[0:00] in this video I'm going to break down
[0:01] seven different side hustle ideas that
[0:03] you can start this year to the point
[0:04] where you're hopefully making an extra
[0:05] $1,000 a month and for each of them
[0:07] we're going to talk about how easy it is
[0:09] to get started secondly how easy it is
[0:11] to make your first $100 from it and
[0:12] thirdly how much time and effort it
[0:14] takes to keep things going once you've
[0:15] gotten started and then afterwards I'm
[0:16] going to talk about what I would
[0:18] personally be doing if I was say in my
[0:19] early 20s and trying to make some extra
[0:21] money and how I'd be applying these
[0:22] principles to my own life part one the
[0:24] philosophy of side hustles okay so let's
[0:26] start by zooming out a little bit and
[0:27] thinking critically about what we're
[0:29] actually trying to do here so what is a
[0:31] side hustle what is the point of doing
[0:32] the side hustle thing well firstly very
[0:34] few people would say no to an extra
[0:36] $1,000 a month coming in even an extra
[0:38] few hundred a month coming in would be
[0:39] really helpful for a lot of people
[0:41] having more money is generally a good
[0:42] thing because it unlocks autonomy it
[0:43] unlocks Freedom it lets you buy more
[0:45] things if you're interested in that it
[0:46] lets you unlock more experiences and it
[0:48] lets you basically have a little bit
[0:49] more control over your own life so how
[0:51] do you actually make this extra money
[0:52] that you want coming in well one way is
[0:54] to try and get a raise at your day job
[0:55] but we're not going to talk about that
[0:56] cuz this video is about side hustles the
[0:58] other way is of doing a kind of old
[0:59] School side hustle which is actually
[1:01] just called a second job like for
[1:02] example let's say I wanted to make an
[1:03] extra few hundred quid a month I could
[1:05] get a job at the local Kebab shop down
[1:07] the road and that's all well and good
[1:08] because I could be making I don't know
[1:09] £101 an hour or something like that
[1:11] working at the said kbab shop but
[1:12] there's a few issues with me trying to
[1:13] use that as my side hustle or second job
[1:15] firstly there is a cap to how much money
[1:17] I could be getting paid working at the
[1:18] local Kebab shop secondly working at the
[1:20] local Kebab shop is probably not very
[1:21] fun I'm a big fan of Kebabs I love it
[1:23] but even then it would probably become
[1:24] kind of boring after a while and thirdly
[1:26] and most importantly it would tie me
[1:27] into more shift work let's say I've got
[1:29] a day job job and then I'm doing the
[1:30] kbab shifts in the evening I have to
[1:32] show up at a particular time I don't
[1:33] have autonomy over my time and I don't
[1:35] have the flexibility in being able to
[1:36] work when I want and so these factors
[1:38] mean that working at the local Kebab
[1:39] shop I would call less of a side hustle
[1:41] although you can use that terminology if
[1:42] you want I would call it more like a
[1:43] second job so when we say side hustles
[1:45] what do we generally mean by that a
[1:46] decent side hustle should take three
[1:48] boxes firstly it should you it should
[1:49] allow you to make more money than you
[1:51] would be working at a local service job
[1:53] secondly it should be something that you
[1:54] actually enjoy doing where ideally it
[1:56] wouldn't necessarily feel like work it
[1:58] wouldn't feel as if you have a second
[2:00] job that you're toiling away at just to
[2:01] make a little bit of extra cash it would
[2:03] be something that actually fulfills you
[2:04] creatively and thirdly and perhaps most
[2:06] importantly it would be flexible you
[2:08] wouldn't be tied into a certain shift
[2:09] pattern you'd be able to work broadly
[2:11] where you want and when you want now in
[2:13] this video we're going to break down
[2:14] seven different things that you could do
[2:15] that take all three of these boxes but
[2:17] there's one final thing that we need to
[2:18] understand before we go forward and that
[2:19] is the law of making money the law of
[2:21] making money basically says that money
[2:23] is an exchange of value if you want to
[2:25] make money you need to provide value to
[2:27] people who are willing to pay you for
[2:28] said value now this is a mistake that I
[2:29] see a lot of people making all the
[2:30] emails I get from people asking you know
[2:32] how how do I make money on the internet
[2:33] all this kind of stuff but like in order
[2:35] for you to make money someone needs to
[2:37] someone needs to give you that money you
[2:38] can't just make money money just does
[2:40] not grow in trees it doesn't just appear
[2:41] magically in your account someone has to
[2:43] actually want to pay you in order for
[2:44] you to get that money into your account
[2:46] like for example when you buy a $3
[2:47] coffee from Starbucks you are paying
[2:49] Starbucks $3 or whatever it is and then
[2:50] you're getting a coffee in return
[2:52] because you perceive that that value the
[2:54] coffee that you're getting is worth the
[2:55] $3 the $3 is coming out of your personal
[2:57] account and going to Starbucks similarly
[2:59] when you are making money on the
[3:00] internet it's easy to think of the
[3:01] internet as like magical internet money
[3:03] oh if I make a YouTube video I just make
[3:04] money for free but like that money is
[3:06] coming from someone in the case of
[3:07] YouTube it's coming from advertisers and
[3:08] the people that would say that making
[3:09] money is fairly easy are the ones who
[3:11] understand that it's an exchange of
[3:12] value and there's a fairly simple
[3:14] formula for this and if you can
[3:15] understand the formula then you probably
[3:17] hopefully shouldn't really struggle with
[3:19] making money and that formula is firstly
[3:21] you just need to learn a skill or get
[3:23] good at a skill that people are willing
[3:24] to pay for and then secondly you just
[3:26] need to find people who are willing to
[3:27] pay for that skill and so if you can
[3:28] just do those things a skill and then
[3:30] find people who are willing to pay you
[3:31] for the skill then you won't really have
[3:32] a problem with making money and so
[3:34] hopefully you're going to see as we go
[3:35] through the rest of this video that the
[3:36] seven different ideas we're talking
[3:37] about here are all about building a
[3:39] valuable skill and then finding people
[3:40] to pay you for set skill so let's get
[3:42] started side hustle idea number one
[3:44] become a writer for businesses very very
[3:46] broadly there are two types of
[3:47] businesses there's B Toc and there's B2B
[3:49] so b2c is business to Consumer and B2B
[3:52] is business to business basically
[3:53] everything you're familiar with is going
[3:54] to be b2c business to Consumer so for
[3:56] example YouTube is b2c like most mostly
[3:59] it's consumers who are watching YouTube
[4:01] but actually the way YouTube makes money
[4:02] is B2B they're are selling a service to
[4:04] advertisers they're selling to other
[4:06] businesses and it's worth understanding
[4:07] this distinction because by far the
[4:09] easiest way to level up your ability to
[4:11] make money is to start thinking B2B
[4:13] rather than b Toc it's to start thinking
[4:15] what are the services that I can offer
[4:17] to businesses rather than how can I make
[4:19] money from my friends and colleagues
[4:20] because your friends and colleagues
[4:22] probably don't have money to spend it's
[4:23] like if you start imagining like oh what
[4:25] value can I add to my my friend it's
[4:27] like I could become a cleaner for them
[4:28] maybe that's B to see but if you start
[4:30] thinking what value can I add to local
[4:32] businesses or businesses on the internet
[4:34] now it just massively increases the
[4:35] scope of things that you can do to make
[4:36] money on the internet and the first
[4:38] major category of services that you can
[4:39] offer to businesses is writing writing
[4:41] is one of the top things that basically
[4:43] every business in the world is looking
[4:45] for it could be a local business like
[4:46] your local accountant or your local dry
[4:48] cleaner it could be an internet business
[4:50] like software and all this kind of stuff
[4:52] it could be creators like me and other
[4:54] YouTubers it could be authors it could
[4:56] be podcasters like almost every business
[4:57] that you'll ever come across will have a
[4:59] need to hire writers to do some kind of
[5:01] writing now one of the main ones here is
[5:03] content writing so for example
[5:04] businesses will have a Blog often and on
[5:06] that blog they will post articles about
[5:08] their particular industry and they're
[5:09] hoping that by posting enough articles
[5:10] on their website they'll get decent
[5:11] search engine optimization SEO and then
[5:13] more people are going to go on their
[5:15] blog and then they'll stumble across the
[5:16] business and then that will increase the
[5:17] sales or the leads for the business and
[5:19] this is a great Niche to get yourself
[5:20] into because it's very valuable for a
[5:22] business to have someone competent being
[5:23] able to write articles for them B they
[5:25] absolutely recognize the value of this
[5:26] and they will pay for the service and C
[5:28] it means you can just write you can
[5:29] write about topics or businesses or
[5:31] fields that you're genuinely interested
[5:32] in and generally when you're doing
[5:34] something that you have an inherent
[5:35] interest in that you actually enjoy
[5:36] writing about it's going to become way
[5:38] easier and it's going to feel a lot less
[5:39] like work the other major category of
[5:41] people who need writers is any kind of
[5:42] Creator we hire a bunch of people to do
[5:45] research and writing for our videos or
[5:46] for social media or for our website or
[5:48] for our courses and tons and tons of
[5:49] stuff every other creator that I know
[5:51] who's making money who's treating their
[5:52] creator thing like a business also has a
[5:54] massive requirement for writers and so
[5:56] if you want you can make money by
[5:57] working with your favorite creators and
[5:59] helping them right content I know people
[6:01] who charge $1,000 for a single script
[6:03] for a YouTube video so if you can find a
[6:04] creator that needs that kind of service
[6:06] you can make some pretty good money
[6:07] doing that thing there's another mistake
[6:08] that people make here and they think
[6:09] okay cool I'm going to be a writer
[6:10] therefore let me advertise my services
[6:12] on a freelance website like Fiverr or
[6:14] upwork or people per hour or something
[6:16] like that and I would normally say that
[6:17] that's a pretty bad idea because if
[6:18] you're on these freelance websites where
[6:20] there are 50,000 other people offering
[6:22] the same service you're already kind of
[6:24] on the back foot because how is someone
[6:25] going to find you out of these other
[6:26] 50,000 people instead what I'd recommend
[6:28] is what Jack buter called The
[6:30] permissionless Apprentice model so
[6:31] basically you do work for people for
[6:33] free without them asking you to do it
[6:35] and you just then email them and show
[6:37] them the work that you've done and so
[6:38] for example if I was thinking how do I
[6:39] make money as a writer I would basically
[6:41] go to my favorite YouTubers the ones
[6:42] whose content I watch anyway and that
[6:44] certainly doesn't feel like work and I
[6:46] would just write a brand new video for
[6:48] them completely for free that would be a
[6:49] good way for me to a improve my own
[6:51] skills and B boost up my own portfolio
[6:53] and see once I've written a script for
[6:55] them in a Google doc or an otion page or
[6:57] whatever I would send it to them with an
[6:58] accompanying video that says hey I've
[7:00] written this for you completely for free
[7:01] if you like it feel free to use it and
[7:03] if you want more things like this then
[7:05] you know let's let's chat and you know
[7:07] we can talk about working together for
[7:08] the long term and I would do this for a
[7:09] handful of my favorite YouTubers and I
[7:11] can basically guarantee that at least
[7:12] one of them are going to reply assuming
[7:14] my script is good with oh my God this is
[7:16] incredible you've really nailed the
[7:17] script in exactly what my style would be
[7:19] and therefore I want to hire you all
[7:20] right so something like this how easy is
[7:22] it to start and actually especially
[7:23] these days with the Advent of AI
[7:25] artificial intelligence enhanced writing
[7:26] tools it's actually becoming way easier
[7:28] to be a writer than it used to be when
[7:30] you had to type all the words out
[7:31] yourself so often being a decent writer
[7:33] these days is just about being able to
[7:34] use the appropriate AI tools to create
[7:36] your first draft then being able to edit
[7:38] that first draft to see what sounds good
[7:39] and what's in the style of the people
[7:40] that you're trying to work for how easy
[7:42] is it to make your first $100 again I
[7:43] would say it's a little bit harder than
[7:45] just getting started because you have to
[7:46] Now find people to pay you but if you're
[7:48] using this permissionless Apprentice
[7:49] model if you're not trying to stand in
[7:50] the queue of 50,000 people on Fiverr
[7:52] trying to get hired but but you're
[7:54] instead actively reaching out and
[7:55] working for free for people that you
[7:56] actually want to work with I would say
[7:58] probably with a few weeks you probably
[8:00] land your first client and then that'll
[8:01] probably pay more than $100 and now
[8:03] you've made your first $100 and then how
[8:04] much time and effort is it to keep going
[8:06] well the issue with writing is that you
[8:07] are kind of trading your time for money
[8:10] because you do have to do the work of
[8:11] actually writing being to to then get
[8:13] paid for it but actually these days if
[8:14] you use AI tools appropriately then you
[8:16] can probably massively leverage your own
[8:18] ability to write stuff and then also
[8:20] further down the line once you've had
[8:21] experience in writing you can then start
[8:22] creating your own assets you can make
[8:24] your own ebooks or your own courses your
[8:25] own products and now that is a thing
[8:27] that then decorrelates writing from the
[8:29] amount of time you're spending on it and
[8:31] it then becomes a way of leveling up
[8:33] this particular side hustle and maybe
[8:34] making a more of a passive income stream
[8:36] out of this writing stuff side hustle
[8:37] idea number two becoming a sales
[8:39] copywriter basically anytime someone
[8:41] wants to sell something they will have a
[8:42] page that gives you the information
[8:44] about their product for example if you
[8:45] look on Amazon any product will have
[8:47] some copy sales copy some writing that's
[8:49] trying to sell you the product if you
[8:50] look at any online courses or any
[8:52] products on the internet like basically
[8:53] everything will have some level of sales
[8:55] copy associated with it and so if you're
[8:57] looking to make some extra money through
[8:58] a side hustle and you're interested Ed
[8:59] in for example writing and sales and
[9:01] marketing and psychology and persuasion
[9:03] and this kind of stuff you can actually
[9:05] fairly easily and fairly quickly become
[9:06] more of an expert in the field of sales
[9:08] and marketing you could read a few books
[9:10] like Russell brunson's expert Secrets
[9:11] Trilogy you could read Alex homo's $100
[9:14] million offers you could read a book by
[9:15] I think Jim Stevens called copywriting
[9:17] secrets and with a handful of books you
[9:20] would become way more knowledgeable
[9:21] about sales and marketing generally and
[9:24] about copywriting in particular that you
[9:26] probably know way more than any business
[9:28] that's trying to hire you for the
[9:29] service and the nice thing about sales
[9:30] copyrighting is that generally the
[9:32] return on investment for a business is
[9:33] fairly obvious like if someone emailed
[9:35] me and they did the permission as
[9:37] apprentice model and they saw that my
[9:38] parttime YouTuber Academy has a sales
[9:40] page and because of their knowledge of
[9:42] sales and marketing and copywriting they
[9:44] would know that my sales page is under
[9:46] optimized if they were to just send me a
[9:47] Google dog being like hey I'm a sales
[9:49] copywriter I've Rewritten the first half
[9:51] of your landing page for you feel free
[9:52] to use it but I'd love to work with you
[9:54] I would immediately say yes absolutely
[9:56] I'm going to hire this person because
[9:57] for me if I can improve the conversion
[9:59] rate on my sales Page by even 1% that
[10:01] directly translates to bottom line
[10:03] profits and therefore it's a lot easier
[10:04] for me to justify the expense of hiring
[10:06] a sales copywriter for that thing and
[10:08] the thing with all of these things is
[10:09] that once you've got one paying client
[10:10] it's be it becomes a lot easier to land
[10:12] other paying clients because Word of
[10:14] Mouth recommendations in the world of
[10:15] business are just huge and generally if
[10:18] we work with a with a freelancer or
[10:19] someone who's really good then I will
[10:20] know 10 to 20 to 30 other people who
[10:23] need that service and I'd be
[10:24] recommending that freelancer to those
[10:25] other people as well because generally
[10:27] business owners hang out with other
[10:28] business owners big YouTubers hang out
[10:30] with other big YouTubers and generally
[10:32] the problems that one of those has is
[10:33] the same as the problem that all their
[10:35] friends have so really all you have to
[10:36] do is get your foot in the door get your
[10:38] first paying client get a testimonial
[10:39] from them and then word of maath
[10:40] recommendations mean that you probably
[10:42] won't struggle to find clients in the
[10:43] future again assuming you're good all of
[10:46] this has to be on the presupposition
[10:48] that money is an exchange of value and
[10:49] you have to actually be good at the
[10:50] thing so how easy is sales copyrighting
[10:52] to start well it's not that easy you
[10:54] kind of have to be good at the skill
[10:55] which means you do have to do a little
[10:56] bit of reading but hey in about a month
[10:58] you can read all these books that I've
[10:59] mentioned they'll be linked down in the
[11:00] video description and then now all you
[11:02] have to do is do a little bit of
[11:03] practice and you can do that practice
[11:04] permissionless like you don't have to
[11:05] wait for permission for someone to be
[11:07] like hey yes I want you to redesign my
[11:08] landing page you could just do it and
[11:10] you could see if you enjoy it and your
[11:11] skills will just naturally improve over
[11:13] time secondly how easy is it to make
[11:14] your first $100 honestly pretty easy
[11:16] sales copywriting is such a standard
[11:18] it's it's just so easy to reach out to a
[11:20] business and say hey I've improved the
[11:22] copy on your landing page do you want to
[11:23] hire me to improve the the copy on the
[11:24] rest of your website and they'll
[11:25] probably be like hell yeah and now
[11:27] you've landed your first client and then
[11:28] thirdly how time intensive is it to do
[11:30] well actually I think it's less time
[11:31] intensive than content writing because
[11:33] to be honest once you get good at sales
[11:35] copywriting you find that the formula is
[11:38] kind of the same for any sort of
[11:39] business you describe the problem you
[11:40] agitate the problem you provide a
[11:42] solution like there's a a formula that
[11:44] you can read in for example copywriting
[11:45] Secrets the book and if you follow that
[11:47] formula you can often copy and paste
[11:49] things between different clients and you
[11:50] just become better at the skill over
[11:51] time so you know your 10th and 20th
[11:54] client will take a lot less time than
[11:55] your first or second client so broadly I
[11:57] would say it's not too bad in terms of
[11:59] ongoing time and effort side hustle idea
[12:01] number three become a thumbnail designer
[12:03] so we're now talking about design as a
[12:05] service we've talked about writing as a
[12:06] service now it's design as a service and
[12:08] one very easy design as a service that
[12:10] every single YouTuber needs is a
[12:11] thumbnail designer as YouTubers we know
[12:14] how important thumbnails are and so if
[12:16] you can actually get good at the skill
[12:17] of making thumbnails which is again not
[12:19] too hard you just follow some tutorials
[12:20] on the internet about how to use
[12:21] Photoshop and over time you'll develop
[12:23] an eye for what decent thumbnails look
[12:25] like then again you can follow The
[12:27] permissionless Apprentice model and then
[12:28] you can email them and say hey I really
[12:29] enjoy your work I've been watching your
[12:30] channel for a very long time I'm I'm I'm
[12:32] a thumbnail designer so I thought I'd
[12:34] redesign some of your thumbnails for you
[12:35] feel free to use them if you'd like and
[12:37] if you'd like to hire me if you like
[12:38] what I've done and you'd like to hire me
[12:39] then do please get back to me and we can
[12:41] talk I have actually mentioned this
[12:42] point in a couple of videos in the past
[12:43] and I have had maybe five people out of
[12:46] the 3 million people or 15 million
[12:48] people that have watched these videos
[12:49] I've had about five people email me with
[12:51] being like hey I would love to be your
[12:52] thumbnail designer here here are a few
[12:54] thumbnails unfortunately all five of
[12:55] those have just like the thumbnails have
[12:57] not been very good and we've AB tested
[12:59] them uh and they just haven't performed
[13:01] as well as thumbnails that I could make
[13:02] myself but there like five people out of
[13:03] several million people who watched the
[13:05] videos and I'm literally saying anyone
[13:07] can email me and redesign my thumbnails
[13:08] and I will literally hire you if your
[13:10] thumbnails are good only five people
[13:11] have done it and none of them have been
[13:12] good so again this is the thing of like
[13:14] exchange of exchange of value you have
[13:16] to actually be good at the thing that
[13:17] you're trying to do but the way you get
[13:18] better at the thing you're trying to do
[13:19] is by just doing lots of it doing it
[13:21] permissionless and then over time you
[13:22] can iterate and get better at this
[13:24] graphic design stuff so how easy is it
[13:26] to get started with this well I say it's
[13:27] kind of hard because you have to learn
[13:29] graphic design and you have to have an
[13:31] eye for kind of Aesthetics and taste and
[13:33] just be familiar with YouTube but if
[13:35] you're the sort of person who watches a
[13:36] lot of YouTube videos which I hope you
[13:37] are if you you gotten to this point in
[13:38] this video then maybe you'll just have
[13:40] more of a an inbuilt appreciation of
[13:42] thumbnail Aesthetics than other people
[13:44] do secondly how easy is it to make your
[13:45] first $100 well honestly if it were me I
[13:47] would pay2 200 to £250 GDP for a decent
[13:51] thumbnail for one of for one of my
[13:52] videos I know someone who pays $11,000
[13:55] for a thumbnail for one of his videos
[13:57] you know the lowest I've seen people pay
[13:58] for thumbnail is like 30 4050 which is
[14:00] again quite a lot considering that it
[14:02] sometimes only takes maybe 20 minutes or
[14:04] half an hour of work to create a
[14:05] thumbnail and especially if you're from
[14:07] a country where the kind of purchase
[14:09] price parity is very different to the
[14:10] GBP then that's a lot of money that you
[14:12] can make for a very small amount of work
[14:14] again provided you're actually good at
[14:15] the thing and then thirdly how much time
[14:16] and effort does this take to keep going
[14:18] I would say actually a moderate amount
[14:20] you do have to make the thumbnails
[14:21] specific for every video but over time
[14:23] as you work with specific clients you
[14:25] you kind of get an idea of their style
[14:27] like the thumbnail designer who works
[14:28] with me now it takes it it doesn't take
[14:30] very long for him to make the thumbnails
[14:32] for the videos because we kind of have a
[14:33] house style it's usually a smiling photo
[14:35] of me and then there's usually some
[14:37] icons and maybe some text and that
[14:38] actually maybe takes like 10 20 minutes
[14:40] to put together whereas initially it
[14:41] would have taken maybe several hours if
[14:43] you were trying to design thumbnails
[14:44] completely from scratch for every single
[14:46] client so and a moderate amount of
[14:47] effort over time side hustle idea number
[14:49] four become a website designer now being
[14:51] a website designer is actually how I got
[14:53] my own start when it came to making
[14:54] money online as a side hustle I was 13
[14:56] years old I was in school but in the
[14:57] evenings and on the weekends I'd be
[14:59] doing freelance web design for random
[15:01] small businesses that would meet on some
[15:02] freelance website and this was how I
[15:04] made my first kind of several hundred on
[15:05] the internet and again this is thing of
[15:07] that there are thousands and thousands
[15:08] of web designers out there it's just
[15:10] that a they're either not very good or B
[15:12] just bad at marketing the services to
[15:13] the right people in the right format
[15:15] like if you go to Fiverr you'll see
[15:16] 10,000 examples of web designers but
[15:19] that's again like if you're if you're on
[15:21] Fiverr trying to sell your services
[15:22] you're probably doing it wrong and
[15:23] instead if you follow The permissionless
[15:25] Apprentice model and interact with
[15:26] people on Twitter and on LinkedIn and
[15:28] these platforms where people people who
[15:29] have money are congregating and are
[15:31] willing to pay money for services you'll
[15:33] generally have a much better time of
[15:34] trying to land work now one of the guys
[15:35] that we work with for our website is
[15:37] called Henry and in the pandemic within
[15:39] about 6 months he taught himself how to
[15:41] design websites and he built his own
[15:43] personal website that looked absolutely
[15:44] amazing it looked like the like one of
[15:46] the sales Pages for an Apple product and
[15:48] so he reached out to us and said that
[15:49] hey he likes he likes the stuff he would
[15:50] like to do some web design for us and I
[15:52] looked at his website and I was
[15:53] immediately blown away I was like oh my
[15:54] God this guy clearly knows what he's
[15:56] doing of course I want to hire him
[15:58] because again every business every
[15:59] Creator who has a website every business
[16:01] under the sun will always be thinking
[16:03] about how do I improve my website
[16:04] because they know that their website is
[16:06] really important for their business
[16:07] branding and for landing sales for their
[16:09] products and so we hired Henry and now
[16:10] we've paid him several I think over 10K
[16:12] plus over the last like year to help
[16:14] redesign some of our websites like he
[16:15] previously had a job he didn't enjoy the
[16:17] job very much and he decided you know
[16:18] what I'm interested in design I like the
[16:20] idea of making websites I'm just going
[16:21] to teach myself and through just tap
[16:23] watching YouTube videos and taking a
[16:24] couple of courses online he taught
[16:25] himself web design to the point that he
[16:27] can now charge $10,000 for every website
[16:29] he makes for a client if you don't know
[16:30] how to make a website I have a video
[16:31] about it linked over here somewhere so
[16:33] how easy is this to start I would say
[16:35] it's pretty easy to start because it's
[16:37] not that hard learning how to design a
[16:38] website all you have to do is decide is
[16:40] this the thing you want to do and then
[16:42] watch a few YouTube tutorials and then
[16:43] practice then build up your portfolio
[16:45] over time how easy is it to make your
[16:46] first $100 again not overly hard again
[16:49] if you follow The permissionless
[16:50] Apprentice model if you're not trying to
[16:51] queue up with 50,000 other people on
[16:53] Fiverr and and you're instead actively
[16:54] reaching out to companies or creators or
[16:57] businesses that you like and doing a
[16:59] little bit of a free design for their
[17:00] homepage initially and saying hey this
[17:02] is what your website could look like I'm
[17:04] a web designer I'd love to work with you
[17:05] you know let's hop on a call and talk
[17:07] about it it shouldn't be too hard to
[17:08] land your first client and then thirdly
[17:10] how much time and effort does this take
[17:11] to maintain over time again it takes a
[17:13] lot of time and effort initially as you
[17:15] start doing the thing but then you know
[17:16] there are plenty of people I know who
[17:18] just do freelance web design by
[17:19] designing sites on WordPress and once
[17:21] you've made one or two sites you can
[17:22] often copy and paste the settings and
[17:24] the appearance and the theme on any
[17:26] other side that you use and just tweak a
[17:27] few little bits of it side Hustle idea
[17:29] number five become a short form video
[17:31] editor we've talked about writing we've
[17:32] talked about design the other major
[17:34] thing that basically every business
[17:35] Under the Sun is now looking at is video
[17:37] and in particular short form video with
[17:40] the whole Tik Tok thing with the whole
[17:41] Instagram reals thing with the whole
[17:42] YouTube shorts thing basically every
[17:44] business that I know are trying to get
[17:45] into video production and video making
[17:47] because they know that that's a way for
[17:48] them to generate more organic traffic
[17:50] for their business now I want to show an
[17:51] example here of a Twitter DM that this
[17:53] guy Juan Gomez sent to my friend Dicky
[17:55] Bush who runs a ship 30 for 30 this guy
[17:56] says I spent about 20 minutes crafting a
[17:58] DM I wanted to demonstrate competence
[18:00] and relatability I wanted to make sure I
[18:02] took on all the risk not Dicky and
[18:03] here's the DM I sent hey Dicky I saw
[18:05] your YouTube thread and was super
[18:06] encouraged by your approach love the
[18:07] fact that you're building in public I've
[18:09] been receiving tremendous value from
[18:10] your content and would want to return
[18:11] the favor in some way if you're ever in
[18:12] need of a video editor shoot me a
[18:14] message I've worked as a video
[18:15] videographer editor for 2 years and have
[18:16] over 200 videos of experience I really
[18:18] connect with the topics you talk about
[18:20] and would love to help you grow your
[18:21] channel offer I edit your next three
[18:23] videos for free and you decide if you
[18:24] want to work with me or not let me know
[18:25] if this is something you'd find
[18:26] interesting cheers now this guy from
[18:28] sending this DM and from like taking on
[18:30] all the risk himself and offering to do
[18:31] these next three videos completely for
[18:33] free not quite following the permission
[18:34] as apprentice model in that he didn't do
[18:36] the work up front he asked dick if he
[18:37] wanted the work done because he would
[18:38] need to send him the raw files to to
[18:40] edit he ended up Landing a job with this
[18:42] very high paying client whose work he
[18:44] enjoyed where doing the video editing
[18:45] for Dicky Bush doesn't actually feel
[18:46] like work to one and I think a DM like
[18:48] this is something that so many people
[18:49] could learn from again I get a handful
[18:51] of emails every single day from people
[18:53] pitching me on Services none of them are
[18:55] like demonstrate the competence and the
[18:57] relatability and the reliability of
[18:58] message like the one that Juan sent to
[19:00] Dicky and I think that's a shame because
[19:01] clearly there are all these people out
[19:02] there that want to make money that they
[19:03] want to do creative stuff that gives
[19:04] them flexibility and autonomy but they
[19:06] don't realize like how to sell the
[19:08] service it's like you could be really
[19:09] good at video editing but if you suck at
[19:11] being able to communicate that value
[19:12] proposition to someone else who's
[19:13] willing to pay you for that service then
[19:15] you're never going to land the work in
[19:16] the first place so how easy is this to
[19:18] start well you actually have to learn
[19:19] video editing it's not that hard you can
[19:21] take my own skillshare class on how to
[19:22] edit videos it's free link down below if
[19:24] you want to check it out and in a
[19:25] weekend you can learn how to edit videos
[19:26] to a reasonable standard secondly how
[19:28] easy is it to make your first $100 again
[19:30] I don't think it's very hard at all I
[19:31] think if you have just an a reasonable
[19:33] amount of communication skills and a for
[19:36] some sort of portfolio and some ability
[19:38] to actively reach out to the people that
[19:39] might be hiring you it's really easy to
[19:41] make your first $100 again if you're
[19:42] trying to stick yourself on Fiverr and
[19:44] then kind of compete with 50,000 other
[19:45] people for video editing it'll be really
[19:47] hard to make your first $100 but if you
[19:48] do it right if you connect with the
[19:50] appropriate people on Twitter and
[19:51] Linkedin and email rather than trying to
[19:53] go in freelance marketplaces it'll be
[19:55] super super easy as a video editor to
[19:56] make your first $100 and then how much
[19:58] effort does it take to keep going well
[20:00] unfortunately quite a lot video editing
[20:01] is one of those things that it does take
[20:02] a large amount of time and as you get
[20:04] better at it and as you develop assets
[20:06] and Transitions and templates and stuff
[20:08] you can get a little bit faster at it
[20:10] but it is fundamentally a thing that
[20:11] requires work and so if you really
[20:13] wanted to level up this particular side
[20:14] hustle you could then form a sort of
[20:16] agency model you could hire other video
[20:18] editors underneath you like Junior
[20:19] editors who would do the initial cuts
[20:21] and that kind of stuff and then you
[20:22] could be the person doing the Final Cut
[20:24] and presenting that to the client and
[20:25] now you're kind of building your own
[20:26] agency which is a different sort of way
[20:28] of doing a Hustle but something we're
[20:29] going to be talking about in future
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[20:31] side hustles to make this extra money
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[22:31] £100 side hustle idea number six become
[22:34] a solopreneurs second pair of hands all
[22:36] right so this is quite a fun one this is
[22:38] not quite a creative skill but again
[22:40] generally if you if you know that there
[22:41] are people out there who you would like
[22:43] to work for let's say you follow
[22:44] YouTubers or streamers or businesses or
[22:46] whatever you can send them an email and
[22:48] offer to be their second pair of hands
[22:50] sort of a cross between an operations
[22:51] manager and a personal assistant so
[22:53] James CLE for example who is the
[22:54] ridiculously bestselling author of
[22:56] atomic habits which you might have read
[22:57] only has one other person on his team
[22:59] and this person is his right-and man who
[23:00] does all of the stuff sort of like a
[23:02] personal assistant/ virtual assistant/
[23:04] helping him with all the content he
[23:05] wants to make and like helping him book
[23:07] his like conferences and going through
[23:09] his emails and for that person working
[23:11] in that role they get to work with James
[23:13] clar and that's like a pretty cool place
[23:14] to be and they get to be basically
[23:16] running the operations of this
[23:17] multi-million dollar business that he's
[23:19] got going on with a small team of two
[23:20] people and that's pretty fun it could
[23:22] start off as a part-time side hustle and
[23:23] then it could absolutely become a
[23:24] full-time thing if you're into that kind
[23:26] of stuff similarly you might be familiar
[23:27] with Elizabeth Phillips who used to be
[23:29] my part-time personal assistant for like
[23:31] you know a few hours a week and that was
[23:32] how she got into this world of content
[23:34] creation and stuff and then by virtue of
[23:36] being my part-time personal assistant
[23:37] for a few hours a week she realized that
[23:39] oh this YouTube stuff is a thing and she
[23:40] helped out with our YouTuber Academy and
[23:42] now she's like you know massive YouTuber
[23:44] several 100,000 subscribers making loads
[23:45] of money through that and really doing
[23:46] this sort of personal assistant
[23:48] operations manager side hustle part-time
[23:50] thing can unlock a lot of interesting
[23:51] opportunities further down the line that
[23:53] you just wouldn't even have realized
[23:54] even existed if you hadn't done the
[23:55] thing right so how easy is this to get
[23:57] started honestly I think it's super easy
[23:58] again all you have to do is have the
[24:00] appropriate amount of communication
[24:01] skills to be able to email or DM someone
[24:03] and take on all the risk yourself the
[24:05] thing that Elizabeth did which was
[24:06] really good when she initially reached
[24:07] out to me on Instagram was hey I'll be
[24:09] I'll be your part-time PA for a month
[24:10] personal assistant for a month you don't
[24:12] even have to pay me and we'll just see
[24:14] if it works out I ended up being like no
[24:15] I'm going to pay you anyway cuz I felt
[24:16] bad but if you can take if you can
[24:18] demonstrate taking on all the risk
[24:20] yourself it becomes very easy for the
[24:21] person hiring you on the other end to
[24:23] say yes to that without having to think
[24:24] too hard about it secondly how easy is
[24:26] it to make your first $100 again prettyy
[24:28] once you found the right client and
[24:30] you've actually reached out to them and
[24:31] you've gotten your foot in the door and
[24:33] you you're then demonstrating that you
[24:34] can add value to their stuff then it's
[24:36] pretty easy to make your first $100 but
[24:38] unfortunately this is quite a Time
[24:39] intensive job usually personal
[24:41] assistants and stuff are paid by the
[24:42] hour rather than by outcome and so
[24:44] you're always kind of tied to a
[24:45] particular hourly return on your time
[24:47] but hopefully what will happen is that
[24:48] as you become more and more valuable to
[24:49] the business that you're working with or
[24:50] working for then they might bring you on
[24:52] as a full-time employee or as someone on
[24:53] a retainer and now maybe you've even got
[24:55] the option of quitting your day job
[24:56] because this pays better and it's way
[24:57] more fun and gives you way more
[24:58] flexibility SLE idea number seven onean
[25:01] video production agency so we've talked
[25:03] about how basically every business is
[25:04] looking to get into video and we talked
[25:06] about being an editor for short form
[25:07] content on YouTube shorts and Instagram
[25:08] reals and Tik Tok but actually relatedly
[25:10] every business is looking for video
[25:12] whether it's the local accountant or the
[25:13] local orthodontist or the local plumber
[25:15] or if it's like a software product or if
[25:16] it's a Creator everyone is looking to
[25:18] make more videos and so if you can as a
[25:20] side hustle be a sort of oneman media
[25:22] agency oneman content video production
[25:24] machine you can offer a really valuable
[25:26] service for businesses and it's also
[25:28] kind kind of fun doing that for example
[25:29] Gordon the videographer that we work
[25:30] with used to be a freelance videographer
[25:32] and sort of did this thing for several
[25:35] years where initially he would find
[25:36] clients in the health and fitness space
[25:38] because he was inherently interested in
[25:39] that he'd make videos in that space
[25:40] completely for free and then he started
[25:42] Landing paid clients and then he was
[25:43] being flown to all these like
[25:45] ridiculously cool kind of world
[25:46] championship bodybuilding and
[25:47] powerlifting competitions and he was
[25:50] doing the video production the
[25:51] videography the editing the
[25:52] storyboarding and everything for these
[25:54] clients and he turned himself into this
[25:56] oneman media Powerhouse which has meant
[25:58] that he unlocked tons and tons of
[26:00] opportunities for working with really
[26:01] cool people and traveling around the
[26:02] world and actually doing it with some
[26:03] amount of flexibility and autonomy you
[26:05] could reach out to software products
[26:06] that you like that maybe don't have
[26:08] compelling videos on their YouTube
[26:09] channel and you could offer to make
[26:10] YouTube videos for that software company
[26:12] and they'd probably say hell yes because
[26:13] software companies have a lot of money
[26:15] and they know that they can land more
[26:16] organic traffic to their product through
[26:18] video and so if you can become their
[26:20] YouTube Channel producer and help make
[26:21] videos about their app now that's a
[26:23] super easy way of making money as well
[26:25] and there's tens if not hundreds of
[26:26] thousands of these software companies
[26:27] that have enough money that have really
[26:29] high margins that don't do video that
[26:31] would love to do video where there's
[26:32] such a huge gap between where they want
[26:34] to be and where they currently are where
[26:35] all you have to do to bridge that Gap is
[26:37] just learn the skill of doing video
[26:39] learn how a camera Works learn how to
[26:40] take videos with your phone learn video
[26:41] editing by following my skillshare class
[26:43] whatever you like that's like video is
[26:45] such a massively underrated service
[26:47] these days where there's so many
[26:48] businesses that want it and there are
[26:50] relatively so few people that can offer
[26:51] that service maybe this will change 10
[26:53] years from now but right now there's
[26:55] it's we're in an incredible era where
[26:57] there's just so much demand for for this
[26:58] thing and not enough supply of it I know
[27:00] a bunch of people who have who are
[27:01] making side hustle and also full-time
[27:03] income money as video editors and video
[27:05] producers and videographers and they
[27:07] keep on getting more and more and more
[27:08] clients to the point where they don't
[27:10] have enough capacity to actually do the
[27:11] work and they're trying to find other
[27:12] people but they always say it's really
[27:14] hard to find a good editor it's really
[27:15] hard to find a videographer who's
[27:16] actually good how easy is it to get
[27:18] started by being this onean media
[27:19] production agency again not very hard
[27:22] you can start by filming videos on your
[27:23] phone you can start by reaching out to
[27:24] local businesses and you can use those
[27:26] as free examples to P your skills and
[27:29] also get better at the act of kind of
[27:30] selling your services how easy is it to
[27:32] make your first $100 again not that hard
[27:34] because generally if you're targeting a
[27:35] local business and they have money which
[27:37] almost by definition they do because
[27:38] they are a local business they will
[27:40] generally see the value of having decent
[27:42] videos on their YouTube channel or on
[27:43] the Instagram page or on their Facebook
[27:45] page or on their website or whatever but
[27:46] it does take a reasonable amount of time
[27:48] and effort to continue with this sort of
[27:49] thing but again you know if you're
[27:50] interested and if this becomes something
[27:52] that you do over the long term you can
[27:53] turn it into an agency model if you
[27:55] really want so those were seven
[27:56] different side hustle ideas I'm just
[27:58] going to share what I would personally
[27:59] do if I was in my let's say early 20s
[28:01] and I was trying to make money for me I
[28:03] would go down probably the web designer
[28:05] route because I was always inherently
[28:06] interested in that I kind of did it when
[28:08] I was young a little bit I'm I'm kind of
[28:10] out of date with the latest kind of
[28:11] tools and processes and how to use web
[28:12] flow and frameware and stuff but it
[28:14] wouldn't be too hard for me to learn to
[28:16] teach myself web design to be able to
[28:17] use these tools and then I would reach
[28:19] out to all of my favorite creators
[28:21] firstly and all of my favorite software
[28:22] companies and apps that I use on my
[28:24] phone and any who don't have a good
[28:27] website I would say I would would offer
[28:28] to make them a website and I'd offer to
[28:30] make the first few pages for free and
[28:32] then I'd get testimonials and then I'd
[28:33] be using that permission as apprentice
[28:34] model to then be able to find other
[28:36] people who are willing to pay me for my
[28:38] service and I'm pretty confident that
[28:39] I'd be able to fairly easily make six
[28:41] figures a year from just doing web
[28:42] design by virtue of finding the right
[28:44] people and by virtue of being good at
[28:46] the skill all right so hopefully this
[28:47] video has given you a few ideas on what
[28:48] you can do to make side hustle income
[28:50] online maybe get to this $1,000 a month
[28:52] point which could be quite fun but if
[28:54] you're interested in potentially
[28:55] becoming a digital Nomad and making this
[28:56] more of a full-time thing then might
[28:58] like to check out this video over here
[28:59] which is my guide to how to make money
[29:01] online to get to the point where you're
[29:02] making $3,000 a month and you've got fun
[29:04] freedom and flexibility to be able to do
[29:06] it on your own terms so so check out
[29:07] that video if you like thank you so much
[29:08] for watching and I'll see you in the
[29:09] next video