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So building a passive blog online. How passive is it? Exactly? Not very, it takes a lot of work, but once you get those wheels rolling, that’s when things can change. Hello, YouTube and a very special hello to all my subscribers, my name’s Phil. And welcome to my channel. This is where I discuss my journey building on online income.
And I share with you all my successes and some of my failures. So if you’re joining me for the first time, why not subscribe now? Okay guys. So this morning, I got a very interesting email from another subscriber called Asha. So thank you to Asha and thank you to all the other people. Who is actually sending me emails?
And you can check that email address in the description. If you’ve got a question. So Asher sent me an email. He has just started training for a new IT job, which he hopes to start very soon. He’s gonna be working full time. Now he’s on the fence about joining Project 24, which is a training course, which is set up by Income School.
Now he’s just wondering how much time does he actually have to dedicate to it? Is it a full time job? Is it a full time endeavor or can he only spend about an hour a day? Would that still work? In my experience over the last year, I have actually been treating my online income business as a full-time job, basically.
But I’m in a position where I work in the evenings and I’m able to earn a fairly good salary for the amount of hours that I do, which leave me the whole day. To actually work on the sites. However, there are many members of Project 24 who have full-time jobs and have actually reached full-time incomes already.
There was actually a guy that was on the project, 24 podcast. Only last week. Who’d done that? He’s only somewhere between three and $4,000 a month and he still works full time. So the thing really is yes, I spend all this time working on my sites. I have to be honest with you. I’m not that efficient with my time.
I waste a lot of time. And in fact, probably I spend only a couple hours a day actually being proactive and actually doing things that push the needle forward. So I gave some advice to Asha and I want to give the same advice to you guys who are watching. Now, this will apply to you. If you are thinking of Project 24, a good fit for me, but also.
Should I start a blog? Should I start a YouTube channel? Should I start trying to build an online income? So make sure you watch right until the. So the first thing I want to say is basically if you are considering taking a course, something like Project 24, don’t forget that it’s not just about doing the work to actually build your blog or YouTube channel.
There is a lot of time that you have to dedicate to the training element to it. In a video that I made a couple months ago. I actually went through and I documented how much video content there was within Project 24. So at the moment there’s actually 20 mini courses within Project 24, including the 60 steps to blogging success and the 60 steps.
To YouTube success. But in addition to that, there’s 18 other kinds of mini courses on all the different elements that you need in your business from things like building an email list, monetizing, with ads, and the most important thing, search analysis. So there’s a lot of time that you need to dedicate to it.
And I think at the moment, there’s something like in excess of 24 hours of video footage. So even just doing that will take. An hour a day that would take up probably about 24 days in a row. So don’t forget that you’ve got to dedicate time to actually learning the techniques that you are paying for. And this would be the same for any course that you choose to take.
Or if you’re just trying to learn from free resources on YouTube. However, the thing I would say is that those videos individually are only about five minutes to about 30, 40 minutes long. Now, what I did was I actually used to listen to them as I commuted to work, or as I was walking a dog or as I was shopping at the supermarket.
So a lot of them, although they are videos, they really could be listened to as a podcast because it’s the information that you’re trying to learn. If you learn on the go, you can use wasted time, dead time in a more productive way. Of course. The other thing is to. Activities that you are doing now with training.
So that could be things like watching TV. Before I started Project 24, I watched a lot of TV, lots of movies, at least one movie a day. I also was a big gamer, used to waste so many hours playing computer games. I was really into my flight sense, those take a lot of time. But I just replaced all that with learning.
So you’re gonna have to make some sacrifices because this is not gonna happen. So in addition to working within your schedule, you can actually adapt your schedule for this. Something that my wife’s been doing in the last couple of days is to get up early. She’s been doing a 21 day challenge to wake up and do four kilometers up at the conversion into miles.
I can’t quite remember. Between the metric and the Imperial right now she’s doing four kilometers before midday. So she normally gets up around six to seven, and goes to take the dog for a walk. And I’ve been joining her for a couple of mornings as well. And I found that by waking up around six or seven, which is maybe an hour to two hours before I would normally wake up.
I was having things edited before 10 o’clock. I was writing posts even before I would’ve woken up normally. So just those extra couple hours every day, if you could do it for a month, two months, you could blast through that training. You could get through your 60 steps and really have a seed in the ground.
Of course, once you’ve done all the training, you’ve actually gotta produce the content. So if we talk about writing a blog, following the Project 24 method, they say that you should write three different types of posts with different types of complexity within the actual research you are doing and the information that you are providing.
So the shorter posts are called response posts. Based on the post recipe, which is something that they teach within Project 24, you are gonna have to spend anywhere between two hours or more on that, just with the research and the writing for a staple post it’s twice as much. So around four hours minimum, they say, and with the pillar post, these are the massive meaty kinds of posts that hold up your business and have the most research and the most detail within them.
These will take you anywhere between eight hours. So that’s not eight hours of writing. That’s really the writing plus the research that you put into it. So of course, if you are only spending one hour a day and someone else is gonna spend two hours a day doing this, you are going to take twice as long as they will.
So when it comes to producing content early, You’re limited in how much time you can actually put into it. But don’t forget once you’ve gone through and you’ve written about 30 posts, you’ve learned how to do that. You’ve learned what to look for in a good post. You can, if you’re able to outsource that now that’s what I did for two of my sites.
I outsourced them completely after having written. The first 30 to 40 posts on site one. So I knew what I was looking for. And so it took me a lot less time. All I did was to go through and edit them, format them a little bit. So I would say at the same time, Normally writing one post myself, I could edit maybe two, three posts.
So that’s one way to increase your productivity. Another thing is when you are doing your research, do it beforehand. If you have a particular query that you’re gonna write a post on. Listen to the YouTube videos about that. Read up on the other articles, read some books about it. So you can, again, listen to YouTube channels.
As you are going about your daily business, you are doing your shopping, your driving to work. Dropping the kids off at school, whatever you are doing. So you can listen to a YouTube channel as you are doing that. And if you’re gonna be reading instead of reading a magazine, instead of reading about your sports team, go and do your research there.
That means when you come to sit down and write a post, it’s going to come much more quickly and much more easily. Another thing is when you’re writing. , write your post on one day and give it, give it a night, sleep on it, come back to the next day and edit it because you’re gonna do that much better than if you’re trying to edit after writing the article.
So basically if you edit after you write the article and then you read it again, the next day, you’re probably gonna have to edit it twice. So I would always say write it one day and edit it another day before you publish. So that’s writing. Filming videos for YouTube is again, something that takes time, even a fairly short video, like a 10 minute video, it will take you, I would say up to an hour, maybe even more to plan it, to rehearse it, cuz even this video I’ve gone through and I’ve rehearsed it a couple times to try and really get my head around what I’m trying to talk about and to try and make it as interesting and helpful as I can for you watching.
Every video is gonna take you time to think about what you’re gonna do and to actually rehearse it. Then obviously after you’ve filmed it, you’ve gotta spend time editing it. Now, even a 10 minute video can take a bit of time to edit. Now it depends on what you want. If you just go in and you chop off the ends and put it up.
Which is absolutely fine. Yes. That may not take you as long, but even if you just want to put some visual aids on some text over like that it takes you time. And it really depends on your audience. So when I’m editing videos like this, I put up a little bit of information and it doesn’t take too much time because for the most part, everyone watching this is a native English speaker.
But if I compare this to another YouTube channel that I. Which is aimed at students learning English. I have to put a lot more vocabulary up. I have to do a lot more in terms of visual aids to help them keep up with what we’re saying, to keep them interested. And I had a 10, 15 minute video and the other week it took me four hours to edit that because that’s the level of The that I wanted.
That’s the information I wanted to give my audience for that YouTube channel. So don’t underestimate how long it will take you to actually film and edit a very short video. Of course, if you’re able to, you can outsource that, but again, you want to always try and do the things the first time yourself, just so you know what you are looking for personally, and then you outsource that to someone too.
Okay. So imagine you have limited time. You’ve got a full time job and you are trying to make the most of the little time that you have. There are some things that I would say you gotta stop doing. So one of the biggest time wastes is actually looking at your stats. So I would say for the first six months of building a website or even building a YouTube.
Don’t look at your stats. Don’t worry about them. Yes, you should definitely get Google analytics installed and set up. You should also get a good Google search consultation set up as well, but don’t worry too much about looking at them. Don’t do what I do, which is to look at it every day for one, it’s just a waste of your time.
You can’t really do much day to day and another thing it goes up and down, so you’re gonna have winds and you’re gonna. Defeats and those defeats will just ruin your mood. So looking at Google analytics just before you’re gonna write a post is not a good idea. So I would say if you’re going to look at that kind of thing, trying to limit yourself to once a month, Once a week, maybe you really wanna see that over month to month, you are actually increasing your page views and that you are making progress.
That’s all you need within the six months to see that this does actually work. If you put the effort into it. The other thing is social media. Social media is a massive drag on your time. And when it comes to building an online income, most of the things that people tell you to do are just not gonna help you push that needle forward.
So I would say anything like Twitter. Instagram in my mind wasted your time, because they’re not really search engines. You should really put your time into things like YouTube. So once you produce a video put on YouTube, it’s there forever in theory, so that content can always be found, but. if you put a tweet on Twitter, it’s gone.
I don’t even have a Twitter account. I think it’s a total waste of time and that’s just my opinion. The other thing obviously is Facebook. So Facebook is not great for blogging because they’re very jealous about their traffic. They wanna keep people on their page, however, If you do want to use Facebook, the only reason to set up a Facebook page, a fan page is so that you can join Facebook groups under your brand.
Once you are there in the Facebook groups, you want to interact with your audience, you want to serve your audience. And then if it makes sense, redirect them to one of your resources, don’t just go in there, posting MEMES, or just randomly saying stuff you should be in there being as helpful as you.
Building up a relationship one on one with people, and then bringing them over to your YouTube channel, bringing them over to your blog. That is the only decent use of your time when it comes to Facebook. But to be honest for the first six months, just get your head down, do your writing, film your videos, and then afterwards you can start promot.
The other thing is if you do join Project 24, stay out of the Project 24 community. One of the great things about Project 24 is we have this forum where all the members can discuss issues. They’re giving solutions. It’s really very useful. And also you get access to Jim harm, Ricky Kesler, and the other members of Income School, the staff members, however, It is a massive drain on your time.
You can get sucked into these inspirational stories, sucked into all these tips. So my advice is if you are a Project 24 member, or you’re gonna join, then make sure you only use community when you really have a problem. I spend a lot of time there and waste a lot of time there, although it is interesting.
So make sure that you only use these resources when you really have. And the last point here for things that you really shouldn’t be doing, and this is from personal experience, do not. Chop and change from one project to another stick with something, if you are the sort of person, and this was certainly me.
If you start a project, a new website and you give up within the month, if you are the sort of person that has that shiny object syndrome, this is me. Then you are never really gonna get anywhere. So once you have a project. Stick with it, build it up until it succeeds or fails. And how can you tell if a website is going to fail?
Project 24 has a timeline month for month from month, zero to month 24. And it gives you this kind of conservative idea of how many page views you should have and how much money the blog should be making you. And if you just compare your progress to that, if you are a couple hundred below or a couple of thousand above, as long as you’re within a range.
You’re doing well. And this really helped me because I had no idea about building organic traffic before. And so just really, that’s my biggest tip. I made a mistake. I’ve told you that I’ve got three project, 24 websites. I’ve told you that I’ve got three YouTube channels. I’m still trying to learn not to do this. You can only learn from someone else’s failures.
So this is my advice to you. Please pay attention to it. Make sure you stick to one thing, build it up for success or failure. If it fails, let’s start something else. Let’s try and do it again. Cuz every single failure you are learning something not to do the next time. So Asha was on. Should he buy Project 24 or shouldn’t he, should he buy it later?
What’s you know, should he do his training first? I think the first thing is if you don’t have the money, don’t get into debt. It’s not worth getting into debt for something like this. The Income School YouTube channel is pretty good. I think you get a lot of information in there. If you’re the sort of person that can figure things out, read between the lines.
Probably that’s all, you need to be honest, but definitely don’t get yourself into debt. Although I think it’s a very good course. It’s not worth getting into debt at all. But the other thing I would say is that since buying it and signing up for the second. I’ve actually got that money back. So all that investment, I have got that back from doing this from putting myself out there and creating content.
Don’t be afraid if you do have the money now and you are thinking, okay, should I go on a holiday or should I put it into Income School? I put it into Income School because a holiday’s not going to pay for itself in the. . And as I said before, if you are the sort of person that starts things and gives up, then this is definitely gonna give you the structure that you need.
There are, as I said, the people that can use just the free resources and they still make progress, but I’m not one of those people. I needed a structure. I needed a goal. I needed someone there every day in the 60 steps saying, do this, do that, then do that. And by following those steps, that program. I have made massive progress.
I think I’ve actually got free organic traffic to websites for the first time in my life. And I’ve been trying to do this for five years. So yes, if you are in the same shoes as me, and you’re the sort of person that really, you’ve never really followed a program like this before and you keep moving and changing what you’re looking for.
This will help you. And the other thing is if you wanna make a change in life, I remember a year ago when I decided to actually purchase it because I actually believed in Jim and Ricky. I felt a kind of a connection to them. I thought they weren’t scam artists and they definitely are. I know this now on the other side, it was also, I had a bit of a problem with my life.
I wanted to make a change. I wanted to. Support my family and to do it in a way where I had a bit of flexibility in my life. So I’m well on the way to doing that, but it does take time. It’s not passive, but once you get your income stream rolling, it does become passive. So here’s the thing. If you do want to join Project 24, if you do wanna make a change, the same change that I made, why not check out the link in the description and go watch the webinar.
Okay, guys. Thanks very much for watching and I’ll see you in a future video because someone’s doing some building work upstairs and I have to stop the video now.