Thanks to HubSpot
for sponsoring this video.

So naturally, a lot of people think
that to get a high income job,

you need to go to university.

Now, there is nothing wrong
with going to university.

I think if you're doing something
that requires a university degree,

then, of course,
you have to go to university.

It makes a lot of sense.

But I also like to make the case
that you can make money

without having to go to university.

And I'm the prime example here.

I'm someone who is not going to
university, is not going to college.

And I've been able to build income streams,

I've been able to build businesses
that can make me serious money,

more money than most 9 to 5 jobs.

I feel like we're also very lucky
where we live in this digital age,

where you can make a business
just by sitting behind your computer.

It blows my mind and it's exactly
the type of businesses I've built.

So in this video,
I wanted to share some business ideas

that you can start,
that are actual proper businesses.

They don't have to just be side hustles

that make a little bit of money.

They can be grown
into fully fledged businesses.

The other great thing
about the businesses

that I'm going to be covering
is that they don't require

a ton of money to get started.

You can usually get started
with what you already have,

and they also provide

a lot of flexibility and freedom,
which is important to me.

The whole idea, the whole point of me
starting online businesses

and doing online
businesses is so that I have freedom.

So number one is,
of course, content creation.

So I have turned content creation
into a full time business.

A lot of you that are watching
this channel may not already know

that I actually have another YouTube channel.

I have a tech YouTube channel.

I also make content
for Instagram and TikTok.

I make content for all sorts,

and I had be making content
for over ten years now.

Content creation for me has unlocked
so many different opportunities.

And now with the position that I'm in,

I run a couple of YouTube channels.

I'm starting new YouTube channels,

I have Instagram, I have TikTok,

I'm making content for brands.

There's just so many different ways
that content creation

has helped me make a lot of money.

I think the best thing about content
creation is that you can turn things

that you already love doing into content.

It is very easy to get started.

Now, of course, it's not easy to grow,

but I think with the way
the Internet is right now,

you can make content
really about anything.

You can find niches everywhere.

If you love doing something,
if you love sharing something,

there will be other people out there
who also love that same thing.

For me, it was tech,
it was gadgets, it was design,

sort of those things mixed together,

especially product design and things like that,

all of that mixed together,
that's what I loved,

and that's what
I made a YouTube channel about.

And it's growing really well.

It's doing incredibly well.

It's making an incredible
amount of money for me

and it's just been such a great way

for me to turn something
that I love into a business.

The other great thing about content
creation and social media

is that it's not just about you.

I think a lot of people fall
into the trap of thinking

that they have to make content
where they're in it,

when they're doing the voice overs,

where their face is on camera
and stuff like that.

Not at all.

You can really do all sorts of stuff.

You don't even have to do
content creation for yourself,

you can do it
for other businesses as well.

If you are interested in social media trends,

HubSpot have put together a social media
trends report and expert panel.

If you want to follow in my footsteps

of making a business
out of content creation,

one thing I would highly recommend

is just keeping up with social media
trends and seeing what's trending.

Of course, the one issue is how
do we know what's actually trending?

Because things are moving very,
very fast in the social media world.

But I have just the right resource here

to help stay on top of this year's trends.

HubSpot's Social Media Trends Report.

It's an e-book that covers a wide range

of social media trends, 
including community building,

social commerce, influencer marketing,

content creation, AI,
and platform specific strategies.

There's a whopping 40 pages

of insanely valuable information
in this e-book.

It's a vital resource for anyone who
wants to take social media seriously.

It covers important metrics,
goals and challenges

faced by social media marketers,

providing benchmarks
and insights to measure success.

Understanding user behaviour trends
highlighted in the report enables

tailored content strategies,
ensuring content resonates

with audiences and drives
meaningful engagement.

By anticipating future trends

and staying informed
about competitors strategies.

Those who take social media
seriously can maintain relevance,

optimise advertising campaigns,

and can stay ahead in the landscape
of social media marketing.

Content creation for me has been
the biggest driver for my business.

It's how I've been able to give myself

the freedom, freedom to grow my business.

This e-book does a great job
of demonstrating that content creation

can be a huge driver
of new customers and revenue

for pretty much any type of business.

So make sure to check it out.

It's completely free to download.

Next up is short
form content and repurposing.

So if you have any sort of skill
when it comes to video editing,

which I think is actually fairly easy to pick up,

this is such a great business.

This is such an easy way
to make some money.

But growing a business like this for
a lot of people can be quite difficult

and it's because they go about it
in the wrong way.

What I've noticed is that a lot
of editors that are making shorts

don't really have a style,

and they're also not really seeing what's trending

on the social media
sort of landscape, you could say.

They're not seeing
what other types of clips

people actually want to see.

So I find a lot of these short-form editors,

they're just trying
to make as many clips as possible

just to get the job done.

However, if you wanna make big money,

proper money when it comes
to making short form content,

editing short form content for businesses,

for creators, whatever it might be,

it's all about coming up with clips
that will either go viral

or can actually make money
for the end client.

A lot of people don't
seem to really be focusing on that.

Like I said, they're just trying to make
as many clips as possible.

But if you can prove

that your clips are either going viral

or they're bringing conversions,
you can charge a lot more money.

I would happily pay for a short film editor

who I know can regularly get me

hundreds of thousands of views,
or millions of views

or who can sort of figure out

what's trending, what's not trending.

Look at my videos and stuff.

See where they could see a clip
maybe potentially going viral

or maybe for other parts of my business

so that it helps drive revenue.

If they can prove
all those sorts of things,

I'm happy to pay them big money.

They're obviously
being able to deliver the results,

I want to be able to reward them
for those results.

And I know there are short form
editors out there

who are making well over
five figures a month.

They have a few clients,

they don't have that many clients,

maybe three or four clients,

but they're regularly churning out

good quality repurposed videos

that are doing well for their clients.

And that's the most important thing.

Instead of just trying to figure out,

I'm gonna make ten clips for like $1,000.

No, no, no.

And I think it's actually better
to make sure

that the clips you're making
are actually going to do well.

Another thing that I've noticed
when it comes to short form content

is that a lot of people
try to overdo this sort of flashy ideas,

try to do crazy captions
or sound effects and things like that.

But some of the most viral clips
that I've seen online

don't have any flashy editing at all.

The person has just found

a clip from a video or from a podcast
or something like that,

which they know will go viral.

They've gone through the effort
of figuring out

what can work on places
like Instagram and TikTok.

Tutoring.

So this is a perfect one
for anyone who is also a student,

because I've always said

that the best person to teach
another person is another person

who's also learning that same thing,

but are only a few steps ahead.

I found that people who are already
very, very knowledgeable in a subject,

aren't actually great teachers,

because they're already way too far ahead,

maybe they've learnt
the basics or something

years ago, decades ago,
and now teaching someone

who is completely new to the subject
can actually be very, very difficult,

because they're thinking years ahead
whilst this new beginner,

this person is just starting
to learn the subject,

is trying to just learn
the fundamentals and the basics.

So it can be quite hard for those two people

to really learn from each other.

The best person to learn from

is someone who's just
a few steps ahead of you.

And the great thing
about something like this

is that you don't need to be an expert.

You don't need to know everything
about a certain subject to teach it.

And I think that's why tutoring

is actually such a great way to make money,

because a lot of people fall
into the trap of thinking

that they need
to be an expert in a subject

and they need to know everything

about this certain subject
to teach it to someone else.

And yeah, it just really isn't the case.

So if you're someone who's also a beginner,

who wants to make some money,

who wants to be able to--
You can make a lot of money doing this.

You're in the perfect position
to also teach someone else.

The great thing about this
is that if you want someone

who happens to be at university
and you're watching this video,

you can be someone
who's teaching multiple people.

So you can have your own class.

You can teach multiple students,
multiple people at the same time,

and you can charge them
all the same rate.

Really sort of maximising your income,
scaling your income.

This is such a great way
to scaling your income,

having lots of people
that you can teach at the same time.

And then if you want to take it up a notch,

you wanna take it to the next level.

You can make courses.

Digital courses especially
are such great businesses.

I know so many people
who have digital courses

that are teaching stuff online.

They've put a curriculum together

and they're making absolute bank.

Because it's such a scalable business,

you're not necessarily limited
to a number of students in a class.

You can really just sell it
to as many people as you like.

I have my own course, videocreatorcourse.com,

and it makes great money.

I sort of just have it
sitting in the background.

It's all about how to make high quality videos,

not necessarily for YouTube,

but just making high quality
videos in general.

And yeah, the great thing about it

is that it's sort of just making money
passively in the background.

But there are creators out there

who have turned courses
into fully fledged businesses

that are just making millions.

Making millions is absolutely insane.

Because people
are willing to pay for knowledge.

That's the most valuable thing
about courses.

If you can teach something
that's valuable to other people

where they can use it to
maybe make their life better,

maybe make relationships, love,

whatever might better, make them money.

Sort of those three things
happiness, love, money.

If you can teach something

that takes advantage
of one of those three things,

you can make a lot of money.

I found with courses the people
who are looking to buy courses,

that are looking to learn stuff
from courses,

they're looking for the money details,

they're looking
for the finier details in things

because they wanna see
how other people are doing it.

They wanna see systems and processes in place

that has worked for someone else

and they wanna see if they can apply
the same systems and processes

to their own sort of way of life,
their own way of doing things.

Gym workouts are a perfect example of this.

If you see someone who you think,

"Wow, they look incredible,"

you might also be interested in
"How can I look like that?"

So if that person had a course,
if they shared their gym routine,

you're obviously going to look at it
and you're going to think,

okay, let's see what they're doing

and maybe I'm missing out on something.

Maybe I'm not doing something right,

because clearly they're doing something right

that I'm not doing right now.

Social media management.

So this is one I've covered in the channel before,

but there are so many businesses out there,

especially businesses
run by older people, who you could say,

who just have no clue
about social media.

They don't know anything
about Instagram, TikTok,

YouTube or any other sort of social platforms.

They don't know what it takes
to make content.

They don't know how to publish content,

they don't know
what type of content to make.

And it's not just older people.

There are also people,

young people who don't really have
any idea of social media.

These businesses, these sorts of people,

they are usually willing
to pay someone else to do it for them.

And that's the whole point.

If you can take the pain away
from someone else

and also make their lives better,
make them more money,

you can charge big money
for social media management.

The great thing about this business
is that it is somewhat scalable.

So if you have systems
and processes in place,

there's no reason why you can't have three,

four, five businesses where you're charging

maybe between 2 to $5000 a month,

maybe even $10,000 a month,

depending on how much you're doing for them.

You can also hire other people
to come in and help you with those things.

It's such a great way
to build a business

that can make quite a lot of money
quite quickly.

If you're someone
who is social media savvy,

I think it makes a lot of sense.

One angle that I would take with this,

which is what I mentioned
earlier on in the video,

if you can show a client or a business,
whoever you're selling your skills to,

that you're either bringing in views
or you're making them money.

They're going to be more than willing
to pay for your services.

Next up, we have UI/UX design
and website creation.

So well before I started doing YouTube

and started making money from YouTube,

my main source of income

was UI/UX design
and making websites for clients.

And let me tell you,
I made a lot of money doing that.

It was just one of the best things
that I ever did,

it's one of the best skills
I ever learned.

I made a lot of money very, very quickly.

A few years into my career,

I was charging $500 to $1000 a day

for my services depending on the client,

depending on the business,
depending on what they needed.

And I remember thinking at the time, like,

"Holy moly, I can't believe I'm charging
$1,000 a day for my time."

Obviously I'm selling my time,
but still, it's $1,000,

like I was in my early twenties,
mid twenties.

And I think to myself, this is outrageous.

$1,000 a day.

I did have some imposter
syndrome back then.

So I was thinking to myself,

I can't believe I'm charging $1,000 a day.

But now when I think back,

the reason why I was charging $1,000 a day

was because those sorts
of skills just wasn't that common.

Not a lot of people had those skills.

Not a lot of people had the style
that I had when it came to

UI/UX design and making websites.

And that's the one thing I realised

from nearly all of the clients that hired me.

They were looking for my specific style

and that's what's so important
about UI/UX and website creation.

Having a style that's pretty unique

but also very refined and can deliver results.

The other thing is most people
just aren't that technical.

They don't wanna be messing around,

spending time learning how to use Figma,

which is what I use to design,

and using things like Framer

or learning how to code to make websites.

Just like with social media management,

most businesses, they don't wanna be focusing
on making a website.

They don't want to be running
a website, nothing like that.

They would much rather pay
someone else to do it.

And the great thing about websites
is that we know they make money

They're a good face for a business,
whether it's like a restaurant,

whether it's an e-commerce store,
or whatever it might be.

We know it's a way for people to look

for that business online
and for that business to make money.

And you could even take it
a step further.

You can go to the business and be like,

"Look, I will make your website for free.

However, any clients I get for you,

any customers I get for you through the website,

I take a cut."

Maybe it's 5%, 10%, 20%,
whatever it might be.

That's such a good way
to make a lot of money.

This is also a very scalable business,

because once you've made a website,

you could just charge a retainer fee.

You can also hire other people
to come in to manage websites,

to make websites with you,
to make websites for your clients.

It's just a very scalable business.

And there are so many companies,
so many agencies out there

that we already know
are making millions doing this.

Another thing
that's become very popular

is just charging businesses on a monthly basis,

a retainer, essentially.

And Darrel, a designer
who shares his work on Twitter,

he runs a design agency
called endless.design,

where he charges $8,000 a month.

And he's doing incredibly
well from the info he's sharing on Twitter.

And it's a simple retainer package

that gives you basically one design lead,

one senior designer five days a week,

one request at a time,

you get an unlimited amount
of design work in that time.

Dedicated Slack Channel, unlimited revisions,

and a 48 hour delivery.

And he's charging $8,000 a month.

And you can see
he only has one spot left already.

So people are clearly paying for this
and he's making a lot of money.

And like I said, if you have
other people in the business,

you can have more and more spots,

you can have more availability for clients.

This is a fantastic way to make money.

And like I said,
it's how I used to make money

before I made YouTube videos

and I made a lot of money doing it.

I made a couple of million
doing this sort of thing.

That's it for this video.

Hopefully, you guys enjoyed it.

As you can see, I am in a new setup.

I have a completely new setup.

This is in my new office in Dubai.

I still have a few things I need to setup.

I still have a few things I need to sort out.

Like my microphone.

I'm using this lavalier mic,
a sort of DJI mic,

instead of my podcast mic.

I miss my podcast mic. I need it to come.

I'm sort of just waiting for things to set up.

I'm shipping a lot of things
from the UK to Dubai,

so I'm waiting for things to arrive.

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