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Re: How do I make $10k (What are you guys doing?)

#41
>I’m six months behind on rent, just managed to buy time after my first eviction notice, and I’m trying to get back into building without constantly worrying about when the next one shows up.

Why not create a broker website between people who are getting eviction notices and Lawyers who specifically help people who are getting eviction notices?

That is, use what you are...

Or rather (phrased another way),

use the set of circumstances you are in, to turn around the set of circumstances that you're in.

It may sound meta, but if you individually are having a problem -- then so are a ton of other people as well!

If solving that problem has value to you, then such a solution is worth money.

If many people are also having that problem, then solutions to that problem are also worth money to them!

Sure, a legal solution, for example, finding an appropriate Lawyer to extend the point in time before eviction for say, 1-2 months (or whatever can be done) may be a suboptimal partial solution (in an ideal world, you'd like your rent to be free forever, as would everyone else), but the thing is,

even suboptimal partial solutions are worth money, if only a little bit of money...

Phrased another way,

there's money to be made by acting as a broker between people with eviction problems and the subset of Lawyers who specialize in that field, who could potentially ameliorate that problem if only a tiny amount, if only a little bit...

There's also money to be made in books and online reports... "What to do if you get an eviction notice".

Which such a book or report might not be worth the price of rent (obviously if someone had the rent money they'd pay it, problem solved), that information may be worth $19.95, or something in that ballpark...

Scaled across thousands of people with the same problem -- and we're looking at some decent money!

It probably won't make you rich or anything... but (and this is going to sound "evil" -- but it is not intentionally so!) it might make you enough money to pay your rent! :-)

use what you are

use the set of circumstances you are in, to turn around the set of circumstances that you're in.

Education, Knowledge, and Experience are everything...

Money, if it exists, if it exists at all, exists relative to, as an effect of these things...

Do you know everything possible about every single Landlord/Tenant Law and every single possible way to resolve an eviction notice?

If not... then I'd suggest that you are in one hell of an opportunity to learn everything you can about the matter!

Expertise (in any subject matter) translates to being sought, to being paid (sometimes very highly!) by others in return for advice, in return for knowledge, in return for communicated experience...

Money will naturally follow you with this learning once you have it, and once you monetize it -- although this will probably not happen today or tomorrow -- but it will in the future, if you can see the opportunity and capture it!

use what you are

use the set of circumstances you are in, to turn around the set of circumstances that you're in

Wishing you well in this... experience!

(You know, for lack of a better term! :-) )

Re: How do I make $10k (What are you guys doing?)

#42
I run an innovation agency. We solve difficult problems (or at least we try). We have money but we need people with a different mindset (struggle until you find a way). We are trying to find people that have developed a lateral thinking model instead of vertical one. Where do you stand here ?

Re: How do I make $10k (What are you guys doing?)

#43
First lesson: Don't fall for the Survivorsip Bias.

If you see people pulling things off, what you don't see is: People not pulling off. And they are the vast majority. They invest money and time and nothing happens.

To be more "philosophical": It's a mix of luck, talent and dedication where one can substitute the other to a certain degree.

(Sorry, I know not helpful in your current situation, but I was triggered to answer the first part of your post - best of luck however!)

Re: How do I make $10k (What are you guys doing?)

#44
post #42

I run an innovation agency. We solve difficult problems (or at least we try). We have money but we need people with a different mindset (struggle until you find a way). We are trying to find people that have developed a lateral thinking model instead of vertical one. Where do you stand here ?

I’m comfortable working without a clear path. If you’re open to it, I’d be curious to hear about what kind of problems you are currently stuck on or struggling to make progress with?

Re: How do I make $10k (What are you guys doing?)

#45
post #43

First lesson: Don't fall for the Survivorsip Bias. If you see people pulling things off, what you don't see is: People not pulling off. And they are the vast majority. They invest money and time and nothing happens. To be more "philosophical": It's a mix of luck, talent and dedication where one can substitute the other to a certain degree. (Sorry, I know not helpful in your current situation, but I was triggered to a…

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Re: How do I make $10k (What are you guys doing?)

#46
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post #42

I run an innovation agency. We solve difficult problems (or at least we try). We have money but we need people with a different mindset (struggle until you find a way). We are trying to find people that have developed a lateral thinking model instead of vertical one. Where do you stand here ?

I’m comfortable working without a clear path. If you’re open to it, I’d be curious to hear about what kind of problems you are currently stuck on or struggling to make progress with?

Please give some LinkedIn profile, we shall continue there

Re: How do I make $10k (What are you guys doing?)

#47
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m comfortable working without a clear path. If you’re open to it, I’d be curious to hear about what kind of problems you are currently stuck on or struggling to make progress with?

Please give some LinkedIn profile, we shall continue there

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-mutea

Re: How do I make $10k (What are you guys doing?)

#48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well the first point is don't ask for payment after the work is done. No one will pay because you've already solved their pain. You're in a weaker position at that point. Tell them how much you charge before you start work and ask if they want you to start work. It can only go one of two ways. The easiest way to convince them is to compare it to sales. If they are an electrician with an average job of $500, that webs…

Thank you for the new perspective! I was looking at it the wrong way. They're not paying for the website, they're paying for new customers. I think I can manage taking a bit of time to understand their business a bit and then explain how a site will be valuable to them. EDIT: Did you mean $1k annually or just for the initial project?

It's been a while since I did these, but I used to charge $1k to get it set up, then $500 per year to keep it going.

I will say I was very cheap though. But I made my money on quantity. I would do two a month on the side of a full time job.

They were very simple websites though. But most of the time that's all people need.

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