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Hey sherbrahs!
So I'm getting ready to quit my job here at the end of december/beginning of january and attend university full time. I'm maxing out my student loans, getting a full pell grant and getting 1k$/month from the VA.
The reason I'm doing this is because I need the resources to acquire some gear that I'm going to use for side projects. I want to make the most out of these next two years in terms of pursuing online projects that may eventually generate revenue, instead of just pissing the time away partying.
So far here's what I want to do:
-I've already gathered about 2,000 followers on an instagram account that will eventually promote my blog once it's up.
-The main thing I want to do is start a lifestyle blog/vlog. I'm a good writer and want to write articles about a variety of different topics. I want to write about anything and everything: fitness, veganism, politics, lifestyle, environmental issues, whatever I want. On the website I want to also produce and edit videos covering the same things that I write about.
-The idea is to pour a serious amount of effort into the website and videos. Keep in mind I'm also going to be going to school full time but won't have any obligations outside of that. I think a good work rate would be two in depth articles/week and one well produced and edited video/week. Hopefully, at the end of the two years I will have built up a decent enough following that I can monotize everything: a patreon account, ads on the blog, and ads on the youtube content. If I could make it to at least $1,000/month from all revenue sources by the end of the two years, I will consider that success.
My question is this: what else could I be doing in this sphere to generate revenue?
I've considered starting a Twitch stream and actually putting a decent amount of production and effort into it, but honestly I think I need to leave gaming behind during this period to be my most productive. Gaming is just such a time sink and I don't think continuing to game while I go through this period would be the best idea.
The only other thing that I can really think of is to cross promote between the instagram account and the website and build the instagram following up to a significant level where it can be monetized and making decent revenue as well.
I want to make a kind of sub point here.
Here is why vlogging/blogging/online content creation is not over-saturated and still has a tremendous amount of opportunity in it:
Every year more and more people from the developing world are coming online.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-diamandis/rising-billion-consumers_b_7008160.html
TL;DR:
-OP is starting uni full time in the spring and quitting job
-OP wants to pursue online content creation as much as possible and have a decent revenue stream at the end of the two years (when OP graduates)
-OP already plans to do youtube/blogging/vlogging and instagram
-What else can OP do in this realm to generate revenue?
-3 to 5 billion people will be coming online by 2020 which means there is still a great deal of opportunity for online content creation
So I'm getting ready to quit my job here at the end of december/beginning of january and attend university full time. I'm maxing out my student loans, getting a full pell grant and getting 1k$/month from the VA.
The reason I'm doing this is because I need the resources to acquire some gear that I'm going to use for side projects. I want to make the most out of these next two years in terms of pursuing online projects that may eventually generate revenue, instead of just pissing the time away partying.
So far here's what I want to do:
-I've already gathered about 2,000 followers on an instagram account that will eventually promote my blog once it's up.
-The main thing I want to do is start a lifestyle blog/vlog. I'm a good writer and want to write articles about a variety of different topics. I want to write about anything and everything: fitness, veganism, politics, lifestyle, environmental issues, whatever I want. On the website I want to also produce and edit videos covering the same things that I write about.
-The idea is to pour a serious amount of effort into the website and videos. Keep in mind I'm also going to be going to school full time but won't have any obligations outside of that. I think a good work rate would be two in depth articles/week and one well produced and edited video/week. Hopefully, at the end of the two years I will have built up a decent enough following that I can monotize everything: a patreon account, ads on the blog, and ads on the youtube content. If I could make it to at least $1,000/month from all revenue sources by the end of the two years, I will consider that success.
My question is this: what else could I be doing in this sphere to generate revenue?
I've considered starting a Twitch stream and actually putting a decent amount of production and effort into it, but honestly I think I need to leave gaming behind during this period to be my most productive. Gaming is just such a time sink and I don't think continuing to game while I go through this period would be the best idea.
The only other thing that I can really think of is to cross promote between the instagram account and the website and build the instagram following up to a significant level where it can be monetized and making decent revenue as well.
I want to make a kind of sub point here.
Here is why vlogging/blogging/online content creation is not over-saturated and still has a tremendous amount of opportunity in it:
Every year more and more people from the developing world are coming online.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-diamandis/rising-billion-consumers_b_7008160.html
I think it's easy to deduce that this means there is still a massive amount of opportunity for online content creation.
TL;DR:
-OP is starting uni full time in the spring and quitting job
-OP wants to pursue online content creation as much as possible and have a decent revenue stream at the end of the two years (when OP graduates)
-OP already plans to do youtube/blogging/vlogging and instagram
-What else can OP do in this realm to generate revenue?
-3 to 5 billion people will be coming online by 2020 which means there is still a great deal of opportunity for online content creation
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