- So I made a community post asking you what videos
that I don't have on my channel currently
that you would like me to make,
and journey thru the fire asked,
you could do a video on side hustles or jobs
that YouTubers can do to make extra cash.
I currently just put up a Fiverr gig for making thumbnails,
and plan to do one for editing videos.
More ideas would be great.
That's a great question, and you as a content creator,
you may or may not know that you have developed
or you're in the process of developing
some very valuable skills.
Companies and even individual people
need the skills that you have,
and not only do they need the skills that you have,
but some are willing to pay for those skills.
Cha-ching.
In addition to that, you are also building,
or you have built an audience that will also pay for things
if you bring attention to the right things.
So, as a creator, you are in a really good spot right now,
or you will be if you're just getting started.
But, some of the side hustles that we are going to discuss
are gonna be related to services that you can offer,
and some are gonna be related to monetizing
in more passive ways to help you as a creator
make more money with your skills and your audience,
and we're starting right now.
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Okay, so first we're gonna talk about services.
As a content creator,
you have developed skills in terms of video editing.
You've developed skills
in terms of writing titles, hopefully,
and you've also developed skills
in terms of making thumbnails.
Because of that, if what you're doing is currently effective
in terms of its working for you,
you're making effective thumbnails, effective titles,
and effective video content,
you can offer those specific services to people on Fiver,
on Upwork, or really on any other gig
or work related website where people go to
to find people to do things for them.
The next thing you can offer on the services side of things
as a content creator is to make content for other people.
You have a YouTube channel right now
that you can use as your portfolio,
and you can start reaching out to companies
that don't currently have people
making YouTube videos for 'em,
or people making other social media content for them,
and you can offer them that service.
This is another reason
to make sure you're making quality content, by the way.
But when it comes to making content for other people,
I did this when I was getting started,
I made content for a company called Empire Flippers,
who helps people buy and sell websites.
I made content for a company called Use Screen
that helps people create their own video content platforms
that they can have paid access to,
so content creators can use them to make money.
But in both of those situations,
it was a fantastic experience on my end,
and it was really cool because I got to do the thing
for other people that I love doing myself,
which is making content.
And the best part about it for both of those companies
that I made content for was
that I got to add value to what it was that they were doing.
But I also got to do what it is that I love to do,
which is making content.
And of course, it pays well too.
But, right now, as we're having this conversation,
there are companies out there that
are looking for people to do this,
and there's companies out there
that this hasn't been on their radar,
but you could reach out to them
to be that person that starts doing content for them.
Next up on our service list,
before we get into the passive,
which is what we're gonna be talking about here next,
but next up on our service list
is consulting or advising if your type of channel
and your type of content supports it.
Now, let me tell you something,
most of the people that are going to watch this video,
if your skills are to the point
to where you're creating effective YouTube videos
in terms of they're entertaining to watch,
you're taking people through a process,
you're getting decent audience retention on them, and so on,
you can sell your knowledge about video editing
and your understanding of the software that you're using
as a service, as a consultant or advisor for that.
And you might not think that people will pay you money
to hop on a call to have you teach them
about their software,
or to teach them how to edit step-by-step, but they will.
You might not think that people will pay you
to help them set up their gaming stream, but they will.
People will also pay for any type of professional services,
like YouTube consulting, financial consulting,
fitness coaching, things like that.
People will pay for you to teach them how to cook
if they are taking the recipes that you're putting
on your YouTube channel, and they're putting them together,
and they're like, "Wow, these are great,"
some of those people will pay you
to actually teach them how to cook.
If you're into crafting,
or if you're into woodworking or doing anything else,
there's people that will pay you to learn how
to do what it is that you already know how to do.
You just have to make that service available
and spread awareness through your content,
through your video descriptions, things like that
that you have the service available.
You just need to have enough confidence
in what it is that you're doing,
and you need to put information together in a way
to where you can teach people how to do what it is
that you know how to do,
regardless of the type of content that you make.
Now, services are a great way to get started,
but, Warren Buffet, who is the fifth richest person
on planet Earth right now, he said this,
"If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep,
you will work until you die."
It's a creepy thought,
but if you think about it, I mean, it's a legit thought.
So let's talk about some of the things you can do
to make money more passively, or in your sleep.
And before we get into it,
I do wanna make a quick disclaimer and say
that passive income is never 100% passive.
You have to do something at the beginning
in order to make it passive later on,
so there is some work that you're gonna have
to front load here, but once you get these things in place,
then they become passive.
And since you're a YouTube content creator,
or if you create content on any platform,
once you do get these things set up,
all you gotta do is make videos.
And then through making those videos,
you are going to be spreading awareness about all
of the things that we're getting ready
to talk about that you can set up.
The first is to make your own digital products.
Wait, it's easier than you think.
Just gimme a minute of your time, and let me explain.
The first item on our list is creating downloadable PDFs
or books or guides that you can sell.
If you make travel content,
you can make location guides or trip guides.
If you do anything related to cooking,
of course you can offer recipe books.
If you're doing crafting content like quilting,
as an example, you could sell patterns
of whatever it is that you're quilting.
Or if you're doing other types of crafts,
then you can think about things that you could
just put into a downloadable PDF, and you can sell that.
If you're making any type of financial content
or anything related to anything that's kind of like that,
you can put together planners
that people can print out themselves.
You can put together planners that people
can use on their iPads,
and their iPhones, or their Android tablets,
whatever the thing is that they're using.
If you're a gamer, even though the information
is freely available online,
but you have to hunt it down,
you could put together downloadable like loot guides
on where all the best loot is,
and that type of stuff in the games.
But the idea is to make a resource of some kind
for the people that are interacting with your content
so that you can sell it, and here's how you sell it.
There's paid services and there's free services.
I'll give you one of each so that you can
pick the path that you like.
On the paid side, once you're downloadable PDF is available
you can use a service called SendOwl.
There, you pay a low monthly fee,
and you can just upload your PDF into there,
and then you can just share the link
in your video description
and let people know that it's down there.
It's that easy.
I use SendOwl
to easily make my iPad video planner available,
and it's been fantastic so far.
Another great option is Sellfy.
With Sellfy, they have a free option,
and then of course they have paid options
if you wanna do more advanced things,
but they're the same exact way.
You upload your PDF there, and then people can download 'em,
and you can use 'em to sell all kinds of different things.
As a matter of fact, Vegard, who's editing the video
that you're watching right now, he edits most of my content,
he uses Sellfy to sell LUT packs from his YouTube channel.
And if you're not familiar with what LUT packs are,
basically it's like color grading
to where you can just kind of drag it into your software,
and then you apply it, and then bam,
it snaps your color into place,
and gives your video kind of like a cool vibe.
That's what LUTs are.
But, based on the different things that you make available,
you just have to make the choice
on which service is a better fit for you,
and which one you wanna use and all that.
So I recommend that if you are going to try some of this,
that you just check out both,
and you figure out which one is the best fit
for exactly what it is that you're trying to offer.
And as a quick disclaimer,
I have no relationship with SendOwl,
I pay them just like everybody else does.
They're not a sponsor.
They've never sponsored me or anything like that,
and I just wanna make that clear, same with Sellfy.
The next thing you can make available
for your viewers specifically is your merch.
All you have to do is go to spreadshop.com,
and create a store over there.
It's 100% free.
Upload your designs, which you can make inside a free app,
so ll you have to do is look for t-shirt designer
or something like that inside of whatever app store you use,
and you'll have some different options come up.
You can experiment to see what's best for you.
Once you upload the design to your store,
then you just grab the link to your store,
throw it in your video description.
And then anybody that watches your videos
that hits your video description,
or if you wanna spread awareness
about it in your videos themselves,
let them know that they can get your merch
down in the video description.
Again, with both of those so far, and we're still going,
But with both of those so far, you've set up all the work
on the front end, and then you just keep publishing videos,
spreading awareness about 'em
in the videos that are appropriate for them.
And then over time, as your YouTube channel grows,
your income's gonna grow right along with it,
as long as you're providing value through the different
services and or products that you're offering.
Next, we have affiliate marketing.
Now, when it comes to affiliate marketing,
you can do this through your YouTube videos.
You can also do this through blogs.
You can do it through podcasts.
Doesn't matter what type of content you are making,
or what platform you're making that content on,
you can still leverage affiliate marketing
to create passive income for yourself.
And just in case you don't know what affiliate marketing is,
affiliate marketing is when you sign up
for an affiliate program, and an affiliate program,
they will give you a unique tracking link
for whatever product or services
that you're trying to bring attention to.
And with that unique tracking link,
you just put it in your video description,
and then anybody that clicks on that link
and makes a purchase from your link,
you will get a commission for every sale or lead
essentially that you send their way.
You can make substantial amounts
of money with affiliate marketing.
Some people actually do affiliate marketing full time,
like that's the only thing they do,
like that's how much money you can make with it.
But with affiliate marketing, you can make money
by recommending things that you already use,
which is a really awesome thing about it.
As an example, I could tell you to get all three
of these YouTube books.
They're all fantastic.
I could tell you to get these, and I could,
I'm not going to for this video,
I'm just kind of give you an example here,
but I could tell you,
"Hey, these are great books," which they are by the way.
And I could tell you that I've got links to 'em
down in my video description where you can
check 'em out on Amazon yourself.
If you were to go click on that link, and by the way,
you should read every one of these books,
'cause they're all awesome for content creators.
But if you do that, and people click on that link,
and they go to Amazon,
once you get into the Amazon Program,
because they do have requirements,
if they end up making the purchase
on the thing that you recommended, you'll get a commission.
But the best part about Amazon is they can buy anything
on Amazon within 24 hours of clicking your link,
and you'll get a commission
off of whatever it is that they buy.
However, most affiliate programs are not that way.
They're directly based on the item that you send people to,
and the sales that you convert from
wherever it is that you're sending the traffic from.
But when it comes to affiliate marketing in any capacity,
I wanna give you a really quick tip.
A lot of people will start affiliate marketing,
and they'll see the income that it can generate,
and they'll start doing shady things.
They'll start recommending things that they
don't really stand behind.
And for longevity, I do wanna tell you
that if you start walking down that path,
people are gonna stop taking your recommendations,
because you're leading them down the wrong path.
They're gonna be using things that they're not happy with,
and therefore they're not gonna take your recommendations.
But if you do affiliate marketing in a way that is ethical,
then in that case, you're gonna be recommending things
that you truly believe in
that you know are good products or services.
And the more of that that you offer,
and the happier that the people are
that are taking your recommendations,
the more they're gonna take your recommendations,
so you end up making more in the long run.
So because of that, I recommend,
or I encourage you to be an ethical affiliate marketer,
'cause there's a lot of shady people out there
that do these things in shady ways too.
But for affiliate marketing, if you are interested in that,
all you have to do is go to Google,
and then type in affiliate program
for whatever type of content you make.
So for example, if you make fishing content,
affiliate marketing for fishing,
affiliate marketing program for hunting,
affiliate marketing program for crafting,
affiliate marketing program, you get the idea.
And by doing that, Google's going to show you a bunch
of different options about affiliate programs related
to the type of content that you make.
Or, most importantly, the audience you're trying to reach,
and that's why you integrate it with your content.
There are also other ways to make money
as a YouTube content creator that aren't side hustles,
but they are a way to add money to your bottom line.
As a YouTube content creator, I've made videos about it.
I'll put a link to one right here,
so you can check that out,
so you can learn how to make a lot more money
from your YouTube channel
from the content that you're already putting out.
You can click into that now.
Thank you so much for watching,
I'll see you next time.