I was seconds away from publishing this video when I took it down
because I realized that something very,
very important was missing something so important and so
obvious that I missed it myself,
and it made me question if I believed it in my own life
for many years.
The most important thing,
regardless of the tips and tactics and strategies
and this video for making money online,
is your belief in yourself, okay?
It's your belief in your skills,
in your abilities, in your self worth,
and in your potential
to sustain yourself and to support your lifestyle
through making money online.
Your belief that you can make money online and that
there is no limit to how much money you can make online.
Okay?
This video has one of many strategies on how to do that,
and that's with using your skills that you have today.
This is the fastest place to start, but before starting with that,
it is indispensable that you
understand that it doesn't matter what has happened to this
date. It doesn't matter how many times you've tried to make money online.
It doesn't matter how many times you failed.
It doesn't matter how many goals you've abandoned or how many times you didn't
follow through with what you said you were going to do.
What matters is that you understand that from this moment forward,
you have a fresh start and you have the capacity and
capability of making money online.
If you are old enough to be Googling how to make money online
in 2020 and beyond, you can do it.
And in all my years of supporting myself online and all the
thousands of people who I've met who do it or have tried to do it,
the biggest thing blocking people,
myself included from success is
simply the belief that you can,
you can operate out of where you are today, okay? You don't have to wait.
You don't have to take another course.
You don't have to get a degree in something,
you don't have to learn a new skill.
There's something that you know now that you can
monetize online. Okay?
So there's a really important quote by um,
by Napoleon Hill, who's the author of Think and Grow Rich,
and another book called Success through a Positive Mental Attitude.
And he says,
Regardless of what you've been or what you are,
you can be what you want if you act with a positive
mental attitude. So before watching this video and before getting into it,
get your head right,
sit with this for a minute and ask yourself,
do I believe I am worthy of making money online?
Do I believe I'm capable of making money online?
Just sit with that
because you are okay.
You can do it if you believe in yourself. That's it.
That's where you start. Okay, so let's get into the video.
Do you want to learn how to make money online today with the skills you already
have? My name's Kristin Wilson,
and I've been making money online since 2008 while traveling the
world to more than 60 different countries. As a digital nomad,
people are always asking me how they can make money online fast,
and I believe that anyone can do it if they know how. In this video,
for the first time ever,
I'm sharing my six step process on how you can make money online
today without quitting your job and without having to learn anything
new. Before we get started,
you can check out a link in this video's description to download a worksheet so
that you can take notes throughout this video and capture any ideas or questions
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Now, let's get into it.
The first step to making money online is to figure out why you really wanna
do it. For anything that you do in life, you have to have a strong why,
and making an online income is no exception.
A lot of people skip this very important first step,
but without a strong why. It's gonna be really hard to get going.
Once motivation wears off and hard work sets in when you don't feel
like sending that email or taking another sales call while your friends and
family are out having fun,
you really need to have a strong why to fall back on Simon Sinek,
the speaker and author of the book, Start With Why,
says that your WHY is a point of reference for everything you do moving forward,
and I completely agree
before really getting into the meat of how to make money online.
Take a couple minutes to pull out a sheet of paper or use the worksheet below
and just write out,
making money online is important to me because blank,
and if you are drawing a blank, then you can phrase it as a question,
why is making money online important to me?
Or why is being able to make money online important to me?
Say it however it makes the most sense to you.
And then you wanna take the answer that you get and go a little bit deeper.
Rephrase the question using the answer that you get in the first part.
Let's say making money online is important for you so that you can be your own
boss. Then you can say, okay, well why is being my own boss important to me?
Maybe it's having more control of your time or having extra freedom
or being able to work in something that you're passionate about.
Whatever that answer is,
keep taking it and re-asking yourself the question until you do it
five, six or seven times, and at the end of this exercise,
you'll come out with a pretty different why than the initial one that you first
started with. So a lot of people say, well,
I wanna make money online so that I can make more money,
but money is usually not enough.
Try to think about what your core motivation is below the money.
What are you gonna use that money for?
Why is having that money important for you?
Let me know what you come up with in the comments below.
Step two is to figure out what you're good at. Now,
this can seem obvious,
but the first mistake that I see a lot of people make is that they think that
if they wanna make money online,
that they have to completely quit their job or change industries or learn
to do something completely new.
Let's say that you were working at a restaurant or you were working in marketing
and then all of a sudden you wanna make money online,
so you decide to go to school to learn how to become a programmer.
That's probably not necessary unless you want to be an engineer.
If you're really good at sales, but you wanna make money online,
that doesn't mean that you have to quit doing sales and learn how to do
affiliate marketing or how to set up a Shopify store.
You can already monetize the skills that you have now,
but you've been paid for in the past, just online instead of in real life,
and you probably already have the means of doing this at home.
All you need is an internet connection and a device of some kind,
a computer or a cell phone.
The problem is that people usually underestimate their zone of genius
or their area of expertise.
So think of some things that you're really good at,
you probably think or assume that other people know how to do it too,
but not so.
In step two,
just brainstorm a list of all the things that you think you're good at.
I'm sure it's quite a long list, and if you get stuck,
you can ask your friends or family,
or you can look back at old job descriptions or your resume and start picking
out skills, traits, qualities and abilities.
Either soft skills like uh,
the ability to be a good listener or to have empathy or hard skills like
knowing how to translate English to Spanish,
or knowing how to do graphic design. Use Photoshop for example.
There are no wrong answers here and don't worry about how much these skills
are worth or how you're going to monetize them just yet.
We're gonna get to that step in a minute.
But your job here is to just make a long list and if you get stuck,
look to some external sources and you can even take a strengths finder test,
which I'll link to you below. Finally, if you're really stuck, think about, uh,
what are the things that people usually ask you for help with that can be a
really good indicator of what other people think you're good at and what they
might pay you for.
The next step is to decide how you want to monetize your skills. Now,
there's three main ways that you can go about this.
You can apply for a remote job in your area of expertise.
You can start an online business or you can sell your services as a
freelancer.
This video is going to focus specifically on how to do this as a freelancer,
but you can subscribe to see my other videos on how to find a remote job or
how to start an online business.
The most important part of making this decision is basically thinking about
if you want to work for yourself or if you wanna work for someone else.
Of course, finding a remote job takes time.
Starting an online business takes time,
but exchanging your services for money today is the fastest way in
my opinion, to make money online.
Now it's time to price out your services and write a statement
of what it is that you do and what problem you solve.
An easy way to do this is to just take a look at the list of skills and
abilities that you already made and then start plugging them in and searching
for them online on different freelancing sites.
A few examples are Upwork, Freelancer.com and Fiver,
but there are also specific freelancing site, uh, for different skill sets.
For example, dribble is good for artists and creative types.
While there's a lot of different freelancing sites,
if you have programming skills,
now you don't have to make a profile on a freelancing site to be able to make
money online,
but it's really good to do some research on there just to see what the different
price ranges are for your services and how people are pricing them if they're
doing it per hour per project or some other way. As an example,
you can go on Fiverr.com, type in anything.
Let's say you're doing writing,
and then come up with all the different types of writing and people who are
offering that service. I like to sort by highest rated,
so you can see like the top one to 10% of freelancers on that site.
Hopefully that's where your price point can be.
You're going to notice that if you pick something very broad like writing,
there are a lot of different facets and niches that you can pursue.
So you could do ghostwriting, you could do blogging, you could do copywriting,
you could do screenwriting, you could do proofreading and editing.
Once you pick a general area of a skillset that you wanna work in,
that you have experience with,
you can then get ideas for different things that you can offer to your future
client.
The next step that you absolutely have to do if you wanna make money online
is set up a way to get paid. A lot of people skip this step as well,
but you can't make money online if you don't have a way for people to pay you.
If you do end up going the route of setting up a profile on a freelancing
site, then those sites have built in payment options,
but they also take a hefty fee. It varies from site to site,
but on every job that you get through that site,
you will have to pay the site a fee or they will take it out before they pay
you.
So it's really good to have your own way of accepting payments without a
third party or intermediary.
Two really popular and easy ways to get paid online are the
invoicing and payment apps Wave and also Bonsai.
You can connect these sites with your bank account or with your PayPal account
or even with your Stripe account, so you can accept credit cards, for example.
Um, you can send invoices, you can track accounts receivable,
and of course you can accept payments if you don't feel like setting up an app,
you can even send an invoice through PayPal directly.
Almost everybody in the world has PayPal it seems.
So that's a really easy way to send an invoice to people and allow them
to choose which payment option is best for them.
You'll find payment fees of anywhere from usually one to 3%,
depending on the option you choose,
or depending on the option that your client chooses,
but it's still a small price to pay for the freedom of getting
paid online.
Transferwise is another great way to get paid online anywhere in the world.
If you don't have an account there already,
you can use my link in this video's description and get your first transfer
for free up to 500 British pounds. All of these sites,
Wave, Bonsai, TransferWise, or even PayPal.
If you're new to that,
you can set them up really quickly and usually get them verified within a couple
hours or at the very least on the same day. And of course,
you can also link any of these freelancing apps to an online bank account or a
digital account like oxygen.
Another tip for setting rates is to think about in advance how you're going
to charge people as far as how much you're going to charge them upfront,
or if you're going to have a different payment plan where they pay 25% upfront
and then another 25% halfway through, and then 50% at the end or 50 50,
or if you wanna take the full payment upfront or at the end,
there are no wrong answers.
It just depends on your client relationship and what's common for your market area.
So now you know for sure why you wanna make money online.
You've made a list of your top skills. You've done your research,
you know what the market rates are, you have a way to get paid.
What's missing client? Step six, the last step,
your job is to spread the word.
If you're just starting out making money online,
then talking with people one-on-one is the most natural and direct
and effective way to promote your services and get the word out and
also learn what your ideal client or your target customer wants help with.
Because what people might start asking you for help with could be slightly
different or much different from your original list of things that you
brainstormed. Think of it as necessary market research,
even if you struggle to close sales at the beginning.
Another tip is to post that you're open for business on LinkedIn.
LinkedIn actually has a built-in feature that you can use to notify your network
that you're accepting clients,
and you can also share that to Twitter or to other social media platforms.
Remember that the only way you can help people with the services that you're
good at is if you work for them.
So you really need to be able to find clients to be able to make money online
and also help the people that you want to help.
You can also get one-on-one personalized help from me by booking a
call in the description below,
or signing up for my four week program on how to make money online,
the Make Money Mentorship.