I’ve been selling online since 2002. Tried and succeeded at dozens of business models. Have had over 10,000 customers buy my courses and digital offers. I’ve also coached dozens if not hundreds of clients.

Anything you find here is something I’ve done and/or continue to do. It’s not theory or ideas. It’s based on real results.

Ok let’s talk about how to make $10,000 a month on the internet!

Make $10,000 Method #1 – Coaching

Online coaches such as business coaching, nutrition coaches, life coaches and more charge anywhere from $200 – $3000/month or more for their services.

This will depend on niche, experience, confidence and more.

I love async coaching because I can work with clients, make big impact and not have to book my calendar solid. This allows me to serve clients while also living lifestyle freedom.

Let’s say you love calls, though. It is possible to do 28 calls a week with your clients, especially if you do quick 30 min calls rather than an hour. The goal is to keep clients moving, not have big chats.

Whatever you decide on how you setup your coaching you can reach $10,000 per month as an online coach.

Make $10,000 Method #2 – Courses

Courses allow for great leverage of your time. They are infinitely scaleable because you create them once and sell them again and again. No matter how many sales you get there is no additional work (except maybe more customer support if there are issues with logins, etc).

Creating a course based on what you know is the best way to go here. I’ve seen people trying to create courses out of PLR content or trying to figure out the “best” course to sell.

Courses are not a commodity in my opinion, especially not now with AI being able to direct you on anything you want.

Courses are a compilation of experience, insights and skills that YOU posses. You turn that into something packaged up to help people in a way only YOU can help them.

If you’re already a coach or a service provider you already have workflows and frameworks you can package up into a course. Or if you’ve mastered a skill in your career, home or personal life you can package that into a course.

Course pricing ranges typically from $95 – $3000 or more. I price my courses around $300 and will often do sales in the $95 – $145 range. So let’s say $125 average course sale. I would need 80 course sales a month. Not impossible but does take effort!

Of course you could price your course at $2500 and then only need to sell 4 of them to hit that monthly income goal. It all depends on your strategy here.

Make $10,000 Method #3 – Membership

A membership allows for a monthly recurring income which is really an ideal situation. You won’t have to start your sales from $0 at the beginning over every month. Instead you may be at $100, $1000 or ever $10,000 before you sell another thing!

Years ago I was burning out on course sales and decided I absolutely had to do something about it. I started a membership and ever since then I have constantly recommended to my students that they SEEK out recurring income whenever and where ever possible.

A membership can be big and complicated or it can be focused and simple. I prefer the latter. I’ve run memberships that provide one class per month, a community forum, access to all past training and one or two “do the work” days per month.

You could start even more simply with one class a month. No community, no bonuses. It can be high value just in that one class!

Memberships are priced anywhere from $10/mo – $300/mo and more. Let’s say you go lower priced at $35/mo. You would need 285 members to earn $10,000 per month from your membership. That’s doable! It will take time and effort but you can do it!

Make $10,000 Method #4 – Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is getting mixed in with MLM and Network Marketing and that’s not how I know it. Affiliate marketing as I know it is where you are not tied to any one company or team. You are a free agent signing up for free affiliate programs, on your own. You don’t have a “sponsor” or anything like that.

You get your affiliate link, promote it and you make money.

As an affiliate of a company’s program you will earn a commission set by the company. This can be anywhere from under 10% (like Amazon) to up to 50% or sometimes more in some cases. Recurring commissions are the best because you’ll sell once and keep earning commissions over and over!

Now there’s no standard here on what you can earn in commissions. It could be anywhere from a few dollars to thousands of dollars per sale. I would say a “typical” commision, though, might be $50 or so. So we can work with that.

At an average of $50 per sale you would need 200 affiliate sales per month to earn $10,000 per month on the internet with affiliate marketing.

Possible, but you will need a big audience ready and willing to buy to hit that number every month.

Make $10,000 Method #5 – Services

It’s worth mentioning services here.

And I’ll bring a warning with it. In 2007 I quit my job to be a Virtual Assistant and I quickly let low priced services take over my life! I was working over 60 hours a week for $15 – $25/hr. But I wasn’t even paid for all 60 hours, either, because much of it was marketing, emails or calls I didn’t bill for, etc. So don’t be like me! That year I earned about $24k which was probably less than a single mom like me would make on social assistance.

That said if you can create boundaries and value your worth then you can earn a GREAT living with services online! There are so many potential services – Virtual Assistant, Web Designer, Copywriter, Blog Assistant and more.

Rates range from $25 (low end) to $65/hr. I have a friend who started out at $65 as she valued her skills and she started earning six figures very quickly. So at $65/hr you’d need to work 153 hours per month or 38 hours per week. Very doable!

Make $10,000 Method #6 – Multiple Income Sources

My personal favorite is to combine 2-3 income sources at least.

Currently:
I’m an affiliate marketer for many companies I love, most are here.
I am a service provider in my role as Community and Brand Manager at ThriveCart.

I do not recommend you try to create multiple income streams all at once, or at the start. Begin with the best option for YOU:

• If you love to buy products that have affiliate programs, you might start there.
• If you know you’d be an awesome coach and have value to give, you could start there.
• If you have a course idea you think will help people greatly, probably start there.

You get the idea. There is no one size fits all here. This is about exchanging value for value in way that serves everyone. Start with what you have to offer and match that with something that people need and you’ll be on your way!

How to SELL The Offers That Make Up $10,000/month

This part is so important.

Yes you need offers and many people start and never leave that step because they get STUCK on sales.

Marketing is getting the word out. Sales is getting the payment.

My favorite sales method is email marketing. And I know most people think email marketing IS marketing. It can be a sales method if you use it that way. One that people HAPPILY respond to and buy your offers from. But you have to set it up for sales.

If that’s appealing to you then step one is to start building your email list – see more here: email marketing

If you need email software see my favorite email software here: Kit

Wishing you all the best!

This is me recording some training in my daughter’s room while the house was busy everywhere else:

You do what you can to make this lifestyle freedom thing work, eh!

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It’s not just about asking questions and getting answers – which is not my favorite method. And if it’s giving you business plans and coaching you – beware! It’s just telling you random stuff not high quality help.

This is long because AI is so helpful!

Examples of how AI is helping me make more money or save more time:

Post ideas and themes. I ask for an idea, it gives me one specific to my business and goals, I write it. I don’t have to waste time thinking of ideas, they all work. 

LOTS of money work. Sorting or how to track money. Spotting patterns.

Short term money ideas. Some have worked, some have flopped but when I’m stressed for money sometimes I’m just totally out of ideas. 

Creating salespages.

Course Coach GPT was written entirely by ChatGPT and it made me over $6k.

Not to mention without AI I wouldn’t have created the product at all. And it’s useful and not a waste of time for those who would actually use it with the courses they take. 

Claude analyzed data from over 1500 emails and told me what emails get more opens, what subjectlines get more attention, etc.

Gave a full report with charts I can use to improve email opens and clicks. Here’s part of the report:

Created HTML sales pages in WordPress

Like this one and also in ThriveCart that look WAY better than the pages I create. Turned the process I used to create them into a presentation that looks amazing, is very thorough and will be used for lead gen and “visibility” in a summit. Then created very useful worksheets and a detailed prompt for anyone who wants to create pages. Full product still took a day to create, but way faster than if I did it all on my own.

Created an AI Agent that sorts my emails.

It gets important emails into draft with replies written (badly I’ll admit but I sometimes use a bit of it). It gives me a list of priorities. It tells me anything I should unsub from and items to put on my calendar. Emails I should reply to and opportunities I might be missing if I don’t respond soon. This runs daily at 7am.

Created a beautiful opt-in page for my masterclass that’s converting very well.

Is it better than my last – maybe not, but it looks better. 

And I’ve spent a lot of time on strategy in ChatGPT. It allows me to think through things because my head rolls around all these thoughts and ideas and to bounce them around helps. I know it’s not a magic 8 ball with the answers and I don’t use it like that. My main goal is always using AI to make money and save time. Time is my number one goal, though, because you can’t make more of that!

I hope that helps give you ideas on how to use AI to make more money and save more time!

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I want to walk you through exactly how I did it this time, what I changed, and why it worked. This isn’t about some massive viral launch. It’s about building a system that lets you step away and still earn.

How I Used to Do Disney Sales

In previous years, I ran my sale while I was away at Disney.

I would:

• Schedule my emails in advance
• Put my core course suite on sale
• Let everything run while I was gone

That worked well, but this year I decided to do things differently.

What I Changed This Year

I made three big changes to my usual approach.

1. I Ran the Sale Before I Left

Instead of running the sale while I was already on vacation, I ran it before I left.

I wanted to:

• Be available to answer questions
• Support affiliates properly
• Be present during the most active part of the promotion

This alone made the entire experience feel calmer.

2. Everything I Sell Was Included

In the past, I usually only discounted my main courses.

This time, I included:

• My full course suite
• Mini courses
• Digital downloads
• Literally everything I sell

If someone wanted something, it was on sale.

3. I Increased the Discount to 75% Off

Normally, I do 50% off sales.

This year, I went to 75% off.

Why? Selling courses has been harder lately and the market feels different. So I wanted the sale to actually move volume and I figured a huge discount would help that goal.

The deeper discount made it easier for people who had been “thinking about it” to finally buy.

The Results

Here’s what the sale brought in:

• About $5,700 USD in sales
• About $1,400 USD paid out to affiliates

Since I’m Canadian, that worked out to over $5,000 CAD for me.

That income covered bills before, during and after the trip. It covered vacation spending money by topping up what I had already been saving up for the trip.

Most importantly, I didn’t spend my vacation worrying about money. It has been amazing every year to have the peace of mind to not even crack open my laptop for the most part.

My List Size (Because This Matters)

I want to be very clear about this part. My email list is about 2,500 people and I don’t grow it consistently. New subscribers trickle in over time and this really isn’t a massive list.

What does matter is how long I’ve been building the relationship.

The Real Reason This Works: Email Relationships

I’ve been building this specific business for about three and a half years.

I’ve sold online marketing courses for 15+ years, but this version of my business was a rebuild.

I’m an email marketer. That’s the core of everything I do.

Here’s what that looks like in practice:

• People get value from me regularly
• They also get offers regularly
• I never hide the fact that I sell things

I’m in business. That’s never a secret.

People tell me regularly that:

• They love opening my emails
• They enjoy reading them
• They trust my recommendations

That trust is built by showing up consistently. I send emails daily, and that’s something I strongly believe in.

Why Sales Like This Convert So Well

When a big sale happens, a lot of people already know what they want.

Many people on my list have already been thinking about making a purchase. Maybe they’re saving up or waiting for the right time. A sale like this allows them to get off the fence and take action.

This year, I also scheduled emails a full week before my trip, so I was able to take that time to get ready for my trip. Also, if you’ve ever been to Walt Disney World you’ll know it’s a lot of walking and often on hot days. So I wanted to not jump right from work to vacation without a little down time first!

I scheduled everything: emails before the vacation, during the vacation and for a few days after. I got to work batch writing and scheduling those emails.

What Happened During the Sale

Because this was a full offer-suite sale, the emails were very sales-focused.

I sent two emails per day for most days of the sale. Each email highlighted various product in the sale so that I could get to all the products (about 37 of them) with all the emails.

This worked because:

• The products already exist
• People already know about them
• I promote them regularly throughout the year

When everything goes on sale, there’s no need to explain each product from scratch.

A Small Glitch (And What I Did)

On the final day of the sale, the coupon didn’t work properly.

I felt like people missed out, so I extended the sale until I got back from Disney.

Everything was still scheduled. The extension just gave people more time.

How People Responded

My subscribers knew the emails were scheduled so I could enjoy Disney.

I got replies like:

• “Enjoy your trip!”
• “Have an amazing time!”

One member even bought a course she already technically had access to, just to support the trip.

When I asked her about it, she said:

• She wanted full access outside the membership
• She also wanted to support me

That only happens when real relationships exist.

If You Want to Do Something Like This

Here’s what you need to have in place:

• An offer suite you build over time
• An email list where trust already exists
• Regular promotion throughout the year

When you run a fast-moving sale like this, you’re not trying to convince strangers. You’re offering something valuable to people who already want it.

If you’re only putting one or two products on sale, you’ll spend more time explaining.

With an offer suite sale, the excitement does the work.

A Final Note on Selling Through Email

When you write sales emails:

• Be natural
• Be clear
• Include links
• Explain who it’s for, what it is, and how it helps

You don’t have to sound salesy. You’re just showing people how the product fits into their life.

If this gave you ideas for earning while you’re on vacation, taking Christmas off, or stepping away for a break, this is exactly what email marketing, scheduling, and automation can make possible.

Talk later
Angela

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