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Step one to $10,000 a month is not starting a business. It's getting a job.
A couple of weeks ago I made a post that correctly stated that anyone that has a laptop and an internet connection and isn't making $10,000 per month is doing so by choice.
I was right, and surprisingly most people agreed...
...but not everyone.
But the main people I feel like I didn't help were the people asking "how".
So the next 10 days to 2 weeks of Think Big Minute are going to be ways you can get to $10,000 per month.
Think Big Minute #64
Everything I'm about to show you over the next two weeks lives or dies on one skill.
Sales.
The automation guy who can't sell makes nothing. The bookkeeper who can't sell makes nothing. Every one of these doors needs the same thing to open, and most people never learn it.
So before you start anything, go get paid to learn the one skill all of it runs on.
You get a commission sales job.
A business already has the leads and the product. They're booking calls with people who already raised their hand and want to hear about the offer. You take those calls and you close them. You get a cut of every sale.
The hard parts are already done. You just have to close.
The cut is usually 10 to 20 percent of the sale. On a $5,000 offer that's $500 to $1,000 every time you close one. Close seven or eight a month and you're at $10k.
High ticket closing is the version everyone talks about, but it's the same skill whether you're closing coaching, software, agency retainers, or solar. Learn to close one and you can close all of them.
A good closer on a good offer with real leads clears $10,000 to $30,000 a month from a phone and a laptop.
A closer on a weak offer with thin leads makes almost nothing.
And that gap usually isn't about how good you are. It's about the seat you land.
So picking the seat is half the job.
Not every closing gig is real. A lot of them have no real offer and no real leads behind them, just a promise. Before you take one, you ask three things. Does the offer actually convert? Are the leads warm and booked for you, or are you stuck digging them up cold? And do they have a proven system, scripts, and other closers already making money?
If a seat is missing any of those three, walk.
Where you find them: job boards and LinkedIn are full of these roles. Coaching, consulting, info products, and B2B software companies hire closers constantly. You can also go straight at a business that has a good offer and no closer and ask for the seat.
The numbers:
The model: You take booked sales calls for a business that already has the leads and the offer, close them, and earn a cut of every sale.
Realistic income: $10k to $30k a month on a good offer with real leads. The cut is usually 10 to 20 percent per sale. A weak offer pays a fraction of that.
Hours per week: 20 to 40. Calls, follow up, and reviewing your own recordings to get better.
Time to first sale: Your first month is mostly training and shadowing. You're taking live calls by month two and your checks get real by month three.
Time to $10k a month: 3 to 6 months if you land a decent seat and put in the reps to get your close rate up.
Startup cost: Almost nothing. A laptop and a phone, and you're in. No degree, no money to start.
Difficulty: 4 out of 10 to start, because there's no money and nothing to build, you just need a seat. 8 out of 10 to stick, because you're on commission, you eat rejection every day, and nobody is going to close for you.
What you need to know: How to run a sales call and close it without folding when they push back. And how to read a seat so you don't waste months on a dead offer.
Best for: People who can hear no all day and dial again. People who want the one skill that works in everything else on this list, and in their own offer someday. If you don't have a product or an audience yet, but you can talk to people, this is your door.
Now the catch, because there's always one.
It's commission. Early on there's no floor. You'll spend the first month or two learning and barely earning, and most people quit right there, because the rejection is heavy and the money hasn't shown up yet.
And the seat decides a lot of your outcome. The best closer alive on a broken offer with cold leads still starves. So you don't take the first gig that says yes. You vet the offer like your income depends on it, because it does.
This is Part 1 for a reason.
Sales is the skill under everything I'm going to show you. Learn it on someone else's leads and someone else's product, get paid while you do, and everything else on this list gets easier.
Master this one and you don't need me to hand you a business.
You'll go build your own.
Think Big.
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