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The video outlines three primary ways to make money online in 2026: remote work (including freelancing and agency building), e-commerce (with strategies like dropshipping, print-on-demand, and marketplaces), and building a personal brand to monetize attention and trust. The creator emphasizes that while entrepreneurship offers freedom, it requires significant initial investment and risk, whereas remote work provides flexibility with less risk. E-commerce allows selling products online with various models, and personal branding enables selling courses, memberships, and partnerships.
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The creator shares 10 years of online business experience and promises to reveal the three best ways to make money in 2026.
Entrepreneurship requires initial investment and often leads to working more and earning less in the first two years, contrary to the romanticized idea of freedom.
Working remotely for a company offers flexibility, saves commuting time, allows travel, and provides access to international salaries without the risk of starting a business.
Companies hiring remote workers often promote proactive individuals; example of an editor who started editing on a mobile phone and grew over 7 years.
The main danger is being fired; it's important to find a stable company to build a long-term career.
Freelancers work alone offering services; agencies hire multiple people to sell services. Freelancing requires sales and client retention skills.
AI agencies are in high demand; the channel offers free courses on copywriting, programming, editing, freelancing, and AI.
E-commerce involves selling products online; it's growing yearly. Methods include traditional stock-based stores, print-on-demand, and dropshipping.
Requires buying inventory (often from China) and storing it; initial investment around €5,000; risk of unsold stock.
Sell personalized products (t-shirts, mugs) without holding inventory; products are manufactured and shipped after purchase.
Dropshipping involves a supplier shipping products directly to customers; you keep the price difference. It's a low-risk way to test products.
Claims that dropshipping is dead are often marketing tactics to sell other courses. Dropshipping still works and can evolve into a brand.
Demonstrates using an AI tool to create a Shopify store quickly; steps include choosing a niche, connecting Shopify, and installing the app.
Autods is a supplier platform that provides products and handles distribution; connects with Shopify for dropshipping.
Start with print-on-demand or dropshipping to test products; once successful, evolve into a branded business with custom packaging.
Attention is a valuable currency; combining attention with trust enables selling courses, memberships, and partnerships.
Examples include brand-for-equity deals, selling training (courses, mentoring), and subscription-based communities.
Selling cheap subscriptions (e.g., €10/month) for access to courses and community is a growing ethical model.
Content creation is now common across professions; building a personal brand has potential, but not everyone needs to be on camera.
Opportunities exist in the personal branding industry for those who prefer not to be in front of the camera, such as managing launches or info products.
The three best ways to make money in 2026 are remote work (including freelancing and agencies), e-commerce (with dropshipping and print-on-demand), and building a personal brand to monetize attention and trust. Each method has its own risk profile and requires different skills, but all offer viable paths to financial freedom.
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What is the main risk of remote work according to the video?
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What is the main risk of remote work according to the video?
The main risk is being fired; it's important to find a stable company to build a long-term career.
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What is the difference between a freelancer and an agency?
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What is the difference between a freelancer and an agency?
A freelancer works alone offering services; an agency hires multiple people to sell services.
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What is the typical initial investment for a traditional e-commerce store?
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What is the typical initial investment for a traditional e-commerce store?
Around €5,000.
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How does print-on-demand work?
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How does print-on-demand work?
You sell personalized products (e.g., t-shirts) that are manufactured and shipped only after a customer purchases them.
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What is dropshipping?
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What is dropshipping?
A supplier ships products directly to the customer; you keep the difference between the sale price and the supplier's price.
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Why does the creator argue that 'dropshipping is dead' claims are often misleading?
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Why does the creator argue that 'dropshipping is dead' claims are often misleading?
Such claims are often marketing tactics to sell other courses; dropshipping still works and can evolve into a brand.
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What is the first step to create an AI-powered Shopify store?
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What is the first step to create an AI-powered Shopify store?
Click the link to access the AI store creation tool and create an account.
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What is Autods and what does it do?
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What is Autods and what does it do?
Autods is a supplier platform that provides products and handles distribution; it connects with Shopify for dropshipping.
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What are the three ways to make money in 2026 according to the video?
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What are the three ways to make money in 2026 according to the video?
Remote work (including freelancing and agencies), e-commerce (dropshipping, print-on-demand), and building a personal brand.
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How can you monetize a personal brand without being on camera?
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How can you monetize a personal brand without being on camera?
By working behind the scenes on launches, info products, and brand collaborations.
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💡 Key Takeaways
Entrepreneurship Reality
Contrasts the romanticized view of entrepreneurship with the reality of initial investment and long hours.
00:41Remote Work as Low-Risk Alternative
Highlights remote work as a way to gain entrepreneurial lifestyle benefits without the risk.
01:36Debunking 'Dropshipping is Dead'
Exposes common marketing tactics used to sell alternative courses.
09:18Attention as Currency
Explains the core value of attention and trust in building a personal brand business.
15:50Subscription Model for Info Products
Describes a modern, ethical approach to selling information products via cheap subscriptions.
18:16Full Transcript
[00:01] best ways to make money in 2026. I've been making money online for 10 years now . I've tried all kinds of business models, I've made money with all kinds of business models, but above all I've seen a lot of
[00:14] different businesses, some that have only lasted a few months, while working today. That's why I've decided to prepare this video in which I'm going to share the three
[00:26] best ways to make money in 2026. So if you find the content of this video interesting, leave a like, and with that said, let's begin. online, the word entrepreneurship quickly comes to mind. And when
[00:41] quickly think about the fact that when we start a business, we'll be able to world, we'll have more free time, we'll be able to travel, we'll be able to earn a lot of money, we'll have that longed-for freedom that we want so much.
[00:54] entrepreneurship is not like that. When we start a business, the first thing we an initial investment. We're going to have to invest some money; we're going to run the work badly. And the reality is that during the first 2 years of our
[01:10] venture, it is most normal that we are working considerably more than in a conventional job and that we are earning considerably less than in a idea that entrepreneurship is the salvation and that it will allow us to
[01:23] possible, but we have to understand that it is not something quick, not by a long shot. But on the other hand, we have the fact that we can work remotely, and this is precisely the first way to earn money, which consists of
[01:36] way to earn money, which consists of for a company remotely—and when I say remotely I mean being able to work from home—we're going to have many of the benefits of
[01:49] risk of starting a business. What benefits will we have? We will be able to will save the time of having to go to the office and back. We'll be able to travel, because in the end, if we work from home, it doesn't matter whether we work
[02:03] from home or on a trip. We'll be able to live wherever we want, right? We won't we'll be able to live in the suburbs, since we won't have to commute to work. In short, we're going to have much more freedom, and the fact that we can
[02:15] work for a company that offers online jobs will for an international company. It doesn't have to be a company from our country, salaries that will normally be
[02:27] much larger job market. There are many types of remote jobs that , editor jobs, animator jobs (we use After Effects), more administrative jobs, more
[02:42] management jobs, like CFO and CO, there are a lot of jobs available. Furthermore, I have the perception that companies that employ people who work from home tend to give more opportunities to people
[02:55] sector, but who are proactive, good people, grow within the company. For example, one of my editors, the first person I YouTube channel, who is an editor, started working with me 7 years ago and
[03:09] began editing videos with his mobile phone. And nowadays, as editing done with a mobile phone. Therefore, I feel that there are a proactive person and someone who works well in being able to climb and
[03:22] that is important is that if we work for a company that growing company that allows you to grow stagnate there. For me, the biggest danger of these types of companies that
[03:36] hire online is the fact that many of them will fire you, and we have to find a company that really works well, so that we can have a career like,
[03:48] for example, my editor's, who has worked for a company for 7 years and remote job is undoubtedly something very interesting that allows thousands of people around the world to have a lifestyle similar to entrepreneurship, but
[04:03] without the responsibility or risk of starting a business. This would be traditional remote work pays us a salary every month for performing certain work. But there is another type of remote work which consists of being a freelancer, which means that
[04:16] month, what we are going to do is be professionals in something, for example, I am an expert in creating websites, I am an expert in whatever and I am going to companies and different people. This allows you to work with several
[04:29] has pros and cons. If we do it right, we'll be able to earn more money, since the main drawback is that we'll have to , first of all, offer the service, we'll also have to do the sales work, we'll have to
[04:43] retain clients, we'll have to have as much security as everything in life has pros and cons. And if what we want is to go a step beyond set up an agency. What differentiates a freelancer from an agency? A freelancer
[04:55] is a person who works alone and basically offers their services. And an different people who offer services and you are going to sell these services, but you are For example, today one type of agency that is undoubtedly very interesting
[05:08] that ultimately offer services related to very, very high demand today. On this YouTube channel we have free courses, which are basically very long YouTube videos,
[05:22] skills that will be useful if you want to work remotely. We have a copywriting course to help you become a copywriter. We have a programming course and an editing course. If you want to become a freelancer,
[05:35] freelancing course made by a freelancer who has many years of experience and interested in artificial intelligence, which I just mentioned, we artificial intelligence course so you can get the basics
[05:50] you want to buy a paid course or do whatever, at we move on to the second way to make money, which is none other than something very interesting. E-commerce is simply
[06:03] selling products over the internet. It's something that's increasing a lot. Every year, more people are buying online. Every year more people are choosing to buy things online. And this creates
[06:15] several of the world's largest companies are now selling products online, we have a lot of ways to do it. The first and most typical one is that we are going to create an online store, whether it's on Shopify,
[06:29] to create an online store and we are going to sell products that we have in Basically, we're going to buy products. They are usually purchased in China, we our office, in our warehouse and every time someone buys a product
[06:42] send that product directly to the person who bought it. This would be the most traditional, most used way, but it's a type of initial investment that will normally start around €5,000 and
[06:55] if we set everything up and don't sell anything, we're going to be left with a lot of products that nobody wants. Then we have other strategies for doing it, Print on demand allows us to have an online store where we will
[07:07] have several products, and they will be personalized products. They will be, for example, t-shirts, caps, sweatshirts, they are usually products can also be products like mugs, doormats, things like that. And we'll be
[07:20] able to put our logo on it, we'll be able to add a nice phrase, a photo, whatever those products up for sale on our website. Every time someone buys one of t-shirt, what will happen is that that t-shirt will be manufactured. A supplier
[07:35] will manufacture that t-shirt with our design and will send the very interesting, as we will be able to have an online store with a lot of products that we don't actually have in stock. Therefore, we won't have to
[07:47] we'll also be able to have customized products. That makes sense if we are a creative person, if we know about design, since we will be sell them. If, on the other hand, we don't know about design, it's going to be
[08:00] invest in a designer who can design all do e-commerce is to do dropshipping. That's a very popular thing that consists of mixing the stock-based e-commerce part with the
[08:14] we get, to put it simply, dropshipping. having our own online store. In this online store we will have a range of personalized products, but rather traditional products, products that
[08:27] supermarket, in a store, on the internet, well products of all kinds, be whatever. So, in order to put all those products up for sale online store with a supplier. A
[08:40] simply, is a warehouse that has a lot of different products. So, a supplier, and every time someone buys one of our products, our supplier. This is usually done
[08:52] send it directly to the end customer, and we will keep the difference between the price they pay us for the product and the price product from our supplier. This is ultimately how it works when
[09:04] we buy something on Amazon. Uh, the profit margin that the that business will take is the price the customer buys minus the price that the profit margin. Something else that's important to understand is that there are many
[09:18] people who sell online courses on any topic, who will use dropshipping doesn't work anymore, and what works now is e-commerce what works now is setting up an AI agency." This is ultimately
[09:33] people will use to discredit something, to ultimately sell you something, because, hey, if you notice, work, they're actually telling you behind your back what does work. Ultimately, existed for many years, it works today, it
[09:47] work in the future. And in the end we have to understand it as a way to get e-commerce, to be able to test a lot of products, see which product when something works we'll be able to evolve it into a brand with our
[10:01] own stock. But by reducing the risk, many of the big are successful in Spain or other countries, are brands that started with methodology, and then evolved to build a brand. So, for
[10:15] me, the important thing is, hey, when someone tells us, "Dropshipping is dead or to sell you something else, hey, be suspicious, because in the end they are taking advantage, they are , uh, to put it bluntly, laughing at you to end up selling you something
[10:28] a good business model or a bad business model, but rather that all businesses work; it's just that each one has its own characteristics, and some your personality, your skills, and your experience, while others will
[10:42] that needs to be avoided: "Hey, this doesn't work, and now this works," because in the marketing strategy. That said, I'm now going to explain how we can create a artificial intelligence tool, which will
[10:55] minutes and add several products ready to sell. And that's free. To access the store, we need to click on the link in tool, and we will need to create an account. Next, we have to choose
[11:09] electronics niche. Next, we'll choose the banner, and don't worry, all of Next, we need to create a Shopify account, since this platform uses artificial intelligence to design
[11:22] but we still need to create our own Shopify account to make it the tool will do is connect with Shopify to edit the store for account on Shopify, the payment screen will appear. We click on
[11:35] tool. Artificial intelligence will ask us to provide the link knows which one is our Shopify store. So we copy it, paste it, and artificial intelligence tells us that we need to activate the Shopify plan. Shopify
[11:49] offers a 3-day free trial, after which we will have to pay one euro normal price. We return to artificial intelligence and install the application that will create the store for us. We click on customize and the
[12:02] artificial intelligence will create our store. Our store is now supplier. A supplier is simply a platform that will give us that we can sell in our online store and that will also take care of
[12:15] the distribution of those products. The provider. We created an account with Autods, which will be the provider we'll be use Shopify. We choose the $29 plan. Paying for the plan every month
[12:30] will be more expensive, and paying for it annually will be cheaper. Here, the important thing is that in both cases we will have 35 days completely free. , we enter our details, but they're not going to charge us anything for
[12:45] 35 days. Once the NODS account is created, they will ask us some [music] on the X at the top right. We click on IHub to Shopify Store and connect our store with Autodesk. We installed the Autodes application so
[12:58] that the supplier could connect directly to the store. We're going back to Shopify password, which allows people to access a password. The tool itself gives us a domain, but it's a point
[13:12] can change later if we want a common .dot, a punes, but without a doubt a domain that comes with Shopify. We click on connect domain, primary domain and this change may take up to 24 hours to synchronize. We already
[13:27] sample products, but ideally we should remove those we actually want. To do this, we need to go to Autodese, go to the marketplace section, and there you'll find a lot of
[13:40] the products that Autods has available, which are a handpicket products area, which are products that the Auto DS team has selected manually. And in these products we'll be able to see a
[13:54] choosing whether it's a good product or not, such as saturation statistics, how much competition there is for each product, we'll be able to see other able to see what ads these stores use to sell these products and
[14:06] once we find the product we like, we click on import DAF. Next, we'll go to the draft area and click on import, and that product will appear directly in our Shopify store. I maintain
[14:19] start with print on demand or dropshipping, which relatively easily and without much investment. Then, once we have work, we can evolve it to having our own brand with our
[14:33] personalized packaging, personalized products, fast shipping, and real brand. This is one type of e-commerce, having our products there, but you can also do e-commerce using a marketplace. What
[14:46] is a marketplace? A marketplace, for example, Amazon, for example, ETSI, for MercadoLibre. And these are platforms where we will be able to sell our own website, we will use their own platform. Within the framework of doing
[14:59] we will also be able to create our own stock. We will send the stock to this platform normally and this platform will distribute it for us. Or we keeping the stock at home and shipping it ourselves every time we have a sale
[15:11] platforms that allow it. Print on demand is also possible, so that I should also mention that if you're interested in the world of e-commerce, and free courses on e-commerce on this YouTube channel. We have a course on Shopify, a course on
[15:24] Amazon FBA, a course on MercadoLibre, and a course on ETSIT. Metaads, TikTok Ads, and various tools that will allow us reach our online store. Therefore, if you are interested in the world
[15:36] channel we have a lot of complete and free training. Having said that, we have money and we are going to move on to the third way to make money. To talk about the third way to make money, I have to explain that attention today is
[15:50] a currency that has a lot of value. If you notice, they are constantly attention, so to speak. Everyone wants our attention. Therefore, if what we have is attention, if we have eyes that are looking at us, we will have
[16:03] But if we also combine that attention with the fact of having trust, that people trust us, and attention is combined with trust, what we have is the possibility of building a great business. And that's
[16:16] personal brand. If we have a personal brand that combines attention with trust, we will be able to sell all kinds of things. We'll be able to sell affiliations, collaborations, we'll be able to set up companies and we'll be able to
[16:30] personal brand, and we'll be able to set up a project like the one filming with a few months ago in Buenos Aires. He has a does by creating this content is make his physical business—he
[16:44] has several barbershops— work, and get people to go people who create content to then sell courses, personal brand and end up making money by selling these courses. Or, in my
[16:57] personal brand, which I've been building for many years, I've been able to set up personal brand. I either start a company and do what's known as Brand for equity, which involves
[17:09] paid money, you're given a percentage of that company and you become the owner of several companies thanks to this type of deal. Furthermore, I feel that selling training, whether courses, mentoring, or
[17:21] similar, has historically been viewed very negatively, because there have been selling very expensive things of very poor quality, but I am seeing a trend little by little. What people are doing is, instead of selling
[17:35] really expensive courses, they are selling cheap courses, which are not courses, but for €3,000, they're now offering a course that costs €10 a month. It's a subscription. By paying these €10 per month, you enter a school community and in that
[17:48] several courses, you will have a community, you will have support, you will interesting when you have a personal brand, because imagine that 1% of video—well, I don't know how many there will be, but do the math—1% of the
[18:03] people watching this video buy a $10 subscription every much money a video like this can generate. This is idea. Ultimately, selling an information product is
[18:16] a good strategy, but we have an opportunity to ethically and professionally with the right products and still . Creating content is something that used to be seen
[18:31] embarrassing because not many people were doing it. When I started people were doing, but today we are seeing how practically everyone is doing it . We see gamers, obviously, but we also see economists,
[18:45] doctors, philosophers, psychologists, nutritionists; we see that they are really entering into content creation, not just people everyone is entering this niche. Therefore, building
[18:58] a personal brand certainly has a lot of potential, but for everyone and that some people do n't feel comfortable creating content because they don't like it, not for any particular reason , right? So even if you do
[19:11] n't like the idea of building a personal brand and being the public face of it, you have to rapidly growing industry, that there's a lot of money to be made in the money through a personal brand without being in front of the camera. There's a whole
[19:24] with someone who has a personal brand, you'll be able to learn about launches, info products, and collaborations with brands. There is sector where you can take advantage—in the
[19:36] make money thanks to personal branding, but without having to be in like. For those of you interested in this whole universe, I'd like to tell you that on this channel we have a YouTube course in which I explain how to start
[19:49] experience. We also have a school course, I was talking about school earlier, well, a school community. And for some time now I've been considering free course, a really long course on personal branding, explaining how to create
[20:03] different social networks, how to create this content, how to monetize really long and really professional. But before preparing it, which in the end is a video, it's a video, which takes quite a few hours to prepare, record,
[20:17] edit, and it's something really complex that costs as much time as money from the preparing all this, I wanted to ask if you're interested in what the best Spanish-language personal branding course, which I'll be publishing
[20:30] YouTube channel. So if this is something you're interested in, leave a like and especially aware of it, and if I see that it really has support, then obviously I'll course focused on people who are already creating content and feel
[20:43] stuck, or on people who are starting from scratch. ask you, and have you leave in the comments, is what specific topics interest you the most, which ones you find most difficult , which ones you would most like to
[20:55] prepare the course not only based on my experience, . So that's it for today's video. I would like to until the end. I really hope you found it useful, and well, I'm
[21:10] Adrian Sainz and I'll see you in the next video.