What is up everyone. Welcome back to my channel. The best place,
learn how to get visible using social media and get paid at using business
strategy. Now, in today's video,
I want to share with you guys how you can make your first $1,000 at using social
media. We're not talking about 10 K months. We're not talking about six figures.
You're not talking about seven figures.
We're just focused on getting your first $1,000. So let's get going.
So the first way to make your first $1,000 using social media is one-on-one
coaching one-on-one consulting or freelancing.
This is how I started back in 2018. And I recommend this method.
If you have a small following and you have an expertise to share.
And what I mean by expertise is maybe in your free content,
you're already teaching people how to do stuff.
You're doing educational content. In my case, back in 2018,
I was teaching people how to quit their nine to five because I had done it.
And I was also teaching people how to use social media.
What ended up happening is I saw that there was a small handful of people that
would DM me asking me for personalized advice. And to this day,
I still get tons of DMS about this.
And so what I saw was an opportunity to create a service where I could actually
help people at the one-on-one level, answer all their questions and in exchange,
they pay me for it. Now,
the reason why I say these revenue streams are really great,
especially if you have a small following is because at the one-on-one level,
or maybe even at the freelancing level where you're actually doing something for
someone you're actually exchanging your time.
And because you're giving someone your time,
that is worth a high ticket price point.
And so let's say if you only have three clients that you work with,
but for each client you're charging maybe $500,
you're able to make 1500 right there.
And regardless of how small your following is,
I'm sure that you are able to find three clients.
And if you need more help with this,
I have a free training over at www dot followers, declines.com,
where I share the entire roadmap of how I was able to do this for myself. Now,
at this point or the video you might be thinking to yourself,
I don't think I have an expertise to share at all. And that is very common.
I felt the same way back in 2018,
but here's an example of a student of mine who was already sharing tips to
people on how she was able to heal her Exuma fast forward to today,
she was able to make multiple thousands of dollars because now she offers
one-on-one coaching, teaching other people how to heal their Exuma.
And so this is the potential that you have when it comes to monetizing your
content. Because remember,
you're already teaching people for free at a mass level anyways,
on social media.
Now you're opening up a stream of revenue where you're able to actually give
someone your personalized advice and get paid for it. And again,
if you still feel like you don't have enough experience,
or you're scared to actually start thinking about this,
then check out my training, where I cover all of the steps.
Now let's talk about the next way that you can make your first $1,000 using
social media. And that is selling exclusive content.
Now this requires a little bit more loyalty from your audience and actually
having a slightly bigger audience than the first option that I shared. Now,
there are many ways that you can sell exclusive content.
It can come in the form of a membership or a course.
So membership being something like Patrion,
where people are able to access private, exclusive content from you in exchange,
they pay you for it. Now for courses,
it's a little bit different where you're actually packaging really high quality
content for people so that they can get a specific result. So, as an example,
I have a course myself and inside this program,
I have all of my content that I don't share anywhere else on my free channels.
It's organized in a way to help someone get a specific result by the end of the
course, and that is signing paid clients for their one-on-one coaching programs.
One of the best things about having a course is I only filmed the content once
and I'm able to help people on a mass level versus the first option that I
shared with you, which is one-on-one coaching or one-on-one consulting,
or even freelancing. You are trading your time for money.
So when you start getting booked out with clients,
you have a maximum capacity of how much people you can take and how much money
you can make. Versus if you transition into a course or maybe even a membership,
you're at least able to help people on a mass level. Now,
before you start telling yourself, oh my gosh,
I'm going to immediately scale up my time and create a membership or create a
course. Like I said earlier,
you do need a loyal following or a bigger audience.
And what I mean by that is if let's say you want to do a Patrion membership or
YouTube membership or whatever else,
most of these memberships are very low priced. Maybe they're about $20 a month,
$50 a month, less than a hundred dollars a month,
unless you add a lot of value in it. Now, if you have a small audience,
it's going to be very hard for you to make your first thousand dollars.
So let's imagine for $10 a month,
people get exclusive content to you while you're going to need about a hundred
people every single month,
paying $10 in order for you to make $1,000 per month. Now,
if you don't even have the audience for that,
it's going to be very challenging unless you have a very small but loyal
audience. And for courses, it's typically the same thing.
There are usually three things that I like to say, make up a successful program.
And that is traffic. Meaning that if you sell a program that's less than $1,000,
$2,000, you need to make sure that you have enough people buying that.
The second thing is social proof.
People want to know that your course has gotten results for other people.
And because they're not necessarily getting personalized support from you,
it's really going to rely on your course content to get them that result.
And then the third thing is a proven process in order for people to actually get
results in your course,
you need to have a proven roadmap to get them a result without you being there.
Because again, there's no customization, there's no personalization,
and this will require some experience,
which is why I always like to tell people to start with one-on-one services
first. And again, I talk about it in my free training here,
where I really walked through how I did it,
how I went from working for free clients all the way up to courses.
And so make sure you click the link in my description box or in the comment
section below to access that training.
Now let's say you're watching this and you're like, Vanessa,
I'm not interested in courses.
I'm not interested in one-on-one coaching consulting or freelancing or anything
like that. Well, I have something for you and that is affiliate marketing.
Meaning that every time you link a product to your content and someone buys that
product, you get a kickback from it.
Now here's one thing that you need to know though,
is that even with affiliate marketing, depending on what you're promoting,
you still need a substantial amount of traffic. Because most times, for example,
if you're promoting a product that you bought on Amazon and you have an
affiliate link for it, and someone buys it, the kickback is quite small. Now,
despite all of this, I do have a bonus tip for you.
If you still want to make affiliate marketing work for yourself,
even if you have, let's say a lower following or not a lot of traffic,
and that is being very strategic with the products that you push. Now,
obviously at the heart of it,
you should still push products that you actually enjoy and that you can actually
speak to. But if you actually look at the affiliate commissions on Amazon,
what you'll notice is that for each product category,
there are different affiliate kickbacks. For example,
if you promote a product and it's in luxury beauty, and someone buys it,
you get 10% versus if you promote something like a physical
video game, you only get one person.
And so knowing the different kickbacks is going to be very advantageous for you.
If you want to be strategic with how much money you make. Now,
here's another tip that I have for you.
If you have a smaller following or not a lot of traffic,
and that is choosing products that are higher ticket,
meaning even though Amazon is only giving you, let's say 4% commission,
it is better to get 4% off of an item that is $500 or a thousand dollars such as
anything within tech versus getting a 4% kickback on something small,
like a notebook, not only this,
another piece of advice that I have for you when it comes to affiliate marketing
is even looking beyond just Amazon and trying to partner with other affiliate
programs, other companies, other software,
other services that have a higher back in general. So for example,
anytime someone purchases my link for Kajabi,
which is the core software that I use, I get this amount.
This amount is substantially a lot more than what I get paid from with Amazon.
And this amount also adds up over time. And so my advice for you,
especially if you're a smaller creator is just to be very strategic with who you
partner with and what types of products you push.
Especially if you're trying to gun for your first $1,000 using social media now
onto the next way that you can make your first $1,000. And that is of course,
brand sponsorships or partnering with a brand.
Now this is a little bit more challenging if you have a smaller audience.
And so my tip for you is to make sure that if you decide to gun for brand
sponsorships, that you are niched down,
what this means is that most brands want to partner with creators who either
have a really large audience or have a very targeted audience now,
because you may not have a large audience.
You want to focus on creating a targeted audience and a targeted audience comes
with having niche content. So for example,
let's say you are a food blogger and you review food from all different types of
cuisines. If you had a larger following,
most companies would likely partner with you. However,
if you have a smaller following, let's say less than 10,000 followers,
and it's going to be a little bit more challenging. So the secret sauce,
what I would recommend is to actually niche down.
So imagine instead of you reviewing food from all different types of cuisines,
you niche down to just Japanese food.
That way you're now going to have leverage.
You're now able to approach any Japanese restaurant and say, Hey,
even though I don't have a lot of followers,
I can guarantee that almost every single person who follows me follows me
because they want to try the best Japanese restaurants in the city.
And the reason why you can say this is because you've niched down,
meaning you can almost guarantee to these companies that about 90% of your
following is going to be interested in their Japanese restaurant if you review
it. And so the game that you're playing here is you have quality over quantity.
Anyways, guys, at this point of the video, I shared with you guys,
some ideas on how to make your first $1,000 using social media.
Remember if you're interested in courses, one-on-one coaching,
anything like that, that is my bread and butter.
And I have a free training up here where you can access link is in the
description or in the comment section below,
I post a lot of content on social media, marketing, entrepreneurship,
and all the likes of that. So make sure while you wait for next week's video,
you watch these two videos that I have here as well.
I promise they will not disappoint as always guys. I appreciate you.
I hope you guys have a great day,
a great week and a great life and good luck with monetizing your social media.
Bye guys.