How To Make Money Online With $0 And Just This One Tool | (Step By Step Guide)

If you’re a beginner and you want a full step-by-step guide on how to make money online, how to build an income stream from home working online, you’re reading the perfect article. What I’ll be sharing with you works in any country, and PayPal is not required. So don’t worry about PayPal.

In this article, I’ll share with you everything from scratch till you get your first client online.

Disclaimer

Before we get started with this article, I’d like you to know this. On this blog, if you’re just reading the articles, you’ll never make money. You have to learn, understand, ask, IMPLEMENT and START putting to practice what you’ve learned. After reading this article, you need to get to work for at least one week, two weeks, or maybe one month to get your first couple of clients. It’s guaranteed.

Maybe, you can get clients from the first day, but usually, it takes at least one to two weeks to learn, understand, and start implementing strategies to make your first profits online. So if you’re looking for something scammy, or something super fast, I recommend you search somewhere else. In this article am sharing with you real strategies and real case studies that work online.

Today’s business | How To Make Money Online

Without wasting our time, today we’re going to see how we can work from home and make some money, and build an online business from your own PC.

How To Do It

In general, to work online, we have mainly 5 strategies. They are;

1. Content Creation

2. Affiliate Marketing

3. SAAS Services

4. Freelancing

5. Online Stores

Don’t bother about all these terms, what we’re going to do in this article, is to pick one which is freelancing, and go step-by-step to see how we can build a successful online business with it.

Freelancing

We picked up freelancing, so what is freelancing? Freelancing is simply selling your services like writing articles, creating logos, data entry, graphic design, or any skill you have. Even if you don’t have a big skill, don’t worry just stick with me, I’ll show how you can still work online in this article.

The reason I choose freelancing in this article is because I believe it’s one of the easiest ways to start working online. You can start with zero dollars, zero investment, and anyone can do it even if you don’t have a big skill. So out of the list, pick up freelancing, and let’s see what service we will be selling, how to promote them, and everything else.

Now to make everything easier for you in this article, I’ll pick only one powerful tool that allows you to provide multiple services, or what we call gigs online. Also, I’ll pick one marketing strategy to get your first client. So we can focus on one tool, one promotional strategy, which means, you’ll be successful. If you follow up with me, you can do it in less than two weeks.

The Powerful Tool

Invideo.io

Invideo is simply a service, a tool that allows you to create professional videos in minutes. It’s easy and free, anyone can use it and you can start totally for free with thousands of templates. Top companies like CNN, IBM, Microsoft, P&G, CNBC, etc. are using this tool. This website has over 1.9M visits every single month. Invideo.io, that’s the one tool.

What Are You To Do?

In almost every video on YouTube, there’s an intro. YouTubers or any video content creators, pay for these services. Invideo will help you create intros easily and you can sell them. For example, after visiting the website invideo.io, you can type INTRO into the search box, and hundreds of templates will appear. You can pick one and edit it so you can put the client’s details in the necessary fields like logos or brand names.

You can pick the size, and create for wide screens like HD videos for youtube videos for example, or maybe square videos for Instagram, or vertical videos for stories on Pinterest, TikTok, etc. All you need to do after selecting the template is to;

1. Click on Use this template button and it will take you to the video editor page, where you can edit the intro and customize the logo and text that are attached to the intro.

2. Pause the video and click on the logo to upload a logo, and click on the text to edit the text.

3. After you’re done editing, click on the download and share button to download the intro. You can set the revolution or leave it at default.

4. After you click on the download and share button, click on export and wait for it to render after exporting before you can download the video. It usually takes a few minutes.

5. When it’s done rendering, click on download.

After a successful download, you can sell it to anyone who wants such. This is our first service, selling intro videos for YouTube or any kind of videos online. To create an outro video, search for outro or end screen (for YouTube), instead of intro and follow the same steps.

Audios in the videos are royalty-free, when you subscribe to Invideo, you’ll have access to tons of libraries like Istock, Shutterstock, Storyblock, etc for free. This saves you a lot of money. Storyblocks is royalty-free with stock audios, videos, templates, images, and so on.

Next Service

Instagram Posts Packages

Instagram owners need content to publish on their profiles. You as a freelancer, can provide a service like this, to sell Instagram post packages, and provide posts, like image and video posts for users.

How To Sell Posts

First, you need to create posts before you can sell them. Let’s say you want to create a post about marketing, all you need to do is,

1. Go to Invideo

2. Search for the keyword marketing

3. Select 1.1 square for an Instagram post.

4. choose one of the post templates that appear and click on it

5. Click on use this template to use it

6. Edit to your taste or brand, download, and sell

There are over 4000 templates to choose from in Invideo. All you have to do is to get one and sell it to your clients.

Next Service

Video Ads

Here we have something a little bit more advanced. To understand this, think of when you tried to open a video on YouTube to watch, your video doesn’t play immediately. Ads run for some seconds before the main video. Those ads running before the main video are what we call video ads. People who want to promote something, need to create a video ad to publish on YouTube to promote their goods and services.

You as a freelancer can provide these services to those in need of them. You can create a video ad and sell it to your client who wants to promote something. To do that,

1. Go to Invideo

2. Search for the keywords video ads

3. Choose from the ready-made templates available for you in a lot of categories to use.

You can narrow down your search to the specific thing you want to advertise, instead of just typing video ads, you can narrow it down to what you want to promote. For example, if you want to promote a course, just search for the keyword course and follow the next steps.

You can select what the design is for, select 19.9 wide for Instagram ads, 1.1 square for YouTube.

After creating the ads, you can sell them to your clients. If you’re familiar with Google Ads and YouTube ads, you can sell a full service like creating the ads and running the campaign for your clients, to provide an advanced service. Let’s keep things easy for now. Just create video ads for your clients.

We’ve just seen a glimpse of the potential of Invideo. The reason I choose this is that Invideo allows you to create multiple services, like YouTube intro and outro, Instagram posts, video ads, etc. Multiple services (gigs) with one tool. Secondly, it’s super easy to get started with. Just pick a template, select, edit, and download.

And also, it’s free to start. You don’t have to pay for anything. Anyone can use it and start learning these skills to provide them as a freelancer online.

Not only that, Invideo has awesome support, almost available 24/7 to help you get the most out of this service. You can also join their Facebook with more than 24,000 members, video creators, marketing professionals, you can interact with and get ideas to scale up and learn more tips on things to help you work online.

So far, we’ve discussed the services that you can provide. If we end this article here, you can simply do nothing. We’ve learned the skills, the question is how do we sell them? And the more important question is how to promote or where to find the clients? You really need to focus keenly from now on, because this section is very important if you want to get clients and start making money online.

Where To Sell The Services

If you already have a website and you have a lot of audiences, you can sell this service directly on your website. But if you don’t, there’s no need to worry. I got you covered.

As a beginner, you don’t need a website, you don’t need to create anything. You just need to publish on freelancing websites like Fiver, Peopleperhour, Freelancer, Upwork, Guru, Solidgigs, etc. To make things easier for you, just go to Fiver and publish your gigs(services). Fiver, just like every other freelancing website, is a place where you can buy services and sell services.

For example, if you visit the site, and type in the keywords video ad into the search box, tons of people selling video ads will appear. By the way, a lot of these people, use Invideo to execute their services. You need to publish your gig (service) on Fiver to sell it.

How To Rank And Promote Your Gig

You might be wondering that there are a lot of people selling the same gigs, how can you compete with these people, how to rank your gig, how you can get your first client, how to promote your gig. These are the exact same questions am going to answer right now in this section.

After signing up on Fiver as a freelancer and you’ve set up your gig, maybe you might get a client or not, am not sure. But of course, you don’t want to rely on maybe, you want to go and find a client to start working online.

We don’t want to just sit and wait. A lot of people make the mistake of publishing their gigs on Fiver and just sit down for someone to find them. Come on folks, we’re in 2022, baby, you’ve got to find your clients. There are tons of people out there that want to use the service you’re rendering out there, you need to do some work to promote your gig so they could find them.

There are tons of strategies out there that you can use to promote your gigs, but I personally think using COLD EMAILS is the best.

Cold Emails

Cold emailing is simply sending emails in small bulks to prospects that may be your clients in the future. For example, if you’re selling a YouTube intro service, you need to target your audience. Your audience in this case are YouTubers. You need to find YouTubers and contact them if they want the service. The idea in general is to collect targeted emails, build an email list of targeted people and send emails to those people, trying to provide your service to them.

How To Get Those Emails

YouTube

Simply, all you need to do is;

1. Head over to YouTube

2. Search for a particular niche let’s say Gaming and filter by channels

3. From the list, begin by opening each channel

4. In each channel, click on the about section

5. Navigate to view email address and click on submit. The email address will appear.

6. Do the same to other channels.

TIP. Try to target startup channels, channels that are somehow new.

Collect those emails as much as you want and build a list.

Instagram

A similar process for Instagram.

1. Go to Instagram

2. Search for people on Instagram

3. Connect with them

4. Send them direct messages and tell them about the service you’re providing.

Don’t worry much about what to tell them, I’ll be sharing with you some templates that you can use when you contact someone. This is pretty much clear about cold mailing, you build an email list or a list of influencers on Instagram, and you start contacting them, telling them about your services.

Important Tip

Send only 10 to 20 emails per day and similar range of messages per day. The reason is that you don’t want to spam, and if someone replies back and you want to have a conversation with them, you want to have a few emails only. You can’t contact thousands of people and chat with them at the same time. Keep things small, easy, and clean for you. Contact just 10 to 2o people every day, and around 100 people every single week.

How To Contact

On Instagram it’s simple, just head over to DM and start contacting. But in emails, we’ll be using a tool called GMass. This tool will enable us to send emails to up to 20 people. How to do this, simply;

1. Go to GMass to install the extension inside your chrome browser.

3. After it opens the chrome web store, click on add to chrome and the add extension button afterward.

2. Click on add to Gmail

4. You’ll be redirected to your Gmail account, where you’ll be asked to sign up with Google to log in with the extension. Sign up with your Gmail and continue.

5. Click on compose email. On the compose page, you’ll see a Gmax button.

6. Click on the Gmax button to customize the way you want it to be sent.

7. Click on send when done.

A Free Giveaway

I talked about sharing with you a template that you can copy, tweak, edit, and send to your prospects. I’ve tried as much as I can to make this article short, but I guess it’s still long. Please stick with me, it’s really important to follow up to get the most out of it.

Template 1

Subject: [Name] Get 1 Intro video for just $1.99 {you can input something else}. Try it out

Hey,[channel or prospects name]

Hope you’re doing well.

We are reaching out to content creators like you who we believe can partner with us and reap the benefits of our service. However, if you want to unsubscribe from our mailing list, you can let us know.

We are [YourName], a video editing service for content creators. We came across your channel and we feel that we can offer various services that we believe can take your channel to the next level.

[list your services and how it helps]

If you have questions about how to how you can take advantage of our service, feel free to reach out.

Disclaimer, never share a link to Fiver or your website. Keep the conversation open. Sharing links will be considered as spamming. We’re cold mailing and not spamming. Promoting links in the emails directly will be identified as spam. All we’re trying to do is to open a chat with the prospect so that we can maybe turn the prospect to a customer.

Finally

Scaling The Business

Invideo offers a free plan which you can use as a beginner, but if you want to scale it, you can either subscribe to any of their plans using my link or coupon code to get a 50% discount. You can also scale your email, by getting a business email to send mails. Business mails make your mails more credible thereby improving its uniqueness. You can also use my link to get one if you will.

But as a beginner, start with zero dollars, learn, try, and keep applying the strategy. When you get your first client you can scale up and see the difference and benefits for yourself.

I hope I’ve covered everything from scratch, starting from learning the service, promoting the service, and getting clients. Do this every day for one week or two weeks, and for sure you’ll get your first client, and make your first profit in less than 20 days starting from today using only one tool which is Invideo to make videos and sell them online. You can publish your services on websites like Fiver, Upwork, and so on. You can start promoting them with cold mailing using templates and guides that I shared with you. Happy Hustle.