To make money online, you generally need 3 things:
There will always be exceptions to this rule, like the YouTube celebrities who don’t have their own site, but most of the successful entrepreneurs online (myself included) have figured out those 3 things.
An online business is a great asset; you can work from anywhere and serve people worldwide. Depending on how you have it set up, you can even earn money while you sleep. Ahh that elusive “passive income!”
The location-independent business models you’ll find here include blogging, podcasting, self-publishing, teaching online courses, and more.
If you’re not sure where to start, let me recommend this “Greatest Hits” collection:
This week I’m excited to introduce one of the hottest side hustles of the moment, and that is low-content self-publishing.
What is low-content publishing?
Let me explain — self-publishing has been around for a decade, and we’ve covered that quite a bit in both fiction and non-fiction — it’s one of my favorite and perhaps most passive side hustles. Write the book, hit publish, collect royalties for years.
Chris Ritter from RitterSP.com has worked as little as 8 hrs in a month, his target audience is swimming coaches, and he still grossed 6-figures in his first year.His biggest source of growth?He started a podcast for swimming coaches, by interviewing swimming coaches.
Kimberly Gauthier has been running KeepTheTailWagging.com since 2011, but things really started to take off when she niched down her focus to raw feeding for dogs.
Raw feeding is basically the paleo diet for dogs — attempting to mimic their ancestral diet.
Her blog had than 2 million page views last year — almost entirely from organic search in Google, and she’s monetized the traffic with a few different income streams.
A few years ago, a side hustler named Brock McGoff reached out to me with a guest post pitch.
The post detailed how he was making, at that time, $4,000 a month, from his blog about men’s fashion, on the side from his day job.
Since then, Brock has turned TheModestMan.com into his full-time focus, into a 6-figure income, and into a media empire that expands well beyond the blog itself.
Marc Andre made over $1.1 million dollars from his photography hobby.
But what’s interesting is that he never got paid to take pictures, he never sold any of his photos, and he never held any photography workshops.
So, what did he do instead?
“What I want is immortality, but I don’t want it in my name, I want it in actions of others,” Jack told me.
With the size of his audience today and the number of people he’s helped along the way, there is a very real chance of this happening.
With 250 million active users Pinterest is a social media platform every blogger and business owner should be spending some time on.
I’ve been using the Pinterest tactics shared on this podcast in late 2015 by Rosemarie Groner and they’ve proven to be extremely effective … for a while.
Meredith Marsh is a “Total introvert with over 3 million views on YouTube.”
When Meredith started VidProMom.com she didn’t set out to be a “YouTuber”. She started a blog and YouTube channel because she wanted to help families better capture those classic, picture-perfect family moments.
“There was no safety net, it had to work,” Kelly said.
Kelly Hardwick is talking about her business and blog, FemmeFataleAirsoft.co.uk.
Today I want to share a little about my latest experiment, an Amazon Alexa Flash Briefing Skill called The Money Making Minute.
I’ll go through why I’m excited about this, where the idea came from, how I’m setting it up, and why you might consider adding an Alexa skill to your own business.
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