 How are you doing? How's everybody doing today? Welcome. Welcome. I'm Jim from the side hustle shuffle Welcome to we're going live we're going live today on Amazon on YouTube on Facebook on Twitter and LinkedIn, I believe that's all of them we're using restreams to go live restreams great software to go live on multiple platforms going live is The way of the future in in online shopping and if you are not on Amazon What we're doing right now is we're gonna go through a bunch of products on Amazon some Some things that were sent to me to review for free Free product reviews and other things that I endorsed it because I used them every day or that I loved them And and then we're gonna go through and everything, you know Hey funny story I actually started a business in the past with friends that were steel like everything in our house And we got some mula, but we realized that we messed up big time. So Yeah, so, you know a lot of things they tell you you know, how do you how do you make money? We'll sell what you have so that's pretty cool pretty good idea is to you know Take all the things in your house and a matter of fact one of the ideas that I had was One of the things we did to make money was grot sale and what we did we went through It was a girl at the house get everything together that was you know worth most of it was old video games Old old games that the kids had that grew out of that they didn't play anymore But they were still worth money to somebody so you had to go we made all about $1,100 on a garage sale one one year we were looking to get extra spend money to go on vacation So we had the garage sale so that was one crazy thing we did for money was the garage sale But you know if you want to see the products that we're using and then what I'm gonna go through on in the product Carousel come on over to Amazon Amazon.com slash shops place You didn't know come on over or you can go to you didn't know that live you didn't know that live You'll be able to find the link there if that's easier for you to do and the first item in the carousel today is death wish coffee. Oh Special everybody's a little special right okay, okay, thanks for Chiming in with your opinions on everything and you know everybody's a little special and you know you take things from You know of course, there was also the crack epidemic where people were taking their TVs that had their parents houses and selling TVs and For for drug money, and that's something we're talking about. We're talking about legitimate Law-abiding citizens that make money doing things on the side and and how they did it what they did and you know Creative ways that maybe they thought of to make money on the side because my YouTube channel is the side hustle shuffle If you go to YouTube side hustle shuffle and we explore different ways people make money online because I believe you need more than one Income stream to make it today, you know, I Mean that's all part of the reason you get married from partnership and you know Two people are working and you bring it into two forms of income two streams of income come in when two people are working You know and so and it gets more and more apparent to you know as young people are getting out of school You realize they can't afford these crazy rents and pay their student loans And all this other stuff so they have all have roommates right so you know you need more than one income stream to survive out there today You're not gonna survive on one income stream But anyway, this is the death wish coffee and this was coffee is my favorite beverage This is not something that was sent to me for free to review. This is something that I drink constantly all day long I drink like 15 of these k cups a day This is the strongest smooth coffee you're ever gonna have if you like strong coffee, and I love coffee I'm the Java junkie. I'm the Java junkie. I go from coffee house to coffee house searching for the best coffee And I found it in the death wish coffee the death wish coffee most Strong coffee is bitter has a bitter taste to it Death wish coffee is so so smooth. It is delicious I mean if you're a coffee lover and I'm a coffee lover, I used to take cream and sugar I'm not a flavor of coffee guy, but um cream and sugar. It is so smooth. It is the best coffee I mean that I've ever had and I drink it all I drink it all like I said, I'm the Java junkie I drink it all I'll drink crappy coffee all the way up to you know gourmet coffee and you know Espresso and cappuccino and all that you know get on to all that kind of stuff too But you know for a regular cup of coffee death wish you can't beat it now the death wish story is is crazy Death wish is a company now. I'm from northern New York right up by the lake george. You might hear the door go crazy This is live. Okay. This is live things are gonna happen dogs are gonna go crazy noises are gonna happen, you know, whatever, but So death wish coffee is a local company. They're in around lake new york. I'm up towards lake george new york And uh, so they want a contest to get a super bowl commercial I think it was like 2015 or maybe it was earlier than that And uh, so they win this commercial and for to be on the super bowl Now everybody has a super bowl party and everybody had you know, you're there to watch the ads But imagine if one of your local companies somebody that you're a local a local every day small business Was going to be on the super bowl how crazy that might be So it was very very hyped and and we had we had the super bowl party We watched the commercial and I even forget the commercial really to be honest I can go on youtube and probably find it but um uh Anyway, they had the commercial and they became death wish coffee A country-wide great coffee and but they had the coffee to back it up They had the product to back it up and now there's all kinds of Facebook groups and collectors and they collect mugs and hats and and and and and merge and this is one of their mugs here Um, this is the pineapple express mug pretty cool. Uh with the death wish guy on But I love death wish coffee. I drink it. I'm telling you I drink the cake cups. Okay I drink the cake cups because It's the perfect measured, you know, uh amount Right, so you're getting a perfect a perfect amount of coffee in the cup And if you want an eight ounce or a 10 ounce, it's easier to you know, so that's what I do Um, what is your favorite beverage? What is your favorite beverage to have if you if you had a choice? And of course it matters of what time of day it is maybe for some people Some people don't want coffee in the evening. I drink coffee all day long. Um Some people like iced coffee. I don't like iced coffee so much, you know But so we're talking about uh, the craziest things you did to make money, right? So what what was the craziest thing? I I can come right off the bat and tell you that when when when I get out of the service I didn't have a job. I had a lot of money saved when I got out of service and and uh My father was after me to get a job and you know, and anyway, he was working for uh drakes cakes from uh, yodels and ring things and and and and uh They needed somebody to work for a supermarket grand opening was happening and he was like, oh, you better take the job, you know Anyway, so I took the job because I was like, what could it be a supermarket, you know, uh Grand opening for this big supermarket. Well, they needed someone to be the drakes duck Okay, they needed someone to be the drakes duck to where there's big drakes duck costume with orange leotards for the legs and a big butt hanging out with a feather and a big beak out here Right and walking around the store white gloves on so, you know Nobody could tell if I was a a man or a woman and I'm walking around the store and guys are hitting on me and And and and all kinds of crazy crap is going on People are giving me their kids to hold and I'm walking around the store with kids I don't know and I'm like it was just it was a crazy crazy crazy thing and then this was going back to like 1986 maybe 87 and um And so I think I was making like $20 an hour back then and that was pretty damn good for 1987 And but you can only be legally in the costume for four hours because it was like a hundred degrees in the costume And you was you sweating you were in there when you were on the wear because it was so hot And uh, they had to cycle you out and take give you breaks and everything But it was it was a crazy job That was the craziest thing that I really ever put myself through for money I mean, I've done a lot of physical stuff I've done a lot of physical construction, you know cement work and all that kind of you know heavy lifting and heavy work But uh, as far as the craziness, you know, and that's probably the craziest thing I've ever done was being It was being the Drake's duck being a character for a grand opening of the supermarket So, you know, what was the craziest thing in the morning? I like a fresh frappuccino, okay So that's how I spell it in the afternoon. I like stone iced tea Or some iced tea and in the evening. I like some more like some coffee, right? Coffee is the best java junkie. You're talking to the java junkie So if you like coffee, even the frappuccino is a coffee. It's a caffeinated beverage, right? You gotta love it You gotta love the caffeinated beverages So making money, uh Different crazy ways to make money. So we were talking about so, you know, I would put to you The craziest way to make money Is to work 40 hours a week for a paycheck I would say to you That's the craziest thing you could do for money is work 40 hours, especially if it's not your dream job Especially if it's not something you as a kid, I want to be this one. I grow up You know, you anyway ended up being something because opportunity happened or you know You got steered in a direction and you ended up down in the career and or, you know, whatever and you know So you're working 40 hours for a paycheck You know what they say is uh The paycheck is the drug they gave you to give up your dreams Remember when you were a kid and they told you you could be anything you want to be Remember that you could be anything you want to be and then you got to high school and they said smack smack snap out of it You know get real, you know, you can't be anything you want to be you're gonna. You're gonna be garbage man You're gonna be you know, you're gonna you're gonna go Certain people went to kiles or people didn't go to kiles. Some people went to the military Some people went here and there and there but you didn't do whatever you wanted to do when you blew up, right? You you got you got sent in a direction, right? The next item I got in the carousel We're gonna run through these because I'm gonna only stay on for an hour is the mega wise smart air Filt purifier pretty cool one room air purifier mega wise is a company. They sent me some things for free They sent me like one or two things a month free to test. I got a few things in the carousel today So the the air purifier, where did I have the air purifier? Yeah, so I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna share my screen. So some of the things that I do is I make these videos and And I put them on social media and I put links to to amazon and and people I get commissions from from it. Anyway, this is some of this is one of my youtube channels This is the room air purifier video. We're gonna I'm gonna take your business to the next And we're gonna get rid of the commercial now the commercial is another way to make money online When you're you got a youtube channel you make money on the commercials that play And then you also use affiliate links. So this is the air purifier. Now, here's the affiliate link So when you make a video you put an affiliate link to amazon people click the link go to amazon and you would get affiliate commissions So this is the air purifier video. Anyway, so, um But we were talking about ways to make money and I I said that your 40 hour a week job Is is the drug they gave you to give up your dreams. Can you imagine? You know, you were dreaming to be something, you know, you know When did they ever in school tell you you could start your own business? Could you think back to a time in school? Where they said, um, you know, you could be You could start your own business. No, but they said you could be an electrician or a carpenter or a plumber or a doctor Or you know a lawyer, but they didn't say you could start your own business I don't know where you're supposed to get this idea to start your own business Where does that come from right because it didn't come from school so it must come from home It must come from your upbringing because it doesn't come from school. So but why not why not start Something on the side. Everybody needs a side hustle. Like I said, everybody needs a side hustle Not yet purifier is pretty good. It's pretty good air purifier It it goes from green on the bottom You see the green light when the air gets bad it goes red and turns on and and Think works pretty good because we got a cigarette smoker in the house And and and the thing goes on and off when when they walk into the room The red light comes on and and the air purifier goes on it works for a few minutes and then it's back And it's pretty cool. Uh little item. Um So we're not going to share the screen anymore because that's over So amazon.com slash shop slash you didn't know we're going to get rid of that All right, but that's where you come, you know, like I said, we're on restream We're using restream and we're streaming on all the other platforms We're on amazon mainly because that's where I'm paying attention to the to the chat mostly All right, but what do you think about the salary being a drug to give up your dreams? I mean that that really kind of hit me, right? So that you know, you're trading time for money. Okay, you trade time for money Now I always decide jobs when it grown, you know, my kids were little I would do my 40 hour a week job And then I would do things after work. I would have jobs lined up Whether it was painting re-grouting bathrooms fixing holes and walls putting furniture together Um, you know hanging pictures for people, you know doing all kinds of stuff like that Um, and I would have jobs lined up and I would go to people's houses and do stuff for them and and and uh You know make make side money because you needed multiple streams of income one stream of income wasn't enough, right? And I'll tell you why in a second. Um I'm going to tell you why right now. So when you start a family, you know, you get married You have two streams of income coming in but when you when you start a family One of them wants to stay home to raise the kids Right Right one of them wants to stay home to raise the kids to be with the family at least in the early years So that cuts your family income right in half, right cuts it right in half now Who can survive who could make make it when one day you're making one amount and the next day you're making half that amount Right, that's just it's how could so most people are forced To to work and not raise their kids right and send their kids out to daycare and and stuff like that You know the dogs didn't go crazy. I'm sorry if he's here if this is live this is live and this is crazy Right, but you know, so that's that that's that that's the situation people are facing today So you you in order to keep your income you got to stay working so someone else is going to raise your kids Right, it's crazy. I think that's crazy. So you have multiple streams of income coming in, right? um so I was trading time for money and uh It turns out that I could only be out there a certain amount of time like by 10 o'clock At night people don't want you in their house anymore. You're painting or you're doing the bathroom or whatever you're doing hanging, you know a light fixture or a ceiling fan, whatever you're doing and um There's going to be a review for the mic in a few minutes. Okay, um So hang in there. We're going to get to the mic section and just a couple of products. Um, we'll keep going and but uh But you can only stay in people's houses for a certain amount of time Then they kick you out so you can you're limited to the amount of money you can make right? Because you only get so much time you trading time for money It only stands to reason you can only make so much money because you only have so much time Time's the only thing that you can't get back, right? So trading time for money. We're going to stop right there and we're going to go on to the next product the megawise uh jump started 25 um Yeah, amazon has live streams amazon is great now amazon has live stream selling. Uh, it's it's uh Shopper tainment rate shopper tainment. So you come on you look for products You end up in in the product carousel and and and you get people that are doing that'll show you what they're using and stuff like that And there's all different educational stuff, but this is the megawise 2500 amp Uh jump started for your car. This is thing is great to have for emergencies Keep this in your trunk comes in a nice little case, right and Unzip that and there in there is your jumper cables, right? And it's also a power station. So it's got it's got um USB plugs in it so you can run your phone your speaker You know anything like that like if you if you're at the beach or you're at the park or Camping or whatever like that. You can use it for a power station 2500 amps But the real thing about that is Um, yeah, it is like shop at home. It is like home network The real thing about this thing is you know You left your radio on you left your lights on the car in the parking lot and the car dies Right now you don't have to ask the creepy guy for a jump. You got this in your trunk You don't need another car. You can just get out jump your own car You don't have to worry about it just and it just stays in your trunk nice Some people carry jump of cables. You still have to ask the creepy guy for jump, right? You're in the parking lot. It's dark It's usually and you're looking for somebody to jump your car Now you don't have to this this thing solves a problem And this is a good item and it's and it's a strong heavy heavy duty item I love it megawise is a good company. Like I said, they sent me a couple items for free and um I'm going to go through one more megawise item and then we'll go on to the uh stuff but uh Another thing that I did was lawn care, right? So, uh You would get a couple of houses together and you you know do did a lawns And I did it when I was a kid actually so you know I did it on the weekends and and that's how I started making some money and and as but I grew out of it Because I got busy with life and I could have started it and and got it into a little business You know, I had like five houses that I was doing and um Of course you get to the point where you're using it for side money Now you got to worry about taxes and claiming it and all that kind of stuff and you know So, you know, if you want to be a legitimate business or a side business You know, you got to figure out what you're going to be and you outgrow being a side business And one thing I'll say is like if it's a craft related business like Uh handyman or plumbing or electrician or or painting or something You know, you can't grow because it's it's based off your skill and and your your quality control of what you accept is quality Right, so you you get the jobs because they look at what you do and they like what you do But then you hire someone else to do it you hire someone else and send them to the house to do it And they don't do it as good as you do. They don't do it up to expectations So and and so that it suffers you've been in your reputation suffers that way And that that's why people have trouble growing in those kind of business So you just keep it on the side do it on the side You keep your regular job. I'm not a guy that says quit your job, you know Make a million dollars. Of course, it'd be nice make 100 grand 200 grand 500 grand a million dollars great great, right? But but that happens for some people don't happen for most people Most people keep their regular job and have side income coming off And what what's great about side income is when it gets to the point Where it's paying your bills when you have your car payments being paid and your mortgages being paid and you're only working because you love your job or be you know If you don't love your job, I'm sorry, but I do I love my job um You get up in the morning going to work saying you're not worrying about paying your bills because they're being taken care of By your side hustles and that's you know what what it is, you know when I was uh in grade school I was always a hustler, right? So I would stand by the local Uh supermarket and there was there was a railing around the supermarket So they could only bring the shopping cart out so far and they couldn't bring it all the way out to the car Right and they would either pull the car up to the front and load the car Or they would carry the groceries back to the car and I would stand there as a kid And I would carry the groceries to the car Or load the car if they pulled it up and they would give me a quarter or 50 cents or whatever I'm going back 30 40 years right 30 years 40 years so anyway, um Always being a hustler so You you you have that in you as as a young person to hustle right and then you go to school And they don't they don't instill that in you to become a business owner to uh to uh To be to work for yourself they they train you to be a good employee to work for somebody else All right, and that's really It's it's hard to realize it that that's what they're doing is they're training you to follow directions You know work on the deadlines, you know and spit out quality work And and that's basically what any company really wants to do and when you get to that company after you've gone through Your grade school and your high school and your college and you go to the company that you're you know, you're right Work real hard go to a good school get a good job Right and they're going to train you how they want you to work anyway to stick you in the cubicle Anyway, they're going to say this is how we do things here. I know you just I know you just went To 15 years of school But we're going to teach you how we want you to work. So why did you just go to 15 years of school? I don't know um We talked about garage sales, right garage sales, but now people go to garage sales now and they're collectors they go to garage sales and um They'll buy something and then go on ebay sell it on ebay. They'll buy something in garage sale for a dollar Look it up online. See how much it's really worth and sell it on ebay for 30 40 dollars For reselling and people do that all the time and I was doing that for a while I was doing drop shipping not really I wasn't going to garage sales. I was doing what was called drop shipping on ebay And we'll touch that in a few minutes. Um, but garage sales and selling stuff on ebay is something that people do um So the mega wise uh handheld massager is the next thing in the carousel. Listen to this Solid, you know all those all those handheld massagers or like Cheap plastic light weights things this thing is solid The the heads all screw off. There's like five different heads to it and they all screw off and they screw on real easy It's got five settings to it. This one's corded. It's it's not uh You know a wireless, right? It's got a wire to it It's got all the settings to it But what I really love about this thing all the other ones you see them pouncing, you know Pulsating and they're holding them like this they're doing their arms they're doing their shoulders You never see them do their back, right? This is ergonomic handle. Look at this. Look at this handle It's like a push it's like a fishing rod, right? And I can reach my back I can reach all the way down around the side. I can go around this side. I can go around that side Okay, the other ones you see that you can't do that, right? You can't do that. Um And that's why I love this one and it's also like I said, it's very very well made very sturdy very sturdy item. Um I use this thing every day now like I said mega wise sent me a bunch of stuff for free to test And I use this one every day to work out my legs my shoulders, you know, get them get the air flowing It's what they're saying now is you you need the muscles you need them And you you you work through them to get to get them the air out of them to get the pockets out And you need them out and then they're they won't be tight tomorrow morning and whatnot And I feel a lot better since I'm doing that. I'm not as tight I'm a lot looser and it's pretty cool thing. Um mega wise great company They're gonna be sending me something pretty soon my next thing pretty soon I can't wait to get it. Uh, and they're gonna let me know what it is. I it's gonna surprise me this time So, uh, we were talking about Uh, well, I was talking about odd jobs is something that I was always doing was odd jobs which was you know, I knew a couple of plumbers and Excuse me plumbers When they're looking for a leak in your house knock holes in walls You know to find the leaky pipe And so they a lot of them don't do their own repair work So, you know, I I would follow them and I would do repair work closing holes fixing holes and ceilings from leaks and I got really good at using plaster and stuff like that and uh So I was doing all kinds of odd jobs after my regular job and and but again trading time for money it could only trade so much time for money and um somewhere Around 2010 I started seeing things online where people were you know caviar and and lamborghini's and beach babes and Mansions and make money make money overnight become a millionaire overnight and and I was like, what the hell is this stuff? That's is this real stuff. So I started looking into stuff online And you know different ways to make income, uh, and I realized people were doing this and it was called passive income, right? I'm like passive income. What the hell is that crap passive income? Sounds like crap to me, right? But it's real. Listen to this So passive income and what they what they what what they were selling was never work again Passive income is you never have to work, right? That's not what passive income really is What passive income really is is doing something today Putting forth an effort, right? That always is the key putting forth an effort Right, and then that effort having to potential to earn you money over and over and over again into the future That's passive income. That's real passive income. Now. What do I mean by that? What's the simplest explanation is a book, right? Somebody writes a book They write the book It goes out to the bookstores They get royalty checks every time someone a certain amount of people buy the book they get checks They only wrote the book one time they sent the book in they don't have to write the book again But they'll constantly get you know royalty checks actors get royalty checks from movies and and and Music and stuff and you know artists get royalty checks, right? So Where was I going royalty checks? Um passive income So you make a video on youtube or or some other social media, right? You make a video today and like the video I always showed you earlier of uh, I forget which product it was the air purifier and I played the video for you I showed the link in the description So you make that video and you put the link in the description And you put the video out there in the metaverse in the universe and on the internet, right? And that has the potential to make you money people can search for it find it watch it Click the link follow through and and you would get a commission And that could happen tomorrow the day after tomorrow a month from now a year from now As long as that product is for sale on amazon That video has the potential to earn me money in the future, right? So that's passive income So now let's say you do two or three of those videos a week and you have them on youtube instagram Pinterest and a bunch of other places, right? Amazon itself Now after three to five years of making three videos a week, you have 500 800 videos And they each have the potential to earn you income over and over again in the future You start to build something now now that now that was like A realization that I didn't have to trade time for money anymore I didn't have to go home at 10 o'clock and not earn money anymore. I could I could earn money On my computer at home at two in the morning at six in the morning I can get up an hour early in work. I can stay an hour late in work I can be up at one o'clock in the morning. It the possibilities were endless All right the possibilities were endless So the next item in here is the toner microphone now toner sent me these microphones for free to test I was having some audio issues and they sent them to me to test and uh I'm going to go through I play a video of me using the actual microphones This is the TC 777 the basic microphone Uh, and I'll let you be the judge. It's me using it. I'm not going to play the whole video But just so you get an idea of what it sounds like Okay, today we're talking budget microphones. We're reviewing a couple of budget microphones Toner sent me a couple of budget microphones to review. They sent them to me for free So full disclosure, uh, this one is the TC 777. We're using it right now We're recording with it right now came with a desk stand tripod stand The microphone a shock mount and a pop filter all all pretty much assembled comes with a two-year warranty right there on the box Two year warranty and uh, you know, how does this sound? How's the how's the audio sound? There's no adjustments on the microphone. There's no, you know, cough button or mute button There's no volume control. There's no gain control. So you're pretty much, you know stuck with what you got And as far as the the cord goes, uh, it's not that very long and it it doesn't unplug from the microphone base You know, so if the cord frays or bends or, you know, it goes bad the whole microphone is bad You can't get a new cord. All right, but other than that, what do you think about that? Uh I'm gonna pick pick it up So this is us talking into it now. This is me getting close to it, right? We'll do the pop filter All right. Now there you can see on the side pretty nice little microphone, right Pretty nice little microphone USB plug and play you don't need any software to use it It just plugs in and but you're at the mercy of the settings because there's no So, you know, you plug and play like anything else the usb plug and play microphone You don't need any kind of sound card a sound board or anything like that and it's on sale It's on the 30 dollars right now and so you can't be that it's pretty much pretty much a decent microphone for the price You know, what do you what do you expect for 30 dollars? You heard what it is when you talk into it, right? Now you can see the microphone i'm using now is sit down low So you don't really have to see it, but if you're talking into it, it's perfect Perfect soundly microphone. It's when when I started sitting back from it. It didn't pick up so well You know, but you know, you're getting what you're paid for. What do you need it for? What do you need it? You need it for a voiceover where you can talk right into it It's perfect if you need it for interview and you want to see the microphone in the interview It's perfect, right? What do you need it for? What function do you need it to do? Right, and that's the first one. That's the tc 777 the next one I got in there is the T 30 this one. Um, I guess it's a step up a little bit. It's a little bit more expensive It's on sale as well. It's just under 35 dollars But I have another little clip of me using it and uh, what do you think of this one the t the t 30 Okay, today we're talking budget microphones. Okay, we're talking about the toner tc 30 usb condenser microphone To plug and play microphone. It doesn't take any software. It's got a two-year warranty coming with it right here two-year warranty comes in a nice box Uh comes with a tripod a shock mount the pop filter and the microphone and and of course the wire It comes with a good length of the wire Uh And you're listening to it right now. Okay, so that's the toner microphone tc 30 budget microphone quality. There's no Uh, no mute button on there. No cough button. No, you know, uh gain control no gain knob nothing like that There's no button on off switch on it. There's no volume control. It's just a straight microphone I don't know. What do you think? I'm gonna pull it up and show you you've been listening to it right now So there it is the toner t 30 tc 30 Let's pull the cord out now there how it's that's how it sounds from the back of the microphone This is how it sounds from the side of the microphone And this is how it sounds from the front of the microphone now This is a top microphone Uh, it picks up from the top not the side like the blue yeti will pick it up from the side This one will pick it up from the top. All right, and like I said, it's got the shock mounts with the desk tripod Pretty good microphone So that's the tc 30 and you know a little bit better sounding microphone a little bit better sounding microphone um And again, you're getting what you pay for it's 35 dollar microphone, right? So 35 dollar microphone And when you talk right into it sounds good, you know, it's it has the nice shock Mount the tripod for the for the desk mount pretty good, you know Again, like you're getting what you pay for the toner sent me these three microphones for free to test these are the first two the next one is the uh the q9 and the q9 comes with it's it's the uh They're all condenser microphones, but this one comes with the with the with the with the uh Boom arm the expandable arm and the desk mount it clips to the desk and that comes with the shock filter it comes with the the the the pop filter the shock mount and uh The wind guard, okay And this one is also for sales on the 55. It's like 30 off and and this one It's a little bit better I'm gonna let you hear this one and then we'll talk some more about some side hustles and about the crazy things we do for money Okay, today we're talking about budget microphones. Okay, we're talking about uh You're going to get started as a content creator. You want to start a podcast or a youtube channel or zoom you're doing zoom calls and uh, you know, you need a microphone So you start looking around you're saying I don't want to spend 150 on a microphone So you start looking at the cheaper microphones the less expensive microphones. You know, they're really worth it I'm using this microphone right now. This one toner sent me this one for free To review toner is a good company and this is the q9 Okay, q9 comes in a box nice size big box comes with the whole cabing the whole cabang in here Um comes with the condenser microphone a boom arm set Shock mount and a pop filter and the and the windscreen that slips over the top as well and i'm using it right now where It's got a volume control button on it up and down and if you long press the volume control either the up or the down It's a mute button. Okay, so But there's no uh led indicator to let you know that you're muted or that you're unmuted or You know or what level the volume is at so I don't really know what level the volume is at right now I can actually turn it up Well, that's the q9 i'm not going to go through the whole video of me using the q time But that was me using the q9. It does have the volume control button You know, it was kind of wonky when I used it. It wasn't the greatest There's no there's no way to know when you're using it What level you're at that was the thing But I mean there is a volume control so you can set it up at the beginning and it's fine You can't adjust it on the fly and um the mute button You couldn't tell when it was unmuted. It was you know, so it was kind of weird, you know So that that was a downfall to it But again If you're looking to get started the problem is you you don't have enough money to get started You want to upgrade your equipment? You want to get yourself a microphone? You don't want it don't know what to get. Well, you just heard that one Then you you know it it also comes with all the other stuff So eventually you can upgrade the microphone and you still have the boom arm and the pop filter and and the shock mount and all the other stuff, right? um so Another thing that I did for crazy ways to make money was I collected scrap metal, right? Uh, I was I would worked for a uh a large um maintenance department and in a big big complex in Manhattan And there was like five buildings like freaking 500 apartments were involved and and I was one of the handymen and I used to uh Upgrade the plumbing and the electric and the cable wires and and all like people would move out of the apartments And I would upgrade the apartments And all that crap all that scrap metal, you know the copper the brass and uh You know all the the cable wires all copper and all that stuff And I would collect it fill my van with it and once a month make a run to the to the scrap yard And they would weigh it not and I'd make a couple of hundred bucks You know it was my gas money. Basically it would be Good couple hundred bucks a month from from just the scrap metal and that was just from one place If I was to start collecting from other places probably would have been better But you know, there's a lot of money in garbage people don't realize there's a lot of money in garbage and scrap metal It's like I've I've scrapped cars and it all depends on the market You know if scrap metal is high, you know, you get a good good amount for your metal So you you save the metal and you watch the market and you let the metal pile up and when the market's high You sell the metal. All right pretty cool And a lot of these people do that you'll see them on facebook and other places will say You know, I'll pick up your scrap metal put it on the on the curb and I'll come pick it up for you These guys are saving it and they're going to sell it when the time is right You know, it's a pretty cool way to make money on the site If you have the space to save a big pile of scrap metal and the truck to and the and the back to move this stuff around um, so that was the scrap metal also, um Cleanouts doing clean outs um You know people die you got to clean out the house or You know doing fall and spring cleanouts around houses, you know the leaves and the branches and all that kind of stuff That's big now You can start you can put flyers out and they make side money doing that and and building up landscaping doing that All you need is a lawn mower In your business a lawn mower and a leaf blower So a couple hundred bucks worth of equipment and you could start yourself a business and get you know You get a couple of of clients and the thing with these kind of things is someone's always asking You know, do you know a lawn guy? Do you know an air conditioning guy? Do you know this guy? So, you know, your word of mouth is great So, you know, you start doing it for one person and that's what happened to me and my handyman deal when I used to do All that handyman work on the side was once one person knew what you were doing uh, they would talk so I I One of the places I worked at Was a bingo hole two days a week and and elderly people it was a senior center and and they would have they would have A bingo and it was all elderly people and retired people I should say and you know A lot of them were widowed women who didn't know how to do anything around the house and and and I've got a lot of Side jobs doing it a lot a lot of side business doing that was it was pretty good But again trading time for money Then you get to the place where the next item in the carousel is the holy stone drone now the holy stone drone I'm going to share my screen and go to my instagram one of my instagram pages um Again, we're talking about making videos and putting stuff on social media And getting commissions. So this is this is the uh shop all my stuff uh instagram page and I have videos of uh Different products and affiliate links. Okay on instagram the affiliate link is in the uh the bio so I have an affiliate link to my store in the bio and then you drive traffic to amazon and uh And you get affiliate commissions now the beautiful thing about amazon is you send the traffic to amazon They don't have to buy what you click. So they're going to click this drone to check out the drone But let's say they don't buy this drone now this drone is pretty cool It's a mini drone if it's in the remote control if it's inside there Um, so let's say they click and go on to amazon, but they don't buy the drone But later on in the day they go back and they buy, uh you know, uh diapers or speakers or uh You name it whatever something for the for outside for the lawn, you know some furniture Whatever they buy within 24 hours you you get a commission for it. So you get what's called cookie. They get cookie to you Right and so that they would buy whatever they bought for 24 hours. You would get a commission for right now So they go up to the top here and then this is my amazon store So they would click the amazon store to go shopping at my amazon store All right, and all you got to do is drive the traffic to amazon Okay, now those videos work for me 24 7 I'm at the beach. I'm at my kid's baseball game. Um, you know, I'm at my other job I'm sleeping Right and those videos have the potential to earn me money over and over again in the future forever Never that's that's what passive income is. That's what that's crazy. That's a crazy way to make money if you think about it That's crazy Um, but I still say the craziest way that you could make money is a 40 hour job Right to to trade time for money to trade 40 hours for a paycheck the paycheck was the drug they gave you To give up your dreams as a kid. They said here's your paycheck. Give up your dreams Here's your cubicle. This is the way we want you to do things in this company I know you just went to 15 years of school But this is how we do things here. Here's your cubicle, right? Why did you just go to 15 years of school to do to get a job in a good company to do things? They're gonna retrain you to do things their way. But it's a crazy world we're living in right, but um We talked about scrap metal ebay. All right, one of the crazy ways I made money on online was ebay. Um What's called drop shipping or retail arbitrage is what it really was Okay, because I can tell you what drop shipping is later retail arbitrage is what I was doing so, uh, I had an ebay account reseller account and I would find items on other stores walmart home depot You name it, right? And any kind of retail store. So let's say it's walmart one of my favorite items was, uh, cubics, aconia diamond earrings, right? walmart sold them for 999 right I took a picture of it screenshotted it went on to ebay put the picture on there and put it on cubics aconia diamond study earrings for 29.99 Well, nobody bought them So I put it on for 25.99 I started getting sales So first person buys it for me. They sent me 24.99 I have 24.99 I go to walmart.com and I buy the studs But instead of putting my address in I put their address in right so walmart Mails the stuff right to them. I never owned the stuff never had the stuff in my possession All I did was have a picture of the stuff So and I made the difference between 999 and 24.99 And I did that a bunch of different times and that's on one product and people would do that with 50 hundred 500 thousand products, right? And The problem with that was and what what why I gave it up Well, first of all the ebay channel on my ebay My ebay account got banned because they realized I wasn't shipping from where I lived And they didn't like that too much And there was ways I could have figured that out and gone around it and appealed and got my account back And I said, you know, if this is going to be a fight. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna fight for this But the reason why I gave it up because and I didn't fight for it was customer service People would always, you know, be like, uh, where's my item? You know, I want to refund. I don't like it You know, and didn't got to be a nightmare You know, so now you're now you're you know on the phone all time and you're you're you're sending emails back and forth and You know, you're tracking packages and it got to be a little too much, right? So I but there was a while and and and if you do it from let's say you start doing it At september and you do it up until the end of november You know, you get you get the christmas traffic black friday, you know and all that You don't want to do it past like the first week of december because of shipping times It takes like two weeks for shipping and you don't want people want this stuff for christmas They can start returning stuff if they get it after christmas. So you don't want to hit that headache So if you do it and that's when I was doing it And I did it for a few years just at that that quarter the last quarter of the year and it was pretty cool retail arbitrage That's uh, now drop shipping is uh similar People do it on ebay, but people do it on facebook and facebook marketplace Where they would take uh, you ever see those ads on facebook for like a ring or a jewelry of a necklace, right? And they used to do free plus shipping where they would say, uh, just pay shipping 999 Right and you can get the you can get this item for free And people would pay 999 for shipping to get the item for free, but it was drop shipped So what it was was from china So the person would it was very similar to what I was doing retail arbitrage You would pay me the the the shipping I would go to china and I would buy the item for 98 cents And china would ship it for free to the states, but it would take six weeks, right? And and I would keep the difference, right? Again, that's drop shipping So you were wondering if you bought that ring on facebook or that jewelry on facebook that necklace and what you forgot about it I guess I got ripped off it didn't come and then all of a sudden it came like six weeks later That's why because it came from china. It was drop shipped from china Um, the next item is holy stone the next drone. We went over to the beginner drone, right? That was a little the little drone this one is the the next drone up the 175d We're gonna mute that We're gonna do that We're gonna go back to the beginning All right, now we're gonna share the screen share the screen It takes a few clicks here to get things going when you know, you're a one-man show You wear every hat in the thing, you know, you're the producer you're the videographer You're the talent, you know, you're you're You do it all you do everything. So this is the hs 175d Uh, and I'm actually that there's a camera in later on in the carousel A sports camera an action camera. I'm using that on my head to film this as well So this but this is the drone And that's the drone camera. That's the camera from the drone itself This was a pretty cool little drone. The weather really was bad the day of fluid Uh, it was really a really great day and it was kind of kind of brisk wind And so but I played around with it and it was really good at gps drone This is the largest drone you could have legally without getting like a permit or something It has a automatic home. You could shoot this thing off and I do and press home and it came back Uh, and the camera is 4k 4k pictures on it. Um Really happy wi-fi it controlled on the wi-fi or controlled with your phone on the wi-fi There it is. I shot it off out of eyesight and then pressed the home button and comes right back Um, and it'll land right where it took off from or close enough to it within five feet. It was Um, and it's a pretty fast little drone And I can't wait to really get it out on a good day. Um, and take some nice pictures and stuff I'm gonna fast forward the video a little bit And you got the the camera's got it up and down on it Not on the left and right, but you got an up and down And and you know, that's me just hovering over the house now I used this I checked my gutters with this, you know, I checked my chimney, you know, and uh, pretty cool I got that dead tree. I got it. I got to get down on my yard And that's taken the picture and that's a picture 4k picture. All right And that's the uh, holly holy stone GPS drone h S uh 175 deep. I like the drone. They sent to me for free Uh, the story with holly holly stone was they sent me the first drone the little one and I said, I'm a terrible drone pilot I crash drones all the time and they said this was a great drone that's practice with and I did now I'm into droning and I'm doing the 175 and I'm playing around with that one and uh The camera it's a lot of fun. It really is a lot of fun if you if you're into droning But I would suggest, you know, if you if you're timid about spending the money on Getting a drone and worrying about crashing it and breaking it or losing it the first time get the little one It's it's a couple of items back in the carousel. It was like on the 50 bucks and um It was really good to learn on it was really good to learn on and get comfortable because my problem was with the drone Is when you turn it around and and right is left and left is right And you make a movement and it doesn't go where you're supposed to you over adjust And then you send it into the wall or the trees or whatever That's what always happened to me. So but I but this one also has a slow speed on it has different speed settings on it And when you're on the lowest speeds, it's easier to recover and and and easier to control But that's the holy stone drone Again, they were sent sent to me an item that was sent to me for free Then we were talking about we talked about ebay. Uh, we talked about facebook marketplace Crazy ways people make money at this facebook marketplace now people are going Well, first of all they're selling selling everything in their house like they used to do on ebay They're doing that on facebook marketplace now They're also going to garage sales Excuse me and reselling on facebook marketplace Facebook marketplace now has Uh a shipping option where they didn't have a shipping option before used up to meet somebody in the parking lot or haven't come to your house Now you can actually ship stuff on facebook marketplace. So that opened it up to drop shippers So a lot of drop shippers are now using facebook marketplace the way they you the way they used to use facebook and uh the other social medias in the feeds right for the ads now they're using it for the for the uh facebook marketplace and you can make good money on the side doing stuff like that reselling stuff and um You could probably do the retail arbitrage that way too on on facebook marketplace buy something in walmart You know you go to walmart you find something that's on sale or on the clearance rack He's always got something or like a store like tj max always has stuff on the clearance rack You know, you can go to tj max and get designer clothes for like pennies on the dollar like really ridiculous amount you can get like a $60 purse for $10 and and sell it on ebay You know for $50 and make $40 over one port, you know, and people make money by doing this in volume Okay, and that's crazy ways people make money, you know on the side side hustles right? What's the craziest thing you've ever done? To make money on the side right was you know scrap metal collecting cans maybe you know Scraps what else? Turning in video games to Game stop or whatever whatever it is now game stop. I think it's still the one right? Um captain video used to be one right? Um Selling your old video games selling your old Baseball cards right baseball cards was something back in the day You just you trade your baseball cards and you could sell your collectibles right you can you or comic books I sold a comic book collection one time To for side money and of course I didn't get what it was worth, but you never get what it's worth right? Well, nobody's going to pay what it's worth because then they can't resell it for what it's worth. That's what they'll tell you Death wish coffee is the greatest coffee I'm telling you it's the first item in the carousel if you're a Java junkie like I am go and get the job go and get the Death wish coffee the next item is something I use all the time was sent to me for free to review This is the text law of 48 and selfie stick This thing is so awesome. Like I said, I use this just about in every video. It's a selfie stick But the uh it holds your phone up here now most of the these things these these these selfie sticks they have a snap Uh holder for your phone. This is a screw down clamp. It screws down and clamps your phone It's really I love it right now. It's also got an ergonomic handle on it So as you know, you can you're doing your your blog You know, you're you're doing your selfie like this and you're holding it and and the handle comes out into a tripod Right, but when you close the tripod, it fits really good in your hand. So it feels really ergonomic, right and uh It telescopes without any adjusting screws to it. It's perfect And wherever you stop it, it's sturdy. You don't have to like waste time with it Right and but what I really like about this thing It's got the bluetooth uh remote control now They all have the remote control right but this thing is in the cradle here Where you can never lose it or you know get confused which one it is It sits in the it sits in the cradle. So I take this thing with me everywhere. I use use this for all my b-roll I use this for all my videos This is my go-to tripod. I love it and it got it for free And it's something I use all the time and it's under 20 dollars You're not going to get something this is high quality. This is the good quality. This isn't a cheap chinese I'm sorry if the chinese this ain't a cheaply made Item this is this is a good quality. This is a good quality item clock and uh You know and it's got a bunch of things that I love about it I already pointed out that the bluetooth controller sits in the in the cat in the caddy here and you can't lose it That's priceless and that this is not a snap down because I always feel like I'm going to break it Snaps down the phone the phone sometimes goes flying snaps out of it. This one clamps down really cool And I love it this thing if you're into any kind of content Creation taking pictures videos you need b-roll or you do vlogging and that's that's what you need I mean don't go spend 30 50 dollars on a tripod This thing does three four different things solves three or four different problems under 20 dollars. Okay, and it's on sale Almost half off get it today put it in your cart. Get it today. This is something that you're gonna want to have Okay, you know text loft 48 inch selfie stick, but it's not just a selfie stick. It's a tripod It's the remote control with the with the with with the holder in it with the caddy That's priceless right there that that would pay 16 bucks just for that right just for that So one of the other crazy things I did for money, right? What are the crazy things you did for money? But one of the crazy things I did for money I was a superintendent for apartment complex like 180 apartments and We had painters that would paint the apartments I had to recondition them when people moved out. I had staff that reconditioned them and We had painting contractors that would come in and paint them But the painting contractor couldn't keep up with the volume. We would have one or two or three a week and And he couldn't keep up with the volume. So I went I went found out how much he was charging and I offered to do it for a hundred dollars less right, so I started getting Side money painting apartment someone saturday and sundays I was going in in my painting clothes and painting apartments as a matter of fact my wife helped me She came and we were a team and we would knock out two apartments in a weekend Two bedroom apartments and we would make a good chunk of change on the weekends We did that for quite a bit before What ended up happening was management Companies changed and and and contacts changed and people brought their own people in and they of course Then they wanted to see my insurance card and I didn't have one and you know, what you're saving money So if you if you want me to get insurance, I gotta pay you gotta pay me more So now the price goes up that was a whole idea of you saving money was me not having insurance For me working under your insurance because that was another thing I tried to do I can work under your insurance But they didn't want to deal with that and I don't blame them But you know painting apartments find out what someone else is doing And do it for less Right classic. That's a classic way to make money undercut undercut them and that's it right um painting So another thing I have in my carousel is uh these newer lights these Video conference lights. I got them on the desk here and they're up there and they're shining down There's two of them. They're remote controls. They come with the color lenses in case you're into the yellow or blue or or red Um, I'm using the clear ones. I've used the orange and red ones in the past I mean the yellow and red ones to make orange in the past Um for spotlights that I've used in different lights, but this is Perfect and it comes with remote controls to got a remote control back there I don't want to play with them because I don't want to throw my video off But you can dim them if you want get them to where you want them adjust them however you want them These things are really good now. I'm going to share my screen again. I'm going to share an um Hold on a second. I think yes All right. Yes, we're going to share the screen. I'm sorry for the delay or I just have to check on something so we're going to share uh Right here I believe the youtube channel that we are on before okay for the air purifier But we're going to come down to another video for the best desk lights here. Okay. Now again, you make the video And down here in the video you have the amazon link and then you drive traffic to amazon and I told you they don't have to buy the uh And of course, of course the video has has ads on it. They you know, uh, you get a commission on the ads as well So these lights i'm gonna This is me taking it out of box um Those that are clamps for the desk And the clamp for the for the light so you can adjust it pretty good. Um Again, we're going back to the passive income. So the video plays this video is out in the internet Can anybody can search best led light set for desk? This would come up in the search and uh, They have the potential to Now here's the light the the boom arm coming out and they have the potential to be click that link and be driven to amazon All right. Now there they are on the desk clamp to the desk Okay So those those are pretty cool lights now Again, we're always upgrading when you're a content creator. Now. What's the number one? Small business the fastest growing small business. They say it's going to be in 2022 It's going to be a content creator going to be an influencer, right? Someone who's making uh content and like i'm just showing you Uh videos or just posts different posts or there's audio stuff going on now with with different audio platforms about platform called volley uh is video audio and uh volley is a something i'm experimenting with um There's all different ways to monetize and and get these affiliate links in and when you drive traffic now, of course There's millions you could be an affiliate for anything you could be affiliate for walmart for home depot for any product any business Um any software any i'm also affiliates for software for different things But the reason i'm always talking about amazon is because you get cookies for 24 hours and anything they buy you don't have They don't have to buy what you sent them for that's the key Right because people click the link to because they're curious So once they're curious you get them curious they click the link They're cookie to you and for 24 hours whatever they buy you get a commission That's why i push amazon because because of that right the commissions aren't high people are going to tell you amazon has low commissions, but amazon is the big kahuna They have the most traffic and i'm going to tell you the number one problem The hardest thing to do online is get traffic and i'll go one step further to get warm traffic Okay, what's warm traffic people that are ready to buy okay people are ready to buy and amazon has that already and so People go to amazon to buy with their credit card in their hand ready to buy i'm going amazon now i'm going shopping that's Their intent is to buy when they go to amazon all right so you click send them to amazon They're in they might be on amazon to go. Oh, yeah. I got to get this. Oh, yeah I got to get that i'm on amazon now and reminded me i got i got to buy a speaker i need a birthday gift I need this i need that i need i need i need a plastic plant for my living room Whatever right it doesn't matter what it is all you did was drive them to amazon right crazy crazy so um If you go to you didn't know dot live Okay, that's my website and you can sign up for my email list where i would send you all kinds of goodies Tips and and i send my videos out there and stuff like that. So you didn't know dot live is my website Um, so if you want to go there go there. Um, so we were talking about painting Another thing we were talking about is when i was a teenager. I had a friend who um He used to go to auctions and buy When businesses went out of say out of business He would go to auctions and buy uh, what was called lots lot. He has lots of you know Like a palette with all different items on it from the business How much for this how much for this how much for this you ever see the storage or locker wars Where they've been on the storage lockers kind of something like that right an auction And you would bid on pallets and whatever item was on the pallets He would take and we would sell it on broadway in new york city On a table that he rented from a from a store on broadway, right? And I would stand out there and you know Depending on what it was a lot of times it was children's toys or perfume or makeup or jewelry You know stuff like that and people would come up look at at their stuff and you would you would handle with them You would have to say okay. How much is it and you know For some people would be one price some people would be different price It would depend on what they were wearing if they had a briefcase You know if they were a businessman they made more money They would pay more money if they were somebody a regular person in a t-shirt they the price would be different believe me that goes on and That was kind of like it was a street hustle, right? but it gave it taught me some things about sales and and and and uh, like I said, I've always been a hustler and you know The the 40 hour a week salary was the drug they gave me to give up my dreams I want and what when was that right when was it when was that when they said you could be anything you want to be when you grow up When was that they said you can be anything you want to be when you grow up and then all of a sudden they said Study real hard go to a good college get a good job right Where where did it change? I went can you do you remember when it changed? When did it go from be anything you want to be? to Study and get a good job. I don't know I don't know. Is that was that your experience? I don't know. Was that your experience? The next item is this a casio uh ek 7000 it's ek 7000. This is the gopro knock off. Okay, I call it a knock off But it's it's a good little camera. It's a 4k action camera comes with all the uh waterproof case The the the the mount for the for the bike or the mount for the helmet all that stuff um, and I use this for b-roll b-rollers for my videos and uh And other another stuff and I'm going to show you some video of me of me using it Um, I was using it when I took pictures that I drone I had it on a mount on my helmet and I was and I was watching the drone go on and I'm going to go share my screen If I pull this up here and now I share the screen here Do you leave leave leave leave leave leave? I'm running out of deathwish coffee people. All right. So this is the video me driving in my van I'm really impressed at the price of this thing. It's like, uh, it's under 90 dollars where the gopro is like 400 600 depending on which one you get Of course, I'm in a truck and I'm bouncing around and I'm I'm think I'm holding this in my hand Actually, I don't even think I have it in the in the case um But look at the picture, of course at the windscreen my windshield is dirty, right And the stabilization on this was not that great. Obviously it doesn't have a stabilization There's there's a pro one that I'm going to get next that one has a stabilization on it If I go back and I maybe I could show you a picture. This is this was the drone video Here's some prettiness of the lake. This is lake george northern new york This is why I don't mind my day job because I go to all these houses all every day. I take pictures of these beautiful backyards of people Uh, that I love that's why part of the reason why I love my job, but the ak Seven thousand right the casio seven thousand good little camera for uh, if that's what you're looking for, you know It's underwater can go underwater. Um, so if you're going canoeing boating, uh swimming even, uh Tubing you can bring it along. Uh, it's good. Uh, it's a good action camera, right? I I'm very happy with what what it was for the price and of course Put it in your carousel put it in your car. I should put in your shopper cart and and keep it in there for a little while I think it might even get cheaper. I think I paid $70 for it 69 99 so watch it may go up and down but really good quality I was afraid, you know, I I said I said, you know, the the gopro's for $500 This one's like $400 less. It's got to be a piece of crap, but it's not it's not You saw it. You saw it. You saw the what it was. It's definitely not bad. It's definitely not bad And you're always looking to upgrade you need cameras. You need lighting. You need microphones You need all of these things to it to become a content creator today, right? Um During the pandemic we started having web meetings It's zoom meetings and I needed a webcam for my for my desktop, right? And they were sold out of these all these they were all sold out So I ended up getting this one finally I paid a lot more than this for this is on the $20 It's almost 30% off the webcam. I'm using it right now This is what I'm using right now to shoot my regular footage my my face face footage My talking head as they say talking head video um I do this to prove to you that you don't need $1,000 camera $600 Sony to go to go live to to make money online to start this being a content creator. You don't need this $1000 worth of studio equipment Okay, you know you can get by with just your phone you can get started with just your phone Using natural light from outside and the microphone on your phone on your camera Right and the camera on your phone is is a great quality camera, especially if you got a recent phone Uh, probably a better camera than then you would use if you went out and bought a camera Okay, your first camera Because then you find out it's not just the camera It's the lens and then you have to have different lenses for different, you know, and it gets crazy But so I use this camera to show you that you don't need that thousand dollars worth of equipment This is a $20 camera that i'm using to go live streaming and we're going live streaming on amazon facebook linkedin youtube and Twitter right we're going live in all those places talking about crazy ways. We're making money, right? What are the craziest ways that we ever made money and um, we've gone through quite a few one of the crazy ways that I made money was back It was a while ago, but I lived in the city in the queens new york city in the five boroughs and uh By my house, there was a a bus line that was always late. It was notorious that it was always late It was horrible. It was horrible crowds of people would be standing online for for An hour waiting for the bus when the bus was supposed to be coming every 20 minutes And uh, so I'd get in my car and I would drive up and down the street And I try and you know charge people a buck. I think it was like a buck and a quarter back then for to be on the bus And I would charge them a buck to get in my car and I would drive them to the train station Right and I would do that from like seven in the morning to nine in the morning And then I would do it from like three to like five in the afternoon So I would do it for like six hours a day and and I would make good money, right? Um, of course you can't do that forever. It's not legitimate. It's you know The bus line didn't like it and sooner or later the bus got their asses and gear and they started getting on schedule And they didn't need people like me. I wasn't the only one doing it. By the way, it was once people doing it, right? um It was a good way to make money And here's another thing about making money online. Can you hear that? That's a siren. That's a siren. Um If you knew where I lived you'd be like that's weird. Um So That just set me off. I I didn't know what I was talking about. I'm gonna take a sip of coffee I'm almost out of my debt which coffee debt which coffee down the door is gonna bark I guess something crazy is going on. Who knows there must be somebody running loose in the woods um We talked about dropshipping we talked about facebook marketplace and we talked about all of those uh All of those things another thing that I got for free is this uh Solar security camera I got the box down here The brand name is deco deko deco. It's a solar wireless security camera comes with a solar panel And it's wi-fi you make sure you got a wi-fi signal. I'm gonna play the video of me putting it up It took me like 20 minutes to put this thing up. It was pretty cool. Um If I share my screen and I go to My amazon page No, no, where is it? We're gonna Sorry about that. That's the wrong one. We're gonna stop sharing that one. We're gonna share this one There it is. So there it is. You just saw the box solar Uh security camera. I'm gonna gonna run through take everything out of the box All right So that's everything out of the box and then we're just throwing it up now you had to make sure you had a good wi-fi signal and uh, you needed a, uh SD card To put in it if you wanted to save it You didn't have to save it you had options for the cloud and it goes to your phone Anyway, you have it on your phone But I set it up so as I can save it to the SD card And you can also set it so how long the SD card will race over so you can save it for 48 hours 72 hours something like that and uh Now you make sure you got a good wi-fi signal there and then they show you how to do that with your phone and then you turn around and you put the uh Depending on where you are in northern hemisphere southern hemisphere They tell you to put it facing which way so I put it where they told me to face it and uh pretty happy with it Like I said, it didn't take me long to put it together and get it up, right? A couple of screws now, of course, I got a wooden house if you've got a You know Vinyl house you got to be careful where you put your screws, but it should be plywood everywhere on the house actually So there it is up on the roof Pointing and I got it right by the front door. It's got 360 degree view. You can turn it And here it is on the phone. So there I am walking out and uh, I'm gonna start playing with it I'm gonna turn it a little bit to the right a little bit to the left Uh, and you can't hear it in the video, but I can talk through it. You can talk through it pretty cool I was able to talk to the landscapers the other day was pretty cool And you can adjust it move it around check out your property, you know All of that kind of stuff really I love it. This thing is great And I get alerts, you know people leave packages on my step and now I get alerts to my packages there And uh, if I want to I can talk to them and it's not like the ring doorbell, but it's it's pretty damn close and uh It's solar panels you put it up and you put it there and that's it. You don't have to worry about it anymore. Um You put the sd card in it you put the solar panel up and it's got and as long as you got wi-fi It's it's it's up there forever. Never never pretty cool Item pretty cool item in my opinion pretty cool item. Um So the next item I have in the carousel is a book that I wrote now Crazy ways that we that we make money online. I forgot about this one Is you could write a book you can become a published author on amazon Okay, anybody can you can write any kind of book kids book coloring book, you know workbook, uh planner calendar any kind of book comedy tragedy workbook how-to book, you know Autobiography you can write anything you want and you can publish it on amazon for free doesn't cost you a penny Okay, so this is do I have what it takes to be an influencer? It's a book that I wrote just because people were always asking me not always but sometimes You know, what what is it? What do you need to do to do that? How do you get started and you know, what does it take, you know, so Um, so I wrote this little book and I'll tell you what Here it is on amazon Right, do I have what it takes to be an influencer by jim team on that's me? Uh, and I'm selling it for 2.99. So you can you can buy it for 2.99 But don't buy it don't run a fun buy it because I'm going to give it to you for free in a minute. Um Do I have what it takes to be an influencer see where it says look inside now when they look inside the book It brings them inside the book and you can flip through the first few pages Right and here lo and behold right here is a affiliate link And they click that link and they go off and I'll get commissions if they go off and buy something off of that Right and that's so there's two ways you can make money off a book that you've published for free on amazon People do this they publish Books that answer people's questions Okay, how to do this what about that, you know, and they they Have it for a modest price. So people aren't afraid to pull the trigger and buy it That's worth 2.99 to find out this answer to this question And then there's an affiliate link in the book all through the book Actually, there's more than one right and the book's only 13 pages long It doesn't take more but a couple of minutes to read right and uh, but I'm telling you don't um Don't Don't buy the book just yet Because I'm gonna give it away for free. I'm gonna give it to you for free. I'm gonna show you where to go right now Go to you didn't know dot live Okay, if you go to you didn't know dot live, we're gonna go there right now go to you didn't know dot live That's my webpage. I built this myself. I built this with software that I that I use Builder all I built this myself. I can adjust it myself This is the book. Do I have what it takes to be an influencer? Put your email address in here and send it with download You'll get the book and I'll have your email address. That's the trade. That's the trade That's the name of the game And I will send you videos from time to time and when I go live from time to time I won't solicit. I don't sell things on that email address. I just try to promote my stuff There's an influencer bootcamp here if you're interested you could take the bootlamp the the course the influencer bootcamp Watch now if you want to watch my live streams Brings it to my live streams live every Tuesday. You can go to my amazon store or my youtube channel You can subscribe to the youtube channel here And then the 14 day free trial for build a roll build a roll is a software you can build your own build your own websites and Have your own email lists and all all kinds of other software is worth every penny Glad I have it. I've had it for years now Um And someday I'll show you the beauty of of having a recurring payment affiliate program where Somebody buys a software from you. This I'll tell you what it is Someone buys a software from you, right? And in this case, it's a website builder how to build a website an email address, right? So they they they buy this tool from you, but it's a monthly subscription They have to pay like 30 50 hundred bucks whatever it is Right a month to use this tool and they start they build their website. They have their email list They start making money Online using the tool and using the website and the email list and all the apps that they have So people keep the tool and they pay every month because the tool is making them money So they'll pay you money every month. That's passive income. So these people now, uh Over and over and over again every month. They're gonna pay you whatever it is You're gonna get your commission every month. They only bought it one time right And they're a recurring customer every month forever and ever and ever and until they quit and you know The people that are good at what they do aren't going to quit They're gonna they're going to use the tool to make money just like a hammer a carpet is going to use a hammer Some hammers stay in the drawer Some hammers make a lot of money That's the key right really right some hammers stay in the drawer some hammers go out and make some money Um, but do you have what it takes to be an influencer? You know, what does it take? You know find out find out. I'm not gonna tell you it's a tease Take get the book So, uh, it's getting close to summertime the endless summer, uh Fireplace the glass fireplace. We got it for the patio last night This is something I bought for myself a lot of the stuff in the carousel today was stuff that was bought right Um, this is uh, something that I bought for myself to carry. Uh, but let's go into it right now We're gonna share my screen and we'll we'll see I know There it is. I'm gonna go back to the youtube channel Oh No, aha I'm doing the wrong channel. Sorry about that. Sorry about that people's Um Yeah, there it is Okay, so here it is. So this is the um This is the endless summer the endless summer 30 inch 30 inch Firefire glass propane blue glass stones This was pretty easy. We're gonna have to ensue because I'm out of clothing 20 minutes It sets up just like your barbecue door The gas is down here easy barbecued style hookup This knob over here is you're on You push it down for the igniter and you hold it down for a few seconds and the flame goes right on And over here on the side the door is the directions Oh, we love this thing by the way I gotta get out and paint that patio again. I painted the last year and freaking tripped all peeled off already But look at that. The thing is awesome has the thing around the little ledge around it for your drinks you know, and of course I put my coffee there and uh, we sit around we talk we play music, you know It's really nice For the backyard and the best part about it is you shut it off You don't have to worry about having a fire that you have to like dump water on and worry about if it's not safe You know, I mean, it's beautiful. It's a beautiful thing and I love the blue fire glass um Really makes makes a difference And well, you know, if you don't like blue you don't like blue, but Definitely worth. We're very happy. We got it. Okay. Finally came oh what happened here by 12 slant We're gonna get rid of that So that's the magic of being live, right? So we're going we're actually a lot live or a lot longer live than we Then we thought we were gonna be because we were going crazy about talking about Uh, crazy ways to make money, right? New things kept coming up. So this is the full motion tv mount I used this out in my yard. I'm gonna share my screen right here full motion. We're gonna go through it pretty quick um Do it takes me like six buttons to press to share to share a video. So I'm sorry about that but this wall mount it's a Full motion it goes all the way around And and I we use this all summer long. I got it out there right and I got the the fireplace there We watched the games out there You know, we don't we're not really movie watchers But sometimes we watch like like the godfather mostly but uh, but that's it and it's on sale It's under 20 dollars. It's a really really sturdy Easy you move it around and it stays where you put it really good item And uh, we used a fire stick with it outside We used this way I don't gotta have the cable wire So I just stick the fire stick in it and uh works really well as long as you got wi-fi and uh Like I said, it's really sturdy and wherever you stop it. It stays. Okay, wherever you stop it stays Worth every penny. I mean like I said 20 bucks when you're not gonna get something under 20 bucks For that right go mean really and the last thing I got in the carousel is uh something I bought for myself for my work truck Back in october when it started getting dark at 4 30 I needed a light for the back of the truck on one of the magnetic light of magnetic work light So I got this this came in a set of two I was gonna put one on each side of the pickup and magnetize it and stick it there The magnet is really strong I put it on the on the back and I drive around it doesn't fall off and it's it's full motion comes all the way around Right all the way around it's got two two joints in it there So you can put it on it's got three settings for the light. It's very bright Okay, and it's got a flashlight on the front right And I love this thing and it's rechargeable beautiful is is the usb rechargeable and it's two of them So I you know you have one on each side, but it was they were so bright That I didn't need both of them in the truck So I only have one in the truck and this when I leave down by my furnace because you know You're always changing the filters every 90 days. You need a you need a filter. You need a light So I have this light Magnetic sits right on the furnace Or if I need it for a hood of the car I can put it up on the hood of the car, but uh Yeah, I was very very happy with this light very impressed with it for the price again 20 dollars You're getting two lights. Okay magnetic rechargeable That's crazy two lights rechargeable rechargeable. Come on. That's crazy Um, they must be out of their minds if you don't get it today Put it in your cart right now because you never know what the price is going to be tomorrow Could be 30 dollars because they realize it's supposed to be 20 dollars each not 20 dollars for two, right? So Put it in your cart right now. Get it again. We're on restream We're using restream to go live on amazon on twitter on facebook on youtube and on instagram No, we're not on instagram. We're on linkedin right not on instagram yet working on it But we're on live in all those places. Thanks to restream and uh, we go live Tuesdays eight o'clock usually We go through the stuff on the on the carousel. We go through stuff We talk about side hustles way to make ways to make money on the side ways to make money online We're using different social medias different uh different methods to make money online people are always making money There's there's there's many ways that many streams Many possibilities out there find what works for you and and use it and go for it, you know and Everything that I talk about somebody's using to make money Figure it out. You can do it too, right? You can do it too I just went back to the death wish coffee and number one coffee my favorite coffee. I have one sip left I'm going to go make another cup. It's after nine o'clock, right? It's uh Almost 9 30. I'm gonna have one more cup of death wish before I go to bed and uh, then I'll have a nice dream I'll dream about uh The java junkie on the java junkie and uh, I'm searching for the perfect cup of coffee Spent my whole life from dirty joe to dirty joe to different coffee shops right and uh Finally I went to spack And there was the death wish trailer right they have a promotional trailer It's a big trailer and they give out free samples of cold brew and death wish coffee And the light went on Love my death wish coffee, you know, we're really honestly I I've been with them since the very beginning since the super bowl commercial And I haven't been with them. They don't know who I am. I wish they would know why I'm here. I am I'm Jim. I'd love to your coffee and I'd love you to sponsor my streams. Um But they they would be a dream brand So part of the things when you're a content creator is is brands send you stuff to review Some brands want you to be exclusive and just do their stuff like toner There was three stuff three things in there or megawise There was three three things in there sooner or later when they have like 20 things They're gonna want to be like the only person in the stream and so that you know, that's that Becomes a brand deal and they know that becomes another stream of income right There's many ways many streams of income many streams of income Um being a content creator being a content creator, but this is it for today Um, but go download the book download the book go to you didn't know live Right go you didn't know dot live sign up for my email list Signing off for the email list. You'll get the book on uh, what does it take to be an influencer? You get the book and you'll get on the email list You'll find out when I go live when I when and I send my my videos my weekly videos I send out to that email list. Uh, so you won't miss all the side hustles from the side hustle shuffle And um, yeah, and and you know sign up follow me now if you haven't followed me on, uh, amazon follow me Uh, I always can use the followers And for some reason people like to see that I I don't know what matter that is because amazon is based on the products You have in the carousel from my knowledge. Um So What do you want to talk about next week? uh, what do you want to talk about next week? and Is he gonna buy twitter And is that going to change the game? I don't know. I don't know but I think I think that it's going to be different I think it's going to be different anyhow We're going to go now that's going to be the end out of me. See you tuesday tuesday 8 p.m. We're going to go live again We're going to talk about side hustles making money on the side Uh passive income remember i'm going to leave you with this again. Okay passive income you make a video today You make that video today you put forth Effort today you put affiliate links in the video that video has the potential Over time tomorrow the next day the next month next year to earn you money over and over and over again Has the potential i'm not saying it will i'm saying it has the potential to earn you money over and over again That one video So you've cloned yourself, right? You've cloned yourself. You've made a clone of yourself It's out there in the video working for you while you're doing something else Now you do that two times a week three times a week But three to five years You have 800 videos You have 800 clones of you out there passively while you're doing something else Making money for you potentially making money for you. That's passive income right and of course it takes time Anything takes time and i guarantee you You'll quit in 90 days. You'll give up you'll say this isn't working and i've already told you three to five years right But in 90 days you're going to be ready to quit because you're not going to get the results you want And that's why most people say things don't work because they give up in 90 days Things don't happen in 90 days, you know, you break a habit in 90 days You don't you don't you don't set yourself up for life in 90 days. Um Knuckle down commit Three to five years on a side hustle and then tell me it doesn't work. Okay. I'll see you next tuesday