The Best Thing You Can Do in a Financial Crunch - Examples Included

Published: Sun, 01/07/18


I feel so good today - got the house clean from post Christmas mess yesterday and also got a lot of work done, too. Today I'm recording a bunch with Scarlett for our Accessory Site Challenge. And I get to order my groceries to pick up tomorrow (I love that service - it saves me so much time!).

Speaking of service, this is the one area you can turn to when you're hurting financially. 

Established marketers who have a ton of tasks to do would love to hand them over to you. 

But what if you can't write or create graphics from scratch?

I see tools being offered all the time on JVZoo that fit the criteria to allow you to launch a service that caters to the needs of others. 

For example, sometimes you'll see a tool that lets you set up websites for a particular niche offline client, like dentists or chiropractors or whatever. These are people who don't know how to get a professional looking website, so the tool can let you quickly launch it for them and it looks like you did a ton of work, but really it's a tool you used!

What made me think of this was the slant mentioned in the video for a tool called Photolemur. It's not a typical photo editor (those are too complicated for me) - it's a drag and drop, and wait for the result option. 

There are many people (ordinary people) online wanting to use Instagram or Pinterest etc., and they have their niche - like cooking or outdoor fitness or whatever, but technically, they can't make their pictures look good.

So I went and looked for this type of photo editing service to enhance pictures and found some people offering it for $2-5 per picture, so customers can do individual or batches (and the tool does batches so you drag and drop several - even a whole folder - in there at once). 

Watch the demo video and then think of how you could offer that was a service on a site like Fiverr, for example. 

Whenever you start thinking of leading a niche and you feel intimidated, paralyzed and maybe overwhelmed by the competition - go back to the basics and consider how you can serve those who need some help. Look for a tool that builds sites, makes images (in a very image heavy time online) pop, or does something with videos and make that your specialty - even if it's temporary. 

By the way, my daughter - who is into VSCO and Instagram niches, saw me watching the demo and said, "OMG what's THAT!? I want that!" So there are lots of niches like makeup, crafts, natural healing (where images of herbs, etc. are popular), fitness and more that could benefit from help with images. 

Don't worry if you start out as a service provider in some capacity - it takes the heat off of you in terms of bills and financial needs and allows you to build the business you're MOST passionate about in a slower timeframe without having to frantically hustle to make ends meet. 

By the way, here's another way you can profit from services. Let's say you know how to set up a blog. Charge your customers for your service time and allow them to purchase a content package from a PLR provider using your affiliate link. You could send them to Tribe Bloom for example (and FYI their membership ends in 3 days) - so let's say it's for a Chiropractor. You could send them to the Back Pain Relief package through your affiliate link and have them buy it. That's extra income earned. 

Then set the content up for them on their site. Only send them to the most reputable PLR sources, though - don't blindly assume anyone on the bestseller list is good because they're not always. Look and judge for yourself. You can also earn commission setting up things like hosting and email autoresponders - so not only do you get paid for the service of setup, but you earn commission for recommending certain services to them!

Tiff ;)