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0:00These are seven Claude AI side hustle
0:02ideas that can pay a full-time income
0:04and at least one of them is going to fit
0:05something that you already do, already
0:08own, or already know. And everybody
0:10keeps saying that AI is coming for all
0:11the work. Well, here's what the actual
0:13marketplace data says. Upwork's own data
0:16shows demand for top AI skills grew 109%
0:19in 1 year, and AI integration went up
0:22178%.
0:23So, businesses are paying for this and
0:25almost nobody is showing up. And I've
0:27been early on this. I was making AI
0:29videos back in 20 22 and I said that
0:31Claude was better for business back in
0:322024 before most people even used it.
0:35And that side business that I started
0:36when I was a pharmacist with over
0:38$300,000 in student loan debt has now
0:40done over $10 million and my team runs
0:43on Claude every single day. And we
0:44typically spend over $10,000 a month
0:46testing out all the different amazing
0:48features that you can do on Claude so
0:50that you don't have to. Right, so you
0:51don't need to spend anywhere near close
0:52to that. In fact, most of this stuff you
0:53can do with the free plan. So, every
0:55claim is going to have a name source on
0:57the screen. It's going to be researched
0:58by real humans, not AI slop. And my
1:00personal pick is going to be the last
1:02one. So, if you appreciate me making
1:03this type of content and you want me to
1:05make more of it in the future, then let
1:06me know by gently cheersing that like
1:07button and let's jump into it right now.
1:11Okay, so first one on the list is going
1:13to be faceless AI content. And I'm
1:15opening with this one because it's the
1:16one that every guru has sold you since
1:18AI came out. And the pitch goes like
1:19this. You crank out 100 videos with some
1:22AI app, you post them all over,
1:24basically spam them across the internet,
1:25and you pray that one of them blows up.
1:27Volume, luck, and a robot doing all the
1:29work. That's the whole business model.
1:30Now, here's the problem. YouTube's own
1:32monetization policy says it out loud
1:34now. To make money, your content has to
1:35{quote} be your original creation {end
1:38quote} not be mass-produced, generic,
1:40repetitive, or manipulative. And they
1:41literally renamed the policy for
1:43repetitious content to inauthentic
1:45content so that nobody could pretend
1:47that they didn't know. And then, they
1:48enforced it. In January, YouTube ran a
1:50sweep and countless amounts of AI slop
1:52channels got deleted. Billions of views
1:55were taken off the platform. One person
1:56had 16 channels alone, they got 35
1:59million subscribers deleted and 4.7
2:01billion views deleted and gone. And
2:03that's just one person who owned
2:05channels. Imagine working for years
2:07building up your AI channel empire just
2:09to have them all deleted. And there were
2:11many channels that were making $30,000 a
2:13month that got wiped overnight. And
2:14there's actually a website that shows
2:15you every channel that YouTube has
2:17terminated. You scroll through it and
2:19surprise, surprise, a whole lot of them
2:20are AI slop. So, why is this number one
2:23on a list of things that actually pays?
2:25Because the purge is the opportunity.
2:27Most of your competition just got
2:28removed from the map. And the exact
2:30thing that AI cannot fake, a real human
2:32being with a point of view, just became
2:34the most valuable asset online. And I'm
2:36not guessing at the line between the
2:37two, right? Now, Wizzy B Com, who's one
2:39of our community members, is a faceless
2:41channel example that we like to point
2:42to. He started completely anonymous,
2:44completely faceless, and later he made
2:46the decision to transition into a
2:47personal brand channel. But before he
2:49transitioned, he got to a seven-figure
2:50business. But he made faceless content
2:53in a very specific way. With what's
2:55known as the hybrid personal brand
2:57method. So, one, he didn't use AI to
2:59create all of this content. The source
3:00of the content came from him, his ideas,
3:03and his thoughts. Two, he used his real
3:05voice. This is a big one. YouTube does
3:07not like you using synthetic AI voices,
3:09even if it's a clone of your real voice.
3:11Just have a human being record the
3:13content. And three, he basically chose a
3:15cartoon character to represent him. And
3:17so, even though he was anonymous, it
3:19felt like there was a real human being
3:21behind the brand. And then four, he
3:23actually had a air of mysteriousness
3:25that made people very curious about who
3:27he was and they'd stick around just to
3:29find out who he was when he did his face
3:31reveal, which he eventually did. And so,
3:32there's a right way to do YouTube
3:34automation or faceless YouTube content
3:37where you can actually make money from
3:38it. And then later on, you can choose
3:40whether you want to show your face or
3:41not, and you can build your channel in
3:42such a way where it can evolve over
3:43time. And then there's the wrong way of
3:45doing it where, first of all, you're
3:46probably not going to get views cuz it's
3:48way harder to get views without showing
3:49your face. Second of all, even if you do
3:51get views, chances are YouTube is
3:53probably going to ban you or demonetize
3:55you. Third of all, if YouTube somehow
3:57doesn't ban or demonetize you, it's
3:59going to be incredibly easy for other
4:01people to copy you. Think about it. If
4:02it's truly completely AI generated, what
4:05is stopping the 1.5 billion people in
4:07India from making the exact same
4:08content? Nothing. That's the answer. So,
4:11you're going to be competing against 1.5
4:13billion extra people from India, as well
4:14as other countries, if you make this
4:16type of content. And they don't need
4:17that much money to survive, and they're
4:19probably not going to feel bad about
4:20just copying your content. And you're
4:22not going to be able to enforce
4:23anything. And I'm also happy to report
4:24that out of all the creators that are in
4:25our community, not a single one has had
4:28a channel banned, right? Not one.
4:30Because there's a real human being
4:31directing it. Claude is the assistant,
4:33but you are the channel. Now, with that
4:35being said, if you're curious about how
4:36to do YouTube the right way,
4:37step-by-step as a complete beginner,
4:39even if you're not tech-savvy, and you
4:41want help picking your niche, and then
4:43picking your monetization method, or if
4:44you already have a niche, making your
4:46niche 10 times better, and then properly
4:48monetizing it so you don't have to get
4:49millions of views to make money, then
4:50that's exactly what I'm going to be
4:52going over in the live training that I'm
4:53going to be doing this week. So, click
4:55the first link in the description and
4:56the pin comment below to check that out.
4:58Also, I'll be giving away an AI that we
4:59spent thousands of hours on called the
5:01niche validator that's designed to help
5:03you pick your niche, or if you already
5:05have a niche, it's designed to help you
5:06make it 10 times better. And this is the
5:08most popular AI tool that we've ever
5:10given out. Literally hundreds of
5:11comments from people that absolutely
5:13love this. So, do not miss out on that.
5:15Additionally, I'll be answering
5:16questions before, during, and after the
5:17live training. It's completely free, and
5:19I look forward to seeing you there. So,
5:20click that link in the description and
5:21the pin comment below to check it out.
5:23All right, YouTube just got 10 times
5:26easier, and nobody is talking about it.
5:28You used to need an entire film crew,
5:31and it used to be a full-time job for
5:32you to just do any work at all on
5:34YouTube. But now, you can get work done
5:36in as little as 15 to 30 minutes a day,
5:39and you can actually grow a full-time
5:40YouTube channel. That's exactly what
5:42I'll be talking about at the live
5:44training that we're doing this week.
5:46Exactly how to start YouTube
5:48step-by-step for beginners. So, click
5:50the link in the description and the pin
5:51comment below to check that out, guys. I
5:53will be answering questions before,
5:54during, and after the live training.
5:56It's completely free. Plus, I'll be
5:58giving away an AI that is designed to
6:00help you pick your niche if you don't
6:01have one in the first place, or if you
6:03already have a niche, it's going to help
6:04you make it 10 times better. So, really
6:07looking forward to talking with you
6:08guys. This is stuff that we've never
6:10talked about before, so click that link
6:11in the description and comment below. I
6:13look forward to seeing you there.
6:15>> Next is going to be building and selling
6:17small apps. And no, you do not need to
6:19know how to code. And this is the only
6:21second income on the list that bills
6:22people automatically every single month
6:24while you sleep. Now, an example of
6:25somebody who did this is the guy named
6:27Peter Levels. And just one app, Photo
6:29AI, where you basically just upload some
6:31selfies and it gives you a professional
6:32headshot, that single app does around
6:34$138,000
6:36a month. And he has a bunch of other
6:37apps in his portfolio as well. And
6:39Forbes has his whole portfolio at over
6:40$3 million a year with no team, no
6:43co-founders, and no investor money. But
6:45you might be thinking, "Okay, Shane, but
6:47that guy is a famous developer." Fair.
6:49So, watch the boring version. This is
6:50Angus Cheng. He built a website that
6:52does exactly one thing. It turns PDF
6:54bank statements into clean spreadsheets.
6:56And that is genuinely the entire
6:58company. And it does $40,000 a month.
7:01About 39,000 of that is profit, and he
7:03has zero employees.
7:05>> I bootstrapped this entire business by
7:07myself.
7:07>> And that's the actual lesson. The
7:09mistake that everybody makes here is
7:10building something clever. Don't. Pick
7:12one annoying problem from a job that
7:14you've already worked on and build the
7:16boring little tool that deletes it.
7:17Because that same job also taught you
7:19exactly where those customers hang out.
7:21So, how do you do this with Claude?
7:23Well, you never make Claude guess. You
7:24feed it the real problem first. You open
7:26Claude and you say, "Build me a working
7:28web app that does exactly one thing."
7:30For instance, it might turn a
7:31contractor's rough job notes into a
7:33formatted estimate in PDF format, and
7:35that might save a contractor hours every
7:37single day. And guess what? They're
7:38going to be willing to pay for it. And
7:40maybe you might also say, "One page, no
7:42login, works on a phone. And Claude can
7:44build a working version in the same
7:46afternoon. So a real contractor is
7:48clicking around in it before you have
7:49spent a dollar. And when that contractor
7:51asked to keep it, the follow-up prompt
7:53is add Stripe checkout at $9 a month
7:55with a 7-day free trial. And one more
7:57thing, because this is the part that
7:58people miss. I have a community member
7:59that runs Wall Street Zen. And he
8:01already had a stock market analysis
8:02software, what he didn't have was people
8:04finding it. So when you're making
8:06software, you would have to be aware
8:07that building it is one thing and
8:09promoting it and actually finding
8:10customers to buy it is another. Because
8:11you could have the best product in the
8:13world, but if nobody knows you exist,
8:15they're never going to try your product
8:16out. And for Wall Street Zen, that
8:17industry is very saturated and very
8:20competitive. So make sure to pick niche
8:22industries to make software for.
8:23Luckily, that wasn't much of a problem
8:24for Wall Street Zen because they shifted
8:26their strategy from SEO to YouTube. So
8:28people actually get to see how their
8:29software works visually. And that
8:31promotes it to people who are following
8:32the stock market. And Claude will build
8:33whatever you point it at. Your job is
8:35pointing at a problem that you have
8:36personally watched people suffer
8:37through. So next is going to be content
8:40repurposing. So a community member of
8:41mine, Wiz, who we mentioned before,
8:43built this exact business. And it's safe
8:45to say that it grew into a seven-figure
8:47business. And almost everybody who hired
8:48him already watched his YouTube videos,
8:50so the videos did the selling before he
8:52said a word. And Wiz basically runs a
8:54Twitter and LinkedIn agency, where he
8:55takes large pieces of content, which
8:57could be in the form of an interview,
8:59and he creates viral Twitter and
9:00LinkedIn posts about them. Now, he uses
9:02interviews, and if you want to run the
9:04same thing, you can do it that way. But
9:06if you have a customer who's really busy
9:07and they just have a lot of content, you
9:09can just repurpose their content that
9:11way as well. Because here's the thing,
9:12every founder who records anything is
9:14sitting on footage that they already
9:15paid to make. And none of them do
9:17anything about it. So your entire job is
9:19making the thing that they already made
9:21actually work. So a 90-minute recording
9:23becomes clips, show notes, social posts,
9:26and a newsletter. And you can sell a
9:27month of work, not just a clip. And if
9:29you're thinking you can't edit, well,
9:30the real product is deciding which 40
9:32seconds out of the 90 minutes matter.
9:33And the actual cutting of the work you
9:35can easily hire somebody from the
9:36Philippines to do for $3 an hour. Or you
9:38can just use Claude to do it as well,
9:40and there's even specialized AI tools
9:41such as Opus that will find the best and
9:43juiciest clips and cut them for you
9:45automatically. So, here's the prompt.
9:46Here's the transcript of a 90-minute
9:48podcast with timestamps. Find the 10
9:50moments that would work as a standalone
9:52vertical clip, and for each one, give me
9:53the exact in and out timestamps, why it
9:56holds attention on its own, the six-word
9:57hook to burn on the screen, and the
9:59caption. Then you mine everything that
10:00you didn't clip, and now write the show
10:02notes with the chapter markers, 20 posts
10:04pulled from the parts you didn't clip,
10:05and the newsletter, all in the host's
10:06voice. So, what Claude can't do is
10:08watch. It reads words, so it might miss
10:10the moment that only works because of a
10:12face or a pause. So, that way you can
10:14still scrub the 10 marked spots
10:15yourself. Next, let's talk about
10:16creating and selling your own online
10:19course. And this is where your second
10:20income stops tracking with the actual
10:22hours that you work. So, here's an
10:24example. This is Chris Haroun. He made a
10:26course called An Entire MBA in One
10:28Course, and in his own words and in his
10:29own words in an article with
10:31Entrepreneur, it has sold close to
10:33500,000 times and generated
10:35a passive income stream of seven figures
10:37in net profit. Now, here's the part that
10:38I want you to notice. He did not invent
10:40anything, right? He worked at Goldman
10:42Sachs. He worked at hedge funds. He did
10:44venture capital. And then he recorded
10:46what all of that taught him. And he got
10:48paid twice for the same 20 years. And
10:50you probably already know something that
10:51people ask you about for free, right?
10:53Your friends, or your coworkers, or your
10:54patients, or your clients, or your
10:56customers, or people that you help, they
10:58come to you for certain advice. And
10:59that's the course, right? That's the
11:01thing that you want to make a course on.
11:02Now, most people don't even make a
11:03course in the first place because they
11:05think it's just way too hard and it
11:06would take a long time to write it and
11:08get it out. That's something that Claude
11:09can help with. And then of those who
11:11actually do finish their course, many of
11:12them can't even promote it, and again,
11:14that's something that Claude can help
11:16with. But let me give you an example.
11:17Right, so this is a community member of
11:18ours, and his niche sounds like a joke,
11:21right? This is Steven, and he teaches
11:22one piece of very niche CAD software,
11:25which is Siemens NX. That's it. Nearly
11:2840 years in fabrication and design, and
11:30he just teaches the one program. And
11:32right after releasing it and using our
11:33Claude AI systems to promote it, he made
11:35over $12,000 in course sales with about
11:3890% of that revenue coming directly from
11:40his YouTube channel. And the coolest
11:41thing is, one of the people who bought
11:42his course on this super niche software
11:44that only certain types of engineers use
11:46is an engineer that was working at Meta.
11:48And right, and this person had never
11:49spoken to him in his entire life. So,
11:51the best engineers in the world were
11:53buying his course. Now, let's talk about
11:55how to do this with Claude. It's the
11:56interview move again, right? You say,
11:58"Interview me one question at a time
12:00until you understand a skill that I have
12:01that people would actually pay to
12:02learn." Then let's talk about who is
12:03stuck without it and the result that
12:05they get. Then give me another six
12:06modules, the lessons inside each and the
12:08single transformation that this course
12:10sells. And that module map comes back in
12:12minutes. Then the follow-up is write the
12:14sales page and the five email launch
12:16sequence. And the rule is simple, right?
12:18Sell it before you build it. Take real
12:20money from five people first and then
12:21let their questions build the
12:23curriculum. And if five people won't put
12:24money down, Claude just saved you three
12:26months. Now, obviously, make sure to
12:28over-deliver to those first five people.
12:29Basically, just give them free coaching.
12:31And you can, of course, drip your course
12:32out one module at a time. So, maybe one
12:34new module each week and then you can
12:35present it live to the five people who
12:37bought your course. But you might be
12:39thinking, "Okay, Shane, but a course
12:40sounds like a lot of work." Okay, then
12:42don't build one. Promote somebody
12:43else's. That's exactly what my brother
12:44Zach does. Right? So, he's 50, he spent
12:46nearly 30 years in the trades and he's
12:48about as technologically challenged as a
12:50human can be. And he doesn't sell
12:51anything on his own outside of his
12:52career. And he recommends Course
12:54Careers, trade training that answers the
12:55one question that his audience asks him
12:57all day long, which is, "Which trade
12:59should I pick and how do I develop the
13:00skills for it?" And then he promoted
13:02other products as well. And because he
13:03was promoting other people's products,
13:04he was able to get to $18,000 in a
13:07single month. And notice something,
13:08almost every person that I've mentioned
13:10in this video has a YouTube channel,
13:12right? They make content online. And
13:13that's not a coincidence. Every single
13:15side hustle on this list works, but they
13:16all need one thing and that is traffic.
13:19Some people would call this
13:20distribution. But basically, people need
13:22to know that you exist. If they don't
13:23know that you exist, they're not going
13:24to buy your stuff. And YouTube is
13:26without a doubt the best way for them to
13:27find you. Now, you can make the YouTube
13:29content and then if you want to make
13:31social media content on other platforms,
13:32what you can do is syndicate the content
13:34to the other platforms. But YouTube is
13:36the best platform and you should treat
13:37it as your mother platform and then
13:39syndicate the content from your main
13:41videos. So, Zach works about 4 hours a
13:43week and Claude does the rest. And
13:45again, if you want me to walk you
13:46through exactly how we helped Zach set
13:47that up, I'm going to be running a free
13:49live training this week. Link's in the
13:50description and the pin comment below.
13:52Should be the first link down there. And
13:53just for showing up, like I said, you
13:55get my niche validator. It tells you
13:56which niche actually pays you or fixes
13:58the one that you're already in and
13:59that's the decision that everybody gets
14:01wrong. And it's the one that decides
14:02everything else. Because you want to
14:03choose the right niche where you know
14:05who you're talking to, you know what
14:06problem you're helping them solve and
14:08therefore, you know what content to make
14:10for them and what you can sell them. And
14:12most people get this completely wrong.
14:13Time out. Time out, guys. If you ever
14:15thought, "I should be on YouTube, but I
14:17never started because of the time or the
14:19editing or not knowing what to say or
14:21not knowing how to get started," AI just
14:23solved all of those problems for you.
14:26Because you can now make money from
14:27YouTube working less than 4 hours a
14:29week. 15 to 30 minutes a day is all you
14:31need. And this works even if you have a
14:33full-time job, you run a business,
14:35you're already doing YouTube and you
14:37failed at it, or you're doing YouTube
14:38and you're doing pretty well, but you're
14:39struggling with monetization, or you're
14:41just a normal person who isn't techy at
14:43all. Which is exactly why this week I'm
14:45hosting a live training on exactly how
14:48to start YouTube step-by-step for
14:50beginners. It is 100% free. No cash at
14:53all. And on top of that, I'm going to be
14:55handing out even more bonuses at the
14:57training. Now, just to give you one
14:58example, you'll be getting my niche
14:59validator pro that's powered by Claude
15:01and we have a chat GPT version as well.
15:04And this is a super valuable piece of
15:06software where you can finally figure
15:07out what the best niche for you is. Or
15:10if you already have a niche, it's going
15:11to help you make it 10 times better. So,
15:13do not sleep on this one. Go and grab
15:14your spot down in the description and
15:16the pin comment below because the only
15:18way to get it is by joining the the So,
15:20if you wait, you might miss out. Now,
15:22with that said, at the workshop, you
15:24will get to meet me personally. I'll be
15:25answering questions before, during, and
15:27after the workshop directly. So, I'm
15:30looking forward to seeing you there. So,
15:31go click that link in the description
15:32and the pinned comment below. It's
15:34happening this week. So, get it on your
15:36calendar, and if for some reason you
15:37can't make it, or you weren't able to be
15:39there, still go click that link in the
15:41description because it will
15:42automatically put you on a wait list to
15:44notify you when we'll be running our
15:46next live training. And you will be the
15:47first one to hear about it. So, yeah,
15:49looking forward to seeing you there. And
15:50now back to our regularly scheduled
15:52programming. All right, next is making
15:54business plans. And there's many places
15:56you could sell this, but one place would
15:57be Upwork. And here's an example. This
15:59guy's name is Evan Fisher. He started
16:00writing business plans on Upwork at a
16:02point where he had about $10.21 in his
16:05bank account. And he grew that into a
16:06million-dollar one-person business
16:08writing business plans and even the
16:10pitch decks that go along with them. And
16:11his firm's website now says its pitch
16:13deck and investor strategy have helped
16:15startups raise over $5 billion.
16:17Now, read that number again because he
16:19started with $10.21.
16:21So, nobody is coming to save you, and
16:23nobody has to. And business plans are
16:25not going to be that hard even if you
16:26don't have experience because Claude is
16:28your partner in writing here. So, a
16:30business plan is mostly structure,
16:32meaning the market, the numbers, the
16:33strategy, and the story written in a
16:35format that investors expect. And Claude
16:37already knows the format, so your job is
16:39to bring the specifics, which Claude can
16:40also help you do. And if you don't know
16:42how to do this, there are a lot of free
16:43resources to get help you make business
16:44plans. Just as an example, there's this
16:46girl here on YouTube named Jillian
16:47Perkins. And she basically outlines how
16:49to write a business plan, and that video
16:51actually got 2.6 million views and made
16:53her over $13,000 just from AdSense
16:55alone, according to ViewStats. So, you
16:57could watch that video, learn the
16:59structure for free, and then let Claude
17:00do the heavy lifting. And the gist here
17:02is you would tell Claude something like,
17:04"Write me an investor-ready business
17:05plan for this company with the market,
17:07the numbers, and the strategy laid out
17:08in the format that investors expect."
17:10And then, you just paste everything that
17:11you have about the business below that,
17:13whatever the investors want to see, and
17:15you should have a very solid business
17:16plan at that point. All right, the next
17:18one is ghostwriting and I picked a
17:19specific person for this one because he
17:21answers the question that everybody
17:23watching has about H. So, this is
17:25Michael Levin. He left a law career,
17:27Columbia Law, and became a ghostwriter.
17:29An entrepreneur reports that he now
17:30charges over $100,000 per book and he's
17:33written or ghostwritten more than a
17:35thousand books across 35 years. Over
17:37$100,000 for one book that nobody even
17:40knows that he wrote. Now, here's the
17:41honest part because I'm not going to
17:43sell you a fantasy. Claude will
17:45absolutely do the transcript to outline,
17:47the chapter structure, the first drafts,
17:49and the line editing as well. What
17:50Claude will not do is win you the
17:52$100,000 client. And that's a human
17:53being sitting across from another human
17:55being. But, the reason that fee is that
17:57high is that the work used to take a
17:59year at least. Many people spent three
18:01years or five years writing their books.
18:04But, you can help them write it a lot
18:05faster and it really doesn't take that
18:07long, not even close to that long with
18:08the help of AI now. And by the way, you
18:10don't have to do books. You could be a
18:11ghostwriter for LinkedIn or Twitter,
18:13right? So, land three executives at
18:15$2,000 a month and your month starts at
18:17$6,000 before you've opened your laptop.
18:19An example of that, by the way, in this
18:20niche is the number that the guy himself
18:22posted. This is channel called Nicholas
18:23Cole and this video called how to become
18:25a LinkedIn ghostwriter, five steps to
18:27land your first client, did really well
18:29and it's a good place to get started.
18:30And he's ghostwritten for over 300
18:31founders and executives. And he publicly
18:33stated that he made $3.7 million from
18:36ghostwriting in five years. So, how do
18:38you do this with Claude? Well, the whole
18:40business is voice matching and that's
18:42exactly what a Claude project full of
18:44their old posts is for. So, basically,
18:46you'll load it up, right? Find
18:47everything that they've ever written,
18:48all the content that they've ever made.
18:50And then you typically also interview
18:52them as well. So, you load it up, you
18:53interview them and you say, "Read the 20
18:55posts in this project and write me a
18:56voice guide, sentence length, how they
18:58open, the five opinions that they
18:59repeat, the words they never use, then
19:01draft eight posts in that voice from the
19:03call transcript that I just uploaded."
19:05And the raw material is one recorded
19:0645-minute call per month where you
19:08basically just pull real opinions out of
19:10a very busy executive and that is the
19:12skill that they're paying you for so
19:13that they only have to spend 1 hour a
19:15month on it and you take care of
19:16everything else. And you, along with
19:18Claude, can turn those opinions into a
19:19month's worth of content. So, the next
19:21one has to be the best dollars-to-hour
19:23ratio on this entire list, and that is
19:25going to be stacking YouTube affiliate
19:28and Amazon influencer. So, Business
19:30Insider profiled a guy named Jud
19:31Albright. He's a stay-at-home dad, and
19:33he makes more than $20,000 a month
19:35between YouTube and ad revenue and
19:37affiliate commissions, and he works
19:38about 8 to 10 hours a week. And Business
19:40Insider verified that income with
19:42documentation. So, this is not some
19:44random screenshot on Twitter. And Jud is
19:46actually one of our clients, right? He's
19:48part of our community. And he went from
19:50$7,000 a month to a $24,000 AdSense
19:53month alone right after starting to work
19:55with us. And he closed his first $3,000
19:57coaching client as well. And all of it
19:59is screenshot backed. Now, here's what I
20:01actually want you to take from Jud, and
20:02it's not the 20 grand. It's the
20:04stacking. Same videos, same audience,
20:06three separate revenue lines running
20:08through them all at once. AdSense was at
20:10the floor, affiliate on tools that he
20:12genuinely uses, and he became an Amazon
20:13influencer on top of that. Well, I
20:15highly recommend that you attend our
20:16live training this week. Click the first
20:18link in the description and the pin
20:19comment below. It's completely free and
20:20we'll go deep into exactly how to do
20:22this. But with that being said, we also
20:23have some resources which we'll put in
20:25the description and the pin comment
20:26below. It'll be the third link down
20:28there. They can help you get started on
20:29this, and they're going to be free
20:30Claude skills, free prompts, etc. And
20:32the truth is, this is the thing that
20:33works better than anything else because
20:35every second income idea on this list
20:37actually does work. And honestly, most
20:39second income ideas out there in general
20:41do work, but they all have one thing in
20:42common, and that is they need traffic.
20:44And making content on YouTube is one of
20:46the easiest and best ways to get that
20:48traffic. Now, one thing you need to take
20:49into account is where do your customers
20:51of any of these ideas actually come
20:53from? Because all of these can work if
20:54the customers know where to find you,
20:56and that's what makes YouTube the best
20:58second income idea out of all of them
20:59because it unlocks all of the side
21:01hustles and all the second income ideas
21:02on this list. Because you can be good at
21:04anything, and just promote what you're
21:06already good at, right? So instead of
21:07starting a race at the very beginning,
21:10you start the race 90% of the way done
21:12because you're just going to teach
21:14people on YouTube about something that
21:15you're already good at, something that
21:17you already know a lot about. Whereas if
21:18you just go and try some random thing
21:20out there, you're going to have to learn
21:21the whole skill and that's going to be
21:23like starting the race at the very
21:24beginning. And the best thing is Claude
21:26can do most of the heavy lifting for
21:27you, even if you're not tech savvy. And
21:29this works because Claude has made all
21:30of this 10 times easier. And a perfect
21:32example is my brother Zach, right? He
21:34spent 30 years in the trades and like I
21:35mentioned before, he's not very tech
21:37savvy. He's never made a video in his
21:39life. And he started a channel about the
21:40trades and by day 29, he made $214 in a
21:43single day in AdSense. That's a $78,000
21:46a year run rate. So he went from zero to
21:48a full-time income in less than 1 month.
21:50And then closing out year one, he made
21:51over $18,000 in a single month. And it's
21:54not just the trades. Remember Steven?
21:56Siemens NX, one piece of CAD software,
21:58$12,000 in course sales, 90% of it
22:01straight off of YouTube. And he was
22:02literally just teaching what he already
22:04knew a lot about. something that almost
22:06everybody in our community has in
22:07common. We help pull the right niche out
22:09of them so they don't have to go from
22:11zero to 100. They can just get to go
22:12from 90 to 100 because they're literally
22:14just teaching stuff that they already
22:15know. And just because it's common sense
22:17to you, doesn't mean it's going to be
22:18common sense to most people out there.
22:20And it doesn't even need to take a big
22:21channel. This is Carla for instance and
22:23her videos get 100 to 200 views each.
22:25And when her channel had about 1.5
22:26thousand subscribers, she landed a
22:28$106,000 a year contract from a video
22:31that got 100 to 200 views. So yeah,
22:33attend my live training, click that link
22:34in the description in the pin comment
22:35below if you're interested in that. It
22:36is without a doubt the best second
22:38income you can possibly do. Now I know
22:4099% of you are just going to enjoy my
22:42free videos. You're going to enjoy the
22:43free resources that my team and I spend
22:44hundreds of hours putting together. And
22:46you're going to enjoy the live training
22:47that we're doing this week. Definitely
22:49attend that. Don't miss out on that one.
22:51As well as the AI that we give away in
22:52the live training and the step-by-step
22:54guide on how to get started. Right?
22:55You're just going to get all of that
22:56completely free and it's going to give
22:57you a ton of value and we are never
22:58going to end up working together and
23:00that is completely fine. I always want
23:02to give 10 or even 100 times more value
23:04than what I receive, but I also know
23:06that there's going to be a small
23:07percentage of you out there, 1%, maybe
23:090.1% of you, that want a one-on-one
23:11mentorship experience, or you want us to
23:13literally just do the work for you. So,
23:15if that sounds like you, go ahead and
23:17click the second link in the description
23:18and the pin comment below to book a call
23:20directly with myself or my team. On this
23:22call, we'll figure out where you are
23:23right now, where you want to be, we'll
23:24make a plan to get there, and we'll see
23:25if we're a good fit to work together or
23:27not. But, only book a call if you are
23:29very serious about growing and making
23:30money on YouTube. We are very limited in
23:32the amount of calls we can take, and
23:33we're even more limited in the amount of
23:35people that we accept into the program.
23:36Typically, we only accept about 18% of
23:38people who apply. So, only do this if
23:40you are very serious about growing and
23:41making money on YouTube, treating it
23:43like a business, and you want to start
23:45right away. And if that sounds like you,
23:46click that link in the description and
23:47the pin comment below, should be the
23:49second one down there. The types of
23:50people we typically work with are going
23:52to be professionals with at least 10
23:53years of experience, or people who are
23:55overachievers, but basically people that
23:56have something to teach, right? They
23:57have experience to teach other people.
24:00It doesn't have to be business or making
24:01money-related. We have people in the
24:02relationship niche like Damien and
24:04Kennedy that made it to a full-time
24:05income. We have people in the
24:06spirituality niche. We have lots of
24:08people in health or fitness niches,
24:09right? Anything where you can help other
24:11people solve their problems. Those are
24:13the types of people that we like to
24:14accept in the program. We also work with
24:15business owners that want to get more
24:17views, grow their brand, get more leads,
24:18get more sales from YouTube.
24:20Additionally, it helps with every other
24:21marketing process that you have in your
24:23company, and it really just helps make
24:24your company better in general because
24:26the leads that are coming from YouTube
24:27are going to be very warm, and they're
24:29already going to know, like, and trust
24:30you. But, we also work with YouTubers
24:32who are getting a lot of views but
24:33struggling with monetization. And we
24:34also work with YouTubers who are
24:36crushing it, but they want to crush it
24:37even harder. And we work with people who
24:38have large followings on other social
24:40media platforms, or they have like a
24:42book or something like that, and they
24:43want to bring that audience over to
24:44YouTube cuz they know that YouTube is
24:45the best. So, if that sounds like you,
24:47click that second link in the
24:48description and the pin comment below,
24:49and we look forward to talking with you.
24:50And also check out this video right here
24:51where we go over exactly how we got my
24:53brother Zach from zero to a full-time
24:55income in less than 1 month.

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