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Thanks to HubSpot
for sponsoring this video.
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So naturally, a lot of people think
that to get a high income job,
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you need to go to university.
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Now, there is nothing wrong
with going to university.
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I think if you're doing something
that requires a university degree,
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then, of course,
you have to go to university.
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It makes a lot of sense.
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But I also like to make the case
that you can make money
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without having to go to university.
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And I'm the prime example here.
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I'm someone who is not going to
university, is not going to college.
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And I've been able to build income streams,
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I've been able to build businesses
that can make me serious money,
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more money than most 9 to 5 jobs.
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I feel like we're also very lucky
where we live in this digital age,
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where you can make a business
just by sitting behind your computer.
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It blows my mind and it's exactly
the type of businesses I've built.
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So in this video,
I wanted to share some business ideas
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that you can start,
that are actual proper businesses.
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They don't have to just be side hustles
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that make a little bit of money.
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They can be grown
into fully fledged businesses.
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The other great thing
about the businesses
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that I'm going to be covering
is that they don't require
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a ton of money to get started.
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You can usually get started
with what you already have,
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and they also provide
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a lot of flexibility and freedom,
which is important to me.
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The whole idea, the whole point of me
starting online businesses
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and doing online
businesses is so that I have freedom.
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So number one is,
of course, content creation.
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So I have turned content creation
into a full time business.
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A lot of you that are watching
this channel may not already know
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that I actually have another YouTube channel.
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I have a tech YouTube channel.
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I also make content
for Instagram and TikTok.
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I make content for all sorts,
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and I had be making content
for over ten years now.
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Content creation for me has unlocked
so many different opportunities.
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And now with the position that I'm in,
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I run a couple of YouTube channels.
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I'm starting new YouTube channels,
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I have Instagram, I have TikTok,
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I'm making content for brands.
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There's just so many different ways
that content creation
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has helped me make a lot of money.
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I think the best thing about content
creation is that you can turn things
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that you already love doing into content.
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It is very easy to get started.
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Now, of course, it's not easy to grow,
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but I think with the way
the Internet is right now,
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you can make content
really about anything.
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You can find niches everywhere.
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If you love doing something,
if you love sharing something,
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there will be other people out there
who also love that same thing.
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For me, it was tech,
it was gadgets, it was design,
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sort of those things mixed together,
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especially product design and things like that,
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all of that mixed together,
that's what I loved,
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and that's what
I made a YouTube channel about.
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And it's growing really well.
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It's doing incredibly well.
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It's making an incredible
amount of money for me
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and it's just been such a great way
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for me to turn something
that I love into a business.
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The other great thing about content
creation and social media
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is that it's not just about you.
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I think a lot of people fall
into the trap of thinking
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that they have to make content
where they're in it,
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when they're doing the voice overs,
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where their face is on camera
and stuff like that.
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Not at all.
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You can really do all sorts of stuff.
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You don't even have to do
content creation for yourself,
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you can do it
for other businesses as well.
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If you are interested in social media trends,
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HubSpot have put together a social media
trends report and expert panel.
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If you want to follow in my footsteps
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of making a business
out of content creation,
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one thing I would highly recommend
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is just keeping up with social media
trends and seeing what's trending.
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Of course, the one issue is how
do we know what's actually trending?
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Because things are moving very,
very fast in the social media world.
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But I have just the right resource here
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to help stay on top of this year's trends.
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HubSpot's Social Media Trends Report.
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It's an e-book that covers a wide range
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of social media trends,
including community building,
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social commerce, influencer marketing,
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content creation, AI,
and platform specific strategies.
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There's a whopping 40 pages
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of insanely valuable information
in this e-book.
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It's a vital resource for anyone who
wants to take social media seriously.
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It covers important metrics,
goals and challenges
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faced by social media marketers,
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providing benchmarks
and insights to measure success.
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Understanding user behaviour trends
highlighted in the report enables
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tailored content strategies,
ensuring content resonates
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with audiences and drives
meaningful engagement.
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By anticipating future trends
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and staying informed
about competitors strategies.
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Those who take social media
seriously can maintain relevance,
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optimise advertising campaigns,
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and can stay ahead in the landscape
of social media marketing.
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Content creation for me has been
the biggest driver for my business.
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It's how I've been able to give myself
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the freedom, freedom to grow my business.
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This e-book does a great job
of demonstrating that content creation
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can be a huge driver
of new customers and revenue
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for pretty much any type of business.
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So make sure to check it out.
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It's completely free to download.
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Next up is short
form content and repurposing.
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So if you have any sort of skill
when it comes to video editing,
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which I think is actually fairly easy to pick up,
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this is such a great business.
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This is such an easy way
to make some money.
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But growing a business like this for
a lot of people can be quite difficult
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and it's because they go about it
in the wrong way.
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What I've noticed is that a lot
of editors that are making shorts
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don't really have a style,
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and they're also not really seeing what's trending
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on the social media
sort of landscape, you could say.
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They're not seeing
what other types of clips
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people actually want to see.
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So I find a lot of these short-form editors,
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they're just trying
to make as many clips as possible
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just to get the job done.
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However, if you wanna make big money,
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proper money when it comes
to making short form content,
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editing short form content for businesses,
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for creators, whatever it might be,
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it's all about coming up with clips
that will either go viral
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or can actually make money
for the end client.
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A lot of people don't
seem to really be focusing on that.
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Like I said, they're just trying to make
as many clips as possible.
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But if you can prove
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that your clips are either going viral
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or they're bringing conversions,
you can charge a lot more money.
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I would happily pay for a short film editor
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who I know can regularly get me
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hundreds of thousands of views,
or millions of views
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or who can sort of figure out
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what's trending, what's not trending.
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Look at my videos and stuff.
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See where they could see a clip
maybe potentially going viral
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or maybe for other parts of my business
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so that it helps drive revenue.
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If they can prove
all those sorts of things,
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I'm happy to pay them big money.
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They're obviously
being able to deliver the results,
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I want to be able to reward them
for those results.
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And I know there are short form
editors out there
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who are making well over
five figures a month.
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They have a few clients,
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they don't have that many clients,
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maybe three or four clients,
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but they're regularly churning out
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good quality repurposed videos
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that are doing well for their clients.
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And that's the most important thing.
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Instead of just trying to figure out,
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I'm gonna make ten clips for like $1,000.
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No, no, no.
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And I think it's actually better
to make sure
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that the clips you're making
are actually going to do well.
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Another thing that I've noticed
when it comes to short form content
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is that a lot of people
try to overdo this sort of flashy ideas,
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try to do crazy captions
or sound effects and things like that.
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But some of the most viral clips
that I've seen online
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don't have any flashy editing at all.
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The person has just found
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a clip from a video or from a podcast
or something like that,
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which they know will go viral.
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They've gone through the effort
of figuring out
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what can work on places
like Instagram and TikTok.
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Tutoring.
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So this is a perfect one
for anyone who is also a student,
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because I've always said
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that the best person to teach
another person is another person
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who's also learning that same thing,
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but are only a few steps ahead.
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I found that people who are already
very, very knowledgeable in a subject,
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aren't actually great teachers,
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because they're already way too far ahead,
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maybe they've learnt
the basics or something
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years ago, decades ago,
and now teaching someone
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who is completely new to the subject
can actually be very, very difficult,
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because they're thinking years ahead
whilst this new beginner,
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this person is just starting
to learn the subject,
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is trying to just learn
the fundamentals and the basics.
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So it can be quite hard for those two people
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to really learn from each other.
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The best person to learn from
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is someone who's just
a few steps ahead of you.
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And the great thing
about something like this
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is that you don't need to be an expert.
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You don't need to know everything
about a certain subject to teach it.
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And I think that's why tutoring
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is actually such a great way to make money,
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because a lot of people fall
into the trap of thinking
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that they need
to be an expert in a subject
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and they need to know everything
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about this certain subject
to teach it to someone else.
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And yeah, it just really isn't the case.
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So if you're someone who's also a beginner,
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who wants to make some money,
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who wants to be able to--
You can make a lot of money doing this.
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You're in the perfect position
to also teach someone else.
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The great thing about this
is that if you want someone
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who happens to be at university
and you're watching this video,
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you can be someone
who's teaching multiple people.
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So you can have your own class.
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You can teach multiple students,
multiple people at the same time,
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and you can charge them
all the same rate.
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Really sort of maximising your income,
scaling your income.
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This is such a great way
to scaling your income,
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having lots of people
that you can teach at the same time.
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And then if you want to take it up a notch,
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you wanna take it to the next level.
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You can make courses.
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Digital courses especially
are such great businesses.
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I know so many people
who have digital courses
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that are teaching stuff online.
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They've put a curriculum together
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and they're making absolute bank.
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Because it's such a scalable business,
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you're not necessarily limited
to a number of students in a class.
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You can really just sell it
to as many people as you like.
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I have my own course, videocreatorcourse.com,
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and it makes great money.
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I sort of just have it
sitting in the background.
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It's all about how to make high quality videos,
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not necessarily for YouTube,
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but just making high quality
videos in general.
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And yeah, the great thing about it
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is that it's sort of just making money
passively in the background.
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But there are creators out there
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who have turned courses
into fully fledged businesses
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that are just making millions.
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Making millions is absolutely insane.
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Because people
are willing to pay for knowledge.
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That's the most valuable thing
about courses.
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If you can teach something
that's valuable to other people
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where they can use it to
maybe make their life better,
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maybe make relationships, love,
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whatever might better, make them money.
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Sort of those three things
happiness, love, money.
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If you can teach something
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that takes advantage
of one of those three things,
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you can make a lot of money.
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I found with courses the people
who are looking to buy courses,
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that are looking to learn stuff
from courses,
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they're looking for the money details,
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they're looking
for the finier details in things
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because they wanna see
how other people are doing it.
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They wanna see systems and processes in place
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that has worked for someone else
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and they wanna see if they can apply
the same systems and processes
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to their own sort of way of life,
their own way of doing things.
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Gym workouts are a perfect example of this.
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If you see someone who you think,
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"Wow, they look incredible,"
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you might also be interested in
"How can I look like that?"
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So if that person had a course,
if they shared their gym routine,
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you're obviously going to look at it
and you're going to think,
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okay, let's see what they're doing
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and maybe I'm missing out on something.
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Maybe I'm not doing something right,
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because clearly they're doing something right
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that I'm not doing right now.
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Social media management.
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So this is one I've covered in the channel before,
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but there are so many businesses out there,
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especially businesses
run by older people, who you could say,
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who just have no clue
about social media.
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They don't know anything
about Instagram, TikTok,
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YouTube or any other sort of social platforms.
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They don't know what it takes
to make content.
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They don't know how to publish content,
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they don't know
what type of content to make.
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And it's not just older people.
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There are also people,
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young people who don't really have
any idea of social media.
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These businesses, these sorts of people,
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they are usually willing
to pay someone else to do it for them.
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And that's the whole point.
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If you can take the pain away
from someone else
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and also make their lives better,
make them more money,
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you can charge big money
for social media management.
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The great thing about this business
is that it is somewhat scalable.
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So if you have systems
and processes in place,
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there's no reason why you can't have three,
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four, five businesses where you're charging
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maybe between 2 to $5000 a month,
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maybe even $10,000 a month,
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depending on how much you're doing for them.
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You can also hire other people
to come in and help you with those things.
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It's such a great way
to build a business
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that can make quite a lot of money
quite quickly.
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If you're someone
who is social media savvy,
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I think it makes a lot of sense.
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One angle that I would take with this,
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which is what I mentioned
earlier on in the video,
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if you can show a client or a business,
whoever you're selling your skills to,
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that you're either bringing in views
or you're making them money.
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They're going to be more than willing
to pay for your services.
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Next up, we have UI/UX design
and website creation.
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So well before I started doing YouTube
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and started making money from YouTube,
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my main source of income
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was UI/UX design
and making websites for clients.
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And let me tell you,
I made a lot of money doing that.
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It was just one of the best things
that I ever did,
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it's one of the best skills
I ever learned.
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I made a lot of money very, very quickly.
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A few years into my career,
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I was charging $500 to $1000 a day
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for my services depending on the client,
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depending on the business,
depending on what they needed.
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And I remember thinking at the time, like,
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"Holy moly, I can't believe I'm charging
$1,000 a day for my time."
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Obviously I'm selling my time,
but still, it's $1,000,
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like I was in my early twenties,
mid twenties.
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And I think to myself, this is outrageous.
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$1,000 a day.
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I did have some imposter
syndrome back then.
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So I was thinking to myself,
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I can't believe I'm charging $1,000 a day.
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But now when I think back,
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the reason why I was charging $1,000 a day
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was because those sorts
of skills just wasn't that common.
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Not a lot of people had those skills.
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Not a lot of people had the style
that I had when it came to
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UI/UX design and making websites.
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And that's the one thing I realised
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from nearly all of the clients that hired me.
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They were looking for my specific style
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and that's what's so important
about UI/UX and website creation.
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Having a style that's pretty unique
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but also very refined and can deliver results.
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The other thing is most people
just aren't that technical.
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They don't wanna be messing around,
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spending time learning how to use Figma,
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which is what I use to design,
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and using things like Framer
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or learning how to code to make websites.
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Just like with social media management,
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most businesses, they don't wanna be focusing
on making a website.
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They don't want to be running
a website, nothing like that.
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They would much rather pay
someone else to do it.
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And the great thing about websites
is that we know they make money
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They're a good face for a business,
whether it's like a restaurant,
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whether it's an e-commerce store,
or whatever it might be.
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We know it's a way for people to look
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for that business online
and for that business to make money.
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And you could even take it
a step further.
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You can go to the business and be like,
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"Look, I will make your website for free.
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However, any clients I get for you,
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any customers I get for you through the website,
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I take a cut."
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Maybe it's 5%, 10%, 20%,
whatever it might be.
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That's such a good way
to make a lot of money.
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This is also a very scalable business,
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because once you've made a website,
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you could just charge a retainer fee.
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You can also hire other people
to come in to manage websites,
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to make websites with you,
to make websites for your clients.
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It's just a very scalable business.
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And there are so many companies,
so many agencies out there
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that we already know
are making millions doing this.
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Another thing
that's become very popular
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is just charging businesses on a monthly basis,
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a retainer, essentially.
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And Darrel, a designer
who shares his work on Twitter,
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he runs a design agency
called endless.design,
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where he charges $8,000 a month.
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And he's doing incredibly
well from the info he's sharing on Twitter.
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And it's a simple retainer package
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that gives you basically one design lead,
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one senior designer five days a week,
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one request at a time,
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you get an unlimited amount
of design work in that time.
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Dedicated Slack Channel, unlimited revisions,
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and a 48 hour delivery.
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And he's charging $8,000 a month.
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And you can see
he only has one spot left already.
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So people are clearly paying for this
and he's making a lot of money.
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And like I said, if you have
other people in the business,
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you can have more and more spots,
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you can have more availability for clients.
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This is a fantastic way to make money.
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And like I said,
it's how I used to make money
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before I made YouTube videos
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and I made a lot of money doing it.
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I made a couple of million
doing this sort of thing.
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That's it for this video.
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Hopefully, you guys enjoyed it.
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As you can see, I am in a new setup.
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I have a completely new setup.
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This is in my new office in Dubai.
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I still have a few things I need to setup.
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I still have a few things I need to sort out.
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Like my microphone.
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I'm using this lavalier mic,
a sort of DJI mic,
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instead of my podcast mic.
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I miss my podcast mic. I need it to come.
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I'm sort of just waiting for things to set up.
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I'm shipping a lot of things
from the UK to Dubai,
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so I'm waiting for things to arrive.
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So yeah, things will go back to normal,
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the high quality Oliur
will go back to normal.
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Hopefully, you guys enjoyed it.
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Follow me on Instagram and Twitter,
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where I'll be sharing a lot more updates.
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