How to Make Money Online as a TOTAL Beginner (2025 Guide)

$500 Per Day From Online Business Models

I’ve made millions of dollars online in the last 20 years, but if I were a total beginner starting from scratch, what would I do now? I have the advantage of trying many different online businesses over the years, and in this aricle, I’m breaking down the top three business models that hardly anyone talks about that you, as a total beginner, can use to start making over $500 a day. And no, these aren’t the common ones that everybody talks about like crypto or drop shipping or affiliate marketing. In fact, I picked these specifically because you probably haven’t heard of these before, and you don’t need any marketing experience to get started.

Why People Fail Online

Now before I reveal the first business model, I first want to address the big reason why most people fail when trying to start a business online, and that is there’s so much misinformation out there that it’s really hard to find the side gigs that actually work. Maybe you’ve tried out some different business models already, you’re probably a bit lost and just need some direction on which one to do, so I really think these ones are going to open up your mind and show you some new ways of making money online.

Finding Local Businesses

For this first one, what I want you to do is head on over to YellowPages.com, and you can actually use any site that kind of lists local businesses, doesn’t have to be this one, but this one works really well. And you can see I’ve got a search here for electricians in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and I’m just scrolling down the list here, and what you’re actually looking for is you want to scroll down until you find a business that does not have a website. So I’m just going to pick this one, “Vector Electric,” and you can see right here, if it had a website, the website would be listed right here like this, so these guys do not have a website.

Website Templates

Then what you’re going to do is you’re going to head on over to this site here called Template Monster, type in the word “electrician,” You can see I searched for “electrician” there to get to this, and if we click on live demo, you can see there that there is a fully built professional website. It’s already done, it’s already customized with graphics and everything specifically for an electrician, and you can see how cheap these are over here on the right – $20, $30 or something to get a template.

Contacting Businesses

All you need to do is take a screenshot of this template, and we’re going to do is do a Google search now for “Vector Electric Ann Arbor email address” because we want to find the email address of this company. And then what you’re going to do is you’re going to send them the screenshot of the fully done electrician website that you grabb from Template Monster, and you’re going to offer to do a website for them. I’ve seen people charge anywhere from $1000 even up to $5000 for a website like this.

Web Design Service

Now please, everyone don’t go out and contact Vector Electric cuzz obviously you need to do your own search to find your own clients for this, but it’s a quick way that you can actually offer web design for a small business without knowing anything about web design at all. And check this out, if you go over to the Template Monster website and you click up here in this blue button and then you go over here to services and you click on “Web Design and Development,” you can see here “Web Design and Installation Service” only $49.

Profit Potential

So I want you to imagine Template Monsters is going to do all the work, they’re going to install the website for you, they have professionals ready to do it, it only costs $50 bucks, and you’re going to get the template for around $25, so it’s going to cost you a total of around $75 to have a complete professional website done for this electrician. If you go out and charge them between $500 to $1000, that means that you’re making from $400 up to even $900 profit without knowing anything about web design, without doing any website installation, are really without doing hardly any work at all, and the business owner is going to end up with a super professionally designed amazing looking website that they’re going to be happy with. And now I want you to imagine selling four to five of these per week, that means you’re easily hitting your goal of $500 per day just by knowing the secret trick of Templa Monster.

$500-$1000 Per Day with AI Automation

Let’s dive into the next business model that “0101Websites” can make you between $500 to $1,000 per AI automation day, and you can learn how to do this in just a few days. First, let me explain.

Small Business Social Media Challenge

You see, many small businesses have a big problem. They all know that they need to be on social media like Facebook, Instagram, or whatever, and they see their competitors. They have Facebook pages, Instagram pages, Twitter pages, and they’re posting, and they’re getting customers off of it, but they just don’t have time to figure out how to do it and manage it.

Business Owners Time Management

That’s because most small business owners are focused on one thing, and that is just running their business, right? Think about the electrician that I showed in the earlier example. He doesn’t have time to learn how to do web design and how to do social media and how to set up a Facebook page for his business and run it. He’s too busy being an electrician, which is what he’s an expert at.

Social Media Automation Solution

But this is where you can come in and create social media accounts for them and also even manage it for them without spending very much time at all in your day. And you might not know this, but you can actually set this whole thing up so that it’s automated. In other words, you set up, for example, the Facebook page, and then you set up an automation that automatically posts to that Facebook page and keeps it updated every single day without you having to do any work on an ongoing basis.

Lead Generation Tools

But you might be wondering, “How do I do that? I don’t have any experience in this! Please show me!” Well, first thing that you need to do is go and get some software called “Lead Scrape.” It’s totally free! You can actually use Lead Scrape, or you can use another great tool called “D7 Lead Finder.”

Business Database Analysis

What you see here is a giant database of businesses in most of the big cities in the United States, and you can see right here I’m looking at “Towing Service” in Baltimore, Maryland, and I can actually sort these columns. These are all the business owners that do not have a Facebook page. Then if I click here, it’s going to sort by Instagram, so now we’ve got business owners that don’t have a Facebook page or an Instagram.

Finding Target Businesses

Towing services in Baltimore, Maryland – that don’t have a Facebook page, don’t have an Instagram page, and don’t have a Twitter page. And if you look over here, they’ve got all their email addresses right here.

Email Marketing Strategy

So what you’re going to do is you’re going to send them a specific email: “Is [and then fill in the blank, you can just put their competitor names in there] stealing your customers? Yes, they are, but it’s legal and ethical! I noticed they have a [and then you’re going to insert Facebook page or Twitter or Instagram or whatever you’re selling]. They’re grabbing customers from Facebook that should be yours! If you’d like to take back what’s yours, hit reply. I’ll show you what they’re doing and how to beat them! [Your name].”

Service Pricing Model

Then you’re going to sell them social media page setup services and ongoing maintenance on a monthly basis, and you can see here’s a company right here offering this exact thing. You see they’re charging between $150 a month all the way up to almost $500 per month for this exact service.

Setting Up Social Media Services

Now, after you get the business to agree to work with you, all you need to do is set up a Facebook page, an Instagram page, a Twitter page, or TikTok – whatever you’re setting up for them. And then remember what I told you, what you want to do is sell them ongoing maintenance, so you want to tell them, “I’ll post every day or I’ll post every other day on these social media platforms for your business.”

AI Content Generation

Then you can even get ChatGPT to post on a daily basis for you. So ChatGPT will write the post, and then you can get an automation that will automatically post to their social media every day. So they’re paying you for maintenance services, but you’re actually setting up an AI to do almost all of the work.

AI Course Offer

And if you want to know how to set up that AI system to automatically post on the business’s social media page for you so you don’t have to do any work on an ongoing I have a whole AI course there. One of the things it’ll teach you is how to set up automatic AI social media posting for businesses so that you can charge them monthly, but the AI is going to be doing the work on a monthly basis of keeping their social media updated.

AI Business Opportunity

And the amazing thing is, AI is really a big mystery to most small business owners, so they’re not going to know that they can go out there and get AI to do this work for them on an automatic basis, and you’ll be charging them monthly just for your knowledge of AI that I can teach you in my AI course.

Getting Started with Google Maps Business Model

To get that AI course, all right! So let’s dive in to the third business Google Maps model that you can set up as a total beginner without any experience. Now this one I love, love because I know for sure that total beginners can do it and that they can succeed with it because I taught my own kids how to do this when they were only in high school, and they’ve been making money with it for years. In fact, my son is setting up a brand new money maker using this method right now.

Searching on Google Maps

What you want to do to make this work is you want to head over to Google Maps. You can see here if you do a search for something like “electrician” since I’m using that example for this whole video, and you look down here, you’ve got all these different electricians here that are listing their services and they’re all on the map. They have different pins here on the map. You could pick any business type, it doesn’t have to be electrician, it could be any business type like this that’s going to be on Google Maps.

Setting Up Your Map Pin

But then what you’re going to do is you’re actually going to set up your own map pin for this service, let’s say for example electrician service. Don’t worry about if you’re not an electrician or not because you’re not actually going to have to do any electrical work, or let’s say you do it for a plumber, you’re not going to have to do any plumbing work. I’m going to show you how to make money without having to do a single lick of actual work.

Google Business Profile Setup

What I want you to do is do a Google search then for “Google Business Profile” and you’re going to click on that link on the top that shows up there. And then we’re going to click “Sign In” and you’re going to sign into whatever Gmail you have or create a new Gmail. Then you’re going to set up a business name that is specifically in whatever business type you’re talking about. So in this case, since we’re doing electrician, I’m going to just call it “Bob’s Electrician Service” and we’re going to click continue.

Business Category Selection

Then we’re going to click on “Service Business” here and click next, and then for business category I’m going to put “electrician” obviously ’cause that’s the category, but you would put in whatever category you’re picking for your specific business setup. What’s going to happen is after you go through this process, you’re going to just go through Google’s process. It’ll lead you through the whole thing, and then you’re going to end up with your own map pin on Google Maps.

Call Tracking System

So when someone searches for electrician, you’re going to pop up and they’re going to call your number. What I teach my students to do is to set up a special tracking number that tracks every call that comes in, and instead of that call coming directly to you, you’re going to send that call directly to an actual electrician that’s going to fulfill the service, and you’re going to get paid by the electrician just for sending them a phone call.

Small Business Benefits

Small businesses love this service because again, like I said earlier, electricians don’t have time to learn about Google and setting up a profile and getting phone calls coming in. They’re too busy being an electrician. They’re going to love the fact that their phone is ringing with customers from Google that want their service, and they are glad to pay you very well for this. In fact, me and my kids all make money using this exact business model, and I have a community of over 2,000 students that have all learned this specific business.

Income Potential

There’s so many different business categories in different cities around the world that there’s room for all of us to make a ton of money using this business model. Now I’ve been paid anywhere between $20 even up to $650 just for referring a customer through my phone system directly to a small business. And the nice thing is, once this is all set up on Google, you can just sit back and let Google do all the work of sending the phone calls through to these small business owners, and you get paid whether you are working or not.

Multiple City Setup

And you can set up as many of these as you want. On my screen that I showed you earlier, I was setting up in Chicago, but you can set this up in every major city in the United States and be getting phone calls all over the United States and referring those calls straight through to local business owners who will pay you very well for those phone calls.