 So you want to make money programming in 2021, where you reach the right video, let me explain. This video was brought to you by Digitalink Academy, your number one source to learning programming fast and get to that six-figure freelance salary you desire. Our courses include our secret project course, our freelance Kickstarter, our Python course, and our interview programming course and much, much more. So if you haven't already, go ahead and click the link below to get to our free seven-step freelance guide so that we can help take your career to the next level. I'll see you guys in the course. All right, guys, so let's jump right into some of the problems you guys are having, trying to make money programming without a job. And I'm going to really kind of give you guys five points and five strategies you can use to make money and eventually make the salary you desire or do a lot of work. But before we do that, guys, so that I can give you guys some specific advice, let's go ahead and comment below on your particular experience trying to find a job, well, trying to make money as a software developer, coding, software engineering, ways you've tried so far, your success, your failures. Go ahead and share your experience below so that we can start a conversation, guys, so also do it. So at the end of the day, guys, if you don't take anything away from this thing, it's to niche down when it comes to software development, when it comes to coding, when it comes to software engineering. You need to niche down to a specific industry or a particular software, especially at the beginning when you're trying to make a name for yourself because it's not going to make it that much easier for somebody to identify you as a subject matter expert when it comes to this type of programming, this type of software, this type of tech stack. That's going to help with all the five ways that I'm going to show you guys here today. So at the end of the day, I'm going to give you guys some examples of the niches, and then I'm going to let you pick based off of your local market and you're going to implement these five ways to make money programming. But before we get started, guys, go ahead and check out my seven step guide. I can't give you all the details in this video, but my guide go in a deeper dive. It's free, so comment or click below to get that free guide. And if you already got free guide, go ahead and check out some of my premium courses. They're going to help you guys really take your skills. You're learning to the next level and really get you to make it more money. So links to all of that is below. So number one way to make money guys is freelance work. A lot of freelance platforms online. You got Upwork, you got Elance. Well, I don't know if it's Elance anymore. You got Fiverr, all these different platforms. I already know a lot of you guys probably already came across some of these and say, hey, Rod, there's no money to be made on these sites. And your false is not a ton of money is relatively speaking as if you can make outside of the platform, but is a place to get started. It can start you that first side hustle so that you can start making money. So you can establish that niche so you can know what type of work that's out there and what you need to really focus on and start to learn. A lot of opportunities as the on the database side of things, a lot of front end work, a lot of backhand work guys when it comes to certain applications on accounting side. There's so much opportunity there. And most of you guys problems are you don't know how to craft a resume and craft a portfolio showcase certain projects that allow the company identify you as a solution to their problems. We actually get this freelance work. If you do that, then come calling. You only have to come search guys. So that's the first number one thing freelance work on Upwork all that stuff. Go check that out. Number two affiliate marketing guys. I feel it. I'm gonna say affiliate networking, affiliate marketing. A lot of you guys may think, right, this is a scam. That's that that don't work. Well, yeah, the way you're doing it don't work. But at the end of the day guys, all the software package you recommend, all of the stuff you're using, all of the hardware, the program, all that stuff you're using is stuff that you are endorsing just by using it. When you recommend that type of stuff to somebody, then you can make a commission off of it. I wouldn't go too far and too heavy handed with this. Just basically showcase things that you see in my background. My Dell lights, all that stuff. Well, they'll have an affiliate program. Microsoft had an affiliate program. Other software packages have an affiliate program where you recommend people, you take money and you don't have to do it in a scammy way. I personally think once you start to recommend products that hasn't been tested, don't have a use case. You just pushing it just to make money and you don't know if it actually works or you don't have a specific use case for it. That's when it starts to get scammy. So kind of keep your eye out on that. Start by recommending products that you know you like, you trust. Or people you know you like, you trust uses as well. So different use cases. So I wouldn't necessarily go as far as some people say only recommend a product that you like. I look at products that have different use cases that are known and trusted. And then I recommend those. But before I recommend them, I put an asterisk or a condition on it to say if you have this particular problem from this particular angle, this particular program or software or product or service works for you. And you can put that link and click on it. You get commission. Everything life is good. Start working for it. Number C guys. Number three, vlogging and YouTube. That's another way to make money. I don't make a ton of money on YouTube because of the type of... Sorry guys, I'm hitting my mic and all that. Because of the type of content that I do in the style and my frequency. I'm not all in on YouTube like a lot of you guys are. There's a ton of people who make thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars on YouTube because that's their focus, that's their strategy. They're all in on YouTube. I make a little money from YouTube. It's not one of my top revenue sources but it is a revenue source. It is money coming in guys and you can do that coding as well. Showing your code on the screen, doing tutorials, all that stuff like that guy. You can also do that as well. Number four, answering questions on core. They just started a way to make money. You got programming experience. You don't have to be an expert. You just need to know enough on specific problems you've solved in the past and give feedback, answers, details for people who are having those same problems. A lot of people get that confused. They figure, hey, I got to be an expert. No, you have to be knowledgeable about a specific problem and have experience solving it. But you can do that and still be able to provide value even though you haven't been programming for 10 years. You can be programming for six months and be able to provide insight or three months in and on what type of issues that happen. You can make money answering those questions guys. Last but not least, this is one that you may not necessarily start working on right away. Probably not going to be one of the ones you do first but eventually you're going to be able to start making money investing stocks and revenue. Real estate is farther down the line. I'm not recommending you do that right now but if you work for a company who got a 401k, easy money guy as a software developer, that's an option you need to do as well. You notice that a lot of you guys may think, right, these are a lot different revenue sources than what I expected you to tell me. Yeah, because traditionally my number one option I gave you, that's what most developers think of. But I wanted to give you some different options as well. It's way more than that guys. These are just some of the five that I wanted to give you a general idea of what to expect and your ears going and all that stuff. If you haven't already, I give you more details and more ways to make money coding in my seven step guide. If you haven't already, it's free. Go ahead and sign up for that. I premium courses as well guys. Go ahead and sign up or go ahead and purchase those courses. That's going to help you make more money. You're going to get your return on investment really fast. 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