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

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How would you make $2,000 from Monday 12AM to Sunday 11:59PM with unlimited phone credit, a blank invoice template and a payment processor, but without any skills at all?

Please don't say "sell web design and then outsource it" because web design takes lots of reiterations which could bring all sorts of complications, and quality control could be, well, out of your control.

Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jason Kanigan
    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
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  • Profile picture of the author Underground
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author MegaHold
    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...?
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    • Profile picture of the author iAmNameLess
      Originally Posted by MegaHold View Post

      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...?
      Everyone can build wordpress sites. Everything that you offer is going to be a headache because you have to deliver what you sell, and customer satisfaction is important so whether you're doing web design or another service, you're going to deal with headaches.

      My opinion, is that if you're just building wordpress websites, you're not specialized enough or experienced enough to know if you can really make a big difference to a company.

      My advice... figure out how to borrow the money. If you're going to jump into a business with no foundation you're not going to get where you need to be. It takes hundreds if not thousands of hours of research to give yourself a fighting chance.
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    • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
      Originally Posted by MegaHold View Post

      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...?
      The problem is, you want to believe that Jason's post means that this is going to take no skills. And so you like his answer more than Underground's.

      And so now you ask Jason to answer a question that will take forever to answer.

      I just got a PM saying "Claude, just a quick question. How do you do all your marketing?" (or something similar). It took me years to learn how. It took Jason years to get where he is.

      You have to have a skill you can sell for $2,000. Or a product you can sell and make $2,000. But even if you have a product, you have to learn how to sell. And you have to deliver any service that you sell.

      If someone can give you an answer that works for you, they are better than I am.
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  • Profile picture of the author Aaron Doud
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jason Kanigan
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author digichik
    Is this a "I'm just wondering if this can be done", or are you in dire straights and pressed for cash?
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    • Profile picture of the author MegaHold
      Originally Posted by digichik View Post

      Is this a "I'm just wondering if this can be done", or are you in dire straights and pressed for cash?
      I'd say it is the first one. I lost some money recently to the tune of $2k and I'm very motivated to fill that hole. I'm financially solvent and I have a roof over my head etc. but would like to push this forward, but need a way to approach it.

      Thanks for your messages above, especially Jason for your follow-up. Still difficult to think of ideas, I may niche down with web design.. in a certain industry.
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  • Profile picture of the author MegaHold
    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?
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    • Profile picture of the author savidge4
      Why not sell something on e-bay. just walk into walmart and the like. look for the discount - closeout section with your internet enabled phone and look what things are selling for on e-bay vs what they are selling for. I seriously make over $1000 a week spending 4 hours ( well my wife spends the 4 hours ) going to different stores and getting huge deals.

      Over Christmas time she found 30 xbox360 wireless headsets for $5 each. we sold them for $30.00 each in less than 12 hours. She recently bought 93 phone cases for $1 each and we are selling them about 10 a day for $12 each.

      Ran into a lot of 200 iphone chargers a few weeks ago. $2.50 each. sold those for $10 each and they were gone in a week.

      Just a thought, and some real life examples. it can be done!

      PS the small flatrate priority mail box is your friend it costs $3.15 to send ( and the box is free ). So get your hands on at least one, so you know what size items will fit in there!
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    • Profile picture of the author mjbmedia
      Originally Posted by MegaHold View Post

      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?
      selling is a skill so your OP was lying
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  • Profile picture of the author mjbmedia
    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
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  • Profile picture of the author MegaHold
    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.
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    • Profile picture of the author mjbmedia
      Originally Posted by MegaHold View Post

      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.
      cos you say $2k in a week with no skills at all, then people are suggesting you sell other peoples products, well if you don't have sales skills then that's not much help as you wont be able to sell unless you get very lucky maybe , then you take those suggestions as if they've got some legs to them yet you don't (supposedly) have the skills to sell , you need skills to sell on ebay, skills to sell face to face, on the phone, direct mail, email etc all takes skills that your OP suggest are not available (though you do later say you can do WP sites so you do have skills)

      No skills means no skills, not selective ones when it suits.
      My colourful suggestion would still be your best bet if you REALLY need the money
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      • Profile picture of the author sandalwood
        I guess the "no skills" really doesn't mean NO SKILLS. Obviously the OP has a brain and can express himself. Hence, at least one skill. The fastest way I know to earn 2K in less than a week is to be a middle man.

        You've all read the buy on CL posts so I won't go any deeper into that. Here's one that really worked. My son knows a ton of people. One of his friends owns a tire, brake and alignment shop. As it happened several of his buddies needed tires. He referred them to his tire guy.

        Tire guy gives son a piece of the action. Everybody is happy as the customer got brand new tires cheaper than he could at the big box and name brand stores, friend sold the tires and son made a few bucks.

        The few bucks turned out to be 4 figures. Not only did he refer his car and truck owning buddies but his motorcycle owning buddies.

        I realize that can be called a fluke but think about it. What if the OP found a supplier of a product who was willing to pay a spiff, commission or whatever for everyone who bought? Wouldn't his skill of communication pay him? Plus, he wouldn't even have to sell. The customer already needs the product.

        I guess you could call this find a solution to a problem. Don't know that for sure but I see it working every week.

        Just my 2 cents and I ain't even a sailor...
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