Hey everyone, welcome back to the channel. I'm actually very excited to
be putting this video together for you to share this story in
a bit more detail than usual. So a few years ago, I
took a leap of faith, and quit my job to work on
my side hustle full-time. However, this was not a very
straightforward journey. I learned a lot in this
process, and I wanna share these valuable things
with you in this video. So throughout this video,
I'm going to take you kind of behind the scenes and share my journey from working a 9 to 5
job to going full-time, working for myself, and
making more than a doctor, or a lawyer, possibly even combined. To pack just as much value as I can into this video, I'm going to
share with you the strategy that I used that made my
income really take off. There's also four pieces
of advice that I wish someone gave me when I
was just starting out, so I'm going to share
those with you as well. Now, in order for this all to make sense let me give you a super quick background. I used to work at 9 to 5 that in reality, as you guys probably know,
it was like a 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM job when you
factor in the commute, and everything else that goes into it. And it was those days that you just really don't wanna get outta bed and go to work, but you know you need to that made me realize
that this was not going to be the future that I
had in mind for myself. I needed something that gave
me more control over my life, and more freedom to do
what I wanted with my time. So flash forward a couple
years of properly slaving away at this job, giving it everything I had, something of a blessing
in disguise happened that really changed the course of my life. One morning on the days
that I had off of work I woke up to an email
that said that the company was laying off a big chunk
of the marketing department, and I was included in that layoff. Just like that, all of the time and energy that I put into this company
thinking I was working my way up the ladder was abruptly ended. So much for job safety, I
was literally out of a job, out of a paycheck, I didn't
have any side hustles, or anything to fall back on. So with my back against the
wall and really no options here, but needing to get a
paycheck to cover my bills I quickly thought about what I could do as a part-time job to pay for my expenses. I ended up kind of being
creative and decided to call around to the local
golf courses in my area, and see if they were hiring bag boys. This sounded like a fun job
that I could do outside, and make an income in
the process part-time. Well, sure enough, I got
a job at one of them, and within a couple weeks I
literally started working there. This job was the definition of a raft that floated me financially and
since it was just part-time, it gave me the rest of
the time that I was able to research what I was
going to do with my life that would give me that
freedom and control. I think the big key here
was finding a part-time job that didn't have the
take home stress with it. Once I left work there was literally no more golf clubs that I could clean. There were no other bags
that I could carry around. When I went home, I was off
work, that time was mine. With that time, it really
didn't take me long to discover the idea of
starting an online business. In theory, what everyone
was promising was that it would give me the freedom,
and the control over my life, and that's what I was looking for. So, over the next couple months, I spent a ton of time
kind of dipping my toes into all of the different,
big popular business models. This is where I learned a
ton about online business. And I also found out
that there's, actually, a ton of scams out there
where people tell you all this information, and they lead you into an expensive course that, in the end, when you buy the course is
filled with a bunch of fluff. So, needless to say, this was
actually really difficult, and frustrating to find stuff that worked. But I, ultimately, found
two business models that were free to start,
which I really enjoyed. The information was on
YouTube that I could learn. And they were actually
making me consistent income. So with these two business models, I spent the next couple months working on them as much as possible,
and once I actually got them big enough to where I was
making consistent money with them and I felt good about
it, I decided to quit my job and start working on them full-time. Now, this is where it gets
really, really interesting. If I quickly flash forward a couple years I can share with you that
I've made over $2 million in profit just from these
two business models. But there's a lot to
cover in this mid period. Particularly, there was a point in time where my income skyrocketed
when I learned one single thing. So that's something I wanna share with you in this video as well. All right, so that's the background. Hopefully, we're all on
the same page about that. Now, let's get into the
good stuff in this video, let's share what the two side hustles are, what strategy I used,
and what's the one thing that I did that made my income skyrocket, so you could do the same thing. All right, so getting right into this. First, I started creating and
selling custom design t-shirts on Amazon and a few other websites. This side hustle is
known as print-on-demand. Then I started writing blog articles and referring readers
to companies' products. Whenever a reader clicked
on my referral link and purchased a product,
I got paid a commission. This side hustle is called
affiliate marketing. These are the two side
hustles that can make you so much money if you just
invest your time into them. Okay, so now let me take you
kind of behind the scenes and show you what happened
during those couple years. For the first few months
that I was going full-time it was extremely tough,
there's no way around that, and I'm not gonna try to hide it. There was this kind of sense of anxiety that came with not
having a stable paycheck, and having the full responsibility of your own success on your shoulders. During these first few
months, I was giving it everything that I had,
going pedal to the metal, basically, out of the fear
of it's not going to work. So I was experimenting and researching with a ton of different strategies. I could only find so much online. So a lot of the things I had
to do by trial and error. However, after all of
this work, I was still only making just a couple hundred dollars per month which, as
you can probably guess, was not going to cut it in the long run. That wouldn't cover all of my bills. So another few months went
by of me really pushing this as hard as I could, and I got up to about $1,000 per month in profit, and this was getting me closer to it. But this is when I
learned of that one thing that kind of changed everything. I had been working at
least eight hours a day, every single day just
trying to make this happen, and my income only slowly got
up to about $1,000 per month. This was super frustrating for me, and I was about to be at
the point of quitting here just because it was so much
work for so little return. I could literally make more
money at my part-time job for how many hours I was spending on this. But this is where everything changed. I learned of one thing that took my income wildly off the charts. Now, I wanna share that with you. This one thing that I
learned is so simple, but makes such a difference,
this is the concept of ranking. What I learned was for both
print-on-demand t-shirts, and writing blog articles on
your website it takes time for those to show up
in the search results. Specifically, it can take anywhere from 6 to 12 months until they are in their ultimate position
in the search results. In most cases, they start
a couple pages back, and they slowly work their
way up to the first page where they're ultimately going to live. So, essentially, what happened here was I had been pumping out as
many t-shirts as possible, and as many blog articles as
possible for a solid year. And then, all of a sudden,
they all started to rank, and take off organically
almost all at once. I literally hadn't done
anything differently, but my sales and income started to skyrocket just on their own. Once I had put two and two together that this long of a waiting period, and then all of it starts
to take off organically, it became clear to me that
I needed to keep doing this, and then wait another year and see where the business was at that point. Well, that's exactly what I did. And, as it turns out, that's
exactly what happened. Flash forward a couple years
of keeping my head down, staying focused, and continuing to work as hard as I possibly could. All of these side hustles started to make almost a million
dollars per year in profit. So, with all of that being
said, I literally have so much content out there that I feel like I can share these things freely. It's not going to hurt my business. So let me share my strategy of what I did, and a couple really helpful
tips that'll help you so you can have this same growth curve. Now, there's one main strategy that worked for both of these side hustles, and it's the same strategy
that I currently use to date. Now, keep in mind with this strategy, there's that saying of K-I-S-S, which is Keep It Simple Stupid. You don't have to go crazy, and make things complex for it to work. So the strategy is very simple. For both print-on-demand
and affiliate marketing, use an accurate research tool
to find low competition niches and then create as much good content as you possibly can in those niches. Once you've done this once and
you've gone through a niche, simply rinse and repeat into as many low competition niches as you can. And then give it that 6 to
12 month waiting period. Trust me when I say it does
not have to be complicated to work, I think it's more of just getting your mindset right on what to expect and managing your expectations. Unfortunately, most people
nowadays are looking for a secret or a shortcut to make money right now. But the reason that this
strategy actually works is because it focuses on those niches that nobody else is competing in. If you're the one creating
all the good content in there, you're simply going to win. All right so, hopefully,
that in itself is helpful. But now, I'll give you some
valuable bits of advice that I wish someone told me
when I was just starting out. The first piece of advice is
be prepared for the hard work. Growing a side hustle takes time, dedication, and persistence. You have to mentally be
ready to put in this effort, and keep your head down
until it starts to work. It's not always going to work right away. The second piece of advice
is don't doubt yourself. You're probably going to
start doubting yourself within the first month, or
within the first couple months. But remember, even the
most successful people in these businesses probably
had those same doubts. I had 'em myself, and I'm so
glad that I pushed through them because that's when it started working. The third piece of advice is
to build a support network. If you can connect with
other entrepreneurs, or people who are doing side hustles you can talk to them along the way. This is going to give
you that constant dose of motivation to keep you going. Without this, it can get
pretty lonely, and discouraging because not many people really understand what you're going through. And lastly, the fourth piece of advice that is just so important
is to stay focused. As you get going, you're likely going to get distracted by new ideas, and opportunities that start
to trend on social media. This is commonly known
as shiny object syndrome. You see the shiny objects and you wanna just go chase them instead. What happens to so many people and, ultimately, is the
reason that they don't succeed is they start something that
they're doing really good on and it hasn't started working yet. They find something shiny, and they switch to that
other thing too soon before that first thing
had a chance to take off. Looking back on it, one
of the best decisions in my life was going
full-time on my side hustles. If I hadn't done that, I don't
know where I would be today. And looking back on my life,
I can't even imagine working a 9 to 5 for how much
you have to sacrifice for that when you can
be fired at any moment. So for those of you who
are considering taking this leap of faith, I hope
my story has inspired you, and you actually give it a go. I'm gonna go ahead and
put video links down in the description below
to step-by-step tutorials on how to do these side hustles. So if you wanna start them, and follow the same path,
you absolutely can do it, and you can do it the way
that I've done it myself. (upbeat music)
