you see your favorite youtubers
traveling the world and making money at
the same time and you wonder how the
heck they do it believe me we were in
the same boat so today we are going to
be explaining how we make money online
and how we fund our travels
and no it's not from youtube
this is probably one of the questions we
get asked most and there are many
assumptions about how we make money like
we come from wealthy families or that we
make millions of dollars from adsense
revenue because we have over 100 000
subscribers so we're here to finally
answer those questions and to debunk
some of your assumptions so first of all
many assume that we travel the world on
rich parents money
we do not
we work hard and smart for the money
that we make and we have both been doing
so since we were youngsters in high
school do we make millions from youtube
adsense
depends which currency we're talking
about
we'll answer that in a bit let's first
give you an understanding of our
background and how we got started so our
journey started as english teachers in
vietnam in 2019 we quit our jobs in
south africa and we invested in a tesla
course where we learned how to teach
english to foreign language speakers we
then got jobs as english teachers in
vietnam and after a while we wanted a
little bit more freedom to be able to
travel a lot more so we decided to start
teaching english online we realized that
we could pretty much do this from
anywhere in the world so we were moving
around teaching online and it was a
great way to become a digital solomid
what that means is that we work and make
money online digitally and that we can
do that from pretty much anywhere in the
world nomads
now in 2021 we are full-time video
editors for tim and finn and american
bay's travel youtube channel that is our
main source of income for now we save
for now because digital nomads tend to
always be working towards the next
project or the next side hustle our
second biggest source of income is
youtube do we make tons of money from
our channel unfortunately not can you
make lots of money from youtube yes you
can but you have to be in the right
niche and your content has to target the
right viewer base most travel channels
unfortunately do not make as much money
but that doesn't matter we didn't start
youtube for the money we started it
because we love creating videos we love
traveling and we really wanted to share
those memories with our family and
friends back home it was also a really
good opportunity to practice a new skill
set that we decided to pick up in 2019
which was video editing so it was a
perfect combination a typical video for
us can make between 10 and 100 dollars
and a more viral video can make between
100 and a thousand dollars in indonesia
where we are currently that is because
adsense in indonesia is very low
compared to places like the us europe
and australia in indonesia ads pay
around 60 cents usd per thousand views
our viral video that got nearly two
million views made us around a thousand
usd if it were a tech video targeting
viewers in more developed countries it
would probably make around twelve
thousand us dollars
nice
i think maybe we should change our
channel come i can
i can review some macbooks and some
cameras there regardless we really enjoy
doing it and it's a great little side
hustle and it creates a little bit of
extra change on the side sometimes it
pays for the rent for the month which is
more than enough just to clarify that
viral video we're talking about made us
that amount of money over its lifetime
which has been out for five months now
it didn't make us a thousand dollars
every single month we're only making a
couple dollars maybe 10 20 from that now
every month so before you jump in the
comments and say that a thousand dollars
is a lot if you spread a thousand
dollars over four months it's not enough
to be able to sustain yourself and
sustain travel and living abroad
so
effectively you need to make a viral
video every month at least
to just get you a thousand dollars
a month which is basically what you need
to live while traveling i'd say a
thousand dollars is
the minimum you'd need to live i think
people do it for 800 but that's like
really really really low so i mean but
that's excluding visas and flights
flying all over the place and paying for
visas is a lot more than a thousand
dollars okay sidetracked regardless it
isn't a good idea to just throw all your
eggs into one basket and decide to
become a youtuber and expect to earn a
complete salary off of that it isn't
gonna happen like now for instance
youtube is taking a bit of a dip
generally and on our channel and our
views are nowhere near as high as what
they used to be so obviously we're not
earning as much yeah it's like
three to five hundred dollars a month
which is really not enough if you want
to travel a lot so you definitely want
to make sure you do have a skill set
that you can leverage to a primary
income source or affiliate links and
sponsored content and that brings us to
our third biggest income source
affiliate links are small streams of
income that come in here and there some
are passive and some are once off we
have affiliate links to epidemic sound
airbnb amazon safety wing travel
insurance etc and they are always linked
in the descriptions of our videos so if
one of you clicks on those links and
purchases something we'll get a small
kickback in return regardless these
affiliate links lead to just a tiny bit
of money every month talking maybe a
hundred dollars
maybe 200 if that it's a very small
stream of income once again that is for
our channel you can make a lot of money
from affiliate linking depending on what
channel you are especially in the tech
industry once again i think we should go
into
take youtube speaking of affiliate links
and sponsored content that brings us to
today's sponsor of this video it's
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we've been using epidemic sound from the
beginning of our journey and they have
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if you go watch our very first youtube
video
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please don't it's a little embarrassing
you will hear an epidemic song straight
away and that's because music and sound
design has been a very big part of our
editing journey right from the start it
is something that we take very seriously
and we take a lot of time to find the
perfect song that complements the scene
and that brings out the emotion in our
footage so much so that if you played an
epidemic song that we've used in our
videos before i can tell you what memory
belongs to that specific song should we
play a game why not
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clarence
this video
what video is this song from
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walking through klcc park and seeing the
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river rafting in bali with tabby and
nicole
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two months for free they have two plans
there's the personal one and the
commercial plan but we'll talk more
about the plans a little bit later for
now let's show you how to actually use
the platform itself like search for
music okay once you've logged in and
you've linked your youtube channel
you'll see in the top here it's actually
really smart they have recommendations
based on red and clear which is really
cool so it kind of learns what music you
like what genres you're into so a lot of
the time when we searching for a new
song for video i'll first go through
these generally they are right up our
alley okay so let's just go ahead and
try one of these songs
the player works flawlessly
i really like the song
so let's say i've used the song already
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it's by dylan sits mountain brook
they've got this neat little button here
it says find similar click on that and
it will probably bring out quite a lot
of delinquent songs and ones that sound
similar
so that's a really easy way to go
and find songs that you like in that
genre and that's generally how we find a
lot of our music also you can click on
the me tab
and we can create a whole bunch of
playlists here we've got tons of
playlists
if we want more chilled or beautiful
cinematic songs
beach songs asian specific songs we've
got an asian folder
we've got
typical tokyo japanese style songs here
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and then a bunch of all your playlists
pop up and you can just click to add a
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is let's say you click on a song from
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signifies that the song has vocals if
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hear the vocals you can click on this
little button here stems and then you
can download the melody stem or you can
just download the instrument stem so you
click instruments and then
download
then we'll say either an option to
download all stems or download just the
instruments in this case i only want
instruments
pops into your downloads folder and done
just like that super easy ready to use
the song one feature we really love
about epidemic sound is the ability to
download sound effects they've got a
massive sound effect library which we
absolutely love we've been using their
sound effects in a lot of our cinematic
sequences and it really just helps it's
one of my favorite parts about video
editing it's just the sound design i
find it extremely rewarding to just add
beautiful subtle sounds to your videos
it just adds so much more impact
really just takes the viewer into the
scene okay so let's get back to talking
about some of the plans when we first
started our youtube channel we signed up
for the personal plan which was 12 a
month it was super good they've got 35
000 tracks and 90 000 soundtracks and
you get the first month free but some of
you may know that we do videography when
you're back home so we do some
commercial jobs such as weddings and
stuff and because of that we went ahead
and signed up for the commercial plan
which is 25 dollars a month or 2.99 a
year and that allows you to actually use
the songs from epidemic for your
commercial clients copyright free music
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journey 60 when you sign up back to the
video so in conclusion we would never
suggest to somebody to start a youtube
channel for the money it is a lot
a lot of work and it takes a lot of
money upfront for the initial
investments we've spent thousands of
dollars on gear and equipment needed to
create the videos and all the softwares
that we use to edit color grade and do
sound design like epidemic sound all in
all it's a lot of money upfront with
very little return it's not always
a feasible way of making money so that's
why we rely on video editing to make us
the majority of our money but if video
editing isn't your forte there are so
many other ways to make money as a
digital nomad such as social media
management digital marketing coding
amazon fba drop shipping forex trading
cryptocurrency trading
there's just so many there's actually a
link in our description to a book
written by dane and stacy a fellow
youtube channel so we highly recommend
going to check that out it'll give you a
super in-depth look into how to become a
digital nomad they cover so many
different things you can do so we highly
recommend reading that book it's
something that we made a purchase on in
2018 and it really really helped us to
just open up our minds and to start
thinking a little differently because it
is definitely a mind shift when it comes
to becoming a digital nomad an example
where we had to shift our minds is to
really get rid of materialistic things
and owning too many things back home in
south africa we spent a lot of money
owning a car running the car paying for
petrol insuring it and doing maintenance
on it that's something that you know we
now save money because we don't have a
car we don't have to worry about that as
well as if you own a house there's a
whole bunch of costs involved like home
insurance and to ensure all your content
is in your house is another cost paying
off a bond rates taxes water electricity
all these things when you're digital to
nomad you don't have to worry about that
i mean obviously we have to pay for our
rent here and usually that covers all
the utilities like electricity and
internet so
it does work out a lot cheaper we're
paying five million to stay here per
month and that includes absolutely
everything whereas at home
it was just 10 million for the rent then
we had to pay for the electricity then
you had to pay for the internet
it all just added up so it was
definitely a mindset change but it can
be done and it definitely can work out
cheaper it all starts with you just
trying new things picking up new skills
or maybe even starting new businesses we
used to
love
watching these types of videos of our
favorite youtubers explaining how they
make money online so go ahead and watch
a whole bunch of those videos on youtube
it really helps and it's actually the
way we
started we watched people on youtube so
they were doing it decided to do what
they did and it worked out in the end
you just have to fully commit to it make
some space in your life i know everyone
works long hours but you've really just
got to like not watch a little bit of
netflix one night and just like try
learn a new skill and maybe you'll
develop a new passion and you'll go from
there just a side note those interested
in teaching online i don't want to be a
daisy downer but it doesn't seem like
it's a legitimate income stream anymore
because of the new chinese laws it's
making it a lot harder and harder for
people to work online and teach english
to chinese students online if you were
considering that as a career path maybe
look at something else sorry guys we
hope you guys found this video helpful
and yeah that gives you an insight into
our lives and how we make money if you
have any other questions or you have any
other video ideas for us leave them in
the comments below but besides that
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the next one bye
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