 Writing articles, making YouTube videos, coaching people, Shopify, Facebook, Facebook, Facebook, Facebook, Facebook, Facebook, Facebook, Facebook, Facebook, Facebook, Facebook, Facebook, Facebook, Facebook, Facebook, As I said, there's a million ways to make a million dollars. Today we're gonna be talking about how to make money online. And I'm gonna preface it by saying this, I have nothing to sell you. Normally if you hear people talking on podcasts or on YouTube videos or on Facebook about how to make money online, they usually have something to sell you. I'm just gonna warn you with that. I have nothing to sell you. I just want to, if you know anything about me, I hate that people are stuck in the rat race and I hate that people are wasting their lives at a job that they hate. So if they can break out of that rat race and make money through some other form, whether that's online or whether that's doing something else as long as it's something that they love to do, I am a massive proponent of breaking as many people free from that rat race as I possibly can. And so I remember years ago, probably I probably started on the journey of trying to figure out how to make money online about six, maybe seven years ago, actually probably eight years ago, actually about eight years ago, 2012, I quit my job and I went in backpack to Europe for three months by myself. And at that point in time, I thought to myself, there's gotta be ways to make money online. So I started researching it, kind of getting into it, but I never actually really figured it out. And so I tried to make money different ways and tried to make money different ways, tried to make money different ways. And so I wanted to make this episode so that we can talk about how there are different ways to make money online. As I always say to people, there's a million ways to make a million dollars. People always think there's these limited ways to make a million dollars to become successful or even to be able to just make six figures. People think there's only a few ways to do it. There's millions and millions and millions of ways. So I'm not gonna give you a direct answer for like, this is exactly how you make money, but I'm gonna give you a ton of suggestions because I've been in this space for, you know, about five years now and I've seen many, many, many ways to make money online. And so I wanna kind of crack your mind open and allow you to take some notes and allow you to go, man, I wanna research this, I wanna Google that. Cause ultimately, if you start to figure out what it is that you wanna do and that starts to get you a couple dollars online, $5, $20, $100,000 a month, then you're gonna start diving deeper into it and deeper into it. And as you get better at something, you make more money at it. And eventually you could probably replace your income with your salary or, you know, day job that you have now. So the problem that most people have and why it's so hard for people to make money online is because the majority of us were raised by people who don't make money online, right? Like my mom was a realtor, she drove trucks, she did a bunch of different things to make money. And so I always had this paradigm of, you know, you gotta go into work to make money. And when you have that paradigm, it makes it really hard to break out of that to go, I'm gonna make money online, I'm gonna figure out different ways to make money online because the internet really wasn't a thing. I didn't even have a computer until we were, I was probably 14 years old, right? So when you look at that, you realize that I was raised under an umbrella of you've gotta go to work to make money. Also a part of that means that time equals money. If I wanna make more money, I'm going to have to put more time in. And what you tend to realize is at the beginning of starting a business online, that is true. But as you get better and better and better, it's actually less time and more money. Which for most people, especially me, my paradigm was like, I have to work. I've gotta go put in work and work and work. I am a recovering work addictive person. Like I was addicted to working. I used to work 110 hours a week when I was 21 years old when I ran my first office with a marketing company. So you have to realize the first part of breaking through and making money online is getting past the paradigm of is it even possible? Getting past the paradigm of in order for me to make more money, I have to work more. Because a lot of people really hold themselves back for making more money because they've got a family. And if they equate, if I'm gonna make more money, it's gonna require more time. They'll never work harder and start that business because they think it's gonna take time away from their family. And so that's the first thing. The second thing I wanna tell you is this, is that we are raised in a school system that is designed to create workers. Really, it's not designed to create entrepreneurs or to create scientists or to create people who think outside of the box. It's very much designed. You do what you're supposed to do. You sit inside of this box for the allotted amount of time. When the bell goes off, then you can ring. If you wanna talk, you've gotta raise your hand. If you wanna go out and go to the bathroom, you've gotta raise your hand. There's one person that's in control of the entire room and you have to listen to them. They're the one that's in charge. And so it's really designed to create factory workers. And then what happened is, then we started creating universities. And then what happened was, the next thing is you've gotta go to school, right? Like if you don't go to, in America, people always say like, if you don't go to school, like what are you doing? If you don't go to college, what the hell are you doing? Like I am a college dropout, right? So at the point in time when I dropped out, people are like, what the hell are you doing? That doesn't make any sense. You've got to be successful. You've got to go to college. And the only reason why you go to college is to what? Not to be an entrepreneur is to get a job. And so we're raised in this paradigm by our parents because usually just by our parents, that's the way that they were raised because their parents had to go to work. So we're raised that, number one, we have to go to work. We're raised, number two, that we have to go and get an education. So we're raised by our parents and our education system to be workers most of the time. So let's dive into the different ways to make money online because I want to dive into that first because what really holds people back from making money online is literally the fact that they don't even believe it's possible because of the way that they were raised by their parents and also the way that they were educated. So let me talk about all the different ways that I've met people and friends that I have and how they make money online. As I said, there's a million ways to make a million dollars. I have friends that run Facebook ads. So literally they just specialize. I have friends that make millions of dollars just specializing on running Facebook ads for other people and other businesses. Their only job is just to master Facebook ads. I have a friend that literally makes about $17 million a year just running other people's Facebook ads. This is a real thing. Another way that you can make money online, writing articles for people. There's a lot of people that hate writing, myself included. People will pay other people to be freelance writers for them. Another way to make money online, making YouTube videos. Now, the thing I'm gonna say is this is you're not gonna make a ton of money with YouTube videos until you actually grow following. But one of the guys that I follow on YouTube, he literally shows you how much he makes and he's got about 2.3 million people that follow him right now. He makes about $300,000 to $400,000 a month just off of the ads on his YouTube and he teaches finance to people. He teaches how to save more money. He teaches about credit cards. He teaches about housing, all of those things. Do you have any specialty in that? Well, guess what? If you were to really get focused on it, you could possibly make money teaching people that. You can make money coaching, consulting. I'm sure you have some form of a specialty. You can make money coaching people online, whatever your actual specialty is. You can make money setting up a Shopify store. So you can set up a Shopify website to sell products, whether you're a product or somebody else's products. You can be the third party person and you can make a bunch of money doing it that way. You can set up an Etsy store if you want to. You can set up both of them if you want. Etsy, if you create things by hand, if you make jewelry, if you do bracelets, if you do anything creative, painting, you can sell on Etsy. How else can you make money? Facebook ad revenue. If you put videos up on Facebook, if you're putting videos up on YouTube, number one, you're gonna get paid off of that ad revenue. You could also take those videos and put up on Facebook. If videos go viral, what happens is Facebook will place ads inside of your videos and then pay you 55% of how much that entire thing generates. I have friends that make millions and millions of dollars just by putting videos up on Facebook. Yes, this is a real thing. Millions of dollars off of putting videos up on Facebook. I know one person that makes over a million dollars a month by creating viral videos and putting them up on Facebook. You can also do sponsorships. If you grow a following, if you grow a social media following, if you've heard of influencers, if you have an Instagram following, a Facebook following, a YouTube following, companies will pay to sponsor you. If you have a podcast with a good amount of listeners, people will pay to have you talk about their company. You could start a clothing brand and you could sell certain funny shirts if you want to and put that up on Shopify and sell them through Facebook ads or put them up on Etsy. You could teach people any specialty that you have, you could sell courses. I've met people that sell courses of so many different random things you could possibly think of. How to get better at doing jump ropes. How to get better at, the weirdest one that I've ever found was a guy that played, met him at a networking event and he played a really rare, it was like a French flute or something like that. I don't even know what it was but he played a really rare one and he literally taught people. He was one of the best in the world at this instrument and he had this really small but hardcore following and he taught them how to play this flute or this trombone or whatever the hell it was and never even actually saw it. He just explained it to me and he made a few thousand dollars a month just teaching that to his small following that he had. So there's ways to make money that way. You could do affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing means you sell other people's products. So whether you get really good at Facebook ads and you start selling other people's products or you happen to grow your own following and you start putting more eyes onto other people's stuff. So you could do affiliate marketing. You could do podcasting. You could write other people's emails. There's a lot of friends that make tons and tons of money as copywriters. They get really good at how to sell through the written word and then they actually do copywriting on websites for people and they also do copywriting through emails from people and then they get a percentage of every single sale that comes in. You can get really good at copywriting if you want to. There's friends that I have that make millions of dollars selling supplements. That's actually, I know a lot of people that make, I don't know probably about 10 people that make a few million dollars a year just selling supplements online. Like I said, you could do jumping courses. I know some people who have done harmonica courses like jumping courses as far as like jumping to dunk in like basketballs, jump rope. You could sell on Amazon. I have friends that make millions of dollars on Amazon as well. These are all just people that I've met through networking. Like I just went out and I was like, wait, you make money this way? How the hell do you make money doing this? And I don't do any of these, but there's many ways, I'll tell you how I make money online or one of the ways to make money online in a minute. But there's many, many ways of people that I've met who make money doing this. Selling on Amazon. I know people that sold their companies for $15 million in Amazon. They created their own brands. They started selling them on Amazon. They started making money that work. There's friends I know that make money freelancing. They go on Upwork.com. Literally, if you have a specialty that people want, whether that's building websites or writing emails or recording videos or editing videos or editing music, you can literally go on right now to Upwork.com, U-P-W-R-K.com. And you can literally put your services up there as a freelancer and people can hire you off of the internet to do X, Y, Z, whatever it is that you do. So there's freelancing. Social media management where you can run other people's social medias and you can grow their followings if that's something that you wanted to do. YouTube, I mentioned. You can put videos up on YouTube. Make money that way. You can write Kindle books. I know people that make a bunch of money by finding a specific topic and they research the hell out of that topic. And then they take that topic and put it into like a 50-page Kindle book. They sell it for $4.99, but it's such a hot topic that it just goes through and they make a ton of money doing it. So you can literally write books in Kindle if you wanted to. You could do consulting it. There's some consulting that you're, like I said, that you have a specialty of and you could teach people whatever that thing is. Hey, if you're liking this video, make sure that you give it a thumbs up down below. Hit that like button so that it spikes YouTube algorithm and more people can see videos like this. There's literally a million ways to make a million. Like I could talk all day long of all of these different people. One of the very first people, the very first networking event that I went to, there was around what they call internet marketing, making money on the internet. I met a guy who was one of the shyest people I've ever met. And he was running Facebook ads and he was telling me what he does and he wasn't looking me in the eyes. He was very soft spoken. And we had a conversation. He told me that he did and he told me what he did and stuff and I was like, oh, that's cool. Well, then go and get into another conversation with another person who I knew that was at this networking event. And he's like, oh man, you were just talking to, you know, this guy. And I was like, yeah. And he was like, do you know how much money that guy makes? And I was like, no. He goes, he makes about a million dollars a month running Facebook ads for people. And I was like, I'm sorry. He like profits a million dollars a month or like his business like generates a million dollars in revenue. And then that goes into product sales and all those things. He goes, no, he profits around a million dollars every single month. And this was the shyest person. And I was like, I'm very competitive. And I was like, dude, if that guy can do it, I can do it. It's nothing against him, but it's just my competitive nature going, well dude, you could do it too. And so I started getting into it and researching and I started going to as many events as possible because people are like, well, how do you know these people that do all of these crazy things? I just go to events and go to events and go to events. Now I personally hate, I honestly, honestly hate networking. I think it's awkward. But what happened was I started networking and what I always say is when I go to a networking event, there's usually about 95% of the people are kind of a little bit weird. They want to give you the business cards. They want to talk to you about things that don't really matter. They're trying to sell you their services. About 5% of the people are really bad ass and those are the people that you want to find. And so when I go to a networking event, my only goal is to find one person who I really truly connect with and go get coffee with them the next few days after that and see if we can develop a friendship and get to know each other. By doing that, I've met people who are incredible and then I've gotten from those people that I've met that are incredible, they have friends that are incredible as well. So that's how I kind of developed my network of people who are in this industry and people who have sold 10, 20, 50, $60 million in products online. I have friends that literally their companies do over $100 million every single year. And it's not me trying to brag in any sort of way because it's not my company that's doing $100 million a year but it's me telling you, the only way that I met those people was by going to networking event and networking event and networking event. There's an event here in Austin that's called Internet Marketing Party every single month. I went to that every single month for years. Going to events, right? So I'm gonna give you some events that I recommend that you check out. Trafficking conversions is a big event that happens usually in February or March in San Diego every single year. Trafficking conversions is like 5,000 people and they teach you all kinds of different ways to make money online. So trafficking conversions is great. Funnel Hackers Live is another one that's put on by ClickFunnels. ClickFunnels makes landing pages. So those are the two that I've personally been to and are the best that I know of and highly recommend. This is another one if you're into social media called Social Media Examiner. They have an event that happens every single year I think in San Diego as well that you might be interested in. Going to webinars, there's a ton and a ton, a ton of really smart people that have webinars. And I'm gonna warn you, when you go to a webinar there's a pretty good chance that person's gonna try to sell you on buying a product at the end. But I've been to hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of webinars just to see what people do just to get an idea, see if I can steal something and be like, oh, I really like the way they said it. I really like this thing. So I go to, you know, events. I go to networking events. I go to webinars, all of these ways to learn. And what I realize is that sometimes when you really find what it is you wanna do, you gotta spend money to make money. Like there might be a course of someone telling you exactly how they did it. And if that's what you truly wanna do I recommend just spending the money and learning from them if they seem like they're legit and they seem like they're actually doing what they say they do. Or you could spend the next five years trying to figure it out, right? So I always recommend just spend the money on the course. And I've spent a lot of money on courses, a lot of money on mentorships and a lot of money. Usually my budget is around $100,000 a year just on mentorship and just on my masterminds that I joined in networking events to be around people who are incredible in growing their businesses. And I know you might not be at that point yet but you could go and spend $1,000 and go to a massive event and connect with some really incredible people and start to get better from there. What I will say is this is it's very addicting, right? Once you make that first dollar online your life is different forever. That's the important thing to realize. Once you make that first dollar online I remember my very first time that I made a dollar online I'm gonna tell you the story to kind of give you some inspiration so you can think about it. So when I first started this podcast there was somebody that said, hey listen did you know that it seems like your people probably read books they probably listen to audio books. If you go to audible.com you can actually get a link and if people sign up for free for audible for 30 day trial Amazon will actually pay you because Amazon owns audible Amazon will actually pay you $15 for people to sign up for free. I was like wow that's pretty cool and so whenever I would talk about a book I would say hey if you wanna go ahead and sign up for Amazon just go to this website and it would put my link in there and they would sign up for free cost them absolutely nothing to try it out for 30 days and I got paid $15 because obviously Amazon has some sort of statistics on how many that do free trials become you know how much that customer's worth to them so they'll pay $15 and I woke up one morning I put a podcast out you know whatever then I woke up one morning and I had made $15 while I was asleep and I was like oh my God I got paid while I was sleeping and for somebody who was raised by a mother who worked one, two, three jobs at a time sometimes instead of having to go to work to make money I made money when I was asleep and I was like what in the hell is this world? I was addicted I was like I gotta learn more about this I wanna learn more and it's crazy to think that was only about four years ago and in the past four years after really getting obsessed with these things my company's brought in about four or five million dollars in sales because I became obsessed with it but I went from the paradigm of having to work my tail off to make money to learning that you don't have to work you just have to really understand and master what it is that you do and so if you're out there and you're like you know what I need to figure out how to make money online listen to this over and over and over again go through every single bullet point that I said all of the different ways to make money I literally wrote all of them down right here running Facebook ads writing articles making YouTube videos coaching people Shopify stores Etsy stores revenue ad from Facebook videos sponsorships run clothing brands selling courses affiliate marketing podcasting writing emails selling supplements courses on harmonica jump rope jumping selling on Amazon freelance on Upwork social media management YouTube writing Kindle books consulting freelancing how I make money is I was able to build a really large coaching business also a really large following and was able to figure out how to build a really large coaching business from a following so I teach coaches literally how to make money online so I teach fitness coaches life coaches wellness coaches nutrition coaches couples coaches mindset coach mindfulness meditation anybody that's a coach I can teach them how to grow their business online and so that's what I do but you might want to do that or you might do something completely different it doesn't matter as long as you find out what you want to do and you go hardcore into whatever that thing is because if you have a family and you have children wouldn't it be nice just to be able to hang out with them most of the day take them to school do whatever is you need to do and make money doing it or to wake up and actually have money in your bank account that is an opportunity that is 100% real you just have to get past the paradigm of it not being real and then go hardcore into research like I did figure out what it is that you want to do go to as many network events you possibly can connect with people meet people and eventually it might be 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 years down the road you will have realized that you found your own little niche of something that you love and you're making more money you thought possible working way less than you thought possible spending more time with the people that you love and maybe even traveling the world which is a cool thing as well