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Side-Hustles From Scratch #17 — A Minor Setback and Shifting Focus to YouTube

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. https://medium.com/@HungryMinded/subscribe And if you missed the previous updates, here is a complete list for you: Trying Popular Online Side-Hustles From Scratch View list 18 stories https://medium.com/@HungryMinded/list/trying-popular-online-sidehustles-from-scratch-e04988033439?source=post_page-----8f0ddab9494d-------------------------------- Hopefully, in a year or so, we can look back at this list as a roadmap to a successful side hustle. Update #17 When I began the series I started with 3 side hustles: Affiliate marketing, Print on Demand, and a Faceless YouTube channel. While doing all of this my main focus was growing an audience here on Medium. And that has been going quite well. But along the journey, I abandoned YouTube for a while simply because I didn’t have enough free time to manage everything. I want to focus heavily on growing a YouTube channel in 2023. But it’s always better to begin early. So I will try to find the time to get back to working on YouTube starting now. When I started creating content online my original handle was @moneycanworkforyou I wanted to focus on covering topics like investing and money-making. But along the way, I decided that I don’t want to limit myself to just these topics and changed my pseudonym to HungryMinded. https://ecency.com/@moneycanworkforyou I used to create faceless youtube videos like this one: video here https://youtu.be/FnAiiP9tDCQ And it did pretty well for a video like this on an unknown channel. If you are interested in how I made it, I wrote an article where I cover this in detail. https://medium.com/seeds-for-the-future/i-turned-my-medium-stories-into-youtube-videos-and-you-can-too-f8520774b78a But now I want to try something a bit different. I want to give a shot at using my real voice. As well as shift my focus to covering a wider spectrum of topics. So I have created a new YouTube channel. Hungry Minded - new channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqDQvcvQ0BR8zv8Wms4kqZw Subscribe to the channel to follow along my journey and support me :) Now about the setback. Affiliate marketing is great and I see a huge potential to earn more using this strategy. But this I’ve had a minor setback. A recent commission got retracted because the user decided to cancel his subscription to the service I promoted and ask for a refund. It’s a bit sad, but it is no big deal. I knew this could happen. Earnings Total: $59.42 Breakdown: Print-on-demand: $0.61 Affiliate marketing: $58.81 This Week: Affiliate marketing: -$36.48 Accomplishments Series started — April 21, 2022 First photos accepted to Shutterstock — April 26, 2022 First video published on Youtube — May 5, 2022 First sale on RedBubble — May 10, 2022 First referral on Medium — May 12, 2022 First actual affiliate sale 34$ — August 7, 2022 Affiliate Marketing This week has been one of the worst for affiliate marketing as one of the commissions got retraced, and I didn’t get any more commissions.

screenshot by HungryMinded But as I have said before, I do see a potential to earn a lot using affiliate marketing in the future. I don’t want to overdo it now in the early stages of my content creation career. And I want to keep it highly relevant to my audience. For now, it’s all about building an audience. And it is going pretty well so far. Print-On-Demand I am a little bit frustrated with the results of this one. And so far I don’t think it is worth the time I’ve been putting into it. At least in the form, I am currently doing this. Uploading my designs to Redbubble. I have uploaded 60 designs. And have made just one sale. But I have had a lot of fun making these designs and I have learned a lot. I think Redbubble is too saturated with competition for new users to get noticed easily. But I will keep uploading my designs at least until I get to 100. So far my most viewed design according to Google Analytics has been this Party Lemur:

Jungle Party Lemur Essential T-Shirt by HungryMinded https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Jungle-Party-Lemur-by-HungryMinded/122586315.WFLAH When I started creating these designs I used only Photoshop to create them. But lately, I have been using Midjourney AI and it has been a lot of fun. If you want to check out Midjourney yourself, here are some tutorials to get you going. Start Creating Images With Midjourney Now https://medium.com/@HungryMinded/list/start-creating-images-with-midjourney-now-73e6c15d3527?source=post_page-----8f0ddab9494d-------------------------------- Goals For The Week Overall goals: Get back into making YouTube videos. **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: Trying Popular Online Side-Hustles From Scratch https://medium.com/@HungryMinded/list/trying-popular-online-sidehustles-from-scratch-e04988033439?source=post_page-----8f0ddab9494d-------------------------------- Feedback If you have any suggestions or questions or want to share your thoughts, leave a comment below. Before you leave If you enjoyed reading my work consider subscribing to get e-mails about my future writing on Medium - Sign up Here, or tipping me on Ko-Fi. https://medium.com/@HungryMinded/subscribe https://ko-fi.com/hungryminded *This article was originally posted by me on* *Medium* https://medium.com/seeds-for-the-future/side-hustles-from-scratch-17-a-minor-setback-and-shifting-focus-to-youtube-8f0ddab9494d