Hey, friends, welcome back to the channel. In this video, we're gonna talk about nine different ways that you can make passive income. And for each of those, I'm gonna talk about how
hard it is to get started, how hard it is to make $100 a month from it, and how hard it is to maintain. once you've created the thing in the first place. For me, in my nine different sources generate around $27,000 per week, these days, with varying degrees of
passiveness. And obviously, this has taken me like eight years to build up. So don't expect to be hitting those sorts of numbers when you first get started. But this is the video that I wish I would've had when I started my financial independence journey many, many years ago, let's go for it. All right, so when I say passive income, I always air quote it, because there is really no such thing as passive income, there is no way to make money without doing anything at all. But when I say passive income, what I mean is that it's money that is not directly tied to our time. So let's say you were to write a book. If you write a book, you publish a book. That book is now in bookshelves. You've done the work kind of once, to write and publish the book, but now, anytime the book sells, you make money from royalties, that is passive income. You could literally be making money while you sleep, because you've created this thing, which is out in the world, which is generating income for you. The other thing with passive income is that it always takes a very long time to get going. So if you see any ads before this video, talking about how you can get rich quick, by whatever scheme, or if you see people in the comments pretending to be me, saying, "Oh my God, "here's how you can get rich quick with crypto, "WhatsApp this number," that is all a scam, it's not gonna work. There is no way to get rich quick, it is not a thing. So if you're looking for a get-rich-quick scheme, those things just don't exist. So you might as well not even try. And the way I think of this is that, ultimately, money is just a medium for exchanging value. The only way to make money is to provide value. And the only way to make passive income, passive money is to provide value in a way that is not directly tied to your time. So please, please, please, do not try and join a get-rich-quick scheme, they don't exist. I've had lots of messages, over the years, from people who have tried signing up to a get-rich-quick crypto scheme or a gambling scheme or a "Hey, here is how you play poker online." None of these things ever work. People always end up losing money. The only way to make money is by providing value. And so, let's talk about the nine different ways that you could provide value if you wanted to. Just before we dive in, I wanna tell you that I've just launched my brand new Skillshare class about productivity for creators, how to start a successful side hustle. That's linked to the video description. Skillshare is sponsoring this video. I'll tell you more about skill share later on, but I wanna plug my own class, because I think it's genuinely really good, and people really like it. And it'll help you get tips on how you can start side hustles in your spare time. Anyway, let's get into the video. All right, so let's kick things off with investing in stocks and shares. And in this context, the way that we provide value is by offering up our money, providing money and investing in a service is, in a way, giving a form of value. And so, when we give our money to a company in the form of buying their stocks, it makes sense that we would get some kind of return for that investment. And we're starting with this because investing in stocks is the easiest way to make any kind of passive income. If you have any sorts of savings, and they're sitting in a savings account, earning 0.01% interest, they're not really doing very much for you. Whereas, if you had those stay of savings and put them in stocks, you could potentially be earning passive income from the money that's otherwise just sitting there. Now, I've got a whole video called the ultimate guide to investing in stocks and shares for beginners, which is gonna be linked over there somewhere. So that is a solid, half an hour long introduction to stocks and exactly how they work. But the thing that I recommend for most beginners as a non-financial advisor, and this is not financial advice, purely for entertainment purposes only, or so people say, or, at least, the thing that I do is that basically all my money that's in stocks and shares is invested in index funds. Now, an index fund is something like the S&P 500. And when you invest, let's say, $1,000 in the S&P 500, that basically means that your $1,000 is distributed amongst the top 500 biggest companies in the US. So, you know, weighted by how big they are. So like 2% of it would be in Apple,
2% in Facebook, 2% in Google, 2% in Microsoft. And then you probably wouldn't have heard of the 500th company on the list, but basically, all the big US companies you've heard of, you end up investing in all of them a little bit at a time. So if you wanna get started with that, all you need to do is sign up to a stock broker. If you're in the US, you can use Webull, I think I've got link in the description. If you're in the UK, you can use Freetrade or Vanguard. Basically, whatever country you're in, just Google the phrase "best stock broker platform," your country name, and you'll find something that works for you. And then it's very easy to be able to invest in an index fund. So within our famous Side Hustle Assessment Matrix, we're gonna give the difficulty of starting a one-star rating, one outta five. It's very, very easy to get started with stocks. How hard is it to make $100 a month by investing in stocks and shares? Well, this kind of depends, because it depends on the performance of the stock market overall. So in the last 12 months from 2020 to 2021, the S&P 500 is actually increased by about 50%. That is a lot, it's like gone up by a solid 50% despite COVID and everything going on. So if in April, 2020, you had invested $2,400 in the S&P 500. The fact that it's gone up by 50% means you would've made $100 a month, but obviously, this is not the way to look at it, because things can go up and down, and the stock market has different levels of performance, depending on what time period you're looking at. But if we average out the last 30 to 50 years, the S&P 500 has had a roughly 10 point something percent return, which means, every year, on average, over the long term, it goes up by around 10%. This is not inflation adjusted for any economist among us. And so, if we do some back of the envelope calculations, if we wanna earn $100 a month passively through stocks and shares, we would need around about $12,000 invested in the S&P 500 to make that 10% $1,200 a year, which is $100 a month. But as I talk about in that video about stocks, over time, we have compounding. And so, if you put in $7,500 in the S&P 500, and you left it there for five years, then five years later, you would be making roughly $100 a month, if we go by this very average figure of 10% a year. Or if you invested $5,000 in the S&P 500, then 10 years later, you'd be making $100 a month in purely passive income, again, assuming the 10% average. So overall, how hard is it really to make $100 a month in passive income from stocks and shares? Well, it kind of just depends on how hard is it for you to make $5,000, $7,500, or $12,000 in savings and put them into a stock market index fund, and crucially, this is
money that you shouldn't need to touch in the next 5 to 10 years, at least. So basically, how easy is it for you to make that sort of money obviously varies massively you're in and what your circumstances are and what your job is. But if you're in the UK or the US, where the median, kind of average salaries are around about $50,000, something like that,
again, depending on your circumstances, it's not that hot to get $10,000 in savings. Obviously, if you're supporting a family of 15 people on $50,000, it's different. If you're a single
