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Thanks
to HubSpot for sponsoring this video.
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So naturally,
a lot of people think that to get
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a high income job,
you need to go to university.
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Now, there is nothing wrong
with going to university.
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I think if you're doing something
that requires
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university degree, then of course
you have to go to university.
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Like it makes a lot of sense.
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But I also like to make the case
that you can make money
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without having to go to university.
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And I'm the prime example.
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I'm someone who is not going to
university, is not going to college.
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And I've been able to build income
streams.
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I've been able to build businesses
that can make me serious money,
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more money than most, 9 to 5 jobs.
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I feel like we're also very lucky
where we live in this digital age,
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where you can make a business
just by sitting behind your computer.
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It blows my mind and it's exactly
the type of businesses I've built.
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So in this video,
I wanted to share some business ideas
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that you can start
their actual proper businesses.
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They don't have to just be side
hustles
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that make a little bit of money.
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They can be grown
into fully fledged businesses.
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The other great thing
about the businesses
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that I'm going to be covering
is that they don't require
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a ton of money to get started.
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You can easily get started
with what you already have,
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and they also provide
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a lot of flexibility and freedom,
which is important to me.
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The whole idea, the whole point of me
starting online
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businesses and doing online
businesses is so that I have freedom.
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So number one is of course,
content creation.
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So I have turned content creation
into a full time basis.
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A lot of you that are watching
this channel may not already know
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that I actually have another YouTube
channel.
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I have a tech YouTube channel.
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I also make content
for Instagram and TikTok.
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I make content for all sorts,
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and I'll be making content for five
or ten years now.
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Content creation for me has unlocked
so many different opportunities.
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And now with the position that I'm in,
I want a couple of YouTube channels.
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I'm starting new YouTube channels,
I have Instagram,
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I have Tik Tok, I'm making content
for brands.
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There's just so many different ways
that content creation
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has helped me make a lot of money.
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I think the best thing about content
creation is that you can turn things
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that you already love
doing into content.
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It is very easy to get started now.
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Of course, it's not easy to grow,
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but I think with the way
the Internet is right
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now, you can make content
really about anything.
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You can find niches everywhere.
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If you love doing something,
if you love showing something,
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there will be other people out there
who also love that same thing.
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For me, it was tech,
it was gadgets, it was design.
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So all those things mixed together,
especially product design
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and things like that,
all of that mixed together.
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That's what I loved and that's what
I made a YouTube channel about.
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And it's going really well.
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It's doing incredibly well.
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I was making
an incredible amount of money for me
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and it's just been such a great way
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for me to turn something
that I love into a business.
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The other great thing about content
creation and social media
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is that it's not just about you.
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Like, I think a lot of people fall
into the trap of thinking
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that they have to make content
where they're in it,
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when they're doing the voice overs,
where their faces on camera,
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stuff like that.
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Not at all.
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You can really do all sorts of stuff.
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You don't even have to do
content creation, free stuff
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you can do for other businesses
as well.
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If you are interested in social media
trends, HubSpot
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have put together a social media
trends report and expert panel.
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If you want to follow in my footsteps
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of making a business
out of content creation.
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One thing I would highly recommend
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is just keeping up with social media
trends and seeing what's trending.
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Of course, the one issue is how
do we know what's actually trending?
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Because things are moving very,
very fast in social media world.
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But I have just the right resource
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here to help
stay on top of this year's trends.
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How to Spot Social Media Trends
Report.
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It's an e-book
that covers a wide range
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of social media trends, including
community building, social commerce,
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influencer marketing, content creation
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and platform specific strategies.
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There's a whopping
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40 pages of insanely
valuable information in this e-book.
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It's a vital resource for anyone who
wants to take social media seriously.
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It covers important metrics, goals
and challenges faced by social media
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marketers, providing benchmarks
and insights to measure success.
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Understanding user behaviour trends
highlighted in the report enables
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tailored content strategies,
ensuring content resonates
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with audiences and drives
meaningful engagement by anticipating
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future trends and staying informed
about competitors strategies.
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Those who take social media
seriously can maintain relevance,
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optimise advertising campaigns,
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and can stay ahead in the landscape
of social media marketing.
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Content creation for me has been
the biggest driver for my business.
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It's how I've been able to give myself
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the freedom, freedom
to grow my business.
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This e-book does a great job
of demonstrating that content creation
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can be a huge driver of new customers
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and revenue
for pretty much any type of business.
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So make sure to check out.
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It's completely free to download.
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Next up is short
form content and repurposing.
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So if you have any sort of skill
when it comes to video editing,
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which I think is actually fairly easy
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to pick up
this is such a great business.
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This is such an easy way
to make some money.
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But growing a business like this for
a lot of people can be quite difficult
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and it's because they go about it
in the wrong way.
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What I've noticed is that a lot
of editors that are making shorts
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don't really have a style,
and they're also
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not really seeing what's trending
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on the social media landscape.
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You could say they're not seeing
what other types of clips
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people actually want to see.
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So I find a lot of these short
formats says they're just trying
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to make as many clips as possible
just to get the job done.
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However, if you want to make
big money, proper money
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when it comes to making short form
content editing, short form
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content for businesses, for creators,
whatever it might be,
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it's all about coming up with clips
that will either go viral
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or can actually make money
for the end client.
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A lot of people don't
seem to really be focusing on that.
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Like I said, they just want to make
as many clips as possible.
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But if you can prove
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that your clips are either going viral
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or they're bringing conversions,
you can charge a lot more money.
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I would happily pay for a short
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film editor who I know
can regularly get me
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hundreds of thousands of years
or millions of views
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or who can sort of figure out
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what's trending was not trending.
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Look at my videos and stuff.
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See where they could see a clip
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maybe potentially going viral
or maybe for other parts
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of my business
that I helped drive over.
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If they can prove
all those sorts of things,
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I'm happy to pay them big money
like that.
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Obviously,
being able to deliver the results,
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I want to be able to reward them
for those results.
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And I know there are short form
editors out there
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who are making well over
five figures a month.
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They have a few clients
that don't have that many clients,
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maybe three or four clients,
but they're regularly churning out
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good quality repurposed videos
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that are doing well for their clients.
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And that's the most important thing.
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Instead of
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just trying to figure out I'm going
to make ten clips for like $1,000.
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No, no, no.
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And I think it's actually better
to make sure
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that the clips you're making
are actually going to do well.
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Another thing that I've noticed
when it comes to short form content
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is that a lot of people
try to overdo this or flashy ideas,
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try to do crazy captions
of sound effects and things like that.
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But some of the most viral clips
that I've seen online
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don't have any flashy editing at all.
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The person has just found
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a clip from a video
or from a podcast or something
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like that,
which they know will go viral.
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They've gone through the effort
of figuring out
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what can work on places
like Instagram and TikTok tutoring.
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So this is a perfect mind
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for anyone who is also a student,
because I've always said
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that the best person to teach
another person is another person
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who's also learning that same thing,
but only a few steps ahead.
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I found that people who are already
very,
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very knowledgeable in a subject,
I'm actually great teachers
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because they're already way too far
and maybe they learn the basics
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or something.
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Years ago, decades ago,
and now teaching someone
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who is completely new to the subject
can actually be very, very difficult
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because they're thinking years ahead
whilst this new beginner,
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this person is just starting to learn
the subject
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is trying to just learn
the fundamentals and the basics
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so it can be quite hard
for those two people to really learn
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from each other.
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The best person to learn from
is someone who's just a few steps
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ahead of you.
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And the great thing
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about something like this is
that you don't need to be an expert.
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Like you don't need to know everything
about a certain subject to teach it.
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And I think that's why tutoring
is actually such a great way
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to make money,
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because a lot of people fall
into the trap of thinking
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that they need
to be an expert in a subject
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and they need to know everything
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about this certain subject
to teach it to someone else.
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And yeah,
it just really isn't the case.
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So if you're someone who's
also a beginner
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who wants to make some money,
he wants to be able to
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you can make a lot of money
doing this.
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You're in the perfect position
to also teach someone else.
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The great thing about this
is that if you want someone
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who happens to be at university
and you're watching this video,
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you can be someone who's teaching
multiple people.
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So you can have your own class.
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You can teach multiple students
most people at the same time,
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and you can charge them
all the same way, really.
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So maximising your income,
scaling your income,
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this is such a great way
to scaling income,
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having lots of people
that you can teach at the same time.
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And then if you want to take it
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up a notch,
you want to take it to the next level.
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You can make courses.
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Digital courses especially are such
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great businesses and so many people
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who have digital courses
that are teaching stuff online.
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They put a curriculum together
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and they're making absolute bank
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because it's such a scalable business
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and you're not necessarily limited
to a number of students in a class.
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You can really just sell it
to as many people as you like.
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I have my own course video credit,
of course dot com,
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and it makes great money.
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I still just have it
sitting in the background.
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It's all about
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how to make high quality videos,
not necessarily for YouTube,
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but just making high quality
videos in general.
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And yeah, the great thing about it is
that it's
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all just making money
passively in the background.
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But there are creators out there
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who have turned courses
into fully fledged businesses
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that are just making millions,
like making millions.
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It's absolutely insane because people
are willing to pay for knowledge.
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That's the most valuable thing
about courses.
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If you can teach something
that's valuable to other people
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where they can use it to
maybe make their life better,
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maybe make relationships, love
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whatever might better make them money.
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So those three things happiness,
love, money.
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If you can take something
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that takes advantage
of one of those three things,
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you can make a lot of money.
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I found with courses
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the people who are looking to
buy, courses
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that are looking to learn stuff
from courses they're looking for,
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the money details are looking
for the fun in details and things
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because they want to see
how other people are doing it.
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They want to see systems and processes
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in place
that has worked for someone else
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and they want to see if they can apply
the same systems and processes
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to their own sort of way of life,
their own way of doing things.
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Gym workouts
are a perfect example of this.
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If you see someone who you think, Wow,
they look incredible,
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you might also be interested in
How can I look like that?
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So if that person had a course,
if they shared their gym routine,
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you're obviously going to look at it
and you're going to think, okay, let's
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see what they're doing and maybe I'm
missing out on something.
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Maybe I'm not doing something right
because clearly
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they're doing something right
that I'm not doing right now.
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Social media management.
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So this is one
I've covered in the channel before,
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but there are so many businesses
out there,
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especially businesses
run by older people who you could say
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who just have no clue
about social media.
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They don't know anything
about his found TikTok
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YouTube
or any of these social platforms.
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They don't know what it takes
to make content.
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They don't know how to publish content
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that I know
what type of content to make.
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And it's not just older people.
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They're also people,
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young people who don't really have
any idea of social media.
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These businesses,
these sorts of people,
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they are usually willing
to pay someone else to do it for them.
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And that's the whole point.
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If you can take the pain away
from someone else
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and also make their lives better,
make them more money,
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you can charge big money
for social media management.
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The great thing about this business
is that it is somewhat scalable.
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So if you have systems
and processes in place,
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there's no reason
why you can have three
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or four or five businesses
where you're charging
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maybe,
you know, between 2 to $5000 a month,
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maybe even $10,000 a month, depending
on how much you're doing for them.
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You can also hire other people to come
in and help you with those things.
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It's such a great way
to build a business
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that can make quite a lot of money
quite quickly.
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If you're someone
who is social media savvy,
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I think it makes a lot of sense.
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One angle that I would take with this,
which is what I mentioned earlier
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on in the video,
if you can show a client
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or a business,
whoever you're selling your skills to,
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that you're either bringing in fees
or you're making them money.
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Them going to be more
than willing to pay for your services.
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Next up, we have you want us
design and website creation.
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So well before I started doing YouTube
and so making money
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from YouTube, my main source of income
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was UI, UX design
and making websites for clients.
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And let me tell you,
I made a lot of money doing that.
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It was just
one of the best things that I ever did
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is one of the best skills
I ever learned.
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I made a lot of money and very,
very quickly, a few years
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into my career, I was charging
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$500 to $1000 a day
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for my services,
depending on the client,
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depending on the business,
depending on what they needed.
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And I remember thinking
at the time, like, holy moly,
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I can't believe I'm charging
$1,000 a day for my time.
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Obviously I'm selling my time,
but still it's $1,000
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like I was in my early twenties,
mid twenties.
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And I think to myself,
this is outrageous.
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Like $1,000 today.
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I did have some imposter
syndrome back then.
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So I was thinking to myself, I can't
believe I'm charging $1,000 a day.
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But now when I think back, the reason
why I was charging $1,000
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a day was because those sorts
of skills just wasn't that common.
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Not a lot of people had those skills.
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Not a lot of people had the style
that I had when it came to
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UI UX design and making websites.
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And that's the one thing I realised
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from nearly all of the clients
that hired me.
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They were looking
for my specific style
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and that's
what's so important about you,
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why you design a website creation,
having a style that's pretty unique
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but also very refined
and can deliver results.
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The other thing is most people
just aren't that technical.
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They don't want to be messing around,
spending time
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learning how to use figma,
which is what I use to design
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and using things like framer or
learning how to code to make websites.
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Just like with social media
management, mice, businesses,
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they don't want to be focusing
on making a website.
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They don't want to be running
a website, nothing like that.
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They would much rather pay
someone else to do it.
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And the great thing about websites
is that we know they make money
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like that.
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A good face for a business,
whether it's like a restaurant,
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whether it's an e-commerce site
or whatever it might be.
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We know it's a way for people to look
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for that business online
and for that business to make money.
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And you could even take it
a step further.
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You can go to the business
and be like, Look,
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I will make your website for free.
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However, any clients I get for you,
any customers
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I get for you through the website,
I take a cut.
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Maybe it's 5%, 10%, 20%,
whatever it might be.
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That's such a good way
to make a lot of money.
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This is also a very scalable business
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because once you've made a website,
you could just charge a retainer fee.
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You can also hire other people
to come in to manage websites,
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to make websites with you,
to make websites for your clients.
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It's just a very scalable business.
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And there are so many companies,
so many agencies out there
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that we already know
are making millions doing this.
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Another thing
that's become very popular is just
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charging businesses on a monthly basis
a retainer, essentially.
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And Darrel, a designer
who shares his work on Twitter,
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he runs a design
agency called Endless Dot
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Design,
where he charges $8,000 a month.
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And he's doing incredibly
well from the information on Twitter.
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And it's a simple retainer package
that gives
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you basically a one design lead.
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One seeing the design on five days
a week, one request at a time,
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you get an unlimited amount
of design work in that time.
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Dedicated Slack
Channel Unlimited revisions
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and a 40 hour delivery,
and he's charging $8,000 a month.
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And you can see
he only has one spot left already.
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So people are clearly paying for this
and he's making a lot of money.
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And like I said, if you have
other people in the business,
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you can have more and more spots,
you can have more availability
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for clients.
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This is a fantastic way to make money.
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And like I said, it's
how I used to make money
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before I made YouTube videos
and I made a lot of money doing it.
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I made a couple of million
doing this whole thing.
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That's for this video.
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Hopefully you guys enjoyed it.
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As you can see, I am in a new setup.
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I have a completely new setup.
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This is in my new office in Dubai.
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I still have a few things
I enjoy, said.
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I still have a few things
I sought out like my microphone.
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I'm using this lava lamp
like most DJI,
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like instead of my podcast, my
I made my podcast.
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Like I need it to come on.
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So I'm just waiting for things
to set up.
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I'm shipping a lot of things
from the UK to Dubai,
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so I'm waiting for things to arrive.
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So yeah, things will go back
to normal,
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the high quality
order will go back to normal.
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Hopefully you guys enjoyed it.
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Follow me on Instagram and Twitter
where I'll be sharing a lot
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