Recently I shared the story of Paul and Gareth who were both really struggling financially due to a combination of increased living costs and being unable to work due to injuries and ill health.
Both men were interviewed by a reporter for Channel 4 news, and after watching the report, I came to the conclusion that they were struggling more than they needed to because they didn’t know what other opportunities to make money were available to them.
You cannot know everything, I understand that, but I think people owe it to themselves to learn what other opportunities are out there.
There are plenty of ways for them to make money that they could do from home with little or no cost to them.
A prime example of this would be the One-Time Small Group Masterminds.
I watched a short video the other day of a guy called Jeff, who was talking about how he could make anywhere between £250 and £1,000 running one-time small group masterminds.
A one-time small group mastermind is where you hold an online video call with a group of people, no more than ten people, and you teach or help them with something specific.
Jeff started a few years ago giving advice and troubleshooting problems people had with their websites.
He personally preferred to host small groups of no more than five people.
He would then be able to spend 20 minutes on each person, talking through his thoughts on their website and giving them personalised advice.
20 minutes per person would mean that he was hosting a call that was an hour and forty minutes long, and for that, each person would pay him $97.
That would make him a rather decent $485.
$485 for an hour and forty minutes talking isn’t bad, is it?
You could do something similar.
You could charge people £97 to sit on a call with you.
You could start at a lower price until you get used to doing live calls.
Jeff already had a following and an email list that were interested in the things he taught and talked about.
But like he said in the video I watched, every Facebook group, Facebook page, Twitter (X) profile, and email list that has thousands of people on it, started with just one.
You may not have an interested following yet, but neither did he when he started all those years back.
It costs nothing to start a Facebook group focusing specifically on a subject that you can talk a lot about.
Once that group swells with people, you can make your offer to host a one-time small group mastermind where you talk about that subject in more detail, or help paying individuals.
It is one of the simplest ways to make money.
Yes, you may need a little confidence to be able to talk to several people online, but confidence usually grows AFTER the event and rarely before, so you will need to get started to build your confidence.
Yes, you are going to need to build up a small following first. You cannot just offer a one-time small group mastermind today if you have no followers because there is no one to take you up on the offer.
There will be a delay between starting and making money, but the delay depends on many variables including how fast you grow your following.
How fast you grow your following depends on things like what your chosen subject is, and what you share in your group, etc.
It is possible that by the end of a week, you could have grown a social media or group to be large enough to offer your calls. I’m not saying that you will for definite, but it is possible.
Remember, you don’t need a lot of people for this.
Two one-time small group mastermind calls per month will require only ten or twenty people and it could be possible to find them in a small following of people who are incredibly interested in your chosen subject.
You don’t even need a website for this money making idea.
You can make your offer, have those who are interested send you an email, and then you send them a payment link or bank details for them to make a bank transfer.
They pay you before you do the call. The money is in your bank account before you talk to anyone.
The call is then done using a free-to-use tool such as Skype.
Once you have done a few one-time small group mastermind calls, you may decide to set up a website with a dedicated page to take payments so that you don’t need to keep emailing links to people.
There are hundreds, if not thousands of topics you can talk about as part of a one-time small group mastermind call.
A few examples could be:
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- Offline marketing techniques.
- Online traffic generation / how to get more customers online.
- Search Engine Optimisation.
- Optimising your sales pages and sales funnels.
- How to make money writing.
- Get the most from your emails. Email marketing best practices.
- Business auditing and business advice – think Alex ‘The Hotel Inspector’
- How to get the best out of your employees.
- How to start an online business.
- How to start an online agency using freelancer workers only.
- How to take one piece of content and turn it into multiple traffic sources.
- Optimise your sales messages to make more sales.
- How to find the perfect partner.
- How to make money hosting one-time small group mastermind calls.
That is just a few ideas off the top of my head. The list is endless.
I can’t say exactly what Paul and Gareth could talk about, I’m not sure if car mechanics and welding can be discussed within an online one-time small group mastermind, but I am sure there are other things they could talk about.
If not, they could soon learn something that is in demand which they could talk about.
The point of this article is not to say that Paul or Gareth must or could do this as a way to make money, it is to say that it is just one of many ways to make money that people could do relatively easy from home should they need money.
It is easy to do, it can be free to do, you don’t particularly need a lot of people to make this work, and you can charge a decent amount for your time and help.
In that Channel 4 news report, it was reported that Paul was left with £30 on average to live on once rent and bills were paid.
That £30 was to last the month and included his food and drink. It wasn’t just a one-off, this was every month.
He was in a pretty desperate situation.
It will be eased a little when the government finally gives him the money they said he was entitled to as a person with ill health, but until that money comes; he has to live on £30.
That’s a ridiculously low amount of money to survive on.
If he was to hit Facebook and start making connections through a shared interest of a specific topic and then offered a one-time small group mastermind, he could probably soon find enough people to pay him to join a call.
If he charged just £5 per person, six people would mean that he would double his monthly available spends within a couple of hours.
If he charged more, he would give himself a lot more financial breathing space for the month.
As with anything, what you talk about during a one-time small group mastermind call has to be helpful, useful, and transformational.
It has to be worth the money to those who pay. If they pay you £97 to join a call, the call has to deliver something that will give them a result that is ten times the price.
You need to show them how to either make at least £997, save £997, do something fast and/or easy that will indirectly make or save them £997.
Basically, what you teach or help them with has to transform their lives for the better.
An example of this would be paying £97 to someone to show you how to find a remote working position that paid £3,000+ per month allowing you to work from anywhere in the world, doing just 20 hours per week.
If the help and advice landed you a job that did exactly that, it was £97 well spent.
In fact, that call would be worth more than £97 to the person who now has a different life to the one they had pre call.
The Bonus Product
You should record any talks that you do, and then either give them away as a freebie lead magnet to grow an email list, or to sell it as a product.
Remember, people have paid you to help them, and if you have helped them, the information that you shared would also help other people.
The calls could be sold separately (if they are about different topics) similar to the Pay-Per-View Micro Products I have talked about previously, or bundled together and sold as a premium product.
If what you shared in the calls helped people, you can be certain that there will be others who will be willing to pay to access that content.
You could be earning extra money selling access to those recordings for £47, £97, or more.
I’m not going to say that you can be up and running with people paying to join a call within a day, although I’m sure some people could do it, but it is relatively easy as in the fact that you do not need to spend a lot of money setting this up.
To get started for free you will need.
- One or two social media profiles to build a following and/or group of interested and like minded people.
- An online video system like Skype, Zoom, and Google Meet.
- A way to take payment. Easy enough with PayPal, Stripe, or bank transfer.
This is something that can be worked on from home as long as you have an internet connection.
This is something that you can do when you are desperate to make some extra money, but it is also something that you could do over and over again as a business.
If you can find a steady stream of people who are willing to pay you for your help and advice, you could do two calls a month, or maybe even one a week.
The One-To-One Offer
Another variation of this business is to do one-on-one calls with people for 20 to 30 minutes which you charge a premium fee.
In the screenshot above, you can see copywriter and business consultant, Colin Theriot, has been doing a special offer where he was consulting people for 30 minutes for the price of $100.
Normally he charges $300 for a one hour call.
In the month of October he made $3,000 doing these calls, which at time of writing is roughly £2,456.
That’s not bad is it?
Colin earned £2,456 sharing his knowledge with other people and outlined actions to implement in their businesses.
He was paid to talk, and as the screenshot shows, he did that while out walking.
Colin has a large following; he purposely built one so that he could sell these kinds of services and sell his knowledge in products, so it was easy for him to find people willing to pay him.
But that shows you what is possible.
People like Paul and Gareth may not have an online following to sell consultations to and host one-time small group mastermind calls… yet… but they soon could.
One month of posting to social media profiles and groups multiple times a day, every day, could find you enough people to get started with.
Another thing that people in Paul and Gareth’s position could do is to start an online newsletter.
Newsletters can be incredible profitable.
Only yesterday, I read about a woman who makes around £123,840 a year publishing a newsletter about witchcraft.
That is a story to share with you another day, but for now, if you would like to learn more about how easy it is to start a newsletter that can make you a lot of money, click the link below:
The EASIEST Way To Start A PROFITABLE Newsletter!
Kind regards
John Harrison
PS… Have a quick look back through this article and see what is involved in creating it. There are a couple of real life examples and stories of people, it outlines a way to make money, and it includes an image.
This article is a newsletter!
Let’s say that it took a couple of hours to create, if you had 200 people paying you just £5 to access your newsletters, this one piece of writing would earn you £1,000.
That’s not bad, don’t you agree?
Here’s that link again: