Five High-End Careers Or Five High-Income Skills (No Degree Required)

Dan defines a high-income skill as a skill that you could develop in a short period of time that will make you a six-figure income a year without a degree. Dan reveals five high-end careers or high-income skills that you can develop, no degree required. These skills will make you $10,000 plus a month and allow you to live a life of financial confidence and independence.

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Five High-End Careers Or Five High-Income Skills (No Degree Required)

Many people are asking me, “Dan, what are some of the high-income skills that I could develop now that will free me from financial struggles and worries forever?” A high-income skill is a skill that you could develop in a short period of time. That will make you a minimum of $10,000 a month, a six-figure a year without a degree. That’s how I define high-income skill. I did not say a high-income job. I’m talking about a particular skill set that you can bring value to the marketplace in exchange for money. Let me share with you a little bit about my journey, how I have developed all my high-income skills and how I stacked each high-income skill one on another and built my empire.

The very first high-income skill that I have developed is copywriting. If you don’t know what copywriting is, copywriting is nothing more than salesmanship in print. It’s persuasion in print. It means crafting the ads, crafting the sales page, crafting the video sales letter. Back then I was writing for full-page ads, yellow pages, direct mail pieces like good old paper envelope stamps. That’s when I got started. I was writing marketing literature for companies and entrepreneurs and they were paying good money for that.

At first, they would pay me a couple of hundred dollars. Eventually it became $1,000, $2,000, $4,000. At the peak of my copywriting career, I was making about $10,000 a month in my twenties. That may or may not be a lot of money for some people but back then, I felt like a million bucks. I thought I was rich. I thought, “I could do this forever. It’s awesome.” As I was writing these sales letters for companies, for entrepreneurs, they asked me, “Dan, this is a great marketing piece. How do I send this out? Where do I send this out? What lists should I send this out too?” I was transitioning into doing some consulting for them. I went from copywriting and added another high-income skill to my tool belt, which is consulting. I was consulting with them first on an hourly basis, which was a horrible idea. Then it’s more per project. It’s a little bit better but later on, I learned. I got smarter and started charging a retainer. I charge them on a monthly basis. I was getting paid month by month on a retainer. I added another six-figure income to what I did. That’s my second high-income skill.

From there, I went into digital marketing. I went online and was selling things on eBay, growing my business. The third good high-income skill that you could develop especially if you’re a Millennial, if you’re young is digital marketing. It means that you are building funnels for people. You are helping people manage Facebook. You are helping people grow their Instagram, any of the social media platforms because companies and entrepreneurs, there is such a demand right now in the marketplace that they are not caught up with what’s happening with social media. They need help and you could charge a good amount of money helping them do these things, things you’re already using every single day, you might as well make money doing that. The great thing about this type of high-income skill is everything that I’m talking about so far, copywriting, consulting and digital marketing, you are helping entrepreneurs and companies make more money. It’s easier to charge a recurring revenue model. You can charge them $1,000, $2,000, $3,000 a month to do this. It means that you don’t need that many clients to make $10,000 a month. If you get very good, you might just need a few clients to make $10,000 a month from home in your spare time.

High-Income Skills: The great thing about high-income skills like copywriting, consulting, and digital marketing is you are helping entrepreneurs and companies make more money.

The fourth high-income skill that is very powerful, I didn’t know about this before but now as I’m doing this, I know the power of this. That is YouTube. The power of being a YouTuber is a great high-income skill. It takes a little while to get it going but once you get it going, they’re not just AdSense revenue. You could make a very good living if you know what you’re doing as a YouTuber. You can share your passion, you can share your hobby, you can go traveling and make videos and make good money doing that. I don’t even count on what I make from YouTube. It’s a tiny bit of money but for most people, it is a good way to make a living. It’s a very powerful high-income skill and also you get to impact people. You get to help people. You can also see how your videos, how your message, how your story is impacting people around the world. That’s a pretty special high-income skill.

Number five, what I believe is the most powerful high-income skill of all that also makes all these other high-income skills work better is closing. In my case, high ticket closing, the ability to close sales. If you have the closing skill when it comes to copywriting, you’ll be able to charge more money. You will be able to close better clients, better contracts. In consulting, you need a closing skill. In digital marketing, you need a closing skill. YouTube making videos, you need to be able to communicate and you need a closing skill. Closing skills are what makes all of these other skills work. What this whole thing boils down to is the ability to communicate. Communication equals wealth. You will not be able to create wealth without being a good communicator. You always want to work on your communication skills.

Those are the five best high-income skills that I believe because those are things that I have personally done without a degree. I don’t have a degree. If you know my story, I’m a college dropout but because I have mastered these high-income skills, what I do is when I grow my companies, I simply take these skill sets then I transitioned. I used the same skill sets to grow my companies to millions and millions of dollars in revenue. That’s what I do.