How To Make Money While You Sleep (but for reals...)

there are a lot of videos on YouTube called how to make money in your sleep and while a lot of them share different methods that you could try like investing in stocks real estate or starting a high yield savings account none of them actually walks through the how like how do you actually make money in your sleep so in this video we are going over the reality of passive income that no one really talks about nine different income stream ideas for creators and the easiest four-step beginner-friendly way to set up your income streams so that

you can actually make money in your sleep before diving into the outline for today I just want to let you know this video is specifically for Content creators I'm a content creator this is how I make money in my sleep I coach content creators I've helped other creators replace their 9 to-5 income with content creation so that's who this video is for as always time Stamps will be in the description below use them if you need them let's get into it the reality of passive income that no one talks about passive income is not a

get-rich quick plan at least what you're learning today is not I feel like if you see people telling you oh you can make money overnight it's probably a scam because while passive income is something that you can set up so that you can make money in your sleep it still takes time and effort to set up passive income is when you do a majority of the hard work upfront so that in return you can make money passively there is a hustle phase there is actual work involved and it does take time so if you're looking

for a get rich quick plan this video is not for you setting up passive income for me has been a 5-year Journey so far and I remember the first time I literally made money in my sleep it was July 26th 2021 and that was just the beginning because over time these past 5 years building passive income has allowed my business to now generate over $20,000 a week so I hope this video and what I'm teaching you today will help be your Launchpad into the world of passive income and get you started with setting those foundations

as a Creator here are nine different income stream ideas that can be turned into either fully passive or partly passive for you affiliate marketing digital products online courses memberships print on demand platform monetization ugc brand collabs and developing an app or software for a full breakdown of each income stream you can watch this video here it will teach you how to get started with each of these income streams and it also Al goes over how hard it is to maintain that income stream so that you can decide which one will be the best fit for

you now of all those income streams we got to be aware that each of them can use different methods for turning them into a passive income stream in general there are endless strategies that you can implement but today we're just going to start with the easiest beginner-friendly way this method is the tried and true it is one of the main ways my business makes money passively so let's talk about it what is it it is creating a simple email funnel this is why I never shut up about y'all creating email list an email list is

a list of email addresses that you own of people who have all opted in said yes raise their hands to receiving emails from you an email funnel is a series of automated emails that guide potential customers through the buyer's journey to convert them into a paying customer this is all used your email list let's use Abigail as an example Abigail Pooh I met her at the Stan million dooll Mastermind she's made over a million dollars by simply doing this one thing she has an amazing backstory so I highly recommend following her checking out her content

but basically this is what she did she creates amazingly valuable content for her audience and posts it consistently on social media you know that what we all hear create valuable content post consistently like that's what she was doing she was doing what we all hear all the content that she was posting related to ugc and so did her freebie her free guide she had a free ugc guide that she would direct people to that they could download in exchange for their email address once somebody would download that guide she would then send the customer some

emails nurturing that customer preparing for them to buy a few emails later that follower gets sent the official sale email where they are then pitched to join her ugc store starter kit for $47 that's a million doll funnel y'all it can be that easy and that's what I'm going to teach you how to do right now so let's break this whole process down into four simple Steps step one choosing your product funnel step two setting up your offers to sell step three creating your email automations and step four sending traffic to your funnel step one

choosing your product funnel with this step you are simply going to pick two products that go really well together and caters to your audience's needs one of those products will end up being free the other will end up being paid how do you come up with these product ideas right well I'm going to skip the basics of like make sure you have a niche because that's just a given assuming you all are niched down you know your content pillars and all that there are a lot of places to get ideas for products like typing your

Niche into Pinterest and getting ideas from Top pins or even looking at industry leaders competitors Niche neighbors other people in your industry that you aspire to be or be similar to look at the products they selling which products are free which ones are paid can you pull inspiration from their products but today the method we are going to use is actually chat GPT now hear me out I know some of us refuse to get on the chat GPT train but just hear me out watch this in chat GPT type in this prompt and fill in

the blanks with your own information I'm a blank content creator looking to create my first email funnel so I can start making passive income with digital products for my funnel I'd like to create one free digital product to offer to my audience parenthesis who are blank and one paid digital product that I will upsell them to can you give me 10 freebie ideas and 10 paid digital product ideas I have tested this prompt in chat GPT and it works like a charm with my test I said I'm a chef and content creator looking to da

da da da da da I'd like to create one free digital product to offer to my audience who are people who want to lose weight so when you describe your audience describe maybe what their goals are what their pain points are not just who are women right we want to get as specific as possible who are looking to balance the life of being a mom and their personal interests and discover new hobbies right we want to get as specific as possible there and with this prompt that I've tested Chachi just gave such bomb responses now

with these responses all you have to do is pick two offers that excite you the most so if I was a chef maybe with this example the freebie that sounded really cool was like that 7-Day challenge like cool people love instant results a freebie that's an instant result what a win let's pick that as the freebie and then the upsell could be more of like a fully fleshed guide or a mini course that is like the perfect product pairing we already talked about Abigail's product pairing she had the ugc beginner guide and then upselling to

the ugc starter kit for my business an example product pairing would be I have the 50 reals prompts and then that upsells people into my reals roadmap mini course but what about nonsocial media niches manifestation coach Sarah has a free make them obsessed master class and then that eventually upsells to the $222 Manifest magic Workshop Selena who's a fat adapting chef and teaches how to cook keto and carnivore recipes she has a free fat loss guide that upsells to a $24.99 becoming fat adapted cookbook Dr Craig Clayton who's a dentist has a free live cavity

Master Class teaching like how to reverse cavities and then that upsells to a 47 functional Dentistry road map so here we have all sorts of niches all successfully running businesses as creators using this method if you've learned something new so far be sure to press the thumbs up not only is that going to tell me that you've learned something new but it's also going to help YouTube push this video out to the right people and if you've learned two new things by the end of this video consider subscribing to my channel where I post weekly

content like this teaching content creators how to content create how to grow online and make money doing it now after you pick your two offers you can move to step two which is create your offers and setting them up to sell if your offer is a guide workbook or planner or anything that somebody could download as a PDF create it in canva canva is free literally type in what you're creating in their template section and they practically did all the work for you plug in your info boom shakalaka you're done after your products are created

let's set them up for your audience to download or purchase to do this you are going to go into your stand store so this is my stand store and the first thing we're going to set up is your free product so I'm going to press add product and we're going to choose this collect emails applications option and set up our free product here title subtitle button for my title I just do the freebie title I like to put free there so people know it's an instant download I describe what they will learn with that freebie

and for the button you can do whatever you want submit and download I want it now you could have fun with it all you need to make sure is the name and email is here you don't have to have the phone number required we're going to swap the thumbnail image so the cool thing here is they actually have a bunch of stock imagery for you so I'm going to just type in sleep because my freebie has to do with making money in your sleep find an image that you like it's stockfree Imaging so you're good

to use it we're going to choose this one see how it looks in my store the preview love it let's move on we've already made our product in canva so all you have to do is drag and drop your product or your PDF here this is the file that your followers will get sent to them next this step is the last step we're going to jump to options and choose confirmation email this is where you can customize the very first email that your follower will get from you Stan already has their templates here but I'm

going to replace it with my template that you can absolutely use this is something that I would send my email thanks so much for downloading my free guide Insert Title there if you deleted stands template make sure to add the product file in this email make sure that is there because that is how the customer will get it and then I talk a little bit about my backstory in relation to that file and I tell them exactly that what they will get within that guide of course in my signature I sign it with a social

media platform that I want to redirect people to and I hyperlink it that is all you have to do save draft next we're going to set up our paid product go back to the bottom of your stor choose add product this YouTube video I'm teaching you the digital product way of course you could also sell an ecourse through Stan you could sell a membership through Stan you could sell coaching calls there's lots of income opportunities here but for this video we are creating digital products now you're going to follow the same steps that we just

did for the free product and set up your paid product the main thing that is different with your paid product is now you have a checkout page where you can add more information of course you could use stands template again and they also have this generate with AI option that helps you build out that checkout page a little bit more on my checkout pages I like to describe everything that they will learn in that product and also call out who that product is for this is for you if blank you will learn blank for setting

a price Stan actually did a fun study where they analyzed all their content creators and they found that $47 was just like this Prime price point for an entry-level product so most of the time I am telling students $47 is a good price point make sure you have the name and email selected phone number does not need to be there upload your digital product move on to the final tab options while there are lots of options here for getting upsales like order bumps creating a promo video all the things all you have to worry about

for right now is that confirmation email you can update this to your liking save as draft now do you have to use stand no you don't but I highly recommend it because it keeps everything in one place your products that you're selling your email list building and the funnels that you set up your income everything is just in one place you only need one tool it's the number one tool that I recommend to all my students every content creator that is starting their Journey it is the only thing that you will need I am obsessed

with them if you're a content creator that wants to make money and it's like not just through affiliate marketing Stan is your option now while this video is sponsored by Stan that's all I'm going to say because I don't really have to say much I firmly believe that stand speaks for itself and if you like what you see you'll have a stand store it's as simple as that moving on I know I kind of quickly breezed through a lot of those steps but of course you know me if you want to see the more in-depth

steps for all of those things that I just showed you I have YouTube videos as resources specifically to come to mind I have how to create a freebie that grows your email list and how to create market and sell your first ebook so if you need help coming up with actual ideas getting it set up the tech canva all the things check out those two videos now before showing you how to set up the email automations if you are enjoying learning from me and you feel like you connect with my teaching Style I just want

to call out and let you know that I have plenty of resources on my YouTube channel and on my website one resource that is the most popular is my 12-month content creator guide It's like a 40 page ebook that teaches you step by step how to become a full-time content creator in 12 months that one is pay what you want you could pay a dollar for it you could pay $2 for it whatever you want and it also has videos pairing with it to help you learn along the way then I also have a content

creator course bundle called the bsp model the VSP model is my baby it is one of like my most proud moments as a Creator because it's a bundle of seven eight nine I already lost count bundle of courses structured in order the steps that you take along your content creator journey to help you in the content creator space there's an email list course an Instagram course YouTube course Tik Tok course monetization course brand collaboration course ugc course there's multiple mle courses not just lessons they're full-fledged courses that I've put hours and hours and hours and

hours of work into and anybody that joins the bsp model you also join our slack Community where you can learn from me oneon-one you can literally tag me in slack every day Monday through Friday and I'm there to help you so there's plenty of resources over in my little corner of the internet and I just wanted to let you all know step three set up the automations we have our two products created right now they're drafts and what we want to do is set up our email automations so that when somebody downloads this free guide

they get put into an email sequence that will upsell them to this product so let's do that together we're going to open our freebie and we're going to jump over to options now we're going to set up our email flow press add flow when this popup comes up just press create email flow I'm going to title this flow sleep to fulltime creator because they're getting the make money in your sleep freebie and it's going to upsell them to the full-time Creator product I like to check this toggle on because that means after somebody purchases from

your email flow they will be taken out of the rest of your emails if you set that up so I'm just going to press remove customer from flow after purchase and I'm going to say if they purchase this then they will be removed from the rest of the emails and they won't be spammed with sales email emails so create now what we're going to do is we're going to set up three emails do you have to set up three no but I like to you already wrote the delivery email right that's the email that somebody

gets when they download your free guide so you have the delivery email checked off we have three more that we're going to write we have an introduction email an education email and the pitch I call them introduce educate deliver or pitch when you press add email the cool thing with Stan is that they already have the introduce template ready for you so you can absolutely keep this two hours after somebody downloads the freebie the free product two hours after they download it they will get an introductory email the purpose of that introductory email is to

build rapport with your email list connect with them and share your personal story or your background in relation to your freebie so you're not saying I like long walks of the beach I like chocolates I like to we're not getting into that we're talking if your freebie is how to make money in your sleep talk about your backstory about that if your freebie is the 7-Day challenge for losing weight or whatever talk about your background with that this is Stan's template and I will show you another template so this email is the introduce email and

this is what that email will entail you will share your personal Journey around your Niche highlighting struggles that you face how you overcame them encourage your email list to reply share their own stories and build that Rapport conversation and in this email you could also subtly remind them of the freebie that you've already sent their way and suggest extra tips for how they could use it we are going to save our draft and add our next email this email is the educate email I like to deliver this one one day after they've downloaded the freebie

the purpose of this one is to deliver helpful actionable tips that somebody can Implement in relation to your products the email subject will be probably another educational based subject like how to Da d d d da seven recipes for blah blah blah BL blah something that they could take away in that email you deliver on the promise you share valuable tips on your Niche with clear takeaways in that email you'll include a small call to action for them to try one of your recipes or a small call to action to watch your YouTube video to

continue they're learning you know small call to action and here you will also tease your paid product by saying something like this is just a taste of what I offer in da da da da you can link it here if you want so in add product link oh it's not live so I can't link it but when your product is live you'll be able to Boop click on it it'd be linked in the email and that could even be a PS you know you do signature PS this is just a taste of what I offer

in here right so now you're teasing it you haven't officially pitched it yet it's just a tease save draft for our final email this is going to be where you sell this is kind of an outline of what you will include in this email you will start with a final tip an actionable takeaway that they can learn from you then you'll introduce your paid product and why it's the perfect next step for them at the end you'll provide a clear call to action inviting them to purchase or join that membership course download the product now

if you're somebody who has already worked with clients already sold this to people before you have testimonials this is a great place to put those testimonials on screen I will put an actual email that I use for this step it is the testimonial based email with a pitch for people to join my course the bsp model when using this testimonial style email I like to have the subject line talk about the students win so the subject line for this email was how Jess grew 100,000 followers on Instagram in 6 months that's captivating enough that's a

huge win that I know my target audience wants and then in the email I break down her testimonial I break down next steps for them and I do a clear call to action something that is optional uh that you can do is to create more urgency you can absolutely include a limited time offer or discount that's something you can set up in stand you could set up discount codes all the things so that's an optional thing but it's a little bit more advanced so I didn't want to cover it or confuse you in this video

and of course with this email make sure you add your product link that's probably the most important part is having that product linked somewhere so that people can purchase it this email will actually be sent out 2 days after purchase so we have them getting the delivery email which is immediate 2 hours after the delivery email introduce yourself one day later educate and then the next day sell that's not the perfect timeline that is just like a general suggestion that you absolutely could Implement if you're somebody who hears that timeline and you feel like ooh

that feels like I'm bombarding them with emails then don't do it it's your business you could choose whatever frequency you want I just like them to be kind of back to back because that freebie is fresh in their mind I'm fresh in their mind and the sooner I could sell them or the sooner I can get in front of them or my product can get in front of them the more likely it is that they will convert to a buyer once all those are written publish your email flow and go back to your freebie to

make sure your freebie is connected to that email flow and you're good to move on to step four step four send traffic to those funnels as a Creator you're already creating content so why not create content around your freebie and direct people to go download it you can do this no matter what platform you want to grow on my personal favorite way is with YouTube because YouTube is such a strong Evergreen platform this means videos that I've made years in years ago if I mention a freebie in that video it continues to get traffic to

this day and with that email funnel set up I'm continually making sales off that video for years and years so YouTube's absolutely my favorite way because of the Evergreen opportunity but if you're not on YouTube that's still okay you can still see success with shortform content like Instagram reals Tik toks even YouTube shorts here are some short firm video examples I have made that lead people to my freebies if you've made it this far be sure to include the secret Emoji in your comment below and if ready to learn how to become a full-time content

creator in 12 months you can watch this video next thank you so much for watching and I will see you in the next one follow your joy bye wo