Get Started In The Handshake Economy™
$99
Your First $500 Selling Real Products to Real People — No Experience Required.
WHILE EVERYONE ELSE IS CHASING ALGORITHMS...
There's a quieter, faster, more human way to make real money. No audience. No online store. No algorithm to fight. Just a proven product, the right price, and the willingness to show up.
I sold popcorn at a high school event and walked away with $1,000 cash in six hours. I made donuts on-site at a tractor pull and did $2,800 in three hours. I bought a $5 lamp at a garage sale and sold it for $40 before I got home.
This guide is everything I know about making your first $500 — the real way.
WHAT YOU GET
📖 88-page step-by-step guide — 10 chapters, designed to be read in one sitting and acted on the same day
🧮 The Product Evaluator — 8 plain-English formulas you can run on a $5 calculator before you spend a dollar
📊 The 14-Day Selling Calendar — a day-by-day action plan from Day 1 to $500
🏷 The One-Page Cheat Sheet — every formula, rule, and checklist on one printable page
🌐 Free access to the interactive Product Evaluator at TheHandshakeEconomy.com (coming soon)
WHO THIS IS FOR
✅ Complete beginners with no business experience
✅ Anyone who wants to make money without an online store, social following, or startup capital
✅ People who love baking, making, thrifting, or selling — and want to get paid for it
✅ Anyone who's tired of "make money online" guides that require everything except an actual product
WHAT YOU'LL WALK AWAY KNOWING
— How to pick a proven product (not invent one) using categories that already work
— How to run the numbers before you spend a dollar — costs, margins, markup, break-even
— How to build a brand that gets remembered — even on a zero budget
— How to price with confidence and hold your price when someone pushes back
— Where to sell: farmers markets, pop-ups, Facebook Marketplace, local events, and more
— How to turn one customer into ten using the people already in your phone
— When and how to add the internet as a force multiplier — not a starting point
THE PROMISE
This guide promises $500 in 14 days. That's not a guess — it's a playbook built from real experience across candles, popcorn, donuts, garage flips, and a kettle corn brand that ended up in a Division I NCAA stadium.
If you follow the playbook, run the numbers, and show up — the $500 follows.