How To Earn Your First $100 Online This Weekend
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How To Earn Your First $100 Online This Weekend
In this article you’re going to learn how to earn your first $100 online this very weekend.
This builds on everything I’ve shared with you in previous articles, so if you missed out on those, definitely go back and read through them first.
Now, the question is:
How do we actually find those people, those clients, who are happy to pay someone like you to do some work for them online, and how do we convince them that YOU are the right person for the job?
You use these 3 methods:
The Billboard Method
The Door-To-Door Method
The Classified Method
I recommend you use all three methods this weekend to secure your first clients and start making money online.
BUT!
It’s very important to use these methods in the order I’ve listed them above.
Let’s go through them one at a time and I’ll explain what they are and how you can use them.
1. The Billboard Method
Before I show you how this works, you need to know about Molly.
Molly is a young lady from the UK I met through a mutual friend last year when I was spending a couple of weeks in Chiang Mai in Thailand.
We went out for a group dinner – photographed above – and Molly was a friend of a friend who came along and we ended up sitting next to each other. So she’s third from the right in the photo, and I’m on the far right there with the big mad head on me.
During that dinner Molly told me that just a year earlier she was stranded in rural India with no online business and only £17 left in her bank account.
And then she used the Billboard Method.
A few days later she had over £1000 in her bank account.
When I met her in Thailand, just a year later, she was still going strong, she was fully location independent, and she had a thriving freelance business.
So what is this Billboard Method that Molly used to break through and earn £1000 in less than a week?
Well, I call it the Billboard Method because the basic idea is that you put up a nice billboard advertising your availability for online freelance work, and you display it in a public place where lots of people are likely to see it.
Now clearly putting up a traditional billboard…
Like this
…clearly that is not realistic. 1
What we’re talking about here is the ONLINE EQUIVALENT of a traditional billboard.
Which is, as you can probably guess: social media.
Places like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram, with all their traffic, are the online equivalent of busy streets and highways.
And your posts on there are like billboards.
And that’s what Molly used to find her first clients and earn more than £1000 online in less than a week… it was all down to a single post on social media.
In her case, it was Facebook, and she kindly shared with me a screenshot of that post:
Now I don’t recommend you copy that word for word, but here a few things from it that are worth emulating:
Molly included a nice photo of herself, making it much more personable and attention-grabbing.
The post was friendly and informal. Even though she only had £17 left in her bank account, she didn’t come across desperate or looking for a favor. Instead she came across as a friendly freelancer offering her services to folks on Facebook.
The post was short and sweet. She stated what service she had to offer, noted that her prices were competitive, and told anyone interested to get in touch.
That’s it.
So the first thing you’re going to do as part of our step-by-step plan to find your first clients is post something similar to Molly on whichever social network you’re most active on.
Post it up there, then wait and see who expresses interest in working with you.
That is the Billboard Method and it’s something you can do in 20 minutes or less, including the time required to take a nice friendly photo of yourself.
It’s the quickest and easiest of our three methods to execute, yet it can achieve very powerful results, and that’s why I recommend you try it first.
But you don’t ONLY want to use the Billboard Method. You want to give yourself as many chances as possible to land some paid work this weekend, so let’s move on now to the second method you can use to find your first clients…
2. The Door-To-Door Method
To show you how this method works, let me tell you about Karl.
Karl is a freelance writer, and a student of mine.
He spent a few hours doing the Door-To-Door Method and posted about his results in our private Facebook group:
As you can see there, after just a few hours of using this method, he had landed two paying gigs and had a lead on several more.
You can do the same thing this weekend.
Here’s how you do it.
First, sit down and make a list of at least 50 people you know and who know you.
You’re going to make that list, and then you’re going to spend a couple of hours reaching out to those people individually. You’re going to tell them what service you’re offering and ask if they have a need for that service or can put you in touch with someone who does.
I call this the Door-To-Door Method because you’re doing the technological equivalent of going around your neighborhood and knocking on doors to try drum up business.
Kinda like Jack Nicholson in The Shining…
But, you know, without trying to murder anyone.
So again, there are two key parts to this method:
Making the list
Reaching out
There are some very important nuances to both of those, so let’s run through them quickly.
Making The List
Ideally, the people on your list should:
Like and trust you.
Because it’s much easier to sell your services to, or recruit help from, people who already like and trust you. So only reach out to people who you’re already on good terms with.
Be people you are in frequent contact with.
You don’t want to be reaching out to people you haven’t been in contact with for several months or even years. If you do that, they’re likely to think to themselves, “Oh, I see how it is. You only contact me when you need a favor.”
If you’re not very good at keeping in touch with people, then I recommend you get good at it. Because as a friend of mine likes to say, business is a game of relationships. The person with the best relationships, with the most high-quality relationships, has a massive advantage.
Be business owners (or be able to connect you with business owners).
Your ideal clients will usually be business owners, for the simple reason that they are going to be much more professional, and they’re going to understand the concept of Return On Investment, which means they’ll usually be willing to pay a fair rate for your services.
The alternative is to work for a hobbyist, and hobbyists usually don’t have much skin in the game, they usually don’t have much of a budget, and they’re usually very disorganized.
So aim to connect with business owners as much as possible. You’re a professional, and you want to work with other professionals.
Reaching Out
Once you’ve made a list of 50+ people who fit those criteria, it’s time to start reaching out.
Mostly you’ll want to do this by email (or something like Facebook messenger) so you can get through the entire list in a few hours.
Here’s an email template that you can use to help ensure you get the best response.
Subject: Quick question
…
Hello Phileas,
I hope all’s well with you.
Any chance you could do me a small favor?
The past few months I’ve been working and studying hard to become a web designer. I’m at the point now where I feel confident in taking on some clients and providing a great service.
Here’s where you come in:
Can you think of anyone who might require help building a website? And if so, would you be willing to connect me with them?
Of course, if you ever need help with that kind of thing yourself, I’d be happy to lend a hand 
