[00:00] One of the most common questions I get on this&nbsp; channel is, "How can I make money online in&nbsp;&nbsp; my country?" And I get it because depending on&nbsp; where you live, your options are not necessarily&nbsp;&nbsp; the same. But here's the thing. Your location&nbsp; matters a lot less than you probably think.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[00:16] And in some cases, it might actually&nbsp; work in your favor. And in this video,&nbsp;&nbsp; I will give you an honest breakdown of&nbsp; what changes based on where you live,&nbsp;&nbsp; whether you're looking for a side hustle or&nbsp; trying to build a full-time online income.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[00:31] My name is Mikael and I have made money online&nbsp; for around 10 years. And in this video, I'm going&nbsp;&nbsp; to break down something most people completely&nbsp; misunderstand. Because making money online is not&nbsp;&nbsp; just one thing. There's a big difference between,&nbsp; for example, earning a bit of extra cash with side&nbsp;&nbsp;
[00:47] hustles and on the other side building a potential&nbsp; full-time income online. And your location affects&nbsp;&nbsp; these two options or opportunities in completely&nbsp; different ways. So, in this video, I will show you&nbsp;&nbsp;
[00:59] when your country actually matters when it really&nbsp; doesn't and what you should focus on instead based&nbsp;&nbsp; on your situation. That way, you can stop guessing&nbsp; and start using methods that actually make sense&nbsp;&nbsp; for where you live. So, let's start talking&nbsp; about potentially creating a full-time online&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:15] income. And if that is your goal, we will talk&nbsp; about side hustle in just a bit. If creating a&nbsp;&nbsp; full-time income online is your goal, then your&nbsp; location actually doesn't matter much because&nbsp;&nbsp; whether we are talking about content creation,&nbsp; freelancing, affiliate marketing, then there is a&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:31] global market and the opportunities are basically&nbsp; the same no matter where you live because all of&nbsp;&nbsp; us have access by now to the same audience to&nbsp; the same platforms more or less and thereby also&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:43] to all these opportunities that are online. And&nbsp; yes, it is true for some online ways to generally&nbsp;&nbsp; it can be in courses or they can also be tools&nbsp; you need. And I am aware that in some countries&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:57] it can be harder to afford these initial tools&nbsp; even though online you can actually get started&nbsp;&nbsp; extremely cheap compared to starting any other&nbsp; type of online business. But I am aware for some&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:11] people it can still be a challenge even though it&nbsp; might not be a lot of money compared to what else&nbsp;&nbsp; And what many people don't think about is that in&nbsp; the countries where it can be hard to for example&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:24] afford that then in those countries also then&nbsp; you can usually also get to a point where you&nbsp;&nbsp; can actually make a living from your online&nbsp; income a lot faster compared to in countries&nbsp;&nbsp; where the economy maybe is different and where&nbsp; a few hundred to invest in different tools and&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:40] course and things like that maybe doesn't&nbsp; matter that much. But in those countries,&nbsp;&nbsp; then the amount you need to earn before you can&nbsp; make a living from it is significantly more. And&nbsp;&nbsp; therefore, if you put in the same effort, you have&nbsp; the same things available, then in some countries,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:55] you actually need to maybe reach just $5,000 per&nbsp; month income before you can even just cover your&nbsp;&nbsp; bills. And in other countries, when you&nbsp; reach maybe $500 to $800 a month income,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:07] then that is a great full-time income. So that's&nbsp; just something that many people don't think about&nbsp;&nbsp; that in some countries, yes, it might be harder&nbsp; to find some kind of capital to get started with.&nbsp;&nbsp; You can start completely for free, but you know&nbsp; sometimes there just are a little bit of tools or&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:22] some courses if you need to get some inspiration&nbsp; and things like that if you're complete beginner&nbsp;&nbsp; because if not you can end up wasting a lot of&nbsp; time. But many people don't think about also&nbsp;&nbsp; living online. No matter what you're going&nbsp; for, no matter which country you live in,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:38] then it will take time and effort. Building an&nbsp; online income, whether you can cover all your&nbsp;&nbsp; bills when you earn $500 or whether it takes&nbsp; $5,000, then it will of course take time and&nbsp;&nbsp; effort to get there. And that's just something&nbsp; that's very important to keep in mind. There&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:52] is no magic way to make a living online. Anyone&nbsp; that claims that will just end up scamming you.&nbsp;&nbsp; So let's now talk about the other option that&nbsp; is if you're just looking for a way to earn some&nbsp;&nbsp; extra money to find some free side hustles where&nbsp; you can start earning more or less right away.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[04:07] When it comes to these online side hustles then&nbsp; your location does actually matter compared to if&nbsp;&nbsp; you're trying to build an actually online business&nbsp; because the opportunities you get for example with&nbsp;&nbsp; paid surveys or user testing that depends a lot on&nbsp; your country. In some countries there just are not&nbsp;&nbsp;
[04:23] a lot of opportunities. In the so-called higher&nbsp; inome countries versus lower income countries,&nbsp;&nbsp; there's just more market research going on&nbsp; in higher-income countries. Thereby more&nbsp;&nbsp; paid surveys you can participate in there, more&nbsp; advertisers. So those opportunities, you know,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[04:36] there are just more in some countries. But what&nbsp; I often see is that people very often just focus&nbsp;&nbsp; on what they cannot do in their country. But&nbsp; there are options in all countries. If you are&nbsp;&nbsp; also looking for free side hustles, if you live&nbsp; in a higher-income country, there are many side&nbsp;&nbsp;
[04:51] hustles you can get started with right away. for&nbsp; example, paid surveys, focus groups, user testing,&nbsp;&nbsp; gig economy jobs to just name a few. In other&nbsp; countries, there might not be a lot of these&nbsp;&nbsp; options, but even though there might be a few&nbsp; surveys here and there and all that, then it just&nbsp;&nbsp;
[05:04] takes more patience in some countries. But if you&nbsp; live in a country like that, then focus on other&nbsp;&nbsp; options that are more worldwide, for example, AI&nbsp; training tasks or data entry jobs or microtasks.&nbsp;&nbsp; So do not focus on what you can't access and be&nbsp; angry about that because then you'll just waste&nbsp;&nbsp;
[05:20] your time and energy. Focus on what you can do and&nbsp; what you have access to and then just start taking&nbsp;&nbsp; action with a positive attitude and then there&nbsp; are options no matter where you live. So just to&nbsp;&nbsp;
[05:32] sum it all up to help you get a good overview of&nbsp; how to find the right way to make money for you.&nbsp;&nbsp; First of all, set your goal. Find out whether your&nbsp; goal is to just earn some extra money on the side&nbsp;&nbsp; with free online side hustles or is your goal to&nbsp; potentially build a full-time income. You can also&nbsp;&nbsp;
[05:48] use the side hustles to fund the initial money you&nbsp; need to build a potential full-time income. So,&nbsp;&nbsp; that's a way you can combine it. But first of&nbsp; all, have that goal in mind because then you&nbsp;&nbsp; can focus on what you can do in your country and&nbsp; then just put time and energy into that. You can&nbsp;&nbsp;
[06:02] combine multiple methods. I also just mentioned&nbsp; that as a way to use side hustles to cover some&nbsp;&nbsp; extra bills and cost while you're building a&nbsp; full-time or if you are using side hustles,&nbsp;&nbsp; then you can combine different methods. So, for&nbsp; example, let's say we have path one. you are just&nbsp;&nbsp;
[06:17] interested in quick side cash. The opportunities&nbsp; here depends a lot on your country. In some&nbsp;&nbsp; countries definitely you can just get started with&nbsp; user testing surveys different opportunities like&nbsp;&nbsp; that. We have the second path that is global side&nbsp; hustle. So that means if you're just interested in&nbsp;&nbsp;
[06:31] extra money on the side and living countries where&nbsp; the opportunities I just mentioned are not there.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then go for AI task, AI training task, microtask,&nbsp; data entry. Then we have the path three that is&nbsp;&nbsp; the long-term income and that means you can build&nbsp; a potential full-time income online there your&nbsp;&nbsp;
[06:46] location actually does not matter and the methods&nbsp; here can for example be affiliate marketing. It can&nbsp;&nbsp; be freelancing. It can even be remote jobs. It can&nbsp; be content creation. There are many options like&nbsp;&nbsp; this. So these are the options overall that you&nbsp; have you just need to choose the right path for&nbsp;&nbsp;
[07:01] you. I do have some more information full guides on&nbsp; my website, for example, if you want to go the path&nbsp;&nbsp; of trying to create a full-time online income,&nbsp; then my top recommended method for that. I'll&nbsp;&nbsp; leave a link to that below. I also have a list of&nbsp; the best service sites depending on your country,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[07:15] the best freelance sites, the best overall side&nbsp; hustles on that list for side hustles. There you&nbsp;&nbsp; can also find links to the best data entry for&nbsp; example and the best places to find AI training&nbsp;&nbsp; task. So I have full guides, full resources like&nbsp; that on my website if you want to know even more&nbsp;&nbsp;
[07:29] about any of these opportunities. So you can&nbsp; check that out below and then all this here&nbsp;&nbsp; has helped you guide you in the right direction.&nbsp; If you have any questions, anything you want to&nbsp;&nbsp; share in the comments, please just ask or share.&nbsp; I love hearing from you there and I make sure to&nbsp;&nbsp;
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