I want to share with you guys the seven different income streams I built by the time I was 24 years old. This is not the typical approach for someone in their young 20's. So I want to explain to you how I was able to do it. And the reasoning behind why I decided to do it. So, where this all started was about the time I was 18 years old is when I got my first real job. I worked for a startup company that was only a couple of years into the business.
And I worked for them for four years until I was 21. And when I was 21, I was kind of relying on this income. I was making $17 an hour plus commission, so I was doing pretty well. But all of a sudden, my boss got an email saying that the job she was fired, and that meant that I was fired as well. So out of nowhere, just literally waking up the next day. I found out that morning that I no longer had a job. This hit me like a ton of bricks because this was the income I was relying on and I didn't have any experience otherwise telling me that you can just be fired from your job just like that with no explanation.
I thought you would get noticed; I thought I would be able to plan something. So I had no job at this point. This was when I had to go out and find another job. So I did find another job. And this was about the time I was 22 years old. And I didn't want this to happen again. So I started to proactively look at other ways that you can make money online. How do you safeguard this? How do you diversify? What do you do so you don't just get fired and then have no job and no income. So while I was working at this job, I started to look into different ways to make money. And I didn't have money to invest. So I couldn't buy real estate, I couldn't invest in the stock market, I didn't have money to invest upfront. So I had to find ways that I could use my skills or use labor.
Something where I could put in the time and then get money from that long term. So long story short is this is where that transition started from me working a single job to diversifying and creating getting income streams online. So with that said, I only worked at that job for a year, then when I was 23, and now 24 is when I've been working on online income streams. And now I'm completely financially independent of any job, and the funny part is, is I'm making at least five times more than I ever did on salary. So I'm glad that I made this transition, and I'm just making these videos to try to help you guys to go through this same transition.
Before I get into these seven income streams here, I want to give one quick piece of advice. And that is, if you are working at a job and you're about to go through this transition, don't jump ship too early. You have to build a raft at least. What I mean by that is, you're on a boat right now. You have that income coming in, something you can rely on. If you jump overboard, you just quit your job, and you decide, I'm going to figure out how to do this. You have no income; you have nothing to go off of. You're just going to drown. So what you need to do is build at least a raft. Start doing this, start doing some of the things that I will explain in this video until you have some income you can rely on. Even if it's not the total amount you're making at your job, you will have a raft. You'll have something that you can float on for a while, while you keep building it up. And then you will have another ship that you can rely on that income.
Start doing these things after hours once you get off your job until you have something you can transition into nicely. Alright, hopefully, you guys have some context on this now. Now let's get into the seven passive income streams that I was able to create. So the first one is what I recommend for anyone getting started. I've talked about this before, but that is Teespring. Teespring is a print-on-demand platform where you create designs. You don't need any paid software for this; you can do it entirely for free. Some apps will help you do the procedure. So you don't have to be an artist or a creative. But you're just creating catchy, trendy things to put on T-shirts, or mugs, or different articles of clothing. clothing
And then you upload it to Teespring. And it creates a virtual listing. And then people can come and buy it. They pay for the whole thing, Teespring prints it and ships it, take care of customer service, and puts the profit right into your account that you can payout. This is great for anyone because there's no startup cost. It's just you finding ideas on the internet, creating them, and uploading them to Teespring. You can spend just an hour after work every day, and you'll be able to make five or six, maybe ten designs every day, upload them to Teespring. And you start compounding this; you do this for a while, then you're going to have 100 200 300 different designs on Teespring while you're still working your full-time job. You won't have to worry about this, but it'll be making money in the background.
So when you go home, you can check your account, see how much money you made on Teespring. This is an excellent way to start building up that raft. If you need more on this, I've got videos. I'll link one up here for Teespring. And there's a couple of good ones on the channel that will help you go through kind of everything you need to know for Teespring. So once I found out that you could do this on Teespring, I started to look a bit further. Where else could I do this print-on-demand style? And this led me into my second passive income stream, and this was Merch by Amazon. What I found out is that Amazon is in everything. Well, they're also in print-on-demand. Very similar to Teespring, Amazon has a program called Merch by Amazon. Now what's impressive about this is it's nonexclusive. Currently, the same designs you upload to Teespring, you can take those designs and upload them to Merch by Amazon.
Now you're just going to get free traffic from people searching on Amazon who will be buying those designs as well. Maybe those people don't know about Teespring. So they didn't see it on Teespring. But they did see it on Amazon, double the money. And again, this is entirely free to start, and you can keep scaling with this and adding more and more designs. So at this point, I had two passive income streams, which is so easy for you to start as well. So this leads right into the third passive income stream.
And similarly to Teespring and Merch by Amazon, there's another one called Redbubble. Redbubble is another reputable print-on-demand company. And again, nonexclusive. So you can upload the same designs from
Teespring, Merch by Amazon onto Redbubble. Suddenly, I had three passive income streams, and they were all making money with the same designs. So you guys can make this just as easy as I did. But that's an excellent way to go from working your job to having three passive income streams. So just like that, you have three passive income streams that you just built, and you don't have to worry about after you've uploaded the designs. Now granted, there are more things that you can do regarding marketing to sell more on print-on-demand. They'll be linked in the video up here that's using social media, but you don't have to do those. When you're working your full-time job, add these things in.
Just upload the designs and let them do the marketing for you. So there's your first three right there, and that's the first three that I started with. So once I had put some work into this and was making decent money on print-on-demand on these three sites, it was pretty life-changing for me. As a 23-year-old, you weren't supposed to be making this much money and not doing anything because it was so passive. So at this point, I wanted to teach other people what I had done. So I started at my university, and I wanted to get together groups of people and teach them what I was doing on Teespring. For those that were interested, they could come to kind of a meeting, and I would show them what I was doing. And obviously for free, but just toto
Share this information with people and see how they would receive it. So what happened here was the university stopped me from doing this because it wasn't in their course curriculum. And I guess maybe it went against some of the things they were teaching in the university courses. So I had to look for a different way to share this knowledge. And this is where one of my friends told me about Udemy. And that's how I started teaching courses on Udemy. So Udemy is a course platform where you can put together a system, selling pretty cheaply. And it's an easy way for people to purchase a package course that goes through a lot of things in detail. So I put together the very first Teespring course, and it turned out to be about 15 hours of recorded content on starting from just your idea to begin on Teespring to where I was at on Teespring. Now eventually trimmed this down to a more digestible course still over on Udemy. And the cool thing about Udemy is you get one on one reviews with me. So if you're in one of those courses, I can help you one-on-one with your Teespring stuff. But with that being said, that's how I started on Udemy. And by default, this turned into being my fourth passive income stream online.
And that was teaching courses on Udemy. Once I put together that first one on Teespring, it drove me because people were receiving it well, and it was beneficial. Just explaining it in detail step by step turned out to be a very effective way to do it. And what worked for me was that I could teach this one time, do it in extreme detail and do it very well. And then anyone purchasing it from that point forward would get that presentation. So there were no on days or off days. It wasn't like I was teaching it in person where I was sick that day and couldn't present as well as the day before or forgot to mention something. It's all pre-recorded and perfect for every student going forward. So once all four of these were established and running by themselves, I moved into finding additional ways to build income streams. Now the next one for
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