Introduction to How To Make 10K A Month
Everyone wants to know how to make 10k a month. The only issue is, there’s a lot of bs out there, and there’s a lot of people that make it seem way easier than it actually is. So I’m going to share with you the five main steps you need to take in order to get to your first 10k a month. Starting with picking the right business model.
I struggled from 17 to 24, and it wasn’t until then that I made my first 10k a month. Picking the right model can be the difference between a headwind pushing you backwards, or a tailwind pushing you forward. So I an all the business models, all the industries for the past 12 months, and I put together the top four best business models in 2025.
Step 1: Pick The Right Business Model
Product Business
Number one is a product business with 50 to 60 gross margin. Which means that if I buy something for a dollar, and I sell it for five, 4 is my gross margin. You don’t want to choose a business with a low gross margin. For example, restaurants, really low gross margin, stay out of that. A product business is essentially finding some kind of product, or widget that people are buying today, seeing if there’s a unique twist that you can put on it, and selling it online. This is all the drop shipping businesses, the e commerce stuff, the micro brands.
Why It Works
What makes the product business one of the best business models in the world is that you can actually sell it without ever building it, taking possession of it, and fulfilling it to the customers. It’s like the easiest set it and forget it business model out there.
Agency Model
Number two is agency model. The agency model is usually between 60 and 70 margin. And this is where you find problems that customers have, productize your service to them, and then do the thing you sold them. So this is copywriting agencies, marketing agencies, e commerce agency, AI automation agencies. Agencies are powerful because they’re the easiest business models to start. Find the customer that needs leads, and then sell them lead generation, and go find somebody who can actually help you do the work on the back end.
Consulting
Number three is consulting, and this one is my favorite, with 70 to 80 margins. And the reason why, if you know what you’re talking about, you can come in, analyze the data, and give a report, give some direction to a business to solve their problem. Now they can do it internally, or they can hire somebody else to do it. But you don’t have to actually do the work. It’s a great business to be in, especially if you come from an industry, and you have a lot of experience.
Software As A Service (SaaS)
Number four, sas, which stands for software as a service, which is my world, and all I’ve pretty much done my whole life, with 80 to 90 margins. It’s one of the most profitable business out there, and it’s this model that I used to hit my first 10k back when I was 24 years old. What I love about software is that you build it once, and you can sell it, literally a million times for the same price, and it costs you nothing more once you build it. But picking the right business model means nothing if you can’t do the work.
Step 2: Build A Six-Figure Skill
Personal Experience
So the second step to your 10k a month journey is, build a six figure skill. My first six figure skill was learning how to write computer code, and it’s crazy cuz I learned it in rehab as a 16, 17 year old. I got myself in trouble, ended up with an addiction, and I had to go to 11 months of working on myself to try to become not only sober, but honestly a better version of myself. It was at the end of that experience that I learn how to write code, and I just fell in love.
Follow Passion
Some of you guys actually have passion around something, and you’re worried, it’s like I’m working too much. No, if you are into it, go all in, cuz that’s what I did, and that’s what made me great at what I do.
Top In-Demand Skills For 2025
So what are the most in demand skills that you can build a six figure income in 2025. The first one is coding. I know it sounds difficult if you’ve never programmed before, but trust me, you go online, and there’s apps and tools that’ll make it so freaking simple. It’s one of the easiest things to learn today, because it literally writes it self.
Video Editing
The second is video editing. Why, media and personal brands are exploding. Every product company is becoming a media company, and every media company is becoming a product company. You know what they all need, video editors. My 12 year old is editing videos for his friends. He’s getting paid, and he has been for a couple years, to edit other people’s videos.
Copywriting
Number three is copywriting. Words sell, stories sell. The cool thing about copywriting, why I think it’s one of the best skills to learn, is that it’s a meta skill. Understanding how to persuade, communicate, demonstrate value through the written word. Even though AI can do a lot for you today, great copywriters are still some of the highest paid people in the world, because they know how to generate revenue from their craft.
Sales
Number four is sales, or more specifically, chat sales. I have dozens of friends today that make a million dollars a year in commission, selling over chat. Understanding the psychology of a sales conversation over chat, getting people to purchase without ever talking to anybody. Sales is one of those meta skills that if you learn, you can make six figures.
AI Automation
Number five is AI automation. It is the new hotness. I got to tell you, I just got added to a community that one of my friends leads, 14k people standing by, learning this skill. It is growing, and guess what, if you ask 100 business owners if they’re doing AI right now, they’ll say, I use chat gpt. That’s not AI automation.
Step 3: Sell Before You Build
Why It Matters
But if you really want to get to 10k a month, skill alone won’t put money in your pocket. Which brings us to step three, sell before you build. I was such an idiot. Every time I started a new business, I would go, and build a bunch of stuff, and then see if somebody wanted to buy it.
Lesson Learned
And I’m like, you said is a good idea, I should build it. And they’re like, yeah, you should, I’m just busy, it’s not something I want. Do you know how many people go buy hundreds of thousand dollar of inventory, and then don’t have customers. Sell before you build.
How To Pre-Sell
So how do you pre sell. Number one, find your customers. I always ask myself, who’s got my list, where are they hiding, who’s got the problem that I solve with my product or service, and how do I get in front of them.
Sell The Opportunity
Number two is, you got to sell the opportunity. Whatever you’re selling, you got to understand how to communicate its value, and demo it so that people go, wow, that’s amazing, I think we need that. And third is, learn to collect payment.
Mindset
If you didn’t sell something, you didn’t become an entrepreneur. That’s how you get to 10k a month, is actually collecting payment.
Step 4: Automate Your Delivery
Scaling Challenges
I have a client in my community, and when he started with me, he was doing 11k a month. Last week alone, he collected 355k. He’s freaking out. Why, because he’s got to do all the work now.
Maintaining Reputation
Your reputation is based on the feeling, and the promise you delivered to a customer.
Simplify and Engineer Success
What you want to do is figure out what’s the simplest form of what your offer or product is, and just keep it at that. Engineer success.
AI Implementation
AI is picking up, and taking care of automating the whole process.
Step 5: Buy Back Your Time
The Importance Of Time
Now those four steps, they’ll help you get to that magical 10k a month. But this next one is what’s going to help you blow past it. Which brings us to step five, buy back your time.
Building Systems And People
The truth is, is millionaires build systems, billionaires build people.
The Buyback Loop
So step one is to audit our calendar. Things that would cost me very little in money to pay somebody else to do, that suck my energy, are things I shouldn’t be doing.
Transfer And Fill
I use the camcorder method, because I record myself doing the work, then upload it to AI so it creates the playbook.
Efficiency And Growth
If I buy back my time for a little bit of money, and then reinvest that in doing activities like marketing, in sales, and hiring great people, then I’m going to make more money.
Conclusion
So here’s what I know. If you made it to the end, I have no doubt that you’re going to make your first 10k a month. It’s about making a decision, and making that decision right. Follow one course until successful, you will make 10k a month.