How I Earned $100,000 at Age 16

so I recently just reached a pre-tax net worth of a hundred thousand dollars when I was 16 long story short I was a little obsessed I got a little lucky and put in the hours and if you want more information then stick around because I'm going to tell you tell the whole trip right now. All I ask in return is if you consider liking or subscribing. That's all. Now enjoy the video, so I'll start here because I feel like it's important. I give some context on how I got into the making money space and why I even wanted to become an entrepreneur in the first place, so from a very young age I always seemed to gravitate towards doing something creative, whether it was filming something making an online game and when I got there When I was about eight nine ten years old, there was only one thing I really wanted to do: be a YouTuber.

I started my first channel at the end of 2017, it was the average of 10 years trying to make Minecraft games, let's play videos, I posted about 58 videos in about half a year, but a few years passed, not much happened, but on my 12th birthday , this all changed, it was about mid-2016 at this point and you could see in the videos I was posting that there was a considerable increase in the effort put into them. It was around the same time that my YouTube channel became monetized, meaning I could make money from the pre-video ads that would be shown at the beginning. middle and end of my videos and almost a year later, in June 2017, thanks to a slight clickbait on fidget spinner trends, we got our first amount of money, we reached the withdrawal threshold at 60 and that was the first money that I won online.

At that point, you know, it kind of feels like the world is proof of concept, like, wow, I can actually make money doing it. This time passed and not much changed, but in the summer of 2018 the story starts to take a turn, this is around At a time when I really wanted to make some money, I realized that many of these types of plans to get rich and these people trying to sell you courses on YouTube, all those types of fragile compared to the classics, they provide value and make money from it. I looked at the skills I had and almost instantly realized I should go edit for people.

The first thing I did was go to freelancing website like fiverr.com up work and peopleperhour.com. I created an account on everyone. of these websites and I was basically spending half an hour every day trying to find clients and I'm not kidding when I say it took me over a month to get my first 10 orders, it was a guy on fiverr asking me to edit someone's video to a birthday gift in five hours of work I made eight dollars but I got a five star review and doing it was one of the most valuable things I've probably ever done in my life, months went by and even though I had a five star review I didn't get any more sales on any of the platforms so I decided to go back to the drawing board and decided to reformat my works, my profile and look at the competitors, see what they were doing and edit it accordingly one day after updating my profile I received another order this time for thirty dollars, it was a quick compilation of some wedding photos and took me about three hours.

I got another five star review and thirty dollars to my name a week later, another order came in and frankly, This one was a nightmare. The reason this was a nightmare is because I gave this guy unlimited revisions and I probably did about four or five revisions until I had to tell this guy. Look, my computer is literally dying. Please, no more reviews. understandably he was a little upset and gave me a four star review but it was okay because this time we did 55 okay let me bring you back to youtube because at this point you know I was still going up and down on my channel and it's almost as an exciting project.

I decided to upload my short Fiverr live experience of free orders and published it and I remember that the performance was not great at first, it was really below average, but later in the story this becomes a big turning point. in the story now takes me to September 2019 where I think I was watching a YouTube video on how to improve lighting and a video from Peter Mckinnon popped up in my recommendation basically going over his career as a product photographer. a little intrigued, I go, eh, I have a good camera, I mean, I'm a decent photographer, let me try this and I kid you not, in the space of two weeks, this became my most lucrative service.

I got my first sale on September 21, 2018 for 95 and the best part: I only had to take three photos, but once I got the products, I spent probably about two hours changing lights trying to see if there was a good way to take these photos and finally came to this extremely b technology. looking set up and my faulty thought process at the time was that oh just fix it in post, bad idea, I mean come on come on what is that? It's honestly beyond me, but I got a five star review for it and got the 95. It was also during this time that I saw the opportunity to specialize in Amazon product photography, which not only meant I could sell bundles of seven photographs, but it also meant that I was paid more for each image, since buyers would see me as a specialist and therefore trust me more and probably pay me money for the next two months.

I won a total of 364 dollars, that was after the fee of five or 20. Now look at this moment. There's something I hadn't told you when I originally created the product photography job. I didn't have any of my own work to use, so I used other people's work much better than I could ever dream of producing, so in early October I had an order for $250, two color variations and eight. photos in any color, I did the usual, I spent a whole weekend planning the shoot, editing the photos on a Monday, I sent them to her, a school day goes by, I don't think about it much, but I'm going to check my phone again and I realized that I received a return charge.

I'm getting calls from this lady, I answer one of them and I hear her screaming in my ear, basically just burning me saying what an amateur I am, saying how bad my services were. a two star rating and this moment here marked the beginning of the end of product photography days, but something else was on my mind and occupying my attention span on YouTube, so in early November I started a gaming channel that was originally meant to be a joke, I saw these Roblox promo code videos getting a lot of views and like a bored 14 year old I thought hey let's make dumb videos and there was no intention of making money there it was just whatever .

It was until this prank somehow started generating me tens of thousands of views per day and in early September 2018, that exact channel was monetized, meaning I was making money from it and during this period, at a good day, maybe I would be earning two to five. Dollars and unsure of the future of this channel, I decided to look into dropshipping e-commerce and, surprisingly, Instagram theme pages after watching some Beheza videos. I was a little intrigued by the idea of ​​making money on Instagram, so I decided to start some. It wasn't that good, I don't really have much experience, but one of these would later become known as Cat Vibe.

In February 2019, I posted this video called How to get free robux where in summary I went over some ways to like. 2016 from some old blog post, it was nothing special, it had been done hundreds of times before but it must have been my thumbnail being a bit misleading or something, but this video completely blew up and in the space of a week it went from zero to two hundred thousand views and this is where that channel really started to kick off in March February and April seemed to go by quickly and with YouTube ad revenue being the only source of income I had in February I made 450 marches I made 700 and April was our first 1k month at 1050 and at the end of April this was the time I started doubling my upload consistency and also started accepting sponsorships now at the time my videos were maybe getting 50-100k views every time and in my business email.

I had these survey sites that really work, but they're not that efficient. They reached out to me and said, "Hey, look, could you endorse our site for your viewers and say they can own free robux? I'm new to all this." youtube game I didn't really know how much they were going to pay me, so I remember I just asked one, oh, what are your standard rates? I was hoping that maybe you know between 50 and 100 because you know that's probably what I was making. I took away most of my videos in ad revenue, but this guy said $500, almost 10 times what I expected him to say, and now I check the topic pages.

I'm going to be brutally honest. I cannot absolve him. I just got 2000 followers on both accounts and I wasn't really seeing the engagement. I wasn't seeing the numbers yet and since I was impatient I decided to let it go and slowly I lost interest in it and stopped doing it. The next few months, being brutally honest, we spent literally recycling the old free robux content making different thumbnails adding different titles and somehow it was still working because in May 2019 I hit a hundred thousand subscribers on that channel which is crazy because I want to say that it was like a goal and a dream that I dreamed of for five years before and also, due to the introduction of sponsorships in May, June and July, I

earned

a total of ten thousand dollars, and in June I contributed two thousand dollars I think three. point five thousand and July is our most lucrative month of about five thousand dollars in mid-August I had about 200,000 subscribers and I was thinking, do you know why I didn't create another channel doing the exact same thing, so I did and in the In just over a month at the end of September, not only was this new channel monetized but it had 10,000 subscribers.

It was this time in September when I randomly remembered the old theme pages I had started and decided to change. both my content and my strategy of following to follow and choose one again and almost instantly I started seeing results. I gained 3,000 additional followers and got 2 million impressions that month for my videos, which for reposting content 5 minutes a day was a bit of a surreal October. November and December went by and randomly my second channel decided to blow up and in the space of a month it went from 20,000 subscribers to 100,000 subscribers and literally nothing had changed on both channels and they were both doing the best thing they had ever done.

September, November and December generated a combined total of over twenty thousand dollars and it was early December 2019 when that old Fiverr video I mentioned earlier hit the algorithm and exploded after a year and a half of being posted, but I think Probably the most incredible thing about all of this was the amount of money I was paid for the views I so typically got on the gaming channels I ran. I would maybe make a hundred to two hundred dollars if I got a hundred thousand views, but on this channel. I made a thousand dollars from the 100,000 views I got, that was our opening because I realized, oh okay, this niche has a lot more money potential and plus I enjoyed making them a lot more than the stupid free robux videos I was making, so I decided to take the opportunity and after a year of solitude on Jared West's channel, I uploaded an updated Fiverr video.

The new year 2020 arrived and January once again surpassed the last month and it was a crazy month for the channel: three million views. combined on both free robux channels and it was in January 2020 where I reached my first month of ten thousand dollars and it was also in the month of January where I uploaded two more videos to Jared West's channel, one about how to grow. on Instagram and the other about my seven day dropshipping experience and they both had a really disappointing performance throughout this month and also my favorite video went extinct which means on that channel I only made about a hundred dollars that month and also to add.

To make matters worse, this was around the time my Instagram theme page, which now had around 50,000 followers, was taken down for copyright reasons. I'm not going to go into too much detail, but basically Lab Bible had various content on my page. but I'm not like that, I actually sucked so much because I had about 90 interactions so I got about 40,000 likes per post and about 10 million impressions every week, but this is where things start to get ridiculous because in In the months of February, March, and April 2020 I

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a combined total of over forty thousand dollars and you may be wondering if there were any radical changes I made to earn these forty thousand dollars.

Well, no, and that was almost the strangest thing because literally nothing. had changed he was still making the same videos he was still posting the same amount the only thing that had changed slightlyit was sponsorship prices and obviously the views I was getting seemed undeserved I hadn't done anything else but I had made a significant amount of money more next month I had big plans to expand my channel automate different channels I was going to cross promote make my own app creating my own survey site platform I was almost sure I could make this ten thousand dollars a month easily turn into 20 30 40 maybe even 50 a month but it all fell apart one Sunday afternoon so I my original Roblox channel with around 750,000 subscribers overnight was canceled, this actually ran my second channel completely because as soon as this happened, I panicked and assumed it might have been a ban wave, so I went to my secondary channel and deleted all my videos.

The only problem is that YouTube is so driven by momentum that after uploading one video all my other videos that disappeared got 10x fewer views than they normally would and I was stuck with a channel that was getting maybe 10,000 visits with almost half a million subscribers, some were able to recover and financially it was a big change because I went from earning around ten thousand dollars. One month to earn just thousands, but the positive thing about this was that I now had the time and energy to invest my efforts and energy into this channel. The first few weeks of May were a routine on this channel I had, I think. maybe 3000 subscribers, I was getting maybe 500-1000 views per video.

I almost quit a few times, but you know, I was aware of my other channels and I knew that as soon as one video disappears, you know the rest. The algorithm will notice that a lot of my videos will be picked up and I was right because at the end of May my video on how to grow on Instagram started to gain huge traction and by the end of June I had 10,000 subscribers, my other videos were now starting to get recommended. and right now we're talking about mid-June, mid-July, I was making $40 to $60 a day, which, you know, wasn't terrible, but I had my aspirations much higher, and then I made the decision to transition. my videos into more entrepreneur-based videos and instead of just making your run-of-the-mill videos every week, just making them, oh, I tried this, I was trying to make them feel like a movie, feel like a documentary, so to speak, and that takes me.

As far as today I have 50,000 subscribers and I'm making around 200 to 350 a day from this channel which is honestly ridiculous and yeah I can't thank everyone who watches and supports my videos enough for that and I feel blessed . I'm in a position where I can say this, but about a week ago we hit a net worth or total net worth of a hundred thousand dollars in pre-tax money like a 16-year-old bullet, if there's anything I want you to take. What is not seen in this video is that money is not acquired overnight. If you yourself clicked on this video with the intention of trying to make money, the only way to do that is to provide real value.

Unfortunately, there is no such secret. pill or this secret formula to try to make money, you have to put in the time that you have to graft and you have to learn valuable skills wherever they are, whether it's marketing, video creation, music, whatever it is, you need to produce valuable skills that the People will be happy to pay you instead of focusing on how I can make money. Focus on how I can provide value to people and by doing so opportunities will come to you, they may be imperfect, they may be in unsuspecting packages, but if you just take advantage take advantage of as many opportunities as you can and explore different regions, explore different fields, one day you will be able to look back and leave.

I was an idiot back then and, in that sense, I hate being this guy, but if at any point in this video you enjoyed it, please consider liking or subscribing. I can promise you that your subscription box will not receive spam and will always be of better quality, if not the same, than this video. Try it, yes, I really appreciate it.