A comprehensive 3-step guide to build your product and sell it automatically

So you want to build a passive income online business but don't know where to start?

Well, luckily for you — you’ve landed in the right place.

What you're going to read in this article is my proven method for building a passive income online business. Now, I've been at this for about 4 years and I have gone from absolutely obscure and unknown online writer to over 3 million views, 5-figure a month income, working for myself, and doing the work that helps fulfill me that my office job and restaurant gigs couldn't.

Now there are essentially two elements to my online business:

• Active — the tasks, roles, and responsibilities that I follow in order to build and sustain the latter part of the business. These roles and responsibilities include: active writing, the building of courses/ebooks, site maintenance, drafting of email broadcasts etc. …

How to sell your passion-fueled digital products to an audience

Research by Statista notes that the total global eLearning market size will be valued at over $370 billion US dollars. That's a quantum rise from where it was currently valued in 2019 at $101 billion.

Plain and simple — the opportunity for entry and growth as an entrepreneur in the eLearning space is akin to making car tires in 1910 (two years after the Model T was streamlined to production).

OK, perhaps I'm being a bit hyperbolic.

Nonetheless, there is a prime opportunity for an individual to take their gifts, talents, skills, knowledge, and know-how; and repackage that into shippable products for an audience looking to learn the same. …

4 simple changes that can yield exponential effects

The top digital marketers know that the money is in the email list. Of course, research backs up this claim. According to a 2018 survey conducted by SaleCycle, 59% of the respondents said marketing emails influenced their purchase.

What’s more? The email service provider, Mailchimp noted that emails related to hobbies had the highest open rate with an average of 27.35%.

And that's why we're doing this right? As creators, we know there are people like us, doing things like this. We know that there is a group out there that share a common interest (many times the same interest, we the creator share) and we believe we can bring the group and the interest together that will help make a positive impact. …

The "Big Three" elements of entrepreneurial writing

According to a recent Gallup poll, most people in the global labor force hate their job and especially hate their bosses. A staggering 94% of Japanese workers in the poll noted a lack of engagement at work and 70% of Americans noted a similar disengagement with their work.

Employees everywhere don’t necessarily hate the company or organization they work for as much as they do their boss. Employees — especially the stars — join a company and then quit their manager. …

4 elements to building a productive routine

"Wake up at 5am with a suit and tie already on and the coffee already brewing!"

They say…

"This will bring you paramount success!"

They say…

Of course it never really pans out that way though — does it?

Don't get me wrong, I'm an advocate for routine. I think that the things we do in the micro will help compound into the macro.

If you can commit to doing the work now— no matter how monotonous — it will compound into a future progression that just may surprise you.

But does it always have to be as extreme, nuanced and profound as we're constantly told? …

Helping you actually follow through and achieve more

Don't you hate those nights when you look back at the day and realize that you were busy doing things but really you don't get anything done?

I know I feel deflated when that happens.

This is especially true if you're an entrepreneur or a side hustler looking to build a business — the only one responsible for getting things built is you!

It's noted by the National Institute of Health that conscientiousness — one of the Big 5 Personality traits — can be a general precursor to one's ability to accomplish goals. Conscientiousness is a person’s ability to regulate impulse control in order to engage in goal-directed behaviors. …

Actionable advice for aspiring entrepreneurs

Growing up, I was always advised as to a "right way" of doing things:

"Jon — you need to get good grades so you can go to a good University and get a good job."

"Jon — you really should have have girlfriend by now, don't you want to make a family?"

"Jon — you know being a server isn't a 'real' job"

"Jon — you know you shouldn't move halfway across the country to live on your friend's couch."

Most of my twenties were filled with a lot of people "should-ing" on me. You know — they used their own experience to illustrate a picture to me of how to live the good life. …

A case for a new era of self-improvement

I got "internet famous" by writing about the things that interested me.

It was early 2017 and my life took a drastic turn that required me to take a different approach to how I wanted to make a living. Out of confusion and desperation, I made the choice to write about the things that interested me.

Since perhaps college, I had always been interested in:

• Self-improvement
• Personal growth
• Habits
• Productivity
• Psychology
• Philosophy

So when the restaurant that I was working at spontaneously burned to the ground leaving me unemployed and confused — I decided to put my knowledge to these topics to work and write about them. …