The Rise of Mini Money-Making Machines
People are buying inexpensive machines on Amazon and earning thousands of dollars in residual income every month, and these are not massive complex industrial machines. They’re actually quite simple to operate – anyone can easily learn how to set them up and use them, and you can get them delivered to your door tomorrow so you can start making money ASAP. And you don’t even need a lot of space for them, most of them can be operated on top of a table.
Line Marking: A $27 Million Success Story
In this article, we’re going to talk about five inexpensive money-making machines that you probably never heard of. First, I’m going to tell you about a machine – line marking machine that you probably never heard of and you might not even know it exists, but it costs you less than $200 and can make you millions. John Evans started out with only $500, and with one of these machines operating out of his backyard, he has grown to over $27 million per year.
Getting Started with Line Marking
What does he do? He paints the stripes on parking lots with a machine called a line marking machine. Now there are many different types of these line marking machines at different price points, but you can get a machine for under $200 on Amazon that will do it. Now John started out with a very small beginning and expanded to more expensive machines of the same type.
High Demand for Line Marking Services
But if you just get started small, think about how many parking lots in your area need the stripes repainted or maybe they don’t have any stripes at all. If you just do a quick drive around your area and take a look at the parking lots around you, you’re going to see that many of these parking lots need their stripes repainted or they might not have any stripes at all, and you’ll quickly see how big of a demand is for this service.
Versatility of Line Marking Business
You could easily do something very similar if you dedicate yourself to this business model, and the best thing about this type of machine is you’re not limited to just painting stripes in parking lots – you can also paint lines on sports fields, you can paint lines on roadways, warehouses, schools, outdoor basketball courts. This is a business model where the demand is very high and the overhead is very low, and all you’re paying for is the machine, the paint, and the tape to help guide you as you’re rolling it along, and you’re off to the races.
Thermal Imaging: A Lucrative Photography Niche
Let’s move on to number two – DJI drone. You know that there’s a certain type of photograph that people will pay between $150 and $350 for, and it requires zero talent and zero photography experience to do it? Why do they pay this high amount for one photograph? It’s because this one single photograph allows them to save hundreds and maybe even over $1,000 on their heating bills, and this specialized photograph is called a thermal image.
Understanding Thermal Photography
This type of photograph will show you your house and it will highlight the areas of your house where heat is really escaping, and you’re losing a lot of money because of poor insulation. Now these thermal cameras that take this kind of picture only cost a few hundred, which could easily be paid for in the first job that you ever do with this machine.
Aerial Thermal Imaging
Now you may notice that these sample images that I’m showing you right here are actually taken from the air because they’re actually mounted on drones so that you can really get a good view of your entire house from the air and see exactly where you need more insulation. Now adding a drone plus a thermal imaging camera together dramatically increases the amount that you can charge.
Drone Photography Business Opportunities
Not only that, but drones are machines that you can leverage in many, many other ways to create income for yourself. You can purchase a great quality drone on Amazon for $200 or less – it will allow you to take drone video and photos for all different types of industries because it’s so specialized, it allows you to charge a premium for your services without taking up very much of your time.
The Indiana Drones Success Story
And a crazy example of this is this YouTuber who calls himself Indiana Drones, and he made $45,000 in just 48 hours by flying his drone. How did he do this exactly? He bought another machine which could do a 3D map of the land that his drone was flying over. Now this guy Indiana Drones, he got started in 2015 working for farmers who needed him to take images of their fields from the air.
Drone Business Contracts
So, they could see what was going on with their crops, but things really took off when he landed some large contracts with some big utility companies. And that’s the way that this kind of thing can go with drones, but there’s a lot of other ways you can make money with drones.
Drone Photography Services
One common way is working with real estate agents to take images of the houses that they’re trying to sell from the air. You can take shots for resorts like hotel chains that are looking to show how amazing their property is if you come and stay there. You can take drone imagery and video of weddings, you can use it to shoot video of events and concerts, and you can even sell stock video and photography that you’ve taken from your drone camera.
Teenage Drone Success
And I personally know teenagers that bought drones and started out as a hobby and ended up becoming their full-fledged business when they turned 18 or 19 years old. Now of course, if you obtain a drone, you’re going to have to do some practice shots and get used to flying it and how to obtain the best kind of smooth video and photography.
Learning Drone Skills
But the people I know that have done really well with this were not professionals – they literally just learned by practicing flying their drone around and taking video. Now you might see from both of these machines that neither of these machines are going to bring you residual income.
Business Income Model
In order for you to make money, you’re going to have to continually get new clients and get new opportunities to make money with the machine. In other words, it’s not an autopilot business, which actually teaches you how to set up an autopilot business that generates money for you whether you are working or not.
3D Printing Growth
Now this next money-making machine has been absolutely booming in the last 5 years. The industry I’m about to describe to you was valued at $22 billion last year and is projected only to grow in the future. This machine didn’t even exist 20 years ago, and an entire industry has exploded overnight.
3D Printing Technology
What’s it called? It’s called a 3D printing machine. These machines can create three-dimensional objects of all types, just like a regular printer that you probably have in your house, but in this case, you’re printing custom jewelry, prototypes, medical devices, automotive parts, household items, and anything else that you can imagine.
3D Printing Income
And you don’t need a college degree to operate one of these things either. In fact, this 3D printing operator right here makes between $5,000 and $30,000 per month with his machine, and he said that everything he knows about 3D printing he learned from just experimentation and watching YouTube videos.
Etsy Store Setup
He recommends setting up a store on Etsy to sell the things that you’re creating and then automating it by putting someone else to work running the machines and printing the objects for you. Here’s another guy that got started after seeing a YouTube video of someone creating steering wheel attachments for his Xbox controller.
Getting Started
He thought it was genius, and he obtained the original instructions for creating this steering wheel. He fed those instructions into his 3D printer and began making money. So how can you get a piece of this action? You can literally just go to Amazon and order one of these 3D printers and have it delivered the next day, and this specific one that I’m showing right here only costs $168.
Marketing Strategy
Now I recommend that you create a few quality products and take high-quality video and photo of them, and then many of the people that are successful with these machines get started on Etsy, which is a great place for you to get started also. And I don’t get paid anything by promoting Etsy – I just think it’s a great place to get started with this type of a business.
Customization Benefits
Now I will say that creating customized objects and parts is really going to be what’s going to set you apart from your competition. The more flexible and customized you can be with what you create will set you apart from these high-volume manufacturers that are just churning out junk day after day after day.
Laser Engraving Market
Now next up is a small machine that has huge income potential. The global market for the products that this machine creates was valued at $29 billion just a couple years ago, and that is a laser engraving machine. Now this machine uses a focused laser beam to engrave designs into various materials.
Laser Cutting Precision Across Materials
It can create highly intricate and detailed designs with extreme precision on wood, metal, glass, plastic, and leather. And you might think that a machine that cuts with lasers would be kind of expensive, but it’s actually not expensive at all. I’m going to show you where to buy these in just a minute, but first let me show you what kind of money can be made with these things.
85th and Pine Success Story
Catherine and her husband Brandon own a laser cutting business called “85th and Pine.” With their laser engraving machine, they were able to generate $15,000 in just one month. Just like the others, they got started on Etsy, which enabled them to generate a lot of traffic on different social media outlets, and they were able to hit some serious amount of cash in a very short amount of time.
Getting Started with Laser Engraving
So how could you get started with this? If you go again on Amazon, you’ll find laser engravers for a bit over $200 that can also be delivered to your door the next day. Similar to the 3D printer, you want to create some sample creations with your machine and take high-quality photos of them so you can build up kind of a portfolio of your work, and then you can hit the ground running on Etsy.
Mug Press Success Stories
I saw a news story that tipped me off to this last money-making Mug Heat Press Machine that I’m going to show you. The story talked about Jennifer Castronovo and Suzanne Jordan who made a killing with the machine that I’m about to show you. Jennifer started her business in 2020 using a machine called a Mug Heat Press Machine, which let her create personalized mugs out of her garage.
Bulk Orders and Holiday Success
Now they’ve grown their business to where now they take bulk orders, and they receive order requests of 500 or more for customized mugs. Now Suzanne Jordan also started in 2020 with a very similar type of mug press machine, and just to show you what’s possible, she and her husband hit the jackpot over one Christmas holiday and received over 500 orders in one week!
Heat Transfer Design Process
This machine will take any design that you create, or even a design someone sends to you, and it uses the heat to transfer that design onto the mug. People love personalized items, and these machines allow you to easily create personalized mugs for gifts, personal use, or even for small businesses.
Production Time and Scaling
Now it takes an average of around 4 to 6 minutes to create each mug, depending on what kind of machine you use. Ideally, you could hire someone else to actually run the machine for you once you get the business going. The idea is to start with a smaller, less expensive machine and then grow to multiple machines or bigger sized machines once you’re really rolling.
Affordable Equipment Investment
But on Amazon, you can get these for $150 bucks, which you can easily make back in just an order or two, and they’re pretty straightforward to use. All you do is plug them in, read the instructions, and just get to designing and printing customized mugs.
Design Software and Specialization
Now usually there’s some design software that you have to get the hang of to help you create the designs, but once you get the hang of that, you’re off to the races. So I want you to think about niching down and creating very specific mugs like sports mugs, family portrait mugs, quote mugs, superhero mugs, and the list goes on and on.
Business Overview and Requirements
So there you go – five machines that are very inexpensive you can have delivered to your door very quickly and start making thousands of dollars every month being your own boss and providing valuable products to people. Now again, with all these machines, you are going to have to run the machine, get customers, and really hustle to get those orders.