 Welcome to the live stream. How you doing? I'm Jim from the side hustle shopping How you doing? Welcome to Amazon. We're going live. I'm using restream Going live on Amazon YouTube Facebook Twitter LinkedIn To name a few if you're watching in any of those other places come on over to Amazon come over to Amazon Where is it here? Here it is Amazon comm slash shops slash you didn't know and then come on over to the Amazon section That's where I'm monitoring the chat the most and where you can go through all the items that I'm going to be talking about today We'll be in the carousel on the Amazon chat. Okay, you can also, you know, leave comments in the other chats and the other places I'll get those too, but You won't you'll miss out you won't see the products if you're not on Amazon So come on over to Amazon the first item I have in my carousel today is a deadwish coffee now deadwish coffee It's crazy the story of deadwish coffee. They They want a contest I think 2015 or 2016 for to get a Super Bowl ad they got a free Super Bowl ad and Then they took off the company took off. They're crazy. This I love deadwish coffee There's the strongest coffee and it's so smooth. There's no bitter aftertaste. There's no bitterness to it. It's very smooth I love it Now I'm a Java junkie. Okay, I drink like 15 cups a day I'm a Java junkie and you know, they sent me out to the Maxwell house to dry out But I'm always falling back off the wagon. I'm always going back to my deadwish Matter of fact, you know, I'm starting to collect mugs like out of my first mug Should be coming in a couple of days and they have collectors item mugs on their website pretty cool. That wishes is a Very cool company very they're local to me. I'm not Northern New York I live in New York. They're from Boston Spa, New York and I Don't know. They're a local hero that this local company had a Super Bowl ad it was pretty cool back then and I've been following them ever since Really a big fan. I really should have more merchandise when I see they're their truck when I go to events like Go to concerts and stuff like that their trucks are always around and everything and I'm telling you It's it really they built as the world's strongest coffee, but it's it's smooth It's really smooth. I mean, I don't know have you had a bunch of strong coffee in your life But most of it has a bitter aftertaste or a bitterness to it This is so smooth and it's it's incredible I'm gonna have another sip and it's addictive, you know, forget forget the other coffees forget once you get one of these in you Okay, and I use the cake cups because of course The cake cups gives you the exact measurement the exact serving size of a good way measured cup of coffee So, you know, you're getting the best cup of coffee you can get and that's the debt which coffee now I talk about side hustles on my YouTube channel We talk about side hustles and and ways to make money online and ways to make money on the side Okay, because if the pandemic taught us anything, it's that we can't rely on one stream of income You know, your your your situation can change in it at any time. Okay? I mean you saw it whole industries just shut down for and you had no no no saying it one day Everything was closed. You'd no work. No no job, right? So what do you do? You panic great people freak out But if you have multiple streams of income if you have side hustle coming in, you know It's it's not as bad. Okay, and if you have a couple more than one stream of income coming in like start a YouTube channel You start a YouTube channel once you get a thousand subscribers and 4,000 watch hours You can start collecting money on the ads that run on your YouTube You know those ads that run on the YouTube channel on the YouTube videos that you that you skip all the time Well, the guy who made the video he could be making money from those ads and he gets a percentage of it a small percentage but it adds up over time and So they get that income coming to them from YouTube and then on the side They also promote products and and and do and we're gonna talk about that more and more and more today And how how you can clone yourself and how I figured out that I can clone myself and be in two places at once All you got to do is do a video the video is out there, you know 24-7 going your the video could be making you money 24-7 and you could be somewhere else doing something else you know enjoying life and It's it's incredibly doable because People are doing this every day the passion economy the the creative economy is the number one fastest growing small business in the United States Right now and everybody is doing it, right? It's the thing ever, you know, everybody's doing it Aren't you doing it? Don't you have a YouTube channel or an Instagram channel? Don't you aren't you an influencer? So what do you do? How do you do it? You know, you got to find What you're good at what you what you love to do find out what your passion is, right? And you're gonna create YouTube channel or an Instagram channel around that passion and you're gonna teach people or show people how to get over her How to solve problems in that hobby in that niche in that activity and when you become a problem solver Then you become an influencer when you solve people's problems. They start turning to you for it for information and Then you become the influencer, but you gotta it's not about what you can get out of it It's what can you give so you got to give give give solve these people's problems So, you know in every discipline and every hobby every niche there's beginners and the beginners have a problem They come to a hurdle in the roads a bump in the road that causes them to stop And then it's a I'm either gonna quit this thing or I'm gonna keep going If you can figure out what that is and solve the problem for them so they can keep going now They're gonna be thankful to you love reciprocity kicks in and they're probably gonna buy something from you someday because you've solved their problem You became a an authority in the niche and and and a respected person that they can go to for answers to their questions It's that's how it works and it's easy to do Building an audience isn't all the always that easy But but the nuts and bolts of it are pretty easy making the YouTube channel making the videos and building and building a Library of videos that are you've cloned yourself and you're out there 24 7 making money up with videos through what's called affiliate marketing We can talk about that some more going forward The next item I got in my in my list here toner microphones toner contacted me and they I was having some trouble with my audio and they they offered to send me some stuff for free to test and that's what happens when you're an influencer brands and companies they send you items to test okay, and You know, you've your honest opinion and you decide what it is. So this is the tea What is this one the toner? Think this is the 777 okay, I'm gonna play this one I'm gonna I'm actually using it in this little clip so you can hear what it sounds like now Obviously, I have the mic sitting off to the side on the desk It's a tripod mic so it's sitting off to the side of the desk So it's not doesn't sound that great from far away But when I pick it up and I put I start talking into the mic, you know You'd be the judge of you know for what you are and it's on sale You're getting this for under $30 for a starter mic So if you're looking for a starter microphone, maybe this one's for you if you want to check this out 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. 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 You know, how does it sound has the has 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 it's not that very long and It it doesn't unplug from the microphone basic, you know So if the cord phrase or bends or you know goes bad the whole microphone is there You can't get a new cord. All right, but other than that. What do you think about that? I'm gonna 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 adjustments to it So you got this is it. This is what you get. You can't change it. Okay. You're just getting started and looking for You know budget equipment to get started this might be for you This might be what you're looking for. Okay, and again if you get close Okay, so that is the TC 777 and you know for $30 it's not a bit For $30, you know, that's what you're getting for $30 if when you talk right into it's pretty good It wasn't that bad from far away, too I mean really you I could have set it up better so I was gonna get a better pick up But for $30 to get started you need a microphone to get started you're on a budget You're looking to get started for it as little as possible, you know and judge for yourself We're gonna step up the next one's gonna be a little bit more expensive and a little bit more a little nicer This one is the Which one is this one? This is the TC the T30 the TC 30 and it's on sale to us on the $35 this one, okay, we're gonna play a clip of this one me using this one in a similar fashion just talking with while using it and You be the judge of the TC 30 and this one comes with a shock mount. It's desk desk tripod stand Pop filter win-win guard and all that good stuff. This one has a well, I'll show you I talk about it in the video Check it out. Okay today. We're talking budget microphones. Okay, we're talking about the toner TC 30 USB condenser microphone To plug-and-play microphone doesn't take any software. It's got a two-year warranty coming with it right here to you warranty comes in a nice box Comes with a tripod a shock mount the pop filter and the microphone and of course the wire it comes with a good length of wire And you're listening to it right now. Okay, so that's the toner microphone TC 30 budget microphone quality. There's no No mute button on there. No cough button. No, you know 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 toner T30 TC 30 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 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 What is the toner? So what do you think this is toner see TC 30? It's on sale. It's under $35 right now You know budget microphones. They're good good enough to get started get mo good enough to get started It's good enough to move on basically get mo good enough to move on and um You know, don't let Price hold you back from getting started, you know when you want to start a YouTube channel You want to start you want to start making money online? You want to start being an influencer you want to just clone yourself and start making money by with these videos It's crazy. What happens you make you make a video where you put it out there And then you know in the future over and over and over and over again that video has the potential to earn you money Between the the ads from YouTube from Google from Google, right? You get ads from there and then of course you got your affiliate links and and stuff like that. Um So what do they do So let's say somebody is what am I have over here family game night So let's say you have a YouTube channel about family game night And you and you play games on on Sunday nights with the family and you pick a different board game every month every week or whatever you do Right you turn around you put a link to that board game in the description of the video So people see you play the game they watch the video They like the game and they have a link in that you say, you know, click link in the description, you know The link for the game is there and they click the link they make a purchase and you get an affiliate commission Right and that's just in that one niche. That's one little idea You can do this in anything any idea any discipline any activity any niche, right? You make the video Whatever you're using in the video you put affiliate links in the description of the video people click that click through and if you send People to Amazon right now Amazon's is is is the great part that I have there the biggest Retailer online. So if you send someone with an Amazon link to Amazon you get cookie for 24 hours So whatever they buy for 24 hours you get a commission for they don't have to buy what you sent them for They click the link to go to Amazon and they bought diapers and they bought ink for their printer And they did you know you get commissions on those things. That's how people make money with Amazon affiliates They just send traffic to Amazon with two affiliate links They make the videos and they make the posts on Instagram And they put the links in and you click the links and go through and then you're cookieed And then so you don't even realize that you're cookieed to somebody when you went to Amazon early in the day And you went back to Amazon that night to buy, you know P-pads for your dog and and ink for the you know printer and whatever else you buy That person got commissions for that sale for driving you to the Amazon traffic. Okay pretty cool Way to make money And it's side hustles now. I'm not saying, you know, it's quit your job You know go go hang out on the beach passive income when I say passive income passive income is doing something today And having that having the potential to earn money over and over again in the future And that's passive income and that's what a video does a video is What they call evergreen can be searchable on youtube youtube google their search engines people search for things So let's say you're doing a monopoly game All right people would search monopoly game on google and your video comes up Could come up any time could come up three years from now five years from now monopolies been around for 20 years, right? So and that's how people do things in different niches. Okay could be different niches could be gymnastics could be You know knitting it could be crafts it could be Fashion it could be whatever it is could be anything. You know the sky's the limit. What is your passion? What do you get up out of the bed in the morning and think about what drives you? What is your passion think about that? All right the next item the next microphone from toner. This is the uh The q9 this comes in a whole set this one is on sale So on the $55 it comes with the scissor arm the boom arm that clips to the desk comes with the pop filter comes with the filter the the wind guard filter This one's pretty good microphone and it comes also with adjustments on the microphone. I'm going to play Me using it in the video the next video clip. Okay, so the toner q9 Now again toner sent me these three microphones to test for free because I was having issues with my audio So here you go. Listen to this one 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 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 uh, and i'm using it right now where uh 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 that so I don't really know what level the volume is at right now I can actually turn it up I just turned it up a bunch of times. I don't know if that makes a difference in the volume We'll go back and check that out. So, uh But you know to get started you're looking to upgrade your your audio you want to get a microphone And uh, you don't want to go for the blue yeti or the shore or or something That's you know a couple hundred dollars you want to start out slow. This one has the boom arm So you kind of get freeze your hands freeze up the desk space. You don't have to worry about banging noises and stuff like that when you tap in the desk when you tap in the keys on your keyboard It's got the shock mount on it to do to the boom arm. So you don't have to worry about that And let's get the The pop filters you don't have to worry about your peas and your teas and you know Your s's and whatnot and it has the windscreen on there as well comes with everything in a kit in a box plug and play The the cord unplugged from both the the microphone and the usb to the computer Computer recognizes it right away. There's no software to download. There's nothing to do. You plug it You play it you use it and it's great. So what do you think of the audio? We've been using it for the whole video for the the q9 the The toner q9 now again, I told you toner Okay, the toner q9. What do you think of the toner q9? I think out of the three Obviously, I think that's the best one has the most features to it has the most uh Stuff on the side had you know more equipment to it now What do you think? um as far as Influencers on social media getting sent items by by brands getting sent items for free to review Now if you get something for free Does that tarnish the review? That's my question to you now So you're watching me now if if you knew that someone got it didn't buy it themselves They got it for free sent to buy a company. Do you think that that tarnishes the review? I don't know. Do you think so? But that's what we're doing here, right? So i'm making videos and i'm posting them on youtube instagram and i'm on amazon as well and People click the links on those videos and if they buy something i get it i get a commission It's a nice little side hustle and it's a nice way to make a little money on the side I'm not talking about quitting your job. I mean maybe someday you can You know, you know imagine three to five years of making two videos a week You have over 500 videos and and those 500 videos have the potential over and over again to make you money Maybe you don't have to work anymore after that. You know, maybe you don't who knows who knows the next item Holly stone, holy stone, holy stone. I think it is holy stone sent me this couple of next two drones for free Now I was a terrible drone pilot. I crashed a couple of drones. I told them, you know when they contacted me I said i'm not sure uh on your guy I crash them. They said that's the thing. This one's really easy and it's really simple It's beginner friendly and and i'm gonna play you the video of me using it. Um, let me go to my share screen And here we go if I go here. All right, so we're gonna play this So this is the remote control and the drone actually folds up and fits inside that remote control and it pairs to the remote control and this is I just opened up the instruction book and uh Just started I didn't do the beforehand and read the book beforehand I told them I was just gonna open the book and try it This is me just putting it on the table and trying it. It was winter time. So I did it in the house There's a mini drone and I was really impressed. It's got a bunch of different speeds on it We're using it in the slow speed now You just move the handle like that the joysticks to pair it get it to go and automatically take so up with a button And it's really easy to control if you're a new person and you're afraid to get started with drones This is a great started drone and it's on the $30. It's on sale right now I actually crashed into the wall At and and and it doesn't crash. I'm able to recover and turn around and fly away with the damn thing And it's pretty cool little drone for if you're looking to get started and learn how to uh To use a drone, you know So I'm gonna mute it that's funny The dog didn't like the humming it was making I just got a little light on it so you can fly it around. I buzzed the tower a couple times now And uh, so, you know, you make videos you get products and it doesn't have to be products People send you for free it could be products in your house stuff you use, you know Could be your barbecue stuff you bought, you know for the patio outside Your chairs, you know your your table your umbrella, you know, whatever your lighting and you do videos on that stuff And you put affiliate links in your descriptions and when people click through You're gonna make a affiliate commissions now Uh, like I said, it's not Million dollars and quit your job and let you know caveat dreams and all that kind of stuff. It's it's but it's a realistic um It's a realistic Salary it's equivalent to a regular salary. So, you know to put it in perspective if you have um If you have a hundred people that that are your subscribers, right? Let's say you have well, you have more than a hundred. Let's say you have like five thousand But a hundred of them are engaged and they like follow your stuff and everything. I think this is when I creation to the wall. Um Look at that. That was pretty cool, man. I creation at a wall just bounced off and recovered and see So if you're a newer drones, you know, this is a pretty cool drone to have I think this is a good drone to start with your first one. Holy stone good company They treated me right and uh, you know, I had an issue with one of the drones They they they sent me and they sent me one another one within two days without question Um, there was a question. There was an issue with one of the remote controls Um, but they fixed it right away. The customer service was really good Which is very important when you think about it, you know When you're trying to deal with a company you're looking at the reviews and stuff customer service pretty good. Um So I was talking about, uh A hundred subscribers So let's say you you're in a niche that you can give advice to people You have a hundred people that you have a membership group for And those people will meet with you and you meet with them for an hour a week in the membership group in a zoom meeting and whatever you decide how to set it up and, uh They can ask you questions in the niche like for example, if if you were into stocks, right? and you were going to give your stock quotes for the week people would come in and and, uh And listen to you for the hour and ask you questions, right for the hour And what would they pay to do that? Well for a membership for for a stock quote Group wouldn't be outrageous to charge them $50 a month membership fee for that to be a membership of that group So a hundred people At $50 a month is $5,000 a week is 60 grand a year. Okay, now that's legitimate, you know salary 60 grand a year is a normal salary for somebody it's starting out and um You're working one hour a week to do that 100 people. Okay. You have 100 people that are subscribed to you that join your membership group now Of course, you know people are gonna have 5,000 10,000 100,000 subscribers and followers, right? But how many of them are engaged? How many of them are really engaged? Can you imagine can you imagine? Can you hear that? That my dog's going crazy in another room So the next item is uh another another one by hollystone Even I don't know if you could hear the dog, but I'm gonna just keep going. So this one is the uh The one hs 175d All right And I'm gonna play it this one's a good drone That's not it This one's it All right, we're gonna unmute it All right Share the screen again And here we go. So this is it now. It's a very very crappy weather day. All right And uh this that's the camera on the on the drone actually from the drone actually going up in my yard and uh It's a 4k camera. I got some good pictures now This is a camera that I'm going to be later on in the My casio camera. I got this is this footage here, but we'll go over that one later. Um It was pretty windy, but I was able to you know, send this one all the way up and uh It's got a gps on it's got a return automatic return. So you don't have to worry about losing it It's got you know, it'll go out and come back and automatically it'll land and come back And I was afraid to send it out because of the wind and I didn't want to lose it I'm going to take it to a nicer area to fly it But I sent it out and let it come back and and messed around with it very nice drone You know Once you have the other one and you learn how to go left and right and back and forth and up and down And you're comfortable with the controls and you can move up to this one And you could also use the camera. You could take really cool pictures I take I take pictures of the roof of the house and uh, you know I live in an area where there's Mountains and lakes and I plan on taking some nice pictures with this thing come come the nice weather Um, and of course we're right around the corner from that. We're in spring time right now Today was pretty crappy where I am in up in new york. Where where are you guys from? Where are you watching from? Um, we had some rain today. It was overcast, but the drone's pretty and it's pretty fun It's quick. It reacts really well Uh And I'll just fast forward a little bit to where I'm using the camera. All right. Here we are That's the camera on the on the drone itself not a bad camera Okay, and it takes 4k pictures. I'm going to take one or two pictures in a few minutes with what it Um, it goes all the way up above the trees And again, I'm not a great pilot So I was I was afraid to lose it, but I'm going to send it out We're going to do a nice video another video of it now That's my neighbor's house You can and it's got an up and down on the camera So you can you can adjust it up and down not left and right just up and down okay, and Pretty easy to control pretty easy to control. Uh, you'll get the hang of it pretty fast You guys like to fly drones? I think over here I end up taking a picture or something Sooner or later So it's the hs the holly holly stone holly stone hs 175 d Uh very nice drone. It's a 170. It's on on on for right now. Um This one I actually put in the tree as well and and it didn't break the motors didn't break I was able to retrieve it I backed into a tree because I was confused going which was forward and backward after I turned around a few times This is it taking a picture And there I am the 4k picture. Uh, okay, and that's it taking a picture Well, what do you think of that drone? I think you're gonna have a lot of fun if you got that drone playing around with it If if they're using the other one to learn, you know, your first drone get this one for the next one And you're gonna have a lot of fun with that. You're gonna take a lot of pictures with it, you know, um You know, you want to see what's going on with your chimney You set that up and you go around your chimney. You can see what's going on if everything's cool You know, you can check your gutters if you want you can you know You don't have to climb ladders anymore. You can send this thing right up and take a look Um pretty cool pretty cool little toy to have And the camera is pretty cool. Um, you know, you you could think of a million uses to use with something like that So hollystone sent me those for free and you get to you get to test them out And decide whether you want to give it a good review and okay review bad review So what do you think if someone sends you something for free? Are you obligated to give it a good review or is it okay to be honest and give the bad the bad sites? Like if you saw me do the microphones at the beginning, okay Toner sent me those microphones. I was giving you the good and the bad of the of the microphones Of course, the price dictates that it's not going to be the greatest microphone in the first place But I'm not going to I'm not going to snowball you and tell you it's the greatest microphone in the world when it's not Or you know, I'm going to tell you what its limitations are And what's best for and what it's best not for then so it's an honest opinion And that's why people they're sending you items and you just give honest opinions Uh, so what do you think is it is is your opinion tarnished if you got it for free If it's not something you bought yourself, you know, they always said, you know You value things that you bought yourself that you paid money yourself your own money you saved your own money and bought You know, you value it more. What do you think? What's your opinion on that? Mega wise is another company that sends me stuff for free and then I had to test them out and This was the back massager that this thing I really like you see all the other influencers. They're always they got those cordless Uh rechargeable battery ones that that boom boom boom boom right and they look really good and they're powerful and everything This thing is pretty awesome. It's corded. So it's not it's not rechargeable and it's not portable But look at this thing. Okay. It's ergonomically Bent so is that I can reach my back with this I can go all the way down my back all the way around my sides I can I'm telling you this thing is awesome. I use this thing every day after work I do I you do my shoulders and my thighs just just to get the The air going through the muscles and getting the muscles loosened up so they don't tighten up and I've been so I've been feeling awesome Since I've been using this I'm not feeling as tight and and and and you know muscular I get I get tightness in the neck and everything from from too much I guess I'm maybe stressed who knows but you use this and you know, it's got it Oh here the the heads it comes up screws right off. Okay, there's no Clip or or anything crazy to use it screws right on it comes with different heads Comes with the fingertip heads comes with, you know, different different ones and it comes with like five or six different settings you know speeds and Yeah, I'm real happy with this. Um and mega wise is a good company You know, you you're afraid to buy something online because you think it's going to be something cheap plastic and hollow Listen to that This thing is is well made piece of equipment. It's not a cheap hollow Mega wise is a good company. I'm going to show you another thing from mega wise in the second And I just got something else from them that I'm going to be checking out this week Uh, and it'll probably be a next week stream, but they make really good stuff. It's high quality I'm very happy with it. And like I said, I use it every day. Of course, they sent to me to test But I fell in love with it. I use it every day. It's something that I use every day. Um So what do you think does that tarnish my my review? I mean, I'm giving you my honest opinion. Um It's since I got it I started using it I see the benefits from it. It's actually it moves your muscles, you know You get you get the knots out you get the oxygen going into the muscles So that you don't tense up later and get sore later pretty cool item, you know, uh And the ergonomic handle getting around the back that other thing that you see the other guys Showing you the the cordless one the rechargeable one You can't do your neck and back and we're going around your sides with that this thing can Look at that. This thing you can Right ergonomically There you go ergonomically And it fits in your hand really nice, too. Really nice. I really like it. I was I'm sold. I'm sold. Are you sold? I'm sold Um Mega wise again, they sent me a couple of things. I got a couple of things in the carousel from mega wise Detwitch coffee. That's which coffee get a get some detwitch coffee It's in the carousel. It's the first thing in the carousel Greatest strongest coffee smoothest coffee you'll ever have Mega wise This is the 205 the 2,500 2,500 amp Jumper it's a car jumper right jump starter, but it's more than that It's uh, it's got usb chargeable cables. It's a basically it's power station It'll it'll run your equipment if when you're at the park when you're at the beach, right? So But it also has Cables so you can jump start your car. So you left the radio on too long You lift your lights on and your battery's dead Now you don't have to ask that creepy guy in the parking lot You know, can you jump my car? Do you have cables? You got this little kit in your trunk? It's got the cables on it. You hook it up to the battery. You start it. You're off. You don't have no worries, right? It's also like I said, it's it's a power station. So it's got I don't if I pull it out Over here it's got two usb ports so you can charge your phone You know your your speaker, you know, whatever else it's also got a light on there too If you need a flashlight for emergencies, but this is something you leave in your trunk for emergencies, you know in your car and um Pretty pretty awesome item and it's Very sturdy heavy-duty like I said, you know megawise makes good stuff Um, this is rechargeable. It has a gauge on it. Tell you how many charges or how many jumps are in it and uh So that's the jump start of the megawise jump start a king of power uh, it comes with the user manual and everything does and You know, this thing is is great to have in the trunk In your survival kit and you're in your kit for you know, your flares and your your your blanket and your Anything you need for when you break down and you get stuck somewhere. This is something you need in that kit, right? That's something you need in that kit Megawise jump starter pretty cool item. So all right now When you're a content creator you get started, right? I got started using uh The natural light from the window and my my cell phone, right? Then you move up to camera you move up to cameras and microphones and lighting We're gonna go over a couple of lights right now. So this is the newer light set It's a green screen light set because I was doing videos in my basement and it was horrible looking and uh I needed it to look not so horrible. So I got this green screen Now what a green screen does is you it's a green screen behind you And you can key it out in editing so and you can put any picture you want back there So it makes it look like you're anywhere. You could be at the beach. You could be on the moon You could be in las vegas. You could be in new york city on the skyline You could be on a boat. You could be anywhere, right? You could be in space Okay, so I was using this when I first started uh to to look like I was standing Daytime in the lake by the lake. This is in the basement at like 11 o'clock at night I didn't want it to look like it was in the basement 11 o'clock at night So I'm gonna play you this video clip of me And this is an old clip so don't laugh But it's me in my basement with the green screen looks like I'm at the lake You you be the judge doesn't look like I'm at the lake the waves don't move Don't you hate it when you're trying to pay your bills and you don't have enough money? I was always hustling all my life to make ends meet I painted apartments I did odd jobs I did whenever it took to make money to make ends meet In 2010 I lost So what do you think of that? So that's me in the basement with the green screen at 10 o'clock 11 o'clock at night in the dark Uh, I got the lights set up from this newer from from the kit that comes with the two Comes with a bunch of lights high hats and everything and it comes with the green screen and the and the and the Tapestries that go back there. I think it comes with three colors mine came with green white and black And uh, you can key out the green and put anything back there and it's you know You can you can think of all kinds of crazy things you can do with it once you have it And uh, you can even get a green suit You ever see the guys with the green suit and and you can make things fly through and and take out you out of it And make make it look like things are flying through they they do Trick shot right you think it's trick shot, but it's a guy in a green suit And he holds the ball and you throw it and the guy just walks over and puts it in and that's the trick shot But it's a guy in a green suit and they key out the green and everybody falls for it every time right pretty cool idea Um, but that's what a lot of trick shots are is guys in the green screen suit um And getting started you want to get started. This is a good set to get started with newers a great company great lights great lighting system The next one is also from newer now That is not something that they sent to me for free That is something I bought for myself that I use It being a content creator part of what I do is I'm going to show you what I use So if you want it to get started, what do you need to get started? What do you need to buy to get started you need? Uh a good microphone. You need a good camera. You can use your cell phone. Your cell phone has a great camera you need good lighting and You you get started you can now the lighting you can get started I use the window and use the sunlight right until I started buying then I bought the newer lights And now I got the desk lights now. I'm going to show you my youtube channel Where I have um A video on the lights Okay, so this is my youtube channel one of my youtube channels actually And over here. Well, you're gonna see a lot of items Videos were items and they're gonna be uh What's called links in them. So if I go there now Dear gas prices go take a hike Get rid of this commercial commercial is plain. I'm gonna get a small commission commercial place, right? So here's the video For the lighting but down here is a link to amazon for the lighting and somebody clicks the link to go check it out And they're cookie to me for 24 hours. I'm gonna buy for 24 hours. I will get a commission for All right, so we're gonna go through this quickly The comes with remote controls you can turn this on and off remote controls and and adjusts, you know Bright not so bright comes with different colors in it. It's on sale right now. It's only like 51 dollars It comes with all the attachments to you know The scissor arms comes with two scissor boom arms that clip to the desk two lights I mean, it's a pretty cool set for the price and get two of everything right and uh I'm using it. I use it right now. I'm using it right now And I'll show you if I go to this part of the video what it's like Okay, and it clips on some desk one inside And it comes with the remote controls you can turn them on and off you can make them brighter and darker Pretty cool little light set Okay, we'll get rid of that. So, you know You're gonna upgrade you're gonna upgrade but get started. How do you get started? Okay? Um, I'll tell you what the next item is how to get started Okay, the next item is is a book that I wrote now If you can you can become a published author for free on amazon amazon kdp kindle direct publishing You can go there and uh download your manuscript You know get a cover made or make it yourself and uh and download a book to amazon So i'm going to share my screen. I'm going to show you the book I don't want you to run out and buy the book because i'm going to give it to you for free. You know, okay, so Uh, here's the book. Do I have what it takes to be an influencer? Right. So this is how a method that people make money online. They write books now The book is $2.99. So they're gonna get a commission for the book They're gonna get a cut at you know, kindle amazon gets a cut you get a cut But now you put what's called affiliate links in the book So see where it says look inside you can look inside. I will show you that yes it does All right, and you can go from page to page It shows you the first like three pages or so and there's an affiliate link in the book And there's a couple of them throughout the book So people can click the links and go through and you can get affiliate links and you can get affiliate commissions, all right So this is the book. Do I have what it takes to be an influencer? What does it take it's got a little worksheet in it for you and everything But I want you not to buy the book. I'm going to give it to you away for free if you go to You didn't know dot live if you go to you didn't know dot live Uh and put in your email address for for my email list. I'll give you the book for free All right If you're curious and you want to know what it takes Um and how to get started. There's also a link through there to go if you want to go no more And of course my youtube channel side hustle shuffle Uh, there's a way to if you go to you didn't know dot live you can also You can also look at for for the youtube channel has all this stuff Has all the videos on ways to do it as well. All right um Yeah, but sign up for the email list and uh, and and you'll get the book for free And you'll find out maybe Do I have what it takes? What does it take to be an influencer? What do I need to do? Uh, and how how long does it take? You know, that's a question people ask all the time. How long does it take? And uh, so are you asking me? How many hours a day are you asking me how long does it take until you're successful? Um the answer to both questions. So it could take you like an hour or a day An hour a day two hours a day depending Uh, and it could also take you a year could take you three years could take you five years Everybody's different. You know an overnight success can take 10 years Right an overnight success can take five years You know, you don't know how long someone's worked before they made it Okay, you see people making it you think they're open they came out of nowhere They didn't come out of nowhere They've been grinding for years and it just all of a sudden now they made it Okay, that's what normally happens. People just don't make it. Oh, it just doesn't happen that way I mean it does but not not normally that's not normal. That's like a few Most people are working hard all the time Grinding and then there were an overnight success Five years seven years 10 years down the line, right? Um So that's the book go go and uh Go to you didn't know dot live and download and put your email address in you'll get the book It's a quick like 10 minute read. It's not a big You know some super super crazy, you know novel. I'm not a you know crazy writer But it's just a little bit of of a taste of this is what you do. You youtube instagram You know signing up for amazon getting a proof for amazon associates So you can get the links, you know how to use the links and all that kind of stuff And you know you need to know that kind of stuff and it's Go to youtube university go to youtube university everything there is for free You can you can find out almost anything you need to know you can find out on youtube So go and go to side hustle shuffle on youtube. That's my channel and you can figure that out So the akasio ek7000 That's the camera I was talking to you about that I was using when I was showing you the drone footage So I had the the drone actually had its own camera and then I had a camera on the drone that was that's the akasio ek7000 this is like the gopro knock-off it was a it's 80 dollar camera, okay It's an 80 dollar camera as opposed to six hundred dollars comes with all of the same Attachments the waterproof case, you know attachments for the bike attachment for the helmet It takes good pictures. I'm gonna share my screen and go over a couple of pictures Yeah, here we go. So there's a couple of pictures That's a video actually a short video That's not a bad video for an 80 dollar action camera, okay These little and those are a couple of pictures of the leg not a bit. Oh, there's my wife. She'd be upset There's another picture of a road. There's a stream behind there running Okay, and so that and that's the that's the camera the 4k pictures on the on the camera akasio ek7000 if you don't want to go buy a co-pro at uh At six hundred dollars you can go and get this one and uh, like I said 80 dollars And does all the things that the other one does and I was I'm very happy with it I bought it to you to get b-roll shots for for my videos on you on youtube, right? And uh, I ended up using it for a bunch of stuff and and I use it for my stuff on amazon 2 And and I'm real happy with it and I'm probably gonna buy another one because I'm gonna I want another camera to set up angles and stuff like that as as you get Uh More advanced you're gonna get more and more stuff and you're gonna you know And the quality of your stuff goes up as well. Um, and it's all part of nature You know, you get a hobby. Let's say you started bowling You know you started off renting the shoes at the alley and you and using the houseball And by the time you're done, you're in a league You got new shoes and and you got a $500 bowl and you're in a new bag and and you know That's what happens with these things. Okay, so but you gotta keep going Progressing forward and getting the newer the newer stuff now speaking of progressing forward The next item is the webcam that I'm using under $20. This is crazy I'm using this webcam right now. Okay $20 camera guys $20 camera. What's holding you back? Okay Are you trying waiting to get the sony the $600 sony with the with the $600 lens? Okay, don't let it hold you back. I'm not saying that this is high quality video Good enough to move on get moe. This is I bought this. Uh, I needed a webcam for work for uh, Zoom meetings during the pandemic everybody was looking for them. I couldn't find when they were sold out I think I think I bought this for over 60 bucks because they were everything was sold out the height. There was high demand, right? And uh, but now the same cameras are on sale for $20. Uh, and the quality is good. Uh Of course, there's no adjustments. You can't zoom in and zoom out. No, it's not a larger tech But you know, it's good enough to move on to get started I'm gonna eventually be moving up to other cameras and you know, you can use your phone Your phone has a great camera in it. You know, it's got a best the best camera in it that you're probably gonna buy until you spend $1,000 Uh, that that it's incredible what what your phone can do Uh, a lot of people just use their phones and and it's good enough. It's good quality for video Okay, what do you think of the video? What do you think? Did you did you realize it was a $20 camera that I was using or did you think that it? You know is normal normal what everybody uses, you know, what do you think? What do you think? The number one reason People are gonna tune you out when you're a content creator when you're trying to make money online is uh, your audio Okay, the number one thing people are gonna tune you out for is your audio and if your audio stinks, they're gonna, uh Just tune you out. So I'm I'm gonna see how my audio is doing. I'm doing a do a check on my audio here. Uh It's stuck Anyway, um, so you gotta upgrade your audio the first chance you get now I'm using the blue yeti microphone right now. Uh, it's a good microphone Let me see why is that not? Okay, there it goes. How's that? How's the sound now? All right, so sounds okay. All right. So the blue yeti microphone, um, how does it sound? Okay, it's it's uh, got settings on it. Try to front them back You can change it so as you can do an interview and you can do it. So it's just this side It's got a cough button on here. You can push it so it mutes. It's got and it blinks. So you notice that it goes off It's got a volume control. It's got a gain control a little more control to it. Um You know, uh By all means you step up to the blue yeti to the upgrade. This is I think I spent $130 on this microphone. Um Don't run out and get it until you're ready to get it or until you want to get it If you if you're just gonna, you know, wait and get everything high high tech You know, you might might want to start with the blue yeti But the other microphones I had at the beginning were good enough to get started Okay, the the the toner microphones are good quality microphones and for what they are, they're great. Okay, they're good quality Good, uh, manufacturers and toners a good company as far as uh customer service too as far as that goes Which is important, you know important customer service is very important. Um but You know the blue yeti everybody uses a blue yeti if you anybody you know that does podcasting Okay, the blue yeti is right here by the way, okay Anybody that you know that does podcasting probably uses a blue yeti uh to start out with now, of course They're probably using sure microphones and other uh more expensive studio mics, you know when you're getting uh More advanced and you need a sound board and and a sound cards and all that kind of stuff This is still a usb plug-and-play microphone That's uh, you don't have to worry about software or figuring it out You plug it in the computer recognizes it and you off to the race as you're going you're ready to go Uh, really cool stuff. Uh, good good. Good. Good. Good microphone. What do you think? What do you think about the blue yeti microphone? Uh, I never checked the other chats anybody in the other chats? No well, I don't know so You didn't know dot live you go to you didn't know dot live. It's my website It'll show you where to go to get onto my email list. It'll show you where to get my YouTube channel and of course um I don't watch me on amazon, okay? um the next item in the in the carousel is Something I use every day another thing that was sent to me for free to test um The last few items with items I bought myself, but this one was sent to me for free. Uh, it is texlar It takes a lot of 48 inch selfie stick. I use this thing all the time almost all my videos. I use it for the the um First of all the tripod part pretty cool it folds up into a nice ergonomic handle So you're holding it, you know, you got your podcast and you're walking around you got your camera You got your phone out and you're talking like that and you got in your hand pretty cool It's got telescoping to 48 inches and it's it doesn't have any screw adjustments It's sturdy and it just it just stops and adjusts and there's no playing it really good Uh, really high quality. Um, here's another thing I like about this one that most Mounts They're like snaps right you pull it open and snaps and you're afraid it's gonna break or the phone sometimes goes flying This is a screwed down clamp. Okay, it screws down I don't know if you can see that but it screws down And it and it clamps the phone or your camera whatever you're using in in there Uh, I love that. Okay. I love that and here's another thing that I love You know, they all have remote controls blue tooth remote controls that you can press the button and start the video or start Or start the camera take a picture, right? They all have those remote controls But you use them you lose them. There's like five of them in the drawer You don't know which one is for what they're all looking kind of the same This is in the cradle. Okay. It clips into the cradle so it doesn't get lost Okay, little remote control bluetooth charge rechargeable remote control fits in the cradle can't get lost It's always there. You know where it is. You know what it's for Great idea. That's a great great great idea. Um I love this thing for it's under $15. I would tell you that this is like A $40 quality item. This is a quality item. Okay, this is a high quality item and it's uh I it's worth $15 if you don't get it. You're crazy if you're if you're um If you are looking to use something like this a selfie stick or a tripod mount four foot high Uh, something for the desk, you know, this is perfect And it's got all the adjustments all the way around it can go in any position And what's really really cool is that clamp that clamp is really cool Um, so what do you think of that? What do you think of that? That's pretty cool And I use it every day Again, they send you products that you fall in love with you can use them every day Then and they're not sending you stuff. That's not in your wheelhouse. They're not they're not they're not sending me makeup, right? They're not sending me, uh, you know Fashion stuff they're not sending me that they're sending me, uh Remote control rc games, uh electronics Video stuff, you know, because that's my niche my niche is uh, the side hustle shuffle is is is all about making money online You about building us multiple streams of income side income coming in while you're working a regular job Okay, that's what i'm about. That's what what I preach. Uh multiple streams of income because you know one week you might make Of 40 hours a week one week you might make 50 hours a week one week you might wake only 30 hours a week So you your salary changes. It's not the same. So how do you do a monthly budget like that? Right, so if you have side money coming in Sooner or later that side money starts covering your bills. Now, when are you going to be successful? When your side money covers your expenses Right when your passive income when that money covers your expenses when it covers your mortgage when it covers your car payment When it covers your cable bill and your insurance and all that when all that stuff is being covered by your side money You're being your success not about being a millionaire and quitting your job But when you're when you're starting to cover all your expenses, right? That's life changing stuff. What do you think about that? That's life changing stuff, right? What do you think? So i'm going to go back to the first item in the carousel because I love it the death wish coffee. Um, you can't You can't find the better strong coffee It's the strongest coffee. I'm going to read you the box But I love it. I drink I really do drink like 15 of these a day Uh in the k cups. So this is the dark roast world's strongest coffee Dark roast bold flavor reliable doesn't ask questions our og single service Single serve cups may be the only morning friend you'll ever need If you're lucky each cup of death wish coffee brews smooth with more caffeine to fuel your busiest days We recommend at least one cup first thing in the morning. Okay I have three before I leave the house. I have Uh a travel mug that I make two, uh large cups in and I take it with me and then when I get home I drink like three more and then I'm drinking it up until 11 o'clock at night and I sleep like a baby I'm I tell you I'm the job of junkie. Okay. I am the job of junkie and you know Send me to Maxwell house to dry out, you know 30 day program at Maxwell house But didn't work Fell off the wagon back on the death wish coffee death wish coffee good stuff. Um USD organic and fair trade just powerful real coffee No BS death wish coffee sources only high quality fair trade certified in organic coffee beans when you buy fair trade You're supporting the livelihood of coffee farmers and taking a stand for equality and sustainability It's organic coffee. So whatever that means, uh, I'm going to find out what organic coffee means It probably means that they do the best to for the environment. They probably harvest it and grow it and and and and process it and everything With the least impact on the environment. That's probably what that means. Um organic coffee Uh, which is a really cool item and again death wish coffee the story of death wish So they they entered a contest in 2015 For for a free Super Bowl ad right and they won the contest. So they got a free Super Bowl ad I don't know if it was a 30 second spot or how long it was but I was a local guy. I I live, uh Not about about 40 minutes from from where they are in round lake I'm an I'm in uh, Queensbury, which is right by lake George, New York upstate New York And um, so we were really excited a local company was going to be on the Super Bowl We were all we had a big of course we have a Super Bowl party anyway But it was a watch party for the commercials Of course you're watching the commercials anyway because it's a Super Bowl But we were even doubly more excited because it was a local company death wish coffee And of course being a coffee Java junkie It was you know, incredible for me to have a local coffee company be on the Super Bowl And ever since then I've been drinking death wish coffee and loving it And like I told you, I I just ordered my first mug. I didn't realize there was collectors I didn't you know dumb me. I didn't check facebook for groups and stuff And there's all kinds of groups and collectors and you know, it's it's it's a lifestyle There's t-shirts. There's hats. There's there's mugs. There's everything Great great great company. Um I love death wish death wish is great stuff I'm gonna have another sip just because it it's the smoothest strong coffee I've had a lot of strong coffee and it's usually bitter, right? I mean in your experience when you have a strong coffee when you get that extra caffeine Or you put a double shot in or something like that it's it's got a bitter taste It's got a sting to it, right? I mean admit it's got a sting to it. This is so smooth It is really the best coffee I've ever had and forget that it's the strongest coffee And it's got the highest caffeine forget that it's it's the best coffee of every coffee I've ever had, okay? I mean I can't drink this one after the other after the other 15 cups a day It does get to me. Okay, it does make me jittery. It does get me going but but It's it really is the best tasting coffee. It really is. I mean, I can't I can only speak for myself java junkie. I'm the java junkie, right? What's your favorite brand of coffee and how many cups of coffee do you have a day? And what do you think is is being addicted to coffee? How many cups a day Is is being addicted to coffee? How many cups a day? Check in my audio again So Hold on Yeah, so how many cups a day is addicted how many cups a day is addicted? Um Like I said, I drink about 15 cups of coffee a day And I I'll be drinking it. What time is it now nine o'clock? It's nine o'clock on the east coast I'm gonna have one more cup after this. I'll be drinking it till 10 o'clock at night Then I'll go to bed about 11 11 30 Midnight depending on social media when I get stuck watching. Um, and that's the life of of a content creator I get up. I do a regular job Every Tuesdays we go live at 8 p.m on amazon youtube twitter linkedin I'd love to go on on Instagram but right now I use re-stream to go live on all those places and I don't think they let you do Because instagram is a vertical Platform, I don't think they figured it out yet. I'm gonna look into it, but I don't think they have But that would be great. Um Yeah, so come by every Tuesdays and we'll we can talk about side hustles about different income streams I can talk about instagram Pinterest Google, you know, there's so many different ways by making courses. There was a guy who uh He made a million dollars. They say Selling courses selling a course on handstands Teaching people how to do a handstand. He made a million dollars selling a simple course It was a simple couple of videos that he packaged into a course people paid 30 50 dollars for it and he made a million dollars Now it doesn't take that much it doesn't take that much and and if you of course marketing has a big thing to do With it, but you can create a course and Market it and before you know it Be on easy street, right? It's it's the thing. You don't have to Be stuck to the nine to five. There's so many ways to do side hustles today, you know, when I was First got married and my kids were little I was I was trading time for money. I did side jobs I did my regular job which I was working construction handyman and and and and and stuff like that, right? And I would do side jobs after work doing handyman work doing fixing holes and walls regrouting Painting, you know retiling doing all kinds of stuff like that, right? House repairs handyman, you know, honeydew man and um But I could only do so many hours a day It was only so many hours a day I could work so I was limited to what I could earn So, you know, you get out of your regular job at five six o'clock You go to somebody's house by seven o'clock you spend seven eight nine tens You spend three hours their work and that's probably about as much as you can spend But you start cleaning up and leave no one wants you in their house that late well In 2010 I realized people were making money online now what got me into it was People were given that caviar dreams bikini babes lamborghini's and mansions And all you were seeing was drop shipping millionaires drop shipping millionaires. So I says I let me look at this, right? I realized that people were making money when they sleep That piqued my interest make money when you sleep. What are you talking about? You know, but it's not what you think it's not never do any work Making money when you sleep is putting out an effort today doing something right now or today And that has the potential to earn income over and over again in the future That's passive income and that's what a video is. That's what your instagram Content is you put it out and it has the potential to make you money in the future It can be watched over and over again It you know a video gets caught up in in the search engines And it can be searched that and found and watched three years from now five years from now 10 years from now Okay, that's passive income. That's what I'm talking about. So you start your youtube channel You build it over three to five years you get about 500 videos built up And then all of a sudden it starts building making you a decent living, right? But it takes time like anything else and people are going to quit most people aren't going to stick to anything past 90 days They're going to quit in the first 30 days. This doesn't work All right, maybe they'll stick out to 90 days Very few people will make six months Almost nobody will make a year nobody will make the five years Okay, because it's just human nature you're going to quit just human nature very few people are going to stick to it The whole time. Okay, and I mean it takes time. Like I said overnight success How long does it take to be an overnight success? It takes a long time to be an overnight success Um, so what do you think? What do you think? Are you interested in being an influencer? Starting your youtube channel in a discipline showing people how to do something becoming a problem solver remember You're a problem solver. It's not what can you get out of it? It's not about you making money, right? It's not about you It's about them. It's about giving value. It's about helping people. Okay, it's about solving their problems Influencers solve problems. So what happens the people they go to instagram because they want to learn how to do makeup Okay, so the influencer is solving their problems showing them how to do the eye shadow or the hair or whatever it is, right? And then there's links in there and they or they send them to the links and they make money on affiliate links, right? Um It could be anything like I said, it could be makeup could be crafts, you know, you could be making crafts You know those those lanyards those those those leather things that you make Keychains and necklaces and all next and friendship stuff that the kids make right and at camp and everything So you start a channel and you just show people how to make that and you put all the ingredients All the all the material that you use in the in the description and send them to amazon amazon is a partner People are going to go to amazon and pull out their credit card because it's amazon They're not going to worry about is it a trusted site? They're going to spend money So, you know a lot of people tell you well build your own site You know sell your own stuff on your own site But then half the people aren't going to trust it. They're going to go there and be like, I don't know if I trust this site They're not going to they're not going to they're going to bail at the last minute, right? But amazon and amazon has a way to retarget people and when they try to leave amazon says Hey, wait a minute You might want this and this and this and this as well, you know, hey wait a minute Well, they'll send them an email later. This is still in your cart amazon does all that work for you, right? That's crazy amazon does all that work for you. So all you got to do is drive traffic to amazon Make the video put the link in the in the description They're going to click the link to see what it is. All right That's what you say click the link to find out more they click the link and they're cookied Right You got them You got them. They're cookie now, whatever they buy in 24 hours You're going to get a commission for and that's what that's that's what it is. All right You can make a good living doing it. All right, you can make a good living do it I'm going to cut it short now. We're almost at a An hour and eight minutes. We're going to go and probably going to end up doing an hour and 10 But we're going to be back Tuesdays 8 p.m Come on back. Uh, like I said go to you didn't know dot live Sign up for the youtube channel Sign up for the email list get the book the book will come down For free don't go to amazon buy the book. Okay amazon don't like me for that But again to give the book away for free because I believe that it's it should be free information Okay, you should know about it. I think you should know about it. Um And what do you think about influencers getting free stuff or getting paid to do Reviews, what do you think about that? Is that legitimate? Is that honorable? uh, or is that uh paid promotion What do you think what do you think that could be our next topic for next week and I'll see you then ciao