Why we created the '1k Ideas' course
Back in early 2008, as a coffee-fetching 23-year old summer intern, I said 'no' to a $90,000 job offer straight out of college.
(This was just before the market collapsed...so who knows how long that job would have lasted).
Most people called me crazy. I think some of them secretly wondered when the men in white coats were coming to collect me.
But for me it was a no brainer. The idea of spending the next 40 years slaving 80 hours a week and making sweet love to Microsoft Excel just didn't make sense. I mean seriously, who cares if we can get this company to IPO at $17.50 instead of $16.90 through some Excel trickery.
Surely there was more to life...surely there was a better alternative. (Ah, to be a naive 23 year old again, what bliss...)
Unfortunately, reality soon hit. And I started to panic.
There were times when I'd wake up in the middle of the night thinking...
"What the heck have I done? How am I actually going to make money? I'm one step away from donning a red apron and joining my liberal arts friends working at Chucky freaking Cheese!".
And that's when I got together with one of my best friends from university, Nathan, and we started our long (and painful) journey to find ways to make money without spending 80 hours a week doing meaningless, soul crushing work.
Enter the passive income quest.
[cue the Lord of the Rings soundtrack]
With Red Bull our fuel of choice we plowed through dozens of books like the newly-released 4 Hour Work Week, Googled things like "best passive income ideas" till 3am in the morning, sifted through 1000s of threads on the Warrior Forum and even attended business seminars in hope of finding ideas on how to make passive income.
After months of research, talking to people and 'testing the waters' with several ideas, we weren't any closer to figuring out what worked and what didn't.
In fact, if anything we were even more confused. There was just so much information. And most of it was conflicting. Who was telling the truth...and who was BSing us?
The most frustrating thing was we simply wanted answers to 2 questions...
1) "What passive income ideas actually make money?"
2) "How can we get started today?"
Without clear answers we dove in and proceeded to spend $1000s on web developers, waste 100s of hours writing blog posts that made no money and clueslessly messed around with harebrained SEO ideas (I'm looking at you article marketing!).
Worst of all, we were running out of time. If we didn't make money soon we would have to go and get 'real' jobs.
A full 12 months later it all started to click.
We knew what wasn't working and what straight up sucked.
But more importantly, we knew what worked.
Money was coming in and it was enough to keep 2 ramen-munching recent graduates afloat. Over the next few years we continued to discover new ways to generate passive income and in the end realized there are just 7 proven ways to do it.
And eventually with a well rounded portfolio of income-producing assets, we were finally free!
That meant we could move overseas and let the professional vagabonding begin. (I'm currently writing this in Sevilla, Spain...the land of tapas and $5 Rioja...I heart you).
But here's the thing...
Imagine if we had known from the get go exactly what works and what doesn't!
We would have saved a full year of our time, $1000s of our then-limited money, and instead of desperately eating MSG-encrusted noodles and hoping we could stay afloat, we could have been already living it up in Spain thanks to passive income.
Well, that's exactly why we made this course...
...it cuts through all the noise and hype out there and delivers crystal clear answers to your biggest questions. You'll be able to see straight away exactly what passive income ideas you should pursue. No more Googling, trawling through forums or reading dozens of blogs and ebooks.
Best of all, we've packaged it all up into 33 HD videos and 7 downloadable PDFs, so you can learn the 80-20 lessons right now and get started TODAY.
