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how's it going everyone in this video
i'm going to be talking about ways to
make passive income as a graphic
designer everyone could benefit from a
little side cache so i thought why not
give a little bit of insight on the
topic first thing i just want to preface
this by saying nothing is completely
passive because everything takes some
kind of work to do the startup and work
to maintain it along the way but with
that being said let's get into it so the
first side hustle i want to talk about
is selling prince this is a popular one
in the design community and for good
reason there are also different levels
of passiveness to this endeavor and two
different avenues i've seen you can go
down so the first option and what i've
seen most people do is print on demand
or drop shipping basically you have an
online store you set that up you upload
the artwork and you market it to your
audience once the print is purchased the
fulfillment company does all the work
shipping packing it and all that and
then they send it to the customer and
give you a cut this is a very hands-off
you really have to do is design the
artwork upload the file to the site and
when people purchase it the rest of the
work is done by the company ways you can
do this are setting up a shopify store
and then using a print-on-demand
integration like prodigy or printful
another way is to go directly to a site
that does art e-commerce like artist
sourced or society6 there's also a bunch
of other options if you search online
with varying different commission rates
i really recommend this option for
anyone shipping internationally or
anyone who doesn't have the resources to
hold products at their house or print
pack and ship them themselves option two
is the exact opposite of that produce
packaging and shipping your own prints
in one of my last videos people kept
asking me about the process on this and
i wanted to make an in-depth video about
how to set up a print store and selling
prints so comment below if you want that
anyway so for this what i do personally
is i get my artwork ready i print them
using a friend's printer i figure out
set up and i ship them out a tip i've
learned with this option and a way to
keep costs down is only print orders as
they come in it lengthens your
fulfillment time a little bit but it
helps with not having unnecessary
overhead and spending a lot of money up
front i really like this strategy over
the print on demand if you're able to do
it because i hand sign all my prints it
has a more personal touch to it and i
can ensure the quality of the artwork
comes out good and the prints are safely
shipped when i send them from my
apartment however to ensure this level
of quality control you do give up a lot
more of the passiveness having to pack
and go to the post office in my
case though i think it's well worth it i
think it's something to consider if you
have the means to do it so this next one
i'm sure you've bought in some yourself
or know people who sell them and it's
selling digital assets this is a go-to
passive income source for a lot of
creatives i see online you have
everything from selling textures on the
side on a site like creative market to
people who have made this all the way
into a full business someone like black
market or true grit texture supply
selling digital goods is a great way to
make side money with very little startup
costs all you really need to invest in
is a website and whatever resources you
similar to selling prints there are two
avenues you can take here option one is
selling through a digital goods site
this is a safe strategy but overall kind
of a flutter market you can use sites
like gumroad or creative market to name
a few how this process works is let's
say you create an asset pack of icons
some textures mockups a new typeface all
you do is upload your products to the
site and then when people discover and
purchase your products you get a cut and
easy and safe way to make some side cash
however like i said it is a pretty
flooded market so you do need a good
product because these sites are already
filled with every photocopy texture or
grunge asset pack you can think of if
you want to be a little bit more
hands-on then option two's for you this
approach requires taking the products
you create and turning it into an online
store like black market for example the
hardest challenge with this approach
really is having a good website overall
good marketing and discovering a niche
that hasn't been oversaturated overall
though if you have a good idea know how
to do some good marketing online selling
digital goods can be very successful
patreon patreon is probably my favorite
side hustle for myself as a graphic
designer i know it's a little bit more
on the content creation side of things
but i think it can work for all kinds of
graphic designers and other types of
creatives you don't know about patreon
it's basically a site where people pay
you a monthly pledge to become a patron
and you can upload exclusive content
just for them i like patreon because not
only is it a decent side hustle but it
allows you to further connect with your
audience and for people to pay you for
valuable or entertaining content if you
have a specific style or something you
think you can offer and are interested
you can start a patreon and offer
exclusive tutorials or you can give
patrons access to digital goods they
can't get anywhere else there are plenty
of other things you can do as well live
streams chats with your fans community
voting and things like that i think it's
an amazing platform honestly and it was
created by a cool guy named jack conte
who had the benefits of the creator in
mind i personally use it to give you all
high-res versions of my work source
project files and more the biggest
disadvantage to patreon is you probably
on another platform to be able to
migrate those to patreon if you do have
a following though on youtube instagram
tik tok twitter or any other social site
really i do recommend you figuring out
how you can get paid for all your hard
work and offer some awesome stuff on
patreon this next one is online courses
as a designer we all have skills that
other designers want to learn some of
these things are more in depth and
aren't well suited for short form
content or things that are super fast to
digest so for that reason i still think
creating tutorials online or online
courses is a great idea you can use
sites like creative fabrica or
skillshare to create more in-depth
online classes i've seen a lot of
designers succeed with sites like
skillshare it does have a lot of upfront
work though however with recording the
videos editing and marketing however if
the online course is quality it'll live
on those sites for a long time and it
will make you money over time as you
sleep if you have a specific style or
some kind of valuable information that
you think would benefit from more
long-term class i definitely recommend
checking out something like skillshare
last but not least is youtube my
favorite side hustle is definitely
youtube you can create free youtube
tutorials and videos like i do however i
definitely want to preface this by
saying you most likely won't make money
for a while until you grow your audience
that's how it was for me at least i do
believe though that youtube is still one
of the best things you can do online for
long-term growth and stability the
growth does start to compound over time
though and i personally think by the end
of this year of a decent chunk of side
cash from youtube content creation i
also have recently gotten enough
subscribers to kind of entertain brand
partnerships and sponsorships which is
nice because it's another little side of
cash as well as it helps fund future
videos i think it's good when you start
making money on a site like youtube to
put money back into it buy better things
to further continue the long-term growth
instead of taking the short-term profits
like i said before though youtube is
probably one of the least passive ideas
on this list it does take a lot of work
and you need to maintain it to see
continued growth however it is super
rewarding and it's awesome to connect
with you all and once you start having a
backlog of content all the ad revenue
over time from those videos is basically
passive income i hope this information
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it for now thank you for watching and
i'll see you next time peace
