Are you willing to work like crazy for 5 years (give or take) so you can retire?
If so, I’ve got a business plan for you. And I don’t care if you’re 20 or 70 – this can work.
One note before we get started: Anything that you either can’t do, don’t want to do or don’t have time to do, you outsource.
If you’re going to actually, really, truly retire in 5 years, taking this from zero to a 7-figure payday, then you need to get work done FAST.
And in many cases that’s going to mean outsourcing some of this.
Oh yes, did you notice how I covertly slipped that “7 figure payday” in there? I’m serious about that. Doing what I’m about to lay out for you, you can indeed retire in about 5 years with about 7 figures.
Your results may vary – in fact, they might be a whole lot better than that, I don’t know.
Let’s get started:
What I’m about to propose isn’t rocket science. It’s not even new. But it is profitable, and here’s the key:
You can do this in parallel, meaning instead of doing just ONE of what I’m outlining, you do several.
I recommend 3 – 5 of them.
What you’re going to do is build an entire business from the ground up, with an eye on selling it.
That’s right – the entire time you’re doing this, you have your exit strategy in mind.
It’s sort of like someone marrying for money, knowing they’re going to be asking for a divorce in 5 years. The money is a sure thing, they just have to put in the time and work.
Okay, that was maybe a bad analogy, but you get the point.
If you put in the time and do the work, you will get the money.
You’re going to choose a very popular and not too broad topic. For example, weight loss for busy women, dating for men, traffic generation for online marketers, etc.
It needs to be a topic that has plenty of interested people willing to buy plenty of products, and of course there needs to be plenty of affiliate products continually coming into the market.
Now that you’ve got your topic, you’re going to build a sales funnel.
Run a free offer on a squeeze page to get subscribers and place a couple of products in your funnel for them to buy.
Maybe you’ve got a $7 report and a $37 video course, or whatever.
These should be quality products that YOU own. And yes, they can be built around PLR, or you can outsource, etc.
For your high-ticket offer, create a membership site and drip feed content into it. Your goal is to get lots of people into that membership site.
I know what you’re thinking – thus far I haven’t told you anything new, except for the fact that you’re doing all of this with an eye to selling it.
Yet who does this? Very few people, but those who do end up with BIG paydays.
Do everything under a pen name.
Make no mistake – EVERYTHING must be under your pen name.
And for each of these businesses that you build, you need a different pen name.
Okay, you’ve got a squeeze page to capture names, a funnel with a low-priced product, a mid-priced product and a membership site.
Now you need a blog. Get a great logo, excellent branding and make it look super professional. Do NOT skimp on the branding and logo.
Post on the blog at least a couple of times a week, preferably more.
Link from the blog to your free and paid products.
Make each upsell in your funnel a stand-alone product, too, and promote those on your blog.
Promote affiliate products to your list to make some good money as you go along.
Now write a book. See? I told you there was work involved. You can use content from your blog to create your book, or hire someone, or just write it yourself.
Link from inside the book to a squeeze page to capture more subscribers.
Get a great book cover. I mean a cover that looks like it should be on the New York Times bestseller list. Don’t skimp on this, either.
Put your book on Amazon and get your subscribers to review it for you. Yes, the book is under your pen name, too.
Don’t worry too much about promoting the book. Your real motivation here is to build credibility. A book on your topic with your pen name on it looks AWESOME when you put the thumbnail at the TOP of your blog.
Wow! You (your pen name, actually) are an EXPERT.
Cross promote from any existing lists you have to get more people onto your new blog and get more subscribers there.
If you create a big product such as a $200 – $1,000 course, get affiliates to promote it. Or get affiliates to promote your memberships site.
Your goal is to build your list BIG, make some nice income along the way, and put together a very professional looking business which you then sell for six or seven figures.
If you do this simultaneously in 3 to 5 different niches, you will have an AWESOME retirement in about 5 years or so.
What I recommend: Start in ONE niche and get everything into place. Hire someone to write the blog posts for you and do some promotion.
Now that you know everything that is involved, take some of the profits from your first site / list / business and those profits to outsource a lot of the work in your second, third, and fourth businesses.
You see where this is going. Five years of hard work, along with rolling some of your profits back into the business, and you then get to sell them.
Sites like these that have products, big lists and a BOOK sell for a healthy six figure income. Sometimes even seven figures. Apiece. And you’re going to have 3, 4, maybe 5 of them.
Remember to keep everything separate on each site. Separate hosting. Separate autoresponders. Separate everything. This makes it super easy to turn control over to someone else when the time comes.
Turnkey online businesses are always in demand. From a buyer’s perspective, they pay a big chunk of money but then they get a guaranteed stream of income. All the buyer has to do is continue what you started.
You can even turn over your outsourcers to the buyer if they don’t want to do the work themselves, and often they won’t. For them it’s an investment in their future. For you it’s a major payday and a plane trip to the islands.
One more thing… if you would like to continue to make a nice, easy income after you sell your sites, then I recommend you promote your own personal site to the folks on these lists you’re building.
For example, your pen name is Jon Smith. Your real name is Abby Jones. Jon Smith often recommends Abby Jone’s product or blog or freebie to his readers.
Thus you get people subscribed to your list, too, who get to know you, not just your pen name.
You retire, and you can continue to send out emails promoting affiliate products.
So not only do you get a big payday – you also get some large lists of your own that you can continue to promote products to.
Remember – 5 years of hard work, and then you can retire.
No job in the world that I know of, offers you a retirement plan like that.
