Question: $2,000 in a week with a phone and no skills

Niche down immediately.

Who can you significantly help with a one-time fix?

"Everyone" will leave you at a crossroads of indecision. Get very, very specific.

$2000 is nothing, and can easily be made off one sale. That's what I'd be shooting for: a $50K problem you can solve with a $2000 solution. No one would argue with that kind of equation. And $50K problems are all over the place.

Niche down, get conversations started with decision makers, and then Filter like crazy.

http://www.warriorforum.com/offline-...t-selling.html

LOL. Only on the WF would you even ask such a question as if it's a regular thing to make piles of cash easily with no skills and someone here could give you a neat little answer for being able to make $100,000 a year with no skills and just a phone.

I'm a fan of possibility thinking and it has its place, but you have to draw the line somewhere before it becomes ludicrous. Reality thinking is far more helpful.


People can give you a hundred ideas, find a firm who pays commission and get them deals, broker deals, find problems that are losing businesses big money and offer the solution and so on, but you need skills. Sales skills. People skills. Persuasion skills.

This dream world of easy money for nothing but making a few calls with no experience or skills to offer is cooked on places like this by copywriters who have to selectively present their products in that light to sell them, but it's not real. Effortless money making usually requires years of toil and learning skills and gaining experience. You're asking for a nice little short-cut it looks like. Let me know if you find one.


Have you got great sales skills? Good phone manner? Good knowledge of something others would pay for? Or do you literally mean starting with just the balls to get on the phone and start talking to people and persuading them to buy stuff? Just desire.


How great it would be if people really could give us a way to create money out of thin air.

Thanks guys, two very contrasting posts indeed...

P.S. Jason, my biggest problem is: how the hell can I, me, fix a problem worth $50k?

To be honest I can build WordPress sites, but I think web design is a bit of a headache with the endless reiterations you have to make etc...?

Sell something for someone else. If you have no skills you can't deliver anything of value. You have to find someone else who can deliver the value if you make sales.

Of course no skills could mean you can't sell either.

In this world you only get paid for providing value. What that value is depends on you and your prospects but without value you are screwed.

Yes, it's a fact I glossed over the OP's "no skills" attribute. I ignored it on purpose because it's impossible to answer the question without it. That's why I went into "niche down".

Split it up, fix two problems for $1000 each or four for $500. But whatever you do, you'll have to get someone you feel ultra-confident in fulfilling the work for whatever it is. I would rather go for one yes than needing four, but that's me.

Maybe you can find a sales pro to take qualified leads you hand them to close, and they pay you for that service. Now you need a product or service that sells for at least $10K and has a fast sales cycle.

Claude is right, this is a never-ending answer of maybes. The OP has to niche down and get very specific on what is being offered and to whom. Fulfillment has to be expertly done.

Work is work.

No way around it.

Does that mean you should never try? Of course not. $2000 really is not a lot of money, but if you have nothing to exchange for it the necessary sales are not going to happen.

A $50K problem is a $1000 sale or $1000 IN sales a week for the next year including a couple weeks off for holidays. Can you help someone do that? A retailer? A realtor? An airplane parts manufacturer? An attorney?

I don't want to go all negative because I do that often enough. You really can make $2000 especially if you can write. In fact, I'd set my target at $4000. But I BELIEVE I can help people. I know I can. Nobody can tell me I cannot. If you are going to make sales, you have to get into this state of total belief, too. Not "I hope this happens" or "I wish this would happen" but "I KNOW this will happen." Look at that tv show case study I gave. I believed more than the creators did! And now I've accidentally become a tv network executive. Because I stuck with it...put my time in...didn't chase the money...and used my skills.

And it took longer than I expected and was tougher than I thought it'd be.

That's with me knowing what I'm doing and fulfillment not being an issue.

Figuring out your positioning and target market are the most important things to do first. You can't just start contacting people with whatever prospecting means you have. Set things up for success. Over the past several weeks, that seems to be all I've been doing: helping people with their positioning. They think they've niched down...and I have to advise them to niche down even more. "I help realtors" is not enough. "I help realtors who have been in the business for the past two years or longer, charge 4.75% or higher commission, can explain their consistent sales process (which proves they have one), and demonstrate to me they know what they're doing...and are looking for specific information they can explain to me to be plugged right into their lead generation method" is more like it.

Most people never bother and never get this close. Consequently, they chase the wrong people...spend too much time with the wrong people...and take the wrong people as customers when they are able to close one. Terrible results.

Is this a "I'm just wondering if this can be done", or are you in dire straights and pressed for cash?

Thinking of just going to a manufacturing company and offering to sell on a commission basis... What do you guys think? This would niche me down and keep me just to selling rather than delivery... if I could get a decent enough commission percentage it might help me make my first $2k, even if it takes a bit more than a week?

go **** a sailor , if you got no skills then you cant sell, you cant market, you cant promote, (else you've got skills so your question is stupid) so all the above advice is wrong cos its all assuming you got some skill somewhere, all you can do is bend over and take it up the pooper a few times ,that don't take any skill (someone told me honest ;-) ) just a higher pain threshold and no shame

So you need to be serious about your skills and stop wasting everyones time

Well that was a colourful response Michael. Yes sales is a skill but one that I haven't developed. Not really sure what you're getting at. I'm open to learn and build skills yes, one of them being sales, I'm not a brick.