How to make $1000 a day: 15 ways to financial freedom

Just recently, I was out with a couple of friends, and one of our conversations led to an interesting question: How much would one need to live comfortably wherever, be that NYC or Hanoi? We all landed on the $1k a day mark.

And, so, a few days later (today), I thought, what better way to help you and my friends get to that milestone? I’ll be covering a bunch of different ways that you can try to get to make $1000 a day and get the financial freedom you deserve.

For now, let me clear any doubts you might have.

Is it possible to make $1000 a day?

Yes, making $1000 in a day is definitely possible, and you won’t have to do anything unethical or illegal to do so.

Is it going to be easy? Heck no. I don’t want to spew BS and say that you “just have to start a blog, and you’ll make $1k a day in no time”.

No, no, being able to make that amount every single day is going to 1) be very difficult and 2) be based a lot on luck.

In reality, if you want to make $1k in 24 hours from now, the only legit way to go about it is by borrowing it from one or a few different friends. But, then you’ll be indebted to them, which I obviously suggest you avoid.

You can also, of course, go viral and rag-pull your brand-new memecoin, and you’ll make much more than $1k. But… well, that’s unethical, if not illegal.

That said, I promised to tell you how you can legitimately make $1k a day. To be fair, that’s why I wrote this post: to give you an idea of how you can make the whole process easier and remove luck from play as much as possible.

In essence, as you’ll see below, I’ve covered 15 ways that you’ll have to stack to consistently make $1k a day.

Why 15 and not, say 30? Because I’d be typing out the same thing 2-3 times over. This is already going to be pretty long, so there’s no reason to make it longer.

Alas, back to our topic, your journey to $1k a day starts “simple”. You have to start a business.

5 ways to make $1k a day by starting a business

“Starting a business? How’s that supposed to be simple, Alex?” Well, making $1k a day translates to about $250k-$300k a year (or $365k a year if you work every day). Unless you have a degree, 10 years of experience, and a senior position in one of the top companies in your industry, that’s not going to be possible.

So, instead of going down that route, starting a business is likely to be simpler, easier, and faster. But it’ll still take you a few years to get to the $1k per day level. There are businesses that can get you there, though.

Now, what type of business will that be? Let’s find out.

Start a digital service-based business

Here’s another yapping session from me about running a service business… what can I do? It’s arguably the best way to get to $1k a day and beyond.

Offering a digital service as a freelancer or business gives you plenty of freedom. You charge your own rates, meaning that, as you gain more experience, charging a day rate of $1k will become possible.

As for what services you can offer, I could go on and on about it. Coding, writing, graphic design, coaching, consulting, video editing, SEO, the list goes on. Choose the lucrative skill that’s right for you, and start selling it as a service.

The key, as with any business, is to consistently grow. Don’t market yourself through just marketplaces, like Upwork. Build an online presence on LinkedIn, create an online portfolio. And, don’t forget to increase your rates every year.

As for how you can start, it’s pretty simple. Do a couple of personal projects and use them as your portfolio. The more clients you work with, the more experience you’ll gain. More experience = higher rates.

So, while you might start at charging $20-$30/hour for your work, within a few years, you can get that up to $100-$150/hour, helping you reach the $1000 per day mark.

As I’ll go over below, though, you can stack your digital service-based business with other ways to make it easier to reach your milestone. More on that later.

Sell products through your online store

While I couldn’t handle running an online store, it might just be the perfect business for you. Selling products through your online stores can be pretty profitable, but it’ll require a lot of research from you and some luck.

Essentially, you can go down a few different routes. You can do dropshipping and not handle any storage. You can sell handmade items at scale. Or, you can go for the traditional ecommerce way; source a good product, market it, sell it.

There are tons of ecommerce platforms that can help you with this. Etsy is perfect for handmade stuff, Shopify is great for pretty much everything else. And, there’s also Amazon FBA for all types of products.

Again, as I’ve stressed above, this isn’t an overnight thing. You’ll have to try out different products and see what sticks.

Unlike a service-based business, you’ll also need to consider the various costs, from sourcing to platform fees. So, essentially, $1k in revenue won’t be $1k in your pocket. You’ll need to make closer to $5k-$10k.

That’s still very possible, especially for more valuable items. You just have to start with one product and see if this is the right idea for you.

Start a flipping/reselling business

Flipping and reselling can be very profitable in a bunch of different ways. If you want to make $1000 in the next few hours, you can “flip/resell” items you have lying around on FB Marketplace or eBay. That won’t be enough to consider it a business, but it’s a start.

If you really want to full send it, there are plenty of ways to go about it. You can look around FB Marketplace and eBay for hidden gems that you can buy low and sell high. Thrift stores and garage sales are also pretty neat for some products with high resale value.

Or, you can go down the reselling route and look for specific items from brands that have a high resale value. Think Nikes, vintage clothing, that sort of stuff.

In either case, the process is the same. You buy the items and sell them to people willing to pay a higher price than what it costs you.

How can you scale that to $1k a day? Well, you’ll have to either target high-value items or spend a lot of time sourcing different items to flip. Is that possible? Definitely. Will it take you a few years to reach that level? For sure.

Again, this is just the start. Reselling and flipping in themselves are lucrative skills that you can then pass on to others in the form of courses and communities, which will net you $1k a day much more easily.

So, even if you make closer to $500 a day after a couple of years, don't be discouraged. Making that extra $500 will be more viable, as I’ll cover later on.

Become a content creator

Do you want to be a YouTuber? Streamer? TikToker? Influencer? All these are extremely lucrative and can bring in much more than $250k per year if done right. Content creators, in general, can earn that much through brand deals, ads, sponsorships, and so on.

Let me backtrack a little bit. How can you become a content creator? Well, it’s quite simple, really. Just start posting. Post about things you like. Post about your daily activities. Give people entertainment and/or value, and you’ll get it back tenfold.

The place to be for content creation is definitely social media. D’ya want to create long-form videos? Go for YouTube. Short-form stuff? YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and just about any other social media platform will be great.

Of course, I have a few tips for this. For one, choose a niche that you like but is also lucrative or new. So many creators are making bank from making cooking videos. This guy, Milad, has millions of subs from making subs on Subway.

Many viewers value authenticity and new perspectives. So, offer that to them through your content. And remember to stay consistent. Keep posting even if you don’t get any views. Post similar content across different platforms.

When the subs and followers start coming in, so will the brand deals and sponsorships. These alone can bring you $1k every day. And you can also diversify your income by selling merch or mentorships on becoming viral.

A quick note: as you’ll notice, all of this comes together. When you have a skill, you can sell it as a service or use it in your content creation. As a content creator, you might want to run a store.

In essence, the more of these ways you can stack together, the more diversified your income will be. And, thus, the higher the chance of one of the income streams blowing up and getting you to $1k a day while you’re also earning a bit from the other methods.

Learn a trade and sell it as a service

I know you’re probably tired of only hearing about digital methods to get to the $1k mark. And, I’ll admit, while they are the best ways to do that, they’re not the only ones. In fact, if you want to put in the effort, time, and gruesome work, I highly suggest you learn a trade and then sell it as a service.

It doesn’t necessarily have to be a traditional trade job, like mechanics or electricians and HVAC installers. If you run a cleaning crew for commercial buildings, you can easily scale it to $1k a day. But, it will require 10-hour and 12-hour workdays, and even more hours on marketing and closing deals.

At the end of the day, though, it’s another skill that you can turn into a business. Start locally, and then expand to specific areas that fit your demographics. While you should start working as a sub-contractor, you have to make a name for yourself and work directly with clients as the main contractor.

When you do that, you’ll not only make more but also not do as much hands-on stuff. In turn, making $1000 a day will be a bit easier.

Alas, enough about businesses. I’ll say it once again; these are just the start. Getting to $1k a day with any business isn’t always going to be possible, and luck is at play.

But, a business will give you just enough freedom to pivot and scale it to something bigger. So, even if you make $200, $300, or $500 a day, you can reinvest that and a bit of your time into something that’ll get you to $1k.

5 ways to scale your business to $1k a day

Let me be 100% clear. With time and luck, you can scale any business to make a profit of $1k daily. But, when we eliminate the factor of luck as much as possible and decrease the time needed, you get the 5 ways (including digital products and affiliate marketing) to get you to that mark.

Create a course

Whenever you run any kind of business, you’ll inevitably gain 2 things: lifelong stress and knowledge. While I can’t help you with the first, I can let you in on how you can use the latter: sell it.

And, what’s the best way to sell your knowledge? Creating a course. A course where you document all your learnings from running a business and help other people get to your level faster.

How does that help you get to $1k? Well, it’s quite simple. If you sell your course at $50, you need 7300 people to buy it in a year to make $365k, or $1k a day.

Notice how I said simple, not easy. That’s because it’s not easy. Creating a course will take you time. You need to actually offer a lot of value to justify that price point. If you have a writing business, you have to include different modules on how one can become a writer, how they can land clients, handling their finances, and so on.

At the same time, you have to put in the time to market it to the right people. If you already have an online presence through your business or are an online creator, this will be easier.

Then again, to consistently make that $1k every day, you’d need 7.3k new people buying your course every year.

That’s where I come in to help you out. Charge a monthly fee for a course-community combo instead of a one-time payment for the course.

Start a community

A course-community combo is one of the best ways to make money online, and it can take you to $1000 per day very fast if you do it correctly. One way you could go about it is by offering tips related to your course, group calls, or exclusive info that one can’t find by just going through the course.

At the same time, the great thing about communities is that you don’t need to a course to start one. Do you want a community for carpenters where everyone shares their tips with each other? Sell access to it for $10/month, get 3000 people in there, and you’ve reached the milestone.

Or, maybe you want a community around one of your hobbies; sports betting? Cooking? Do the same thing. $30/month per membership means that you’ll only need 1k members to join in order to make $1k a day.

Now, that’s quite a lot of info I just poured on you, so let me simplify it. If you want to sell your business, industry-specific, or niche-specific knowledge, create a course. To make $1k a day consistently, start a course-community combo or a simple community.

To actually do all of this efficiently, create a whop on Whop. Whop is the best platform when it comes to selling digital products, as you can host everything directly on your whop.

Your whop gives you access to all the data you’ll need and allows you to use different apps to make selling and running your digital offerings easier. There’s the “Courses” app for courses, “Chat” for community chats, “Video Call” for group sessions, and so much more.

Plus, compared to other platforms, Whop takes as little as 3% of your total earnings. So, if you don’t make any money, you won’t lose any on fees. And, if you do make some, you’ll get some of the lowest fees on the market.

Even if you don’t have a business right now but have a skill or idea you want to turn into a digital product, spend the next few minutes setting up your whop. After all, it won’t cost you anything.

Create your whop

Affiliate marketing

Let’s take a step back now. Not everyone wants to sell a digital product, I get that. You’d prefer something a little bit more passive. Something that you can do while working on your business.

Well, affiliate marketing might just be the thing for you. At this point, whether you’re a content creator or run a business, you have some form of network. Even if you’re neither of these, I know that you have some form of lucrative skill.

You can utilize that alongside affiliate marketing to make $1k a day. Being an affiliate for a brand or company is simple. You partner with them, get a personalized link, and when someone makes a purchase using your link, you get a commission.

The best part of all of this? Whop can also help you with this. By becoming a Whop Affiliate, you can grab an affiliate link for every whop out there. When someone buys a membership for that whop, you get a nice commission. Simple and easy.

Become a Whop Affiliate

Productize your service

Now, let’s get back to some more general stuff and a personal favorite of mine, especially if you end up running a service-based business. Productizing your service is one of the best ways to scale to $1k a day without putting in too much extra time.

What do I mean by productizing? Well, think about what you already offer as a service. Is there a way to package that into a product that you can sell over and over again?

Are you a graphic designer? Sell customizable design templates. Copywriter? Sell email templates. Any service-based freelancer? Sell coaching packages.

The greatest thing about this is that you’ll get to turn your day-to-day work into a digital product. And, if you want to hit the $1k per day mark consistently, you can productize your different services.

Outsource and expand your business

As I said before, I get it. Not everyone is into this digital stuff. So, I have to mention the downright best way to scale your business to $1k a day, which is by outsourcing.

If you’re going to go down the trade route, you’re already doing that as the main contractor. There’s only so much you can do on your own. But the same goes for any other business.

Outsourcing allows you to scale. If you’re a freelancer, hire other freelancers and slowly build your agency.

Better yet, hire freelancers in different industries and a more complete service package for a higher fee.

Think of it like this: Instead of doing all the work yourself, you’re building a machine that makes money for you. And that’s how you get to $1k a day without burning out.

5 ways to earn $1k in a day passively

Alright, so you’ve got all your active ways to make money. At this point, you should be close to $1k a day using the methods I’ve mentioned. But, if you manage to get that passively, you’ll truly hit financial freedom. Or, hell, even $500 a day in passive income will be more than enough, enabling you to make the extra $500 actively.

Invest in the stock market

Investing in the stock market is the best mix between a safe and high-yield investment. I’m usually all for ETFs and investing in the S&P 500, but it’s totally up to you. As long as you can get an 8%-10% return each year, you’ll be good.

That’s because you’ll utilize compound interest. Any return you make will be reinvested back into the market. Over time, this compounding effect can snowball into enough income to make $1k a day through dividends alone.

This is obviously not going to happen overnight. But, if you invest $5k of your close to $30k earned every month, you’ll be able to hit the $1k a day mark in due time.

Open a high-yield savings account

I know what you’re thinking—“How is this supposed to get me to $1k a day?” Well, let me explain. While this won’t get you there on its own, it’s an easy way to earn passive income while your money sits.

High-yield savings accounts offer better interest rates than traditional ones. Pair that with larger sums of money (read, profits from your business), and you’re making money without doing pretty much anything.

The idea here is simple: stack this with other passive income methods to get closer to the $1k mark. Every little bit helps.

Stake your crypto

Now, I’d never, ever suggest you blindly invest in crypto to earn passive income. Might as well gamble your money away. But staking with an average yield is rather safer. By staking your coins, you’re essentially locking them up to help validate transactions on a blockchain network. In return, you earn rewards.

Legit staking can yield anywhere from 5% to 20% annually, depending on the coin and platform. If you’ve already got a decent crypto portfolio, staking can be a great way to earn passive income.

But, again, there’s risk involved. Crypto is volatile, so only stake what you can afford to lose. Still, it’s a method worth considering, especially if you’re already active in the space.

Check out the highest ranking crypto groups on Whop.

Invest in REITs

REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts) are another fantastic passive income option. Think of them as mutual funds or ETFs for real estate. By investing in REITs, you’re essentially buying a share of properties like shopping malls, apartment buildings, or offices.

The best part? REITs pay out dividends regularly. Some of the best-performing REITs can yield 5%-10% annually, making it a relatively low-risk way to earn steady income.

If you don’t have the money to buy physical real estate, REITs are a great alternative. Plus, you can invest in them through most stock trading platforms.

Start a vending machine business

Okay, hear me out on this one. Vending machines might seem old-school and not technically passive., but they’re still a killer way to earn passive income. It’s pretty simple; you buy a vending machine, stock it with snacks or drinks, and collect the profits.

To scale this into a $1k-a-day operation, you’ll need multiple machines in high-traffic areas. Think offices, gyms, schools, or malls, that sort of stuff.

Once you’ve got your machines set up and stocked, the maintenance is minimal. Sure, you’ll need to restock them every now and then, but beyond that, they pretty much run themselves.

The ROI can be insane if you place your machines strategically. And, if you reinvest your profits into buying more machines, you can scale this into a serious money-maker.

Read our guide to how much a vending machine business costs to start.

Start the road to $1k with Whop today

So, you’ve got the ideas in mind, I’ve presented the ways to turn these into $1000 a day. The only thing that’s left for you is to take the next step. If that means that you’re going to start a business, do it. If you have some capital and want to invest it, do it.

But, if you’re going to do anything digital, Whop is the place to be. Whether you want to create your whop to sell digital products or start a community, the best time to do it is now.

With Whop you can sell:

Online courses
Online community access
Coaching services
Trading advice
Sports picks
Online tutoring
Masterminds
Ebooks, downloadables, and other digital products
And much, much more

If you’re ready to hop on the journey, create your whop in the next few minutes. Add your apps, set everything up, and get it live.

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