I was always on the lookout for how to make money without working a 9 to 5 job. I hated the 9 to 5. The commute, the regular hours and working for a boss. Doing the same thing every day was claustrophobic and made me feel trapped. I looked for other ways to make money and tried various different jobs. I wanted something I could be good at and which meant I wasn’t doing something random and unimportant to me. I suppose I wanted a job to be meaningful and to feel valued. Most 9 to 5 jobs left me feeling unfullfilled and never good enough.
How To Make Money Without Working A 9 to 5
I looked at various ways to earn an income. I had jobs as a lifeguard, a take away driver, an office worker and various other low paid jobs. But none of them gave me any satisfaction or a feeling of self worth. I always felt like I was at the bottom of the pile, which of course I was! See how to escape 9 to 5.
I eventually found myself working from home selling things on ebay. I was buying and selling but not really getting anywhere with it. I looked for another business model and found an ebook which I purchased and downloaded. It struck me that this ebay purchase was a brilliant business model. Although it was only a low priced item, the sale and delivery was completely automated. I wanted to create my own products and sell them just like this. I knew that if I could make it work, it would be a lot easier business (with automated sales) than what I was doing.
I wrote a couple of ebooks but I never made a sale. My main problem was getting the sales page in front of people. I later learned of a business model known as affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing allows anyone to sell someone else’s product over the internet and earn a commission based on the sale. With digital products, like the ebook I had found, this could be as much as 40% commission. It could be automated and scaled up and I didn’t even need to build my own product! I was sold on affiliate marketing.
Affiliate Marketing – How To Make Money Without Working A 9 To 5
My situation was that I was working part time in television. (See my about me page) I had a lot of time off in between work (= mostly unemployed 😉 so I used my time to research affiliate marketing. I looked at various models and tried nearly every different tactic I could get my hands on. Over the few years I was doing it, I must have built hundreds of websites and written thousands of articles.
However, success was always eluding me. I had made a couple of online sales, but I was struggling. My focus was all over the place and I kept jumping from one idea to the next. The main problem was I didn’t have a clear focus. I didn’t have a good strategy either and I was starting to doubt whether this was going to work at all.
Finding A Community
Finding an online community changed things for a number of reasons. It gave me the belief I needed so much that I could make an online business work. Others were doing it and sharing their strategies and results through the community. There are also a clear path forwards and a step by step progression. I knew what I needed to do. Within my first 6 months I had made my first high ticket commission. I wasn’t retiring or anything but it meant that it worked and gave me a much needed boost.
Since then I have met a number of people through this online business community and continue to help people overcome their own limitations and discover the benefits of an online business:
- Work from anywhere – with a complately portable business model
- Learn as you earn – build up your business around existing employment
- Build a business which is scalable and global – digital products (like my ebook) can be sold anywhere over the internet.
- Use a ‘different’ business model – My initial idea of selling an ebook had been done much better.
How To Make Money Without Working A 9 to 5 – A Digital Business System
The digital business system I found allows anyone to stop trading their time for money by selling digtial products over the internet. Digital products can be sold on virtual ‘autopilot’, much like the initial idea of the ebook which led me to this model.
This is how to make money without working a 9 to 5, or even a 7 till 9! You need to stop trading time for money.
A digital business model which has a number of products within it also offers:
- Subscription products – By selling subscription affiliate products you can earn an ongoing income from each sale you make
- High Ticket Items – High ticket items can offset advertising costs more easily allowing you to grow and scale your business with paid advertising
- Multi-tier sales – Allow you to earn commissions from sales made by your referrals
- Up-Sells – Entry level products have a built in product range behind them from which you can earn commissions.
Access the same 7 day video series which led me to a different business system, and which uses the same simple concept of the initial ebook purchase I made several years earlier!