Making $10,000/ month working for myself

Last month I made $11,300 working for myself. This month was one of my highest earning months in the past year…

Now, after making over $10,000 in the past month I figured I’d tell you how I did it & how it’s really not as out of reach for most people who want to make a living working on the internet

A very short version of how I got here…

3 years ago I dropped out of college & quit my job at McDonald’s to make youtube videos and run my own business selling T-shirts (that made me $500 a month at most. Then I made multiple youtube channels: got interested in cryptocurrencies & my channel on that blew up. within the first 4 months of a brand-new channel, I made over $10,000 just from ad revenue. (this monthly income didn’t last)

Since then I’ve had many ups and downs, hovering all over the place not being able to make always close to $10,000 each month, but always enough to sustain myself… until I realized a few things about making money online & leveraging what I’ve built so far.

Productizing yourself

The #1 way to make money online is to make it possible for people to pay you. It took me over a year of making $100-1000 a month through only ad revenue on youtube videos to realize that I could offer services and products to give people value & help them on their path… & they will pay me for it. About 50% of this last month’s income comes from freelance services, using my youtube channel & following people who reach out to me to help them make videos for their channels & especially so in my content area where I have been recommended by people to other people. If I want to take on more freelance work where I help people using my video editing, recording, & speaking skillsets then I can also reach out to companies or applications building most of the time they need help & will pay my desired rate for the help.Using existing skillsets is powerful, you are usually always many steps ahead of someone else who is trying to get to where you are, or you probably have knowledge and skills you can use to help others. Wether you’re trying to create a personal brand on the internet or utilize skills to freelance so you can work from home: both are not as hard as you think especially if you stick with it & also learn new skills to stack on top of your current skillset. For example, I went to college for computer programming, which has helped me to automate mundane tasks for myself which makes freelance work take less time. Or in the case, you learn the skill of editing videos & you already have a good understanding or marketing you can now market yourself to clients or market a course to help people that want to learn the things you know.At the end of the day making money at your job vs working for youself follows the same equation, but when working for yourself you keep all the proceeds. Simplified making money equation: Provide value = Get paid Value can be educational, entertainment, or enhancing someone’s day or life in some way. It doesn’t always have to be you teaching someone “How To”, your unique perspective often provides value to many others.Sponsorships are great if you have an audience are an amazing way to also monetize your personal brand if the route you’ve taken results in you having a following.

$10,000/ month goal: Why most people fail

#1 reason people fail: They don’t have systems to get there, just goals.Person A wants 10,000 subscribers on YouTubePerson B wants 10,000 subscribers on YouTubePerson A doesn’t have a system or habit to go from idea to video, so they upload 1 video every few months.Person B creates a plan to work on YouTube videos every day for 30 minutes, they upload 4 videos every monthWell obviously the person who has a system to work towards their goal is going to get there first… you’ve probably set a goal before & never reached it because you thought setting a goal was enough… you need a goal + a plan (a system) to have a chance at progressing towards it week by week.People also tend to give up early they think to themselves “it’s impossible, ill never make it” when they do not see results in the first few days, weeks or even months… they fall into the valley of disappointment before the results come in & then they give up too soon.

$10,000/ month goal: Why it’s easier than you think

$333 a day is $10,000 a month. it seems seems scary at first but there are millions of people making a lot more than this from the comfort of their own home.

Some examples to make around $333 a day could go as follows.

Sell 11 x $30 products or services, Sell 5 x $65 products or services, Sell 2 x $165 services or products.

Now the above examples are pretty obvious and probably don’t help all that much by themselves but then you think about freelance services: as you get better you can charge more, take on less client and make more money. Now let’s think about sponsored segments, you could do 1 of these a week and add thousands to your monthly income, the bigger your audience, the more you can charge. Now when you think about a digital product you might offer: a course, or something else that can be sold without you doing anything, you can add more value over time to products like these and also once again: charge more. then Scale as your business grows with how much value it provides. Get better at what you do and charge more, the internet allows us to scale towards billions of people.

If you stick with working towards this daily for a year you would be absolutely blown away with the results & you’ll likely have one or more income streams that don’t require you to do much that you can build on top of.

An important thing to remember is that I’ve also experienced first hand is how everything happened slow at first then all at once. All the work you put in for weeks, months suddenly results starts shifting and growth starts like wild fire from the areas you’ve been focused on.

The uncertainty: Ups & Downs

When you work for yourself there is also going to times of uncertainty even after reaching a level of success. You working on a new skill or part of your business may take away from the money you make offering freelance services or another avenue of your businesses revenue.

Your output when you work for yourself, or rather what you make & how well your business does comes from a direct correlation to your input (what you put it, how much you work, etc). everything is on you when you work for yourself, is it more stressful? yes, probably. Is it a path to choosing how to spend your time and have the ability to scale to and beyond $10,000 a month? also: yes.

Final Tip: Overcoming daily temporary struggle

Every day still I have many moments where I drag my feet & don’t want to do something.

Overcoming these moments is the key to everything at the end of the day. The little things do matter & they will decide if you become 1% better that day or not.Lately, I’ve been using a study technique known as Pomodoro to complete work efficiently through pomo-focus (100% free.)