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Learn how to make extra money without working extra hours! Seth, aka the Survey Plug, shares his tips on earning over $300,000 with paid surveys. Discover how a simple tweet turned into a successful business and get practical advice on diversifying income. Hear about starting a business from scratch, pricing products, and balancing side hustles. Plus, get an exclusive discount code in the show notes! Whether you're working a job or dreaming of entrepreneurship, this episode is for you! Tune in and start making money today!
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Honestly speaking, what also helped was me doing surveys while I ran the business One, and I'm gonna say this on camera too you should never, ever, ever learn something from somebody who's still not doing it. What do you mean Like? So I wouldn't recommend learning surveys from me if I'm not doing surveys anymore.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so you end these things all the time too, and I don't agree. You don't think so? No, why not? His biggest thing is you know, we still run the cleaning business by the bottom likes. But if I didn't, I had six, seven years in the business. I know the business still. What business has changed Businesses?
Speaker 1:do change, I agree, but that doesn't mean I don't have the knowledge, that's true.
Speaker 2:But you got, we have that discussion all the time, All right. So let me ask you this All right, no, that's a good point.
Speaker 1:Let me ask you this you got 10 years in experience, 10 years experience in the field, but your last year of experience is 10 years ago. Would you hire me? Probably not, I'm just saying, oh, that was it.
Speaker 2:He said that.
Speaker 4:This is fun. Leave us in. We don't edit nothing out guys.
Speaker 1:This is how we do our podcasts. That's good, here we go.
Speaker 4:Officially. What's going on, guys? Welcome to another episode of the More Than A Side of Soul podcast, where we help nine to five us create more impact, income and influence outside their jobs, and hopefully today's no different. My name is Anthony.
Speaker 2:I'm Jnoka, and thank you for returning. Every week, Every Tuesday, we drop a podcast. Make sure you're subscribing. Sharing, letting people know what we're doing and talking about.
Speaker 4:Yeah. So today we have a very special guest, one of our good friends. We did this. Actually, this goes back well over a decade, back to University of Albany, and I'm sure Seth, aka the Survey Plus, is going to drop tons of gems today. But before we get started, I want people to realize why they're watching this episode. So I'm going to ask you this question how much money have your students made doing paid surveys today?
Speaker 1:Well, over 300,000 in a year, well over 300,000.
Speaker 4:So, obviously, when we talk about doing paid surveys and by the end of this episode I want you guys to come back and watch and be like you know what, seth Anthony Jnoka? I made this much money doing paid surveys. So, seth, thank you for being here.
Speaker 1:Thank you, no, thank you for having me. I've been thinking about this all week, so I'm excited about this. I'm excited about this.
Speaker 4:We're excited to have you, man. So tell us a little bit about your story, man. What made you, what is the survey plug and how did you become that?
Speaker 1:Okay, well, first off, again, thank you guys for having me here. Really appreciate that. And second, which ties into my story and how I got here, knowing you guys, one I don't think anybody has come on this podcast and give you guys you flowers. So I want to give you guys you flowers for being the example. Not any milestones, not any sales, not any views, maybe being people of color. That are examples that came from situations that most people come from.
Speaker 1:And pretty much, as they say, got it out the mud. I think that's the biggest thing you guys have done, because you guys are not like trust fund babies or nothing, like you, straight, you know, was in debt, I think, a hundred and twenty a hundred, and fourteen, Fourteen no no no, that's, that's huge.
Speaker 3:A hundred and fourteen.
Speaker 1:Some people can't keep the light bill on. A hundred and fourteen, twenty three months made it happen. Turn into platforms like this and everything else Like just being an example. I want to thank y'all for that, so really appreciate you Appreciate you, man. So how? They say I so bone.
Speaker 2:I say here in New York.
Speaker 4:New.
Speaker 1:York. So you know the vibes on this one. So let's spin it back. You guys had to delete the debt challenge. What year was that?
Speaker 4:I don't remember, I don't even know what that even was. See, so that was the whole story how we got here.
Speaker 1:I went to the whole story.
Speaker 2:That was the second one you did. I want to say we did a challenge back in twenty nineteen, twenty eighteen. It was before covid, though. Yeah, yeah, so we did a challenge called delete the debt challenge.
Speaker 4:Where we were, we was on our last leg. We always just finished up our debt and we want to help people kind of continue that journey. It wasn't more about us, it was more about other people coming along for that journey. So we did that challenge. It was about a ten week challenge and Seth was one of the guests of that challenge and let's go. So I was going to delete the debt challenge.
Speaker 1:I did win the challenge. I'll be honest I didn't win the challenge.
Speaker 4:How much debt did you pay off during that challenge?
Speaker 1:I think I paid off about maybe like six K or seven.
Speaker 4:K Six K in ten weeks Credit cards.
Speaker 3:Yeah yeah, so that was good.
Speaker 1:But that kind of showed me, like you know, like it was a competitive thing to delete debt, like pay off credit cards and delete balances. So there was a couple of doctors in there I couldn't compete with.
Speaker 4:But you know what I'm saying? That was the whole headache challenge. You remember that? Yeah, see, you know what?
Speaker 1:I'm saying you remember that, so you know. That kind of got me into like yo paying bills, creating side hustles and creating additional income to delete the debt. So surveys while I'm here, paid surveys was one of my ways to delete debt. So it started with I was getting gift cards for like $100. So I was like every month I'm getting a gift card to $100. So every month I'm going to set aside one gift card to pay my phone bill. Then I started keeping track and I was like damn.
Speaker 4:When you say gift cards, what does that mean?
Speaker 1:So, like a payment from a paid survey, I'll give you a paid interview.
Speaker 4:I thought you meant like family was giving you a gift card. Oh no, no, no, no. So if I got, a visa, gift card.
Speaker 1:So if I got a visa gift card from an interview. I would just save it and say you know what? I'm going to pay my phone bill. Then it got to like three months, six months. I didn't pay my phone bill in six months so I'm like, oh, a phone bill was like $100. But that's just me removing one bill from my life off of a simple task. So I kept doing surveys, kept doing surveys. I actually started doing surveys when I was pre-college, like just little small ones in the mail.
Speaker 2:Does someone teach you about surveys? How did you learn about that?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so my mom my mom put me on.
Speaker 2:My mom put me on.
Speaker 1:When I was a kid, my mom used to do surveys. Oh wow.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So, my kids parents they got surveys for you, but I get to that later.
Speaker 4:So we're going to get to all of that, yeah.
Speaker 1:We're going to get. So my mom put me on. So how I got into surveys or how I discovered surveys, my mom had taken me to a survey. It was like $150, like mom and son watching movie. I don't remember exactly what it was, I just remember getting $50 and she got $100. And I was just like what is this? She was like, yeah, you know the focus groups some people use that word, focus groups, paid studies. So that's how I got into it. And she would like invite me or send me extra invitations. And then over time I just built like what I call like my database and my Bible, like websites that work, what they're paying answers that I do. So I just built it over time. Just built it over time.
Speaker 1:I was like I'm college, after college. After college, I'm like doing them, doing them, whatever, like just to keep extra money. Because it's like you know, at a point in my life I was doing part-time jobs or like side hustles and I was like working like eight hours to get paid I don't know what 250. And I'm like surveys are asking me to soon or zoom for two hours for 250. So I might as well just work harder to find more surveys. I was going to ask you that?
Speaker 2:So? Were you going in person to surveys or all?
Speaker 1:Both I was doing it online, I was doing it in person and in the mail. So they was like yo we're going to mail you this candy bar. Try it. Give us your opinion online done. It would be like a Snickers and a package and not like some regular brand next package. Or it would be like watch this commercial or go to leave Whatever, whatever the case may be. So I was just doing them to make money, keeping it full circle Right 2022. I'm on Twitter.
Speaker 4:So we were at, we was just at 2018, 19 hours.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. And then we were like we're going to have a dough hood Like it just was like a.
Speaker 2:Really we were still doing like surveys, for sounds like a whole lot.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:My mom's a survey.
Speaker 1:baby I'm definitely a survey, baby.
Speaker 3:It was an error there.
Speaker 1:Like I went to a server with my mom and then I started bumping into people and survey so it was like yo, it was really a thing. So fast forward, fast forward to like 2022. I had started doing so many surveys that they tax me.
Speaker 4:I had never been taxed before they don't tell you about taxes and start making a little money.
Speaker 2:Never been taxed before from service I'm like so you have to submit this may be a whole different ball game, but you have to submit the amount that you make from taxes and they eventually said that's what I found out when you make over a certain amount when you make over a certain amount you got to get taxed. So I'm like, of course they're coming.
Speaker 1:So I'm like they taxed me on 250.
Speaker 2:They keep my money 250 adds up over the course of some soon, like let me get my money.
Speaker 1:So I'm like damn if I'm getting taxed. I got to start keeping track of this. So at the end of the year I'm not down crazy. So I tweet this and I have the tweet here. I'm make sure it's uploaded. An episode. I tweet this.
Speaker 2:I ain't gonna make sure it's up so that I have to say that I'm gonna talk to the editors and the powers that be.
Speaker 1:So, I tweet this. I'm like, damn, I made 2,500 and paid surveys in like and this was over at this time. This was over the course of three months. So one survey I had 500, 700, 600, 250, like kept adding them up 2,500. So I'm like, oh no, I got to keep track because they're coming for me. So when I tweet that you know your husband don't miss it.
Speaker 2:Listen, my friends have a running joke that if you want to keep the pressure applied, don't tell either of us.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Like I'm the type of put it on my calendar. Oh, you said you want to graduate when. Okay, so November 15th you want your doctor's degree. Let's get it, and I'm setting an alert.
Speaker 1:That's how I ended up here. I told him that, and then it became a thing. I'm like I'm not telling him nothing else.
Speaker 3:Exactly he watching my tweets.
Speaker 4:I see him in the views.
Speaker 1:I'm uncomfortable. Wait, what did the tweet say? So I tweeted that I'm like damn, I made 2,500 or 2,250. I had the screenshot, Whatever the number was. I said I made this in three months. I got to start keeping track. You reply to the tweet and you go. I thought I told you to do this two years ago.
Speaker 4:Oh right, so that means that you were probably talking about this during the challenge yes, because I was giving people games during the challenge.
Speaker 2:This is a way to add more ego.
Speaker 1:You were like yo, you should teach people this. I'm like oh, of course the teacher's going to tell you.
Speaker 2:You're like OK, sorry.
Speaker 1:You can do it now I can be a teacher.
Speaker 2:OK, now I'm done.
Speaker 1:So that's how I took it. I'm like of course you're going to say that, of course, so you said that thing and then you replied to the tweet. Then I text you. I'm like all right, you got a course, you created courses, you know course creators Like what do I do? Where? Do I start, he goes go on your social media and post like you post all the other dumb shit, right.
Speaker 4:All the other dumb shit. Right, right, right you first.
Speaker 1:He goes tell people what you're doing. So I'm like all right, I'm doing this on my story. There's no Instagram page, no website. I'm doing this on my story, just straight a black screen with white words on my story Like the most spam bot looking thing ever.
Speaker 1:The only saving grace is that people knew me, so they're like yo. Like Seth is not going to post nothing crazy, so I'm posting this on my story, like yo, I'm going to do a free zoom on Thursday. I remember it on Thursday. Come here's the link. I'm emailing people. Mind you, I'm not a business owner. I don't have a website. This is the free zoom. I'm sending people the free link Like yo. I hope they ask enough questions in 30 minutes because it's going to cut off.
Speaker 2:I was thinking that you got 40 minutes or time would pop up, right, so I'm opening it asking them.
Speaker 1:So I'm like people are watching it, replying like, huh, what's this paid service? I'm like, all right, people are not going to. I'm like I'm just posting this on my story, like people are not going to take this seriously because I don't even know what I'm doing. You could probably tell by these screenshots right.
Speaker 1:So I set up the zoom call, right. This is all my stories. I'm like, oh, now people might show up People asking me for the emails, or all that Thursday night Never forget it it was 40 people on zoom, just from a story.
Speaker 4:Just from story posts.
Speaker 1:So I get all like Think about being in a room for 40 people? No, no idea. Free Zoom. I ain't record that I'm not in a free.
Speaker 2:Zoom.
Speaker 4:I'm not in a free Zoom.
Speaker 2:You got it, so you. I was just saying if you could reflect back. I want to post for the people here.
Speaker 4:So I want to. I want to make sure we make it actionable for everyone. So you didn't have anything. You was just like yo, I'm just going to talk about what I've done, and we're going to figure this out as we go along. You don't have a link, you don't have a website, you don't have the paid Zoom. You was just like we're going to get here and you got 40 people sitting in a room with you. Yes, so I was like how I got to?
Speaker 1:the Zoom. I have the text too. I got to find them. I'm like I don't know how to teach people. Like how do I teach? I don't. I'm not a teacher. I ain't never taught them by nothing. He's like yo listen, just post, tell people what you're doing, you said. You said get an EIN, get an LLC, get a business bank account and get a form of payment to collect money from people. I'm like all right, I could Google that. That's. That's like I could Google that LLC. Everybody got an LLC.
Speaker 2:That's like I got a friend that can do it for me.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, yeah. He's like yo, 30 days, do it in 30 days, I'm going to come back. I got the text too. He's like do it 30 days, I'm going to come back. So I'm how to buy LLC All. As I came back I'm thinking I'm up like, yeah, I got LLC, now I'm mad proud of myself.
Speaker 2:What? Does it mean, you got a business here, right, right, right. You got to start somewhere.
Speaker 4:So we just want to be able to follow our practice. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So he's like all right, tell people what you know and do to Zoom Again on Zoom. It's 40 people. I'm like, oh shit, they're interested in this.
Speaker 2:They want to hear it, so I got to show some Did you prep ahead Like did you have something written?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I have this saved too. I did a PowerPoint presentation. I just put stuff in a PowerPoint, like I put my receipts of the money I made. I showed like little tips on how to apply and what I do Like, and if you're interested let me know. So I'm doing pretty much a 30 minute PowerPoint presentation off the verge, like I'm mad nervous, I'm on the free Zoom, I'm like.
Speaker 3:I hope I get the last side before this cut off, like it's going to be crazy, Right?
Speaker 1:Yeah. So I'm on the free Zoom talking to people, people listening, People still joining. I never forget it. My homegirl, Sim, right? So maybe like the 40 minute mark, no 43 minute mark. She writes in the chat and the messages she's like Seth, it's about the cut off. You got two minutes.
Speaker 2:That's a joke, in case you didn't see the thing pop up.
Speaker 1:Right, so it was about the cut off. You got two minutes. I'm like I'm getting through it. So this is you know you're interested, and it cuts off middle presentation. Oh yeah, I'm like damn, I just blew the bag. I'm like damn, I'm like nah, like I think people are going to trust me.
Speaker 4:So wait, what was your goal by the end of that Zoom?
Speaker 3:If everything were to wait show away.
Speaker 4:What you would have thought was what was supposed to happen at the end of the Zoom.
Speaker 1:Just to get my information out there and have people interested. Okay, Like I had like a payment link, but I'm on a PowerPoint presentation of my my stories, Like nobody's like going to do this, so I'm like I'm like damn, I blew it back. I'm like you know what, Just for people showing up and willing to listen, I'm going to send an apology email and I'm going to send a payment link just in case anybody heard enough and they won't buy.
Speaker 1:So, what was that link? Oh, oh, mind you, it was a, it was a stripe link. I just had a stripe link, that's okay.
Speaker 2:I'm like LLC stripe link is fine, that's it. You know what I'm saying? Listen, that should show sometimes this which you need to get started because we think we need so much bigger, and this is why I tell the story, because anybody who's out there who wants to start a business, it's really.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to say it's not that hard, yeah, but it depends on what you're doing.
Speaker 2:But, as you say, half.
Speaker 1:The battle is just getting started. That part is not hard.
Speaker 2:It's like half the battle is like getting out of bed. Once I get out, I'm going to get rolling Exactly.
Speaker 1:Exactly so. I had a stripe link, no website, just straight straight link involved. I'm learning stripe as I go.
Speaker 3:I'm like then somebody sent a payment.
Speaker 1:I need to know how to put this in my account.
Speaker 3:What do I do Like I never had a business?
Speaker 1:None of this, I'm like, send out a straight link, send out apology email. Yo, sorry, just thank y'all for coming out. Yo, even if you, if you heard enough and you're interested, like and you want to do this, let me know 1500. Like that People bought.
Speaker 2:What were you selling the course at at the time? 500.
Speaker 4:Was it a course or?
Speaker 2:was it Like what? Was it Like what?
Speaker 1:the stripe link to the stripe link was to me and hit me up. Come on, keep your service.
Speaker 2:You didn't have nothing. I didn't have nothing. That's what I'm trying to tell you. I didn't have nothing.
Speaker 4:Okay, I was trying to figure out like I got to break it down.
Speaker 2:Because it's yeah, because I mean that is very, very similar to our story.
Speaker 3:We got to make sure we are very, very similar to our story and that he went Email.
Speaker 2:I had that too. Yeah, okay, so you had an email too. He was adamant in regards to the cleaning business that people wanted to know more about it. I didn't believe that people want to know more about it. I'm like they probably just want to know about the debt story.
Speaker 3:No one wants to know about the previous.
Speaker 2:He's like okay, what we're going to do is, at that time it was gum road. We were using it, which is another a platform. We're going to use this link Nothing, no, no course behind it, and we're going to go on, live and tell our story about it and drop the link and just say if you want to know more, purchase here and if 10 people buy, we got to make the course. That was the conversation that we had and we just promoted it like, oh, it's going to be this amount and then we'll raise the price. After we was just talking and we just got started.
Speaker 2:So we dropped the link and over 10 people bought, so we had to make the course. So, just like you, we did not have a course, like when we were like testing it if you will. And just like you, we didn't have a course, we just had people buying and we're like we'll get it out by this date and we got it out by that day. So you didn't even have a day, just like. If you want to know more. And how did you decide to charge $500?
Speaker 1:Because I felt like that was a fair threshold, that one that you know people send you $50,. People would just waste your time, some people one. When I, in my personal opinion, you spend more on things, people take it.
Speaker 2:You pay attention.
Speaker 1:And also I knew how much people I was going to make. I knew studies was 250, 150, 300. I had people making money back in one survey.
Speaker 2:And it's a lifetime thing. Yeah, yeah, once I teach you, you can go run that for life. Exactly, the knowledge is forever. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:Oh, also backtracking more. At the time I wasn't working Because how I really was. At the time, I was really up in the surveys and when you told me to start it I wasn't working. So I was like doing whatever I had to do to make like extra money. So it kind of brings it full circle, because I had gotten to a car accident and then I wasn't working for six months, but because I had so much downtime and I needed extra money, like I was applying hard to surveys, and then we had that conversation.
Speaker 4:You take the surveys more seriously.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I know I'm dipping back and forth. But, fast forward to when the three students bought. I'm like yo, I just made $1,500. I didn't have no website. I don't even got the official zoom. I'm rolling with a Stripe Accounting Vibes and people are checking for it. Yeah, I'm like nah, I got to keep doing this Because you have the people.
Speaker 4:People aren't paying you because of your website, because you got a fancy logo. They're paying you because they want that information. You've been doing this for you said you was doing it with your mom as a kid.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, you wasn't taking it seriously, you were just like oh, my mom taught me this skill. It took somebody else it didn't have to be me, but it took somebody else saying yo, there is a skill set here that you have that people need in their life. It's not about going out there and making a call. It was like yo, I have a skill set and it can help people, I can impact people with this. And that's when I believe you started taking it more seriously, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So it was that conversation that catapulted the whole movement. But then that Thursday night and I woke up and it was $1,500 in my Stripe Account. I'm like yo, just off me telling people that I could make the money. I'm like, nah, I'm gonna try this. So November, december, I still had no website because, again, I'm not working and I don't even have business funding. So whatever people like, purchase is what I'm going to use to start. So I'm like yo, I need one more sale because I got to buy this zoom. You in this damn zoom I got to buy nah.
Speaker 3:I got to buy this zoom.
Speaker 1:No, I had to buy the zoom because you got to think about it. I'm building the business and people asking questions. I'm like yo, you can only buy this if you could talk to me in 40 minutes. Come on, I ain't got nothing else for you. Yeah, literally. So I ain't got nothing else for you. So I'm like, yeah, so I'm literally growing the business and building my funding, my business funding with the sales.
Speaker 3:That are coming in.
Speaker 1:Yes. So it's just like yo like I need people to make money off these surveys because I don't want people to start saying, oh, I'm not making money. I gave them $500. I need these sales to come in because I'm going to start building this stuff November. December. I had 50 students, no website, no website off the story. I was like all right, I'm gonna get an Instagram page, 50 sales later.
Speaker 3:I'm like all right, I'm gonna get an Instagram page right. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1:So then I get the Instagram page. I'm like, all right, I gotta get a website. I gotta do this officially like I gotta buckle down because those first two months words started spreading. I'm in parties, I'm getting random DMs like yo, I heard you got surveys, et cetera, et cetera. So who.
Speaker 4:I talked to those first students that you had when you first launched. Let's talk about that part of your journey. So how long were you working with them? Like? What was their results? Why you were building with them? Cause you're building a business while you're helping them make money on these surveys and then we'll get to like-. I created a group chat.
Speaker 1:So that's how I started my community. I created a group chat, I created an email thread and I had weekly calls. So what I was doing was I was going through all my websites and going through all my notes and having one-on-one coaching sessions with people. So like I'm, going, to sit you down one-on-one 40 minutes cause. You know the vibes.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying 40 minutes and I'm going to teach you everything and then, if you need additional help, you can come in my community weekly group chat. All that Hit me on the side email me. People were reaching out to me all kinds of ways, like it was just like nah, stop overflowing. I'm on Google like following y'all, like, oh, va, what's a VA? Let me. Google that I might need that you know what I'm saying Like just following y'all people you repost, and like I'm just literally learning.
Speaker 1:You're just getting information as you're going, but as a business owner too, like I had never, like I've been involved in businesses, I've helped business run, but like it's different when you got to start from completely zero. Like all right, go learn MailChimp, you know what I'm saying. Like go learn this, go learn that, go learn business taxes. So I'm doing everything on the run. And then I had to stop because the traffic got too crazy and then I launched my website. Then, when I launched my website March 24th, I had like maybe like 15 grand in sales in a month, just having a website, just somewhere people could go, not saying that to like brag about money or anything but it was just like, kinda like, but now people think of you in a different light.
Speaker 2:For some reason, a website or something makes people feel like you're a bit more serious. And now I could see everything in one place, right, I don't just gotta hear it from you. I can see your receipts, I can see what you offer. Everything is here. You don't gotta be repeating yourself and stuff like notoriety. All that stuff comes from just a website sometimes.
Speaker 1:But then again cause it got it started spreading and it got so crazy Like I needed a website for my sanity. People were texting me at 12 o'clock like oh yeah, no too much boundaries. No people would text me at eight o'clock because I had no website and it was just Stripe Zeal Venmo whatever People were texting me like yo, I get paid Friday, Don't forget about me, you don't forget. So people were like yo, so now I'm like yo, I got a website.
Speaker 3:You can just go there so like.
Speaker 1:I literally fell into it as like a side hustle who delete the debt and then just following, like you guys who just created a course based on something that you knew how to do, and I'm like I don't know how to like teach people, but I'm like, as long as I can replicate my knowledge to other people and get them the same results, then, and I think the biggest thing by Anthony always says is people just want to get to where you are right.
Speaker 2:So sometimes, before we start a business, we think we need to know every single piece of the business and it's like not necessarily, if you can get me to this point, then I may find someone else to get me to another point, so on and so forth. Or maybe you, when you escalate, I can follow you there too. So people just want to get to where you are sometimes.
Speaker 1:And it's funny you say that because even in business, like people and I was one of those people, so I know like people don't start businesses because they feel like they don't know what the gag is when you start. You don't know, you don't know.
Speaker 2:You don't know.
Speaker 1:So you want us to start.
Speaker 2:Like you have the knowledge, but you don't have the business side. And that's what's happening. You're still going to be learning, you're still going to be learning. You are still going to be learning.
Speaker 1:You start a business and then hire a business coach. You're still learning. You're still learning. You're still learning. You're still learning. So I just thought that was funny that I went through that experience where I was like I don't know how to be a teacher, like I don't know how to run no business. Obviously, I'm still learning now, but it's just like.
Speaker 2:So what changes have you made now that you feel makes it a bit more easier, more manageable, I should say, besides the website?
Speaker 1:A business coach that's. I think that's vital for any business owner, and it doesn't necessarily have to be someone that did what you done. It could just be someone who started a business and knows how to operate a business. Like I think that concept is just simple, Like that you don't have to like I didn't have to find a paid survey.
Speaker 1:Coach you know what I'm saying Like I just knew Anthony knew how to run a business, like he ran his own business, that he taught people to teach. You know what I'm saying? So like I knew on multiple levels, like he just knew how to run a business, like I don't think you got to Don't give him more ideas.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no, no, no, I'm not having anything. I give stuff, enough for free.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So, but he takes action, yeah, yeah yeah, so I just think you don't have to like reinvent the wheel Like again. Like I was saying earlier, just starting, I think people were scared to start. It's just like Anything else.
Speaker 2:Do you? What about like friends and family? Has anything changed there? Have you surrounded yourself with different people, or what are they saying when you started?
Speaker 1:I think the biggest thing where people didn't realize how much money you can make from paid surveys Like I think a big part of the little bit of success I've had so far is that I'm opening people's eyes, like listen, like you don't have to like work 800 jobs and start three businesses to make extra money. I have students who've made $1,000 in a month from paid surveys and what's key and I think you guys going to test it this is like time and money becomes one and the same as you get older. So the key with paid surveys is it doesn't take a lot of time. So it's like if I work a part-time job making 20 an hour and I give them 10 hours, that's $200. After Uncle Sam get his cut, I'm probably taking home what 140 or 150?
Speaker 2:I don't know when you are three little friends, let's just say 150 for conversational purposes.
Speaker 1:I just gave somebody 10 hours of my time for $150. And paid surveys are paying 200 for 90 minutes, and that allows me to get my other time to do other stuff. Honestly speaking, what also helped was me doing surveys while I ran the business One, and I'm gonna say this on camera too you should never, ever ever learn something from somebody who's still not doing it. What do you mean Like? So I wouldn't recommend learning surveys from me if I'm not doing surveys anymore. Yeah.
Speaker 2:So you end these things all the time too, and I don't agree. You don't think so? No, why not? His biggest thing is you know, we still run the cleaning business. Boba, boba, I'm like, but if I didn't, I had six, seven years in the business. I know the business still, but businesses change.
Speaker 1:Businesses do change, I agree, but that doesn't mean I don't got the knowledge. That's true, but you got, we have that discussion all the time, All right.
Speaker 2:So let me ask you this, All right? No, that's a good point.
Speaker 1:Let me ask you this you got 10 years in experience 10 years experience in the cleaning business, but your last year of experience is 10 years ago. Would you hide in me?
Speaker 2:Probably not, you know what I'm saying. 10 years ago, yeah that's a big difference.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying, but you gotta stay in the loop with things.
Speaker 2:You say you stay in the loop.
Speaker 1:So I still do surveys because I wanna know what I'm teaching people. I wanna know that my concept still works.
Speaker 4:I gotta ask you this question. If you don't wanna answer it, it's okay, but I wanna be transparent. How much have you made doing paid surveys? You should have your number, oh, my number yeah, of course.
Speaker 2:And what range? A year, two years?
Speaker 4:I wanna know total, like that you were able to track I guess, yeah, yeah, for sure, I know you're not gonna track when you was 15. This year, no, this year, oh, we go on a year, okay 2024.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 2024.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this year I think I'm in like 1100.
Speaker 3:1100, okay, okay.
Speaker 1:But that only took me and one canceled on me, I think seven hours, so 1100, seven hours right. Last year I did 5,500 in 47 hours.
Speaker 3:That's when I started keeping track, so you're tracking your hours okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, now you see how much you get paid hourly.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, for sure, that's important, so that's an extra $5,000 that you're able to make in a year. What's the hourly rate on that? It was like $100,000 or something like that. Right, right exactly.
Speaker 2:But if you think about 47 hours, that's one week of work lesson week.
Speaker 4:We work 48 hours, but you know you go to work and you don't even make that much. I damn sure, don't make that.
Speaker 2:I do not make 5,500 a week. I say that much, so you make that much a week.
Speaker 4:That's what I just said.
Speaker 2:I don't make 5,500 a week. It's just crazy.
Speaker 4:I don't make that in a two-pain Now with people watching this episode. They're like all right, seth, we know that you've done well, we know what your students do. How do they? What game can we give them today? So that, all right, I want to take action from this episode and go start making money today. So if somebody's ground zero watching this episode, okay, I know his story, I understand it, but I want to know where do I start making money today? From surveys, what can we give away?
Speaker 1:I'm still on for you. What is your why?
Speaker 4:Okay, what is your why? So you can start with a bill.
Speaker 1:Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 2:No, I wouldn't say start with a bill, but it's just like again his why at the time was just a phone bill, but for somebody else it would be sad. Yeah, my why at the time was a phone bill or like make it extra money.
Speaker 1:But my thing is like a lot of people do surveys and then they stop and it's like oh, because? Oh, I want extra money, because I want to go to Trinidad. I want extra money, but this is like I have students who do surveys for different reasons, so just figure out what your reason is. So some was like yo.
Speaker 4:What's the typical reason? You'll see a vacation or a credit card bill.
Speaker 1:Extra money is just like yo, I'm gonna take care of my outside because we all outside. Outside is expensive Drinks, food, uber, blah blah. It's expensive, so I want to take care of my outside. Some people like yo, like I got something to take care of my mom, so a little bit of extra money, that's an extra 400, I'm gonna just give her every month. Some people like yo, like this is gonna be my extra income. Like some people make 700, 800 a month. My highest student made 15,000 last year.
Speaker 2:Wow, it was working it. It was working the surveys. I'm saying If it's working, you got work to do, I can work it.
Speaker 1:If you work. I'm on that I was like, but that's a good amount and surveys is, like you know, from your computer, so paid surveys is something that anybody can do as long as you have a phone and a computer.
Speaker 4:All right, so we got that. We got our Y. I would say our Y is let's say, I got a credit card bill. My credit card bill is like, let's say, about $250, $300 a month. What will we start there?
Speaker 1:That is you learning a side hustle to develop income to take care of additional bills.
Speaker 1:Again, it started with me and a phone bill, but now people make 500, 600, and they want it to take care of like that car note or like take care of whatever excess bills come up, Like I know my last couple of grocery runs has been surveys, so it was like all right, I just made 250, Trader Joe's, you know what I'm saying. So this is like and groceries are expensive. Because in my experience I find that you can tackle your bills, you can plan ahead, but it's always like this came up, the miscellaneous stuff. It's never the rent that kills you.
Speaker 3:It's never the rent that kills you. It's like yo.
Speaker 1:I had to go get my arm checked and my insurance ain't covered, so I had to pay an extra 300. And then my mom needed 200. And now my check engine blinking. Apple still want their 2.99.
Speaker 2:I'm so in the fight with my life. God we a child Apple be in my life.
Speaker 1:It's always the excess stuff. So I think paid surveys are perfect for people who want to run into those extra bills, but more so like people who want to get ahead so it's easy to come home to a check $300 in the mail it's like all right, I could save this or this could take care of my family. You know what I'm saying. So it's really about what's the reason you want to make extra money Like is it just for a vacation? Because once the vacation's over, then it's like all right, I paid for this all so I didn't do it again. Do I'm away for my next vacation? It's like everybody's motive is a little different. But one thing you need to know is time and money too. I make this program very seamless so that you're only doing this maybe half hour, 45 minutes a day, and I think that's time that everybody has to be on a computer or scrolling your phone. Listen, you scroll in Instagram. You don't hit refresh eight times your last three posts. You complain it about money. You on Twitter. You checking your ex's tweets. He not checking yours. He or she is not checking yours.
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Speaker 2:And so is there any challenges with the survey that you're finding Doing surveys?
Speaker 1:The biggest challenge that I tell everybody is that it's tedious. So you're constantly applying, repeating the same information. So that's the biggest challenge. And then sometimes you don't get selected. But because surveys pay so well, you don't have to get selected 100 times. So my boy just got a $400 survey yesterday. He don't get picked.
Speaker 2:Again for the month.
Speaker 1:he made 400 this month and he still has the rest of the year, you know what I'm saying so like, I'm scheduled for a $300 survey next month that's online and I have one in person next week for $100. So I'm scheduling this around my clock Like all right, do this online, $100 there, go, do something else. So I think the gift with surveys is that it's not time consuming and it's something that could fit into your schedule, whereas you know, as business owners, you want the clock all day long.
Speaker 4:You mentioned your boy that doesn't get picked. What are some things people can do to likely hook? So you mentioned like getting picked. People may not understand what that even means. So what's the process Like? What's a website I go to? What do you mean by getting picked? Because I understand it, but I want to break it down where they understand it.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, perfect. So A lot of problems that people have with paid surveys is one, they're not paying. Two, they only pay with points or it's like scam. In my program, particularly the list of sites, which is about 60 websites, that I use.
Speaker 4:You got 60, give me at least two or three right now. I want to give them some game, yeah.
Speaker 1:One User interviews is one Okay. Respondent is two Okay, 58 others. You got to hit my website.
Speaker 4:You got to hit my website for that. So when you go to these websites, what are they looking for? What's the type of questions they ask you? What should they not be applying for?
Speaker 1:We'll say that one more time.
Speaker 4:So they go to the website. Tell me what the process is. Let's say they go to one of those websites.
Speaker 2:What is?
Speaker 4:that process of like for them. Okay, so I want people to be like I watched the episode I actually implemented. I want more.
Speaker 1:Okay. So when you go to any market research or paid survey website, they're going to have a list of topics that you may or may not fit in. So, for example, we're looking for women in Chicago who consume coffee for $150, study 90 minutes online, apply to this screener and if you qualify, we'll call you. Yeah, simple, so you can Google that. You can go on any website.
Speaker 4:That's what a legit paid survey looks like Okay, Even if so, if I'm in New York, do I apply to that? Or do they check your ID? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1:And so these are all permanentopen slightulates. Okay, these brands are intense, but what's in theseobilized? And so if you're stamps on a customer store, you're not supposed to be there, and once that youÐœallè˜, you're gone.
Speaker 4:That's what I look like, because you regard them back to.
Speaker 1:you know the Chicago's, the Miami's are where the largest surveys are, so you can pretty much do them anywhere, but I teach you how to find studies in your area. Okay, so pretty much. If you're having the issue of one, I don't get picked all the time, I've created a whole handbook on how to get picked and I also teach my students one-on-one how to get picked, so I go through all of that. I know that's a very popular issue with people like, oh, I see these surveys all the time and I don't get picked. They don't call me. I've rectified that problem for hundreds of people so far.
Speaker 1:The other thing is you don't have to apply to studies in Chicago. There's nationwide studies online where they're recruiting all over the world, or there's facilities in these big cities, so you can do them online, in person, in the mail. I have a workbook that I created pretty much my strategies and tips on how to get picked. I have a weekly coaching call. So you're like yo, I read your workbook, I'm still not getting it. We do surveys together, like I've done this with everybody, and one thing that is different about my program is that I sign people up on the websites, because that's the biggest challenge with paid surveys. It's tedious, it's tedious, it's tedious.
Speaker 2:What's tedious about signing up on a website? I would think I'm just my name, email, phone number.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm trying to remember, right, okay, okay. Your name, email address, phone number how long that going to take For a whole website? You got to put your information into your demographics where you lived. You got a car. Are you a parent? Okay? So those are the additional questions that you need to go with it, so maybe 20 minutes. Per site.
Speaker 2:Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 3:Tom's 60?.
Speaker 2:Oh, you're saying that you have to do all of those, yeah yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:So what I realized is, and when I did my research, there's a lot of paid surveys, websites and databases out there, but who has time to sign up for all of them? Like if I give you a list of 60 websites and I'm like sign up on these. Once you sign them, i'mma teach you to it.
Speaker 3:I may do a few, but let it be speaking five minutes.
Speaker 1:Each site, 60 websites, 300 minutes. What's that? Almost five hours.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you have to do it in one sitting though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you want to make money right away. Yeah so part of my program is, like you literally pay, you sign up. I sign you up on the websites. You have a one-on-one coaching call with me. You join my community. You have access to all the paid surveys in the coaching you apply in three days. It's a 72-hour turnaround.
Speaker 2:These websites got to figure out how I could transfer my information. What if you was in a Mac?
Speaker 4:maybe you could just click. No, that's definitely one of the challenges. So let's say you give me those 60 sites and I decide, all right, I'mma break it down, I'mma go through maybe about five a day, whatever. It takes me about a week. So after I go through those websites, do they call me, Do they email me? Like what's the game there?
Speaker 1:All three. They call, they email. Sometime they text. It all depends on the research company and the study. So if it's online, they may email you or they may call you. So I've been called and like hey, we have a study next week, 90 minutes, 175,. Are you free to come into our Midtown Office or are you free online? They contact you pretty much phone email.
Speaker 2:I just thought about something while you were saying that have you at this point build any connections with people that work for these companies?
Speaker 1:Yes. So I will say, from before the survey plug, I actually got acquainted with like recruiters who you know. I became someone who was like good at surveys and they knew I was going to be there on time and I was going to be available and I canceled whatever that.
Speaker 1:and now some of them like just text me directly like hey, you're free Friday, I got a last minute slot for a survey. One just text me yesterday is like hey, we're doing an ice cream study. You want to eat some ice cream for 45 minutes with pay y'all 125.
Speaker 2:Why would that sound so many.
Speaker 3:It was an ice cream.
Speaker 4:So what's the crowd I?
Speaker 1:said ice cream, I said ice cream.
Speaker 2:Exactly, you want some ice cream. My thought would be that that could help with your students too. Yeah, yeah yeah. You could. Are you able to pass things off? That sounds like it.
Speaker 1:I mean I do survey just to make sure I'm still in the loop. Right, right, my emails, I just forward them to my students because I would rather them get money in. I'm not trying to like. I do surveys just to stay in the concept and still understand what's going on. But as far as, like you know, my email is, I passed them to my community.
Speaker 2:And then. So my other question would be have you ever tried to speak to these companies saying like, hey, I have a group of people that would always be interested, come to me first. Not like that. Yeah, yeah, no, no, no, no. I don't want to, but kind of like pits the survey plug no, I thought about that.
Speaker 1:I thought about that. But I noticed like market research companies like I'm just not there to be. They weren't different demographic. Yeah, they want. Well, I got different demographics.
Speaker 4:No, they, they definitely want the people Watching. This is very similar.
Speaker 1:They definitely want the people that we're in touch with but, they more into like volume analytics? So like 3000 people in New York, are they drinking coffee? I don't have like those numbers, to be honest.
Speaker 2:But yeah, but I may have 700 to help you.
Speaker 1:But my boy Jerome, drink coffee and he is good.
Speaker 4:What's the craziest survey that you've seen so far, or one of your students have seen like the most outrageous one that you was like. This is nuts 4800.
Speaker 1:4800.
Speaker 4:Dollars.
Speaker 1:A third a three month online bulletin board.
Speaker 3:So like 4800.
Speaker 1:What did they have to break that down for me? Break that down for me.
Speaker 2:They had to do on the bulletin board though.
Speaker 4:What was your time commitment? I got some stories from my service too. But what?
Speaker 2:are you used to?
Speaker 4:do Survey? That forgot yeah.
Speaker 2:Did you put it in the delete the debt you put?
Speaker 3:it in the bulletin board.
Speaker 4:We had to read articles and it became like a classroom.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 4:And we were just going back and forth in dialogue and they said you had to speak in the chat for at least 20 minutes.
Speaker 2:Yes, I forgot, because every time we speak about the delete the debt, we mentioned surveys. People be on the live this is before Live saying well, what, what service did you did? Or to you, totally like I did, like six surveys. I don't got no information from you.
Speaker 4:I'm like that was a long time ago. That was a long time ago Go to my guy's stuff and the other one I had that was crazy was a video game. It sent me a new what was it? Mlb and I didn't even have a PlayStation or something. I had the boss, the Jods, my boys PlayStation and had to play the game.
Speaker 4:You did one in Dallas for nothing but nothing but cake, because you love that cake If you are in Dallas, texas or anywhere and you get wherever they have it. Imagine your favorite grocery store, your favorite, whatever restaurant they send you, the ability to like yo we're going to pay you to eat your favorite food Red Lobster for like $100.
Speaker 4:I'm like absolutely, and it's a hidden flavor too. I was like, absolutely, I am in there, so I was able to do that. Those are. I mean, that was a long time ago. Yeah, that was a while ago.
Speaker 2:That was at least six years ago or so.
Speaker 1:They used to have a race, but yeah, morning haven't been active in the chat but super excited, I just got approved for a curly hair study for $4,200 and doing a whiskey study tomorrow for $250.
Speaker 4:Curly hair study. So you got to have curly hair. Curly hair, I'm a little curious on that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but that's still big, that's still huge.
Speaker 1:They're probably. I mean, I don't know the details, but they're probably mailing her products to each try or like. Analyze the packaging or like you know, everything is not everything is not physical products. So it might be like like if you get picked for a liquor study doesn't mean you like drinking whiskey, you might be, watching a commercial, you might be studying.
Speaker 4:Looking at the bottle.
Speaker 1:The bottle, yeah, it's not like always, like oh, you got to put some stuff in your head, we're going to pay for it. Eat your candy bar. If you survive we're going to send you $7. Yeah, yeah exactly.
Speaker 1:No, that's true, yeah, so it's not always like that, it's like real. It's different things, but they. I teach you how to find them. I teach you how to identify, like what the study is going to be on, so you can be prepared, whether it be like zoom or be online. I teach you everything from A to Z, from applying to getting paid.
Speaker 2:Okay, so I'm going to apply some pressure.
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Speaker 2:You started the cleaning business. I did what happened to that Survey? That's exactly what happened. What happened to that? If you was in there, he was in the community, he was going strong. What happened? I was going strong.
Speaker 1:Your husband was yelling at me.
Speaker 4:two different ways he was yelling at me about cleaning, yelling at me about surveys.
Speaker 1:I had to pick one battle, no that's a good point.
Speaker 4:That could be it. No, that's a good point. That's a good point. That's a good point, and.
Speaker 1:I actually want to talk about that because I am starting a cleaning business and it's still oh are you?
Speaker 2:I was just playing with you.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, no, no, no, no you're right and that's kind of how I got here. I'm still starting that, but because the survey plug started getting busy and I think I'm a firm believe, you should just focus on one thing at a time when you're starting new. When you're new, like when you're a multi-level entrepreneur, you got multiple business and you could do, like when I'm starting new, you should just focus on one thing.
Speaker 4:So why do you believe that?
Speaker 1:Because you stretch yourself two things, like you're trying to figure out everything from A to Z for three different businesses and three different like coaches and marketing.
Speaker 4:What about multiple streams of income? You believe in that? Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1:For sure, for sure, for sure. Definitely multiple streams of income you got to. That's just one stream of income is just not going to cut in any aspect of life.
Speaker 2:But that's going to be my question, because if the one could say if the survey plug is doing so, well then why add something else on?
Speaker 1:It's doing well, but it's early, early, early.
Speaker 3:I mean, you never know what could go. I just pitched you something to pitch to the company.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no no, it's early, like totally honest. I'm only on one social media platform right now. I haven't even got to TikTok Facebook. They kind of mean on Facebook, and Twitter is a nasty planet on there, you know what I'm saying oh, it's a different world.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a different world in there. So you know, I'm definitely still growing, definitely still like teaching people market research because I know people know about paid surveys. They've heard about them, they've done them, but people don't know the magnitude of the money that can be. And more surveys are online now, since the pandemic. Because doing a group interview with eight people it's a little harder to get eight people in a room comfortable with talking. You know, you know people got to do it and proximity things it's hard to get that off.
Speaker 4:So this is just me pulling on my email. I type in survey in my email. Just read with that. Read with that. Says what is it?
Speaker 1:Oh, how much is that? Household product research 150, 150?.
Speaker 4:I just really literally just typed in when that email come in Yesterday not deleted still in my inbox because, just in case I decide that I want to do surveys, I still keep on Household product research for adult and select states across the country.
Speaker 1:Three-day online bullets in board 150 so that's.
Speaker 4:I wanted to say that's grocery money for somebody that's grocery money. So that's Ellison Elliot Benson, you know that's another website.
Speaker 2:You go look them up but I'm like a stapler and but that just shows you the power.
Speaker 4:They still email me to this day and it's like I don't like they still there. But I was like I knew there was an email in there for a survey. Why do? Why don't people ignore those emails? So I'm sure this people out there to get them and they think they're a scam. Why do people think?
Speaker 1:so, okay, okay, so I'll answer that. I'll be honest. Some are like junk and summer scams but how do you know? Like figure out, how you know, I know from my own experience and I've my Static base, I've vetted.
Speaker 2:You know I'm saying the website you saying the website's you telling the sign that sign up for Won't give you any skin.
Speaker 1:No, yeah, so. Okay, so that's that, so the websites that I use in the survey plug will not scam you. Okay, so that's you or not send you any points, like the surveys that I use. However, there's a lot of them that was just like junk spam start emailing you, so you really have to know the websites to go to and how to use them. A lot of people ignore these emails because it with all the spam and the scams and, yeah, it's easy to ignore.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like cool on earth is gonna pay me 150 to talk about toiletries. Now there people that will do that.
Speaker 3:Now, I know that so.
Speaker 1:I'm doing an online study to talk about Virtual reality glasses for $300.
Speaker 2:Hmm, so what? What? Back to the question about the clean it is. I know you say you're still starting it, but there's you. Did you start them at the same time. Is there anything you took from the clean it is that you use? We tell people like, even if you don't do the clean it was, at least you learn something from the course.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I didn't want to say that, but oh yeah no community no, no, no. The community helped me a lot because starting a business, as you guys know, the Founding concepts are the same. You know, business bank account for the payment, arguing with payment processors hiring people, like those principles are the same. Yeah, so like I'm watching people in the community, like anybody got experience with mail chill, I'm waiting for the comments.
Speaker 1:That's me like I need to know the community know the community like Founding principles and again starting to clean in businesses. You know you're dealing with more people and hiring people. I think there's way more tangibles in that, but the principles of like Start in a business are the same. So like you helped me avoid a mistake because I was gonna pay like some crazy money for like a logo Is in the community every day.
Speaker 2:Whenever you speak to people or whenever we're online. We speak to people about, like, getting their business started or what's stopping them. They talk about the name.
Speaker 1:No, I remember.
Speaker 2:It is always like the money purchasing from you cuz you worried about editing this broom on your logo.
Speaker 1:You even got no cleaners. No no no, no, because you really like drove back you start and you change over time enabling, like I mean not unable, not yeah, not procrastinating, and then like over thinking, like the small things, because people like yo, I got logo.
Speaker 2:I got a.
Speaker 1:Researching for people and also I would say, in your clean. It was because you have that mindset and that attitude. Some people catapult and just go fast, so it's like I'd be fully transparent. I remember joining the cleaning program and then people I joined with seeing they notifications, I'm like, oh no, this is toxic. Oh yeah, I'm like I don't know these people, but I'm like you know, you see the people coming in. Renee from South Carolina, whatever. Hey y'all, it's been four weeks, I'm in, not thousand dollars. I love this place.
Speaker 2:What am I doing? Yeah, that's, you got a cellar on the live.
Speaker 1:So you in the chat that you go sit on the live. It's a pressure on you? Yeah, no it's good.
Speaker 4:So, speaking of that, just a community aspect. So we obviously build a community for clean it, busy university, but when you're community, I know you want to you build these things so that I could become the place that you want to be a part of. So what type of things are you guys doing in your community together, whether it's individually, whatever what type of? What type of things are you guys doing in your community?
Speaker 1:Well, the first survey plug. Yeah, the survey plug. Community first thing we do that's important is we share wins. It's good to be in like a group chat with people who's doing the same things as you, so you know that stuff is working. Yeah, it was like. You know it's not a scam because I'm in a chat with 200 people who using the same website as me. Mm-hmm that that's one, two, and I don't want to be, I don't want to repeat this, but because it's community, we all help each other.
Speaker 1:So it's like all right, what website should I go to? No, you should go here Like should I apply? Like this? I've been putting this. What does this mean? How do I convert a gift card to cash? Like we all helping each other? We're all helping each other, like, all right, no, I just did this, I just applied to them. Or referrals, that's been the big thing now. So, like last week in my community, somebody had a TV study where they were recruiting people to Give their opinion on new TV. $150 for 90 minutes, nothing crazy.
Speaker 4:But once they got we not glance over $150 for 90 minutes please. The stats actually $100,000 yeah, that's what the nation wants. That's a Twitter is a different place. That's true, everybody's million.
Speaker 1:So once she got picked, the recruiter said hey, if you know anybody else who wants to do this study, tell them to call me. So they jumped in the chat like yo, I just got picked for a study. Yo, this recruit is looking for more people. Yo call this person, so everybody's called like you know, I just got, just got picked. Another key thing about surveys if they cancel on you, still get picked.
Speaker 1:So, if you, so that that that study you just got right. Let's say it was in person. If you Applied, got selected, you went there. They might say, anthony, we overbooked for the study, just sit here and we'll let you go home. You'll get 150 and go home. Oh so last month I had a study in Midtown that was 175 on 175, 90 minutes on clothing brands. So I had to go to Midtown and probably talk about going. I get there like, hey, sorry, we overbooked, we got to let you go, but you'll still get paid 175. 15 minute. I sat there, they gave me a check, wrote me a check, 175, put in the bank with him. So it's really a 15 minute errand for 175.
Speaker 4:We talked a lot about New York, but there are people doing this all across the country.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, so I have students Chicago, New York, Florida, LA, Houston, Dallas. Yeah, I got students in about 15 20 different states that you are aware of, that I'm aware of.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's a thing too. They could be everywhere. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Cuz sometimes people pop in like hey, it's been a while, but I made 2k yeah where are you?
Speaker 3:Yeah, some people are not like chat people like digital people, they'll just take my money and go.
Speaker 1:so I said and I said do check-ins. I'm like checking in how you doing, yeah, I've been busy with life. I got him oh, one girl email me. She's like yeah, I just, I was actually pregnant. I didn't tell you, but I was pregnant when I joined the survey plug and I needed this for extra money. So and I made 3700 in the first eight months and that really helped me.
Speaker 1:That's nuts man, you already change your laws, yeah and then one girl said you know she had a deaf in the family and chili. She had an extra 700 to spare. Again, remember some of my the emergency funds and stuff that comes up. She had that extra 700 to fly to Chile to take care of family. So you, know that's important again like stuff be popping up and like always good to have a life, life and life. Be life and a life. Don't never stop life and that's the thing too.
Speaker 2:So now do you consider yourselves as a big word entrepreneur, as an entrepreneur.
Speaker 1:I consider myself as yeah, I am an entrepreneur. Yeah, I'm an entrepreneur like I'm, file taxes twice. You ain't an entrepreneur till you start complaining about business taxes when the math don't never math. That's when you know you. I did it twice, so I know I'm an entrepreneur, so you mentioned one of the biggest lessons you learned about.
Speaker 4:Taxes but you get. You get taxed on surveys. So what are some of the other bigger lessons you learn as you go throughout this journey, cuz you've been technically the survey plug for how many years now to start at November 2022. What's one of the other bigger lessons you learned about entrepreneurship and would you recommend this for for everyone? Major no, go back on forth one. Oh, should everyone be an entrepreneur.
Speaker 1:Let's go there. That's the question. So everyone be an entrepreneur. Yeah, oh, I thought you're something. Service entrepreneur. I want to say yeah, but it I don't want to be redundant. But it goes back to the why.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna say no.
Speaker 1:Now, I don't think everybody should be an entrepreneur.
Speaker 2:Okay, matter of fact, let me.
Speaker 1:I'm Everybody should be honest, I don't think everybody should be on this is why you created survey.
Speaker 4:Um everybody doesn't have to be an entrepreneur, yeah.
Speaker 2:I think I'm actually make money. I have the money outside your job, but I don't think everybody needs to be entrepreneur. I think that's the difference for me and I say don't make your money, but you know what?
Speaker 1:I always have to have a business entrepreneur, cuz entrepreneurs like you got to run the business from A to Z, from start to ground up.
Speaker 2:That's not for everybody.
Speaker 1:I'm a bit hundred percent. That's not for everybody.
Speaker 2:Did you ever think it was for you? No?
Speaker 1:I've never thought it was for me. I don't even know how I got here. I was just telling people. I could make you serve you, but you made it work right, I did, I did, but it's just like now that you're in it, you're like nah, no, no, I. I like it because it's like it's a whole different world for me.
Speaker 1:So like that, I guess the course creator community. I'm like following people. I'm like, yeah, like I follow your tweets. You like, oh, you learn something from a nanny. I think you said Like following you guys and David Shans and the hot seat. I'm like you know people teaching all kind of stuff so you can literally start a business For anything with anything. So I think me being exposed to that kind of helps me because I'm like, alright, like people teaching what kind of shit, as long as I get people's votes. Like I'm huge on results. That's another thing too. Like I definitely feel like any course you purchase or anything you join Should be based on what they've done for other people.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of people out here saying you know, I'm this guru, I did this, then that, like I want to see the receipts. Like, show me those testimonies. You're so good at what you're doing. Show me what you like.
Speaker 2:I can show you screen shot 10,000, 8,000, 5,000, like.
Speaker 4:I can let me see, and I'm only saying that because we on camera no.
Speaker 3:I'm not normally asked for this.
Speaker 4:I mean that's also important too, because going going back to what you said earlier Was that you were already doing this before there was. There was a Curriculum for it. Like you said, you were doing this with your mom. Like this goes back beyond Seth here on this podcast or the survey plug, or even back in Albany. You were doing this back home with your, with your family. Yeah, and this service aren't anything brand new under the sun. They've been around forever, right they?
Speaker 3:did around forever.
Speaker 4:So you teach somebody a skill set that is going to always be needed, but then also it's always been needed in the past as well, right? So you're continuously doing this and showing people what you've done and helped others do and I think what also helps is that people have heard of it.
Speaker 1:So is not it's new, completely new to some people, but some people have a lease, like her.
Speaker 2:I knew somebody.
Speaker 4:Did it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm like you ever heard of paid surveys or like nah, but I did like a, like a focus girl.
Speaker 4:I'm like, yeah, it's the same thing, it's the same thing.
Speaker 1:So I'm like in and they're like oh, I know you can make money money like that.
Speaker 2:So would you ever do this business full-time? Not the survey part of it.
Speaker 1:That's the go paid survey for you, your business. Again. My personal goal was to operate business full-time and just live on time. Okay, and which VA doing my job? Okay. I Only take offense to stuff like when they don't got, they stuff together.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna go out on that.
Speaker 2:They'd be like oh you're.
Speaker 1:You know, people only take offense.
Speaker 2:That's the word.
Speaker 3:Yeah, cuz we never say like people should be doing more, yeah, but maybe you should be no no, which brings me to another point of you know how are you spending your money now?
Speaker 2:now that you have like a nine-of-five and a little, you know you get a little bit of money on the side.
Speaker 4:You got the nine-of-five, you got the survey plug, but then you also got the paid surveys as well.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Go to my cba and let them know that's Boy you don't put that, you're personal.
Speaker 1:No, but somebody saw that in the club and was like no, I was in the club and I saw that and then my home girls started telling me about it Because she's in the program. That's what made me buy.
Speaker 2:Well, how do you spending your money now? Is it different?
Speaker 1:Is it no? It's not different because it's like I still go to work.
Speaker 2:I'm not in a place where, like I'm not working, yeah, I'm saying like I say, but even if you're still working, because I still working nine-of-five he he's not his nine-of-five, but you still Spend a little differently because you have a bit more yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it's just like you know, as business owners, we could talk about it. You know, some day sales is up some day sales is down.
Speaker 2:Some months is down.
Speaker 1:I might have a good month, and then next month it might be rainy you know what I'm saying Like, and then you still gotta pay for. Everything else keep and everything else. So it's like it's lit to us, not, it's not lit to us lit, you know what I'm saying? Like so it's the waves, yeah, yeah. So it's you know again, and that's again I'll say I don't think business is for everybody, it's not.
Speaker 2:The one I'm having this conversation.
Speaker 1:I'm like it's not for everybody.
Speaker 4:You think it's important that you keep your nine to five while you run this A 1,000 percent.
Speaker 1:There we go 1,000 percent. That is the key to wealth. Start a business and keep your job. If you've seen it on the internet, it's 1,000 percent true Start a business and keep your job. Fund your business from your nine to five into your nine to five is.
Speaker 3:Funding the business? Right, yeah, until you know the business, you've reached your point. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:And you know, businesses change, Models change.
Speaker 3:The world changes the world changes, so it's like you know you have good months, you have slow months.
Speaker 1:So it was like that's another reason that you got to be mentally able. That, why, that? Why is just like that, why will really keep you focused, like yo, like I got to keep my lights on. Yo, I got to make extra money for this. Or some people have joined just to like pay off certain things. Like yo, your students are making 500 a month. I know math. That's at least six grand a year. Yo, I got a full K credit card I'm trying to pay off. I'm gonna just use that to pay off my credit card. Okay, cool, the why is just so, especially, it's more important in entrepreneurship because, you know, people say stuff, people do things, sales whatever.
Speaker 2:It's not easy.
Speaker 1:It's not easy. You be ready to tap out like that.
Speaker 4:The thing about surveys is you don't have to tap out, you do them, you take a break, you come back. That's the thing too.
Speaker 1:So with surveys is like you can pick it up and put it back down, so it's like yo like I got busy, but now I'm gonna start doing surveys because I got some stuff coming up. So I got a quick 250, got a quick 400.
Speaker 4:How much time do you recommend someone putting in the surveys, based on a couple hundred dollars a month?
Speaker 1:Less than an hour a day. An hour is absolute max, so if you could put in I teach my students a formula that is 30 to 45 minutes. Okay, I don't less than that. More than an hour is like you just trying to like go crazy.
Speaker 3:What's just fun too. Is you got the time for that?
Speaker 1:Some people I've had like tick time off and they like yo, I got time off. I got these two weeks off for my I'm a teacher, two weeks I'm with the oh summer is gonna go for
Speaker 3:you.
Speaker 1:Quick 700, you know what I'm saying. So it's easier to pick it up and put it back down because you always have that information and you always get in the emails and once you learn how to apply to them and you learn the websites to go. You always have that information.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 1:I know it's gonna be around because I was doing them as a kid. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:What you did actually mention before we go. You mentioned that about surveys with kids.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, so I've had students who also had their kids participate in surveys.
Speaker 4:What surveys can we give Elani right now? Bro, I'll be too young. Oh, she too young.
Speaker 1:No, they got parent surveys. They got parent surveys. Oh, surveys for parents, okay, okay for parents Kids surveys are more like if the kid can attend-.
Speaker 4:Do some testing. Yeah, color or something. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Elani I gotta be a little more mature. She's not coloring inside the lines right now. It might be you guys. She can't say if she liked the toy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Elani might be playing with a toy and then you give your opinion on how Elani engages with the toy and you get paid for that Listen we already started a business for Elani, so we bought the ad surveys into that bar as well. So I know, I got her, I got her.
Speaker 4:So appreciate my God survey plug being here. Seth man, it's been a great conversation. Let the people know where they can find you, where they can tap in and also if you could give our audience, you can hit them up with a little discount or something on the survey plug, you can talk about that.
Speaker 1:Okay, so you can find me the Survey Plug traditionally spelled on Instagram. You can also check out my website, theirsurveyplugcom, where I'm offering two programs a self-paced program where, if you want to take the time to sign up on the website yourself and have a group coaching every week, you can do that. Or I have a 72 hour program where I'll sign you up on all of the websites, you have a one-in-one coaching call with myself on how to apply and get selected for surveys and you'll get my paid survey guide all in 72 hours, so you can make money sooner than later.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so is there one question you wish we? We would have asked that we didn't Anything that you need to make sure to share.
Speaker 4:I don't know, I have to put you on the spot question. Yeah that is One that you want to get off your chest. That we did next.
Speaker 2:Or is important for the audience.
Speaker 3:Is this not a little? I don't know.
Speaker 4:Or even with a word of wisdom or something that's fine.
Speaker 1:Listen, one income days are over. I'm gonna just keep it real. One income days are over. You need a side hustle. I'm not even saying that because it's the survey bug. I'm saying because you need a side hustle. One income days are over. If you're not interested in starting a business, definitely start something that can create additional revenue for you Outside your job. Definitely have something outside your nine to five because, as you see today, the nine to five is not safe. I'm not making that up.
Speaker 3:People get laid off companies are closing.
Speaker 1:But if you're the boss and you're the owner and you call in the shots, as I've been telling my friend the other day, don't wait for a raise, make one.
Speaker 4:And, on that note, don't wait for a raise, make one. That's a bomb. Appreciate you guys being here on another episode of the More Than A Side Hustle podcast.
Speaker 3:That's it for me, make sure you keep joining and subscribing.
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