Make Your First $5K Outside Of A Job
A beginner course to making your first $5K in the simplest way possible: one offer you can sell right now, built around your own skills and interests, with an AI that builds it with you.
"I want to start a business, but which one do I start? And how do I start it?"
I get it.
When you think of starting a business, so many questions start flooding in. Do I need money to start? Wtf is an LLC? Taxes? Can I do something related to my interests, or should I sell out now and try to make money fast?
When I realized a 9-5 wasn't for me, I latched onto any quick and "profitable" business model I could find. I tried dropshipping. A Facebook ads agency. A content marketing and SEO agency. Freelance photography and editing. Digital art. Ordering my own blue light glasses and wallets to sell.
Each and every one of those businesses failed. (Well, they didn't really fail, I just stopped.)
But the skills I stacked during that time made it click for me. All successful businesses have 2 things in common:
1) They have somewhere to generate traffic.
2) They have somewhere to host and accept payment for a product or service.
What Can You Start Doing Right Now?
As one person. Without investing your life savings. In a way that works with any skill or interest, and can be scaled as far as you want to go.
You can post a random idea to social media and have 10,000 people see it. And if you have a product or service, all it takes is a tiny fraction of those people paying you for your skills and knowledge.
We Focus On Making Your First $5K
That's getting a measly 5 people to purchase a $1,000 service.
And yes, I help you create that too, based around your own skills and interests. I call it the micro offer. You can start selling it immediately, with no website, no landing page, and no course to build first.
What You'll Build
- Your one-page business plan, so you don't get stuck after finishing the course.
- The fundamentals of online business. We answer the question, "How do I actually make money outside of a job?"
- The 3-point marketing strategy, so you know exactly how to get customers. It's like a $40,000 marketing degree condensed into 3 sentences.
- Your micro offer, turned from your interests into something people want to pay you for.
- A questionnaire and a simple DM process that turn readers into customers.
- A micro product and a free download that bring people to your offer.
- Your first 10 posts, 3 threads, and 1 newsletter, written from templates that attract customers.
With An AI That Builds It With You
Next to every lesson is an AI built from this course. It interviews you, one question at a time, and writes your plan, your offer, your questionnaire, and your posts from your answers, in your words.
And everything lives in one place. Your plan, your writing, your offer, your payments, and your link in bio are all in Eden.
I Created This Course For My Past Self
This is the course I wish I had, so I didn't waste my time failing at 7 business models that didn't fulfill me.
This is what I would do if I wanted to fast-track my way to $5K and beyond.
If you want to stop living in your head wondering when and if you should start the damn thing, maybe now is the perfect opportunity.
The One-Person Business Launchpad is yours. Your purchase is confirmed.
Only on this page, get The 2 Hour Writer at a big discount
You now have the one-person business. But you need to be able to get customers from social media.
Because as one person, you probably aren't going to run ads. You're going to build a personal brand - writing posts, articles, and newsletters to build an audience of people who buy your products.
This teaches you the entire content system, without having to show your face.
Join 14,000+ students who have it with this best selling course.
What's included
- Learn exactly what you need to know about high-impact writing so you can start immediately.
- Use my idea generation system to bring a unique perspective to high performing topics.
- Write faster, better, and more original than your competition with the 2 Hour Content Ecosystem.
- Don't rely on your social media audience or engagement for growth or sales.
- Bonus: My personal swipe file with breakdowns on the past 3 years of my top performing content.
- Bonus: Content Calendar and Weekly Writing Tracker to make accountability seamless.
$150$99one-time
Charged to the card you just used. No new form.
What's included
- 20 lessons that take you from "which business do I start?" to your first paying customers.
- An AI built from the course that interviews you and writes your plan with you, so you never face a blank page.
- A one-page business plan, so you don't get stuck after finishing the course.
- The 3-point marketing strategy, so you know exactly who you're talking to in every post, email, and DM.
- The micro offer: a $1,000 service built around your skills that you can start selling immediately.
- The questionnaire and DM process that turn readers into customers, without a website or a sales page.
- Templates for your first 10 posts, 3 threads, and 1 newsletter, so you always know what to write.
- A weekly plan that ties it together in 1 to 2 hours a day.
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What's inside
1Start Here2 modules
- 1Start Here
- 2Your Setup In Eden
2The Business3 modules
- 1How Do I Start A Business?
- 2How Do I Make Money?
- 3The $5K Challenge
3Brand & Marketing3 modules
- 1Your Domain Of Mastery
- 2The 3-Point Marketing Strategy
- 3Profile Optimization
4The Offer5 modules
- 1What Do I Sell?
- 2The Micro Offer
- 3The Low-Friction Funnel
- 4How To Manually Acquire Customers
- 5The Micro Product
5Attracting Customers5 modules
- 1Creating A Free Download
- 2Your First 10 Posts
- 3Your First 3 Threads
- 4Your First Newsletter
- 5Tying It All Together
6Bonus2 modules
- 1How To Grow On Any Social Platform
- 2What's Next
Plus 4 files, all inside the product.
What this is
This is a course you can talk to.
The lessons are here, and you can read them like any course. But the AI has read all of them too. When something doesn't click, ask. When you're not sure how it applies to you, ask. It answers from Dan Koe's material, not from the internet. It's like hiring Dan Koe as a coach, without paying thousands of dollars for it.
Help me pick my skill or interest
The One-Person Business Launchpad
Good question. Here's what Dan Koe teaches about that, and how it fits what you're doing.
This is how learning works now. You don't watch and forget. You ask, you get an answer for your situation, and you use it. That's what makes it stick.
What you can ask
- Help me pick my skill or interest
- Help me outline my micro offer
- Help me write my first 10 posts
- Plan my week
Use it in your own AI app
Buy once, then open The One-Person Business Launchpad in the AI app you already use. The instructions and knowledge come with it.
- ClaudeOne click
- ChatGPTPaste once
- CursorOne click
- Claude CodeOne command
- One click connects it to Claude or Cursor. ChatGPT and Claude Code take a single paste.
- Open a chat and The One-Person Business Launchpad is already loaded, instructions and knowledge included.
- Using it there costs nothing extra. Your app's own usage still applies.
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Questions
Who is this for?
Beginners. If you've never made money outside of a job, or you've tried a few business models and none of them stuck, this is where to start.
Do I need an audience?
No. The micro offer is built for people with a small or no audience. You'll do some manual outreach at first, until your content takes over and brings people in for you.
Do I need a skill already?
You need a skill or interest you can help someone one or two steps behind you with. The course helps you pick it and turn it into an offer.
How much time does it take?
About 1 to 2 hours a day once you know what you're doing. It takes longer at first because you're learning something new.
What do I need besides Eden?
An email platform for your newsletter: Kit, beehiiv, GoHighLevel, or Substack. Everything else happens in Eden.
Is this the same as Mental Monetization?
No. The Launchpad gets you your first $5K with a simple service. Mental Monetization is what comes next: turning what you know into a full digital product like a course, cohort, or membership.
Get The One-Person Business Launchpad
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