3 Ideas You Should STEAL That Made Me $1,000,000 Each
11 Dec 2025 · 11 min
Ryan Daniel Moran shares three strategies that each made him a million dollars: flipping content websites by adding email lists and affiliate offers within 90 to 120 days, building product review sites for purchase-intent searches, and selling email copywriting services or licensing emails for royalties.
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I'm going to share with you three businesses that you can start with. No money that I've tested and have made me a lot of money. Where I'm at in my career right now is I'm much more interested in building $10 million, $25 million companies because I have a goal of having $100 million net worth over the next seven years. So the strategies that I'm gonna give you are ones that I used to do that made me a lot of money, but are no longer in alignment with me having $100 million net worth. So if you're starting on your journey or you're still pursuing the first million, then these business strategies are profitable and can get off the ground very quickly. And you are welcome to steal them. I know they work because I use them to make a lot of money and they got me to this point. So if you're early in your journey, this can fast track your road to success and help you get to the point where I am now. The first strategy that made me a lot of money that you're welcome to steal is flipping websites. I still love this business model, and if I lost everything and had nothing to do, I would strongly consider going back and making this my sole focus because the numbers are really exciting. I loved to buy content sites, content sites that. That had a lot of blog content, a lot of articles, but were only monetizing their traffic with ads, specifically Google Ads. This is the worst way to monetize a website. There's much more profitable ways to monetize the traffic that is coming to a blog or an information site. So what I did is I bought these content sites and then I would build email lists and I would sell affiliate products on those websites. So you would look for a website to buy on Flippa.com or. My favorite way was to reach out to sites in specific niche markets. And I would just reach out and say, hey, my name's Ryan. I'm looking to buy a site in your space. Have you ever considered selling your site? If so, I would love to talk numbers with you. That was an easy way to start a conversation and at least see if the person was open to selling. Here's where the magic was. In the second email, I would say, I usually value websites at two times the profit. Where does that put us? That was a beautiful way to start the negotiation because I would know that if they're just monetizing through advertising, then they probably weren't making that much money. So it would always bring down the first number that we talked about in the negotiation and, and it gave me the upper hand in buying those websites. If I bought the website, then I would look at the pages that were getting the most traffic and I would start building email lists and looking at other affiliate products that I could sell on that site. And also I would set up an account on semrush.com, which will show you all the keywords that a website's ranking for and where you have an opportunity to get additional rankings. And those were the pages that I would start focusing on. So if I had a lot of pages that were ranking about fat loss, I would have my writing team write more articles about fat loss and then it would boost the overall traffic that I was getting for those search terms. And so what would I do with that? Build a bigger email list, write follow up sequences, and sell more affiliate products. Within about 90 to 120 days, I could often boost the value and the profit of the website. And then I could either full flip it for more money or I could sit on it for sort of passive income. I still think this is a wonderful opportunity for people to get into the game because the valuations on websites are still pretty low. The ability to monetize it more than it's already monetized is outstanding. Like, you can never boost the valuation or the profit margin of a rental house, right? You just can't do that. There's only so much you could do with the paint and the carpets. You can't change the location. But with a website you can change the conversion rate and you can change the email list and you can change the stuff you sell. And so you can have an infinite upside on how much profit it produces. So if you look for high traffic sites that are ranking for organic search terms and are only monetizing themselves with advertising, it's a great way to get your foot in the door in any niche market or that you want to make profit from. The second business model that I used to do that made me a lot of money is building review sites. And by the way, you can combine this strategy with the first strategy of buying content sites. I made my first hundred k a year by building review sites. And what that means is I would review products that people were considering buying and I would put my affiliate link in the review and then I would get it to rank for the search term of that product and that product review. This crushed it. I had tiny little sites making thousands of dollars a month in pretty much passive income. You can do this in any niche you can do it in fat loss or make money online or real estate investing. Just choose an industry that you're genuinely curious about so you have interest in the products that are being sold and you probably know the products that are being bought in your space if you're somewhat curious about it. So if you look at the information products, the physical products, even the agencies that are relevant in that space, and you do a review of them, an honest review, where you record yourself calling their customer service and you talk about what happened when you bought it and you do a video of the members area for the digital product or you show the results that you personally are getting from trying out this product. It's a really fun way to build an audience and to build expertise in the space. And it pays you along the way because the people who find your content are thinking about buying something and they're very likely to convert. So it builds audience, it builds authority, it also builds your relationships in the space and, and it creates profit very quickly. So building review sites is a great way to get your foot in the door in any industry and make really decent money while having fun doing it. And the third strategy that I used to do, made me a lot of money and you're welcome to steal it, is email writing as a service, basically being a paid copywriter that specifies in email marketing. The reason I love this is because there are tons of businesses out there with big email lists, sometimes customer lists, that they are not emailing, or not following proper, profitable strategies that are really easy to do and easy to learn. Email copywriting is not a ninja science. My emails are very basic, they just follow basic templates. In fact, I share my templates with my members inside the 1% and I say these swipe files have made me well over a million dollars. Feel free to steal them and use them in your business. And when people use them, they get tons of sales. People say that they have record days as a result of just using my swipe files, which aren't anything special. They just follow a very logical sequence. And there's a bunch of people who teach this stuff. Andre Chaperone is really great. Ian Stanley is fantastic and he has some really, really great strategies and templates that you can steal. And my mentor Travis Sago teaches a lot of people not only how to write effective emails, but how to find clients that are willing to pay you really ridiculous sums to just run these strategies. If you look up any of those guys and there's so many more that teach this, you'll find enough to be able to be an adequate and profitable email copywriter and have people who pay you to do it for them. One of the things that Travis teaches that is really smart is to license your emails or to create a royalty agreement with the people who are paying you for emails. So instead of charging $500 an email, which you can totally do, you could say I just want 5% of the sales that I generate, knowing that if you find the right client, you're going to be able to produce an additional hundred thousand to two hundred thousand dollars a month. You could be taking home a pretty passive 5k to 10k per month per client. So if you focus on a specific niche and you have strategies and templates that make it easy for you, you can go out to the businesses that have customer lists and email lists that aren't being properly monetized and provide a huge amount of value for them. And just by knowing what buttons to push and you'll be paid handsomely in the process. Of course, one of the things you could do is combine all three of these strategies. You could buy a content site, do reviews for products in that space, and build an email list where you're writing promotional emails for other people's stuff, and then create partnerships with related information sites, do their email marketing, and promote some of your own stuff. Once you get your foot in the door in a space by having an audience and authority and a sizable email list, you're in business and you can be taken seriously. And any of these three ways to build a business is a good foot in the door. Once again, I don't do any of these anymore because my career has advanced past this point. So you're welcome to steal these. One of my friends, Ryan Quissan, I actually go to him for stock trading advice, but he made his money by building content sites and buying them too. And he and I have had conversations about wouldn't it be cool to raise a fund that just bought information sites and then monetize them? That's a smart way to say I'm going to use this Strategy but build $100 million business out of it, which is my goal to do over the next seven years. I don't know if we'll do that, but I enjoy this stuff so much that it's still fun to think about. So if you decide to go down this road, keep me posted, let me know in the comments and shoot me an email@ryanapitalism.com I'd love to hear what you're up to. And if this video inspired you to go in a new direction if you found value in this video and you want more content like this. I help entrepreneurs build million dollar businesses that they can sell. So hit the subscribe button and I would love to mentor you on your road to 1 million. I'm Ryan Daniel Moran with capitalism.com thanks for watching.
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