7 Quiet Online Income Ideas for Introverts — Full Transcript

[00:00] Hi! So a few years ago, I made a video called 7 Passive Income Ideas for Shy Introverts. And apparently this video has been doing some serious heavy lifting up around this channel. Bless her. Thank you.

[00:13] And if you came into my cozy little world from that video, I appreciate you so very much. But I wanted to create an updated video since things are always changing around here, around the internet, around the world.

[00:25] Everything's changing all of the freaking time. And so we are due for an update. You might want to call this one the 2026 sequel. Without further ado, here are seven quiet, no-fake-required ways to actually make money online this year.

[00:39] Like, real examples, real numbers. No bro energy, I think you promised, because that is not what I'm about. Cozy vibes only. Let's dive in. Quick little disclaimer. When I say quiet, that does not mean lazy.

[00:53] None of these ideas are quick. Let's make you $10,000 overnight. fat. No, that very rarely happens. And if that happens to you, it's like winning a lottery. It

[01:05] is that unusual. These are real legitimate business ideas, strategies that still work in 2026 and beyond. I don't know when you're watching this. You may be from the future, which is pretty cool. They take time to build. You have to build an audience in order to monetize as

[01:21] well. But all of these things have one thing in common. None of them require you to put your face, even though it's a cute little face on the internet. Unless you want to. Or perform with an energy that you certainly do not have.

[01:33] Or pretend that you're someone you're not. Like Amy Porterfield or Jenna Kutcher or all of these Marie Forleo's. Like, I don't know. We're past that now. Baby, just be you. Okay, now let's dive in. The first one is blog ad revenue.

[01:46] Yes, blogs are still very much alive. The blogging is dead. People have been wrong for 10 years and they're still going strong. But they're wrong. Although I do admire their persistence. I may have also uttered the phrase blogging is dead, but what I mean is blogging in the old way of blogging, of doing things, is dead.

[02:05] Things have shifted. Things have changed. And I think that the written content format, oh my God, I might go on a little bit of a rant. Will you allow this? Okay, I hope so. We'll be making a comeback. Like with all of the information, with all of the AI tools, with all of the things that we are presented with these days, I really do think that the written format is making a comeback.

[02:24] Just look at Substack and how popular that platform is. I think we're going to see the same rise with blogging. Like people are going to go back to blogging. But definitely don't sleep on blogging. Just start writing things in your own voice.

[02:36] Share your own opinions, your own story. Get really consistent with it so that you can build up your page views. Because once you hit about 50,000 sessions per month, you can apply to an ad network like Mediavine, AdThrive, Raptive.

[02:51] And they basically pay you for every visitor. and they take care of all of the payments, the coding, the ads on your site, and you even have to lift a finger. Now, this might not be a huge area of business. I mean, just for me personally, I make about $500 per month from my ads.

[03:07] So it not big numbers but again if you diversify your income this income is a sweet little bonus and is not nothing And I am in this blogger group and there a girl in there who has a cooking

[03:19] like a tiny baking blog. It's not tiny. It's pretty big at this point. And she makes $4,000 in revenue from the display ads alone. And she never shows her face. So it's still possible.

[03:31] Just got to get started. Number two, we have digital products on Etsy. I don't know what it I feel like Etsy gets overlooked a lot when it comes to making money online. And it shouldn't because it's basically a search engine that already has buyers in it. Like they're baked in.

[03:47] They come to this platform to purchase. They're already in the mindset of, I'm going to spend money and I'm looking for this thing. And if you have created that thing, you're going to make the money. So let's say that you make a digital product. It could be a planner, it could be a printable, it could be a template, a notion dashboard, whatever your jam is. You price it

[04:03] at anywhere from $5 to $30 and it sells while you're sleeping and there's no shipping involved. When it's digital, baby, I've bought loads of things on Etsy. I've bought budget templates,

[04:15] notion dashboards, website templates for my WordPress blog. I've also bought like Canada social media templates for my courses and then I just update it with my brand colors. If you are into creating templates, this could be a goldmine for you. Again, you do not need

[04:31] to have a big audience to do this. You just need to optimize your digital product for search on Etsy. Number three, we have affiliate income. More specifically, Amazon affiliate income. Hello,

[04:43] my name is Mia and I have a deeply, I'm serious crush on Amazon affiliate. So here's how it works. You sign up for Amazon affiliate. You get a special link and when someone buys something from Amazon through that link, and this could be anything, not just what you recommend. Could be a

[04:58] book, could be a camera, art, fun gadgets, like things they sell on Amazon. You get a small commission. I know that the percentage isn't huge, but it's something. And if you promote, let's say cameras or like high ticket products, that income can add up. The trick here is to really

[05:16] pair it with content that people are already searching for and that relates to the niche that you're in. So you could also set up like an Amazon storefront or a recommendations page on your website, include affiliate links in your LinkedIn bio or in your content description if

[05:33] you're on YouTube or if you're podcasting, and you can create review articles as well to send traffic to your Amazon affiliate world. This is my reminder to check in with my Amazon affiliate program because I'm going to be frank. I'm going to be completely honest. I have slept on this.

[05:49] I have not promoted Amazon links for the longest time, so I need to get back on that. Thanks for reminding me, me. Number four, faceless YouTube channels. I feel like this is the biggest one that has pretty much exploded since I last recorded

[06:04] this video on this topic, I mean. And you can have a YouTube channel, you can be monetized, you can create content that you love without ever showing your face. There's so many like cozy, especially cozy, I don't know, this is just the type of content

[06:17] that shows up on my algorithm, like cozy content creators who narrate their day, but they don't show their face They very private But the visuals are so beautiful and they do it in such a cozy way that just I can stop watching They it great It super interesting You can do screen

[06:33] recordings. You can do animations, voice narration over stock video or your own B-roll. So some niche ideas for you could be meditation, cozy lifestyle, history, mystery. Oh, that rhymed. Productivity,

[06:47] tech reviews, like really all the niches out there work in a faceless format. You just got to find your way of doing it. Number five, we have email newsletter sponsorships. This is also a new one

[06:59] that I haven't really mentioned before. Start your email list. If you haven't started your email list yet, I do have a free guide below. So grab it. Once your email newsletter has reached about, let's say anywhere from 2,000 to 10,000 engaged subscribers, brands will pay you to mention them

[07:16] in your newsletter. The thing here is you need to have an engaged subscriber base. They can't just be vanity metrics. You have to have an open rate, a click-through rate that's relatively high. So sponsorship in a 5,000 person engaged list often pay way better than in a 50,000 person bed list.

[07:35] Does that make sense? Number six, online courses. This is, oh, I do have a course about this. And yes, I have a course about creating courses. I know there's a whole thing about this online, but I stand by it. Like my course for Passive Income Dream is great.

[07:48] It is value packed. I actually, oh, look at me going on the ramp again. But I actually was thinking of retiring this course because I kind of felt embarrassed about having a course about course creation. But then as I was going through the modules,

[08:01] the lessons, the everything that I've included in this course, I'm like, whoa, this is really good. This is actually gonna help people. This has helped people. And so I think creating courses still to this day,

[08:13] well, it's my favorite because it literally funds my cozy pajama lifestyle. And although I think a lot of people come to ChatGPP and Claude and they get their information that way, but courses are so profitable because you don't buy a course from just anyone.

[08:27] You buy a course from a brand that you trust, that you have seen gotten the results that you want for yourself. And so you want to learn their way, their step-by-step of getting that result. And also, I think a huge thing with online courses going into the next year,

[08:40] I think community is going to be a big thing. And this is something that I plan on incorporating into my online courses because coming together, learning from one person, getting the results, seeing other people get results, you can't put a price on that and you certainly cannot put a high on that.

[08:56] So basically with an online course, you pick a transformation. You pick a problem that you want to help solve for people. And then you teach it really well. I have DreamWorks Creator. I have Cozy Business Academy. The dream is in the list. Dream Plan Do.

[09:08] And I also have Her Passive Income Dream Now that's making a comeback. It's not available yet, but it probably will be very soon. Keep an eye out. And you do not need to show your face. You don't have to sit down face to camera to be able to get people results and to teach

[09:22] them something. You can have a text-based course. You can have an audio course. There are no rules. No need to show your face in this department either. And I know we're at number seven, but I really want to talk about two different things that I've already kind of talked about, but in different ways.

[09:36] So first of all we have sponsorships And I don mean sponsorships in email newsletters I need a sponsorship as in you create content for a brand without showing your face but still showing your story your personality in a written format or an audio format. So that's definitely still possible,

[09:54] even if you don't want to show your face. And another thing is affiliate marketing in general. So not just Amazon Associates, but reaching out to brands and doing a little bit of an audit of the tools and software that you use in your business and in your life in general and see if

[10:09] they have an affiliate program. So my income is about 40% affiliate income because I promote Bluehost mainly and I promote Flowdesk and I promote, what else do I promote? Basically all

[10:21] of the tools that I use in my business, ShowIt for example. So that's 40% of my income. I don't promote it actively. I have the links up on my recommendations page. I sometimes do mention it in courses and in my content below my content in blog posts, things like that. But the links are

[10:37] just out there doing their thing. I don't have to show my face. I don't have to create videos. So just think about products that you would recommend anyway. You might as well get paid for it while you're watching Friends or Grace Anatomy or that you show Big Mistake. I love it.

[10:50] So good. If you have watched all the way to the end and now you're sitting there going, okay, this is great. Where do I even start? Which one's for me? Here's my honest answer. And this is really honest. I think you should start with the one that right now sounds like

[11:03] least amount of work. Seriously, start where the barrier to entry is so low. For example, ad revenue, affiliate marketing. Start somewhere, start making some money online to see what's

[11:15] actually possible. Because once you make your first few dollars or cents online, everything is possible. If you can make a few cents, you can make a few dollars. And if you can make a few you can make a few thousand dollars and if you can make a few thousand dollars you can certainly make

[11:29] a few hundred thousand dollars it's all happening but start somewhere and then you can move along to creating a digital product or a mid-ticket course but the most important thing that you have to do is to put yourself out there it's to build your community because without your community

[11:44] you will have no money and you will have no cozy to tell myself because people before profits that's the only caveat to all of this. Making money online is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Even if you don't want to show your face, you still have to have that community there. So this is why I'm so passionate

[12:00] about building a personal brand. Yes, even though you don't want to show your face, build a brand that stands out. Maybe this means including your voice or writing really good sub-stack articles.

[12:12] Oh, that's another, that's another one. Okay, we've got eight ideas. Start a sub-stack. Charge for your words. Also, big favorite. I also want to start a sub stack. So many dreams. But build your audience, build a community. And of course, if you feel comfortable showing your face, it's going to be

[12:27] easier. It's going to go faster because showing up with your face and all that jazz, it sparks trust, likeness, and a connection with your community. But don't worry, it's still possible to do that without showing your face. But you got to start somewhere. So start with one of these

[12:42] ideas and I will see you in the next one. By the way, I created a brand new masterclass for you, which takes you through the steps of going from a daydreamer to a full-time creator. It's linked in the description below. Toasty eyes.

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