YouTube video by Sabri Subhi (published June 23, 2023) arguing that an economic downturn is an opportunity to start low-cost businesses. The speaker presents four near-zero-dollar business models—(1) short-form video agency using affiliate revenue, (2) freelance copywriting/high-ticket funnel service for low-ticket course creators, (3) building online pay-per-lead/sale funnels for offline businesses, and (4) a Shopify-focused conversion agency—each with practical steps and proposed revenue-share or pay-per-lead/sale arrangements.
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Something huge is coming. Potentially the biggest transfer of wealth that we've ever seen in history. Jeff Bezos is warning Americans the economy does not look great right now. I expect things to be difficult. Australia's economic situation is worse than despite what the news will tell you, this is actually the perfect time to start a business. Here are the four banger business ideas that you can start with. Almost zero dollars. All the biggest brands that you use daily started in a recession. Netflix, Uber, Airbnb, Microsoft, Wal, Parker, Revlon. Businesses are going to want to cut costs and save money. This isn't a downside. This is likely the biggest opportunity that you've seen in your lifetime. Real quick if you don't know who I am. My name is Sabri Subhi and I've generated my clients over $7.8 billion in sales in over a thousand different niches. My goal is to help you survive and thrive in the coming years. So if you like what you hear, subscribe. Business number one, a short form video agency. I'm talking about creating a turnkey affiliate marketing solution where you reach out to brands and say hey, I'm going to take your long form content and I'm going to repurpose that and then I'm going to create accounts and I'm going to be posting this stuff using all of the insights that we know about the algorithm on TikTok and YouTube shorts. You don't pay me anything. The thing that you do pay me for is I'm going to have a link that goes through to your website and I'm going to have an affiliate ID and when somebody buys off there I want a 10%, a 20% and 30% kickback as a result of doing that. It is a zero risk guaranteed way to deliver customers to businesses in a time where the whole thing that they're going to be thinking about is how do I save costs and get more customers and retain my customers. The second business idea is a freelance copywriting business. Find a list online of all the people that are selling low ticket courses. Sub $2,000 4979971997 reach out to that person. Say hey, I want to help you pivot your low ticket course into a high ticket course. Anything that's $5,000 or above. Write all of the funnel for them. Move them to selling high ticket over a telephone. Place a closer in their business or you will hire the closer on yourself. Service those leads from the inbound funnel. The only thing that you're asking for is a 20 to 40% split on the revenue. You build the funnel, you run the ads, you even have the closer take those inbound calls. This could be a revenue stream that you make 50, 100 to 300 grand a year and paying the closer their commission. The third business idea is to start an online funnel for an offline business. What are the things that people are going to be focused on during this downturn? They're going to be wanting more leads, they're going to be wanting more customers. You want to reach out to these people, whether it's a real estate agent, a mortgage broker, say hey, I will build you out the funnel. Zero cost to you. All I want is a pay per sale model. For every sale that you get as a result of this funnel that I build for you, I want to kick back 10%, 20%. Anyone that runs an offline business and doesn't have an automated customer acquisition engine to that, I'll do everything to generate you these leads. And you can either set up a pay per lead model or a pay per sale model. And you negotiate depending on what the industry is that they operate in and what the volume of sales is, what that percentage is going to be or what that fixed cost per lead or per sale is going to be for your business. And the fourth business is a pro agency. And the way that you're going to do this, you're going to use a website called BuiltWe, get a list of all the sites that were built on Shopify for whatever region that is that you want to operate in. Then you're going to set up a cold email campaign that goes out to those businesses. Say that I can guarantee to increase your conversion rate by 30%, otherwise it is completely free. Then you're just going to have a checklist of all the things that you do to increase conversion rates by 30% on Shopify site. The first one might be, hey, we're going to use Mid Journey. We're going to get really detailed, high resolution product shots of your product in all different types of environments. The next one might be we're going to use ChatGPT to write very rich long form product descriptions for every single product. You might remove all the navigation from their checkout page or even use Klaviyo to set up some basic upsell flow. Focus on building products and services that are painkiller solutions to pressing problems. I made a whole video about that here. Get prepared to ride this huge wave of opportunity that's about to hit.
