Side-Hustles From Scratch #15 — I'm Obsessed With AI

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'If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.' — W... [more]

1 year ago

Topics: Creativity, Side Hustle, Strategy, Productivity, AI

Created by HungryMinded using Midjoruney 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:

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

Update #15

Ever since I discovered image generation tools powered by Artificial Intelligence, I have been obsessed with learning everything I can about AI and its potential use-cases.

And although it has taken my focus away from the side hustles I cover in these articles. I have learned a lot of valuable lessons. I have gathered tons of useful online resources and I have a lot to share. For now, I believe it’s more productive to follow my passions. I am still slowly progressing with these. But I could do better.

My writing side hustle on the other hand is doing better than before. And I will be writing my first income report on this soon after the month is over. Learning about AI, and its possible use-cases has given me more material to write about than I could dream of. And the list is growing day by day. There are so many cool developments happening lately. It’s just so exciting.

If Artificial Intelligence is something you are into, check out DALL-E 2 if you haven’t already. It’s an awesome image generation and editing tool. And now anyone can access it without joining a waiting list.

DALL-E 2 Accessible For Everyone

Now an overview of the regular stuff:

Earnings

Total: $57.57

Breakdown:

Print-on-demand: $0.61

Affiliate marketing: $52.26

This week: $2.43

Breakdown:

Affiliate marketing: $2.43

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 another referral has subscribed to Medium using my link. Now I have a total of 4 referrals. This means I will be getting $9.08 each month as long as their subscription is active.

It’s not a lot by any means. But it’s nice having recurring revenue. This covers my own Medium membership and there’s a tiny bit left over.

I also received a reward of $0.16 from Pictory.AI as recurring revenue. This amount is laughable, but in total, I have made about 40$ from this affiliate program. And most of my success comes from this one article:

I Turned My Medium Stories Into YouTube Videos and You Can Too!

It has also made over $80 on Medium so far.

I should do some more reviews including affiliate links. But I just can’t find the time for this currently. But I truly believe this could be a great way to make some extra money.

Print-On-Demand

I’ve got quite a lot of designs ready to go both for my main RedBubble shop. And my Christmas store. But I still need to edit some of them. And get to the tedious task of uploading, naming, and tagging.

In other news. My main store has recently finally been getting more traffic. I have got new followers on RedBubble. A total of 8 now. And the number of likes my designs have got has grown to 147.

Hopefully, this will lead to some sales.

Goals For The Week

Overall goals:

Work on prioritizing.

Affiliate marketing:

write a review on Pictory.AI

Print-On-Demand

Focus on uploading

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: