Imagine making over thousand dollars a day just by using some basic tools like ChatGPT, Google search and Google Maps. It may sound unreal, but it’s true! I’ve found several people doing this same thing and making hundreds of dollars every single hour with very less to absolutely no effort. It’s all about knowing the right technique to make money.
To make money with this method, you don’t need to have any kind of prior experience, it’s so easy that even a teenager can implement it to make money. The best part about this business is, not many people know about it. So, it has a huge potential to make money.
One of my friend made over $17,000 last month doing this same thing. If you follow this method and spend just one or two hours a day, then you can easily make over $1,000, which is $30,000 a month. How crazy is that? As I said, this is possible only because this side hustle is still unknown to many.
To do this, all you need is a smartphone and a free tool that I’ll tell you about later in this post.
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Step 1: Searching on Google
At first, we need to do a Google search to find out some data we need. Just go to Google and type this in your search bar site:yellowpages.com “restaurant” “@gmail.com” OR “@yahoo.com” OR “@hotmail.com” OR “@outlook.com” OR “@aol.com” OR “@icloud.com” (You can insert your city name into the search to find out restaurants near you.) After searching this, it will show us all the restaurants, whose email addresses are publicly available. Once you hit search, you’ll see a list of restaurants with their contact emails.
Or you can directly search on Google Maps to find restaurants near you.
Step 2: Formatting the Information
After, you get the list of restaurants with their email addresses, just copy the whole thing and take it to ChatGPT. Then, use this simple prompt to manage those messy data you just copied from Google.
“Format the data below into a table with these columns: Full Name, Company Name, Website URL, Email, and Phone Number.“
Then, ChatGPT will convert the messy data, you copied from Google into clean and well managed table. After ChatGPT generates the table with data, copy it and paste it into Google Sheets or Excel so, it’s easier for you to access it.
Step 3: Checking for a Virtual Tour
Now, select a restaurant from your list and go to their Google Maps listing. There, click on “See Photos” and scroll to the right, where you’ll find a section called “Street View & 360”. Click on it. We’re doing this to see, if the restaurant already has it’s virtual tour listed or not.
If they don’t, then we’ll help them make one. Don’t worry, it’s super simple and I’ll guide you through the entire step to do it. Many restaurants don’t have a proper virtual tour so, it’s a great opportunity to make money.
Step 4: Download the Free App
Now, You’ll need a free app that can take 360-degree photos. For this, we’ll use a free app called “360 Photo Sphere Camera”. It works only on andriod so, for ios, you can use this app called “Simple 360 VR Media Player App”. It’s super easy to use these apps.
Once you install the app, open it. Then, hold up your phone, and slowly spin around in a circle. Every time you see a green dot in the screen, place it inside a circle given in the screen. This app takes multiple photos of the place and stitches them together to create a 360 degree virtual tour of the place. It takes less than a minute to do this. (If you didn’t understand this process, just open the app and try it for yourself! You’ll learn it in no time.)
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Step 5: Uploading the Virtual Tour
When you’re done, go to Google Maps, find that restaurant, and click on “Contribute”. Then, upload the virtual tour you just took with the app.
Now, here’s how you’ll make money doing this!
Step 6: Email the Restaurant
After you upload the virtual tour on Google Maps, wait for atleast a week. During that time, the virtual tour will start getting views. Once it start getting some views, you can email the restaurant owner.
Here’s what you’ll say in the email:
- Remind them that you created a free virtual tour of their restaurant sometimes ago.
- Mention that it is getting good amount of views. (wait till it gets atleast 500-1000 views to get better results)
- Then, offer to license the virtual tour to them for $500 to keep it live.
- Let them know that if they’re not interested in this offer, you’ll remove the virtual tour from their listing.
The main reason why it works is, they’re not paying for a random service, they’re paying for something that’s already proven to work. By seeing how many views the virtual tour is getting, the restaurant owner likely won’t hesitate to give you $500 for it.
Bonus Tips for Success
- Target restaurants with few photos — Restaurants will less photos and video on their Google Map listing are more likely to accept your offer.
- Check for good reviews — A well-reviewed restaurant with poor photos most likely won’t decline your offer.
- Collect testimonials — Once you’ve done a few tours, ask those restaurants owners for a quick testimonial. You can use these testimonials in your future emails to make other owners feel more confident in saying yes to your offer.
Why This Works
Since you created the virtual tour, you own it. And if a restaurant doesn’t have a virtual tour already and once they see that the virtual tour you made for them is getting some views, they will definitely pay you for it. You’re charging them to give the full rights of the virtual tour to them.
And the main thing is, even though it’s so simple to create a virtual tour, people don’t have an idea on how to do it.
So, if they pay you for it, your job is done, but if they refuse the offer, you can remove the virtual tour.
Final Thoughts
So, this was all about creating virtual tour for restaurants and making money selling it’s rights back to the restaurant. This method works so well because you’re giving value first, then only charging for it.
Even if they reject your offer, don’t you worry! It took you less than a minute to create that virtual tour. So, even if one restaurant out of 10 accepts your offer, you’ll do fine!
Now, don’t just keep thinking about it. Go and give it a shot to make money for yourself! And let me know if you have any doubts, down in the comments below!
