Zero Dollars
Today I’m going to show you four businesses that you can start right now for just zero dollars
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Business #1: Content Repurposing Agency
Opportunity in Short Form Content
Short form content is without a doubt one of the most incredible opportunities of our generation. With platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts, people are blowing up faster than ever before. But to be honest, it’ll take a long time for you to actually make money as a creator.
However, I believe that there’s a huge opportunity elsewhere to make some good money pretty quickly. 💡
What I would recommend is starting a content repurposing agency. Essentially, your job is to find influencers with a small to medium-sized audience and offer to edit their videos, live streams, and podcasts into short form content. Then, you can take that content and post it for them on Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and TikTok to help them grow much faster. 📈
Most of my friends are creators, and I can tell you for a fact that everybody is looking for this right now. For example, let’s look at my TikTok. In the last couple of months, I started posting almost every single day on this account and I’ve already been able to get 65,000 followers and 1.6 million likes, but I’ve never edited or posted a single video myself. 🎥
Challenges and Solutions
At the moment, I’m currently paying my team of editors around ten thousand dollars to do this, and we’re currently posting hundreds of videos a month across all social media platforms. As a result, my YouTube channel has hit an all-time high in terms of growth this month, so it just shows that there is a lot of value in this service. 💰
With an agency like this, you can easily charge people one to three thousand dollars a month just for editing these simple videos. But there’s just one problem with this business idea: everybody is trying to do this right now. Every single day, I get at least 10 DMs from people offering this exact service to me. So, if you want to do this, how can you stand out and actually get clients?
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What I would do is instead of just reaching out to people and offering this service, I would show them that you’re capable of doing it. So, pick an influencer and go ahead and start creating some content for them for free. The goal of this is to build up a page and show that you’re capable of getting results. If you can do that, people will be much more likely to pay you with no hesitation. 🌟
Live Example and Potential Earnings
For example, if somebody DM’d me and said, “Hey, I created a page for you two weeks ago and I’ve already got a couple thousand followers and we even had a video hit a million views,” I’m going to be so much more likely to give that person some money compared to the guy that’s just like, “Yo bro, put me on.” So, if you do this properly and build up some results for them, you’re almost guaranteed to lock them in as a client. 💼
This opportunity won’t be around forever, so make sure to take advantage of it while you can. But for now, let’s move on to business number two!
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Business #2: Organic Drop Shipping
Introduction to E-commerce and Drop Shipping
So, the thing that I’ve made the majority of my money with is e-commerce. For the last five years that I’ve been in the game, to get started, you needed some money. But there has truly been a resurgence in this industry with something I like to call organic drop shipping.
For the first time ever, you can build a six-figure-a-month business without spending one dollar on ads simply by leveraging the power of short form content. 📦
Steps to Start
The way that you would do this is by first finding a product that is trending recently on TikTok or Facebook. Once you do that, you’re gonna go on Amazon and actually order this product so you can begin creating content for it.
The way to go viral is not by coming up with some new idea or some new trend; you literally can just go out there and study the videos that have already popped off and recreate them in your own way. 🎯
As long as you keep doing this on a daily basis, it’s only a matter of time until your first video hits and you start making some real money. Without a doubt, this is one of the fastest ways to kick start a Shopify business without spending any money — well, except for the fact that you have to order the product, but still, you know what I’m saying!
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Examples of Success
Let me show you a few examples of some stores that are crushing it with this right now. In the last three days, this video got 4.5 million views and almost 400,000 likes.
Basically, these guys just created a healthy alternative to vaping. As you can see, it looks like a vape but it doesn’t have any nicotine or anything like that, and this video is absolutely popping off. 📈
You can see they did this multiple times: they got one video at 3.6 million views, another at 4.5 million, and videos with a hundred thousand across the board. This is a golden example of a brand that was kick-started just with organic content. 🥇
When we break down the numbers, you can see how crazy this can actually get. So, out of 4.5 million views, let’s say just five percent of people clicked onto the website — that is 225,000 website visitors.
Now, let’s say one percent of people ended up purchasing — that’s over 2,000 customers from one simple video. Based on the price of their product, on the low end, these guys generated over forty-five thousand dollars from just one video, and they didn’t have to spend a dime on ads!
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Tools and Resources
This is another brand that has done this successfully — they got over 6 million views in just over a month on this little five-second video that probably just took them a couple minutes to make.
It just goes to show that as long as you have a product that actually solves a problem and catches people’s attention, you can easily go viral and make great money without ever having to run an ad. 📱
The best part is you can reinvest the money you make from this back into ads so you can scale your business much faster. As you can see, this strategy is the ultimate opportunity for anyone looking to get started with drop shipping.
The Shopify plan is not free though — it’s going to cost you around thirty dollars a month. But if you want to save some money, make sure to sign up with my link in the description — you’re going to be able to get a free trial and only pay one dollar for your first three months. So, make sure to check that link out if you’re looking to start your own store!
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Business #3: Faceless YouTube Channel
Concept and Appeal
Did you know you can make thousands of dollars a month from YouTube without ever showing your face?
I know for a fact that you’ve seen channels like this and didn’t even think about it, which leads me to business number three: building a faceless YouTube channel. Essentially, you go out and pick a niche that you are knowledgeable on, such as sports, business, or gaming. 🎮
Steps to Start
Then, you take a deep dive into that niche and find video ideas that have already begun to go viral.
One lesson that holds true across all these business ideas is that you don’t have to come up with the idea yourself — you can literally find what’s working, take a model of what’s already had success, and replicate that for yourself.
This is the key to getting your first success in any business. 💡
Once I realized this is when I finally started making things happen. After you found some video ideas that are going viral within that niche, you want to think of a great title and thumbnail that you can use to get that video to go viral.
If you need help coming up with the title, there is this free tool that I use called VidIQ, and it shows you the keywords that people are searching for and gives you inspiration for your titles. As for the thumbnails, you can keep them very simple — the best thumbnails are the most simple ones. 🖼️
You want to have a little bit of mystery in there, but you want to show them the idea that you’re presenting in the title. What most of these channels do is they take clips and photos from the internet and overlay a simple voice-over to tell the story.
This allows you to pump out a ton of videos without ever leaving your house, and you don’t need an expensive mic to do this. I mean, some of the most viral videos I’ve recorded on my channel were done using this stupid little microphone right here.
