- The world keeps changing and it might feel
like it's falling apart around you right now,
but you have a golden opportunity
and I don't want you to let it go to waste.
You have an opportunity to make money
while working from home.
You can make money on the internet.
It's not a scam, it's not a scheme,
it's something people do every day
because the future of work is evolving and changing
and we have to embrace this new economy.
So I'm gonna teach you how to make money
while working from home doing exactly the things I did
that took me from being broke and struggling
after being a community college dropout
to being able to earn a full-time income
while working from home for many years now.
So, let's jump into the video.
Hey everybody, this is Roberto Blake,
helping you create something awesome today.
Welcome back to the channel.
For the new people here, thanks for tuning in.
I know a lot of you are at home now,
you're watching more content on the internet,
you're looking for answers and solutions.
Well, I'm a small business owner
and I've been an internet entrepreneur for a number of years
and I started working in the traditional workforce
just like all of you, okay?
And so, I had to learn all of this stuff on my own
with the free tools and resources on the internet.
So what I do on this YouTube channel
is I teach people how to earn more money,
I teach people how to build their personal brand,
I teach them how to build and grow online businesses.
So if that's something you're into,
make sure you hit the like button
so YouTube actually shows you my videos
and if you wanna come back for more
go ahead and hit subscribe.
So I wanna get right into this.
One of the things I learned very early on
was to always have another income source.
I had a nine to five job just like the rest of you,
but I needed to moonlight to make extra money
because I just wasn't getting paid enough,
I wasn't earning enough on my own
so I always did a side hustle.
And for a lot of you, you can do this
from the comfort of your home with your laptop.
You can start freelancing just like I did.
In fact, right now, a small business owner,
I hire freelancers all the time
so I know that this works and I know that this is real
because as I'm making this video right now,
I am paying people to work from home.
There are a lot of great skills
that you can actually deploy
that people want in the marketplace.
Now, if you don't know how to start freelancing,
I've actually made a video in detail
to tell you how to start freelancing,
so I'm gonna link that in the description down below
and in the info card up above here on YouTube.
Now, let me just run you through a few basics.
Back in the old days, back in the old days,
you had to absolutely go to work,
go to a physical location
and you had to provide a service,
you did that in exchange for a wage
and your employer paid you.
But we also now have the ability
to go directly to the marketplace.
Direct to consumer business is alive and well,
and for freelancers that is a great opportunity.
Me, I had a background in advertising and graphic design,
I had a background in web design and photography,
so I had a lot of different software skills,
I also had a background in video editing,
so I was a multifaceted creator and that is my background.
So, what happened was I was able to find outlets for that.
Now, back in my day, back in my day,
we didn't have all these great websites
and free web hosting and social media
to help make that easier.
But today you have websites like fiverr.com
which you can go to and you'll find a variety of skills
that you can go ahead and use,
offer those services as jobs, as gigs,
become a gig economy worker and work remotely from home
offering those services.
And this isn't just for people who are graphic designers,
you can do this as a freelance writer,
you can do this as a coder,
you can even do this providing your voice
and doing voice acting.
I mean, as a joke with my friends,
I sometimes do stuff for their YouTube videos
where I'll make a different voice,
like I'll do the voice of the Emperor from Star Wars,
and you know, so I do gimmicks, I do voices for people.
But if I really wanted to make some extra money,
I can literally just do these different voices
on the internet for money and people would pay me.
I could also use my video editing skills
and people would pay me.
I could write for people.
Once upon a time, I was a freelance writer
and I was making a $1,000 a month plus
doing freelance writing for publications
mostly around creative work
and around the topic of freelancing, go figure.
And I was making, in the very beginning,
about $125 an article and then I ended up
making 350 to $500 an article,
and because I was working from experience
I was making this money by doing articles
that were taking me two to three hours tops,
so I was making a substantial amount of money
considering the time that I was putting in.
It'd be very difficult to make the same amount of money
in exchange for that time
if I was working a traditional job.
Now, aside from fiverr.com you have other websites
like freelancer.com, peopleperhour.com, and Upwork.
The most accessible and the one with probably
the lowest overall process and hurdles to get through
is probably fiverr.com so I would check that out.
If you're somebody who's watching this
and you actually do wanna outsource and hire people,
you can go ahead and you can use my link for Fiverr
to go ahead and find yourself a freelancer
and that is an affiliate link
which I'll get to affiliate marketing here in a minute
because it's actually really powerful right now.
Now, I know some of you are already skeptical.
Like, Roberto, I don't have those skills,
I don't know how to do these things,
I'm not an internet savvy person.
Well, you're going to have to learn
and that's just the harsh reality
because the world keeps changing
and what we consider to be valuable in the market
keeps evolving and changing,
and there's a bottleneck right now
because of circumstances that are happening
all across the globe where the ability
to physically access a location
and do that physical work, that labor in exchange for money
is not viable or an option for people
and it's actually hurting people financially.
And so, I want people to be aware of these new opportunities
that have been around for a while
and to actually start taking advantage of them.
If you don't feel you have skills that are up to par,
then I would recommend learning those skills online.
I've done plenty of videos on this channel
to help you, to teach you, to train you
in some skills that will be valuable
for the foreseeable future.
I also would recommend you check out
all of the free education over on skillshare.com.
Now they're not sponsoring this video,
but I am gonna drop my affiliate link below
if you wanna take some free online courses
and learn a new skill that can be very valuable to you
and can give you either an additional income
or a new income source during a difficult time.
Now, for those of you who are more entrepreneurial,
because you know, as a freelancer,
you are setting your own hours,
you are making your own schedule,
but you are gonna be ultimately working for somebody else
and helping grow and build their business.
Well, some of you might be more like me,
you might be entrepreneurial and you might wanna start
your own online business.
And I've done a video that actually walks you through
the things you need to know if you wanna start
an online business.
I'm also gonna recommend a very powerful book for you.
I'm gonna recommend "Start Your Own Business."
I think it's the eighth or seventh edition of this book,
and I'm also going to recommend
a book that will teach you how to make a business plan
step by step.
So, links to both of those will be in the description
down below, and those are from Amazon.
Because I worked at a company where after being
a graphic designer for a number of years,
I actually learned how to become a marketer
and I learned skills like email marketing,
I learned about print advertising,
I learned media buying, I learned Google Ads,
I learned all of these very valuable things
that helped me as a small business owner
I understand that there are a lot of people
who need those skills, and so I built my business
around teaching people all of those
different types of skills.
So I built an online coaching business.
Now, in order to do this, you need your own website.
So, that was one of the things I had to do.
I even did that as a freelancer
to help me with my portfolio,
because once you own a website,
it's the new age version of having your own storefront.
So back when we had to have a brick and mortar
in order to do business, now we only need websites
and some of these online system to do transactions.
And so, this helped me learn
to stop trading time for money by itself
and saying, oh, pay me this much per hour.
I started learning about the importance of transactions
and around pricing those transactions and saying,
pay me for a result.
And then when I learned how to make my own digital products,
I learned how to package the results
that I was able to get for myself
and give those to other people,
and so then I was leveraging my results.
So then I started earning money
through leverage instead of labor.
And this is a skillset that most people don't have,
but it is the difference between the 1% and the 99.
It's about using leverage.
So even before I ever had employees,
I deployed technology to do the work for me.
I did a lot of work upfront to build my systems
and to build my automations
and I talk about that in a video that I made
where I teach you how I started my business,
how I started my stay at home business,
and I did it bootstrapping, I didn't have a lot of money,
I didn't have parents to give me a small loan
of a million dollars, I had to do it on my own.
And so, I'm gonna link to some of those helpful videos
down below for you if that's something
you wanna be more educated about,
but this is a golden opportunity for many of you.
A lot of you have a skill that you can pass on
from years and years and years of a career
that you can teach other people.
And so, when I decided to formalize
building an online coaching business,
I decided to use a software platform called Kajabi
just so that even though I knew how to code,
I didn't wanna really go through the hassle,
so it was actually really easy.
If you're interested in that, I'm gonna also link to that
as a resource down below for you.
The good news is that aside from your web hosting,
most of the resources you need to build a coaching business
are completely free, a lot of people don't realize that,
and what I'm going to do is this.
I'm gonna do a whole dedicated video
to teach people who wanna build an education based business
around their skills, because whether you wanna be
a fitness coach or instructor
or you wanna teach people meal prep
or any other skill that you have,
it's not just for people who wanna teach online business,
you can teach some very practical real world skills
and be paid for it.
Some of you might wanna actually do something
around teaching and being a tutor for people.
Well, guess what?
There's a way for you to do that online
so that you can teach an unlimited amount of people
and it's really practical.
So I'm gonna link to Kajabi since that's what I used
and I'm also gonna link to a bunch of the other
free resources and tools, and like I said,
I'm gonna make a dedicated video
walking you through the process of starting
an online coaching or education business.
Finally, let's talk here about affiliate marketing.
Affiliate marketing is one of my favorite ways
to make money from home on the internet,
because it was really practical.
A lot of people don't realize, I didn't really make
a lot of money on YouTube for the first three years
that I was doing YouTube.
You don't really make a lot of money on the ads
when you're getting started,
so it's appreciated when people support
by buying things like merchandise
or using the affiliate links
or clicking on links whenever you have a sponsored video.
But affiliate marketing is really practical
because a lot of people don't understand
that when you do affiliate marketing
it's basically revenue sharing with a company
that you've chosen to recommend or represent.
When you're waring like clothe or merchandise
or anything like from a name brand
like Apple or something like that,
you're promoting that product
and you're encouraging people to use it
whether you realize it or not.
But you're getting zero dollars in exchange
for that free marketing that you're providing.
Well, with affiliate sales, it's really just commissions.
If you were a real estate agent and you sold a house,
you'd get a commission.
If you were working at the car lot and you sold a car,
you'd get a commission.
I don't understand fully why people think
that this is a scam when the reality is
if you work at a nine to five job like I used to,
you might do what I did, make the company millions
upon millions and millions of dollars,
but you're not getting a revenue share
of the value that you generated,
you're only getting what you agreed to for your hourly wage
or your yearly salary, right?
So, instead of doing that, my answer became that well,
if I'm gonna sell something for people,
why don't I get a commission?
So the easy way to start with that is Amazon
and you can do that, I moved to software as a service
as my primary affiliate marketing,
and the reason I did that is because,
well, Amazon's margins for their affiliate commissions
are about somewhere between two and 8%.
With software as a service,
it's anywhere from 20 to 50% commissions,
sometimes more than that.
And so, I decided it was more practical.
The other reason is I wanted recurring income
from doing this, meaning that I wanted what we call
recurring passive income.
I know a lot of you don't believe in passive income,
I call it automated income
because I think that's more honest
and it explains what we're doing.
I used my computer, I used my smartphone,
I built automations.
I built these automations through my website
and through my email list and my social media
so that when I do work instead of just doing the work,
clocking in, clocking out, and getting paid
an agreed upon salary, what happens is
I can do transactions no matter what,
just like every other business in the world.
Every major company in the world does transactions
24 hours a day, seven days a week for the most part,
and I wanted in on that.
So, through affiliate marketing,
I started helping companies to sell and to do transactions
just like I did for my online business
selling digital products, okay?
And so, what happens is when you do it with software,
as long as people continue to pay for the software
as a service, you continue to get that 10, 20, 30,
or 50% commission, and so, I started small with that
and I went from earning an extra $1,000 a month
off of a couple of sales, which is actually really good,
to earning thousands of dollars a month.
And for me right now, that's very important
because it offers me stability.
Because of people still continuing to use that software
for their business and for what they're doing,
I continue to make income long after I've made the content,
and that's how I automated that process.
And so, affiliate marketing is something
that almost anybody can get into.
I don't know that all of you will be good at it,
but I have made a video that teaches you the beginning
and the basics so that you can make at least a $100 a day,
but I would start even with the goal of $35 a day,
because if you could make $35 a day, then you can earn,
if you do it every single day for a year,
you can earn $12,775 dollars,
and while that's not a lot for you to live off of,
it might be extra money that can change your life right now.
And that ties into one of the last things
I wanna tell you about how you can make money
from home right now and just really take advantage
of the time that we're in.
You can choose to finally become a content creator.
If you find yourself at home, yes, you have to do your work
and you have to do those things,
but you might find that you become so efficient,
especially if you're watching my productivity videos,
you become so efficient that you find yourself
with a little bit of extra time.
Well, you could take that 30 minutes or that hour
that you would usually use to catch up on Netflix
or read or do something else or listen to music,
and you could learn how to become a content creator
here on the internet with websites like Instagram
and YouTube and you could start earning money
either by doing sponsored content,
you can promote affiliate content and links
that are useful to your audience,
or you can earn ad revenue through YouTube
like we're doing now, and there are a couple other platforms
that are gonna start paying their content creators.
Now, when I started, I didn't make a lot of money
from YouTube on the ads,
but now I average somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000
even when my videos don't do very well,
I average two to 3,000 a month on the ad revenue alone,
and then with the affiliate sales
and the merchandise opportunities and other things,
it actually adds up to a significant amount of money.
In fact, to be transparent with you,
I've linked my YouTube income report
to the bottom of this video in the description,
you'll see that, and I've been breaking that down
every single month and showing you just the YouTube
related income, not from my coaching business,
not from consulting with clients, not my public speaking,
which has now been canceled all the way to June
which I'll talk about in another video,
I'll probably do some kind of how this current crisis
is affecting my business.
But the good news is with YouTube I'm earning money
from videos I made years ago that are very relevant today,
videos like 10 websites you can use
to make money online, things like how to get started
with affiliate marketing, all of these videos
that I've done years and years ago,
suddenly became very relevant to people
and they were able to find them in search,
and so I'm making substantial money
from the views on those YouTube videos.
So these are all opportunities that didn't exist
many years ago, I may not look like it, but I'm 35,
I've been around for a minute,
I've been on the old internet like back in my day,
like so I understand that this may be new territory
for a lot of you, but I'm here to help,
and I've made a lot of content on this channel.
Over the last seven years, I've made 1,400 videos on YouTube
and I have a podcast and a website and blog
and an online business and a newsletter.
Once upon a time, I was an employee
working a nine to five job,
making at best, 35, $40,000 a year whenever I had a salary,
and now, I can wake up when I want,
which is usually at 6:30 or 7:00 a.m.,
and I can do things I love and enjoy
and provide value and services
to people who are like-minded.
And that's great, it gives me so much freedom,
and it means I have a lot less anxiety,
which I really needed, and it's made my life better
and it's made me a better person,
because I'm not anxious, I'm not stressed,
I'm not frustrated, I'm not angry at the world anymore,
and I couldn't have done that without the gift
of the internet, and I would encourage you
to embrace that same gift and that opportunity
that you have right now.
So that's all I've got for you guys in this video.
Like I said, links to all of the resources are down below.
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Also, keep coming back.
Especially this week and in the coming months,
I'm gonna have a huge focus on remote work,
freelancing, working from home, and making money online
here on the channel because I know
that it's a very important time
for people to focus on that.
Question of the day.
Right now, what is a skill that you think
would give you more income if you learned that skill?
I wanna know 'cause I wanna make some more tutorial videos.
So let me know, is there a skill, is there a software
that if you could just learn the ropes
would help you to make more money?
Let me know in the comment section,
really looking forward to it.
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As always, you guys, thanks so very much for watching
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and create something awesome today.
Take care.
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