How To Make Your First Million Dollars In One Year Without Getting Lucky (No Matter Your Circumstances)

In 2012, I was a school teacher living paycheck to paycheck. Twelve years later in 2024, I sold my business for life changing money. But it wasn't because I worked harder, and it wasn't because I got lucky. It was because I finally learned the math. Most people never make a million dollars because they're breaking the fundamental laws of the marketplace. Today, I'm gonna give you three rules I use to scale Webinar Ninja to 30,000 customers and millions in revenue. Follow them and you will succeed. It's inevitable no matter what your circumstances are. Welcome back to the $100 MBA show. I'm your host, Omar Zenholm, where I deliver practical business lessons three times a week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday to help you start, grow, and scale your business. If this show has helped in any way, it would be amazing if you could drop us a quick review on on whatever app you're using to listen to this podcast right now. It helps me and my team bring new episodes every week and more importantly, more entrepreneurs will be able to discover our podcast so you can help someone else start their journey. Thanks so much. Rule number one, offer something valuable. I was living paycheck to paycheck in my teaching job not because I wasn't working hard. I was working my tail off. I was working from 7AM to 5PM every day. In the evenings, I was grading papers at home. I was spending my weekends taking students on field trips. I was getting paid peanuts for all that hard work because what I offered was just not that valuable to the marketplace. Now you might say to yourself, Omar, no. Wait. School teachers, they're valuable to society. Yes. In the minds of people, school teachers are respected, but my paycheck proved I was not valuable to the marketplace. And that is the bottom line. So as a business owner, your first and most important task is to sell something valuable to your customers. For example, with Webinar Ninja, I sold a webinar software to business owners who wanted to use the power of webinars to make more money. That's valuable. They gladly paid for a tool that cost maybe $99 a month or even $399 a month if it made them tens of thousands of dollars every month or even every time they ran a webinar. Think about it. Why do you pay for Netflix or Spotify or Amazon Prime? Because it's valuable to you. It saves you time. It saves you money. It gives you joy. It's valuable. So if you're having a hard time selling whatever you're selling, the hard and honest truth is it's just not that valuable to your customers. If you wanna make a million dollars in a year, that's a short period of time, it has to be easy to sell. Your ideal customers should be rushing, like running to buy your thing. With Webinar Ninja, my software, it …