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Whether you're a college student, can't find a job already working, or just don't want to wait years to start earning an income this video shows you where to start what skills to learn in order, and how to succeed at each level. I highly recommend going through each level in order because skipping levels is expensive. I lost $30,000 by starting a level five business when I was really only a level two person, but I'll share that story at the end of the video. The first level is learning an in- demand skill and selling it directly. This is how most people make their first $100 online, and it's exactly where I started when I was in college. There are five core skills that run every business: design, development, video, copywriting and operations. Every company needs these, which means if you learn one, you will never struggle to find someone willing to pay you. I chose to start with video. I picked up a camera and asked everybody I knew a simple question. Do you know anyone who needs a video shot? I wasn't confident enough to charge money yet, so I shot the first three videos for free. Not because free work is the goal, but because proof of work was. I shot a church event, a music video, and a nightclub. And I posted everything on my Instagram. Once I had proof, everything changed. I was able to get my first paid gig for $200. From there, I just focused on improving my craft. Better videos, better lighting better audio, and faster editing. The better I got, the more I could charge. And one year later, I was charging $500 per video. So, level one is simple. Learn a skill, get proof of work, post it online, and start sending it to potential clients. You'd be surprised how many people actually already need what you can do. Some of the most in- demand skills I'm seeing right now are app design, AI video, funnel copywriting, AI implementation clipping, and UGC. At this level, the business skills you focus on are messaging potential clients, pitching your services, and delivering quality work. It's simple, but asking a stranger for money is scary. So, if you can get past that, nothing can stop you. Now before we move on, if you're watching this and you're thinking, \"Okay, that makes sense, but I don't know what skill to pick or how to actually start.\" I'm hosting a free live workshop where I'll walk you through what skills companies are paying for right now, how to pick one without overthinking or guessing and how to take your first real steps to getting paid. It's completely free. You can register at wopacademy.com or click the link in the description below. But now, let's go to level two. Level two productize your service. At level one you try a lot of things, but at level two, you get focused. This is where you stop saying yes to everything and start specializing. You turn your skill into a clear offer for a specific customer with a defined outcome. This is often called a productized service with a fixed scope, clear pricing, and defined deliverables. Think of it like a restaurant menu where the meals are set the price is clear, and the kitchen runs the same way every night. Early on in my journey, I realized something important. I could spend 2 days shooting music videos for broke rappers, or I could spend 2 hours shooting a nightclub event and make the same amount of money. Same skill, very different economics. So, I specialized. I focused on only shooting videos for nightclubs. One service, one customer, one outcome. That clarity made everything easier. I made a list of every club in town. I made a simple website. I listed my packages, and I embedded my calendar. And that system helped me hit my first $10,000 month my first year out of college. Nothing about the work changed. Only the structure did. At this level, content starts to matter more. not becoming an influencer but building a personal brand, which is essentially just an online version of your reputation. I'd post things like how this recap video helped X nightclub sell 30 more tickets. I explained what I did, how they used it, and the result they got. Now, when someone found my profile, I looked legit. They understood my value, and they booked calls themselves. This is where the switch flips from you chasing clients to clients finding you. You don't need to post every day or get massive views. You just need the right people watching your content. Level two skills are defining your ideal customer, packaging your offer, outreach and basic sales, and creating content that builds trust. Level two is where income becomes predictable. Now it's time for level three, where we add leverage. Level three is where you stop being the talent and you become the operator by starting an agency. An agency is where you sell the same service, but someone else does the work. For me, that meant signing clients and then hiring other videographers to fulfill. I'd sell a $1,000 package, pay a videographer $400 and then pocket the rest. Same service same outcome, different role. This is the first time I stopped trading time for money. And the skills you learn at this level are hiring, training, and managing projects. If you don't have a clear service, repeatable delivery, and predictable sales, hiring will make your life worse. But when it works, it's the bridge from being self-employed to building a real business. You're no longer paid for what you do. You're paid for what you coordinate. and it's how I was able to make $30,000 in a single month at 23 years old. Level four digital products. Level four is where some people decide to take that experience and turn it into a digital product. A digital product is just a way to package what you've learned so other people can benefit without you having to do the work for them. Digital products can be courses, guides and playbooks communities, or coaching and consulting. The shift is simple. You're teaching instead of executing. The big reason people like digital products is because of leverage. Instead of one client equals one unit of work, you can just create something once and sell it over and over and over again without any extra work. So there's no fulfillment tied to your calendar and no extra work when more people buy. So at this level the hard part isn't delivery, it's actually getting attention and acquiring customers at scale. Once the product exists, the real question becomes, how do people find this? That's why organic content matters here, especially on YouTube. YouTube content works best when you solve the problem yourself, can show proof that you've helped other people solve it, and can explain it clearly. Now, to sell your digital product and actually turn those views into paying customers, you need to learn soft marketing skills like basic copywriting building funnels, and email marketing. This is the stage where you master driving traffic and turning strangers into paying customers without a sales call. If you learn these marketing skills, you can truly scale any business. Now, some people are ready for digital products earlier than others but for most people, it's best to spend time in the earlier levels. When you go through the earlier levels first, you naturally build a hard skill. You learn how to sell, and you get testimonials from your clients. That makes teaching easier, that makes content easier, and that makes selling feel natural. By the time you reach level four, you're not guessing what to teach. You're just explaining what you know already works and you've earned the right to sell a digital product. Digital products are amazing for generating cash flow. They are highly profitable and they make people millions of dollars, but they are very difficult businesses to sell because they require you as the teacher to run them, which is why a lot of people decide to move to level five. Level five is the highest form of leverage. And instead of teaching the solution, you actually build the solution. Software turns a problem that you understand deeply into a tool that solves it automatically. Think apps platforms, marketplaces, and SAS. Software is powerful because it offers recurring revenue, high margins, no fulfillment per customer, and high exit multiples. Because once it's built, the same product can serve 10, 10,000, or even a million people with no added cost. And this is why the most valuable companies in the world are software companies. But the part most people underestimate is how many skills software businesses require to succeed. To make software work, you don't just need a good idea. You need to be able to design a real product, build it or manage developers who can create a website, write copy that clearly explains the value, market the product at scale, often through paid ads, handle customer support, then listen to user feedback, and reduce churn over time. Software isn't just leverage. It's every part of business at once. Which is why most software founders have to raise money from investors. They haven't learned these other business skills. So they have to hire people to do them for them, which is expensive. So, for you this is where the five levels really come together. If you move through levels 1 through 4, you're not just building businesses, you're stacking skills while cash flowing. Aka, you're getting paid while you learn. By the time you reach level five, you've already learned a hard skill. How to sell it directly, how to package an offer, how to talk to customers, how to do outreach and sales, how to create content, how to manage people and systems, and how to generate traffic at scale. You also have something that most beginners don't. Cash flow. And that matters because when you eventually do decide to build software, you're not hedging your entire future on one idea. You're hedging the bet by using the money you've already earned to invest in building something bigger. So, when you reach level five, building software isn't a gamble. It's a calculated step. Which reminds me of the biggest mistake I made in my journey. I didn't do it this way. When I was still early basically level two, I decided to build a piece of software. I was shooting videos for nightclubs and I noticed how long the lines would be. So, I built an app called Poppin that would let people pay to skip the lines. I spent about $30,000, which was my entire savings at the time, to pay developers to build it. I launched it with one of my clients and the first night it worked. People paid and everything looked great. The next night I showed up and the club owner had replaced my sign with his own sign that said $100 line skip cash only. He cut my app out completely. And at first I thought it was fine because like now I knew the product worked. But then I realized I had no idea how to get customers beyond my existing clients how to build a sales process, how to hire or how to create distribution. The idea was good. The product actually worked. I just wasn't skilled enough yet to make it succeed. I was trying to run before I built the foundation. Now, some people can start with software. If that's really your thing and you're ready to climb every mountain at once go for it. Just understand what you're taking on. To succeed with software, you have to learn all of these skills anyway. That's why I recommend going through the levels in order because each one stacks the skills that make the next one easier. By the time you reach level five, you're not overwhelmed, you're prepared. The five levels of online business is just a pattern that I've seen after interviewing dozens of 20-year-old kids running online businesses. Daniel Bittton started with short form content. Then he started making shorts for clients. Then he started teaching other people how to make shorts. Then he created a software tool, Crayo, that creates and edits shorts automatically. Luke started with sales. Then he started a sales agency. Then he started a high ticket sales training program. And now he's building an AI sales training software. And there's Harry. Harry started with a simple skill, AI video. Then he productized it for software companies. Then he started posting his work on Twitter. Then he created a digital product teaching AI video. And now he's working on his own app. Different people, different skills, same path. So this isn't about picking the perfect business model. It's about acquiring skills, stacking leverage, and increasing the surface area of opportunity over time. When you understand the levels, you stop guessing. 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I took a completely different route. There's something different about kids who make money online. They don't give a fuck. Once you start making money online: everything changes. And when you taste that freedom... there's no going back.","likeCount":11,"viewCount":1038,"order":7,"createdAt":"2025-12-29T01:49:36.997Z"},{"id":"cmkvre28d0000l804vnu4o91c","title":"Ohana","videoUrl":"https://whopvideo.app/videos/1769466936011-en1rpxhn.mp4","thumbnailUrl":"https://whopvideo.app/thumbnails/1769466953144-smibeegu.jpg","r2VideoUrl":"https://whopvideo.app/videos/1769466936011-en1rpxhn.mp4","r2ThumbnailUrl":"https://whopvideo.app/thumbnails/1769466953144-smibeegu.jpg","duration":44,"orientation":"horizontal","ghostPostId":"6977ecd7a4b8410001904fbe","ghostSlug":"ohana","authorName":"Cameron Zoub","authorAvatar":"https://whop.com/blog/content/images/2023/08/cam.jpeg","transcript":null,"likeCount":4,"viewCount":564,"order":8,"createdAt":"2026-01-26T22:48:33.915Z"},{"id":"cmkeaseqc0000lg04lxzuzmwp","title":"The New Way GenZ is Making Money","videoUrl":"https://whopvideo.app/videos/1768505273685-i5vrsp-fixed.mp4","thumbnailUrl":"https://whopvideo.app/thumbnails/1768411894258-243f3rrn.jpg","r2VideoUrl":"https://whopvideo.app/videos/1768505273685-i5vrsp-fixed.mp4","r2ThumbnailUrl":"https://whopvideo.app/thumbnails/1768411894258-243f3rrn.jpg","duration":769,"orientation":"horizontal","ghostPostId":"6967d275c576090001d4692e","ghostSlug":"the-new-way-gen-z-is-making-money","authorName":"Brett Malinowski","authorAvatar":"https://whop.com/blog/content/images/2024/09/brett.jpg","transcript":"For decades, the path to a stable life in America followed a simple path: Go to college, get a degree, get a job. It was a promise repeated by parents, schools, employers, and policymakers. And for much of the 20th century, the data supported it. But today, that promise is broken. Millions of students are graduating into one of the weakest entry-level job markets in modern history. According to a recent Stanford analysis, college graduates are facing higher unemployment rates than the national average. And since late 2022, entry-level job postings in some sectors have fallen by up to 30%. Even top students with strong GPA, internships, and extracurriculars report submitting hundreds of applications without receiving any interviews. So today, we investigate what's actually happening in the job market and how Gen Z is earning an income in an AI native world.\n\nYoung workers are being hit the hardest for three structural reasons. First, the supply of degrees has grown much faster than demand. In 1992, about 26% of U.S. workers held bachelor's degrees. Now, that number is nearly 45%. But the number of jobs that truly requires a degree has not grown at the same pace. Economists describe this as credential inflation. As degrees become more common, they stop functioning as a clear hiring signal. Not because education lost value, but because it no longer separates candidates. Employers responded by raising requirements. Roles that once only required a degree now require several years of experience, even when the work itself hasn't changed. The result is a paradox at the center of the modern job market: graduates need experience to get hired, but the jobs that once provided that experience are disappearing. At the same time, cost of education increased dramatically. Since the 1980s, college tuition in the United States has risen by over 1,200%. Wages have not kept pace. Student debt now exceeds $1.7 trillion, and the average graduate enters the workspace tens of thousands of dollars in debt before earning a single paycheck. It's the first time in U.S. history where a generation is statistically projected to earn less than their parents, even with more education. A degree still provides long-term benefits on average, but the certainty it once provided, especially early in a career, has weakened. Then came artificial intelligence. AI has not replaced the entire workforce, but it has reshaped how work gets done, especially at the junior level. Tasks traditionally handled by entry-level employees are now automated or AI assisted: drafting documents, summarizing research, writing basic code, or preparing reports. These tasks once justified hiring large numbers of junior workers. Now, they often require fewer people. As a result, entry-level roles, the ones designed to convert education into experience, have begun disappearing. After late 2022, data shows a sharp decline in entry-level white collar job postings. In some sectors, postings fell by nearly one third. These aren't mass layoffs, they're hiring freezes. When entry-level roles shrink, the entire career pipeline backs up. Simultaneously, many of the listings students are actively applying to aren't active listings at all. Employers increasingly post ghost jobs: positions kept open to collect resumes, test the market, or signal growth without an intent to hire. To applicants, the market looks open. But in practice, it isn't. This leads to the next pressure point, the growing skill gap. As technology accelerates, the distance between what schools teach and what employers need is widening. Colleges respond to the incentive they're given: graduation rates, rankings, and placement metrics, not how quickly students can perform once hired. As a result, students are taught to compete by building resumes that fit a standardized hiring system: Internships, extracurriculars, and high GPA. Now, those signals aren't pointless. They make sense in a world where large organization need a shortcut to screening thousands of applicants. But when education focuses on qualifying people for jobs instead of preparing them to do the work, it misses what now creates value: skills. And that gap, it shows in the data. In a 2024 global survey, nearly 60% of new graduates said they struggled to find work because they didn't match the skills employers now prioritize. These people didn't make a wrong decision going to college. They made the right decision in a world that no longer exists. Employer surveys show the same problem. Graduates are credentialed but not job ready. As a result, the hiring question has changed. It's no longer who looks best on paper. It's who can do the work. Today, this shift is increasingly known as skill-based hiring, where employers place more weight on demonstrable ability, portfolios, projects, and proof of work, and less on credentials alone. Studies increasingly show that skill-based hiring is outperforming traditional screenings on performance and retention, leading to some companies building alternative pathways entirely. Firms like Palantir have introduced paid fellowships that bypass the traditional degree route entirely, training young people directly for real roles without the debt. This change is the foundation of what's now emerging as the skill economy. The skill economy is a labor model where skills, not degrees, are the primary unit of value. It's a shift from asking what job title you have to what can you do and who needs it right now. \n\nFor our parents' generation, the risky choice was skipping college. For this generation, the risk might be relying on it alone. In many parts of the market, where you went to school matters less than what you can produce. Can you edit videos, run ads, build apps, automate workflows, build systems, or use AI to build something people want? If the answer is yes, you're competitive in today's labor market, regardless of credentials. The idea isn't new. What's new is the speed, scale, and sheer number of people being forced into this at the same time. The shift is already visible across white collar work. Teams are smaller, hiring is faster, and value is measured less by tenure and more by contribution. That's why people with narrow but valuable expertise can compete in today's global labor market. And we've seen a version of the shift before. Before platforms like Uber and DoorDash, blue collar workers had limited access to work. Jobs were tied to specific employers and locations. The gig economy didn't eliminate jobs. It just permanently reorganized how they worked. The skill economy is doing something similar but for white collar work. In the traditional model, careers were built vertically. You joined one company, worked full-time, and then climbed the ladder. The skill economy allows for a different structure. Many skilled workers now split their time across multiple organizations: 2 hours here, 3 hours there, delivering a specific outcome, then moving on. This creates flexibility, but also leverage. Workers focus on where they add the most value, and companies only pay for the expertise that they need. Income is no longer tied to a single employer. In many cases, this increases earning potential rather than limiting it. Specialized skills applied across multiple teams can provide more value than a single full-time role. Careers look less like ladders and more like networks. This is where artificial intelligence matters most. AI isn't replacing Gen Z. AI is a new tool Gen Z is using to build independent skill-driven careers. It allows individuals to operate like small studios learning skills online, applying them immediately and selling outcomes directly to the market. \n\nHarry is 22 years old. He doesn't sit inside of a marketing department at a software company. He sells launch videos to them. He makes two to four launch videos per month. He charges each company individually and he now earns over half a million dollars per year doing so. \"I am Harry Beach. I am 22 years old\". \"And what do you do for work?\" \"Yeah, I started making specifically AI commercials 6 months ago now\". \"How much you get paid for one of these commercials?\" \"For each AI commercial, I charged between 20 and 40K\". \"Did you go to college?\" \"I did for a period of time. I dropped out because I realized this was not the path to getting what I wanted. It was just a waste of time. My peers were not serious about their goals. Maybe some were, but for the most part, there was a big emphasis on like fun, go to parties.\" \"I was always asking teachers like, 'How is this going to help me? Like seriously, what is this going to do?' It's actually true. Like now I've left college, I can confirm\". \"Yeah. And now you're making AI, like you're using AI video tools to make commercials for companies. I've imagined that AI was never even mentioned in college\". \"The way I see it is like the internet is like breaking open into this Wild West place. There's all these new areas for value to be exchanged. It's a cool time because you can kind of like be the first to some of those, make money really easily, or like, you know, you can make a name for yourself. And there's so many new roads and new paths that you're just not going to learn in college. And actually, a lot of those paths that you learn in college aren't that applicable to what's happening today. At least in the creative field, marketing field, even just like starting a business in general\". Harry isn't a child prodigy, or even an Ivy League dropout. He just stumbled into this new economy early and is reaping the benefits. \n\nEvan is 20 years old, and brands and music artists hire him to run their clipping campaigns. He takes videos they already have, turns them into short clips, and helps them reach more people online. He manages multiple campaigns at once and charges brands for results, not hours. \"I run a clipping agency online where I help any brand that needs marketing get billions of billions of views each month through a service called Clipping. As I was in college my freshman year, I realized how one degenerate it was and then two, how I was on pace to make maybe 3 to 4 grand a month at at a full-time job, right? Plus, I'm working 40 hours a week. It was at that moment I have $20 in my bank account. I'm like, I need to change something in my life: either get a job or try to make money online. And I I wanted to find that one online business where I didn't need any capital upfront and nobody was doing it. So, why not start an agency where you provide this service to these brands that want to implement clipping into their strategy. Again, I was sitting in class broke as hell. I wanted to make money online. I knew I liked marketing. That's how I kind of started looking into clipping and and what it could do for other brands and how they can implement it into their strategy. And that's kind of where I got that spark from\". \"And you just reached out to a random person, got your first client?\" \"Yeah, I reached out to my first client, ran complete random on a whim, reached out maybe to a hundred people. He was probably like first person to respond. Launched his campaign and clearly it worked. $2,000 spent in one less than 24 hours. After that campaign, they're like, 'Hey, we have this other artist maybe no money.' Um, I knew this is kind of like our breakthrough. So, we had to really do good on this one. We started working with them. They launched a lot bigger campaigns like 10,000, 20,000, $5,000 campaigns. We kind of used them as a case study on our website. The website funnel helped us a lot with getting leads, people booking calls. Um, it just kind of took off really rapidly.\" \"And then now you're 10 months in. What's the most money you've made in a month?\" \"It was November. I made $18,000 in one month. I mean, in less than a year, I've probably since the beginning, I probably made like 80 to $90,000. Like, it took me 4 months to change my life. It It could take you a year. Um, a year is really all you need. And if it's not working, then go to college.\" It took him 4 months, not four years, to learn a skill that is now earning him a six-figure income. \n\nFor many Gen Z workers, this is already normal, not experimental, just a specific skill applied to a clear business problem and sold directly to the market. This is the future of work Gen Z is stepping into. If you're in college right now, the takeaway isn't that education doesn't matter. It's that education alone isn't enough. In a skill economy, students who do best use college as a place to build skills, proof, and leverage at the same time. A useful question to ask yourself each year is, \"What can I produce now that I couldn't produce before?\" Can you edit a video, build an app, design a website, or just use a new AI tool? Grades show efforts. Portfolios show capability. Projects, shipped work, and real outcomes increasingly determine access to opportunities. College is one of the few moments in life where experimentation is low risk. Used well, college becomes a sandbox and not just a checklist to get a piece of paper. For colleges, this isn't an existential threat. It's a structural challenge. Higher education isn't being replaced. It's being asked to adapt. The traditional model assumed a stable career ladder inside one organization. That ladder is no longer the default. Graduates now move across projects, companies, and platforms, and they're evaluated more on output than tenure, and they'll need to update their skills repeatedly over time. Institutions that succeed will integrate skill building into core programs, treat portfolios as seriously as exams, and align more closely with how hiring actually works. This doesn't weaken higher education. It strengthens it. The shift we're witnessing is not a collapse. It's a reorganization. The degree economy assumed stability. The skill economy reflects speed, flexibility, and outcomes. Degrees still matter, but skills now travel farther. And in a labor market that rewards capability over credentials, the central question is no longer whether college is worth it. 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These people don't come along very often. But when they do, they remind us that once you set out on a path, even if the world tells you you're crazy, that it's okay to have full conviction on an idea, to go all in on building something great, and to put all your cards on the table. They remind us to think bigger, to be more crazy, to take bigger risks. 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We handle about 40,000 transactions per day and people on our platform make about $200,000 per hour. These are cool numbers, but we think that the internet economy is going to accelerate at a pace no one can really fathom. The goal of Whop is to expedite that process. Today, we're taking a big step forward with three major announcements.\n\nThe first, we've reduced our fees to the point of no return. Second, we've built orchestration to route every single payment to a number of different payment service providers in order to max out authorization rate. Third, sellers in every single country in the world can now get paid out via local banking rails, Bitcoin, and stable coins.\n\nNow, with this out of the way, we'll be laser-focused on structuring how people actually make money on the internet to ensure sustainable income for everybody.","likeCount":3,"viewCount":755,"order":14,"createdAt":"2025-12-30T17:25:11.749Z"},{"id":"cmjqdtlge0000kv04ixxu9sbd","title":"What skate schools can teach us about niche business models","videoUrl":"https://whopvideo.app/videos/migrated-cmjqdtlge0000kv04ixxu9sbd.mp4","thumbnailUrl":"https://whopvideo.app/thumbnails/migrated-cmjqdtlge0000kv04ixxu9sbd.png","r2VideoUrl":"https://whopvideo.app/videos/migrated-cmjqdtlge0000kv04ixxu9sbd.mp4","r2ThumbnailUrl":"https://whopvideo.app/thumbnails/migrated-cmjqdtlge0000kv04ixxu9sbd.png","duration":24,"orientation":"horizontal","ghostPostId":"695181732ccdfc0001bca926","ghostSlug":"skate-niche-economy","authorName":"Keisha Singleton","authorAvatar":"https://whop.com/blog/content/images/2024/11/me-2.png","transcript":"There are dozens of skate schools and coaches on the Sunshine Coast, pulling in over 20 grand a week from group lessons alone. At first I thought, how are they all surviving? But they're not competing, they're coexisting. Each one has its own crew, its own vibe, and its own loyal community. That's what a niche business looks like. You don't need everyone, just your people. And that's exactly what creators are building on Whop every day.","likeCount":4,"viewCount":797,"order":15,"createdAt":"2025-12-28T23:50:10.833Z"},{"id":"cmkj3xowa0000kv04lnb2bpcx","title":"How to start an online fitness business (using Whop)","videoUrl":"https://whopvideo.app/videos/1768702224989-nbrfap-fixed.mp4","thumbnailUrl":"https://whopvideo.app/thumbnails/1768702218642-pskolusr.jpg","r2VideoUrl":"https://whopvideo.app/videos/1768702224989-nbrfap-fixed.mp4","r2ThumbnailUrl":"https://whopvideo.app/thumbnails/1768702218642-pskolusr.jpg","duration":720,"orientation":"horizontal","ghostPostId":"696c41ddc576090001d46b77","ghostSlug":"start-online-fitness-biz","authorName":"Brett Malinowski","authorAvatar":"https://whop.com/blog/content/images/2024/09/brett.jpg","transcript":"The online fitness market has exploded recently and coaches are making six seven, even eight figures doing it online. And you can profit from this $38 billion market, too. People don't want to pay a personal trainer for fixed hours. People want a custom personalized plan that's flexible. And Whop is by far the best platform to run your online fitness business. Payment links financing, coaching calls, DMs, custom apps, and much more. Whop has everything you need to make millions of dollars in one place. So today I'm going to show you how to use Whop to set up your online fitness business. Normally as a personal trainer or a coach, you would charge per session and train with your client in person. You get them to use a calorie tracker app, a weight tracker app, and a workout tracker. The goal would be to fill out your day and get as many client bookings as possible. Then eventually to scale, you'd have to increase your prices. But with online coaching, you have more flexibility and options to choose from. Courses, ebooks, custom guides, you name it. Let's start with high-ticket coaching. There are two flavors. There's group coaching or one-on-one coaching. You can either hop on one call per week with each individual client or you can do daily group coaching calls where you teach all of your clients together on a call. Group coaching is the most popular among creators on Whop. And the ones who make the most money typically charge $3 to $10,000 for their program. Their programs usually consist of an in-depth course, three to five coaching calls per week, a community chat, and various templates to help fast track their student success. No one can tell you how much your time is worth, but I promise if you can get people results, they will pay you a lot of money for it. A toned physique, being shredded, or just having amazing mobility are things people will pay good money for. So, the fastest way to get started is to actually create your offer and just start marketing. Do not spend months building out a course or building a perfect website. Just get your offer in the wild, post on social media, and start taking sales calls to start taking on clients. Really, all you need is a payment processor so you can accept payment.","likeCount":2,"viewCount":353,"order":16,"createdAt":"2026-01-18T02:18:44.861Z"}],"count":17}