I’d like to give you 15 ideas about how you can make money online, working from home, using the Zoom web conferencing platform
This is perfect for Coaches, Consultants and Authors… or somebody to wants to be one, OK? I’m going to talk about how you can add one or more income streams to your business with tools you are probably already using. Imagine working from home or anywhere you want – living the laptop lifestyle, and doing the job once and getting paid forever.
If you have a vision of starting an online business, or you
can see yourself adding it to your main thing as a side hustle, let me show you
how it’s done.
Zoom is being used for meetings to communicate and educate
all over the world right now. I don’t
know if you saw the world’s best known personal development guru Tony Robbins
running a couple of his live events with thousands of people on Zoom as he
stood in a studio and addressed them all.
Even Britain’s Got talent has had all of the audience tune in online using video conferencing
You’re probably already using Zoom, or you can sign up for a free account at www.Zoom.us. You can use Zoom to communicate on video, and you can record both the audio and the video. So what you might be thinking. Who cares? Why should I bother?
So let me give you some examples.
Now I’ve got 2 YouTube channels and I’ve now got over 500
videos on there that I’ve built up over the last 20 years, so I often get leads
and enquiries from people who’ve already “met me” in a video.
This is my online course on business networking called “TurnYour Contacts into Contracts” = that’s a whole training course on video with
handouts that sells on the web 24/7, to the world. That’s globally.
Here’s Instantedgeconline.com – my yearlong marketing
training for business owners who want to grow their profits and do it
themselves. Again, members pay me a
monthly fee to access the training… and I’m not there.
You can record yourself talking about your knowledge,
skills, experience, interests, and then turn that into a book. I have 6 non-fiction books here on my Amazonauthor page, and I also have 3 novels out there.
My First book was “Ignite & Unshackle” which was written
in 2006 - people say when they read it they can hear my voice talking – well
that’s probably because the book was transcribed from my live seminars, so it
IS me talking!
Then there’s my CD sets – see if you teach a weekend seminar
once, it’s over. The only people who
benefit from it were the students on the day.
But if you record it, its evergreen, and you can impact a lot more
people, and get paid over and over again
Maybe you’re not that familiar with Zoom – that’s OK, I have
several videos on how to set it up and use it on my YouTube channel – I’ll put
the link below this video here
https://www.youtube.com/user/FounderHGE/
Some people are scared of the Tech issues – Zoom is pretty
simple to use. There’s even an app for
your smartphone. Sure appearing on video
takes a bit of getting used to but honestly, once you’ve done it a few times,
you get a taste for it. But think about
it – it’s better than a phone call because now you can hear and SEE the other
person too, their body language, all the little nuances, all the emotions in a
conversation. And usually what kind of
books are on their bookcase behind them.
What about the time it takes? – For years my Coach told me if you’re
speaking at an event or to a group, record it.
If you’re teaching people, record it.
I ignored that advice for years which is a shame cos I could have
captured a ton of good stuff. But from
the point I did start capturing most of it, I know have a huge vault of
material. Do it once, get paid
forever. That’s why it’s called a
“royalty” So a huge benefit of using
Zoom is that you can record stuff so people can play it back later.
If like me you have a face for radio, fine, use PowerPoint
or keynote slides and just use your voice.
You don’t actually have to be in the video. You can always keep your camera off, or just
have your image on there.
If you’re a consultant in a particular field or area of
expertise, or you want to be one, you can communicate your skills and knowledge
and advise your client over the Zoom platform,
You can record your screen, you can share your screen, you have online
chat and you can record each session to they have a complete record of the
discussion. You’re helping people you’re
solving problems and you can charge by the hour or by a block of sessions,
whatever you want to do. With anyone
anywhere in the world. Think about the
possibilities.
If you’re a Life Coach or Health Coach or Eating Coach or
Business Coach or Underwater Basket Weaving Coach – whatever - you can have a
group of paying clients all call in to your group coaching class at a certain
date and time and you take them through a 4 week or 90 day programme. They pay up front or they pay in monthly
instalments and you have an agenda and some individual coaching. You take your members through a powerful
series of lessons over a number of weeks – and of course if you record it then
you’ve got all the material you need for a book or an online course that you
can sell forever more.
Then there are Virtual Summits – where a group of experts
all get together to work as a team and everyone benefits. You host the event and each expert then gets
a chunk of tie to teach something valuable then take questions. Students pay to attend and the profits are
divided up between all them experts.
Let’s move on to using Zoom for Lead generation. Every business under the sun needs new
prospects, and here’s how you can do that.
Create Traffic magnet videos - I’d advise you start by recording talking
head videos – answering the Frequently Asked Questions that your target market
are asking. Use the great website www.answerthepublic.com if you’re not sure what they are. Set up a Zoom call by yourself, hit record
and shoot a 1 minute video answering that question. Record it then upload the recording to
YouTube, Facebook and LinkedIn. Make
sure you include a link sending them somewhere, you’re your website or offering
your webinar [which we’ll come to in a minute]
You can also offer 15 minute Strategy Calls – a free chat in
confidence where the person can get to know you, you get to know them, and you
can find out what problems your audience is having right now and give them
bespoke, tailor made coaching to help them figure it out and move them in the
right direction.
Online virtual networking – weekly business networking like
Club Five 55. You can get in front of 20
or more business owners and decision makers who you can share your details with
their connections. Most virtual
networking events allow you to do a 60 second pitch - in your 60 second pitch
make sure to mention your webinar and give them the link
Perhaps more importantly is what you do AFTER the networking
event – and that’s the 121, where you identify 2 or 3 of the other attendees as
potential clients, joint ventures partners or they asked for help and you know
you can help them. That’s where
relationships are built and opportunities pop out and they are simple to
arrange as a Zoom meeting. No petrol
expenses, no parking to pay for, no need to get dressed up from the waist down.
Teach a Webinar or a virtual class – 30-40 minutes of good,
valuable content, then have an offer of your product or service at the
end. Put together a short and simple
PowerPoint presentation so you can bring in a helpful visual element so people
can see what you’re teaching . Simply
prepare your slides, your speaking notes and then hit record. That’s up forever
on YouTube and will drive traffic to your offer
Recording Podcasts – now take all of your FAQ videos and
upload them to www.anchor.fm. Now you have a
podcast show with several episodes that will get syndicated out to major
podcast platforms including Spotify, Google Play and iTunes.
By this point you’re ready and well-practised enough to move
into Product creation – think online course like Udemy or Teachable. You can create your course first then turn it
into an book – send the videos to Rev.com and they transcribe it for you for
free.
Another product Creation thing you can do is meditation
audios or self-hypnosis tracks. Get
yourself a good meditation or guided visualisation script off the internet,
record yourself reading it out in your best… hypnotic …and relaxing…voice. You can use free sound recording software
called Audacity, get some royalty free meditation music from www.Incompetech.com and you can combine your voice and the music into a cool guided relaxation
audio. You can then sell that on Etsy or
eBay. Imagine if you built up a
collection of 10 or 20 different tracks, all selling globally, 24/7. Do it once, get paid forever. Is this giving you ideas?
How about writing a book by dictating it – take all of your
FAQ scripts and your webinar script, add a story or bio at the start, and you
have your book. See my other video on
How To Write A Book Quickly & Easily.
Once you have your book you can use each chapter as the script to create
a video to camera – now you have an online course. So you can dictate a book and turn that into
an online course, or create an online course and let Rev transcribe it for you
and now you have a book. And it’s all
free.
Paid workshops – hold a 1 or 2 hour paid event on Zoom where
you teach a topic and interact with your students. List it on Eventbrite, Facebook events and
LinkedIn events, then teach it. Record
it too. You can then repurpose that
seminar into an online course or a book, or sell it as an off the shelf product
as a corporate training for businesses.
Keynote speeches – you offer your services as a speaker and
teach good content using a PowerPoint presentation on Zoom. Simply prepare your slides, your speaking
notes and then hit record. Charge a
speaking fee for your time. One you have
your Signature Talk prepared you can deploy the same presentation that’s all
ready to go.
Amazon Affiliate – you can sign up at www.Amazon.com as an
affiliate and you can instantly resell ANY product that Amazon sells and make a
commission. You buy the product, do an
unboxing video then do a review video.
Post them on social media with your Amazon link – that’s up
forever. If anyone clicks that link,
goes through to Amazon and buys that product, you get paid a commission.
Network marketing is another obvious way to make money
online and Zoom can be used for three way calls where you introduce your
prospects to our upline sponsor, for team training, supporting your downline
promoters, new product training, you name it.
So if you are signing up to a supplement company or a beauty company or
a health company, you can use Zoom to grow your business and grow your monthly
commissions.
Expert Interview – we prepare a series of questions, the
expert knows what questions I’m going to ask them and they can have a cheat
sheet on the wall beside their computer screen, and I interview them. They don’t have to travel or come to me so
its cost effective. That can then be
edited and a nice intro added to it and now we have a natural and authentic
show reel or ask the expert style video that shows off their expertise and
credibility which they can put out on YouTube and LinkedIn to get clients.
So there you have it – several ways for you to start or grow
a business and make money online from home using Zoom.
Now we have a flagship programme called The Guru Factory
where over 90 days we help our client write a signature talk and get it all
over the internet. We handle all of the
technology, the transcribing, we organise the slides, we even set up the social
media platforms for you and build out the online course. Or a book, or a CD set, or live
workshops. Or all of them!
But that’s actually step 5 in a 9 step roadmap from struggling
and invisible, to impacting thousands of people without years of trying to
figure it out yourself.
Fancy making money while you sleep? How confident are you that you could do all
of the above steps? I’ve tried to strip
it right back and make it as simple as possible, and as low cost. Now as I said, we do all this for you as part
of the Guru Factory programme.
If you’d like to get crystal clear on the first steps you
should be taking right now then schedule a call with me and we’ll take a look
at how using Zoom fits into your overall business plan. We help entrepreneurial people who want to
have books, courses and products online as their main income stream or as a
side hustle. Either way we can
help. So see the details below and let’s have a chat.
https://calendly.com/instantedge/fic
Tel 07715 641690
Email admin@imstantedge.co.uk
