The Martell Method w/ Dan Martell
I Discovered the Best Businesses to Start in 2025 ($1M Potential)
Fri, 07 Mar 2025
Get The Book (Buy Back Your Time): https://bit.ly/3pCTG78 Subscribe to My Newsletter: https://bit.ly/3W2tjp2 I spent the last 30 days analyzing thousands of businesses and these are the best businesses to start in 2025… As Warren Buffet always said “great businesses have good gross margins” And I’m going to go through the most profitable businesses with the highest gross margins that you can start today. Even if this is your first business, or you’ve been doing it a long time… You can use these ideas to inspire your next move. And start building your empire.
Chapter 1: What are the best businesses to start in 2025?
I spent the last 30 days analyzing thousands of businesses and these are the best businesses to start in 2025. As Warren Buffett always says, great businesses have good gross margins. What are gross margins? Well, if I sell a coffee for $5 and it costs me a dollar to make it, my gross margin is $4 or 80%.
So I'm going to go through the most profitable businesses with the highest gross margins that you can start today. Welcome to the Martell Method. I went from rehab at 17 to building a $100 million empire and being a Wall Street Journal bestselling author. In this podcast, I'll show you exactly how to build a life and business you don't grow to hate.
Chapter 2: How can a chat sales agency become profitable?
And make sure you don't miss anything by subscribing to my newsletter at martellmethod.com. Starting with idea number one, chat sales agency. Gross margins for this business around 40 to 50%. Here's the deal, it's the future. 2025, chat sales are on the rise. I have clients making over a million dollars over chat. No sales call, no funnel, sales chat only. My top sales guy in commission.
makes over a million dollars a year selling over chat. Here's how not to mess it up. First thing is you have to find a growing industry. If you haven't heard, roofing, solar, consulting, these are all massively growing and expanding industries. My easiest way to do this is search fastest growing industries on ChatGPT or Google and get into those industries, but There's more to it.
Second part is you gotta tap into demand. If you're gonna start finding clients that you can do this for, you have to find people that already have built their audience, not somebody that's starting with zero, existing audiences only. Find people with massive followership.
It's crazy, but some people with massive Instagram accounts or massive social media accounts have never talked to all of their followers because they don't have anybody to do it or know how to do it right. And you could be the person to get money to flow into their pockets. The third is you gotta connect to a CRM.
The only way you can manage massive volumes of chats is with a CRM tool, some kind of platform that allows you to connect all the social media accounts and manage those chats. Our team uses a product called Revio and it's awesome. Not only does it integrate all the different social channels for us, it even uses AI to summarize the chat.
So if one of my reps come back to a chat, they haven't talked to somebody in a while, it lets them know where to start the conversation from based on what they've already said.
Before we get back to the episode, if you actually want to know what my real life looks like and see the people and the businesses and the companies I buy and my family and just like how I make it all work, go follow me on Instagram. Dan Martell, 2LZMartell on Instagram. It's where I show the behind the scenes, the real deal, real time. I'd love to see you there. Have an amazing day.
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Chapter 3: What are the keys to building a successful personal brand agency?
Which brings us to idea number two, personal brand agency. This business model also has gross margins between 40 and 50%. You've probably heard this said, but attention is the new oil. The future of commerce is built off the backend of trust, of personal brands, of influencers. We've seen this.
All the top companies in the world are rushing to become media companies because they know that the real distribution or the real sales channel is the trust that an influencer has with their audience. So being the agency that helps people connect those two dots will make you a lot of money.
What's crazy is that I personally know dozens of people that make multiple seven figures helping people expand, define, and grow their personal brands. Now, here's what they focus on to make the most money for their agency. The first one is pay for performance. You want to get paid for the results that you bring to these people.
If you're helping them take their followers from 8,000 to 80,000 or 800,000, you want to get paid a retainer plus the upside in that growth, especially if you help them make more money.
winners see the truth is is that everybody might want to be a personal brand but not everybody has it i've seen so many people try to create content and it falls flat they don't get the it factor they're not willing to share their heart they're not sharing anything new and if you are building an agency off those people you're gonna have to cut your losses as fast as possible
The third part is you wanna ask for referrals. The best agencies are grown off of VWOM, which stands for viral word of mouth. And you wanna ask them only after you got them a big win, if there's anybody else that they know and like that you might be able to help them with your agency to help grow their personal brand.
Which brings us to idea number three, ghostwriting agency, which has gross margins between 50 and 60%. There's a supply and demand problem with writers right now. Everybody wants to write a book, but no one wants to write it. They need ghostwriters. Same thing with content.
Right now, if you're somebody that can figure out somebody's voice and write in their voice to help them buy back their time, it is a beautiful agency to start. So here's the key things to not mess up if you're doing ghostwriting agency. The first one is to get paid upfront. When you start doing this agency, you need to get at least 50% upfront.
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Chapter 4: How to start a ghostwriting agency effectively?
If you've got multiple projects on the go, try to get lump sums of payment upfront so that you can fund your growth. The second thing you need to do, right, is you have to get on stages where other people that wanna write books are in those audiences.
So if you wanna write entrepreneurial books or other types, you wanna get in rooms of entrepreneurs, you wanna get on podcasts of entrepreneurs, you wanna get in front of these people that have built-in audiences. I call it OPP, Other People's Platforms.
So try to speak in front of large groups of people, explaining your process for ghostwriting so that you can create demand for what you have to sell. So number three is get familiar amongst a niche audience. So you wanna be the go-to person in your agency for let's say marketing entrepreneurs, or maybe sales entrepreneurs, or maybe operationally focused entrepreneurs.
You wanna write the top books in that niche so that everybody that thinks about writing that book, when they go ask who wrote that book, they'll recommend you as a ghostwriting agency. Before we get back to the episode, if you're enjoying it so far, could you go ahead and do me a huge favor and leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify?
Reviews help us get up in the rankings, which gives us credibility to reach out to bigger and bigger guests so we can bring them to you. It would mean so much. Let's get back to the episode. Which brings us to idea number four, virtual assistant placement with gross margins between 50 and 60%. When I wrote my book, Buy Back Your Time, tons of these agencies started popping up.
It was almost like my book became their full-time salesperson. And it's been great. I've actually had friends of mine that have started net new companies in the last two years that are already doing eight figures. You starting off and helping people connect, their pain of not having enough time with your ability to recruit and deliver on a great virtual assistant service is the key.
And the cool part is it's already been done and it's a proven model. So here's how you build that agency and not mess it up. Number one is get paid on delivery. It's way easier to sell if you can say, I will only charge you the moment the person starts and starts creating value for you as a business. Number two, guarantee placement.
Most recruiters that help people connect, especially virtual assistant, offer a two-month guarantee minimum. And if the person doesn't work out within that timeframe, you find them somebody else at no extra fee. And that creates a viral word of mouth that you need to grow that agency. Number three, send them a copy of my book, Buy Back Your Time.
Now, I know this is a bit of a plug, but let me tell you why. All of my friends use my book to promote their agency, especially to their marketing funnel.
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Chapter 5: What makes a virtual assistant placement agency successful?
Which brings us to idea number five, virtual reality training agency, which has on average gross margins between 60 and 70%. Now, some of you guys are gonna be like, what the heck is that? Here's what I know. I watch my kids play VR every night. They play this game called Gorilla Tag. They have their friends. It's this virtual community and it is the future.
They're using it right now for flight training, surgery training, high stakes environments. It's almost pixel perfect experience. If you become an expert at this, you're at the beginning of a massive wave of retraining people through distant learning using virtual reality. What you need to do right is this. First off, you have to sell enterprise packages.
You wanna sell big things to big companies so you make big profit. If you try to sell to SMB, small, medium businesses, there's a reason why they're small. So try to sell big things so they make big investments in your business. Number two, offer ongoing support.
This is my favorite thing in any agency model is to figure out how can I offer a subscription service for ongoing revenue in my business? So what are they gonna need long-term? Are they gonna need upgrades to the training, to the modules? Are they gonna need access to have the people that you've trained to answer questions with one of your certified support experts?
Whatever it is, offer an ongoing support fee to make it a reoccurring revenue business. Number three is finance the hardware. If you're gonna do virtual reality training, you might as well sell them the headsets. You can buy them wholesale, sell them at retail, or even more because you gotta manage all the configuration and the shipping, and then it becomes another way to monetize.
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Which brings us to idea number six, gamified learning platform with gross margins between 60 and 70%. The internet has taken over. Kids don't learn the same way anymore. Adults too. Everything has to be gamified. Everything has to have some kind of little leveling up and reward so that it really keeps the engagement there.
We've seen it with some of these like online meetings and virtual trainings. If there's no way to incentivize somebody to come back and feel like they're winning by learning, then they're not gonna stick. And that is the future. So a few things to get this business model right. Number one, sell before you build.
The fun part is there's existing platforms like membership.io where you can use their platform, sell it to somebody else, and then essentially white label that solution. But you pre-charge before you configure or build or pay for any software. So you make sure the customer is excited and ready to go. And all the gamification is already built for you.
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