WEBVTT 00:00:00.041 --> 00:00:02.252 Thanks to HubSpot for sponsoring this video. 00:00:02.252 --> 00:00:04.129 So naturally, a lot of people think that to get 00:00:04.129 --> 00:00:06.631 a high income job, you need to go to university. 00:00:06.673 --> 00:00:09.300 Now, there is nothing wrong with going to university. 00:00:09.551 --> 00:00:12.053 I think if you're doing something that requires 00:00:12.053 --> 00:00:14.139 university degree, then of course you have to go to university. 00:00:14.139 --> 00:00:15.015 Like it makes a lot of sense. 00:00:15.015 --> 00:00:18.184 But I also like to make the case that you can make money 00:00:18.184 --> 00:00:19.602 without having to go to university. 00:00:19.602 --> 00:00:21.021 And I'm the prime example. 00:00:21.021 --> 00:00:23.606 I'm someone who is not going to university, is not going to college. 00:00:23.898 --> 00:00:26.109 And I've been able to build income streams. 00:00:26.109 --> 00:00:28.737 I've been able to build businesses that can make me serious money, 00:00:28.737 --> 00:00:30.864 more money than most, 9 to 5 jobs. 00:00:30.905 --> 00:00:34.492 I feel like we're also very lucky where we live in this digital age, 00:00:34.492 --> 00:00:37.746 where you can make a business just by sitting behind your computer. 00:00:37.871 --> 00:00:41.291 It blows my mind and it's exactly the type of businesses I've built. 00:00:41.416 --> 00:00:43.918 So in this video, I wanted to share some business ideas 00:00:44.085 --> 00:00:46.337 that you can start their actual proper businesses. 00:00:46.337 --> 00:00:47.922 They don't have to just be side hustles 00:00:47.922 --> 00:00:49.007 that make a little bit of money. 00:00:49.007 --> 00:00:51.593 They can be grown into fully fledged businesses. 00:00:51.634 --> 00:00:53.053 The other great thing about the businesses 00:00:53.053 --> 00:00:55.388 that I'm going to be covering is that they don't require 00:00:55.388 --> 00:00:56.890 a ton of money to get started. 00:00:56.890 --> 00:00:59.350 You can easily get started with what you already have, 00:00:59.559 --> 00:01:00.518 and they also provide 00:01:00.518 --> 00:01:03.021 a lot of flexibility and freedom, which is important to me. 00:01:03.229 --> 00:01:06.024 The whole idea, the whole point of me starting online 00:01:06.024 --> 00:01:09.027 businesses and doing online businesses is so that I have freedom. 00:01:09.069 --> 00:01:11.237 So number one is of course, content creation. 00:01:11.237 --> 00:01:14.074 So I have turned content creation into a full time basis. 00:01:14.324 --> 00:01:17.494 A lot of you that are watching this channel may not already know 00:01:17.702 --> 00:01:19.537 that I actually have another YouTube channel. 00:01:19.537 --> 00:01:21.122 I have a tech YouTube channel. 00:01:21.122 --> 00:01:23.291 I also make content for Instagram and TikTok. 00:01:23.500 --> 00:01:24.626 I make content for all sorts, 00:01:24.626 --> 00:01:27.003 and I'll be making content for five or ten years now. 00:01:27.045 --> 00:01:30.381 Content creation for me has unlocked so many different opportunities. 00:01:30.507 --> 00:01:34.010 And now with the position that I'm in, I want a couple of YouTube channels. 00:01:34.177 --> 00:01:36.513 I'm starting new YouTube channels, I have Instagram, 00:01:36.513 --> 00:01:38.598 I have Tik Tok, I'm making content for brands. 00:01:38.890 --> 00:01:41.017 There's just so many different ways that content creation 00:01:41.017 --> 00:01:43.103 has helped me make a lot of money. 00:01:43.103 --> 00:01:46.356 I think the best thing about content creation is that you can turn things 00:01:46.356 --> 00:01:48.274 that you already love doing into content. 00:01:48.274 --> 00:01:50.276 It is very easy to get started now. 00:01:50.276 --> 00:01:52.237 Of course, it's not easy to grow, 00:01:52.237 --> 00:01:54.531 but I think with the way the Internet is right 00:01:54.531 --> 00:01:56.658 now, you can make content really about anything. 00:01:56.658 --> 00:01:58.409 You can find niches everywhere. 00:01:58.409 --> 00:02:01.037 If you love doing something, if you love showing something, 00:02:01.287 --> 00:02:04.541 there will be other people out there who also love that same thing. 00:02:04.582 --> 00:02:07.335 For me, it was tech, it was gadgets, it was design. 00:02:07.335 --> 00:02:09.754 So all those things mixed together, especially product design 00:02:09.754 --> 00:02:12.006 and things like that, all of that mixed together. 00:02:12.298 --> 00:02:15.343 That's what I loved and that's what I made a YouTube channel about. 00:02:15.343 --> 00:02:16.803 And it's going really well. 00:02:16.803 --> 00:02:17.720 It's doing incredibly well. 00:02:17.720 --> 00:02:19.764 I was making an incredible amount of money for me 00:02:20.056 --> 00:02:21.766 and it's just been such a great way 00:02:21.766 --> 00:02:24.394 for me to turn something that I love into a business. 00:02:24.435 --> 00:02:26.729 The other great thing about content creation and social media 00:02:26.729 --> 00:02:28.898 is that it's not just about you. 00:02:28.940 --> 00:02:30.900 Like, I think a lot of people fall into the trap of thinking 00:02:30.900 --> 00:02:32.819 that they have to make content where they're in it, 00:02:32.819 --> 00:02:35.530 when they're doing the voice overs, where their faces on camera, 00:02:35.530 --> 00:02:36.239 stuff like that. 00:02:36.239 --> 00:02:37.031 Not at all. 00:02:37.031 --> 00:02:38.741 You can really do all sorts of stuff. 00:02:38.741 --> 00:02:40.743 You don't even have to do content creation, free stuff 00:02:40.743 --> 00:02:42.245 you can do for other businesses as well. 00:02:42.245 --> 00:02:44.831 If you are interested in social media trends, HubSpot 00:02:44.831 --> 00:02:48.334 have put together a social media trends report and expert panel. 00:02:48.376 --> 00:02:50.003 If you want to follow in my footsteps 00:02:50.003 --> 00:02:52.297 of making a business out of content creation. 00:02:52.463 --> 00:02:54.424 One thing I would highly recommend 00:02:54.424 --> 00:02:57.177 is just keeping up with social media trends and seeing what's trending. 00:02:57.218 --> 00:03:00.221 Of course, the one issue is how do we know what's actually trending? 00:03:00.346 --> 00:03:02.974 Because things are moving very, very fast in social media world. 00:03:03.016 --> 00:03:05.018 But I have just the right resource 00:03:05.018 --> 00:03:07.729 here to help stay on top of this year's trends. 00:03:07.937 --> 00:03:09.814 How to Spot Social Media Trends Report. 00:03:09.814 --> 00:03:11.941 It's an e-book that covers a wide range 00:03:11.941 --> 00:03:15.111 of social media trends, including community building, social commerce, 00:03:15.111 --> 00:03:17.655 influencer marketing, content creation 00:03:17.655 --> 00:03:19.949 and platform specific strategies. 00:03:19.991 --> 00:03:20.742 There's a whopping 00:03:20.742 --> 00:03:24.204 40 pages of 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Content creation for me has been the biggest driver for my business. 00:03:59.822 --> 00:04:01.532 It's how I've been able to give myself 00:04:01.532 --> 00:04:03.534 the freedom, freedom to grow my business. 00:04:03.576 --> 00:04:06.913 This e-book does a great job of demonstrating that content creation 00:04:06.996 --> 00:04:09.123 can be a huge driver of new customers 00:04:09.123 --> 00:04:11.501 and revenue for pretty much any type of business. 00:04:11.626 --> 00:04:13.002 So make sure to check out. 00:04:13.002 --> 00:04:14.629 It's completely free to download. 00:04:14.629 --> 00:04:17.423 Next up is short form content and repurposing. 00:04:17.715 --> 00:04:21.135 So if you have any sort of skill when it comes to video editing, 00:04:21.135 --> 00:04:23.054 which I think is actually fairly easy 00:04:23.054 --> 00:04:25.014 to pick up this is such a great business. 00:04:25.014 --> 00:04:27.433 This is such an easy way to make some money. 00:04:27.433 --> 00:04:30.895 But growing a business like this for a lot of people can be quite difficult 00:04:30.895 --> 00:04:33.106 and it's because they go about it in the wrong way. 00:04:33.106 --> 00:04:36.025 What I've noticed is that a lot of editors that are making shorts 00:04:36.401 --> 00:04:37.944 don't really have a style, and they're also 00:04:37.944 --> 00:04:39.821 not really seeing what's trending 00:04:39.821 --> 00:04:41.531 on the social media landscape. 00:04:41.531 --> 00:04:44.075 You could say they're not seeing what other types of clips 00:04:44.409 --> 00:04:46.202 people actually want to see. 00:04:46.202 --> 00:04:49.414 So I find a lot of these short formats says they're just trying 00:04:49.414 --> 00:04:51.833 to make as many clips as possible just to get the job done. 00:04:51.874 --> 00:04:54.043 However, if you want to make big money, proper money 00:04:54.043 --> 00:04:56.504 when it comes to making short form content editing, short form 00:04:56.504 --> 00:04:59.841 content for businesses, for creators, whatever it might be, 00:04:59.841 --> 00:05:02.802 it's all about coming up with clips that will either go viral 00:05:02.802 --> 00:05:05.555 or can actually make money for the end client. 00:05:05.763 --> 00:05:08.057 A lot of people don't seem to really be focusing on that. 00:05:08.057 --> 00:05:10.184 Like I said, they just want to make as many clips as possible. 00:05:10.476 --> 00:05:12.103 But if you can prove 00:05:12.103 --> 00:05:13.938 that your clips are either going viral 00:05:13.938 --> 00:05:16.899 or they're bringing conversions, you can charge a lot more money. 00:05:17.066 --> 00:05:18.943 I would happily pay for a short 00:05:18.943 --> 00:05:21.446 film editor who I know can regularly get me 00:05:21.446 --> 00:05:23.489 hundreds of thousands of years or millions of views 00:05:23.489 --> 00:05:25.783 or who can sort of figure out 00:05:25.950 --> 00:05:27.702 what's trending was not trending. 00:05:27.702 --> 00:05:29.078 Look at my videos and stuff. 00:05:29.078 --> 00:05:30.955 See where they could see a clip 00:05:30.955 --> 00:05:34.334 maybe potentially going viral or maybe for other parts 00:05:34.334 --> 00:05:36.419 of my business that I helped drive over. 00:05:36.419 --> 00:05:38.379 If they can prove all those sorts of things, 00:05:38.379 --> 00:05:40.715 I'm happy to pay them big money like that. 00:05:40.715 --> 00:05:42.675 Obviously, being able to deliver the results, 00:05:42.675 --> 00:05:44.802 I want to be able to reward them for those results. 00:05:44.802 --> 00:05:46.679 And I know there are short form editors out there 00:05:46.679 --> 00:05:48.890 who are making well over five figures a month. 00:05:48.890 --> 00:05:51.100 They have a few clients that don't have that many clients, 00:05:51.100 --> 00:05:54.270 maybe three or four clients, but they're regularly churning out 00:05:54.270 --> 00:05:56.314 good quality repurposed videos 00:05:56.564 --> 00:05:58.274 that are doing well for their clients. 00:05:58.274 --> 00:05:59.400 And that's the most important thing. 00:05:59.400 --> 00:05:59.692 Instead of 00:05:59.692 --> 00:06:02.862 just trying to figure out I'm going to make ten clips for like $1,000. 00:06:03.029 --> 00:06:03.404 No, no, no. 00:06:03.404 --> 00:06:05.573 And I think it's actually better to make sure 00:06:05.573 --> 00:06:08.117 that the clips you're making are actually going to do well. 00:06:08.159 --> 00:06:10.745 Another thing that I've noticed when it comes to short form content 00:06:10.995 --> 00:06:14.624 is that a lot of people try to overdo this or flashy ideas, 00:06:14.624 --> 00:06:17.126 try to do crazy captions of sound effects and things like that. 00:06:17.335 --> 00:06:20.797 But some of the most viral clips that I've seen online 00:06:21.130 --> 00:06:23.216 don't have any flashy editing at all. 00:06:23.216 --> 00:06:24.884 The person has just found 00:06:24.884 --> 00:06:27.845 a clip from a video or from a podcast or something 00:06:27.845 --> 00:06:29.806 like that, which they know will go viral. 00:06:29.806 --> 00:06:31.766 They've gone through the effort of figuring out 00:06:31.766 --> 00:06:35.645 what can work on places like Instagram and TikTok tutoring. 00:06:35.645 --> 00:06:37.021 So this is a perfect mind 00:06:37.021 --> 00:06:39.690 for anyone who is also a student, because I've always said 00:06:40.024 --> 00:06:43.444 that the best person to teach another person is another person 00:06:43.444 --> 00:06:46.531 who's also learning that same thing, but only a few steps ahead. 00:06:46.572 --> 00:06:48.491 I found that people who are already very, 00:06:48.491 --> 00:06:52.412 very knowledgeable in a subject, I'm actually great teachers 00:06:52.662 --> 00:06:55.748 because they're already way too far and maybe they learn the basics 00:06:55.748 --> 00:06:56.666 or something. 00:06:56.666 --> 00:06:59.377 Years ago, decades ago, and now teaching someone 00:06:59.544 --> 00:07:02.588 who is completely new to the subject can actually be very, very difficult 00:07:02.630 --> 00:07:05.091 because they're thinking years ahead whilst this new beginner, 00:07:05.091 --> 00:07:07.301 this person is just starting to learn the subject 00:07:07.301 --> 00:07:09.303 is trying to just learn the fundamentals and the basics 00:07:09.345 --> 00:07:12.348 so it can be quite hard for those two people to really learn 00:07:12.348 --> 00:07:12.890 from each other. 00:07:12.890 --> 00:07:16.102 The best person to learn from is someone who's just a few steps 00:07:16.102 --> 00:07:16.686 ahead of you. 00:07:16.686 --> 00:07:17.228 And the great thing 00:07:17.228 --> 00:07:20.148 about something like this is that you don't need to be an expert. 00:07:20.148 --> 00:07:23.943 Like you don't need to know everything about a certain subject to teach it. 00:07:24.277 --> 00:07:27.405 And I think that's why tutoring is actually such a great way 00:07:27.405 --> 00:07:28.364 to make money, 00:07:28.364 --> 00:07:30.658 because a lot of people fall into the trap of thinking 00:07:30.783 --> 00:07:32.326 that they need to be an expert in a subject 00:07:32.326 --> 00:07:33.286 and they need to know everything 00:07:33.286 --> 00:07:35.621 about this certain subject to teach it to someone else. 00:07:35.913 --> 00:07:37.748 And yeah, it just really isn't the case. 00:07:37.748 --> 00:07:39.625 So if you're someone who's also a beginner 00:07:39.625 --> 00:07:41.919 who wants to make some money, he wants to be able to 00:07:42.336 --> 00:07:44.213 you can make a lot of money doing this. 00:07:44.213 --> 00:07:46.966 You're in the perfect position to also teach someone else. 00:07:46.966 --> 00:07:49.927 The great thing about this is that if you want someone 00:07:49.927 --> 00:07:52.638 who happens to be at university and you're watching this video, 00:07:52.930 --> 00:07:55.266 you can be someone who's teaching multiple people. 00:07:55.433 --> 00:07:57.226 So you can have your own class. 00:07:57.226 --> 00:07:59.645 You can teach multiple students most people at the same time, 00:07:59.645 --> 00:08:02.356 and you can charge them all the same way, really. 00:08:02.356 --> 00:08:04.650 So maximising your income, scaling your income, 00:08:04.775 --> 00:08:06.819 this is such a great way to scaling income, 00:08:07.069 --> 00:08:09.280 having lots of people that you can teach at the same time. 00:08:09.280 --> 00:08:10.573 And then if you want to take it 00:08:10.573 --> 00:08:12.492 up a notch, you want to take it to the next level. 00:08:12.492 --> 00:08:13.784 You can make courses. 00:08:13.784 --> 00:08:16.120 Digital courses especially are such 00:08:16.245 --> 00:08:18.247 great businesses and so many people 00:08:18.247 --> 00:08:20.833 who have digital courses that are teaching stuff online. 00:08:21.083 --> 00:08:22.793 They put a curriculum together 00:08:22.793 --> 00:08:24.795 and they're making absolute bank 00:08:25.046 --> 00:08:27.256 because it's such a scalable business 00:08:27.256 --> 00:08:30.218 and you're not necessarily limited to a number of students in a class. 00:08:30.384 --> 00:08:32.595 You can really just sell it to as many people as you like. 00:08:32.803 --> 00:08:34.805 I have my own course video credit, of course dot com, 00:08:35.056 --> 00:08:35.890 and it makes great money. 00:08:35.890 --> 00:08:37.433 I still just have it sitting in the background. 00:08:37.433 --> 00:08:37.892 It's all about 00:08:37.892 --> 00:08:40.895 how to make high quality videos, not necessarily for YouTube, 00:08:41.145 --> 00:08:43.231 but just making high quality videos in general. 00:08:43.231 --> 00:08:45.316 And yeah, the great thing about it is that it's 00:08:45.316 --> 00:08:47.443 all just making money passively in the background. 00:08:47.443 --> 00:08:49.028 But there are creators out there 00:08:49.028 --> 00:08:51.656 who have turned courses into fully fledged businesses 00:08:51.656 --> 00:08:54.283 that are just making millions, like making millions. 00:08:54.283 --> 00:08:58.621 It's absolutely insane because people are willing to pay for knowledge. 00:08:58.621 --> 00:09:00.414 That's the most valuable thing about courses. 00:09:00.414 --> 00:09:02.875 If you can teach something that's valuable to other people 00:09:03.125 --> 00:09:06.337 where they can use it to maybe make their life better, 00:09:06.546 --> 00:09:08.256 maybe make relationships, love 00:09:08.256 --> 00:09:10.299 whatever might better make them money. 00:09:10.299 --> 00:09:13.219 So those three things happiness, love, money. 00:09:13.261 --> 00:09:14.262 If you can take something 00:09:14.262 --> 00:09:16.430 that takes advantage of one of those three things, 00:09:16.430 --> 00:09:17.765 you can make a lot of money. 00:09:17.765 --> 00:09:18.808 I found with courses 00:09:18.808 --> 00:09:21.185 the people who are looking to buy, courses 00:09:21.185 --> 00:09:24.772 that are looking to learn stuff from courses they're looking for, 00:09:24.814 --> 00:09:28.067 the money details are looking for the fun in details and things 00:09:28.276 --> 00:09:30.861 because they want to see how other people are doing it. 00:09:30.861 --> 00:09:32.780 They want to see systems and processes 00:09:32.780 --> 00:09:34.991 in place that has worked for someone else 00:09:34.991 --> 00:09:37.660 and they want to see if they can apply the same systems and processes 00:09:38.077 --> 00:09:41.080 to their own sort of way of life, their own way of doing things. 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:43.332 Gym workouts are a perfect example of this. 00:09:43.583 --> 00:09:46.752 If you see someone who you think, Wow, they look incredible, 00:09:46.752 --> 00:09:49.547 you might also be interested in How can I look like that? 00:09:49.797 --> 00:09:52.675 So if that person had a course, if they shared their gym routine, 00:09:52.967 --> 00:09:56.095 you're obviously going to look at it and you're going to think, okay, let's 00:09:56.095 --> 00:09:58.806 see what they're doing and maybe I'm missing out on something. 00:09:58.806 --> 00:10:00.683 Maybe I'm not doing something right because clearly 00:10:00.683 --> 00:10:02.852 they're doing something right that I'm not doing right now. 00:10:02.893 --> 00:10:04.145 Social media management. 00:10:04.145 --> 00:10:06.230 So this is one I've covered in the channel before, 00:10:06.230 --> 00:10:08.232 but there are so many businesses out there, 00:10:08.232 --> 00:10:11.485 especially businesses run by older people who you could say 00:10:11.777 --> 00:10:13.696 who just have no clue about social media. 00:10:13.696 --> 00:10:15.489 They don't know anything about his found TikTok 00:10:15.489 --> 00:10:17.533 YouTube or any of these social platforms. 00:10:17.533 --> 00:10:19.910 They don't know what it takes to make content. 00:10:20.036 --> 00:10:21.370 They don't know how to publish content 00:10:21.370 --> 00:10:23.497 that I know what type of content to make. 00:10:23.497 --> 00:10:24.790 And it's not just older people. 00:10:24.790 --> 00:10:25.833 They're also people, 00:10:25.833 --> 00:10:28.836 young people who don't really have any idea of social media. 00:10:29.295 --> 00:10:31.297 These businesses, these sorts of people, 00:10:31.297 --> 00:10:34.508 they are usually willing to pay someone else to do it for them. 00:10:34.717 --> 00:10:35.676 And that's the whole point. 00:10:35.676 --> 00:10:37.637 If you can take the pain away from someone else 00:10:37.637 --> 00:10:40.264 and also make their lives better, make them more money, 00:10:40.514 --> 00:10:42.975 you can charge big money for social media management. 00:10:43.059 --> 00:10:46.187 The great thing about this business is that it is somewhat scalable. 00:10:46.395 --> 00:10:48.606 So if you have systems and processes in place, 00:10:48.606 --> 00:10:50.232 there's no reason why you can have three 00:10:50.232 --> 00:10:52.151 or four or five businesses where you're charging 00:10:52.151 --> 00:10:54.528 maybe, you know, between 2 to $5000 a month, 00:10:54.528 --> 00:10:57.490 maybe even $10,000 a month, depending on how much you're doing for them. 00:10:57.698 --> 00:11:00.743 You can also hire other people to come in and help you with those things. 00:11:00.743 --> 00:11:02.370 It's such a great way to build a business 00:11:02.370 --> 00:11:04.580 that can make quite a lot of money quite quickly. 00:11:04.872 --> 00:11:06.707 If you're someone who is social media savvy, 00:11:06.707 --> 00:11:07.958 I think it makes a lot of sense. 00:11:07.958 --> 00:11:11.045 One angle that I would take with this, which is what I mentioned earlier 00:11:11.045 --> 00:11:12.880 on in the video, if you can show a client 00:11:12.880 --> 00:11:15.424 or a business, whoever you're selling your skills to, 00:11:15.675 --> 00:11:18.135 that you're either bringing in fees or you're making them money. 00:11:18.761 --> 00:11:21.681 Them going to be more than willing to pay for your services. 00:11:21.722 --> 00:11:24.975 Next up, we have you want us design and website creation. 00:11:24.975 --> 00:11:27.603 So well before I started doing YouTube and so making money 00:11:27.603 --> 00:11:29.855 from YouTube, my main source of income 00:11:30.022 --> 00:11:32.983 was UI, UX design and making websites for clients. 00:11:33.401 --> 00:11:36.153 And let me tell you, I made a lot of money doing that. 00:11:36.153 --> 00:11:38.572 It was just one of the best things that I ever did 00:11:38.572 --> 00:11:40.241 is one of the best skills I ever learned. 00:11:40.241 --> 00:11:43.035 I made a lot of money and very, very quickly, a few years 00:11:43.035 --> 00:11:44.954 into my career, I was charging 00:11:44.954 --> 00:11:47.248 $500 to $1000 a day 00:11:47.248 --> 00:11:49.208 for my services, depending on the client, 00:11:49.208 --> 00:11:51.460 depending on the business, depending on what they needed. 00:11:51.460 --> 00:11:54.463 And I remember thinking at the time, like, holy moly, 00:11:54.463 --> 00:11:58.509 I can't believe I'm charging $1,000 a day for my time. 00:11:58.843 --> 00:12:01.804 Obviously I'm selling my time, but still it's $1,000 00:12:01.804 --> 00:12:03.848 like I was in my early twenties, mid twenties. 00:12:03.848 --> 00:12:05.683 And I think to myself, this is outrageous. 00:12:05.683 --> 00:12:06.851 Like $1,000 today. 00:12:06.851 --> 00:12:08.853 I did have some imposter syndrome back then. 00:12:08.853 --> 00:12:11.605 So I was thinking to myself, I can't believe I'm charging $1,000 a day. 00:12:11.605 --> 00:12:15.025 But now when I think back, the reason why I was charging $1,000 00:12:15.025 --> 00:12:19.071 a day was because those sorts of skills just wasn't that common. 00:12:19.280 --> 00:12:20.781 Not a lot of people had those skills. 00:12:20.781 --> 00:12:23.367 Not a lot of people had the style that I had when it came to 00:12:23.534 --> 00:12:25.327 UI UX design and making websites. 00:12:25.327 --> 00:12:26.620 And that's the one thing I realised 00:12:26.620 --> 00:12:28.748 from nearly all of the clients that hired me. 00:12:28.914 --> 00:12:31.333 They were looking for my specific style 00:12:31.667 --> 00:12:34.044 and that's what's so important about you, 00:12:34.044 --> 00:12:37.173 why you design a website creation, having a style that's pretty unique 00:12:37.173 --> 00:12:39.967 but also very refined and can deliver results. 00:12:39.967 --> 00:12:42.845 The other thing is most people just aren't that technical. 00:12:42.845 --> 00:12:45.097 They don't want to be messing around, spending time 00:12:45.306 --> 00:12:48.309 learning how to use figma, which is what I use to design 00:12:48.517 --> 00:12:52.271 and using things like framer or learning how to code to make websites. 00:12:52.271 --> 00:12:54.982 Just like with social media management, mice, businesses, 00:12:55.149 --> 00:12:57.318 they don't want to be focusing on making a website. 00:12:57.318 --> 00:12:59.111 They don't want to be running a website, nothing like that. 00:12:59.111 --> 00:13:00.946 They would much rather pay someone else to do it. 00:13:00.946 --> 00:13:03.908 And the great thing about websites is that we know they make money 00:13:04.033 --> 00:13:04.784 like that. 00:13:04.784 --> 00:13:07.369 A good face for a business, whether it's like a restaurant, 00:13:07.369 --> 00:13:09.288 whether it's an e-commerce site or whatever it might be. 00:13:09.288 --> 00:13:11.248 We know it's a way for people to look 00:13:11.248 --> 00:13:14.168 for that business online and for that business to make money. 00:13:14.543 --> 00:13:16.921 And you could even take it a step further. 00:13:16.921 --> 00:13:18.881 You can go to the business and be like, Look, 00:13:18.881 --> 00:13:20.800 I will make your website for free. 00:13:20.800 --> 00:13:23.177 However, any clients I get for you, any customers 00:13:23.385 --> 00:13:25.721 I get for you through the website, I take a cut. 00:13:25.721 --> 00:13:28.974 Maybe it's 5%, 10%, 20%, whatever it might be. 00:13:29.225 --> 00:13:31.602 That's such a good way to make a lot of money. 00:13:31.644 --> 00:13:33.521 This is also a very scalable business 00:13:33.521 --> 00:13:36.732 because once you've made a website, you could just charge a retainer fee. 00:13:36.816 --> 00:13:39.777 You can also hire other people to come in to manage websites, 00:13:39.777 --> 00:13:42.071 to make websites with you, to make websites for your clients. 00:13:42.279 --> 00:13:43.864 It's just a very scalable business. 00:13:43.864 --> 00:13:46.033 And there are so many companies, so many agencies out there 00:13:46.033 --> 00:13:48.369 that we already know are making millions doing this. 00:13:48.369 --> 00:13:50.579 Another thing that's become very popular is just 00:13:50.579 --> 00:13:53.999 charging businesses on a monthly basis a retainer, essentially. 00:13:54.250 --> 00:13:57.586 And Darrel, a designer who shares his work on Twitter, 00:13:57.878 --> 00:14:00.798 he runs a design agency called Endless Dot 00:14:00.798 --> 00:14:04.426 Design, where he charges $8,000 a month. 00:14:04.718 --> 00:14:07.930 And he's doing incredibly well from the information on Twitter. 00:14:08.055 --> 00:14:10.307 And it's a simple retainer package that gives 00:14:10.558 --> 00:14:12.685 you basically a one design lead. 00:14:12.685 --> 00:14:16.230 One seeing the design on five days a week, one request at a time, 00:14:16.230 --> 00:14:19.483 you get an unlimited amount of design work in that time. 00:14:19.692 --> 00:14:22.027 Dedicated Slack Channel Unlimited revisions 00:14:22.236 --> 00:14:25.155 and a 40 hour delivery, and he's charging $8,000 a month. 00:14:25.155 --> 00:14:27.157 And you can see he only has one spot left already. 00:14:27.366 --> 00:14:30.494 So people are clearly paying for this and he's making a lot of money. 00:14:30.494 --> 00:14:32.705 And like I said, if you have other people in the business, 00:14:32.872 --> 00:14:35.791 you can have more and more spots, you can have more availability 00:14:35.791 --> 00:14:36.792 for clients. 00:14:36.792 --> 00:14:38.878 This is a fantastic way to make money. 00:14:38.878 --> 00:14:41.922 And like I said, it's how I used to make money 00:14:41.922 --> 00:14:44.508 before I made YouTube videos and I made a lot of money doing it. 00:14:44.508 --> 00:14:47.052 I made a couple of million doing this whole thing. 00:14:47.094 --> 00:14:48.178 That's for this video. 00:14:48.178 --> 00:14:49.763 Hopefully you guys enjoyed it. 00:14:49.763 --> 00:14:52.558 As you can see, I am in a new setup. 00:14:52.558 --> 00:14:53.684 I have a completely new setup. 00:14:53.684 --> 00:14:56.061 This is in my new office in Dubai. 00:14:56.562 --> 00:14:58.230 I still have a few things I enjoy, said. 00:14:58.230 --> 00:15:01.317 I still have a few things I sought out like my microphone. 00:15:01.317 --> 00:15:03.694 I'm using this lava lamp like most DJI, 00:15:03.694 --> 00:15:06.322 like instead of my podcast, my I made my podcast. 00:15:06.322 --> 00:15:07.406 Like I need it to come on. 00:15:07.406 --> 00:15:09.283 So I'm just waiting for things to set up. 00:15:09.283 --> 00:15:11.994 I'm shipping a lot of things from the UK to Dubai, 00:15:11.994 --> 00:15:13.662 so I'm waiting for things to arrive. 00:15:13.662 --> 00:15:15.998 So yeah, things will go back to normal, 00:15:15.998 --> 00:15:18.083 the high quality order will go back to normal. 00:15:18.375 --> 00:15:19.793 Hopefully you guys enjoyed it. 00:15:19.793 --> 00:15:21.670 Follow me on Instagram and Twitter where I'll be sharing a lot 00:15:21.670 --> 00:15:23.756 more updates and subscribe for more.