If not, it's simple. You find a buyer who needs a product or service, and agree to complete the work. After you find the buyer, you pay someone else a lower amount to complete the work. You keep the profit you didn't spend for managing the deal.
It's an extremely effective, very scalable and surprisingly fun way to earn money online.
Add to that, it's easy enough even a complete newbie can pull it off. If you've ever thought about being a middleman online, here's 5 of the hottest services you can sell today for a quick middleman profit. After you read the list, take a look at my list of my favorite resources below.
5. Articles, Ebooks & Press Releases Who loves to write? Writers do. Who hates to write? Everyone else! There's a huge demand for article writing and content creation services for local businesses owners, online marketers, seo companies and many, many more. Once you find someone who needs content, you can get an article written for dirt cheap on iwriter. Make a few edits, or hire an editor from a site like freelancer or odesk for a set price per article, and you've got a decent little money maker you can scale to a full six figure hands off business.
4. Copy No, not copy & paste. I mean well written, persuasive copy for sales letters, videos, and anywhere a marketer needs a conversion to happen. Whether it's text for a squeeze page or a full blown sales letter, there's a lot of marketers looking for services with quality copywriters who get results for a decent price. Do you know one? You can find a load of copywriters on the Warrior for Hire section of the warriorforum. You can get some good prices, just make sure you use someone who's been around a while and doesn't have any negative reviews.
3. Mobile Websites Want your foot in the door of a local business? A large majority of local businesses still don't have mobile ready websites. It doesn't sound too impressive, until you take a few minutes to research the staggering amount of searches done via mobile phones and how mobile search has and continues to grow. You can sell mobile design for anywhere from $600-$1,000 on LinkedIn or talking to local businesses in your area. I like the warrior forum for outsourcing these. You can get some really high quality work done for $100 or less. That's... $500-$900 in profit per deal. With numbers like that, you might want to hire a sales team.
2. SEO I've personally made a lot of money offering SEO services. But have you personally ever tried ranking a site on your own? It's one of the worst experiences in life! It's boring, time consuming and really a big pain in the neck. After releasing countless SEO reports and running my own SEO service for years, here's a key to SEO you won't find anywhere else; outsource it! Seriously, it's horrible. Thankfully being a middleman, all you have to do is find someone else to do the work for a lower cost & keep a little of the profits off the top. I wouldn't recommend doing the SEO work by yourself. You can find quality providers on sites like fiverr, just do a little research and learn about SEO first so you know what works and what doesn't. That knowledge is why customers will keep coming back every month.
1. Whiteboard Sales Videos These things are white hot! The sheer entertainment value of whiteboard videos makes their conversion rates soar through the roof. Better optins, more sales... it's easy to see why so many people are looking for a quality whiteboard video and how you can easily swoop in and pick up a few profits for bringing together buyers who need a high quality product and the best whiteboard animators you know. Be careful. You can find cheap ($5) videos on sites like fiverr, but they aren't the high quality you really need. You need custom, high converting, highly engaging. The Warrior for Hire section is what I'd recommend here too. I've seen people selling these videos everywhere from $5 to $5,000 per minute, but the going price is generally in the hundreds per minute for a high quality video.
How about you, what would you add to the list? Have you had success in any of these niches?
Let us know in the comments below.
Resources:
iwriter.com (low cost content writers)
fiverr.com (just $5 for almost anything!)
warriorforum.com (popular marketing forum, lots of services for trade in the Warrior for Hire section)
seoclerks.com (Sell or buy seo/writing services here)
searchtempest.com (search craigslist for people who post ads all across the us)
Great Post Victor,
ReplyDeleteThank You for writing all genuine stuff. Myself doing work as middle man. But some of your ideas are new to me.
Regards,
Osho Garg