5 Bucks a Day

How much would you pay someone to mow your lawn? Or clean your gutters? Or change the oil in your car?

Seems like an odd question for this blog, doesn’t it?

Well, actually, let’s think about that. How much is your time worth?

Travis Sago of bum marketing fame said somewhere that every article he writes (well actually not every one, but on average) will earn him $20 a month for at least a while, maybe not forever, but a while.

So if you could write an article to submit to article directories, even at the slow rate of 1 every 2 hours (Travis and people like him can do a couple an hour), but let’s say you could do a good one every 2 hours, and it got you back $20 a month, or $240 a year, those 2 hours spent were worth $120 an hour.

In 5 Bucks a Day I teach the concept of working for a week to add $5 a day to your income, so you work maybe 30 hours during the week at most (you spend time off project I’m sure, I sure do, emails, phone calls, forum posting, etc.), so 30 hours gets you $1825 a year, that’s over $60 an hour. Sometimes lot more if your project nets you more than $5 a day.

You could research a niche ripe for a membership site setup (which we’re talking about now over at Earn1KaDay.com and do the niche research, initial content creation, administrative setup, and more, in 2 weeks if you’re slow. You could easily get 100 members the first month at $9.95 a month, which is $11,940 a year if you stick on 100 members (but shouldn’t, it should grow). 60 hours work to net $11940 is almost $200 an hour.

Now tell me if it’s worth paying someone $10 to mow your lawn, or $40 to clean out your gutters, or $25 to change your oil.

Or $6 to write your articles that it takes you 2 hours to write. Or $10 to install that script that takes you all afternoon to figure out.

Or … ?

Do you enjoy doing those things?  If you couldn’t, and a teenager asked you for $200 to mow your lawn, would you think he was ripping you off?

Think about it.  If you’re doing it yourself, you’re costing yourself as much as $200 in lost opportunity, if it only takes you an hour to do the job.

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