The Fastest Way To Online Income (Stop Doing This) — Transcript
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- 0:00Over the years, I probably made a couple
- 0:01of millions of dollars doing online
- 0:03business. And recently, I've been
- 0:05thinking, what is the key to consistent
- 0:07money online? How is someone starts from
- 0:10zero and starts making money or starts
- 0:12an online business? This video, what
- 0:14we're going to do, we're going to see
- 0:16the fastest way to online income. What
- 0:18is the fastest way to make money online?
- 0:21The profile question is product or
- 0:23audience first? Which one comes because
- 0:26when I was getting started, I was
- 0:27thinking, oh, I have to create a
- 0:29product, then I have to sell it. But
- 0:31then, it hit me. I can create the
- 0:33perfect product. I create I can create
- 0:35the most beautiful product, but if I
- 0:36don't have people who are going to see
- 0:38it and who are going to buy that this
- 0:40product, I don't have anything. So, what
- 0:43is first, audience or product? This is
- 0:46why I actually started affiliate
- 0:48marketing because I didn't want to
- 0:49create the product. I already had the
- 0:51product. Someone else created it. And
- 0:53then, I had to just bring the audience.
- 0:55But that's again a slippery slope
- 0:57because even if I made a lot of money
- 0:59with affiliate marketing, I was left
- 1:01with nothing by the end of it because I
- 1:03didn't own anything. I didn't own the
- 1:05product. So,
- 1:07most people actually build a shiny
- 1:09product first and they spend weeks and
- 1:11months to perfect it, to make it
- 1:14amazing, the perfect course or the
- 1:16perfect app or the perfect store on
- 1:19Shopify, etc., etc. But they have no
- 1:22audience or traffic.
- 1:23>> [music]
- 1:23>> And of course, when they try to launch
- 1:25the product, zero sales and then they
- 1:28pay for ads to find out nobody wants it.
- 1:30That's actually the worst thing you
- 1:32could do because yes, it's kind of
- 1:34lucrative to spend money on meta ads or
- 1:36any other ads because you you think
- 1:39logically. Logically, you think, okay,
- 1:41even if you don't have an audience, I'm
- 1:43going to spend this kind of money and
- 1:44Facebook's going to bring me some
- 1:45people. But guess [music] what? If your
- 1:47product sucks, even if you pay Facebook
- 1:50money to bring you people, they will not
- 1:52buy it because your product
- 1:54it's not good. Quibi raised [music]
- 1:561.75 billion almost 2 billion dollars
- 2:00and shut down in 6 months after the
- 2:02launch. Quibi was a short-form media
- 2:05streaming platform founded in August of
- 2:072018. They don't exist anymore and they
- 2:10raised $2 billion. They launched and
- 2:14after 6 months, boom, nobody wanted it.
- 2:16That's a very very painful [music]
- 2:18lesson. I actually did it, too. I spent
- 2:20over $100,000
- 2:22building a software SaaS.
- 2:24It's called Clickera and it flopped. I
- 2:26actually spent 2 years perfecting this
- 2:29software, building it. It had so much so
- 2:32many functionalities. We had funnel
- 2:34builders, we had website builders, we
- 2:37had
- 2:38places to do automations and there we
- 2:40go, automate your marketing, sending
- 2:42emails, sending this and that and SMS
- 2:44and messages and contacts and blah blah
- 2:47blah blah. And guess what? I spent so
- 2:50much time bringing more and more
- 2:53features than I actually forgot the most
- 2:55crucial part. Did anyone want what I was
- 2:58building? Because
- 3:00I was spending time and money cuz I had
- 3:01developers. I didn't even create a focus
- 3:03group. Instead, I should have made just
- 3:06a an MVP, a minimum viable product, and
- 3:09send it out to the masses and say, "Hey,
- 3:11do you like the page builder?"
- 3:13Get answers, get the feedback and then
- 3:15if they say yes, I keep building. If
- 3:16they say no, I change it. But what I
- 3:18did, no, I built everything at once for
- 3:222 years. So, what to do instead? Stop
- 3:24building right now and get an audience
- 3:27first. Ask them what they like, what
- 3:29they need, and then sell the need. Sell
- 3:32them what they want. It's I know it
- 3:34sounds simple, but very few people
- 3:36actually do it. Getting with the first
- 3:38step, stop building. No market needed is
- 3:41a top killer of probably 50% 42% of the
- 3:45new startups and the new businesses. And
- 3:48I have a research here from a CB
- 3:50Insights, the top three reasons why
- 3:52companies fail when they launch. First
- 3:55reason is run out of cash, but the
- 3:57second reason is no market needed.
- 4:00Nobody asked for this app, nobody asked
- 4:02for this service. Nobody asked for your
- 4:04website. On top of this, AI made
- 4:07building so cheap that everybody can
- 4:11build now anything. Whatever you think
- 4:13of, you can build it. So, new
- 4:14subscription apps. In January 2022,
- 4:18there were about 2,000 a month. This is
- 4:20from the App Stores. And new
- 4:22subscriptions now in 2026 in January,
- 4:2514,700
- 4:27plus a month. So, way, way more. And
- 4:30guess what? Apps launched in 2025 or
- 4:33later, they just take 3% of the
- 4:35subscription revenue. You know why?
- 4:38Because people already use the apps
- 4:40they've been using for years.
- 4:41Unfortunately, it's very difficult to
- 4:43take
- 4:44um to change person's habits. And think
- 4:46about yourself. Think about
- 4:48like what kind of apps do you use? Like
- 4:51you've been using especially I I've been
- 4:53using the same apps for years. And it's
- 4:55very difficult to change your habits.
- 4:57And I've actually recently watched a
- 4:58video on YouTube. A person was actually
- 5:00explaining this phenomena that people
- 5:04trust new apps less and less and less
- 5:07and less. And they stick to the old apps
- 5:09they've been using. booking.com,
- 5:11Instagram, WhatsApp, maybe Viber, and a
- 5:15couple of other apps for checking
- 5:17[music] your stats like heartbeat heart
- 5:19beat, steps, etc. And actually I'm using
- 5:22the step steps up from the iPhone. I
- 5:24don't even have an app for that. So, AI
- 5:26builds the thing, but it cannot give you
- 5:29anyone to sell it to. It cannot bring
- 5:31you the audience. Yeah, it sounds cool.
- 5:33It looks fancy. It looks amazing. I
- 5:35actually in fact built a couple of fancy
- 5:36softwares. Dragonly. Looks amazing.
- 5:39Looks pretty cool. I'm using it
- 5:40actually. But guess how many people are
- 5:42using it? Not very not not a lot.
- 5:45It's fancy. It creates thumbnails for
- 5:47YouTube, but you know,
- 5:49it's actually me in the thumbnails. I
- 5:51vibe coded it. Next step is to get an
- 5:53audience. It's free and it never has
- 5:57ever been easier to start from zero in
- 5:592026.
- 6:01My Facebook group grew from zero to
- 6:0441,000 people in less than 4 months,
- 6:08guys.
- 6:09Facebook promotes it for free. People
- 6:11forget how powerful Meta is. You create
- 6:13a brand new group on Facebook, on Meta,
- 6:16and strangers will start joining
- 6:19organically. Your only job is to be
- 6:21active in your group. And this is free
- 6:24traffic, and people neglect this free
- 6:26traffic. Why? Because you got caught up
- 6:29in the shiny objects. Oh, maybe it's
- 6:31TikTok now. Maybe it's Instagram. Maybe
- 6:33it's faceless YouTube channels. Yeah,
- 6:35this is cool. They make money, for sure.
- 6:37But the easiest without putting a lot of
- 6:40effort, because TikTok and Instagram and
- 6:42YouTube require you to start creating
- 6:44videos and start putting content, which
- 6:46is fine. I mean, I do it. A lot of
- 6:48people do it. But it takes time. And it
- 6:50takes uh work. You have to do it. But on
- 6:54the other hand, Facebook doesn't require
- 6:56pretty much anything. Just a couple of
- 6:59maybe minutes a day to answer other
- 7:01people's comments, and I can show you.
- 7:02Here's my group, 41,000 members, AI
- 7:05Affiliate Intelligence. I started this
- 7:07group from scratch, from zero members.
- 7:10And I started being active. I started
- 7:13posting. Then Facebook and even right
- 7:15now, you see, I have pending posts, and
- 7:17I have members requests, 70 members. And
- 7:19I stopped promoting this community or
- 7:21group many, many years ago, and Facebook
- 7:24still [music] brings me people, 70. I
- 7:26have to approve them, actually. So,
- 7:28yeah.
- 7:29But yes, don't neglect your free
- 7:33sources. This does not cost you
- 7:35anything. It's literally zero. And to
- 7:38create it, it takes maybe under 40
- 7:41seconds. You just click [music] these
- 7:43bars here, Facebook menu, and then you
- 7:45go and you click groups, and then you
- 7:47click create a new group. That's it.
- 7:50Name it. Use AI for the image here, and
- 7:54you're going [music] to have your free
- 7:55traffic source in a couple of months.
- 7:57It's not magic. You obviously have to be
- 8:00active in that group. You have to post
- 8:02frequently. And another thing, YouTube.
- 8:04I was talking about faceless channels,
- 8:05but what about channels with a face? My
- 8:08YouTube channel grew from zero,
- 8:09literally zero, to 164,000 subscribers.
- 8:13And you know what's the weirdest part? I
- 8:15didn't speak [music] English. English is
- 8:17not my first language. You can by the
- 8:19way tell by my accent and the wording
- 8:21I'm choosing and using. Sometimes I
- 8:24would stutter stutter, maybe. And you
- 8:26see now?
- 8:27>> [music]
- 8:27>> So, there is no excuse. If you're an
- 8:30English speaker, native, maybe you're
- 8:31American, maybe you're from the UK,
- 8:33maybe from Australia. There is no excuse
- 8:36to not make it. If I was able to make it
- 8:38without even speaking English, you don't
- 8:39have an excuse. Start a YouTube channel.
- 8:42And nowadays with AI you can start one
- 8:44pretty much even without using your
- 8:45voice. You can just type text, use a
- 8:47voiceover, use AI, use hygiene or
- 8:49Hicksfield. Just start creating videos.
- 8:51Starting from nothing is kind of
- 8:53difficult. Starting from zero is kind of
- 8:54difficult. So, from week one, what you
- 8:56need to do is pick one person or one
- 8:59personal avatar. For example, I picked
- 9:02affiliate marketing, but you can pick
- 9:04new moms who want to work from home,
- 9:07okay? Or something else, accounting,
- 9:09whatever might be. My My thing was
- 9:12affiliate marketing, but not only
- 9:13affiliate marketing. It was very
- 9:15specific. ClickBank affiliate marketing.
- 9:18This is very narrow. This is very niche.
- 9:20So, that's [music] what you you have to
- 9:21think about. Subcategory of a category
- 9:23of a category. So, let's say sports,
- 9:27then from sports you go to mountain
- 9:29biking, and then from mountain biking
- 9:31you go to mountain biking for women. See
- 9:33how narrow this down is?
- 9:35Then you start a free Facebook group for
- 9:38them. [music] This is the second step.
- 9:40Just start a free Facebook group for
- 9:42mountain bikers. I actually have this
- 9:44example as well. I have a Facebook group
- 9:45for mountain hikers,
- 9:47which is pretty [music] cool good. We
- 9:49don't have that many people there,
- 9:50around 5,000 people, but it grows. It's
- 9:53growing constantly. Then [music] post
- 9:55one helpful video on YouTube, either
- 9:57showing your face or not showing your
- 9:59face. It could be just screen share with
- 10:01a presentation explaining something. It
- 10:04could be a tip, it could be an advice or
- 10:07where the best tracks are in the
- 10:08mountain in the mountains. Where is the
- 10:10best place to [music] mountain biking,
- 10:12right? It could be just some advice.
- 10:14Then a technique, maybe you you know
- 10:17which one is the best bike to buy. What
- 10:20is the best brand? What kind of brakes
- 10:21you need for steep terrains? Something
- 10:25useful. And then invite viewers to the
- 10:28group as well. YouTube channel and the
- 10:31Facebook group, they kind of share
- 10:33audience, meaning you promote your
- 10:36audience
- 10:37>> [music]
- 10:37>> and your YouTube channel on group and
- 10:40vice versa. You promote your Facebook
- 10:42group on your YouTube channel. So, now
- 10:44you have cross traffic across all those
- 10:47two channels, which is amazing. So, just
- 10:50to simplify it, in my YouTube videos I
- 10:52would
- 10:53briefly mention, "Hey, by the way, I
- 10:55have a Facebook group about affiliate
- 10:57marketing. You can join." [music]
- 10:58And when I have a new video on YouTube,
- 11:01I'll post it in the actual Facebook
- 11:03group and say, "Hey, by the way, I have
- 11:05a new YouTube video. Go and watch it."
- 11:07And this way YouTube feeds me audience
- 11:09to Facebook and Facebook feeds me
- 11:11audience to YouTube. So, they kind of
- 11:13work with each other. Step three is to
- 11:15ask them. Your audience tells you what
- 11:17they want. They will help you to
- 11:18fine-tune your product. And you're going
- 11:21to fine-tune it around their issue,
- 11:23around their desires, around their
- 11:24problems they're experiencing. So,
- 11:26you're not going to build it something
- 11:27from scratch, you're going to build
- 11:29something people actually want.
- 11:32Before you build it, ask three things.
- 11:35What are you stuck on right now? Let's
- 11:37say your mountain bikers, they're stuck
- 11:39on something, I don't know.
- 11:40They need new bikes or they don't know
- 11:42how to backflip when they jump or
- 11:45something like that. Then, what have you
- 11:47already paid for? Did you buy any
- 11:49courses to teach you how to backflip?
- 11:51Did you buy any special gear or
- 11:54equipment to help you do it? And then
- 11:57thirdly, would you buy this today if I
- 11:59had the answer? If I know how to
- 12:01backflip and if I can teach you, would
- 12:03you buy this today? Having an audience
- 12:05isn't enough. You have to ask them.
- 12:08Literally, you ask them, "Hey, by the
- 12:10way, have you thought about this or have
- 12:12you thought about a ClickBank course?
- 12:14This is how I actually created my
- 12:16ClickBank course because people started
- 12:18asking me, "Hey,
- 12:19>> [music]
- 12:19>> what is ClickBank? How does it work?
- 12:22Where have you learned it?" And I
- 12:23actually learned it by myself. I didn't
- 12:26buy any course even though I bought
- 12:27courses about affiliate marketing, about
- 12:29the marketing and copywriting. I didn't
- 12:31learn ClickBank
- 12:33from any course. So, I actually created
- 12:35because people started asking me, "Hey,
- 12:36man, can you show me? Can you show me?"
- 12:38So, yeah, I actually built it. And then,
- 12:41step four [music] is sell it. Sell it to
- 12:43them. Sell the product. Sell the desire.
- 12:45And guess what? Now, the product is not
- 12:46a bet. You're not betting on something.
- 12:49It's an order they actually asked for.
- 12:51Mr. Beast, he makes $250 million from
- 12:55his chocolates. I know this is a very
- 12:58brief example. Mr. Beast is, yeah, very
- 13:01well known, but he didn't start with the
- 13:03chocolate. He started [music] with the
- 13:05audience and then he created the
- 13:07chocolate and then he sold the
- 13:08chocolate. Another example, Morning
- 13:11Brew, they didn't have anything to sell
- 13:13for years. They were just sending emails
- 13:15and this is from Morning Brew
- 13:17themselves. Their only job was to reach
- 13:20a million readers without selling
- 13:22anything. They were just writing emails
- 13:25and that's it and that's from the CEO.
- 13:27We did nothing besides write, sell, and
- 13:29grow the daily email newsletter. That's
- 13:32what we did, [music] not sell products.
- 13:34And so, audience first, that's your best
- 13:37bet. Not even a bet, it's something
- 13:39[music] that you can rely on for years
- 13:41to come. You can always use meta ads, of
- 13:43course. [music] You can use that. You
- 13:45can actually start with meta ads, but I
- 13:47was promoting something that was already
- 13:49proven.
- 13:50When you're into affiliate marketing,
- 13:52you're not just betting on a product if
- 13:53it's going to be
- 13:55sold or if it's going to sell. You
- 13:57already know that the product is selling
- 13:59because when you have access to
- 14:01affiliate networks such as ClickBank or
- 14:04other affiliate networks, DigiStore24,
- 14:06the actual affiliate account managers,
- 14:08they would tell you, "Hey, this product
- 14:10is performing or this product was tested
- 14:13by the actual owner. They're [music]
- 14:14making sales." so respectively, it's
- 14:16very likely for you to make sales, too.
- 14:19So, now I have a piece of mind and I can
- 14:21spend money on ads on Meta to promote
- 14:24this product and hopefully make money.
- 14:26But, I'm not just creating a product
- 14:28from scratch and hoping,
- 14:30fingers crossed, [music]
- 14:31for someone to buy it. And so, right
- 14:33now, I'm actually building a brand new
- 14:35community for free to teach you exactly
- 14:37this, what I'm showing you in this
- 14:38video, how to go from zero to building
- 14:40your own audience and then selling it
- 14:42and making a pretty good online income.
- 14:45It's called the Content Lab and you can
- 14:47check it from the first link in the
- 14:49description. Join for free. What you're
- 14:51going to learn here is starting from
- 14:53zero, building your free resource, and
- 14:56then selling a product, which you're
- 14:58going to see how you can build it to
- 15:00your audience. So, first, you're going
- 15:02to build an audience and then you're
- 15:04going to sell them a product. And not
- 15:05only that,
- 15:07you're going to build something you're
- 15:08proud of, and you're not not going to
- 15:10have any remorse selling it to your
- 15:13audience. [music] So, go to the first
- 15:15link in the description, join the
- 15:16Content Lab, and let's together, you and
- 15:18I, build something amazing that people
- 15:21love and admire, and then they share
- 15:24with their friends.
- 15:25I'll see you in my next video, which is
- 15:26here in this top corner, where I'm going
- 15:29to show you another amazing technique on
- 15:31how
- 15:32you can make some online income. I'll
- 15:34see you there.
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