1. Introduction: What is the best way to manage my money?
2. How Should I Manage My Money As A Digital Entrepreneur?
3. How to create multiple streams of income?
4. Financial challenges that digital entrepreneurs face
5. What are the steps that self-made millionaires follow?
About The Author
Founder - Internet Lifestyle Hub
Siddharth Rajsekar aka Sidz is the founder of
the Internet Lifestyle Hub, one of the world’s
largest communities for coaches, trainers,
teachers, and experts with over 10,000 members.
As an acclaimed lifestyle entrepreneur and international speaker, Siddharth has
trained over 200,000 people in the last 10 years. Recognized as one of India’s leading andsought-after “info-marketing” specialists, Siddharth has worked closely with
renowned International experts like Robert Kiyosaki, T Harv Eker, Tony Robbins, Brian
Tracy,and Jack Canfield.
After running many multi-million-dollar online campaigns for companies and helping
people make money online in the last 10 years, Siddharth has developed and perfected the Freedom Business Model. The Freedom Business Model focuses on helping
people take their expertise online and building a super-profitable digital coaching
business, without an office or employees.
His mission is to reform the education and employment system by building a new breed of Digital Leaders, based on the core principles of humanity and simplicity and by enhancing one’s social skills, happiness, and overall productivity.
He is the author of this book, “You Can Coach” which decodes all the steps for experts
to successfully PLAN, LAUNCH, and GROW a digital coaching business to six figures a
month.
Wearing multiple hats, Siddharth is a husband of a loving wife, a father of 2 boys, a
minimalist, futurist, spiritualist, a YouTuber who has published over 300 videos, as well
as a podcast host!
Do you want to learn how to manage your money in a much better way as you're building your online business? Over the last few years, I realized that managing money is so much more important than just making money. Everybody can make money, but once you're able to bring in a system of money management, you can multiply it faster than ever.
I've been in the internet marketing space for over a decade. I got inside this game in 2011. I ran an agency for quite a few years, and the first seven to eight years of my journey, I was not very good at money management. I was doing some excellent work for other people. Running an agency felt good. I had the knowledge and skills in the digital marketing space, but I had a lot of financial issues. I was not managing my money correctly until I met my mentor, who showed me a system to make this work.
I was in a bad situation in 2011; I was dead broke. I had just Rs.500 in my bank account. My wife was pregnant, and I had lost my job. What I started to do at that hopeless point of time was to learn from mentors. I began to understand the principles of money. I attended a seminar by T Harv Eker called Millionaire Mind Intensive, which changed the game. I finally understood I could not expect different results in my life while being the same person. You have to transform from within if you want an external transformation in your life. I've adopted all of that wisdom. My mentor, Vick Strizheus’ learnings, are like an evolved version, most suited for knowledge business.
What I want to share with you is what works for me right now. So even if you're broke right now, that's perfectly fine. First, accept it, acknowledge it and then start to rewire your operating system. Start to remove all the viruses in your head, install new programs, and learn from successful people who are passionate about explaining it in the right way.
That is a starting point because if you're able to change your mindset, you can change your life. A practical solution I can give you is to search YouTube for The Strangest Secret in the World by Earl Nightingale. Listen to his words twice a day for the next 30 days; your life will change. That's what helped me through.
For many years before I started to see success in my life and my business financially, I was not disciplined with money. I had different perceptions about money. I felt like money was not so important; doing the work was more important. And because I had such a careless attitude with cash, it was reflected in my bank account. At times I used to have more days in the month than money in the bank account.
I would have a tough time making decisions towards the end of the month; it was a very, very tough situation. Only once I started to change my money habits and money management habits, things changed for me. I'm not a very extravagant spender, I've always been frugal, but the point was, I never knew how to manage it in the right way. Fortunately for me, I learned this principle from T. Harv Eker; the Jars Principle. He talks about this in the Millionaire Mind Intensive. He advises us to divide one’s income into six jars. This is how he allocates his money:
There is a story from MMI that I’d like to share. It is the story of a child out with his father for a visit to the carnival. They saw an ice cream shop along the way, and the child asked the father for ice cream. The father happily bought the ice cream for his child, a single scoop.
As they started walking down the path, suddenly the ice cream fell, and the child began to cry, dad, I want another ice cream. The dad, feeling sorry for his child, agreed to walk back for another scoop. On the way, the child saw a poster for triple-scoop ice cream and demanded that instead. But the dad refused, saying, how can you have a triple scoop of ice cream if you can’t even handle one?
The same applies to your money. Most of us want more money in our life without realizing that if we can't even manage the money that we’re making right now, how will the universe give us more? Just like a parent will not buy a child three scoops of ice cream if it cannot handle one scoop, the same applies to money.
This principle opened up my mind when I met my mentor. If you can’t handle small sums of money, there is no way that you are going to receive large amounts of money. It is all about discipline. That's why managing your money is more important than making money. If you can handle what you have right now and break it into those five different segments and manage it in the best possible way, trust me, you will start to make more money.
If there is no discipline over the minor things in your life, you can never expect to receive bigger things in your life. There's a huge lesson that I learned the hard way. For many years, I was struggling because I was avoiding money, and there was no discipline.
The minute I started to incorporate a system of money management, things began to change. Later on, I learned a slightly evolved version of this concept from my mentor, Vick Sreizheus. Now, whatever system works for you, it's okay, as long as you have a strategy in place to manage your money.
Because systems work and people fail.
If people are left on their own, they are bound to fail. I got to where I am today because my mentor gave me a formula called the TWCGO system.
I've adapted this along with the Jars principle to manage my money for the last two years, and I can see the funds continually compounding because of the correct management.
To help you understand how to manage your money, I'm going to delve deep into some truths and mistruths. I know many internet marketers, many people in the online space, who're making a lot of money, but they do not know how to manage their money. Soon enough, they go back to ground zero. They may show income snapshots of how much money they're making, but little do people know that their actual financial and cash flow situation is not good. And how do I know this? Because my mentor is someone who makes close to a million dollars a month and knows all the top industry leaders.
When I had a one-to-one catch-up with him, he shared the realities of the internet marketing industry. He said most people have this project, some big income numbers, but the actual situation in life is not what it appears to be.
I'm going to go deep into how to manage your money following the TWCGO formula. I've been implementing this formula for the last 12 months now in my personal life, and because of managing money properly, more money has come into my life. I want to tell you the exact moment that changed my life last year.
I participated in an affiliate marketing contest and was thrilled to be among the top 10 globally out of 200,000 affiliates. I won a fully paid trip to Miami, Florida. So here I was on a $30,000 a day yacht, where I got to network and spent a whole two days with my mentor, Vick Strizheus and the top 10 marketers on this fabulous yacht. We had a great time. It was just more like celebrating our success. On the second day, we were all in a boardroom. This man, who makes close to a million dollars a month, one of the top affiliate marketers in the world, opened up a can of worms and shared with us the actual reality of this industry.
Vick told us that the internet marketing industry is a space where many people are doing things, but actually, we don't know what's happening beneath the surface. He knows so many marketers in debt because of mismanagement of money. When they make money, they just buy something glitzy like a Ferrari, blowing the money up without understanding this simple formula. After a few months, they're back to square one. In his case, he could have a sustainable income for himself because of the TWCGO formula.
If you go back to the old classics, like The Richest Man in Babylon, The Strangest Secret in the World, Think and Grow Rich, you know, some of these older teachings, everything comes down to these principles:
I hope from this moment on you will make this an essential principle in the monthly routine of your cash flow. Give more of that, which you want to get. It's all about the flow of the newest; the foot competent in general.
So if 30% of what we make should go to general expenses, rent, mortgage, utilities, groceries, outings, all of this comes down to the general. In case you find 30% is meager, you can decide on working towards that. Initially, the general bucket will be on the higher side, up to 70, 80% also, but try and bring it down to 30%. If you can bring it to 30%, then in India, you can live like a king on Rs.1.5-2 lakhs. However, if that 30% is Rs. 2 lakhs, you multiply that by three. You calculate how much your 100% will be, and you need to make at least 7- 8 lakhs per month. You always have to figure in those terms.
You can only eat so much. I don't splurge on luxuries, have any habits, or party hard. My household expenses are kind of fixed instead of varying on the amount of money I make, so there will always be a limit to how much I can spend every month.
This is more than enough, provided you do not have any overheads, EMIs, commitments, and loans taken. If you're loan-free, if you're debt-free, on Rs. 2 lakhs per month, you can live a good life in a good neighborhood without owning a house. That is my perspective; you may have different perspectives. I'm just giving you my view of this.
And then you have operations where 20% goes to operations. In fact, for me now, a lot of money goes back into the operations towards marketing spends advertising budgets with more than two ad budgets because I'm in that game of scale right now.
It does not matter which system of money management you follow as long as it has these components:
I needed to ensure that my money was divided into the correct ratios to manage this entire system.
I would like you to start to plan this right from this month onwards. Get compliant from day one,
T is for Tax. There’s a famous and slightly depressing quote that says, In this world, nothing. Now the digital entrepreneur money management system goes like this; the first component is tax cuts. So whatever amount of money you make, based on the country you live in, this number can go up and down, but you need to allocate a dedicated 30% away for tax.
You need to have a tax account. And currently, what I'm doing is 40% of whatever I make goes towards tax. That includes GST and income tax; I am tax compliant also. This goes into a separate bank account, and that different bank account is what I call my tax account. You can begin with a 25 or even 30% bracket in tax and the GST component of 18% when starting the journey. Plus, you have the other income tax component. If you show a lot of expenses and have business expenses on things like your tools, hosting, and domain, you'll be taxed. Your income tax will kick in only after you pay all of that.
W is for Wealth. This is the money multiplication account. A principle of paying yourself first recurs in all the success principles books that I've read, Think and Grow Rich, Richest Man in Babylon, Strangest Secret in the World, Law of Success, you just name all the biggest of the big influencers. Thou Shall Prosper by Rabbi Daniel Lapin. It's a beautiful book, a longish read, where he goes deep into the principles of wealth creation. It’s based on how the Jews who used to control a lot of the world's wealth approached money-making from a spiritual angle.
A wealth account is critical. 10% of what I make goes towards it. I use it for creating personal wealth; investing in gold and silver. I move money into liquid funds, anything that I'm not going to touch at all, and quickly liquidate later for whatever investments I want to make. I have multiple investment vehicles, but 10% of whatever I'm making moves here, and I have a dedicated account on this. I don’t touch this money; it’s solely for wealth creation. From there, it goes into the subcategories of the different various investment vehicles.
How you manage tiny drops of water will determine how you handle the ocean that will come to you.
C is for Charity. This account is essential for me; I like to pay charity by the fifth of every month even before I pay myself. I made a list of all the charities that are dear to me that I give to regularly. It is non-negotiable; the amount varies from month to month, but it goes to these different charities. Sometimes it's food relief, support, education, or temples. I sometimes want to give gifts to people or anybody in the family who needs help. 10% of whatever you make needs to go to support causes, whether your temple, church, or mosque. Maybe you want to feed the poor and do other philanthropic activities that all have to come into a charity bucket, which is very important. And that's what creates the flow in your business. If you're just expecting big money to be coming into your online sales, and you don’t have the heart to give back to society, you're going to be getting stuck at some point. It's all about flow; you need to give in order to receive. You can decide whether to do 10% after paying your taxes or do 10% on the top. That's something that you can decide for yourself. So charity is the giving account. Trust me; if you start including this as a monthly routine, you will see amazing results in your cash flow situation.
Don't ask me how it works, but this works. It works like magic.
G is for General. Next is the bank account you need to open for your household. So I have a separate bank account, which is only for my household needs, rent, school fees, provisions, groceries, electricity, food, anything to do with running the household will all come into this. So under T Harv Eker’s principle, he's got a play jar and a necessity jar. Now my play and necessity jar are combined into this, which I call the general bank account. Play also includes buying toys for the kids and shopping, my Netflix subscriptions, and anything needed to run the household all come in the general account. I track this every month.
You know what, even though my income was growing, my budget for my general account never increased. I kept my household operations as it is. Some of you may not know this; I still live in a rented house. I still like to keep my costs very low. I'm not too attached to a digital business buying homes and stuff like that. At some point in time, probably, later on, I will, but I'm not so keen to get big loans and EMIs just to show the world that I live in our own house. That whole paradigm is not for me. Cash flow is king. If I can live in a nice place right in the center of town, even if it means paying a little higher rent, that's perfectly cool.
So make decisions in such a way that you can keep the general account minimal.
O is for Operations. The fifth is the operational account that is purely dedicated to my business. This is also a current account. My internet, mobile, tools, subscriptions, personal learning, advertising, whatever I'm paying my freelancers, vendors, suppliers, everything, all the transactions go out of this one account. We're able to track everything in one place. It becomes so much easier, even for my auditor, to do all the calculations monthly. What I would suggest is that you start to get more disciplined with money.
What I would suggest is that you start to get more disciplined with money.
You can take whatever system works for you, but as long as you have a plan or you're breaking it down into these five or more elements. That's what works in T Harv Eker’s principle. He has a Play Jar; he has an Education jar. He also has something called long long-term savings for spending in an LTSS account. He says managing your money allows you to eventually create financial freedom so that you never have to work again.
The goal is that you should be able to create a business model in such a way that you have more money going towards wealth creation. Then as the wealth increases, charity can remain the same, the general will decrease. You can increase your operational costs, as it is more like an investment. The more you invest in the business, the more your business will grow. For example, initially, I spent X amount on advertising, and now I'm spending at least 10 X of that amount on ads.
W is for Wealth. This is the money multiplication account. A principle of paying yourself first recurs in all the success principles books that I've read, Think and Grow Rich, Richest Man in Babylon, Strangest Secret in the World, Law of Success, you just name all the biggest of the big influencers. Thou Shall Prosper by Rabbi Daniel Lapin. It's a beautiful book, a longish read, where he goes deep into the principles of wealth creation. It’s based on how the Jews who used to control a lot of the world's wealth approached money-making from a spiritual angle.
A wealth account is critical. 10% of what I make goes towards it. I use it for creating personal wealth; investing in gold and silver. I move money into liquid funds, anything that I'm not going to touch at all, and quickly liquidate later for whatever investments I want to make. I have multiple investment vehicles, but 10% of whatever I'm making moves here, and I have a dedicated account on this. I don’t touch this money; it’s solely for wealth creation. From there, it goes into the subcategories of the different various investment vehicles.
How you manage tiny drops of water will determine how you handle the ocean that will come to you.
C is for Charity. This account is essential for me; I like to pay charity by the fifth of every month even before I pay myself. I made a list of all the charities that are dear to me that I give to regularly. It is non-negotiable; the amount varies from month to month, but it goes to these different charities. Sometimes it's food relief, support, education, or temples. I sometimes want to give gifts to people or anybody in the family who needs help. 10% of whatever you make needs to go to support causes, whether your temple, church, or mosque. Maybe you want to feed the poor and do other philanthropic activities that all have to come into a charity bucket, which is very important. And that's what creates the flow in your business. If you're just expecting big money to be coming into your online sales, and you don’t have the heart to give back to society, you're going to be getting stuck at some point. It's all about flow; you need to give in order to receive. You can decide whether to do 10% after paying your taxes or do 10% on the top. That's something that you can decide for yourself. So charity is the giving account. Trust me; if you start including this as a monthly routine, you will see amazing results in your cash flow situation.
Don't ask me how it works, but this works. It works like magic.
G is for General. Next is the bank account you need to open for your household. So I have a separate bank account, which is only for my household needs, rent, school fees, provisions, groceries, electricity, food, anything to do with running the household will all come into this. So under T Harv Eker’s principle, he's got a play jar and a necessity jar. Now my play and necessity jar are combined into this, which I call the general bank account. Play also includes buying toys for the kids and shopping, my Netflix subscriptions, and anything needed to run the household all come in the general account. I track this every month.
You know what, even though my income was growing, my budget for my general account never increased. I kept my household operations as it is. Some of you may not know this; I still live in a rented house. I still like to keep my costs very low. I'm not too attached to a digital business buying homes and stuff like that. At some point in time, probably, later on, I will, but I'm not so keen to get big loans and EMIs just to show the world that I live in our own house. That whole paradigm is not for me. Cash flow is king. If I can live in a nice place right in the center of town, even if it means paying a little higher rent, that's perfectly cool.
So make decisions in such a way that you can keep the general account minimal.
O is for Operations. The fifth is the operational account that is purely dedicated to my business. This is also a current account. My internet, mobile, tools, subscriptions, personal learning, advertising, whatever I'm paying my freelancers, vendors, suppliers, everything, all the transactions go out of this one account. We're able to track everything in one place. It becomes so much easier, even for my auditor, to do all the calculations monthly. What I would suggest is that you start to get more disciplined with money.
What I would suggest is that you start to get more disciplined with money.
You can take whatever system works for you, but as long as you have a plan or you're breaking it down into these five or more elements. That's what works in T Harv Eker’s principle. He has a Play Jar; he has an Education jar. He also has something called long long-term savings for spending in an LTSS account. He says managing your money allows you to eventually create financial freedom so that you never have to work again.
The goal is that you should be able to create a business model in such a way that you have more money going towards wealth creation. Then as the wealth increases, charity can remain the same, the general will decrease. You can increase your operational costs, as it is more like an investment. The more you invest in the business, the more your business will grow. For example, initially, I spent X amount on advertising, and now I'm spending at least 10 X of that amount on ads.
But correspondingly, my revenue is increasing too. So operational costs for your business, you should be aiming at least 3-5 X. That means if your operation cost is, say, Rs.1 lakh in your business per month, you should be generating Rs. 3 lakhs per month in total revenues. So if your operational costs are Rs. 5 lakhs, then it'll cater to all your other expenses.
The best way to structure your finances and your bank account from a digital business perspective is to have these different bank accounts, bank account numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. That’s five other bank accounts. Operations and receivables can be the same. All my Facebook ads, my tools, everything happens from my receivable account.
I only have one debit card for all my business expenses. I do have credit cards, but I don't use them that much. From an accounting perspective, I prefer everything to be intact.
That's how I've been managing the money, and it's working like a dream for me. I’ve grown my business 100X in 14 months by having a rational attitude towards allocation and dynamic money management without being emotionally attached to money. Money is just a form of energy. If you use it properly, you'll get more of it. If you give in charity, you'll get more of it. Another tip is to get a good auditor who can work well with you. Find somebody who's quick at pulling up reports and quick at making things happen for you.
To further organize your finances, there's a good website by Intuit, www.mint.com. You can reach your goals with personalized insights, get customized budgets, track spending and monitor subscriptions all for free. You should check it out - Mint, they also have a really cool mobile app and stuff like that, where you can track all of this stuff.
You can link your different bank accounts and even your corporate bank account. So once you have done this, you can go into the transactions where you can have separate tags that you can create, like TWCGO or whatever. You can create as many tags as you want and then you can set the budget. So let's say you want to run a monthly budget for yourself. Let's say the rent budget for this month is Rs.20,000. I'm going to put in Rs.20,000 and set this as a budget. Another budget is for, let's say bills, and utilities amount to say Rs.20,000. So you put this here and you have set the budget for the month, you can set the budget for the coming months. Once you've added your accounts, you can track all your expenses and check whether you’re meeting the budget within this particular tool itself. Then you can look at trends like where do you spend more?
You can look at spending by category, merchant, or your income, over time, net income. Because this data is being pulled in from all the banks into this particular system, it becomes so much easier for you to track. And the best part is this is free. It's really, really awesome.
Besides this, you can also add any kind of investment account that you have. You can link your portfolio to track how your investments or mutual funds are performing.
In your overview tab, you can see everything in one goal, your bank accounts, all your insights, trends. You’ll be able to see everything in one view itself, where you can track everything in one place.
If you're having money problems right now, my suggestion is to stick with me. There's a lot more that I can share. Money management is just one part of what I talk about, but my core topic is Wealth Creation in a Knowledge Business.
So stay connected, attend my webinars and make sure that you follow all my systems. I look forward to sharing more proven strategies like this practical one that can help you grow in your business.
I want to give you a couple of action steps. The first action step is for you to go to sidz.co/vip-group to connect with me on Facebook. I have a Facebook group with over 90,000 people. They're all experts, knowledge givers, teachers who stay connected over that.
The second action is I want you to go to sidz.co/live. I will teach you how to make money, how to make three lakhs per month, and how you can sell your knowledge and expertise. That's what I'm going to share with you when you come from my masterclass.
The third thing, which I would like you to do is join my Telegram group with more than 9,000 people where I post my latest updates. I have a Facebook group, every time I launch a new podcast or something brand new, you'll get a notification.
If you want to learn more about building a knowledge business without any office or employees, please go and check out my formula, sidz.co/formula. You'll see how 7,000 people implement my model to build a super, super successful knowledge business within 90 days.
I just shared the money management concept; now, let's get to the money-making solution. How does one create multiple streams of income online?
My methodology, the MSI model - again was given to me by my mentor. MSI stands for multiple streams of income model or the ecosystem model. The multiple streams of income model works like this:
I first tell my students to create their own digital products. If you are in my student community, you know what I mean. If you're not in my community, hop into my next webinar, and I'll tell you more about it. I train people to take their knowledge and make it into irresistible online courses they can sell. According to Forbes research, the e-learning industry will become a $325 billion industry by 2025. This is the first industry that I wanted to capitalize on, which is the e-learning industry.
The second billion-dollar industry is the affiliate marketing industry. Initially, I made my first real money by earning $100,000 in commissions selling other people's products. Affiliate marketing is a booming industry where you can create recurring cash flow. Your product helps you gain authority, affiliate products help you get cash flow, and you can become an affiliate of many different kinds of products. For example, I'm an affiliate of various tools. I have at least ten additional income streams through tools such as ClickFunnels, BlueHost, GetResponse, Convertkit, Clickmagick, and many other streams from essential tools for business.
If anyone goes through my courses and buys those tools, I get 30%- 40% commissions on those. So affiliate income helps me create cash flow, and my products help me gain authority.
I have a franchise model and now offer licensing for people who want to use my courses along with theirs; it’s a high ticket model, which is Rs. 1 lakh and above. As you gain more authority, you can offer one-to-one coaching or a high-ticket program.
So your products can start at, say, Rs.5,000- Rs.10,000. You can start selling your products. Affiliate marketing is more about recommending things. Again, you can recommend the smallest of the small tools, which is $15 from GetResponse, even going up to high ticket courses. I promote a course by my mentor called Internet Traffic Academy, a $2000 course, and I make a 50% commission. It’s like $1000 per sale. I recommend I don't dictate or command or even ask people to buy. As people go through my courses, I suggest it, and those interested go for it. I make multiple streams of income coming through that as an affiliate.
You can structure your income streams in this way. Set up your systems; once you know exactly how to build it into the internet, build it into an ecosystem, and you’ll see each one will start to feed itself.
For instance, Apple is an ecosystem. First, you buy the phone. Now the iPhone 13 is just launched, and everyone is super excited about it. Some people may be buying it for the first time in their life.
Little do they know that they're going to be buying the other products down the line because once they buy the phone and look around the app store, then purchase the MacBook Pro, and soon enough, they'll get the iMac. I'm a classic example of somebody who's hooked into the ecosystem. I’m in the Apple ecosystem with the iPhone, the computer, and the Apple watch I have right here. I can't get out of it that quickly now I'm so comfortable with it.
Similarly, if you're able to create an ecosystem built around you, and you have all these MSIs that talk about your products or affiliate products and coaching built into it, that's going to be an incredible ecosystem that you can create for yourself.
If you ask me, the best way to start is to create a mini-course of your own, but affiliate marketing is one of the fastest ways to make money, provided you pick a product you have used that aligns with you. One of my golden rules is never to promote any product as an affiliate unless you’ve used it yourself. If you have not got the results yourself, don't simply promote it just because it's a launch that's happening, or it's an incredible tool or something like that.
The next question is how to start doing this the right way? Start on the journey with affiliate marketing, as this is the fastest way for you to begin to create some cash flow. Then you can start to reinvest that back into traffic.
You've got to set up your money machine. I know of no other course that teaches you exactly how to accomplish this as efficiently as this. The one that I want to recommend to you is number one in the world. This is the one that helped me breakthrough. It's a paid program called the Four Percent Success Challenge.
The blueprint that I got from my mentor Vick is this one: it's called the Million Dollar Conversion Model. There are different elements to the million-dollar conversion model. There are many elements to this model. You need to first master the game of traffic. You need to have an opt-in page. You need to have your internal traffic, which is your list, a pre-framed funnel, your hub, and a product to sell, whether it's your product or somebody else's product.
I went through it, and in the first 30 days, I underwent a massive transformation in understanding how each system works. Within 90 days of implementing the Success Challenge plan, I achieved $25,000 in sales in a single month. As you scroll down sidz.co/system you'll see one of my video testimonials there. I think I'm the only Indian that’s featured as a video testimonial on that page.
Once you have set up all your systems, and once you have created that ecosystem of your own, the second step is to master the game of traffic and conversions because when all your systems are set up, all you need to do is focus on traffic and conversions. Focus on driving more visitors to your webinars and then efficiently selling your products in the webinars.
As people go through the products, the other affiliate streams open up inside them. Once you go through this, you will learn about the traffic system because Vick talks about the three traffic levels. You have fast traffic, which is influencer media, 24-hour traffic, social media display, PPC.
Then you have level two traffic, which is strategic scale traffic, like CPA traffic media, traffic media X, and then your domination traffic, which is perpetual traffic machine, syndicate traffic, and ultimate traffic media. With all of these, you need to have your retargeting pool, landing page, email list, and a whole data aggregation system.
This may seem a little complicated for some of you who may be new to this, but this is the journey that you need to go through.
The first step of your journey is to understand how systems work and build the systems independently. Once it's set up, you get into mass traffic and drive an insane amount of traffic to your offers or your products. In essence, you want to build a super profitable business online without any office or employees in a digital business. To manage your money in this formula, TWCGO, you need to be good at creating that money first. There's a high chance you will be able to expand and grow your business in a much better way.
Visit this link sidz.co/system and watch the video, where Vick talks about everything you need to start and grow a six-figure affiliate marketing business, step by step. If you have no product, zero experience, and nobody knows you, go check it out. If you're not into affiliate marketing, if you're entirely zero in the space, at least start managing your money in these five different buckets. Once you start managing your money better, getting more disciplined, it’s not going to be emotional anymore. Once it is systemized, you'll begin to see your money compounding. You’ll have the flexibility to buy more things and do more things. I'm a minimalist; I prefer multiplying wealth, reinvesting.
When I started my journey in this online business, I had just Rs.500 in my bank account. My wife was pregnant, and I pawned her gold jewelry to invest that money into courses. Because of her sacrifice, I learned so much and then started up a business. I'm going to be diving into six core areas of dealing with money challenges because, let's face it; money challenges will strike everyone at some stage in their lives.
Every successful business owner has gone through money challenges, whether raising money for their business or coming up with seed capital, expansion, or even money just to get started.
I need to break through some of those limiting beliefs that we may have so that you don’t look at this as a challenge but an opportunity to get more creative and make things happen for yourself. I'm going to break it down into six areas.
To Recap,
To sum up, if you have the mindset of a business owner, you will always find ways to get money to grow a business because you're always thinking in terms of investing for expanding your business in the future. But if you have the mindset of an employee, you will look at this whole game as losing money or unnecessary expenses. There is no way that you can get out of this trap. You’ll be so tight-fisted that you won't make any decisions, and you'll be stuck.
A quote I resonate with says:
You cannot do the same things and expect different results in your life.
You have to make those changes. You have to start moving. You have to put yourself outside your comfort zone for you to make this happen.
If you are struggling with money, the only reason you're having difficulties with money is because of the thinking that got you into the situation. The only way for you to get out of this situation is to change your mindset, follow these steps, and make things happen for yourself.
I would highly recommend that you hop into one of my webinars by going to sidz.co/freedom. If you genuinely want to live a lifestyle of freedom, come and meet me live. I do these live webinars every week, and I'm going to be showing you the system that I've built, literally from scratch, to touch over $100,000 in revenue sales within nine months, selling digital courses and online coaching systems. If you want to learn how to build a business without any office or employees, which is super profitable, I want to see you in my webinar.
I'm coming out with some compelling concepts that can help you live a better and prosperous life because I'm on a mission to help a hundred thousand people live a lifestyle of freedom, leveraging the power of the internet.
Here I’m going to oversimplify the entire aspect of wealth creation, as there is some confusion about the difference between wealth creation, wealth multiplication, and financial planning. A quick disclaimer here, I'm not a financial planner or a wealth advisor.
Through my practical life experience, I’ve grown from a small middle-class family to now achieving multiple millions of dollars online, mainly because of my attitude towards money and learning from people making money.
I'm not learning from people who are wealth advisors. I'm learning from people who are millionaires. I learned from my mentor, Vick Strizheus, whose income is a staggering $1 million per month. He spoke about a concept called get, manage, multiply. How do you get money? How do you manage money? And how do you multiply that money?
I want to tell you how to approach it; what should be the strategy for getting money, what should be the strategy for managing money, and what should be the strategy for multiplying money,
All these require a different strategy. I want to give you my perspective and tell you what works for me. If you feel that this works for you, you can use it. If it does not work for you, you can just scrap it.
The first point is how you earn money. You could be an employee with an income source. You may be running your own business, or, you may be a freelancer.
I'm not talking about making money in stock markets. That is the multiplying money part; it’s not earning money. You can get money through the stock markets, but that is the place where you need to have some money to invest into, and you've got to multiply that money. People get confused about how to make money through stock markets. They get into this whole game, and they realize that they need the seed capital for it.
You need to equip yourself so that you can earn money first. Making money is nothing but a value exchange. Whether you're working in a company right now, and you're getting a salary. It only shows that the company values you, and the value exchange that happens is they pay you an X amount, a CTC, whatever you're going to be getting from that company monthly, that is the value to the company.
The more value you add in the marketplace through a job or a business, the greater extent to which you will make or earn money. For example, the CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, earns multiple millions per month; that’s his package because that is his value to the company and the company’s value to the world. He's the world’s ultimate employee.
Then there are business owners, like Warren Buffett, who is a money multiplier. Richard Branson with many ventures and businesses. He started with Virgin Music, then Virgin Air, many other subcategories of a conglomerate creating value. When there is that much value exchange, then you can make that kind of money.
Now, how do you add value to the marketplace? First, you have to add value to yourself. The best investment in the world is not investing in the capital markets, gold, or real estate. It is investing in yourself because the exponential growth or ROI you can get when investing in yourself can never be measured on any scale used for traditional investments.
For example, I'm not a college graduate. I don't have any degree next to my name, but going from a middle-class family to achieving these kinds of financial results for myself and the members of my community, had a lot to do with personal development and personal growth.
Only you can fix this part. If you are currently in a situation where you do not have enough money in your bank account, you only have to look at yourself and reflect and ask yourself what value you are providing in this world. If you’re working in a company and not getting a salary hike, ask yourself that same question. Why are you not getting a salary hike? Is it because you are not adding more value than expected? It’s only when you over-deliver value that you start to see the needle move.
How do you manage your money? I know many people making very good money, but they're extremely poor at money management. They go and splurge. They just buy stuff and end up wondering, where did the money go?
Just making money or knowing how to make money is not enough. The system I learned from my mentor, the TWCGO formula, works well for money management. I have detailed my allocation earlier. Divide your income into these categories as best suits you; tax, wealth, charity, general and operational. You’ll find you can be emotionally detached from money, and managing money will become a system. Money is a form of energy. How you use that energy matters the most, and the best way to manage the energy is to create a system.
Briefly, 30% goes towards tax, by default. A minimum of 10% goes towards multiplying wealth, stock markets, crypto, or other assets classes. I recommend 10% should go towards charity, after taxes. Next a general account for household expenses, rent, fuel, groceries, school fees, holidays, insurance for the family. Plus a business operation account for buying tools, learning and advertising.
I asked my wife to manage the entire thing. She uses YNAB (You need a budget) to track and put all my budgets in place. The thing I spend a lot of money on is Apple products, Montblanc pens. Once in six months, I splurge on toys that I like, but I have very few clothes for myself. My household expenses I keep as minimum as possible for living expenses.
Only when you have sufficient discipline in the first two steps, adding value and creating a system, should you move to step three.
How do you multiply money? There are different modalities and many reasons, and there are many paths to achieving the same goal. You can start with a bank deposit, about 4% interest currently, or you can move into liquid funds, stock markets, cryptocurrency, gold and silver, real estate. I look at this game because I first need to manage my money correctly and allocate the expenses in my business; next, I find ways to incorporate my expenditures as business expenses to save on taxes and then whatever is in the wealth bucket into multiplication methodology.
I do value investing, long-term investing, nothing to do with day trading. I think long-term, at a five-year plus window, which I don't want to touch right now. I just want to keep building and building. That is how Warren Buffett has also built his Bat Cave. Now you go and look at Warren Buffett’s net worth graph, type that in Google, and go and see his chart where he started investing at 14; now, he’s in his late 80s and is one of the wealthiest people in the world. Why? Because he doesn't get emotional about wealth creation. He doesn't look at the stock market as a game. He looks at everything as a business; he invests in Apple, Verizon, Kraft-Heinz, all these different companies that are growing. That's where his money's going.
If you have a challenging situation in your financial situation, you need to work on step one. When you don't have the capital to invest, you're going to waste your time over there. First, you have got to think about how you can add value.
If you want to learn how to add value to the marketplace, please jump into my next live session. If not, buy my course. You can go to sidz.co/join, you can join my community. We are over 10,000 plus people where I will help you start the first part of the process on how you can add value to the marketplace. Once you're a part of my community, I will teach you, step by step, how to launch yourself. We will work on the first part of the puzzle, which is how do you earn more money. Once you're inside the system, I will teach you how to manage your money. Multiplying money is not my core domain expertise, but I can help you earn money by adding value to the marketplace.
Go to this link, sidz.co/join if you're not part of my community yet. If you are already a part of my community and want to upgrade yourself, move on to the next level. I have different levels of programs in my community. Just upgrade yourself because the more you upgrade yourself continuously, invest in yourself, your learning, your personal growth; to that extent, you will see wealth manifest in your life.
I said this is an oversimplified version of wealth creation based on my personal experience, you may have a different view about this, and I respect that. This is what works for me, and that's what I'm here to share.
The next question is how to start doing this in the proper order to get the best results?
The first step is you need to master the game of traffic generation, especially on the internet. If you want to master this game and create multiple income streams on the internet, you need to master traffic. The second step is you need to master the game of conversions, getting people to pull money out of their wallets to buy your products or your service. When you master traffic and conversions, you can apply this model to any number of businesses that you may have in your mind.
But first, take part in a survey to see if you fit into this model, sidz.co/qualify. In the end, it takes you into an automated webinar. It's a one-hour training where I go in-depth on the evolution of an expert, the four-stage funnel, and the three secrets that helped me achieve this result. In case you’re interested, make that decision to complete the purchase. Once you’re part of my community, you can actually see all of this live in action. You can see it as a work in progress where several people engage and comment. This way it's becoming a movement.
This is not something to be taken lightly. It is a system where you can create an impact in this world. If you wish to make that impact, this is the method that you need to follow.
I'm turning businesses into a mission here. My dream is to turn this assignment into a digital ecosystem where people work within the community while creating high incomes.
I’d like to share some thoughts on how you can make Rs. 3 lakhs per month as a digital coach.
How does it work? First of all, let me just tell you that it is possible. It does not matter where you're coming from, and it does not matter what your past is. It does not matter where you are, but you can surely make Rs. 3 lakhs a month. I used to be stuck at Rs. 1 lakh per month for a long, long time until I made a few shifts in my thought process. My results went from Rs. 1 lakh to Rs.1.5 per month, then the following month, Rs.2.5 lakhs, then Rs. 4.5 per month. I even hit Rs. 1 crore in a gle month selling digital products.
Now, this transition happens over time, and it requires a different state of being for you to get there.
The first concept I want to tell you is that if you’re going to make massive shifts in your life and take a quantum leap in your income, relationships, and health, you need to understand one fundamental truth. You cannot achieve all this because your life as you have been living it thus far dictates your current environment.
By remaining with your current persona, there is no way that you can achieve a quantum leap. The hard truth is that the different tools, techniques, hacks, and software that everyone in the digital industry talks about are only a tiny part of the game. I want to open up and tell you exactly how to make that quantum jump in the next 90 days.
Your current situation is determined by the current character or persona that you have. If you have to make a 10 X jump, you have to envision yourself as a different persona and personality. I'm not saying that you have to change as a person completely. Some people say, no, you should never change; you should stay where your roots are. But if you look at any successful person, the results have come when they have changed fundamentally and become something more than they were.
The results only come when you evolve into something much bigger. When I look back in time, the way that I thought, the stuff that I would consume, the conversations that I had with people, it's very different right now. At the most basic level, I'm here to tell you that you need to be open to change. You need to permit yourself to play the bigger game. And there's a deeper-rooted issue to this.
The deeper issue is that many of us want to conform to society's norms. We want approval from either our parents, grandparents, or father figures, anybody who's influenced our life. You don't want to be better than them subconsciously, even at an income level. Perhaps this is due to the Indian culture and the respect given to our elders.
I have around 4,000 people in my core group right now, and I've done more than 400 one-to-ones with people who want a breakthrough in their life. At least 50 of them have made that quantum leap within a span of three to six months. You can check out their success stories on my YouTube channel, where I interview them in the Hall of Fame. I found that people cannot make the jump in their income level because they want to conform to either their parents or father figures out of due respect. They don't want to show that they're bigger than them.
I had to make peace with myself on this point and accept that it’s okay to be making much more money than my dad ever did. I was stuck at that level for many years because I respected my father; I didn't want to exceed his income level. It's weird, but that's how it works. The first step is permitting yourself to play the bigger game. It starts there.
Then you need to set a new vision for yourself; you want to make your family proud of you. You need to accept that you can prosper based on your intention, why you are doing this.
Start expanding your awareness which will get you out of your comfort zone. Do the Myers-Briggs test at www.16personalities.com. There are many other tests, such as DISC profiling, wealth dynamics, and Enneagram. When people do a personality analysis or a DISC profiling, they are told that they are a particular personality type but wrongly believe that they will be that personality type forever.
If you want to make a quantum leap, first do the16 personalities test. It's a free test. People are either analysts, diplomats, sentinels, or explorers. Once you know what your personality type is, start to do the opposite. So if you're an introvert, be outgoing and speak to more people; if you're an extrovert, begin to get more reclusive and sit in one place and think. Only when you change the patterns of your current situation in your life can you create a massive shift in your life.
In my case, that quantum jump, month on month on month, has been through conscious pattern shifts, conscious challenges. When I feel I'm doing the same thing every day, I decide to shake it up and do something different. If you are traveling to the office on a particular route, try going a different way. If you write with your right hand, try doing it with your left hand. Make a shift in a pattern because you have to expand your awareness, start to learn new things to expand your thinking. If you passionately dislike a particular subject, try and understand that. It's a counter-intuitive approach because then you will start to have a different worldview of things. You'll start to expand your awareness. You won't be comfortable. If you implement this straight away, I'll tell you for sure in the next 90 days; you are going to see a massive shift in your life.
The degree of shift can vary depending on your intensity and what kind of income you want to achieve.
If you want to make big money, you need to find a big problem to solve with your talents. I have a few students in my community who feel that their years of experience in a particular field will enable them to make money. My only answer to them is, people don't care about all those years of experience. They want to know whether you can solve their problems.. If you have 30 years of experience in a particular field, but when there's no problem that you're solving, that's a losing formula. That's just your bloated ego, and you’re not going to make money. I have gotten so much feedback from the market when I do one-to-ones. I get to know what my community wants precisely, and I have to help them based on their needs. The bigger the problem to solve, the bigger the money. Look at Amazon, which has solved one of the biggest problems in the retail industry. Now with a few taps on your phone, you can buy whatever you want without having to step out of your home.
Similarly, Uber and Airbnb are solving a big problem. Apple is a status symbol; people who buy it feel they think differently. Their entire campaign started with that ideology of giving people something which they want to own. Please understand that if you’re going to make a significant shift, you want to make a quantum jump in your income level, you have to break through these patterns, and you have to look at a big problem that you can solve. If you can’t fix the problem immediately but still wish to tackle it, you'll figure out how to upgrade your skills and solve the problem eventually.
In my case, the big problem that I wanted to solve is this whole corporate culture. For me, it is all about providing people an alternate way to live their life. I lived my life driving three, four hours in traffic in Bangalore, and then grinding it, coming back home exhausted. Why should life be like that? I didn't have much time for the family. My first son was growing up and was just three years old. When I left in the morning, he would be sleeping. When I came back in the night, he would be sleeping. I was chasing the money just to pay those EMIs. For me, the fundamental shift in how I started to approach my business and the reason I'm able to make big money right now is that I understood there's a big problem out there that needs to be solved with an alternate lifestyle.
Now I work from home, and I teach people to build businesses without needing an office and employees; I have an automated agency and a team running it. The whole aspect of creating an alternative reality is what has given me that leverage because there's a big problem over there.
So the fundamental principle is you want to make a lot of money, you need to find a big problem to solve.
You have to create a winning formula to solve that problem. It may not happen overnight. Today I have a winning formula where anybody, irrespective of their background, can come into my coaching system and achieve it in 90 days if they put in the effort.
But what is that winning formula? I discovered it through trial and error. I started selling digital products through affiliate programs. Then I began to sell my products. As I was selling my products, I discovered people wanted some more support. I added a layer of coaching into it and that expanded into group coaching. Then I started to create communities around it, and I ultimately built an ecosystem.
All this happened in just 14 months because of the laser-like focus. Once I figured the problem, I started to adapt it, developed through multiple iterations. I began to get feedback and improved the formula, and now it's become so much more predictable. It is better than what it was four months back, and one year from now, it's going to be even better. The key is to discover the big problem and focus on the niche that you've picked.
Craft your big solution into digital products. Don't just sell products, but create a community because this is the fundamental difference between just selling e-learning products, randomly doing transactional business online versus creating movements. We're creating a revolution, the Freedom Business Model. If you're already in my community, this is what you're doing.
You need to start mastering skill sets. For the digital age as a digital coach, you want to make Rs. 3 lakhs per month, you need to be good at these skill sets: traffic generation, lead generation, building your email list, converting the sale.
For conversions there's webinar selling; you can do one-to-one selling of your product or your service. Copywriting is another skill you must master. It's all about words. Even though I'm doing powerful videos, I can speak fluently because I have studied marketing material minutely. I know the right language to use for the context for the digital space, the social space, the email space, the Facebook ad space, and the blogging space.
Next comes digital tribe building. Once you start mastering and tweaking each part of the process, you will be in a position to create money on demand. I’m at the stage where I have my products and I'm mentoring and coaching many people right now. I created a model called the Freedom Business Model because the problem that I'm trying to solve is that I want to help people achieve freedom in their lives by creating an alternate way of earning money.
The model that I'm talking about works because first, I mastered traffic generation and the whole aspect of webinars. I do a lot of webinars; about ten a month, and I sell through my webinars. The revenue from there is about Rs. 25-30 lakhs. For every rupee I spend on advertising, we're able to pull out three to four rupees in terms of return on advertising spends.
Strategic scaling. I’m now at the stage where I'm looking at my numbers and looking for ways to bring down my cost per lead. Based on what I just shared with you, you’ll have better leverage when you build a digital ecosystem mode because you do not need an office for this. You do not need any employees. You need to just ride on automation and systems and try to perfect these eight steps.
If it were a physical product with office space and employees, your overhead expenses would be 30 to 40% plus manufacturing and distribution costs. Instead, with a digital model, you’ll be playing a marketing game, looking at how you can bring down your cost per customer acquisition and the overall marketing cost, yet adding more value. When you can successfully reduce costs, you’re looking at exponentially increasing profitability.
If you’re serious about achieving your goal of Rs. 3 lakh a month I suggest you purchase my course and watch the first video in the Freedom Business Model. I actually gave a game plan and have a hop, skip and jump approach. For the first 10 days, you need to get very clear on the problem that you're solving, your niche and your products.
Then for the next 30 days, you have to set up your systems and then for 90 days, you can achieve your freedom number. What is your freedom number? Jump into my YouTube channel and take a look at the Hall of Fame. It’s where I interview people who have shown amazing results. I have a lot of success stories.
When you have the right intention, if you permit yourself and want to expand your awareness, if you’re going to solve a big problem, if the intention is pure, people will buy your products for what you stand for.
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A person chasing money and security believes that they should be paid a lot for doing very little. Then comes the stress, demands, complaints, and selfish behavior. If someone is obsessed with getting rather than giving, they cannot serve anyone in any valuable way. After learning from my mistakes earlier in my career, I'm not in the position where I have to chase after money every month. It comes to me because of the value that's being created.
If you’re not in a good financial position right now due to various situations in the world, there is a way out. I'll try to share as much valuable information as possible. I learned a lot through my journey, from struggling to make ends meet to being in a comfortable position now. Believe me; there was a time that there were more days in the month than money in my bank account. I've been in those situations, and now there is abundance and value that's been created.
I don't even think about acquiring money now, but since the value is created, the system is designed, the byproduct is only making more money. If you want to get wealthy, I'll give you a straightforward formula to overcome the situation.
So let's understand all the concepts one by one:
You have the power in your mind to increase the thermostat if you want by following a few rules, just as every game has its own set of rules. If you’re going to play cricket, there are rules on doing well and winning the game. In football, basketball, or snooker, there is a set of rules.
Over time, I’ve learned that there are ten things you should never do. These mistakes can cause even the wealthiest person to go broke. I'm going to share with you the rules, which are NOT going to help you become rich.
The counter-intuitive approach or the negative side of the wealth game is what I want to share. Look at all the statements which are negative and make them into positive messages.
Let's understand what this is. This will be exciting, and you will know exactly where you stand in all these ten different must-not rules when it comes to becoming wealthy.
The first thing is, don't pay yourself first every single month.
If you want to stay broke, then whatever money you're making, just buy the stuff you want. The wealthiest people paid themselves first. I learned this from Robert Kiyosaki as well as Napoleon Hill. George Clason talks about it in his book, The Richest Man in Babylon. I read this in Thou Shall Prosper by Daniel Lapin. There are so many books about paying yourself 10% first, but you should not touch that money at all. I always pay myself first. If you want to go broke, don't pay yourself first.
Spend money on habits that damage your health so that you can spend even more money trying to fix your health.
If you can invest and move your money towards things that will help you, you're going to be becoming wealthier.
People who waste their money by smoking, drinking, drugs, habits, any substance where they're abusing their body in the name of recreation are the ones who are going to spend more money and even lose that money by paying hospital bills later. So it’s far better to be sensible than sorry.
Spend on all the get-rich-quick schemes on the internet.
Just enter, how to make money online, in Google. In seconds you’ll find hundreds of those opportunities that will come your way. I learned this the hard way because I've spent a lot of money on schemes like this, which never worked for me. Why? Because the intent with which I bought that product was the wrong intention, I wanted to get rich quick, and that possibility simply does not exist.
One day I finally surrendered to my mentor, who patiently explained that getting rich is an exchange in value and people need to see the value. It's a process. When I looked at this as a long-term game, everything started to change. My advice to you is, don't fall for any kind of marketing message that says, there's this push-button software, you'll make money fast. Anything that promises results without any effort is suspect. How can anyone make so much money in a few days without even lifting a finger? Stay far away from such promises because that is the wrong approach to start the game of creating wealth.
Just Google Warren Buffett's net worth; you’ll see his graph where he consistently built his wealth long-term. Just in the last decade, he's hit billion dollars of exponential growth. Look at the curve from age 14 to 80. This is a long-term game. It is not a short-term get-rich-quick thing.
Get into an EMI trap and go and buy a house right now because the interest rates are low at the moment.
If you go and book a place emotionally without really understanding what's going on, you'll get into an EMI trap and end up working for a long time just to fulfill that monthly nightmare.
I'm sure countless people are in this trap right now, where they paid the down payment and got into an EMI schedule. Now with the pandemic situation in the world, they're struggling to pay those EMIs when they don't have money to buy necessities for their family.
We rent a house but pay very minimal rent compared to buying that house and paying the EMI. It makes sense to own assets in the form of commercial properties when you’re getting an income from it by way of rent.
You need to understand the difference between an asset and a liability. According to Robert Kiyosaki, an asset is something that would put money in your pocket. A liability is something that takes money out of your pocket. If you're buying a house and living in it, that means it's not an asset. It is a liability because you are paying for that.
Whereas if you buy a property and get rental income out of it, that becomes an asset. According to Robert Kiyosaki, you should create enough assets to create passive income and let the passive income pay for your house. Then that makes sense. One of his quotes I love is
“Making money is common sense. It’s not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon.”
If you only have limited income coming in and choose to buy a house, you're getting into an EMI trap. You're going to be working for the rest of your life. You've lost your freedom, but on the surface, the world thinks you own a house. Deep down, only you know how much money you’ve got, how little cash flow flexibility you have. Debt is good when it comes to growing your business, but getting into debt for a liability will take away your freedom. I'm never in favor of that.
Apply for the credit card with the highest credit limit, and max it out on anything you desire.
There are a few people who know how to use credit cards wisely. They accumulate points and get all kinds of awards after they maximize their spend on credit cards. But I know most people just keep collecting credit cards. They keep accumulating debt. And then, they use one credit card to pay the other credit card.
This goes on like one big circus where they have sleepless nights, get threatening phone calls asking them to pay up, or else. The CIBIL scores keep falling, and this has a massive impact on their financial life.
It’s best if you can cut those cards and throw them away. Just have one card you use only for emergencies and expenses, but live within whatever you can create as a cash flow. Never buy something which you cannot afford.
Why am I telling you this? I've been through all of these mistakes. That's why I do not want any one of you to go through that kind of pain. If you're going through that trauma, it's time to get real right now, time to wake up.
Where can I get the best deal? Let me go and shop there immediately.
Don't be lured by the offers and deals, and start to think about what you really need. I’ll buy something if I know it will add value to my life, I’m not chasing after the deal. Yes, we have a Black Friday deal; I also do it in my community to make people take action. I don't care whether there's a 50% off sale. If I need something, I don't mind paying the price. In case there happens to be a deal on it, perfect.
If I buy something, I like to buy quality stuff. I don't want to hold too many things. I keep wearing the same few Nike shirts that I have. I just have maybe five, six shirts and three to four pairs of jeans. That's it. A couple of shoes, one pair of slippers enough, what more do I want? Don't chase deals and mindlessly shop.
Go and invest in things that you do not understand.
Now, many people watch webinars and are fascinated by cryptocurrency. They have no idea how it works, but they just go and put money on that, the stock market or Forex trading. It's like a gold rush that someone tells you, hey, just put money in. There's no problem. We'll figure it out later. You don't understand what you're getting into, and you put money in, but they don't. You end up losing money. I've lost money like that.
I know countless people are going through it right now. The purpose of this book is to give you that awareness to change your financial situation in the next three to six months.
Go and buy a car that you cannot afford because it's a status symbol.
Just to show off to the world that you have a fancy car. Most of us are working from home most of the time, and then you have Uber to go from point A to point B. Get a car if you can make it into a business expense that gets paid off when you're paying taxes after those expenses. Then it makes sense to pick it up, but still, it is not an asset.
A car is a liability because the day you buy the car and take it out of the showroom, it's already depreciated. If you want to go broke, go and buy cars, which you cannot afford so that you can keep washing it every day in the garage without driving out anywhere so that you can tell the world that you own this car.
Do not give to charity regularly.
If you want to stay broke consistently, do not give to charity regularly. That will keep you broke. It needs to be a regular donation, not a one-off. In my case, for more than two years now, before the fifth of every month, all my charities go out. I support maybe four to five charities consistently. I feel like giving, but I have a separate bank account for the charity itself, and I swipe that card for charity. I don't think twice, or if there's money in that account. I send it to the charity and it's a very non-emotional allocation game. Giving has to be consistent. It has to be a priority. After all, you are letting go of money because you want to. My mother says you've got first to give that which you wish to receive.
If you're not able to give charity or are very tight-fisted with money, there will never be a flow of funds back into your life. If money is not flowing out of your charity mindset, you can never expect it to rush back to you. It's like a circle; it's the law of reciprocation of the universe.
It doesn't matter how much you give to charity. You want to give Rs.50, or Rs.100,000, it's up to you. I have a 10% rule; 10% of my revenue goes to a charity after paying taxes.
Sometimes I give more than that. What is the use of all this money? Once you're creating enough cash flow, if you're living in India, Rs.2,00,000 per month is enough to live in a decent neighborhood. It'll take care of all your household needs if you're somebody who does not have expensive habits, who's not partying and blowing money on expensive substances and stuff. My whole approach is very different. So for me, my living expenses are very low, but with all the surplus that there is, it's only going towards giving, creating more and more flow in life in terms of money. Once you can operate at this level, your entire life becomes a mission. The whole reason to make money becomes all the more exciting because there's more of a giving competent, and it makes the entire thing so much more awesome.
Be attached to money itself and not interested in giving value.
The wealthiest people in the world are the ones who have the least attachment to money. They are more focused on value creation because the money will take care of itself when you’re creating more value. If you shift your focus away from money-making and focus on creating value and providing outstanding service to your audience, you’ll notice your bank account is filling up. That is how it works. The more you are attached to or chase after money, the more money will run out, run away from you. I learned this from my granddad. When I was very young, he said, never be attached to the money itself. Instead, be attached to the value that you can create, and money will automatically follow you.
Money has to follow you. You cannot chase after it. I had this mind shift when I didn’t have much money. It has to start when you do not have money or are not in an ideal financial situation. When I understood these concepts and began to think about them differently, everything changed. When you can change your inner game, the outer game will also change. Your inner world is a representation of your external world. Everything is connected. If you're able to change your thinking about money and how you're going to use it, you will see changes in the external world. Many of you would have heard of this. It seems like I'm preaching to the choir over here, but I just want to reiterate that attachment to value creation is more important than attachment to money itself.
I'm going to give you a simple formula on how you take this and put this into an efficient implementation where you can make the following year your best year financially. There are three parts to the whole game of money. And this is what I learned from my mentor.
The first part is how do you get money? The second part is how do you manage money? And the third part is how do you multiply your money? Now you need first to understand how to get money. There has to be a value creation process. Maybe you start a business or upgrade yourself with new skills to be more valuable in your workplace, or you can become a freelancer and create some kind of a value exchange where people are ready to pay you money for either skill or product, or a service.
You need to get good at selling your product and service, which is a part of the getting money process.
Once the money is coming in, you need to manage your money well. Use the TWCGO formula. You can work out the numbers based on your current situation.
Initially, your general and operational costs will be high. Charity and wealth, maybe at the lower end. Tax will always remain the same. I teach my community members that they need to open up different bank accounts for tax, wealth, charity, general, and operations when they start their online business. It helps you manage the money better. So if you know your monthly household budget that is X amount for the month is overshooting, it’s easy to cut back. This is because everything is not mixed into one account.
Now, the next part is, how do you multiply your money? So once you are good with managing your money, you can multiply your money by investing in gold and silver, liquid funds. There are so many different vehicles of investments available, and depending on your capacity, risk appetite, and age, you can decide to what extent you want to invest. All my investments come out of this wealth bucket. Right now, my wealth bucket is more than 10% because I have something called an FFA, like a financial freedom account.
And then I have something called LTSS, long-term savings for spending. If I want to buy something later, then I put that into this particular bucket. My number may not be 10%. It's more than that. The investing you do has to come from the wealth account. The problem with people today is they don't have this kind of money management system. They put all their savings in some sort of investment; they get wiped out if that goes bad.
The money multiplication will happen if you're more disciplined with the money you already have. I'm confident that if you implement this, your life is not going to be the same.
We are on a level playing field right now. It does not matter where you come from. All that matters is where you want to go. If you're able to change your mindset, your views about money, and managing money with these principles, your life is not going to be the same. I truly wish prosperity, wealth, and abundance in your life because when you're able to create that kind of wealth and abundance in your family, you can help so many other people, and do so much more charity. You could do that with more flexibility, more freedom, and you'll be able to operate and live a life where you look forward to each day. This will not come from a big salary package where you’re not fulfilled, but it comes because you are doing something you love.
If you want to be in that situation where you can call your own shots and have a lifestyle of freedom, here's your next step. Here are three options.
Option #1: If you want to go to one of my free pieces of training on how I'm helping many people to learn how to build a super solid digital business without any office or employees. This is more to do with the value creation process of starting a business on the internet as a digital coach. Then I would like you to go to this link, sidz.co/formula and register for that training. It's a 30 minutes training session. And at the end of the training, I offer my course and you can buy my course and you can get into my community called the internet lifestyle hub.
Option #2: You can join my group on Facebook. I have a VIP group on Facebook on this link, sidz.co/vip-group, and go and join my VIP group on Facebook. I share a lot of insights. I have a lot of case studies of my students who are getting phenomenal results, and I keep sharing those interviews there.
Option #3: If you want to directly buy my course without having to go through any other training, and if you're able to see the value in what I'm offering over here, just go to sidz.co/course, there'll be a special discount code. That'll keep changing from time to time, apply that code, grab the best offer that I have for you for that particular course and get in.
I'm here to tell you, whatever I've shared with you comes from my personal experience, through making all those mistakes over the years. I come from a very typical middle-class family. I did not have any big financial backing and I started from scratch. I got some support initially from family members and slowly moved my way up, set up my own agency, ran it along with my co-founder.
We recently sold that company to BNI. I was able to find my calling in serving people, supporting people, and creating the next breed of digital features. If you can resonate with this vision of being a digital leader, mentor, or coach, you can take your knowledge and monetize it by helping out those who want to learn. If you're still not following me on YouTube, you can go to sidz.co/youtube where I have something called the Hall of Fame. I interview people who have created financial results for themselves very fast. I also do a free live masterclass, sidz.co/freedom. Think about your ideal lifestyle situation, where you would live, how much you would earn and how you can achieve that. Be very clear about this. Don't go with the flow. Once you know the Why, the How will be revealed.
Your next logical step is to get into my community. Or if you want to meet me live, you can even do that. Get into the community; we have over 10,000 plus members from all over the world. You can go to sidz.co/join. Watch the videos of the case studies, and I’ve created more than 15 crorepatis; many many have made Rs. 5-10 lakhs in three to six months. Make the decision and get started. I have an exceptional offer if you're really serious and you want to get in and the price is going to be increasing very soon.
If you're not in my community, get started. I have a bundle of courses called the freedom bundle, and you just need to follow that. You don't have to reinvent the wheel. If you want to get to know more about what I'm doing in life, attend my live session, go to sids.co/live and you can attend my next live webinar.
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76 replies to "Manage Your Money – The #1 Ultimate Guide To Managing Your Money Successfully In A Digital Business | Siddharth Rajsekar"
Wow, Sidz
Really Amazing 58 Pages golden nuggets, Even I am into Financial Space, you went deeper and open my mind, how to think and How to Manage.
You are telling this into videos , but this 58 Pages I read word to word and line to line.
My Mindset was transformed into new era of thinking, I am working on, to be part of your Personal Meet after achieving HOF.
I am a Freedom Finisher.
TQ,TQ,TQ for the deeper insights about the Money Management , you touched, Robert Kyosaki, T Harveker, Earl Nightingale,Richest Man in babylon, what not,
Really I admire …..
Madhu Kodidala
Passive Wealth Expert
Awesome, Great Insights! ! I’m glad you found this learning journey valuable.
Makes everything fit to achieve all the wealth through this amazing tribe
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Ultimate guide to achieve financial freedom
I find it inspiring that Sidz keep reminding us to give to charity. That’s the whole point of getting rich. You have the opportunity to help so many people and make an impact.
Amazing learning in easy to understand steps. Money management is more important than making of money.
Very comprehensive guide that covers all from earning to investment principles. Recommend all to go through it.
Amazing inputs Sidh, worth reading. Exact points to improve my maney management system. Thanks a lot.
Need to see this badly!
Loads of talent without few specific skills goes wasted.
Just as communication, sales, marketing skills are required, Wealth Management is a absolute must!
Will be going through this over and over again until I implement the steps 100%
Thank you for sharing #digitalbuddha ☺????????♀️
Wow awesome information about money management for digital business owners.
Thank you so much for sharing.
Highly appreciate.
VERY USEFUL TO OUR LIFE .MONEY MANAGEMENT IS MOST IMPORTANT .
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Such an essential, in-depth guide!
Hey Sidz this is one of most important subject for an entrepreneur or any digital coach to manage their money and resources. I understood really well now it’s not about earning good money but more important is how you manage it.
Money Management is a great trouble for me as a coach. Seeing these guidelines to manage money I got confidence that I too can have a easy path with money..
Incredible Techniques and methods Sidz..:) Helped me really shift my behavior when it comes to Money Management.Kudos to you for what you are doing..:)
Amazing inputs on Money management. Its very important to have a system which takes. And this system of money management is simple and powerful. Thanks for sharing
This guide is so comprehensive! It has given me lots of new ideas and tips to help me manage my money better. Thank you Sidz of this amazing inputs.
Money now a days is not a big deal, people can earn money very easily in today’s digital age. But the main thing is how to manage money and this is the only guide that can make you clear the money management system.
The best thing that I got is TWCGO system which has cleared all my doubts about managing money. I can manage money for my family, for my business, for charity and for investments. Everything is given in this guide so, yes highly recommended for those who don’t know how to manage money in an effective way to bring lot of abundance and positivity in life.
Awesome, Great Insights! ! I’m glad you found this learning journey valuable.
TWCGO is such a simple yet game-changing formula that will improve money management for lots a lot of digital entrepreneurs.
Simple yet powerful. The aspect of “Charity” is such a fulfilling one to have in this journey.
Thank you Sidz for simplifying complex concepts!
Great value suggestions for features building steps.
Thanks
EXTREMELY CRISP PRESENTATION . ITS LIKE A ONE STOP REFERENCE FOR THE TOPIC WITH WONDERFUL POINTERS TO GREAT RESOURCES.
THIS IS WHERE WE NEED TO FOCUS IMMEDIATELY SID. THANKS FOR SHARING THE GREAT KNOWLEDGE AND SOLUTIONS WITH US
Awesome, Great Insights! ! I’m glad you found this learning journey valuable.
Hi Siddharth,
Your doing a great help by sharing these useful guides. I am really inspired by your struggle days after reading about have only 500 rupees in bank account with a pregnant wife really inspired me to do what I am procrastinating about.
The Money management tips are very helpful and useful. More power to you sidz.
Thank you ????
Excellent insights on Money. Got a new perspective on money and how to manage it. Got to know some simple daily habit shifts, that can easily increase the inflow of money. Most important, how to think of money…
Amazing Sidz!
You just transformed the way we look at money
it doesn’t matter how much we make , if we follow Jar system , we can achieve our financial freedom faster
thank you for these golden nuggets
Really Amazing Page after Pages of golden nuggets, I am into Spiritual Space, you went deeper and open my mind, how to think and How to Manage. You are telling this into videos , but these Pages I will read word to word and line to line. I am struggling on money front and now Impliment the ideas shared here.
My Mindset was transformed into new era of thinking, I am working on, to be part of your Personal Meet after achieving HOF.
I am a Freedom Finisher.
Thank you very much for sharing this.
With Lots of Love and Om,
This is just amazing. My top 3 takeways from this guide:
1. You will be able to consistently multiply your money through strategy
2. Create systems around managing your money
3. TWCGO Formula- Tax, Wealth, Charity, General, Operations- Charity as a habit is beautiful! I have been giving into charity for the past few months and I can see a shift in my perception of money!
Awesome, Great Insights! ! I’m glad you found this learning journey valuable.
TWCGO has literally changed my Life for the Good Cause. Before Coming into ILH I was aware about How Can I Save Money but ILH and Sidz build my right money mindset and help me look beyond just earning. Sidz and VICK are the pillers of the change in industry ♥ Anyone Who wish to get on to this journey dont over think just jump on to it.
This Guide is really so in-depth. So Informative and bulb on moments for me, I am sure this is the ultimate guide. I loved it.
Thanks a ton Santosh ! More power to you!
When it comes to managing money, whether you are a coach or an entrepreneur, awareness plays a big part.
By treating coaching as a business only, the money can be managed properly.
And the TWCGO method is the ultimate guiding light.
MPTY
Wow 58 pages to treasure Sidz. Thank you. Really admire the energy.
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Money management has been a crucial topic for me. Being a Branch Manager I used to give plans to people but myself was struggling for getting the subject management as desired. I used to have number of fix deposits and their interest assigned to my bills like locker rent, mobile bill, light bill etc. I have become more precise with this guide and organised more deeply. Thank you for subject guide.
KR Goswami
Defence Recruitment Trainer
#deeplearner
Awesome, Great Insight! ! I’m glad you found this learning journey valuable.
One of the most important things that I learnt is to be compliant from day 1.
Thank you sidz for teaching me this.
Awesome, sidz
I was really facing money management problem. Through skimming your guide I got deeper ideas which I was not aware of i.e TWCGO . It is Awesome. I will start implementing in my business. Through this guide you have given clear clarity on Money Management System where most of the people fail.
Thank You So much…
More Gratitude and more power to you.
Awesome!Great Insights! More power to you, great to have you in our community.
Very comprehensive step by step – pointers and guidance. Some are good reminders and some are eye openers
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I learnt TWCGO from you in a call and I vaguely implemeted. But the moment things started happening, like my operational cost and income and other tool costs, it became more difficult. I then got stricter in this formal approach and became less overwhelmed.
I’m glad you found this learning journey valuable ! More to unfold.. 😉
Dear Sidz, I was thinking about this and it has appeared. I badly needed as I am poor in handling Money, Finance . Amazing Ultimate Guide. Cheers
Thanks a ton Srinivas !! Great to have you in our community.
Lengthy book will read it completely. its very useful
will follow this
thanks for sharing
Dr Rajendra Maurya
Amazing PDF Sidz.
Managing money is more important making money
TWCGO formula
Pay yourself first
Have a system to track your money.
Don’t chase money, instead chase the Big problem you can solve.
Making giving an important part of your life.
Organize your life by using tools
Super duper insights….
Came to know many new concepts..
Thanks sidz..
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Neatly explained the distribution of various fund allocation
towards expense
Work on Shifting habits- that’s powerful
Thank you Sidz for such a detailed guide on money management. Many of these concepts are very new to me and I discovered may tips on money management in this guide.
I’m glad you found this learning journey valuable ! More to unfold.. 😉
very good guide for people who feels overwhelmed when thinking of making money. Its a challenging game and this guide is a in-depth manual for creating wealth. Thanks Sidz.
GREAT ,AWESOME,THANKS SIDZ WE GOT LOT OF INFORMATION .INSPIRED YOUR PROJECT
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Thankyou Sid for this amazing guide, that helped me to understand how to manage my money as a digital entrepreneur & create multiple streams of income to become a millionaire , once followed with complete trust.
My biggest learning was – to pay yourself first, something that i never focused on.
A guidance on what to do and what not to do, is an eye opener that gave a realization on what is it that causes those financial challenges & how to overcome that.
Thanks a ton, Deepmala!! Great to have you in our community
Another Power packed and comprehensive Guide, Sidz! Right from MSIs to managing money the TWCGO way!
Mindset to practical ways to make, grow and manage Money! An article to read and re visit periodically!
Awesome Rohini ! Great Insight.Keep Inspiring!
Excellent sidz.
Loads of valuable content at one go.
Thanks for sharing
Awesome! More power to you.
Awesome inputs Sidz ,to become a Crorepathi .
Awesome! More power to you.
Thanks Sidz for This Awosome Structured Ultimate guide.
One can implement it and easily make 3 Laks per monrh.
All Basics things you have covered in this Ultimate Guide.
Thanks again.
Thanks a ton, Satish ! Really appreciate your feedback.
Always Amazing to get a well-structured approach to the most important aspects of digital Business!
The best part is knowing the 10 things NOT TO DO while starting on this amazing journey in the Golden Age!
Keep inspiring us Sidz, You are doing great service to the new World and helping people to come out of the traditional work and business ethics 🙂
I’m glad you found this learning journey valuable ! More to unfold.. 😉
Watta Guide! It’s Super Super valuable Guide.
My 3 Takeaways :
1. Making Money = Creating Value + Selling + Systems.
2. Need to be aware of our Relationship, Management & Comfort with Money.
3. Pay yourself 1st.
Thank you Sidz. You are Awesome !!
Awesome Samridha!Great Insights! More power to you, great to have you in our community.
Very lengthy yet super awesome
Okay
Thank you!