How I Turned a $110 Purchase Into a FIVE-FIGURE Income In Less Than 8 Months

Michael Johnson
4 min readMar 7, 2023
Thinking on repeat, “how can I make money?”

If you’ve read my previous articles, you’ll know I claim to be a moron and anyone can do what I do. This is true, especially for what I’m about to share.

It all started in September 2021 when I partnered with a small brand and started promoting their amazing products. By the end of 2021, I had made almost $5,000 in commissions with, honestly, very little work.

To make that money, all I did was:

  • Use my existing Instagram account (which was already in a niche similar to the products I started to promote). The number of followers was irrelevant because the interaction rate was around 0.03%. Terrible 😂
  • Create a TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook page and add original content/images.

After 1 month of adding content to these platforms, my earnings started going up. I wasn’t doing email marketing or paid promotion. The hashtags I used were kinda generic too. But through the various algorithms, I was able to see pretty good success relatively quickly.

At the time, I was working full-time and putting in extra effort after work was tiresome. I believe I was working 12 hours a day; full-time: 9, side-job: 3. Not a ton of work but days felt long.

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Michael Johnson
Michael Johnson

Written by Michael Johnson

I have drive and passion for making money online and teaching others how to do the same! But, life got REALLY busy (good busy) and I don't write much anymore.

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