7 Side Hustles Ideas to Make $1000/Month

[00:00] in this video I'm going to break down

[00:01] seven different side hustle ideas that

[00:03] you can start this year to the point

[00:04] where you're hopefully making an extra

[00:05] $1,000 a month and for each of them

[00:07] we're going to talk about how easy it is

[00:09] to get started secondly how easy it is

[00:11] to make your first $100 from it and

[00:12] thirdly how much time and effort it

[00:14] takes to keep things going once you've

[00:15] gotten started and then afterwards I'm

[00:16] going to talk about what I would

[00:18] personally be doing if I was say in my

[00:19] early 20s and trying to make some extra

[00:21] money and how I'd be applying these

[00:22] principles to my own life part one the

[00:24] philosophy of side hustles okay so let's

[00:26] start by zooming out a little bit and

[00:27] thinking critically about what we're

[00:29] actually trying to do here so what is a

[00:31] side hustle what is the point of doing

[00:32] the side hustle thing well firstly very

[00:34] few people would say no to an extra

[00:36] $1,000 a month coming in even an extra

[00:38] few hundred a month coming in would be

[00:39] really helpful for a lot of people

[00:41] having more money is generally a good

[00:42] thing because it unlocks autonomy it

[00:43] unlocks Freedom it lets you buy more

[00:45] things if you're interested in that it

[00:46] lets you unlock more experiences and it

[00:48] lets you basically have a little bit

[00:49] more control over your own life so how

[00:51] do you actually make this extra money

[00:52] that you want coming in well one way is

[00:54] to try and get a raise at your day job

[00:55] but we're not going to talk about that

[00:56] cuz this video is about side hustles the

[00:58] other way is of doing a kind of old

[00:59] School side hustle which is actually

[01:01] just called a second job like for

[01:02] example let's say I wanted to make an

[01:03] extra few hundred quid a month I could

[01:05] get a job at the local Kebab shop down

[01:07] the road and that's all well and good

[01:08] because I could be making I don't know

[01:09] £101 an hour or something like that

[01:11] working at the said kbab shop but

[01:12] there's a few issues with me trying to

[01:13] use that as my side hustle or second job

[01:15] firstly there is a cap to how much money

[01:17] I could be getting paid working at the

[01:18] local Kebab shop secondly working at the

[01:20] local Kebab shop is probably not very

[01:21] fun I'm a big fan of Kebabs I love it

[01:23] but even then it would probably become

[01:24] kind of boring after a while and thirdly

[01:26] and most importantly it would tie me

[01:27] into more shift work let's say I've got

[01:29] a day job job and then I'm doing the

[01:30] kbab shifts in the evening I have to

[01:32] show up at a particular time I don't

[01:33] have autonomy over my time and I don't

[01:35] have the flexibility in being able to

[01:36] work when I want and so these factors

[01:38] mean that working at the local Kebab

[01:39] shop I would call less of a side hustle

[01:41] although you can use that terminology if

[01:42] you want I would call it more like a

[01:43] second job so when we say side hustles

[01:45] what do we generally mean by that a

[01:46] decent side hustle should take three

[01:48] boxes firstly it should you it should

[01:49] allow you to make more money than you

[01:51] would be working at a local service job

[01:53] secondly it should be something that you

[01:54] actually enjoy doing where ideally it

[01:56] wouldn't necessarily feel like work it

[01:58] wouldn't feel as if you have a second

[02:00] job that you're toiling away at just to

[02:01] make a little bit of extra cash it would

[02:03] be something that actually fulfills you

[02:04] creatively and thirdly and perhaps most

[02:06] importantly it would be flexible you

[02:08] wouldn't be tied into a certain shift

[02:09] pattern you'd be able to work broadly

[02:11] where you want and when you want now in

[02:13] this video we're going to break down

[02:14] seven different things that you could do

[02:15] that take all three of these boxes but

[02:17] there's one final thing that we need to

[02:18] understand before we go forward and that

[02:19] is the law of making money the law of

[02:21] making money basically says that money

[02:23] is an exchange of value if you want to

[02:25] make money you need to provide value to

[02:27] people who are willing to pay you for

[02:28] said value now this is a mistake that I

[02:29] see a lot of people making all the

[02:30] emails I get from people asking you know

[02:32] how how do I make money on the internet

[02:33] all this kind of stuff but like in order

[02:35] for you to make money someone needs to

[02:37] someone needs to give you that money you

[02:38] can't just make money money just does

[02:40] not grow in trees it doesn't just appear

[02:41] magically in your account someone has to

[02:43] actually want to pay you in order for

[02:44] you to get that money into your account

[02:46] like for example when you buy a $3

[02:47] coffee from Starbucks you are paying

[02:49] Starbucks $3 or whatever it is and then

[02:50] you're getting a coffee in return

[02:52] because you perceive that that value the

[02:54] coffee that you're getting is worth the

[02:55] $3 the $3 is coming out of your personal

[02:57] account and going to Starbucks similarly

[02:59] when you are making money on the

[03:00] internet it's easy to think of the

[03:01] internet as like magical internet money

[03:03] oh if I make a YouTube video I just make

[03:04] money for free but like that money is

[03:06] coming from someone in the case of

[03:07] YouTube it's coming from advertisers and

[03:08] the people that would say that making

[03:09] money is fairly easy are the ones who

[03:11] understand that it's an exchange of

[03:12] value and there's a fairly simple

[03:14] formula for this and if you can

[03:15] understand the formula then you probably

[03:17] hopefully shouldn't really struggle with

[03:19] making money and that formula is firstly

[03:21] you just need to learn a skill or get

[03:23] good at a skill that people are willing

[03:24] to pay for and then secondly you just

[03:26] need to find people who are willing to

[03:27] pay for that skill and so if you can

[03:28] just do those things a skill and then

[03:30] find people who are willing to pay you

[03:31] for the skill then you won't really have

[03:32] a problem with making money and so

[03:34] hopefully you're going to see as we go

[03:35] through the rest of this video that the

[03:36] seven different ideas we're talking

[03:37] about here are all about building a

[03:39] valuable skill and then finding people

[03:40] to pay you for set skill so let's get

[03:42] started side hustle idea number one

[03:44] become a writer for businesses very very

[03:46] broadly there are two types of

[03:47] businesses there's B Toc and there's B2B

[03:49] so b2c is business to Consumer and B2B

[03:52] is business to business basically

[03:53] everything you're familiar with is going

[03:54] to be b2c business to Consumer so for

[03:56] example YouTube is b2c like most mostly

[03:59] it's consumers who are watching YouTube

[04:01] but actually the way YouTube makes money

[04:02] is B2B they're are selling a service to

[04:04] advertisers they're selling to other

[04:06] businesses and it's worth understanding

[04:07] this distinction because by far the

[04:09] easiest way to level up your ability to

[04:11] make money is to start thinking B2B

[04:13] rather than b Toc it's to start thinking

[04:15] what are the services that I can offer

[04:17] to businesses rather than how can I make

[04:19] money from my friends and colleagues

[04:20] because your friends and colleagues

[04:22] probably don't have money to spend it's

[04:23] like if you start imagining like oh what

[04:25] value can I add to my my friend it's

[04:27] like I could become a cleaner for them

[04:28] maybe that's B to see but if you start

[04:30] thinking what value can I add to local

[04:32] businesses or businesses on the internet

[04:34] now it just massively increases the

[04:35] scope of things that you can do to make

[04:36] money on the internet and the first

[04:38] major category of services that you can

[04:39] offer to businesses is writing writing

[04:41] is one of the top things that basically

[04:43] every business in the world is looking

[04:45] for it could be a local business like

[04:46] your local accountant or your local dry

[04:48] cleaner it could be an internet business

[04:50] like software and all this kind of stuff

[04:52] it could be creators like me and other

[04:54] YouTubers it could be authors it could

[04:56] be podcasters like almost every business

[04:57] that you'll ever come across will have a

[04:59] need to hire writers to do some kind of

[05:01] writing now one of the main ones here is

[05:03] content writing so for example

[05:04] businesses will have a Blog often and on

[05:06] that blog they will post articles about

[05:08] their particular industry and they're

[05:09] hoping that by posting enough articles

[05:10] on their website they'll get decent

[05:11] search engine optimization SEO and then

[05:13] more people are going to go on their

[05:15] blog and then they'll stumble across the

[05:16] business and then that will increase the

[05:17] sales or the leads for the business and

[05:19] this is a great Niche to get yourself

[05:20] into because it's very valuable for a

[05:22] business to have someone competent being

[05:23] able to write articles for them B they

[05:25] absolutely recognize the value of this

[05:26] and they will pay for the service and C

[05:28] it means you can just write you can

[05:29] write about topics or businesses or

[05:31] fields that you're genuinely interested

[05:32] in and generally when you're doing

[05:34] something that you have an inherent

[05:35] interest in that you actually enjoy

[05:36] writing about it's going to become way

[05:38] easier and it's going to feel a lot less

[05:39] like work the other major category of

[05:41] people who need writers is any kind of

[05:42] Creator we hire a bunch of people to do

[05:45] research and writing for our videos or

[05:46] for social media or for our website or

[05:48] for our courses and tons and tons of

[05:49] stuff every other creator that I know

[05:51] who's making money who's treating their

[05:52] creator thing like a business also has a

[05:54] massive requirement for writers and so

[05:56] if you want you can make money by

[05:57] working with your favorite creators and

[05:59] helping them right content I know people

[06:01] who charge $1,000 for a single script

[06:03] for a YouTube video so if you can find a

[06:04] creator that needs that kind of service

[06:06] you can make some pretty good money

[06:07] doing that thing there's another mistake

[06:08] that people make here and they think

[06:09] okay cool I'm going to be a writer

[06:10] therefore let me advertise my services

[06:12] on a freelance website like Fiverr or

[06:14] upwork or people per hour or something

[06:16] like that and I would normally say that

[06:17] that's a pretty bad idea because if

[06:18] you're on these freelance websites where

[06:20] there are 50,000 other people offering

[06:22] the same service you're already kind of

[06:24] on the back foot because how is someone

[06:25] going to find you out of these other

[06:26] 50,000 people instead what I'd recommend

[06:28] is what Jack buter called The

[06:30] permissionless Apprentice model so

[06:31] basically you do work for people for

[06:33] free without them asking you to do it

[06:35] and you just then email them and show

[06:37] them the work that you've done and so

[06:38] for example if I was thinking how do I

[06:39] make money as a writer I would basically

[06:41] go to my favorite YouTubers the ones

[06:42] whose content I watch anyway and that

[06:44] certainly doesn't feel like work and I

[06:46] would just write a brand new video for

[06:48] them completely for free that would be a

[06:49] good way for me to a improve my own

[06:51] skills and B boost up my own portfolio

[06:53] and see once I've written a script for

[06:55] them in a Google doc or an otion page or

[06:57] whatever I would send it to them with an

[06:58] accompanying video that says hey I've

[07:00] written this for you completely for free

[07:01] if you like it feel free to use it and

[07:03] if you want more things like this then

[07:05] you know let's let's chat and you know

[07:07] we can talk about working together for

[07:08] the long term and I would do this for a

[07:09] handful of my favorite YouTubers and I

[07:11] can basically guarantee that at least

[07:12] one of them are going to reply assuming

[07:14] my script is good with oh my God this is

[07:16] incredible you've really nailed the

[07:17] script in exactly what my style would be

[07:19] and therefore I want to hire you all

[07:20] right so something like this how easy is

[07:22] it to start and actually especially

[07:23] these days with the Advent of AI

[07:25] artificial intelligence enhanced writing

[07:26] tools it's actually becoming way easier

[07:28] to be a writer than it used to be when

[07:30] you had to type all the words out

[07:31] yourself so often being a decent writer

[07:33] these days is just about being able to

[07:34] use the appropriate AI tools to create

[07:36] your first draft then being able to edit

[07:38] that first draft to see what sounds good

[07:39] and what's in the style of the people

[07:40] that you're trying to work for how easy

[07:42] is it to make your first $100 again I

[07:43] would say it's a little bit harder than

[07:45] just getting started because you have to

[07:46] Now find people to pay you but if you're

[07:48] using this permissionless Apprentice

[07:49] model if you're not trying to stand in

[07:50] the queue of 50,000 people on Fiverr

[07:52] trying to get hired but but you're

[07:54] instead actively reaching out and

[07:55] working for free for people that you

[07:56] actually want to work with I would say

[07:58] probably with a few weeks you probably

[08:00] land your first client and then that'll

[08:01] probably pay more than $100 and now

[08:03] you've made your first $100 and then how

[08:04] much time and effort is it to keep going

[08:06] well the issue with writing is that you

[08:07] are kind of trading your time for money

[08:10] because you do have to do the work of

[08:11] actually writing being to to then get

[08:13] paid for it but actually these days if

[08:14] you use AI tools appropriately then you

[08:16] can probably massively leverage your own

[08:18] ability to write stuff and then also

[08:20] further down the line once you've had

[08:21] experience in writing you can then start

[08:22] creating your own assets you can make

[08:24] your own ebooks or your own courses your

[08:25] own products and now that is a thing

[08:27] that then decorrelates writing from the

[08:29] amount of time you're spending on it and

[08:31] it then becomes a way of leveling up

[08:33] this particular side hustle and maybe

[08:34] making a more of a passive income stream

[08:36] out of this writing stuff side hustle

[08:37] idea number two becoming a sales

[08:39] copywriter basically anytime someone

[08:41] wants to sell something they will have a

[08:42] page that gives you the information

[08:44] about their product for example if you

[08:45] look on Amazon any product will have

[08:47] some copy sales copy some writing that's

[08:49] trying to sell you the product if you

[08:50] look at any online courses or any

[08:52] products on the internet like basically

[08:53] everything will have some level of sales

[08:55] copy associated with it and so if you're

[08:57] looking to make some extra money through

[08:58] a side hustle and you're interested Ed

[08:59] in for example writing and sales and

[09:01] marketing and psychology and persuasion

[09:03] and this kind of stuff you can actually

[09:05] fairly easily and fairly quickly become

[09:06] more of an expert in the field of sales

[09:08] and marketing you could read a few books

[09:10] like Russell brunson's expert Secrets

[09:11] Trilogy you could read Alex homo's $100

[09:14] million offers you could read a book by

[09:15] I think Jim Stevens called copywriting

[09:17] secrets and with a handful of books you

[09:20] would become way more knowledgeable

[09:21] about sales and marketing generally and

[09:24] about copywriting in particular that you

[09:26] probably know way more than any business

[09:28] that's trying to hire you for the

[09:29] service and the nice thing about sales

[09:30] copyrighting is that generally the

[09:32] return on investment for a business is

[09:33] fairly obvious like if someone emailed

[09:35] me and they did the permission as

[09:37] apprentice model and they saw that my

[09:38] parttime YouTuber Academy has a sales

[09:40] page and because of their knowledge of

[09:42] sales and marketing and copywriting they

[09:44] would know that my sales page is under

[09:46] optimized if they were to just send me a

[09:47] Google dog being like hey I'm a sales

[09:49] copywriter I've Rewritten the first half

[09:51] of your landing page for you feel free

[09:52] to use it but I'd love to work with you

[09:54] I would immediately say yes absolutely

[09:56] I'm going to hire this person because

[09:57] for me if I can improve the conversion

[09:59] 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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[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