James Bonadies — Getting rich is not that hard.
James Bonadies, Founder and CEO of Visibility Cloud LLC
I am not special.
I am not smarter than you.
I’d even assume that a lot of you reading this are more intelligent than I am.
Sure, I was a teacher—so, it’s not like I was uneducated.
But I did not know how to start a business.
I did not know how to triple my salary.
All I knew was that I could learn to.
| I’m not naturally “good” at sales, | but I can learn what tricks work. |
| I’m very shy | but shy people don’t have to lose. |
| I don’t have a business background | but a lot of people out there do. |
James Bonadies: Success leaves clues.
I knew that if I could just learn how other people were making 10x my salary, then I could do what they were doing.
And I want people to understand how attainable it can be.
Getting rich takes work — but it is not that hard.
So, let me show you.
I saw a Facebook ad that literally changed my life. It said,
Learn how to get leads for local businesses, and they’ll pay you for that service.
I was like, “Woah, yeah. That makes sense. Why wouldn’t businesses pay for that?”
It seemed simple and practical. And it was.
I told myself I was going to learn how to do it. And it really didn’t take that long.
I started putting my son to sleep, and, instead of watching TV with my wife, I would sit at my computer in my garage and learn.
James Bonadies: Learn how to be a Google middleman for local businesses.
Learn easy ways to find businesses who need more customers.
Learn how to do a good job at getting a business to show up on Google, so that you can ask for lots of referrals and have new clients come to you.
The first time I landed a big $5,000 / month client, that changed something in me.
An extra $60,000 / year was huge money for me then.
I was like “Wow! I can actually do this!?“
All I did was spend my evenings learning, and I was actually making it happen.
I learned what techniques were most effective at getting someone’s website to show up higher on Google.
I learned how to build really basic lead generation sites, so someone looking for that business could quickly become a customer.
I learned how to be cost-effective with advertising budgets by using pay-per-click ads—so I could spend as little money as possible getting my clients as many customers as possible.
James Bonadies: Learn. Test. Improve. Sell.
So, that big $5k / month client—a mortgage broker—loved the results so much that he eventually wanted to “fire” me and start doing it on his own.
He asked me if I had a training to sell him, so that his in-house team could copy my process.
I thought, “Holy sh*t — I can sell my skills!”
I learned what it felt like to have knowledge that people wanted. And they were willing to pay to learn from me.
So, we did. My partner, Jason, and I built a training that explained every step of how we were getting local businesses more customers using Google.
We sold it to that client, who taught it to his team, and then we realized that there were probably other mortgage brokers out there who would want this training for their teams too. So, we ran some simple Google ads to promote this training targeting mortgage brokers.
But then we realized that this didn’t have to be specific to the mortgage industry. There are a ton of professionals out there who would surely buy a course that would earn them more money.
We started selling it to anybody who wanted to start a business — and it took off!
We went from $5,000 / month
to $25,000 / month
to $300,000 / month.
Then from $4 million / year
to $7 million / year
to $8 million / year.
And, like I said — I am not special.
Tell yourself that you’re going to learn how to make $10,000 / month. Start learning, build your process, and then you’ll keep finding ways to improve it. Then, sell that process to other people.
That is the evolution of how we went from $0 – $25 million in just a few years.
If you’d like to watch our video about some of the exact strategies we still use when it comes to Google, Facebook, or YouTube — check it out for free here.
James Bonadies’ Local Marketing Vault course is the first one we, the Inspired Idiots, have encountered that we 100% recommend to our viewers. It’s so straightforward and well-built that people grandmas are doing it!
Click here to watch his free training and sign up to enroll!
No one ever seems to regret it!
Check out this post for James’ 5 tips to $25 million in under 5 years.
If you’re interested in making money online, but have no idea how — you are an inspired idiot!
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