hi guys and welcome back to my channel and welcome back to our little house in
Crete I'm actually in Brendan's office today
the other day he stole my m50 and he went out and filmed a video so I'm kind
of stealing his office as payback not because it's better than mine my office
is actually better but this part of the room has much better lighting so I'm
using it because I wanted to film a video about my income yes
even though I'm British I want to talk to you about money and there's a few
reasons for that firstly it's because it is the question I get asked the most
without doubt is what do you actually do how do you make money how do you support
yourself and I did go into a bit of detail about this in my how I afford to
travel video which I will link up here if you haven't seen it already but I
don't think I went into quite enough depth I think maybe I need to show you
which is hard because a lot of the work I do I can't physically show you on my
screen because my clients might fire me secondly and perhaps most importantly I
want to be completely upfront about this lifestyle as I've said I want this
channel to share both the good and the bad and the realities of living as a
digital nomad working for yourself and travelling full-time and obviously money
is a very big part of that if not the biggest part of that you have to be able
to support yourself and you have to have a way to make money online if you want
to be a digital nomad and I'm also gonna say I don't think being a digital Nomad
is for everyone I don't think working like this and living like this is for
everyone and I've written a whole blog post about why that is so I'm gonna link
that below if you're thinking of becoming a digital Nomad please go check
that out because there are some things you might want to consider first and if
you're not thinking of becoming a digital Nomad or working for yourself I
hope you'll still find this video useful or interesting maybe you're just nosy
like me and then of course there's obviously the haters the people who say
oh you're just living off the bank of mom and dad you're obviously aren't
making any money so today I want to show you yes this is possible maybe it's not
easy it's definitely not easy but it is possible so I'm just gonna share my
income and my job of making money while traveling so far
so let's talk about money and if you watch Brendan's channel you might be
familiar with his income octopus-like him I have multiple income streams I
think it's very important for any digital nomad to have multiple income
streams I think it's a good idea for anybody to have multiple income streams
and I've always had multiple income streams even when I had a full-time
corporate job in London but I don't really like animals with more than four
legs or things that live in the sea apart from maybe dolphins and seals so
instead I'm gonna show you my income with puppies because everybody loves
puppies right the first one's more of a dog now than a puppy I guess because
it's grown so much since I started traveling full-time and that is seo seo
if you're not familiar with it stands for search engine optimization it's a
type of digital marketing and it's basically helping a website to rank
higher in Google so when you search something like cute puppy in Google you
want your website to be up there at the top SEO is helping a website to get to
the top that's something I did for several years in London before I've
worked with some pretty big brands in the UK like NatWest RBS new lurk John
Lewis you know I've worked for a lot of big brands doing that now I get to work
with smaller brands more local brands and I really enjoy doing it on a smaller
scale and in my first month of working for myself I didn't actually do any SEO
work at all I made zero income from SEO and I hadn't made SEO income for at
least a few months before that my last job in London wasn't even purely SEO
which is why I was kind of moving away from it and then somehow I just kind of
naturally fell back into it as clients died asking for it or friends started
suggesting me to work with people and now SEO has kind of been my sort of
bread and butter since about December or January and what I mean by that is that
I'm guaranteed income from SEO every month because I have my clients on
retainer some of them by sort of ad-hoc services on a month by month basis but
most of them are on retainer and I have several clients on
retainer and I know I'm gonna make at least that much money my income kind of
varies because of those ad hoc projects sometimes I have one of projects it just
lasts a month or two but over the last eight months apart from that very first
month when I didn't make any money my SEO income has varied between 500 at
about 1200 pounds so that's my first puppy and as I said that puppy's
actually more of a dog because he's kind of grown up a bit and that expanded very
quickly my second puppy is copywriting I've been doing copywriting freelance
copywriting for years I started copywriting when I was at university and
I've been doing it for about seven or eight years now freelance and that
varies completely every month it's usually just one of projects there's
very few ongoing projects that I have for copywriting but that could be
anything from writing webpages blog post sales copies newsletters social media
posts but it's all kind of like ad hook and the thing about this puppy is that
he's going to stay a puppy I'm not going to take on too much copywriting work
because it's very labor intensive and you really are selling time for money
and that's something that I wanted to move away from in this lifestyle for me
becoming a digital nomad and working for myself was the opportunity to not have a
cap on my income and stuff that copywriting is always gonna prevent you
from pushing through that ceiling my copywriting income usually varies from
about 300 to 600 pounds per month depending on what's going on and it's
not all travel my clients range from fashion and Finance to insurance
automobile and of course a little bit of travel riches the thing I love most and
as I said this puppy is going to stay a puppy because I'm not really interested
in growing my copywriting income I like taking on new projects I like the
challenge of it it's fun to keep my work varied but it's not something that I
want to be doing too much of so this puppy is in a really good place and I'd
like him to stay a puppy forever my third and final puppy for client work
is affiliate marketing affiliate marketing is what I did right up till
the day I quit my job in London my last job in London was doing affiliate
marketing full-time for one of the biggest publishers in the UK so
naturally that was kind of my main source of income my biggest puppy in my
first month or two of being a digital nomad and I've kind of killed that puppy
I don't do any affiliate marketing anymore because I kind of wanted to
focus on my own affiliate marketing on my own website and I will get to that in
a bit but yeah I kind of killed that puppy off because it's very time
consuming and you have to be very involved and you can't take on lots of
clients doing that but in my first month or two I made about four or five hundred
pounds per month doing that night apparently according to my spreadsheet I
made 570 pounds in my first month doing that affiliate marketing is basically
another type of digital marketing and it's something people may not know about
but when you click on a link from a website and you buy a product the
retailer gives the publisher a little bit of commission so if I recommend some
puppy food and you click on my link from my website and you buy this puppy food
I'll probably get between 1 and 3% of the total sale price so you normally
make very little money but if you do it well and you're good at it you can make
a lot of money with affiliate marketing and it's also passive income you once
you set it up you don't really have to do much and then we move on to my second
litter of puppies and again this is what I call like my me projects and I've got
to stop doing this I've been blogging for over five years I've been making
money from blogging and my own websites for over four years and yet for some
reason I'm so reluctant to call it my business or I don't really see it as my
real business and I really want that to change and this month I've been working
on making that change and so I've started really focusing on treating my
blog and all the related things as a business and that's partly because I
just love it so much and one of the great things about working for myself is
having the time and the flexibility to be able to do that
and the other reason is because my me income has started overtaking my client
income every month and I see a great opportunity there and it's something I
really love and feel passionate about so why would I not go ahead with that why
would I not make the most of that opportunity and to go along with that
I've also started investing more in my blog and my own brand ala Joad and I'm
not gonna cover expenses in this video because honestly I don't even know
exactly what they are and I'm playing around with a lot of stuff at the moment
if you'd like to see that let me know but I will most likely publish something
over on my book I've even set up a brand new mailing list for that so if you want
to join that as well I will put that below the mailing list itself is a great
example of something I've just invested in to try and sort of start seeing our
child as a business so going back to the money back to the puppies again there
are three main puppies in this litter and the first one again is affiliate
marketing why not start with that this is the smallest puppy this one is just a
little teeny tiny newborn puppy as I said I worked in affiliate marketing for
one of the biggest publishers in the UK and I saw how much money I could make
for them and yeah I didn't do it with my own websites and to be honest I think
that's because doing it all day and then coming home the last thing you want to
do is do the same thing on your own website you want to do the fun parts of
running your website that's why you spend your evenings and your weekends
doing it so until recently affiliate marketing was basically non-existent on
my blog I really did SEO even though I know SEO and I sell it to clients and
it's what I do for some reason I neglected to do it on my own websites so
I've been changing that and a few months ago I decided bright I'm gonna start
from scratch with everything so that's what I've been working on a lot recently
and the affiliate marketing in the first month made me about thirty pounds not
very much definitely not enough to live on runny enough to live for like one day
if that then in my second month I made 40 pounds a 33% increase but
still not really enough to live on for even a couple of days and then in the
third month the last month is increased nearly 500 percent its jumped up to
about 220 pounds a month just in one month which is still not enough to live
on but you know I'm getting them getting better at it and this is what I should
have been doing all along and yeah at least I'm doing it now anyway so that is
that puppy is growing quite quickly and I hope he grows up very very fast
because I actually love affiliate marketing it's the reason I did it
full-time and I love that job it was hard to quit and yeah it's great to be
actually seeing it grow on my own website even though the numbers are
still small and it's still very new it's something I'm really excited about and I
think that's really important when you work for yourself you have to love what
you do my second puppy in this category and this has been sort of my main income
from blogging for the last four years is brand partnerships and collaborations
and I'm putting this under one big umbrella this could be anything from
sponsored blog posts to social media post to Instagram takeovers it could be
anything that involves working with a brand whether that's an airline a
tourism board a hotel and this puppy's kind of crazy
he's like all over the place like bouncing he's completely unpredictable
and the income from this has varied every month from like 300 pounds to over
three thousand pounds per month and you just never know what's gonna happen
what's gonna fall through it's not really a reliable source of income but
when it's good it is good so yeah I don't know what's gonna happen to that
puppy he could just run away tomorrow or he could just grow up and be the world's
biggest dog I have no idea and it's kind of fun it's nice that I don't depend on
that income in any way I would be waking up terrified every day if I did but it's
certainly a nice extra to have and I'm like that puppy in this basket and this
one's just a little baby as well that is my advertising revenue and I don't
really use ads on my site and the thinking of maybe doing it maybe I don't
know I still don't know how I feel about it but at the same time I kind of expect
it when I go on websites because I know people have got to make money I know how
much time and effort goes into sustaining a blog and making it good so
that's something I'm considering right now I'm only using Adsense Google
Adsense and that comes from a few ads on my blog most of it comes from YouTube
and that's been anywhere from like 40 pounds to 200 300 pounds per month I
think my best month on YouTube was about two hundred and fifty pounds but for
some reason that's dropped right down to about 120 pounds a month now so not
enough to live on and again I don't know what will happen with that because you
cheap revenue seems to be going down and obviously my channel is still very small
and young but it is actually enough to pay for say my food for the month and
that's it for my little pack of puppies and dogs right now the final thing I
want to talk about is the puppies I'm hoping to adopt in the future so my goal
is to kind of feed the affiliate puppy until he gets really big and fat and he
can be my top dog and my other puppy that I want to bring in is products so
like I'm in a place where I have a little bit of time and I'm definitely
comfortable enough that I can take a few risks and I want to invest in the
business and I want to try something new I wanna I want to adopt another puppy
and I really want to start creating my own products whether that's writing a
book or creating a course I'm not entirely sure yet if the affiliates go
well since that's my background and something I know I can do it would make
sense to kind of look into writing a book for other bloggers to grow their
affiliates since I can't help each of them and sell my services in that way
that way I can share my knowledge and make some money make some passive income
from it but I'm not I'm not decided on that yeah I guess I'll update you when I
am but right now there's like a few puppies that I have my eye on and I
haven't chosen which breed I want I'm also considering maybe something to help
other dish to nomads maybe I can create some sort of resource
or service that will help people who want to live the same lifestyle as me or
at least try it out and I want to create something that's really fairly priced
and something really honest because I do feel like the market is lacking that
right now and maybe digital nomads the word digital nomads gets a bad
reputation because of it and I haven't figured out what that would be if you
have any ideas let me know but in anticipation of that I have started a
whole new digital Nomad hub and section over on my blog that I'm gonna be
growing and I started a whole newsletter for that as well so if you want to join
that and hear about whatever it happens to be what it ends up being I'd love to
have you there I would put the link below and that is it for this video so I
have my six puppies which is great but you know you can never have too many
puppies right and I'm excited I'm actually really excited to see what new
puppies I can adopt maybe one day I'll have like a whole dog park of puppies
and that would basically be the dream and yeah that is it the other one point
I really want to make last one I promise is that this lifestyle really is not for
everyone I took a risk I took a massive risk because I knew that the reward
would be worth it and I knew that I wanted it and I knew that I was willing
to work for it and it's paid off but it's only really just started to pay off
and it's only just started to feel secure I guess and it's been an
emotional ride it's been the most emotional eight months of my life it's
been intense and I think unless you really want it it's just like something
you shouldn't put yourself through and that really is it for this video so like
I said if you want to join my digital Nomad newsletter I'll put the link below
if you're not really interested in that but you're still watching and you want
to join my regular newsletter I would also put the link to my shiny new
formatted newsletter below and if you want to go read that post that link will
be below as well as always feel free to ask me any questions in the comments I
hope this is kind of expert and everything well I hope it's kind of
showing you where my income comes from but if you have any questions about any
of my income streams about any of my puppies which sounds so wrong now I'm
hearing it then just leave the question below I do try to reply to every comment
I'm slow sometimes sometimes I'm busy but I do always reply to every single
comment and yeah that's it for this video to you anybody who's ever asked me
I know a lot of you have asked me about my income and how I make money or you
think I just make videos or I just blog or I just do SEO or any of that
I hope this has really laid it out and showing you the full picture
I hope thank you for watching the next video will be up on Sunday and I hope
I'll see you there
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