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My Honest Opinion About Master Resell Rights

 

In the fast-paced world of online entrepreneurship, the allure of quick profits often leads us down paths that may not align with our long-term goals. One such trend that's been gaining traction is the purchase of courses with master resell rights (MRR). But before you dive headfirst into this seemingly lucrative opportunity, it's essential to understand the potential pitfalls involved. 

Join me asI share my honest opinion about master resell rights and uncover alternative paths to sustainable success in the online business world.

Disclaimer: I’m not trying to yuck someone’s yum here. If you sell a course with MRR and it’s working for you, you do you! This episode is here to make sure anyone who is considering MRR sees the cons and not just the pros.

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Article

In the vast ocean of online opportunities, one trend that's been making waves lately is the purchase of courses with master resell rights (MRR). It's a tempting idea: buy a course, gain the rights to sell it, and pocket 100% of the profits. What’s not to like? BUT is it truly the golden ticket to success, or could it be a potential pitfall disguised as a shortcut? Let's delve into the realities of this trend and why, despite its allure, it might not be the wisest choice for your business.

Understanding Master Resell Rights:

Before we explore the pitfalls, let's clarify what master resell rights entail. Essentially, when you buy a course with MRR, you're granted permission to sell it yourself and keep all the profits.

1. Oversaturated Market:

Picture this: you stumble upon a seemingly irresistible offer for a course with MRR. However, if it's readily available to you, it's equally accessible to countless others in your niche. This leads to an oversaturated market flooded with identical products and brands selling in identical ways, diminishing their perceived value and making it challenging for you to stand out.

2. Reputation Risks:

Associating your brand with products you didn't personally create can tarnish your reputation and credibility if that creator or brand gets in trouble.

I personally don’t resell anyone else’s products unless I know the person well (i.e. we’ve met multiple times and I know their values, trust them to be an ethical person, and know their product is amazing.)

3. Integrity in Online Business:

It’s catching a bit of a scammy reputation. I’m not saying it is a scam. I’m saying that there has been a lot of sketchy people selling it as their own, changing the name of it, and so on. This leads to people buying it thinking they’re buying something else, and realizing they’ve been duped and it’s the same course they may already have bought, or seen around.

I’m also pretty convinced that this MRR thing is the reason why there’s SO many women on Instagram saying they can help you “make money online” who have 2 followers and have never actually made money online.

I’m a big believer that if you haven’t gotten real results with something, or you don’t have any experience with it, you should not be selling something about it.

People with no online business experience shouldn’t be teaching people about business.

It’s like someone who’s never performed open heart surgery offering to perform open heart surgery on you.

Try to avoid the trend of selling something just because you think it will make money quickly and easily. You don’t need to do that. All of us have enough knowledge and expertise we can monetize. We all have at least one transformation we’ve personally been through successfully that we can package up into an offer that helps others achieve the same transformation. (And it doesn’t have to be related to making money! I have students who manage podcasts, 

“But I’m a beginner and I need to make money. Aren’t I supposed to fake it til I make it?”

No.

Go out there and get some experience!

  • Offer to take on discounted beta clients or students

  • Offer to do projects for free in exchange for testimonials

  • If you want to teach something you have not achieved yet, document your journey to achieving it on Instagram. THEN sell an offer teaching the transformation.

4. Quality Control Concerns:

Just because a course comes with master resell rights doesn't guarantee its quality. Sacrificing quality for the sake of quick profits can damage your reputation and erode the trust of your audience. Instead of prioritizing short-term gains, focus on creating high-quality, original content that adds genuine value to your audience's lives.

5. Embracing Authenticity and Long-Term Growth:

Rather than succumbing to the trend of master resell rights, consider investing your time and energy into creating your own high-quality offers. Whether it's low-ticket digital products or high-ticket services, once you find something that sells well it will outlast the trend of MRR. While it may require more effort upfront, the long-term rewards far outweigh the allure of quick profits.

(PS- I have a free list of 100 digital product ideas to spark your creativity!)

6. A Path to Sustainable Success:

In today's competitive landscape, authenticity and uniqueness are your greatest assets. By embracing your individuality, you'll not only outshine the competition but also build a resilient and sustainable business for the future.

The only thing that makes you stand out online is YOU. Don’t remove yourself from your brand by selling something someone else made, in the exact way they’ve taught 1000’s of others to sell it.

I created and now sell The Content Batching Blueprint - my method for batching 1 month of content in 1 day. There are already 100’s of creators teaching you how to make money online or sell on Instagram but very few teach it the way I do. This is one simple way that I stand out. 

Unlock Your Creative Potential:

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About Nesha

Hey there! I’m Nesha, 11-year traveling entrepreneur and host of The Simple Business Show. I teach women how to build a $5-10K/month online service business working just 3 days a week, so they can have the financial and time freedom to live the life they dream of.

Looking for more ways I can help you? Here they are:

1:1 Coaching: Work with me on an intimate level to take your business from where it is to where you want it to go.

Group Coaching Program: The Simple Business Builder: Learn to build a $5-10K/month online business working 3 days a week.

Organize & Automate - Join 1200+ students and learn how to organize your entire online service-based business in just two weeks (on the side of your regular routine!) so you can stop stressing and fall back in love with your business.

Simple Sales School - Learn how to get a consistent flow of clients so you can build the income & financial freedom you desire.


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Knowing When and How to Pivot Your Business Model, with Shay of Bucketlist Bombshells

 

Feeling the urge to make some changes to your business… but afraid those changes might be the wrong move?

You're not alone. Many entrepreneurs face the challenge of knowing when and how to pivot their business model. In this week's episode, we dive deep into this topic with Shay from Bucketlist Bombshells, who shares invaluable insights into her own recent business pivot.

Shay Brown is the COO and co-founder of Bucketlist Bombshells, a multi-million dollar business coaching company for the next generation of female entrepreneurs. Having built a thriving community of more than 200,000 women around the world, Cassie and Shay provide coaching and mentorship for women in business looking to launch, grow, or scale their online service-based businesses.

Bucketlist Bombshells has been featured by Forbes, CNBC, BBC and Greatist for paving the path to remote work for millennial women through entrepreneurship — even before the world adjusted to remote work during the Covid-19 pandemic.

But now, they’re making some BIG changes to their business model and messaging!

Tune in to learn:

  • How to co-create your offers with your audience (and why you should)

  • How & when to pivot your business model

  • Why Cassie & Shay shut down their courses and switched from selling courses to high-touch programs

  • Should you announce business changes or quietly pivot instead?

  • What to do when you don't know what to do next

  • Why experimentation and taking messy action is the key to a long-term successful business

  • Is selling digital products & online courses the ONLY way to make a full-time income online without working full-time hours?

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Timestamps

2:10 - About Shay & Bucketlist Bombshells

6:13 - What led you from selling courses as your main offers, to selling high-touch, high-ticket offers?

10:35 - How Shay burned out from scaling so quickly

14:53 - Co-create your offers with your audience

15:59 - Should you announce a pivot or quietly pivot?

21:24 - How did you know this pivot is the right thing to do?

25:33 - How to decide what to do next when you just don’t know what to do

30:39 - Experiment and take messy action

35:44 - Is selling digital products & online courses the ONLY way to make a full-time income online without working full-time hours?

51:19 - One mindset that has kept Shay’s business thriving for 10+ years


About Shay

Shay Brown is the COO and co-founder of Bucketlist Bombshells, a multi-million dollar business coaching company for the next generation of female entrepreneurs. Having built a thriving community of more than 200,000 women around the world, Cassie and Shay provide coaching and mentorship for women in business looking to launch, grow, or scale their online service-based businesses.

They offer group coaching through programs like Bucketlist Bombshells Launch Camp, She's Fully Booked Monthly Membership, and Scale with Purpose Mastermind. These group coaching programs are hands on high touch point programs that offer incredible results with the goal of helping women achieve financial freedom and step into their Part-Time CEO era!

Bucketlist Bombshells has been featured by Forbes, CNBC, BBC and Greatist for paving the path to remote work for millennial women through entrepreneurship — even before the world adjusted to remote work during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Connect with Cassie & Shay here:



About Nesha

Hey there! I’m Nesha, 11-year traveling entrepreneur and host of The Simple Business Show. I teach women how to build a $5-10K/month online service business working just 3 days a week, so they can have the financial and time freedom to live the life they dream of.

Looking for more ways I can help you? Here they are:

1:1 Coaching: Work with me on an intimate level to take your business from where it is to where you want it to go.

Group Coaching Program: The Simple Business Builder: Learn to build a $5-10K/month online business working 3 days a week.

Organize & Automate - Join 1200+ students and learn how to organize your entire online service-based business in just two weeks (on the side of your regular routine!) so you can stop stressing and fall back in love with your business.

Simple Sales School - Learn how to get a consistent flow of clients so you can build the income & financial freedom you desire.


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Selling THIS Helped Me Quit My 9-5 & Travel the World

 

Tired of the daily grind of a 9-5 job? Dreaming of a life filled with adventure and flexibility? Or maybe just a slower life filled with freedom and time?

Many of us have been there, longing for a change but unsure of how to make it happen. In today's blog post + podcast, I want to share my personal journey from 9-5 life to the freedom of entrepreneurship (and traveling the world.)

In today’s podcast + article, you’ll learn:

  • How I started my first business (in web & graphic design)

  • How I got my first web design clients & quit my 9-5 jobs in waitressing and retail.

  • Why you DON’T need a degree to start a creative business.

  • Why web design comes with job security, regardless of the increase in website templates and AI.

  • How to know if web design is a good fit for you!

  • Why social media is not the only place to get clients (and alternatives to try!)

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ARTICLE

Take a little trip back in time with me to 2012.

I was working as a Pizza Hut waitress and retail worker, paid about £6.59 per hour at the time, and I had a toxic boss who was super nice to my face but talked about me when I wasn’t around.

I’m neurodivergent so I already felt a bit different, despite not being diagnosed yet. I was also a pretty shy teen and I didn’t fit in well with some of the more extroverted staff members. It was at these jobs that I first remember FEELING different and being TREATED differently.

I wanted OUT.

I wanted to be my own boss.

I wanted the freedom to live and work from ANYWHERE in the world.

I wanted to do creative work I loved, NOT mop the floors of the restaurant or straighten coat hangers to pass the time.

I had a blog at the time - it was my side hustle. And one day, someone offered to pay me £150 to design a blog for them. (Very underpriced but at the time it felt like a lot!)

I told my coworker (who was studying graphic design at university) and here’s what she said:

“You can’t charge someone money for that, you’re not qualified.”

And she was right… I didn’t have any kind of degree. I was just a waitress and retail worker. I started thinking… “I’m not experienced enough for this. I don’t have enough money to start a business anyway. How will I even fund this?”

So what did I do?

I accepted the client anyway. I taught myself web and graphic design. I used my savings to buy a better laptop + Adobe programs. I used my credit card for a couple of business tools. I raised my prices over time as I gained more experience.

And guess what?

In time, I was earning enough from web design to quit my 9-5 and get on a flight to Thailand.

(If you want to do the same, sign up for The Profitable & Productive Web Designer Bootcamp before April 15th!)

Web design changed the trajectory of my life.

WHY WEB DESIGN?

I was always a creative - I loved art, drawing, photography, and writing.

I would redesign my blog for fun, just because.

If you’re a creative person and you have a good eye for design, even if it’s not necessarily WEB design, you just really enjoy interior design and choosing color palettes etc… If you haven’t started a business yet, I’d really recommend considering web design.

Even though people can buy website templates nowadays, there are lots of businesses worldwide that:

  • don’t have the technical skills to do that

  • don’t have the desire or time to

  • want a custom designed website that isn’t gonna look the same as 50 others

Because the world is all online now, businesses often lose tens of thousands if they don’t have a website. So web designers are needed and always will be. Did someone say… job security? ;)

HOW I LANDED MY FIRST CLIENTS

  • Don’t be afraid to ask for referrals - my first client came from a fellow designer.

  • I used social media - I ran a limited-time offer on logo designs.

  • My friend Paige didn’t use social media, she used SEO to rank no.1 on google for Squarespace web designer.

There are so many ways to land clients. Choose one, two at most, and give it your all.

COULD WEB DESIGN BE THE THING THAT GIVES YOU THE FREEDOM IT GIVES ME?

You might want to start a web design business so you can be your own boss, work from home (or anywhere in the world), and have full control of your time.

Or maybe you already sell brand design, virtual assistant services, copywriting, etc, and want to add web design to your services. One web project could be about $2500. Imagine if you just take 2 each month? That’s $5K/month. Or one each month is an extra $2.5k. $30k a year in total.

If you’re curious about web design, sign up to my good friend Paige’s FREE Profitable & Productive Web Designer Bootcamp!

 
Schedule of Paige Brunton's Profitable + Productive Web Designer Bootcamp
 
 
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About Nesha

Hey there! I’m Nesha, 11-year traveling entrepreneur and host of The Simple Business Show. I teach women how to build a $5-10K/month online service business working just 3 days a week, so they can have the financial and time freedom to live the life they dream of.

Looking for more ways I can help you? Here they are:

1:1 Coaching: Work with me on an intimate level to take your business from where it is to where you want it to go.

Group Coaching Program: The Simple Business Builder: Learn to build a $5-10K/month online business working 3 days a week.

Organize & Automate - Join 1200+ students and learn how to organize your entire online service-based business in just two weeks (on the side of your regular routine!) so you can stop stressing and fall back in love with your business.

Simple Sales School - Learn how to get a consistent flow of clients so you can build the income & financial freedom you desire.


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How to Start a Successful Web Design Business & Scale It to $10K Months with Paige Brunton

 

Pre-PS: Paige is kicking off the FREE Profitable + Productive Web Designer Bootcamp on April 15 @ 3pm ET! If you want to hear from real and very successful web designers about how to find clients, be productive, or start the business… sign up now before you forget. 

If you clicked on this article, I’m guessing you’re either:

  1. Interested in learning about how to start a successful web design business.

  2. Already a web designer. You’re booking some clients, but ready to scale!

  3. Not a web designer at all! You’re a VA, photographer, copywriter etc… but you want those elusive $10K months too.

In today's competitive online market, building a successful web design business requires more than just technical skills—it requires strategy, determination, and a solid plan for growth.

And there’s no one more qualified to provide you with that plan than my amazing friend, Paige Brunton. 

 
 

Paige went from teaching kindergarten, to starting a Squarespace web design business and ranking #1 on Google for “Squarespace web designer” within 6 months. She went from struggling, to getting a client inquiry every single day.

Now, Paige teaches aspiring web designers about the two most essential ingredients to create a life of their own design:

✓ The skills to build fabulous Squarespace websites 

✓ The knowledge to build a successful web design business

She and I both believe that everyone deserves to have the skills necessary to be self-reliant and live the freedom-filled lifestyle they desire. And running a web design business can give you that.

So hit “play” on the podcast player below to listen to the interview! The value Paige drops is INVALUABLE! Oh, and her whole thing is “how to get clients WITHOUT Instagram” so if you’re not into social media, you need to give this one a listen. 

You’ll learn:

  • How to start a successful web design business & scale it to $10K months (even without a degree) (10:50)

  • How to get clients WITHOUT Instagram or social media (15:30)

  • The No. 1 reason you’re not succeeding as a web designer (+ How to fix it!) (16:00)

  • 5 tips to grow your web design business to $10k/month (21:19)

  • How to overcome imposter syndrome, especially if you’re self-taught (24:15)

  • Why you should consider adding web design to your list of services (32:23)

  • SO much more!

FREE Web Designer Bootcamp - April 15th

 
 

Because Paige believes in helping aspiring female entrepreneurs learn how to build life-giving, profit generating businesses, she is kicking off the FREE Profitable + Productive Web Designer Bootcamp on April 15 @ 3pm ET!

I don’t normally recommend other people’s free stuff or courses but I 1000% recommend Paige’s so make sure you sign up. I’ve seen the value she’s gonna drop and it’s honestly worth charging $ for but she isn’t. Even if you don’t join the course she’ll pitch at the end, you’ll walk away with a LOT of actionable tips for building a profitable web design business.

About Paige

 
 
 
 

Whether you’re a web designer, an aspiring web designer, or you have another business (VA, copywriter, photographer etc) and you’re looking to expand your list of services… this bootcamp is for you.

Paige went from starting 2 failed businesses and teaching kindergarten, to starting a Squarespace web design business and ranking #1 on Google for “Squarespace web designer” within 6 months.

Now, she’s the no.1 teacher of all things Squarespace and web design business, and in the bootcamp her most successful students are sharing their top tips so you can run a successful web design biz too!

Click here to sign up. Bootcamp is live and running April 15th-17th. 

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About Nesha

Hey there! I’m Nesha, 11-year traveling entrepreneur and host of The Simple Business Show. I teach women how to build a $5-10K/month online service business working just 3 days a week, so they can have the financial and time freedom to live the life they dream of.

Looking for more ways I can help you? Here they are:

1:1 Coaching: Work with me on an intimate level to take your business from where it is to where you want it to go.

Group Coaching Program: The Simple Business Builder: Learn to build a $5-10K/month online business working 3 days a week.

Organize & Automate - Join 1200+ students and learn how to organize your entire online service-based business in just two weeks (on the side of your regular routine!) so you can stop stressing and fall back in love with your business.

Simple Sales School - Learn how to get a consistent flow of clients so you can build the income & financial freedom you desire.


Subscribe & Leave A Review! 

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What You Can Learn From My Biggest Online Business Mistake

 

Not-so-fun fact about me:

It took me 2 years to make more than £10K per year from my online business. (Fortunately I was able to live at home and that helped tremendously while I built the business..)

I went on to make six figures a year, but I was by FAR not an overnight success.

I’m glad now because as an online business coach and educator, I get to help my clients and students avoid all the common mistakes I made back then.

Hit “play” on the podcast player to learn the no.1 reason for my slow business growth, and the mindset that would have saved me tens of thousands of £££.

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Article

Not-so-fun fact about me:

It took me 2 years to make more than £10K per year from my online business. (Fortunately I was able to live at home and that helped tremendously while I built the business.)

I went on to make six figures, but I was by FAR not an overnight success.

I’m glad now because as an online business coach and educator, I get to help my clients and students avoid all the common mistakes I made back then.

But if I could go back in time, I would jump on the opportunity to learn from someone who had already built the business I wanted; someone who could lay out all the steps for me. I 100% believe I would have started making a full-time income YEARS earlier if I had.

Instead, I taught myself everything. It saved me money but it cost me time. 2 years of it. If I had invested in business courses and learned from people who were ahead of me, I could have made a full time income in year 1, not year 3. That means I could have quit my job and left my toxic boss sooner. I could have saved myself a year of bad mental health. And I could have spent an extra year traveling.

This mindset of “I’ll teach myself” has raised its head here and there in different aspects of my life over the years.

First it was in starting my business.

Spending $500-$2K on learning HOW to run a business could have helped me stop charging pennies for my services. Imagine… if I’d charged $2500 for my web designs in those first years and booked 2 clients a month (I went on to charge $4K in the future btw so this isn’t crazy), I’d have made $60K those first two years, or at least in the second.

The mindset of “teaching myself will save me $2K” potentially cost me $50K- $100K.

The next time that mindset came up was 2 years ago when I bought a houseboat that needed a total restoration. As in, this boat was in SUCH awful condition that a production company asked to film the restoration for TV. Yes - it was that bad.

“I’ll do it myself, it’ll be fun to learn to renovate! Plus, it’ll save me so much money!”

… It’s been 2 years and I still haven’t finished renovations.

If I had hired help OR bought a more expensive boat that needed minimal restorations, I’d have enjoyed 1-2 years of boating by now.

The lesson here?

Sometimes you think you’re saving time and money, but in reality you’re costing yourself time and MUCH more money.

Don't reinvent the wheel when you can benefit from others' experiences.

6 more reasons my business growth was slow in year 1 & 2

  1. I rebranded a million times. But I didn’t need to keep updating my logo, colour palette or website. I was just delaying the real work of showing up & selling.

  2. I cobbled together bits and pieces of people’s free strategies and it slowed my growth. Why? Free content shows you the tip of the iceberg, not what’s below the surface.

  3. I created content that attracted my competitors, not my ideal clients. (I’ll show you what kind of content to create + how to batch 1 month of content in 1 day inside The Content Batching Blueprint >>)

  4. I made too much “how to” content and it attracted DIYers, not people who wanted to hire me.

  5. I focused too much on going viral when as a business owner, your no.1 priority should be sales and clients. If you can build a business that can convert sales even when you aren’t going viral, then virality becomes the icing on the cake 🧁

  6. Camera off on sales calls. I know faceless marketing is trendy right now but my sales calls went from around a 30% conversion rate to 80% when I showed my face. 🤷🏽‍♀️ The facts are the facts: people trust people more when they show their face.


About Nesha

Hey there! I’m Nesha, 11-year traveling entrepreneur and host of The Simple Business Show. I teach women how to build a $5-10K/month online service business working just 3 days a week, so they can have the financial and time freedom to live the life they dream of.

Looking for more ways I can help you? Here they are:

1:1 Coaching: Work with me on an intimate level to take your business from where it is to where you want it to go.

Group Coaching Program: The Simple Business Builder: Learn to build a $5-10K/month online business working 3 days a week.

Organize & Automate - Join 1200+ students and learn how to organize your entire online service-based business in just two weeks (on the side of your regular routine!) so you can stop stressing and fall back in love with your business.

Simple Sales School - Learn how to get a consistent flow of clients so you can build the income & financial freedom you desire.


Subscribe & Leave A Review! 

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