How to Make Money While I Slept.

The goal after reading the bible – The Four Hour Work Week.

It’s been a life goal of mine and will continue to be.

Because who doesn’t like sleeping? And who doesn’t like making money?

It took me lot’s of trial and error and playing around with different business models so hopefully this will help you and just copy what I’ve done.

 

1. Make a YouTube Channel

I published my first video back October 6th, 2012. It was so crappy.

It took 6 months before I made my first $1 from YouTube.

Those 6 months were brutal. And the entire process just felt like a waste of time.

There were many times that I just wanted to call it quits and to focus on something that made me more money for the time I was putting into it. But luckily, I continued to pump out more and more videos.

After a year of consistently publishing 2-3 videos a week, I now make an extra$50-$80/day simply by the ads that run before my video is played.

The reason why I love this online business idea is because these videos will last forever. And the views that I receive on a daily basis still remain consistent even if I don’t post videos for a while.

Here is how this business idea makes money:

• Google pays you to run ads on your videos
• Affiliate sales by recommending products in the description
• Driving the traffic to your blog (most recommended)

Once you have a good amount of videos up, YouTube can provide constant flow of traffic to your affiliate offers and products or services. Its this constant flow that gives you the ability to make money in your sleep.

Here’s how I got started:

1. Research the niche that you want to get into
2. Find videos with high views and low subscribers
3. Make 10-15 videos about those similar topics
4. Once you have those corner stone videos getting views from being shown in the related videos on the similar videos you modeled, consistently pump out at least 2-3 videos a week
5. Watch your subscribers slowly grow over time

This is the exact process I used to go from zero subscribers to now around 250-500 subscribers a day.

 

2. Blogging

As awesome as YouTube is, blogging is far more powerful. Why is that you ask?

Well for one, when people are viewing your YouTube videos, you technically do not own any of those viewers; YouTube does. In most cases it’s no problem, but all it takes is one mistake with YouTube’s terms & conditions and you’re out of a business.

Blogging is different. You are the one that owns all the traffic that comes to your site. Meaning you will always be in business as long as you focus on providing value.

I didn’t start focusing on this business idea until the beginning of 2017.

All I regret is one thing: I wish I would have started sooner.

Not only has blogging allowed me to help impact more people, it has also given me the ability to showcase all of my best resources for teaching people how to make money online in one place.

When I first started blogging, I was not computer savvy at all and had no idea how to create a blog. But luckily, Bluehost (the hosting service that Robbiesharp.com was initially built on) helped guide me throughout the entire process, and I had my blog up and running in no more than 10 minutes.

Make sure you check out these resources if you are interested in this business idea:

• How to create a wordpress website with bluehost
  
• How to setup your wordpress website
• What are the best plugins to use

3. Sell an Ebook

It really is so easy to create and sell a book these days. Either an ebook, or an actual paperback book.

With the amazing beast that is Amazon, it gives us now the ability to print and send a paperbook book, once it’s sold.

In the past, you need to either print the books yourself, and send them out. Or get a book deal from a publisher.

One of the benefits of creating a blog is that you can monetize all the material on it in a more organized fashion in the form of a book.

The key is to create a book that is “evergreen”.

This mean that in 2 years time it won’t become outdated. If you did a book on facebook marketing, I can guarantee it won’t be relevant.
If you did it on dog training, and how to raise the perfect puppy – the chances of that information staying relevant are pretty good.

Do the work once, and let the income roll in.

 

This Income becomes “passive” and it’s not going anywhere.

 

4. Sell a Course

So if you focused your attention on building up a YouTube brand and a blog, naturally people will want to learn directly from you. They will thank you for all the free content that you have given them, and they’ll tell you how it was all life changing.

I remember when I got my first thank you email on how my free content on my blog and YouTube channels had helped someone make their first $100 online. It was mind blowing. I didn’t know how much of an impact I was actually having on people.

And these people that you have helped get initial success..

They will want more.

When I first got to this point, I tried helping everyone one on one as much as I could. But as my brand grew, I started to lose my time because I couldn’t help thousands of people personally every single day.

So to make things easier for myself and for everyone else, I ended up making a course. I realized that every single person I taught, I taught the exact same thing. So if I could organize them all into a video screen share tutorial, then it would give me the ability to impact more people.

Make sure you check out these resources if you are interested in this business idea:

• Make a Profitable Online Course Super Fast 

5. Affiliate Marketing

Now as your brand grows because of the amount of value you provide, your audience will begin asking for more products that have helped you out.

For example for me, people wanted to know the exact softwares I was using to run my business.

The two major ones that I use are Shopify for anything eCommerce related and Clickfunnels for anything sales funnels related.

And since these two had affiliate programs, I would get a commission whenever I would recommend these products.

I would have recommended these products regardless. But with affiliate marketing, I get paid to share the products that I personally love using.

Make sure you check out these resources if you are interested in this business idea:

• How to Make $100 Per Day as a Broke Individual

6. Product Sales Funnels

Product sales funnels are amazing. What are they? In essence, they give you the ability to sell more shit.

Plain and simple.

Product sales funnels have these things called up sells, down sells, cross sells, all of these increase the lifetime value of a customer.

I highly recommend product sales funnels because  they are the most efficient in making high revenues with low spend on advertising.

Here are some highly recommended resources for this business idea:

 

7. Drop Shipping

Drop shipping is basically you selling a product that you don’t have to a customer.

After you make the sale, you take the money that your customer paid you and use it to buy the product directly from the manufacturer at a lower cost.

You keep the difference as profit.

I love this business model because it is perfect for people that are short on funds. And once you have some systems in place, it is very easy to make money while you sleep.

In order to get people to your Shopify store, you really need to know how to use paid advertising strategies such as Facebook, Youtube or Instagram.

 

Conclusion

So there you have it. 7 online business ideas that have successfully given me the ability to make money while I sleep.

But why should you care?

Because you shouldn’t.

At the end of the day, your biggest goal is to begin to get results for yourself.

But how can that be possible when you aren’t taking action?

I know creating your first online business can be tough, and seeing other people’s success can be inspirational yet discouraging all at the same time.

But do not play “the victim” mentality and allow yourself to think, “Oh that would never work for me,” because at the end of the day I am a normal average human being.

And if I was able to do it, then what is stopping you?

Stop waiting on the side lines. Stop reading the achievements of better men/women. And do something today that can change the course of the rest of your life forever.

Learning how to start a blog and make money was the best thing I could have done in my entire life. The reasons to start a blog are endless.

From gaining influence to building an awesome network of people that share the same goals, dreams, and ambitions as you to having the ability to express yourself creatively, record your memories for “future you” to enjoy, and help others succeed in the process.. making a blog can be one of the most fulfilling things you could ever do in your entire life.

But not only can blogging be fun.. you can also make some serious cash with it. Today we are going to learn exactly how to start a blog and make money so that you can live one helluva crazy life.

Learning how to make money blogging is a simple process:

1. Create Your Blog
2. Focus On Building Your 1000 True Fans
3. Create Content That Solves a Problem
4. Get People to Opt-in to Your Email List
5. Offer a Product to Solve The Problem

 

 

1. Create Your Blog

 

First things first my friends. We need to host your website. Hosting can get really complicated when explaining it but its basically you renting out a piece of the internet for your blog to call home.

Its actually super cheap to get started and only costs around $3.95 to $5.95 per month to set up. Simply click on the image below.

 

 

Bluehost is the web hosting that I use for mikevestil.com and they have been amazing. They have a 30 day money back guarantee and their customer service rocks. There were many times that my dummy of a brain couldn’t comprehend the most simplest of things and they guided me throughout the entire process no matter how long it took me to understand so I one hundred percent recommend them.

After you click on the image above or visit Bluehost’s website here follow the instructions below:

Part A) First Things First

Click on the big green button that says get started now

 

Part B) Pick Your Plan

Don’t worry the cheapest option is fine.

 

Part C) Choose Your Free Domain Name

An example of mine is mikevestil.com. If your domain name that you wanted isn’t available then keep on brainstorming ideas until one is available for you.

 

Part D) Fill In Your Details

Choose how long you want to host your website. If its your first time blogging than the 1 year option will be your best bet. And all the extra stuff below that they have you add on you can just simply remove it. You don’t need them when starting off.

 

Part E) After You are Done Creating Your Password

You want to login to your bluehost account and look for the “Install WordPress” Icon then press start on the next page

 

Part F)  A New Page Will Pop Up

Find the domain you chose in the dropdown menu and select it. Then press check domain.

 

 

Part G) You Will Then See This Page

Leave the first box unchecked but make sure to checkmark the terms and conditions part.

Part H) Installation Complete

The next page will then confirm that the installation is complete. Click View Credentials.

 

Part I) You’re Ready to Rock and Roll

Log into your blog in the url provided or go to whateverthenameofyourblogis.com/wp-admin/.

• Go over to the appearance tab on the left
• Pick a theme for your website (don’t worry we can customize it later)
• After you chose a theme you can activate it.
• Then go over to the posts tab on the dashboard on the left and create your first ever blogpost!

Pop the champaign! Pour some shots of tequila, and lets celebrate, you just created your first ever blog!

 

2. Focus On Building Your 1000 True Fans

The next step of this process is focusing on building your 1000 true fans. This is based off of Kevin Kelly’s 1000 true fan theory that states all you need is 1000 true fans and you never have to work again.

Let’s take Michael Jordan. Whenever ever he comes out with a new shoe, right before it is released to the public, millions of people are such big fans that they literally camp outside the store overnight and wait till it opens in the morning – all for a freak’n shoe. They are so crazy in love with Michael that they are willing to wait all that time just to spend several hundreds of dollars for a product that simply has his name on it.

This is what it takes:

1. A true fan is someone that loves your work so much, they are willing to buy whatever it is that you make because they love you that much.
2. You don’t need millions of fans like Michael.. all you need is 1000 that truly love what you do.

For example, lets take a starving musician who loves playing music and nothing else. All he or she needs to do is find 1000 people that are obsessed with their music. So much so that every year whenever this musician comes out with a new Album, T shirts, or a concert.. these 1000 people are willing to give them $100.

That would be $100,000 a year.. do you think you can live off of that?

And if you are worrying about if you need to be a musical prodigy or a 6 foot 6″ basketball superstar for this to work.. good news is you don’t.

All you have to know is just a little bit more than the next person and BAM you are an expert in that person’s eyes.

Here is an interesting little story:

When I was 12 years old, I had the dream of becoming an NBA player.. or at least making my middle school basketball team. I figured out that if I learn how to jump higher or even dunk the basketball that all my fellow team mates would be peanut butter jealous. For hours I researched on the internet on how a short skinny Asian boy could defy gravity.

Finally, I stumbled upon this guy named Jacob Hiller. Just a random guy that loved to jump and make videos about it. I binge watched all of his videos as I worked every day to figure out a way to jump higher.

And then it happened..

Everyone that followed Jacob became addicted raving fans that wanted more..

One day, he reached out to his fans and asked if he wrote a book about teaching his secrets of jumping higher would we actually buy it? Everyone said yes. The book was the Jump Manual and it was worth around $67. I grabbed my moms credit card without asking just to buy it because I  was a true fan.

Today, Jacob has sold over 100,000 copies of his $67 “Jump Manual.”

Do the math.. that’s a lot of money made.

 

3. Create Content That Solves a Problem

So just as Jacob did, you need to find out what it is you are passionate about and start writing about it.

Like anything it is going to take a whole lot of time and effort and at times it will feel like no one but your mom is reading your blog posts. Don’t quit. Give it 1 year before calling it quits as 95% of people that ever start anything end up quitting when things get just a little bit hard. But to live how others can’t you need to do what other’s won’t.

Jacob hiller was making videos and writing blog posts years before anyone even found his stuff. But now those blog posts and videos that he made years ago still make him over $1000/day without EVER having to work ever again. All because he found his 1000 true fans.

So ask yourself.. is working hard for 1 year with no results worth a lifetime of freedom?

HELL YES.

If he can do it with just teaching people how to jump.. imagine what you can do with your passions.

4. Get People to Opt-in to Your Email List

So now you are probably wondering how the hell can you communicate with all these people directly? The most effective way is by building an email list. The email list is the main component when learning how to start a blog and make money.

This is exactly how I do it for robbiesharp.com:

1. I find out what it is people want the most and I turn it into a bite size piece of information that people can easily consume.
2. I have people give me their email address in exchange.
3. Then I send them hilarious, value packed, and slightly way too intimate details about myself at times (which you guys know if you are on my newsletter) all while recommending products that I believe will help their situation out.
4. The software I use is Get Response. The pricing is super cheap and you can even try it out for free here. This is exactly what I use when I send out my daily newsletter.
5. This is also what I use to automatically send out my cheat sheet and collect emails.

5. Offer a Product to Solve The Problem

Your biggest goal is to first build an audience of 1000 true fans. Building your audience is your biggest priority over making money at first. Remember this is a marathon not a sprint.

Don’t worry though you can still make money by recommending products in your niche even though you haven’t created your own yet. This is called affiliate marketing.  Focus on this for the first year while you are building your audience before selling your own products.

1. Simply create your account with clickbank.com, go to the marketplace, and find products that fit your niche.
2. As you can see there are so many niches out there that you can make money from.. from fat loss to helping people with diabetes.. to even helping people cut wood the possibilities are endless.
3. The best thing about this is you didn’t even have to create a product, and you get to keep up to 75% of the sale. You don’t have to do any customer service or handle refunds.. your only role was to recommend things that you think would help.

After you have a good amount of emails, send out an email newsletter in your Get Response account and ask what is your audiences biggest pain point and that if you would create a product that would solve this would they buy it?

• Now you know exactly what it is they want and you made a confirmation that they would actually make a purchase.
• The next step is focusing on building a product that you can now sell for yourself. You no longer have to waste time creating a product that people might not even want to buy which would have been the biggest waste of time.
• Only do this after you have a decent sized audience and email list.

Wheewwww that was a doozey of a blog post.

Hope this “How to Start a Blog and Make Money” Ultimate Guide was helpful!

Making a blog and earning a living from it is both challenging and exhilarating.

And with everything that you now know on how to monetize a blog, get ready for an exciting adventure that awaits you.