Hi guys
It's Jin.
I've been traveling around the world over five years and nine months.
These days every people ask
Where do you find money to travel over five years?
Are you rich?
No
Does your family support you?
No
Then
How the hell can you travel so many years?
Today I will talk about that on this video.
But first of all
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On this video, I will tell you about secret thing.
like donation amount
And my other income
And google advertising money
And my website visitors
And my expenditure how much I spend money.
To be honest, actually I am a bit afraid of telling everything.
it is very private thing
some people will stop donating at me.
The reason I am making this video is
to tell you that actually it is possible to travel around the world
without working in office.
I will start from very beginning that
I have never been out of my country until 2010.
And I got Canada Working holiday visa
So I flew to Canada
I traveled and I made money.
When I left Canada
I had $12,000.
And I flew from Canada to the United States, San Francisco
And I bought everything.
Bicycle
Camping gears
Panniers
And everything
I had spent $2,500
for preparing
Then left money was $9,500.
After one month, I built website with wordpress
which is tool to build the website.
I put paypal donation tool on the bottom of my website.
And Korean bank account number.
because paypal is not common in South Korea.
I never expected that donation would be my main income.
I just put to see how it works.
But then it is surprising.
Really
From now, it would be more interesting.
Because I will show you
Numbers.
I have Excel file
which I wrote about donor's name
donating date
and donating amount
for privacy
I will hide
my donor's name
I built my website at the end of month.
so my first donation was
2011
October 30th
My first donation was $50.
This is after deduction.
Usually $1 is
1,150 Korean won
And I delete three numbers from the last
To make easy
And I devided by 1.1
Although rate is changing every day.
And my first month was $160.
And then $300
2012
$100
$200
and $600
and $300
$500
$100
$200
something like this
2012
I made $3,100
Let me show you how much I had visitors on my website.
This is
month visitors
Usually I had
50
or 60
70 visitors.
on my website
Although I had very little visitors per day
I got donation every month.
It means that you don't need big followers.
To get donations.
It is more important that
To make follower feel you
understand what you are doing.
I try to answer comments and email all the time.
It is too much data for you
I am sure.
So I organized like this.
More easy to see.
This is donation.
And
this is my expenditure.
I start from September.
But August
This is for preparing.
First month
$400 I spent
And then $300
And November
$100
$200
2012
$200
$100
$186
And $500
$200
Sometimes I spent lot money.
Because
There is something like I had to cross Ocean
from Panama to Colombia.
I had to buy a laptop
Laptop was like $600.
So suddenly I spent lot.
And I climb some high mountain.
And it was like $200.
So usually I spent like $300.
But sometimes there is something happened
And I really spent more money.
And this is 2012 when I was in Latin America.
This is my donation amount.
2012
I got $3,120.
And I spent $5,000.
When I was in Africa 2013
This is donation.
Sometimes $100
Sometimes $700
Sometimes $400
Actually I cannot guess.
When I will get $100
When I will get
$700
It is really
I cannot guess.
From 2013
I start making money from others.
This is commission.
It means
One of my followers was the owner of English Academy in Korea.
And he asked me 'please can you find English teacher (for skype)'
I got resumes from English teachers.
And I sent this resume to
this academy owner
And
he hired someone.
And he gave me every month some money.
This was actually big money.
I got this commission almost two years.
He didn't need to give me money
There was no any contract.
But he was honest.
I think he wanted to support my trip.
2014
This is my donation amount.
And actually in Africa I got more donation.
Than 2014 in Europe
This is other earnings.
like I had google adsense.
on March
And I built some website.
And I got money.
I just built some wordpress website.
Some of my followers asked me translate.
So I translated.
And then got this money.
And selling secondhand.
I sold my some old stuff.
This is my expenditure.
Europe was actually easy to travel
Because there was always big super market.
So I spent only
400
300
100
300
400
Maybe this time I spent some money
This time I bought camera.
which was very expensive.
because my old camera was going broken.
So I bought a new camera.
That's why
This is big number here.
This is from other earnings.
Revenue is higher here than 2013.
Let's go to 2015.
I was in Europe and Middle East.
At first month I got big donation.
Because many people got inspired by my trip in Finland.
And here some commission
Translate
My donation money
It is still difficult guess.
$200
And suddenly $600
And suddenly $100
And $200
$300
$500
It is really difficult to guess.
At the end
You see my revenue.
It is higher
than
2014
Donation was a bit bigger.
Earning was a little big more in 2015.
This is net income.
I made more money than I spent.
This is account balance.
Account balance means
How much I had money on my account.
In 2011, I kept my account around $9,000.
And then 2013, $7,000
And in 2014
$7,000
$8,000
Then I bought a camera.
It went to drop.
to $4,000
And Europe and middle East
I had like
$4,000~$5,000
$4,000
So I felt a bit risky.
To keep traveling.
And
2016
This is my revenue.
Actually I made two times more than 2015
Since September
I start wring for Korean magazine
And they gave me $260.
So that helped me really lot
As you see next year
My donation was around $6,000
Other earning was $4,500
The revenue was bigger than 2015.
And in Asia recently
My video got viral.
This month I made $700.
Actually I don't have any other earnings this month.
And I realized after organizing this file
Since 2013
I had small earnings.
From this month, I cannot have other earnings.
Let me show you
This all together.
In 2011, donation was like this.
In 2012, $3,000
In 2013, around $5,000
In 2014, $4,000
In 2015
$5,000
In 2016
$6,000
And this year so far
$1,700
And other earnings
It is going bigger and bigger
and bigger
But this year I am not really sure.
Because I don't have anything to do now.
This is account balance how much I keep my bank account.
It is going smaller and smaller.
Now I have $1,500.
The problem is that I lost my card.
I am trying to order but there is some problem.
Because actually this card is from Canada.
The amount money I can use is now
$800
My $700 is at the one I cannot take, which is in trouble.
This is web visitors.
It is very small amount.
But still I get donation every month.
This is the point.
My facebook followers
Actually I don't know about this three years.
But I am just guessing
Maybe I had this followers.
and 2015
4,000
And in 2016
7,000
Recently I had viral video.
So it goes to 33,000
Let me show you with the graph.
This is 2011
Expenditure
Donation
This is average visitors on the web
Let's go to 2012
So my donation is
Something like this
Going up
down
up
down
up
And my expenditure
This time I had something.
This is my daily visitors.
But as you see
It didn't get affected.
It is going up.
But my daily visitor is similar.
Look
Some traffic a lot
But my donation was
small
It didn't get affected.
And 2013
This is lot
Because airplane was very expensive that it was $1,250
from Brazil to Africa
This is my average
money I spent in Africa.
This is donation I got in Africa.
This is
average visitors
And Europe
My average daily visitor on the web.
This is donation.
At that time I bought Camera.
So this is lot.
In 2016
At that time something happened.
This is November 2016
I was in China.
I was almost broke.
I had only $100.
My bicycle was really going broken that I must fix.
And I asked my facebook followers.
I said 'Hey this is my birthday.'
'And I have only $100'
'I will thank you if you donate at me.'
'to fix my bicycle'
And then I got lots of donations.
Look this one.
lot
yeah ;)
This was biggest donation.
I really almost cried.
I got so surprised.
At that month I made
$ 3,235
After deduction, it is $3,000.
It is a lot big money ever.
That posting saved my trip.
because I really had only $100.
This is this year.
This is how much I spent.
And donation.
Let me tell all my income.
From October 2011 to
June 2017
Donation was $ 26,800
And commission
which is I introduced
English Teacher
To some Korean Academy for skype calling
And I made this money.
And magazine
$5,400
But from now I will not write any more.
Because contract is finished.
And translate is $450.
And Adsense $480
Google Adsense
Every year just around $100
Website
$713
I don't do this any more.
And others.
$1,500
You see that
The revenue I made
$37,000
For five years and nine months.
And expenditure.
And donation
$26,000
And other earnings.
This two is this one.
I hope this video was interesting to you.
There is one thing I want to say is that.
Donation I got is not just free thing.
I really work hard.
I usually posted four posting every month.
And many times I really slept only
4 hours or 5 hours.
Because
There was always lack of time.
And many times I stayed with people.
So I had only free time after 10 pm.
And I wrote for blog until like
2 am and 3 am.
I want to say thank you so much for donating at me.
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Actually I don't know how much other travelers
make donation from their blogs
So if you have website and donation thing
It would be interesting to share.
Thank you so much.