From Struggle To Success
This is how I went from only making a couple thousand dollars a month at a job I absolutely hated, to making $1.8 million online, and I’m going to show you how you can do it too. Just to be clear, when I got started, I didn’t have any special skills. I was just a normal guy who was sick of his boss screaming at him all the time. I could barely pay my bills, and I just wanted to spend more time with my kids.
Living The Dream
So now where I’m making between $60 and $100,000 every month, I’ve been able to buy my dream home with cash, and I have enough free time to homeschool my children. I’ve even been able to fly all around the world to fulfill my passion and doing Mission work. So if you’re looking to replace your 9-to-5 income, or you even just want to make $500 extra dollars a month to help you cover bills,
Three Steps To Success
I’m going to break this down into three different stages. First of all, how I ditched my job and made my first $1,000 online. Second of all, the moment when I realized that autopilot income is actually possible. And finally, my exact strategy that got me up to $60 to $100,000 per month and how you can do the same thing. I’m even going to show you how my 13-year-old daughter used the same method to make $110,000 in a year, even though she had zero experience with this kind of thing.
College Dreams
But before we dive into how I ditched my job and made my first $1K online, I need to take you back to where it all started – how floppy discs helped me make my first $1,000 online. Like most people, I was clueless about business when I was growing up, so I did what I thought the right thing to do was, which was to get a college degree. I still remember graduating and thinking that this degree was my ticket to a happy and successful life and fulfilling my dreams.
Toxic Workplace
But my dreams soon came crashing down when I got my first job. Can you just imagine working your butt off for 4 years only to end up in a concrete prison where my boss screamed at me all the time? I mean, this job was the worst, and for some reason, I had this idea in my head like I needed to stay for 2 years so that it would look good on my resume. But the longer I stayed, the worse things got. In fact, I remember new hires coming into the company and quitting within one day because my boss would just scream at them, even on the first day on the job.
Breaking Free
Not only that, but since starting the job, I had to give up a lot of the things that I loved because I was too exhausted when I got home to do anything else. I tried to stick it out, but after 2 years, man, I had had enough, and I quit. And it was at that moment that I decided I never want to work another 9-to-5 job again.
Digital Beginning
But the problem was this was back in the year 2000. I mean, dial-up internet was still what a lot of people used to connect to the internet, and hardly anyone even knew what an email was or website. But I was determined not to go back to working for the man. I ended up landing my first online gig editing reference books.
Floppy Disc Days
Now I do have to say it wasn’t exactly online because remember, a lot of people still had dial-up internet back then, so they would actually mail me floppy discs full of reference material, and I would have to turn those floppy discs into full-fledged reference books that then got sold on Amazon and different places to libraries. In fact, I actually found there’s still eight of these reference books still on sale on Amazon, which is pretty funny.
Freedom Found
Now I know this doesn’t sound like a complete dream job probably, but to me, I didn’t care. I was free! I wasn’t stuck in an office. I could work when I wanted, and I could work from home, which hardly anyone else could do back in the early 2000s. It was complete freedom compared to my last job.
Your Turn
Now why am I sharing all this? Because if you’re stuck in a soul-crushing job, then I want you to know it’s worth the effort to try to find something that you can do that is more flexible, and it’s worth the time to try to find it. I mean, if I could figure out a way to make online income back in the early 2000s, surely you can do it in today’s day and age. There are literally hundreds of different ways.
Making Money Online and Work from Home Options
In fact, you could even get a work-from-home position as a customer service representative or something. There’s a lot of jobs like that out there now, and even though it would still be a job, it would give you the flexibility and free up your time so you could start a business on the side. But whatever job you choose, I encourage you just to pick one and get going on it. Life is too short to be stuck in a soul-crushing job day in and day out.
The Floppy Disc Business
Anyway, by this point my floppy disc gig at home was making around $2,500 per month, and I was happy to work from home. But unfortunately, I was still trading dollars for hours. What I really needed was something that would provide me with autopilot income where I could do a little bit of work upfront, and it would pay me residual after that whether I was working or not. Because really what I wanted to focus on was family and Ministry, which I’m still focused on even to this day.
The eBook Venture
So I started to research different opportunities, and that led me into this opportunity of selling eBooks online, which actually brings me to stage two of my journey – making my first $10,000 in passive income selling eBooks. Back then these were just coming into popularity, and the year was 2004, and I remember the first ebook that I wrote was about being a vegan. Now I wasn’t even a vegan myself, but I thought it would be a great book and it would be a great seller, and you can actually still see the website that I created for it way back long ago if you just go to “avoid animal inred.com.”
The Launch Preparation
So I spent the next 6 months studying up on everything about vegetarians and vegans, coming up with the entire book and coming up with all kinds of sales material. I remember I stayed up all night the night before this product was supposed to launch out into the marketplace just to get it done. I was so confident that this ebook was going to fill my bank account with cash and provide me with autopilot income, I didn’t even consider the possibility that it wasn’t going to work at all.
The Failed Launch
But man was I wrong! That day after I stayed up all night, I launched this book to my email list and I didn’t get a single sale. I was completely devastated. I mean, imagine working hundreds of hours on something that you think is going to be amazing only to realize that it was a complete, complete waste of time.
Finding a Mentor
But instead of just moping around and feeling sorry for myself, I decided that what I really needed to do was get a mentor because I had the work ethic and I had the concept, but I must have just been clearly missing some important information. So that ultimately led me to find Ed Dale and Frank Karn’s info product training program.
Success with eBooks
Now this was a coaching program that costed around $300 per month, which was a lot of money for me at the time. But with their guidance within a few months, I soon had an ebook that I was selling, and it was making autopilot income for me of $800 per month. Then I set up a second one and that one was making me $11,000 per month autopilot income, and this caused a massive mindset shift for me because I realized this really works – I can actually make income on autopilot.
Selling the eBook Business
So then what I did under the guidance of the coach that I had, ‘cuz I was still in that $300 a month program, I actually sold those two products like mini businesses. So I sold the entire ebook, the website, the customer list and everything for $24,000, kind of like selling a mini business. Then I did it for the second one – I sold that one for $40,000, and then I dove in deep creating all kinds of ebook sites trying to build this thing up as big as I could.
Market Changes
Now unfortunately, as I was building this thing up, advertising costs rapidly increased and it was no longer feasible for me to sell these eBooks online. I ended up having to shut everything down. Then I had a bunch of websites and ebooks that I had created that weren’t profitable for me at all.
Proof of Concept
Now obviously this was a big bummer, but it was still a big win for me because before this, I wasn’t even sure if autopilot income was real. I mean, I had family members and friends that would tell me, “Chad, don’t even bother with this kind of thing, you always have to work to make money.” They were convinced that it was all just a bunch of nonsense being spouted by internet gurus on YouTube or something.
The Journey Continues
But I had proven it to myself and to my family that this could really work – that I could set up a website online that would generate for me income day and night whether I was working or not. So even though my ebook business had failed, it was ultimately a blessing because not only did it show me that autopilot income was real, but it also ultimately led me to the last stage of my journey increasing my income up to $1.8 million.
Google Maps Evolution
12:58 Increasing my income to $1.8 Million and it all started to come from Google Maps. Back when I got started in the early 2000s, when you did a Google search for something like a hotel, there was not any Google map that showed up in the Google search. All you had was a big list of websites, and if you ever wanted your website to show up on top, you had to know a lot of tricks and you had to pay thousands of dollars to get to the top, but then Google introduced maps.
Google Maps Search Results
To their search results, so that when you just did a search for something like hotel in Google, now all of a sudden a map would pop up right there on top, and you didn’t have to pay a scent, and it was so simple to do. You didn’t have to hardly know anything to make that happen, and that’s where a light bulb went off for me, and I realized I could set up my own map pins right there on the map and shortcut my way to the top of Google, and that’s exactly what I did.
Lawn Business Example
Let me give you an example. I would create a business on Google Maps called Chad’s Lawn Business, for example. I’m just making this off off the top of my head, but then when someone did a search for lawn mowing service, I would pop up on top and they would call me. But here’s the cool part – instead of me going out there and mowing the lawn myself, I would just refer them to another lawn mowing company, and I would get paid a commission for that sale just being a middleman.
$50,000 Monthly Success
So all I had to do was answer the phone, refer the customer over, and get paid. It was genius! But it didn’t stop there. I started to do it for all kinds of services, whether it was drug rehab or locksmith or insurance, and pretty soon I was making over $50,000 a month because of how many calls were coming through from Google Maps. In fact, in some of these industries, if you went into a major city and called for a certain service, there was a high chance that you were calling one of my numbers.
$1.8 Million Business Growth
I was able to systematize the business where I finally had time to spend with my kids, to do the ministry work that I love, and to travel all around the world helping struggling communities. That was also when I hit my highest revenue point that I had ever made up until that point, because I remember looking back and realizing that my Google Maps business had brought in $1.8 million in just a couple of years.
Daughter Success Story
It was an amazing feeling, but the best part about it is that this still works today. In fact, I still use this exact same business model and make money off it, and I’ve taught many other people to do the same thing. Just like my daughter, she had no previous experience with this. She was only 12 or 13 years old, and she set up a business way back then on Google Maps that has generated her close to $10,000 per year, every year for many years.
Nursing School Dreams
Now she’s a young adult, and she’s enjoyed this autopilot money all these years, and that’s the exact same strategy that I share with all my students now. I told my daughter, “Hey, you could blow this thing up and make even more money,” but her dream is to be a missionary nurse, so she’s using that money to put her through nursing school so that she can pursue her dream, and it’s paying her way through the whole thing.
Cory Monthly Income
Now you might be thinking, “Well that’s kind of cool but $10,000 a year is not going to help me to quit my job,” and that’s true. Obviously, you’re not a teenager watching this, and you need a lot more than $110,000 per year to live, but let me introduce you to Cory. “On average we’re, you know, we’re having $80,000 plus months, I mean and, and sometimes six figure months.”
Student Success Story
Cory’s one of my students who was just an average 40s something year-old guy like me who hated his 80h hour per week customer service job, and he wanted to have more time with his family. So he jumped into my coaching program, and now he’s making over $80,000 per month, and the business is running on autopilot for him. You can see more of his story just by searching the word Corey in my YouTube channel.
Online Money Making
Even though I’ve been doing this for so long now, I still believe this is one of the best opportunities of the year for making money online. You can do it as a total beginner, and you can make as much money really as you want to make depending on how big you want to build the system, and we teach you all how to do it.
Free Training Class
So if you’re interested in learning how this all works, I have a free class that I will email you if you just enter your name and email address. I break down exactly how this whole business model works on Google Maps, and I give you a blueprint for how to make a full-time income online with it.