Hi everyone
welcome back to another video.
In today's video, I'm going to be explaining how I made
over $2 million while unemployed.
So my question for you is, are you currently working
for someone and you're just tired of it?
You don't enjoy the work that you do,
or you have long hours,
or even were you recently fired from your job
and now you're trying to figure out what to do?
Well, that's the situation that I went through,
and it ultimately led me down the road of how
do I start businesses for myself, particularly online,
so I have the time and location freedom
and so I can't be fired from my job.
Well flash forward a few years later
and I've literally made over $2 million doing this.
So in this video I wanted to tell my story
and share with you how I did this.
So hopefully it gives you the inspiration
and maybe that epiphany,
that moment that makes you say, you know what,
I'm gonna try to do this too.
So without further ado,
let's just get right into this video.
So where my journey started in all of this
is I was about 18 years old
and I worked for a startup company making good money.
I was making $17 an hour plus commission.
So I was really happy with this income
and my lifestyle was based around this income
so I was relying on it.
And then literally one morning I woke up to an email
from my boss saying that she was fired from the company
and that meant that my position was no longer
an active position in the company, so I was fired as well.
This was an email that I woke
up to, no warning, no anything.
It meant that effective immediately,
I no longer had a paycheck.
This whole waking up and being fired out of nowhere
scared me pretty good and led me down the path
of how can I start making money for myself and make sure
that this doesn't happen to me again?
I never wanna wake up and find out that
I was just basically disposed of in a company
and I no longer had a job or an income.
So right off the bat when this happened
I was only about 18 years old,
so I didn't have any savings built up.
So I basically had to go look
for a part-time job just to carry me
over and pay for my bills.
Now, I did get a part-time job, and while I was not
at work is when I was spending all the time
researching how to make money online
and actually growing these businesses.
Now, it took me about a year of doing this
from when those online businesses started to
make enough money that I was able to quit the part-time job
and cover all of my expenses just
from the online businesses I started.
Now, what's cool about this is flash forward
another year from then and those online businesses
were making me more passively
without actively working than I was making originally
at my $17 an hour job with commission.
This is when I really had the moment of this works.
Why did I not do this before?
Without being pushed into this situation
kind of with my back against the wall,
I never would've taken this jump and gone down this route.
And then obviously flash forward another few years,
and I've made millions of dollars doing this
and I'm kind of looking
at my past as a blessing in disguise.
It forced me down this road,
which was ultimately so much better
than the road that I was on before.
So now that you understand my backstory on this,
let's see how I can help you.
So the rest of this video is going to explain what I did,
how I did it, and how you can do it too.
So in the beginning of working
at that part-time job and doing all the research I could
on how to make money online,
I basically tried all of the popular business models.
I tried drop shipping, I tried Amazon FBA, online surveys,
basically of all the information that's out there online,
you name it, I tried the business model.
At the end of trying all of these business models,
there's two business models that stuck.
These are two that I started back then
and I still do to date.
They are the ones that I would recommend to you.
So let's discuss what they are and how you can do them.
The first business model that started to make a difference
and I could see that I was actually starting to make money
was print on demand.
So I found out about this business model called
Print on Demand, and essentially what it is
is you create designs that can be printed
on T-shirts and you can sell those designs online.
Now, the perk to all of this is that there's no cost
and it's extremely passive.
All you have to do as a print-on-demand seller
is create the designs and upload them
to the websites, and they basically act as a marketplace.
So when you upload your listing,
other people can find that and they can purchase it.
Now, the reason that this one ultimately stuck
to this day is because it is extremely passive.
Once you create that design
and you upload it to the website,
you don't have to do anything else from there.
They do all of the advertising for you.
They do all of the printing, the shipping,
the customer service, they collect payment, everything.
Some people recommend trying to create one really
amazing design and uploading that
and trying to get a lot of sales off of it.
I have been going with the strategy
of create as many good designs as you can,
upload them to all of the marketplaces,
and just kind of have a lot of lines in the water.
And you will see over time that the more you upload
the more sales you get.
Now, speaking of sales, let's talk
about the average earnings for print-on-demand.
Now, over the years, roughly
I would say that the average earnings are,
for each design that you upload,
it loosely translates into $1 profit per month.
Now, you can make as many
of these designs as you want and upload them,
but that would be the average earnings that I would say.
Now, the cool part about these earnings is
that once you upload that design to the marketplace,
for the most part, it lives on that marketplace forever.
So you should see passive income
from that for years and years to come.
You don't have to keep refreshing it or anything like that.
So before moving on, let me give you the two biggest pieces
of advice that I have learned that I would like to pass
on to you if you are starting this business model.
The first is that these print on demand websites
are non-exclusive.
So if you create one T-shirt design,
you can upload that same design
to multiple different websites.
Now there's three main websites that I recommend using.
They seem to produce the most sales overall compared
to any other website.
So basically for every T-shirt design that you create,
you can upload it three separate times.
That will roughly translate
into a dollar each month from each of those sites.
So one design, roughly $3 per month, not so bad.
And then the second thing is to use a T-shirt design tool.
When I started out I was creating
all of my T-shirt designs by hand.
Not only did this take a lot of time,
but I do not have graphic design experience,
so I was trying my best.
When I found out that there's T-shirt design tools
out there, and I found out that they have pre-made templates
that you can just customize and make your own,
this changed the game for me.
Not only will these T-shirt design tools make it faster
for you to create designs,
but they'll also make your designs better overall.
It's kind of like a win-win.
The templates that they have are created
by professional graphic designers.
So you just changing the color, changing what the text says,
changing the images, is going to give you a much
better design overall than if you were just starting
from a blank canvas and trying to create something.
So all of that being said, if you are someone who's looking
for a free and really no risk way to start dipping your toes
into making money online,
this would be the business model I recommend to you.
It's the one that I started with.
It's the one that really started to make a difference
for me, and it's passive,
so what more could you really ask for?
Now, I've spent a lot of time creating tutorials
on this channel to help you with print on demand.
So I'm going to link
to one specific tutorial down in the description
and I'll put it at the end of this video as well
that I kind of consider my all in one tutorial.
It's got everything that you need to get started
and then I'm here to answer questions
in the comments if you have any.
All right.
That brings us right
into the second business that I started,
and this one is more of a long term business I found out.
I still do it to date, and the perk
about this business is it's a little bit more complicated,
it's a little bit more long-term,
but it can grow really big.
What this business is called is affiliate marketing.
Now, I learned about this business model
of affiliate marketing and basically
that it means you can partner with companies
and every time you refer them a new customer
they pay you a commission.
You're not an employee for them
or you're not bound to them by any means.
You can partner
with as many different companies as you want,
but every time you use the special link
that they give you to send a customer to them,
they order through your link,
the company simply sends you a commission.
Now, this is a longer term business.
It is kind of hard to get established
and get people to find your links
and use them to make purchases,
but if you do do it properly
it can grow into a really big business.
So if you wanna get started in affiliate marketing
there's basically three things that you need to do first.
So first, you need to pick a niche or a topic,
and then second is you need to think
about what brands and companies you know
in that niche and topic that have really good products.
This might be the most important part of this whole process.
Then you need to go find their affiliate programs
and join them.
It's totally free to join these
and you can apply very simply.
Typically, you're accepted within the same day.
And then lastly,
once they give you your unique referral link,
you wanna share it with as many people as possible.
So the million dollar question here is how do you
get people to find your link and order products through it?
Well, the gold standard and the thing that I've been doing
for years now is to create a simple website,
write blog articles about the niche or the topic,
and insert affiliate links when applicable.
Now, the cool thing to note here is no matter
what you are writing about, you can put
in affiliate links to any of the companies.
You're not limited to just a single company.
So in the same article, you could have affiliate links
to three or four different companies and different products.
Now, once you start writing these articles
and publishing them to your website,
all of your traffic will start coming
from search engines like Google.
You don't have to pay for any advertising or marketing.
Google will basically find your articles automatically
and list them in the search results.
So when someone types
in something related to the article you wrote,
your website will come up right in the search results.
They'll click on that, and now they're on your website.
This is how the whole framework
of this business model works.
You write good content, Google picks it up,
people search Google, and they find your website.
Now they're reading your article,
and it has affiliate links inserted where it's applicable.
Once you're aware of this kind of business model
that there's affiliate links in articles,
then you will start to see it everywhere.
All of the big news companies,
all of the big publication companies,
everyone out there that's writing articles,
for the most part is using
affiliate links in their articles.
This is totally normal
and it's a great way to make money online,
and if these huge companies are doing it themselves,
that's how you know that it's credible.
Now, one last thing before I move on
to how you can do this yourself is the passive income part
of this business model.
So obviously creating the website
and writing the articles is not passive.
You have to actively put in work.
However, once you publish that article,
the rest is passive from there.
Since you're not actually selling
or shipping the products yourself,
you're just linking to the companies that sell them
under your unique referral link,
you don't have to take orders,
you don't have to collect money,
you don't have to ship products
or deal with customer service.
All you do is collect your commission
if they end up making a purchase.
So once you've published all these articles
it is 100% passive.
This is another huge thumbs up,
both print on demand and affiliate marketing.
To date, I currently do them because they're so passive.
So let's get into how you can do this yourself.
So the first main barrier
to entry here is creating a website.
Now, you don't need a crazy website,
you just need something simple that can host a blog.
Now, what I would recommend is using a website builder.
They basically have templates where you can select
I want a blog, and you can customize the colors,
you can move things around, and within a few clicks
in a few hours, you'll have your website up and running.
I'll link a tutorial down in the description,
and I'll put it at the end of this video as well,
that I'll walk you through
basically the bulk of this whole business model
including how to make the website.
So the next question, once you have your website up,
what do you write about?
What are these blog articles about?
Well, what I would recommend to you is to write articles
about reviews, educational articles, even news articles,
what's really happening in that niche or topic.
Generally, you want to write about things that you,
if you were in this niche yourself,
would be interested to read.
Now, although you can just put your affiliate link
to your product in the sidebar with an advertisement,
I would recommend putting it in the article itself.
So if you're reviewing a certain product in that niche,
you'll definitely want to have the affiliate link directly
to that product linked throughout your article.
So now that you know how to make the website,
you know what to write about,
let's talk about what the earnings potential is.
So on these affiliate marketing websites
I've found that it can vary depending
on what niche you're in, what programs you're in,
how many articles you've written on the site.
So I don't feel super comfortable giving you an average.
That's just a baseline.
Some people are going to write a ton of articles,
some are going to write just a few.
So I don't wanna give you a solid number.
However, what I can absolutely say is that
if you take this seriously and you put a lot of work
into it, you can absolutely earn multiple six figures
each year just from these websites alone.
So guys, I have literally made millions from just
these two business models, and I still do them to date.
I'll link up the two videos that are all in one tutorials.
That should give you everything you need to know
to start either of these business models.
Now, it is hard work to start these businesses,
they're not get rich quick, but if you do put in the work,
you'll absolutely see results.
I wish you guys the best of luck getting started on these,
and as always, if you have any questions about them
just let me know down in the comments.
Alright guys, that's it for this one.
I'll see you all in the next video.