hey guys today we're going to share with you how we
afford to travel full-time and make money online
hey guys so in this video we're going to be sharing with you how we afford to travel full-time
we've been traveling for about the past five months now yep and um have been able to do so with
just making the money through our online incomes yeah we've got a lot of dms comments on our videos
of people asking i think maybe some people assume that we just saved up a lot of money or
maybe that we make all our money off youtube but youtube is a small
amount of how we make money which will go into more detail but we have a few different streams of
income so we just wanted to share it with you guys in case maybe you want to travel full-time and
you think it's harder than it is it's really not as hard as you think
yeah we'll share with you how we make money and maybe how you can as well
okay so income stream number one is obviously youtube as you're watching us now so there's a
number of ways that you can make money through youtube predominantly for us at the moment
we're making it through google adsense and collaborations or sponsorships it's
actually a little surprising how much you can make pretty early on in youtube yeah with that sense in
order to monetize your youtube channel you need 1 000 subscribers and 4 000 watch time hours can
be a struggle to get initially but once you get over that it gets a lot easier it also depends
on what countries are watching your content as well as how long they're watching it for
and so every youtube channel makes a different amount yeah so by all means we're not making a
massive amount from youtube but almost five months in we're making enough to cover all of our bills
here in bali which is pretty crazy we didn't plan on that at all we thought it'd be at least a year
before we were seeing what we're seeing now so it's been a very pleasant surprise yeah so anyone
wanting to start youtube we kind of learned it all ourselves as we've mentioned in
previous videos we use skillshare there's so much information out there you can learn how to edit
learn how to film how to use a camera there's really unlimited information on the internet
the second way that we make money online is through affiliate marketing affiliate marketing
is basically an extension of youtube so for us for us yeah so that's where we get most of our traffic
we have a few affiliate programs with different businesses and when people sign up to those
businesses we get a commission and again it's not a crazy amount of money but it is pretty regular
monthly income for us and um yeah it's pretty good it's great passive income so it's just something
pretty easy to just put a link into your youtube description people click on that and you get your
commission through that it's just a great way to make money without any extra effort really and we
love passive income it's just one of those things where if you get started you may not see any
traction you might not get any revenue for a while but once things start to build and you start to
get more traffic it'll keep building and getting bigger and bigger so you might as well start early
so the third way that we afford to live and work from anywhere
is freelancing our personal skills that we have learned through self-education yeah so
i've learned digital marketing mostly just through researching online and putting it into practice in
our own businesses and mandy learn graphic design we do a little bit of freelance work
here and there but it's not our main source of income by any stretch no we don't like trading
time for money anymore we like to build up to um actually building our business so we can
spend more time doing things that we actually care about but again we learned
a lot of the skills that we have just through watching videos on youtube and self-educating
and anyone can do that and so it's super easy that anyone would be able to make money from anywhere
another way that we afford to live and work from anywhere is through selling digital products on
etsy so me having my little design background i create digital products to sell on etsy that
makes me a reliable income every month through people purchasing things that i've created through
canva i have made some videos on this on our channel if you are interested in watching them
i will link them above this is a super easy thing that you can do you create the product just one
time and you can make money off of it forever this applies to selling on kindle publishing
as well i sell the same products through kindle publishing so selling digital products is a great
way to make a passive income consistently online while you're working on other things
yeah and also the beauty about it is you make the product once and it's there forever and etsy does
all the digital marketing for you with keywords so you don't really have to do anything it's a really
simple way to get started making passive income yeah and there's no investment up front as well
all you have to have is a free canva account and i think it's about 20 cents to lin
to list your listing on etsy and you're up and running you have your etsy store
going so that's a really good way to just make sure you have a solid income coming in every month
and finally our main source of income is through e-commerce and this is actually where mine and
lloyd's online journey started was just through e-commerce we started a skincare brand together
and even before that we started failed dropship stores and but this is what has brought us to
where we are today at the moment we have built and sold multiple e-commerce brands it still is
our number one income that makes it possible for us to live and work from anywhere so basically
what we do is we take a product and through private labeling we turn that product into
our own brand because mandy does a lot of graphic design she does all the branding side of things
which is really good she's got a really good portfolio of brands now and i do all the digital
marketing which again we self-taught most of these skills a lot of trial and error yeah but
we have managed to figure out how to build e-commerce brands relatively easily easily
now and those brands are profitable they bring us in an income but we also sell the brands to
people who want to have their own econ brands want to sell products online and that's how we make up
the bulk of our income it's how we support it ourselves before we came to bali and it's how
we are supporting ourselves now and that's how we're going to be able to keep traveling and
probably the best part about it is you can do it from anywhere because we don't actually handle the
products we don't ship them out we use third-party fulfillment services so it can be done from
anywhere yeah that's our main source of income that's what we focus on mostly day to day we've
also built tailor-made brands for people we're actually working on a couple at the moment so
sometimes people come to us and they want us to build exactly what we build for ourselves for them
and we tailor it exactly to whatever niche or product that they want to sell in as well
yeah we enjoy doing that because essentially we're doing all the creative side and building
everything up and then handing it over to somebody else because they get to then run
the business and have a successful business which we love the startup process that's
our specialty which brings us to our final source of income which is our online course
so over the past three months since we've been here in bali
we've put a course together basically just everything we wanted to know about e-commerce when
we started we made a lot of mistakes and wasted a lot of money and we had friends approach us
asking us for advice and help starting brands and this sort of just kept happening and we thought we
want to mentor some people and rather than doing that one-on-one we could put something together
that was just one big package and if somebody sat down and took the course from start to finish
they would have all the base knowledge that we have and they could go on and make their own
successful brand so that's what we did we designed the course so once you're finished you actually
have the brand and we sort of look at it like we're your business advisors or business partners
and building it with you the way we would if it was ours so we have a combination of online
content that we put together video content and other resources but we also offer online
coaching calls with all of our students so if they're having trouble with anything or they've
got any questions they can book in a coaching call and ask away and we can just help them get
through it all oh we know that it sounds cliche living in bali and selling an online course
but this is more of a community that we're trying to build and help people
to get to the position that we're at because we would really love to have people with a bit more
knowledge and experience help us when we started yeah and just hearing from other people that are
living a different lifestyle i guess it sometimes can feel a little bit lonely so having that sort
of outreach as well it helps us too and so far everyone who's signed up for our course seems to
have very similar interests they all want to come to bali and live in bali or they've been to bali
and they want to travel and it's great just having like-minded people to talk to yeah so as you can
see we have a lot of projects there we didn't even mention our podcast that we just launched
that's because we don't make an income off that yet but it's one of those things that we're
building so we have a lot of different things that we focus on the one thing to remember about
working online and anything that's worthwhile is it takes time nothing worthwhile happens
overnight so if you are wanting to pursue this life it took us about three years to get to the
point of being able to move to bali and that was with no help and a lot of mistakes and
no money so just remember that it doesn't happen overnight and if you are wanting to do this that
you have to lay down the groundwork and eventually it will happen though i promise you it will happen
if you stick with it and stay consistent and if anyone was needing to hear that today i
just wanted to say that because i know i would have appreciated it when we were really in the
thick of it and honestly we've just listed a few of the ways we make an income here but there's so
many other ways you can make an income online as well there's so many opportunities if you
just figure out what it is your specialty is maybe or what you're interested in um you can
make money online for sure absolutely we have left a link in the description if you are interested in
joining our ecommerce community we hope you guys enjoyed this video i hope it provided some insight
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