50 ways to make money

May 13, 2025 / Mike Killen
  1. Create YouTube content and make money with ads
  2. Offer an optin to traffic and pitch a product on a thank you page VSL
  3. Collect email addresses and sell a product to the list
  4. Drive traffic to a webinar and sell on the webinar
  5. Soft launch a product without a sales page using only a google doc
  6. Get leads on a call, qualify them, and pitch a product to them on a second longer call
  7. Write a book, self publish on Amazon and let the algorithm find you customers
  8. Offer more content in the book for free via an optin and sell to readers who sign up for the lead magnet via a VSL
  9. Create a product and use ads on social media to target customers
  10. Create a social group (discord, HighLevel communities, facebook group) and sell to the group
  11. Build a social media following and sell to your followers
  12. Offer a more expensive product to people who buy any product after they buy with a VSL
  13. Sell group coaching to an audience
  14. Sell 1:1 coaching to an audience
  15. Sell 1:1 coaching to the paid group coaching members
  16. Offer software as a part of the service and ask for a subscription
  17. Sell pre-written email sales funnels 
  18. Create a 3 day challenge with a pitch at the end
  19. Offer a free 2 hour 1:1 workshop to make them $50,000 and pitch them your solution
  20. Create a course and sell that to an audience
  21. Create a members only community and sell that
  22. Create a simple app and give it away for free, sell high ticket consulting on the backend
  23. Focus on a single problem your audience has and pitch the hell out of that
  24. Partner with another supplier with the same audience and sell to their audience
  25. Promote a product for an affiliate percentage
  26. Offer your product to affiliates and give them a percentage
  27. Offer to fix a problem for free in 10 minutes, qualify them and pitch a product on a longer call
  28. Offer a lead magnet to traffic and pitch a call with a VSL
  29. Save 5% of every $ you make and invest it
  30. Double your prices
  31. Solve a problem with a $ value i.e. “get $10,000 clients”
  32. Create a workbook and give it away, offer a paid “review” of the work
  33. Give away software for free and sell the best features
  34. Generate a ton of leads or clients and sell them to another business
  35. Create specific templates and marketing campaigns for a specific audience and give them away, sell “implementation”
  36. Offer free consulting and sell implementation
  37. Buy a business, optimise it, turn it around and net the profits
  38. Create a 10x priced, high ticket product and sell that your previous customers
  39. Become a paid speaker at events
  40. Run a “OnlyFans” model where you livestream and go private 1:1 for paid coaching calls
  41. Offer free coaching calls, record them and create a program
  42. Create an email newsletter and find sponsors
  43. Run a podcast and find sponsors
  44. Sell a paid product to podcast listeners
  45. Give a drip-content course away for free, sell “immediate access” to the whole thing (pay to unlock)
  46. Run a firesale and give away a product for a 99% discount, upsell a high ticket product to everyone who buys
  47. Offer a downsell product to people who buy, but turn down the upsell
  48. Offer a low ticket product to lead magnet optins, upsell a high ticket product to those people who do buy
  49. Offer a subscription product to people who buy the upsell
  50. Write out everything you know on a subject and sell that as a digital product/ebook
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Mike Killen

Mike is the world's #1 sales coach for marketing funnel builders. He helps funnel builders sell marketing funnels to their customers. He is the author of From Single To Scale; How single-person, small and micro-businesses can scale their business to profit. You can find him on Twitter @mike_killen.