Side-Hustles From Scratch #19 — New Challenges

New projects and new obstacles

created by HungryMinded using Midjourney AI

Intro

Another Thursday and another progress update. No miracles, just real, slow progress. Get future updates e-mailed to you every Thursday by signing up for my mailing list.

And if you missed the previous updates, here is a complete list for you:

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Hopefully, in a year or so, we can look back at this list as a roadmap to a successful side hustle.

Update #19

To begin the update of the week I have some positive news. The earnings of the series have finally crossed $100. It’s not a lot. And it took quite a while. But this is a proof of concept. A proof that it is possible to make money online.

For now, I have been mostly learning, gaining new knowledge, and exploring the ins and outs of being an online creator. But now it’s time to apply this knowledge.

I am beginning to work on several new projects. I want to start a newsletter, launch my first digital product and start working actively on growing my YouTube channel. Starting next week I will report more on these projects.

So far, I have had the most success with writing. And as it was the first side hustle I started, I haven’t included it in this series of articles. But I do publish monthly earnings reports. And here is the last one:

Writing Earnings for October — Goal Achieved

New challenges

As I have stated in previous weeks. I am planning to grow and monetize a YouTube channel during 2023. But I am planning to start earlier than that.

I have already dabbled with YouTube and made Faceless videos like this one:

Video here

But now I have started a new channel named HungryMinded and I want to change some things and improve the quality and value my videos provide.

And this is going to be challenging.

The first thing I would like to change is using my own voice for the voiceovers. And to do it I will need to record it, and process it well. I already did a test run and wasn’t pleased with the results.

Quality of audio is super important for videos to do well.

A video with decent audio and not-so-good visuals is easier to watch than a video with great visuals and poor audio!

Here’s a video explaining this in more detail

I know it will take some time to get the voiceovers to the level I want them to sound. But my goal for the week will be finding the best possible way I can record my voice with what’s available to me.

And to learn how to process the audio to get a better-sounding result. Maybe there are some tools already out there that could help.

Now let’s move on to the regular parts of the update:

Earnings

Total: $117.98

Breakdown:

Print-on-demand: $0.61

Affiliate marketing: $117.37

This Week:

Affiliate marketing: $19.91

Accomplishments

• Series started — April 21, 2022
• First photos accepted to Shutterstock — April 26, 2022
• First video published on Youtube — May 5, 2022
• First sale on RedBubble — May 10, 2022
• First referral on Medium — May 12, 2022
• First actual affiliate sale 34$ — August 7, 2022
• Crossing $100 mark — November 1, 2022

Affiliate Marketing

This week my affiliate income has come solely from referred Medium memberships. Last month I gained 5 new followers. Hopefully, I will be able to grow this number more this month!

screenshot by HungryMinded

I also found a new digital product that I really like. But I wasn’t able to find if there are affiliate programs for these on Google. So I wrote an e-mail to the sales team.

We will have to wait and find out if I get a reply.

Print-On-Demand

I will still keep uploading my designs on Print on Demand site and keep you updated if there’s any progress. But I will be shifting my focus away from this side-hustle to some of m new projects.

Here is my RedBubble store

Next week I will be adding some new sections to the update. Stay tuned.

Goals For The Week

Overall goals:

• Start working on the new projects (newsletter, YouTube, digital product)

Youtube:

• Work on improving the quality of my voiceovers

Affiliate marketing:

• Look into some new possibilities for using affiliate marketing to generate income.

Print-On-Demand

• keep uploading more designs

In Future updates:

• A transparent look at my progress
• I will share what I have learned
• I will share other valuable sources of information

Here is a list of all articles in the series:

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