8 Realistic Businesses Anyone Can 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 cost 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 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 dollar over chat no sales call no final sales chat only my top sales guy in commission makes over a million dollar 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 chat GPT or Google and get into those Industries but there's more to

it second part is you got to tap into demand if you're going to 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 and never talked to all of their followers cuz they don't have anybody to do it or know how to do it right and you could be the person person to get money to flow into their pockets

the third is you got to 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 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 880,000 or 800,000 you want to get paid a retainer plus the upside in that growth especially if you

help them make more money the second part is you want to double down on 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 got 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 going to have to cut your losses as fast as possible the third part is you want to ask for referrals the best

agencies are grown off of vong which stands for viral word of mouth and you want to 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 ghost writing 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 ghost writers 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 ghost writing agency the first one is to get paid up FR when you start doing this agency you need to get at least 50% UPF front 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 want to write books are in those audiences so if you want to write entrepreneurial books or other types you want to get in rooms of entrepreneurs you want to get on podcasts of entrepreneurs you want to get in front of these people that have built-in audiences I call it op other people's platforms so try to speak in front of large groups of people explaining your process for ghost writing so that you can create demand for what you have to sell so number three

is get familiar amongst a niche audience so you want to be the go-to person in your Agency for let's say marketing entrepreneurs or maybe sales entrepreneurs or maybe operationally focused entrepreneurs you want to 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 ghost writing agency 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 2-month guarantee minimum and if the person doesn't work out within the that time frame you find them somebody else at no extra fee and that creates that 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 so if they have somebody on the fence and they're like yeah I think I should hire somebody but I don't even know what I'd give them they send them my book as a gift to get that person focus on valuing their time and understanding what they would give up to get more time to do the thing that makes them the most money 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 going to 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 guilla 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 math 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 want to 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 Reven Revenue in my business so what are they going

to need longterm are they going to need upgrades to the training to the modules are they going to 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 going to 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 got to manage all the configuration and the shipping and then

it becomes another way to monetize 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 going to 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. where you can use their platform sell it to somebody else and then essentially wh 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 already built for you you just become the person that configur it for that company number two is Target Enterprises the key I always think

about is is who would value this kind of platform I think of any company that trains their employees that has high turnover where there's real need for a great experience for learning so think commission-based sales reps like car dealership Insurance reps retail Quick Serve restaurants anybody that has a lot of turnover amongst their employees and require training to get them proficient are going to love this gamified platform number three is open to the public what shifted in the market is the desire to try before you buy this whole freemium concept you're seeing this over and

over in all these online learning platforms where they're doing these free communities where people can come in get exposed to a little bit of what you've got and then pay a subscription to get access to the rest of it you've seen companies like you to me do this it is a massive way to get distribution because everybody's going to talk about your free thing that's going to bring you a lot of people that will eventually pay for your membership which brings us to idea number seven AI automation agency with gross margins between 70 and 80%

when I speak on stage at Tony Robbins business Mastery I talk about the power of AI and how it's transforming businesses and everybody wants to ask is who can help me with this change there is a massive appetite for agencies who are able to help small business owners to make the transition a lot of people are scared around artificial intelligence and My Philosophy is this is AI is not going to take your job but somebody using AI will in the industry we call this a co-pilot and every role or function now has AI integrated into

into it there's a statistic I saw recently that said 93% of businesses in the US have not yet implemented AI into their business it is a massive opportunity but these are the things you have to get right to make it profitable for you number one consult on tools see teaching businesses how to use tools before building the automation is actually a massive opportunity they need to learn how chat GPT Works integrated into their habits understanding what AI tools exist for their function if it's design or Finance or operations then once you teach them that you

can get paid for the automation part number two is focus on cash automate the things that's going to make the business that you serve the most money first that is the easiest way to not only get a massive win for the owner but also to keep them coming back to pay you for more the more money you help them make the more money they'll reinvest in your Agency number three is develop Partnerships my favorite way to get new customers is find people that already have a relationship with my perfect fit customer and then offer them

advanced training they can offer their community that you deliver for free to get in front of them then you might offer them some kind of commission or build an affiliate program to reward them for referring people your way which brings us to idea number eight AI first SAS business with gross margins between 80 and 90% this is the one I'm personally going all in on I've already launched two companies in the last month and it's essentially focusing on AI first solutions to the world's biggest problems why I actually think think SAS is going to die

which is crazy saying this because you've probably seen me talk about this for over 25 years SAS now stands for success as a service not software as a service because businesses want a button or an agent or a tool that just creates an outcome they don't need the software and the workflow and the data entry they want to be able to say keep being successful I don't want to have to manage a customer relationship management software I just want to be able to ask the question about my customer base and it just answer it that

is the future and it's why I'm investing so heavily there here's what I'm doing that you can use to be successful in this model first off pick a boring industry see most people want to go to a marketing technology tools because that's fun and sexy and everybody talks about it I go to boring I go to Legal I go to Medical I go to building manufacturing and approach it with an AI first solution because it's non competitive number two is I pre-sell the service meaning that before I build anything I can prototype it I can

explain how it's going to work I can even show them a virtual demo and get people to buy before I build anything to fund the development number three is build AI agents help your clients solve problems Faster by implementing AI agents that monitor and take action on behalf of the customer before they ever ask examples of that are like purchasing agents research agents prospecting agents these AI agents will be able to be specialized focused on doing one thing and you'll have a dispatch agent monitoring and routing the specific things that needs to get done to

the different AG agents that is the future so here's the fun part if you made it to the end I have no doubt that you'll be wildly successful the fact that you're here tells me everything I need to know about you and your determination and your willingness to build something meaningful and honestly I want to honor you for that building a business is never easy but it is definitely worth it now if you want to learn how I built my business that runs itself click the video and I'll see you on the other side