There are two types of people in this world: those that follow the rules and those to challenge the norm for everyone that has ever felt like they think a little bit differently. Then this video is for you at school. We're told to work hard, go to university, get a good job and then, and only then, if we're lucky retire at 65 with a pension. But what, if there's a way to escape this rat race, to break free of the change society has placed on us and live life on our own terms? The obvious answer to this is passive income money.

That requires little to no effort to earn and maintain, but is there really a secret to unlock this holy grail is living the laptop lifestyle as good as it seems, or is there a dark side we never get to see, and is this really an option for Anyone in any country or do you need a lot of money to begin with. That's exactly what i'm going to be uncovering in this episode of the secret world of online millionaires. Hi guys it's mark, so something that's always fascinated me is the laptop lifestyle. Are there really people out there that have found the secret to making millions just by using the power of the laptop and the internet? Of course i make passive income myself.

However, the laptop lifestyle is still somewhat of a mystery to me. I have big warehouses that i ship all my products from, so i can't just move country at a drop of a hat. Well, i could, but my staff wouldn't be very happy about that, or maybe they would so today. I've arranged to speak to someone that started with zero dollars and has now made over a million in passive income from a laptop.

So i'm going to be asking her exactly how she did it so make sure you watch to the end of the video. So you don't miss anything if you like this type of video smash that like button to, let me know all done right, let's give her a call hi katya. How are you doing hey mark i'm doing good? Oh, it's all buffering. Give me a second.

So here we are in sunny mortar and we're out of that buffering zone at last. It's so much better to meet someone in the flesh, particularly the viral marketing, queen katya. How are you today, i'm so good hi guys, so should we dive straight in? Let's do it so katya i've got to ask you the question that i shouldn't ask a lady. First of all is what age are you, but also, and also this is a very sensitive subject.

How much money are you making wow mark? You are coming in strong. This is the big guns um. Well, i'm still in my 20s and i started my business when i was only 23. over the last few months.

We literally just passed a couple months ago making over a million dollars in digital sales and the last few weeks uh, particularly we made about a hundred thousand dollars in passive income. So if you were to break down some of that money, how many income streams would you say you actually have to bring that money into you? Oh boy? Well, let's, let's break it down, shall we so we have a product called the viral content template an agency license for marketing companies, a membership, a club from time to time 101 consulting speaking, sometimes i get invited to speak on stages, affiliate marketing. I will tell you this: okay, i don't know how many there but the more income streams you have the easier it is to make money uh, it's just a fact. So, keeping with the numbers.

How long did it take you to get to that sort of 10k rolling month? I believe he was about a year into starting the business. It was only three months after that i had my first 100 000 sales month. So, let's start right back at the beginning, where you're from and how did you start all this amazing journey? So i'm originally from a small country in eastern europe, bulgaria, i never had my own room. We had an outdoor bathroom that you had to squat down to to use nice.

I never knew what was really possible until i got into the online space until i got into social media, and i met people making millions and millions nowadays. I live in a huge apartment, i don't have an office, i wake up whenever i want. So what you're telling me is, you can live anywhere in the world as long as you've got an internet link and your laptop and you can make all this wonderful, passive income and a beach for me because that's a non-negotiable. But yes, so how young can you actually start an online business? Well, i think the beauty of nowadays is that uh.

I have seen 12 16 year olds, creating million dollar businesses. Just that's just so. Do you have to be a techie and have great tech skills to to make it with this online passive income? I'll be honest, um on a scale of one to ten, my tech skills are probably a four. I say that the first maybe five to ten thousand dollars a month, you might have to learn some tech skills yourself.

If you don't have the money to invest we're talking, you don't have no money to invest. So, yes, you might have to learn and when you want to learn something i always find it so much easier to learn it. You know when you're at school and they're teaching you about things, you don't want to learn. It's like hitting a brick wall.

Isn't it, but when you're open to learning it's so much easier, absolutely so katya? What is your number one secret for building all those passive income streams that someone can start even from an early age? So if you don't have any money to start a business, if you have no idea what business you can start with, the least you can do is start using social media to share content that you are passionate about. There's two ways to catch a fish in an ocean number one. You can cast a net and catch lots of fishes, that's customers, clients, you can go and cast a net and catch the money or you can be smart about it and you can work on creating your own, beautiful coral reef, garden, that's so beautiful and so entertaining Or so helpful issues just want to come in and then you don't have to cast a net so the more value you provide the more money you can make. So if we boil it down to your most successful digital product, can you tell me all about that? I woke up one day and came up with the idea of um this product at the time i was thinking.

I really want to create some templates that i can use for my social media on instagram on facebook on linkedin and then i thought wait. But if i need this, maybe my network and my friends and my customer need that too. So i just put out a post on facebook that says literally and i'm gon na tell you exactly what it says. If you are somebody who wants to grow your following, but you don't have the time to create content.

If i created a pack of a hundred social media templates and i'll only sell them for 30 dollars, would you want them no answers in the first 15 minutes and i was sweating, i was like. Oh, nobody wants this and then the 15th minute i got like 10 yeses and 20 yeses. So this is a great way of doing your own market research and ultimately, what you've done is you found a need? It was a need for yourself, but quite often a need for yourself is a need for someone else so and obviously it snowballed from there. We ended up making 1300 sales in three weeks, which was 36 000, and we only spend one thousand dollars in advertisement.

The thing i take from that, which is what i say a lot of the time, is you've done proper market research there. It's no good, just asking your your close friends and family, because you ask them they don't want to upset you do they. They want to say: oh, that's, wonderful, katja, that's wonderful and you go to the market. No one wants it because they love you and they want to be kind to you.

So real market research is as you've done. This push it out to everyone as many people as you can and get a truth answer. So how do you stand out in a marketplace? That's so crowded. How can you shine above everyone else? It is really difficult to stand out as if you are entering a industry or a product that is very popular and there's already lots of other people selling it.

I would say that there's only three things you can do to stand out, you can either be first. You can be better or you can be different. The fourth one is the one that a lot of people come up with is make it cheaper right. What sort of a mistake is it to make it cheaper than everyone else? I believe that the price will determine who you attract.

So i always say this: if you want to go mass market, as in everybody buys it. If you want everybody to buy it, you do have to make it affordable, but if you would rather make a million dollars selling to 100 people, you can do that. You just don't sell it at 30 dollars. So the way i like to think of it is like a walmart and a gucci they're, both different businesses, and they both have different clientele and they both work.

You don't have to be the cheapest and race to the bottom, because it's a race you're never going to win. So this sounds really great, but can anyone do this or do you need to be particularly brainy or particular qualifications? What would you say to them? I don't believe that you need qualifications or at a degree, to create passive income when you start at the beginning, you're going to feel like you're, not good enough or you don't have enough value to start making money from this. And i had this to start with, and you say it's a race at the bottom. You have no idea.

I started my business with charging 10 pound a month. I did have that. I did have that fear that i had to be the cheapest thing. You're gon na get found out, don't you sort of as if you're a fraud exactly, of course you're? Not.

It was only when i realized that i do have enough knowledge i can share and i'm not just somebody who just popped out of nowhere and learned marketing. In three months and started selling about it, no, i have done marketing. I have done sales. I have worked for so many different organizations.

So by the time i started my business, i was already an expert for me. My education started really when i left school and i always refer to it as the school of hard knocks and their their lessons that are going to treat you well for the rest of your life. So if they want to start a business today, what steps should they take to get on that road? The first thing you need to do is build an audience around a topic, a subject or knowledge that you enjoy without thinking of monetizing, yet or making money just to build an audience that you can give value. To don't forget this step.

One you've got to constantly keep building on that step one and keep giving value 100 step two is to go and ask that audience what they want and create a product in mind that they want, and you don't have to make money on that product. You know it's such a great learning curve as long as you're not losing money you you can just break even and you can learn so much from that selling experience step three once you have an audience and you have a product and you've sold that product. You now have an audience of customers. Now you have to treat these people really really well, and you have to help them get results.

You have to help them get exactly what they bought and get that transformation that they're looking for so keep delivering value to your customers. So, through this journey to getting you to this point of a laptop lifestyle, do you feel luck played its part? I definitely believe in being in the right place at the right time. Having said that, if you aren't prepared for the luck when it comes in nothing's going to happen, what we're really saying here is: when luck is when opportunity meets preparation, if you're prepared, when it comes along, you can take full advantage exactly so. Yes, opportunity does play a part.

What you do with that opportunity dictates what happens whether you are lucky or not so katya. Where am i going to leave the next video? Oh it's right here, but don't go there just yet don't forget to subscribe to the channel ring that notification bell and like the video okay, then i'll see you on the other side.