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How to Earn $1,000,000/Year With Zero Up-Front Investment

Drew Lowe
2 min readFeb 13, 2024

Earning $1,000,000 a year without leveraging investments requires creating well in excess of $1,000,000 worth of value in the market.

Generally, careers in high ticket sales are your best bet.

As a general rule, you will need to sell 5 — 50x as much as you want to take home. (i.e. Between $5,000,000 and $50,000,000 depending on the industry).

The Best Industries to Earn $1M/Year

Some industries that are a good fit for this include: real estate, technology, medicine, and finance.

Without investing any cash, you can develop the following skills to help you:

  • Persuasive sales skills
  • Marketing skills
  • Finance skills
  • Technical knowledge of the industry you are selling in

The Truth About High-Ticket Earners

This will put you on the path to earning $1,000,000 a year, but it is not for the faint of heart.

Taking home $1,000,000 in a year from sales efforts requires discipline, long work weeks, and a fair bit of luck.

Currently, I pace around $1,000,000 per year in technology sales revenue. However, my take…

Drew Lowe
Drew Lowe

Written by Drew Lowe

Director of RevOps at DTG, $5M in Sales at 25yo

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