Legitimate Ways to Make Money Online - And how long it takes

hi there in this video I want to look at legitimate ways to make money online and how long it takes now I've been working online for about twenty years and I can say that if you build a website it takes time it takes time to build the website and then time to get the people so I want to look at the different ways of working online and give you an idea how long it takes this here is a list of different ways I put this together in a previous video and explaining the quickest ways to work online now if I go to the bottom of this list number eight and number nine these are ones that I've done number nine is a YouTube channel blog and website and number eight is stock images and templates I've done stock images so I want to look at first of all a youtube channel and how long it takes to get going so this is a YouTube channel I started this year I actually stopped this and the reason I stopped it was because it wasn't really my passion it's about video marketing and using images on your websites and after doing 50 videos I decided my passion really is about traveling and working online so I actually started a new one after this but if we look I started in September 7th of September here this was probably just me testing it and this is a total of three months you've got September October and November really it's about three months and it's gone up to if we look at the top one here seven hours 26 minutes so that's over seven hours a day people are watching my videos and I think that's pretty good I'm impressed with that but it's taken time it's taken about two and a half months something like that and what I did when I started I made a video every day I made a total of 50 videos so that would be just under two months and it's taken about two and a half months to actually reach seven hours a day the ways you can monetize this then is to sell affiliate products affiliate services you can get some money from YouTube for advertising and you can also make your own course and then sell that so those are ways to monetize it but if we look at how long it's taken so it's taken about two and a half months to get seven hours watched a day and I think from there I can start making money on it so I'd say three months to start making money and from my experience in things I've done in the past I've had an export business and I've done websites before I had actually a thousand websites and I would say to actually really make money it does take a year and then you're actually in it and making a living let's go back to that list and number eight here stock images and it could also be templates what I did I started with stock photos then I did stop graphic designs and you could also do templates like website templates or Photoshop templates things like that and let's look at the results for that so if I look at the date first this is when I started it's actually this is January 2013 and this is January 2012 and if we go down then January 2012 was the first month I started getting money and I got $800 and I'd actually uploaded a thousand images I'd taken the photos I processed them picked out the ones that I liked and then I'd enhanced them a bit adding some color and vibrance then I had to put the titles and the keywords on them and I had to join the companies and upload them and that took me roughly four months I didn't do it all together I actually took the pictures a few years previously but I hadn't uploaded them and then I took these images and I spent time processing them uploading and keywording and everything and so it took me about four months and then I got about $800 here and then the money increased as I added more and if we look here so if we add the four months plus another eight so that's one two three four five six seven eight then after a year I was earning about $2,600 and it did actually increase after two years would be about here two four six eight ten twelve okay after two years earning just under $3,000 and after three years - earning four thousand dollars and then it actually went up here to about five thousand dollars a month so it took about three years to actually start earning $5,000 a month and that's quite a long time it's not quick but it's something that I stopped this about eighteen months ago and then even after I stopped it I'm still getting income so let's say I stopped it about two four six eight ten twelve fourteen sixteen eighteen I stopped it about here say May 2016 and I'm still earning income from it each month and it does go down but it's still okay sitting somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 dollars a month and I actually had to stop because I was getting repetitive strain injury from typing so I decided to stop doing that for a while and do something where I didn't have to type in the keywords and all the titles and stuff that's just to give you an idea and I just would say that with anything that when you start it's going to take three months to see whether it's going to work and then it will take you about a year to actually get established and start earning possibly a wage let's go back then to the quickest ways to work online and I've put these here so a youtube channel I think these are some of the slowest ways a YouTube channel a blog I would say takes even longer you need to then start getting people from social media or from SEO and I think that takes longer than a YouTube channel and also with the website same thing these stock images it takes time because you have to build up you have to keep putting more and more images online or more templates online and then the money comes in teaching English online that's quicker because you can get established quite quickly there's some websites where you register and then people will come to you looking for English lessons and to practice their English I haven't tried that I taught in schools I've taught businesses but face to face I haven't tried online but it is quite easy it's quite easy work as long as you're an English speaker then you've got freelance work I also haven't actually done it myself but I've outsourced quite a lot to other people so I've got experience in that side of it and the website I used to use was freelancer.com if you've got a skill like writing articles or making websites or doing programming and things like that then I would go to freelancer.com put your resume on there and then you can start bidding for work so that's a quicker way if you've got those kind of skills another way is to start with Fiverr.com let's have a look at that if you look at the titles here it's for people who can do graphic design marketing writing animation programming music things like that you can make intros for people this is a place you can register and then you can show what you can do and people will come to you and pay you to do it the money can be quite low but it's a good place to start and it's a quick place to start because once you start getting clients you can do more work for them other work and you can then start your website if you start using this to get some clients you can get some practice and you can build up a few people and then you can do your own website and spend more time on that and kind of build it that way and get higher paying clients one quick way lets actually go to the beginning here so the quickest way is to ask your employer if you can work online and most people will think that won't work but I did meet a guy a few weeks ago and he was working out here I'm in Phuket Thailand he was working out here for his company and actually about 50% of the employees went to the management and they said can we work abroad we all want to work in different countries and the company agreed and it was good for them because it cost them less and it was good for the workers the second one look for an online job you've got places to look for jobs like indeed.com or indeed.co.uk and there are online jobs like customer service or sales that you can do working online and the next one here which is quite quick to start not necessarily easy but quick to start is to get clients for your profession so if you're an accountant or programmer or you make websites something like that then you can look locally for clients and I would say it's easier locally you can ask your friends to ask people and also make a local website or you can make a Google I think it's Google Plus that you can put your stuff in and you'll come up on the map as being local like on the results for Google you'll come up as being local and the last one here was if you don't have a skill if you've got an online skill then you can find local clients if you don't then you could learn an online skill and get local clients and that's not as quick as these but it's also a quick way of starting so these are some of the quickest ways to work online and I would just ignore all these things that say work online four hours a week thousands of dollars just join this course or just pay for this just ignore those because you just want legitimate ways and these are some of those so I hope you found that useful if you did please give this a thumbs up if you've got any questions or comments then please put them down below if you're looking for work online and especially if you're looking to travel and work online I've been traveling for 27 years now and working online for 20 so please subscribe to my channel to learn more thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video