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"I Just Wanna Make Money"

Name: "I Just Wanna Make Money"
Uploaded: 2026-03-10T20:20:00+00:00
Duration: 1 min 2 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In a candid YouTube interview, a second‑year entrepreneur (Speaker B) describes his digital business‑card service for real‑estate professionals, which…

10 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In a candid YouTube interview, a second‑year entrepreneur (Speaker B) describes his digital business‑card service for real‑estate professionals, which generated $150K last year and aims for $500K. He emphasizes that his primary goal is to make money now, not to sell the product itself. The advisor (Speaker A, identified as Alex) critiques the current business as a low‑margin “hard pitch” and suggests the entrepreneur should leverage his proven sales‑closing abilities on higher‑margin opportunities. Alex proposes alternative ventures such as a lawn‑care service or solar panel sales, estimating potential earnings of $2‑3 million or $800K respectively, and encourages the entrepreneur to focus on closing deals in any existing market rather than scaling the digital card product.

First of all, thank you. You helped me turn my senior design project at college into my business. It's my second year in business. Last year we did $150K and I want to get to $500K. We do digital business cards for primarily in real estate. What do you think?
You want to grow this?
I'm not trying to sell. I just want to make money and then sell more expensive things later. Right now I'm just using this to make money.
To make money? Yes. I think, I think if you sold something else, you'd make way more money. I agree. Okay. Like what you have is a hard pitch because I'd be like, here's my Instagram. That's my digital business card. If you want to find out more about me, watch some content. You obviously have the skill of sales. And so I'd rather you just like use that on a better opportunity vehicle.
Got it.
This world is just crumbling. You want to hire me? Well, if you can close.
Yeah, sure.
But on a real note though. Oh, that wasn't real? That's not a real offer. All right. Neither was mine. Two can play that game.
I don't know what I'm doing. What do I do in the meantime to make money?
You're able to, you know, shake hands and kiss babies and close. And so like you can pretty much just like go look at any business that exists and just do that and probably make way more money. Like you start a lawn care business tomorrow, like knocking door to door and probably get to $2 or $3 million a year. You could sell solar and make, you know, $800 grand a year on your own just with your existing skill set.
Got it. Thank you, Alex.