Wait for your YouTube channel to get monetized.
Try and create a product you can sell on Amazon.
Come up with something out of thin air that you can sell online and hope that it works.
These are all things that you're probably thinking about if you're wanting to make money
this year.
And I get it because I have been in your shoes.
I remember when I was first starting my business and it was so overwhelming and I was trying
to figure out how exactly does one make money online?
So I feel like I've tried everything, to be totally honest with you.
I have revenue streams all over the board and actually made a video on it right here,
and you can check that out on all my different revenue streams.
But because I've tried so many things, I really do know what is the easiest when it comes
to making money, especially in the beginning, especially if you're starting from zero, especially
if you're brand new to all of this.
I wanted to break it down to you for you today because I wish somebody told me, and I didn't
have to spend so much time just trying to figure things out on my own.
So if you're excited about this, hit that like button.
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The easiest way to make money online, I want you to think about the fact that you can actually
monetize your YouTube channel, your blog, your other platforms before you're technically
monetized because we all know we have to wait a little bit before we're monetized on YouTube,
and that can feel like forever.
So how can you start making money without actually being monetized on YouTube?
Well, it's pretty simple.
The best way in the beginning, and this is something that I actually did in the very
beginning of my channel as I was trying to figure out what exactly I would sell for myself,
is I would have my content.
That for me, would be a YouTube video.
But it can also be things like blogs.
It can be Instagram posts, it can be a Facebook post, it could be any kind of content that
you're posting online.
And your content leads people to a product or a service.
Why am I not spelling right today?
A product or a service.
And then when you meet people there, it turns into a sale.
Now here's the interesting thing that happens, but also the really important thing that happens,
is that this content has to be hyper-relevant to whatever product you're trying to sell.
I have a lot of examples on my channel of where I'm talking about things and then I
link to products that I'm an affiliate for, which we'll talk about in a second.
And that's how I'm generating affiliate income and revenue.
But they have to be hyper-relevant i.e.
I did a video recently on my camera set up and my new equipment in my office.
And so of course, if people are looking for that video, watching the video, they want
to invest in the equipment for themselves.
So I put links below that video to all of my equipment, and those are affiliate links.
If someone goes and buys those products, I'm going to get a percentage of that sale so
it's just complete passive income.
T. The cool thing with this is that one, of course,
the content has to be relevant to the product you're selling.
You can't have a piece of content on dog leashes and be selling a product for cats.
That just doesn't work.
But what happens is that the more people who watch this or read this, if it's a blog or
a YouTube video, et cetera, the more products you sell, the more money you make.
So it's like this snowball effect of momentum that builds as your content starts to generate
more traffic.
And that's the cool thing about using something like YouTube or a blog, because they tend
to bring in this evergreen traffic.
Pinterest does the same thing as well.
And Pinterest is a great option for this.
Any platform that's going to continue to bring in traffic for a long time, as opposed to
the platforms that if you post, let's say you post to Instagram on your feed, that kind
of dies down and the traffic stops and tapers out after a couple of days.
So you want to continue getting that traffic, and on YouTube you're able to do that.
Same with a blog.
So the more traffic you get for your content, the more product you're going to sell and
the more money you're going to make.
And the great thing is, this isn't your product.
You're not having to build it.
You're not having to create it.
That's why it's the easiest way to make money online.
Now when it comes to selling products, again, it has to be something that you actually believe
in and actually find to be relevant to you.
So you can't be talking about things that you don't have experience in because I just
think that's unethical.
You should only really be promoting things that you've used, that you believe in and
that you actually would want to tell your friends and your family about because you
are my friends and my family, and I wouldn't want you to invest in something or buy something
that I didn't try myself and I didn't truly believe in.
So that's kind of a golden rule of generating passive income and creating affiliate income
for you and your business.
I talk about things like Flick, which I use for Instagram research when I'm doing hashtag
strategies, et cetera.
They're awesome.
I mention them a lot and I use them myself on a very regular basis.
So I have no problem promoting them, and they are an affiliate for me.
I also talk about TubeBuddy.
And so, if anyone enrolls to my link in TubeBuddy, they're going to be able to use it in the
same way that I do on a daily basis.
So anything that I use, whether it's a tool, a product, a service, et cetera, equipment,
think about in your own life, what are some things that you're currently using in your
business and your day-to-day life and your hobbies that you could create content about
to eventually sell a product for, that you could be generating passive income.
And again, it's not something that you have to create because that takes time.
There's a couple of places that you can go to start navigating through this whole world.
Obviously, Amazon Affiliates program is awesome and that's basically my go to, my number one,
but there's also something called ClickBank, and it's what I started researching when I
first was starting my business way, way back.
They have a whole bunch of products on there that you can be an affiliate for, and it's
really easy to use.
And no, I'm not an affiliate for them, but you can check it out.
It's something that I used to use back in the day.
I don't use it anymore, to be totally honest with you.
So I don't know how powerful it is at this point, but just some resources to take a look
at.
So ClickBank, and then of course, Amazon Affiliates as well.
I think it's called Amazon Associates maybe, too.
Amazon is the first thing is where you can go and look at products.
And it's so easy because how many of us actually use Amazon to buy things?
A lot of the things that you buy could be perfect to become an affiliate for it.
So Amazon is the first thing.
The next way to make money online that is very easy, is called JVs, so Joint Ventures.
I did over $100,000 in revenue last year just in Joint Ventures in my business.
It wasn't the majority of our income in our business.
But obviously, that's amazing and a great way to earn revenue and have a different revenue
stream.
I was selling programs and products that I believed in from other people.
And so, how that works is you basically have a list.
You have your email list or social following.
But basically, just this has to be an audience.
You have to have an audience of some kind that would be beneficial to the affiliate
partners product.
So say somebody is selling a course on, I don't know why I keep coming back to dogs,
but let's say somebody is selling a course on how to walk your dog.
So strange, but people have courses on this and you have an email list of dog owners and
of people who would be highly interested in that offer.
You then send your email list, so that's traffic to this person's program.
You're selling somebody else's program, and you are getting a percentage of that program.
You get affiliate income because you're selling a program and a product that is highly relevant
to your audience and a product and program that you actually believe in.
Now this also works in reverse.
If you decide you want to create a course on something that's super high in demand,
but you have no audience right now, you can then go and approach other people with a small,
medium size audience and say, Hey, I'll give you a cut of all of my sales if you help me
promote this.
That helps you build brand awareness for what you're doing.
It also generates income for them and income for you.
So it's a great way to kick off your course businesses by partnering with other people
to get them to sell your program because it could be very complimentary to what they are
selling.
Let's say this person is selling how to walk your dog course, I don't know, and you are
selling how to groom your dog.
Of course, perfectly complementary, same audience, so it can flip back and forth.
Those are the easiest ways to make money online and a great starter place.
But honestly, the most profitable way to make money online today is by monetizing your knowledge.
And I talk about this a lot because I've built a very successful online course business over
the last couple of years.
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It's an amazing way to build an impact, as well, because you're not having to work with
people and trade time for dollars, but you're able to impact people all around the world.
In my first year of developing online courses, I had hundreds and hundreds of people enroll
in my courses from Europe, Africa, all over the world and learn from me.
But if you thought about me doing that in real world terms and working with them one-on-one,
it would have been really challenging; time differences and just coordinating schedules
and all of that kind of stuff.
Instead, I'm able to support and help all these people globally and scale my business
a lot faster and create a much more massive impact because I'm not having to trade my
time for dollars.
So you want to create an online course and that's something that you're really interested
in doing, you definitely want to check out this video on how to create your online course
and actually sell it, which is really, really valuable.
So check that video out next, and we've got lots of other videos on this channel that
will be helpful in building your business and also creating more passive income.
Make sure that you check out these videos.
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