SHOCKING Ways To Become A Millionaire
21 Nov 2025 · 18 min
Rob Moore explores ten unconventional ways people became millionaires: dog sunglasses, renting goats, pet rocks, crime-scene cleanup franchises, and a singing fish among them. He argues making money is systematic and accessible if you find a niche and start small.
Questions this episode answers
Ten (the "10 weirdest" ways).
More than $3 million a year.
$400 to $800 per acre per goat.
About $6 million in revenue and 25 franchises (franchised in 2015; Entrepreneur 500 list in 2022).
Sold 10,000 letters in the first year; built to a $1 million a year business.
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I have here in front of me ten of the weirdest. In fact, two or three of them are shocking ways to become a millionaire. One of them is criminal, yet not illegal, and the last one probably should be illegal. So I've been researching some of the weirdest ways that people have become millionaires. And the reason that I've done this is because in the last 17 years, I've been helping millions of people get better financial education and knowledge. I authored one of the top selling books in the world on money called Money. And I recently just released Money Matrix. And most people think it's very hard to make money. They think that they don't have any money to start or it's difficult for them or their upbringing was hard or there isn't any opportunity or the economy's ruined or we're going into a recession. And they have all these reasons and excuses as why they can't start a business and they can't make money. I've done thousands of pieces of content since I started in business nearly two decades ago. I've done a quarter of a billion in sales just in two of my training companies. I have 340 real estate rental units. But I've never done any content like this. And the reason that I'm doing this, the 10 weirdest and some shocking ways to make millions is to prove to you and you and everyone out there without a shadow of a doubt that making money is easy. Making money is a system. It's just as easy to be rich as it is to be broken. Being broke follows a system or a non system. Being rich follows a system. Now most people get triggered when you talk about being rich and wealth and money. Some people are going to get triggered by some of the ways these people in here have made their millions. So many people say to me, oh Rob, it's really hard right now because of the recession, the depression, the crash, the economy lockdown, all of the reasons and the excuses that they've got that why it's harder. Now I'm very excited to announce a special long term partnership with Direct Bullion. People must ask me hundreds if not thousands of times where I buy my gold and silver, how to buy gold and silver? Can you buy gold and silver in your pension? Many people know from my content, I'm a huge fan of real money. They call gold God's money. So if you'd like information on, on investing in gold and silver, knowing where to invest, how to invest and how to invest gold and silver into your pension, which is huge, go to robmore.directbullion.com I get my gold at under spot price. This is not an affiliate deal. I won't earn anything on any of the gold or silver you purchase. I've got a special deal where I get a good price on my gold and silver. And I've also got a very special deal for you, my loyal listeners and subscribers. Subscribe spot price or better@robmore.directbullion.com if you'd like to make, manage and multiply more money and build multiple streams of recurring income, and you'd like to meet one billionaire and at least seven millionaires face to face, I recommend you join us at an upcoming money Maker summit. The link is robmore Live Money. Now, you need to be quick because we don't run many money maker summits throughout the year. We keep relatively small numbers. 150 people, sometimes 200, sometimes less. You'll learn the strategies and tactics to get your tax bill down, your income streams up, start and scale your business, make, manage and multiply money. And if you upgrade to the VIP tickets, you'll be able to have dinner with multimillionaires. You'll be able to get champagne reception Q and A sessions with multimillionaires. And whilst I do occasionally offer some subsidized tickets, there's just small upgrades for these special VIP tickets. So go now at robmore Live Money. But think about it. The Internet didn't exist 35 years ago. Social media didn't exist 25 years ago. AI didn't exist five years ago. There is so much opportunity now. In fact, your problem isn't not enough opportunity. It's too much opportunity. It's too much overwhelm. So at the end of this content, I'm going to give you some practical actions to start your road to starting a business or becoming a millionaire or making your first hundred thousand at least not being a zeroer. But first, let's dig in to the 10 weirdest and some shocking ways that people have made millions. So let's start with doggles. Ronnie Delulo was playing Frisbee with her dog and her dog couldn't catch the Frisbee. This hadn't happened before and she figured maybe it's the sun. So she made some dog sunglasses. Sunglasses for dogs. She calls them doggles. And she has done more than 3 million a year. 3 million annual sales selling dog sunglasses. The second way is renting goats. So according to Hiregoats.com dozens of companies worldwide rent out goats. They're used for eradicating invasive plants or creating firebreaks and they cost between 400 and $800 per acre per goat. Many successful goatrepreneurs are making $600,000 a year renting goats. Number three, Gary Dahl wanted the perfect pet that didn't need to be fed, didn't need to be walked. He also wanted a pet that didn't die. So in 1975 Gary Dahl started selling rocks as pets and he would package a rock and you could buy from him a pet rock and he has done millions of units of sales of a rock and he became a bonafide net worth millionaire selling rocks. 4 Now this one is the one that's criminal without being criminal. And this is Cleaning up Crime Scenes Laura Spalding founded Spalding Decon, a Tampa based specialty service that deals with the gruesome work of cleaning up the remnants of murders, meth labs and other crime scenes. Now the Americans say turn your niches into riches and and this is a niche. She franchised the business in 2015. She made the entrepreneurs 500 franchise list in 2022. She now has 25 franchises and does 6 million in revenue according to Zoom Info Franchising the Cleaning of Crime Scenes. Now before I go on to number five, I just want to expand on the reason that I'm doing this. Rather unique, slightly off topic on topic content around money. It is because there is no limit to the amount of money you can make. This recent budget should warn you that your pension is not safe and secure and they're coming for your inheritance. Do you even know how much is in your pension or where your pension is invested? Add to this the recent inheritance tax grab on your pensions and the risk of a market crash. You probably didn't know this and I didn't until recently, but physical gold can be added to your pension pot. Gold is inheritance tax free and has grown 700% in the last 20 years. You probably know from my content I'm investing heavily in silver and gold and that's why I've partnered with Direct Bullion. Myself and Nigel Farage are brand ambassadors and Direct bullion can help you with gold to protect and grow your pension. I buy my gold and silver from Direct bullion and I don't earn any money on any purchases of gold or silver if you buy direct from Direct Bullion. So if you go to robmore.directbullion.com you can get a great price on your silver and gold and you can get the Pension Gold Investing Guide completely for free. As you know, I don't do many strategic partnerships and when I do, I do them with people who are credible, who've been doing it a long time, who invest in things that I invest into. And gold and silver's going wild. I'm investing heavily in gold and silver. I and I recommend you check out robmore.directbullion.com and how quickly you can make it and how you make it. Other than your creativity, other than your innovation, other than your resourcefulness, you need just one good idea. You need just a very small niche market and you could literally become a millionaire or at least a nearly there rather than a 0e. Money is everywhere now. There's not a limitless, infinite amount of money within the global economy, but it's not far off, bearing in mind the governments can print it at will. And there's always some new monetary form of cryptocurrency or some new business opportunity. There is virtually no limit on the amount of money you can make and how you can make it. There's no typical niche or industry for a millionaire or billionaire. In every industry, you've got zero heirs, millionaires and billionaires. And so really the only limit to making money is the limit of your belief and your mindset. So number five is sending return letters to kids who write to Santa. So Byron Reese secured an address in the North Pole, Alaska and launched a company called Santamail.org when kids write in letters to Santa, he writes a personalized reply. And he built this to a $1 million a year business within a few years. In fact, he sold 10,000 letters in his first year. Number six, selling ugly fake teeth. Jonah White, the founder of Billy Bob Teeth Inc. And his partner had a weird goal of making people look beautifully ugly. So he designed these hillbilly fake teeth and they made $50 million selling hillbilly fake broken teeth. They've made 20 million people look ugly in 150 countries. Now imagine making millions without ever saying a word. Imagine making millions without even creating your own content. Well, this is exactly what Kaby Lane did. The biggest TikTok influencer cabbie simply watched videos of useless life hacks, said no words, offered a few token facial expressions, and now is partnered with huge brands like Hugo Boss and has made more than $15 million with facial expressions on other people's videos. Apparently that 15 million is just from brands and it's not his TikTok and YouTube revenue, which I would guess is even more. Number eight, Billy the Big Mouth Bass. You'll all know this. That talking fish on the plaque on the wall of every bar in America. So Billy Big Mouth bass made over $100 million of sales selling a singing fish in a plaque. Also, the singer Al Green of the song Take Me to the river, which is the song that the bass sings. Apparently the singer makes more money in royalties from the singing bass than any other source of selling his music. Number nine. This is epic, this one. You know the yellow smiley faces, you know the badges, the emojis, the yellow smiley faces. Whoever owns and sells yellow smiley faces made an estimated profit of $500 million. All they did was license the ownership of this little yellow smiley face, and within one and a half years, the owner of the yellow smiley face built a net worth of $50 million. And finally, the last one, that maybe should be criminal. And this is definitely a niche market. AshleyMadison.com is an online dating website only for married people as clients. Now, I wouldn't know about this, I just researched it. The site's tagline is life is short. Have an affair. The site has more than 3.2 million members, and apparently the founder, Noel Bidderman, has a net worth of $100 million. Setting up a website to get people to have an affair, that maybe should be criminal, but it isn't. But the guys at least found a niche market. So hopefully I've inspired you in a practical and proven way that it's easier than you think to make money, even millions. So how do you do this? The first thing is you've got to think, what do you want to do with your time? What could you be passionate about? What could you do that would be work for you, but maybe doesn't feel like work? The next thing you want to find is a market. So is there an opportunity? Is there a pain? Is there, is there a problem? Or is there a trend? And is it something you could enjoy doing or at least enjoy making money from? Then the next thing you need to do is just fucking do it. Just start the business. Clean your first crime scene, sell your first singing fish, get the ownership rights to the yellow smiley face and start selling. Now, I've done tens of thousands of pieces of content, but hundreds specifically on making money. 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