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Sean Cannell: How This Simple Video Earned Me $20,000 Passive Income | DSH #1608
But it takes a lot more viewership.
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Sean Cannell: How This Simple Video Earned Me $20,000 Passive Income | DSH #1608
And here's what I mean.
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Sean Cannell: How This Simple Video Earned Me $20,000 Passive Income | DSH #1608
Because of my background in video cameras, lenses, lighting, video production, I started to do tech reviews.
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Sean Cannell: How This Simple Video Earned Me $20,000 Passive Income | DSH #1608
To this day, that's what Think Media is.
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Sean Cannell: How This Simple Video Earned Me $20,000 Passive Income | DSH #1608
And I learned how to rank videos on YouTube, meaning that when somebody would search for a question about what's the best camera for YouTube or should I get the Neewer LED lights or the GVM LED lights, I'd have a video comparing the two.
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Sean Cannell: How This Simple Video Earned Me $20,000 Passive Income | DSH #1608
And then I would have an affiliate link in the description.
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Sean Cannell: How This Simple Video Earned Me $20,000 Passive Income | DSH #1608
And if somebody clicks my affiliate link, I'd make anywhere from 4%, sometimes as much as 10%.
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Sean Cannell: How This Simple Video Earned Me $20,000 Passive Income | DSH #1608
I was able to get to $100,000 a year as a solo creator, making videos, posting those online.
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Sean Cannell: How This Simple Video Earned Me $20,000 Passive Income | DSH #1608
But, you know, my channel did at that time grew to about 20,000.
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Sean Cannell: How This Simple Video Earned Me $20,000 Passive Income | DSH #1608
It was about 20,000 subscribers, about 16,000 subscribers.
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Sean Cannell: How This Simple Video Earned Me $20,000 Passive Income | DSH #1608
And I was able to get to 100K just in affiliate marketing, a little bit of YouTube ad revenue.
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Sean Cannell: How This Simple Video Earned Me $20,000 Passive Income | DSH #1608
But from ranking videos, people are searching things, they're watching my videos, they're clicking my links, they're purchasing tech products.
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Sean Cannell: How This Simple Video Earned Me $20,000 Passive Income | DSH #1608
The problem with that is if let's say you started a channel that was about like anti-aging, you're talking about skincare and makeup and whatnot.
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Sean Cannell: How This Simple Video Earned Me $20,000 Passive Income | DSH #1608
If it's not like high end or it's also not as high volume or as high intent, I think those numbers wouldn't be as reachable.
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Sean Cannell: How This Simple Video Earned Me $20,000 Passive Income | DSH #1608
You might need a different vehicle.
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Sean Cannell: How This Simple Video Earned Me $20,000 Passive Income | DSH #1608
So it depends what you're doing.
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Sean Cannell: How This Simple Video Earned Me $20,000 Passive Income | DSH #1608
If you had a website reviewing software and AI tools, a lot of AI tools, software, they have incredible affiliate programs.
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Sean Cannell: How This Simple Video Earned Me $20,000 Passive Income | DSH #1608
My friend Pat Flynn early on, I don't know what the numbers are these days, where you take a convert kit, which is an email CRM now called kit.
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Sean Cannell: How This Simple Video Earned Me $20,000 Passive Income | DSH #1608
I want to say he got to a place where his reoccurring monthly revenue was like $30,000 as an affiliate.
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Sean Cannell: How This Simple Video Earned Me $20,000 Passive Income | DSH #1608
Wow.