Erin Peterson booked $12,000 in client work over three weeks in October after taking Ramit Sethi's Earn1k course. She explains why paying for the course was worth it as a business investment and gives advice to people considering it.
About $12,000 over the course of three weeks (in October).
February 15, 2011 (metadata in transcript).
Let's talk results, because ultimately that's all I really care about. Share some of the results that you've had. Post Earn one.
Yeah. So in October, I just. As things were wrapping up with Earn1k, I started focusing on a few clients. Over the course of three weeks, I booked, I think I booked about $12,000 worth of work. And now I'm completely swamped, which, you know, has good points and bad points. But I'm certainly not going to complain that you gave me, you know, that I was able to get too much work.
So a lot of people find it weird to spend money on a course, right? They just find it weird. I mean, it's an Internet course. It's kind of weird. Or not even my course, but whatever. You just a few minutes ago said the roi, the return on investment is very low, which is a totally different way of thinking. Can you share why you spent money on this course and can you address people who might say, you know, it's weird to spend money on a course? Why would I do that?
Well, I mean, I've always invested in my business and whether that's in conferences or in books, this is actually the first online course that I've taken. But, you know, it's worth it because you can. This isn't just one thing that happens one time and you make your thousand dollars, you make your $2,000. I knew that if I could get the one or two things that I could repeat over and over again and continue to make money and build my client list or, or make myself more valuable, that this was gonna pay off. Like, it wasn't about that one cost, it was about what I would get as a result of paying that money.
Let's imagine the people watching this, they're kind of like on the fence. They're not sure they've gone through some of my preview material, but they're not sure if they should join the course or not. You've been through it. You've gotten great results. You were skeptical at the beginning. I mean, we exchanged a few emails. What would you tell those people?
Well, I would say a couple things. So first, if you like what you're getting in the free material, it's going to continue to be great. It's not like there's some dramatic fall up in quality. It continues to be great. There's extra stuff, there's extra videos that make it worthwhile. And, you know, again, it's. Especially if you're already a freelancer, there's going to be those few things that you're going to say, I never thought of that before. This is going to be great. This is really going to help me in the future. And the second thing is, you know, there's that money back guarantee, and knowing that you can do it and not have any of your money at risk, I think is really valuable.
