It took me less than an hour to make over $240 using ChatGPT for free. You see, ChatGPT is this free online software that has 200 million monthly active users worldwide, but most beginners don’t realize that they can use it to make money online. So in this step-by-step tutorial, I want to boil down what I believe could be the easiest side hustle. Don’t worry, I don’t have a course to sell you at the end, and everything I share today is completely free.
Step number one: We first of all want to go to ChatGPT and create an absolutely free account by entering an email address or signing up with Google, Microsoft, or Apple. When you create an account in ChatGPT.com, this is how everything is going to look like. Now, ChatGPT operates in a way where you have to give it specific instructions, known as prompts. Essentially, prompts are the way we communicate with ChatGPT, directing it to perform specific tasks or generate particular types of content.
For example, I can give it a prompt like “write a carrot recipe without sugar,” and in seconds, it’s going to start writing this entire recipe for me because I gave it a specific prompt. The better, more detailed prompt you enter, the better and more detailed results you get. Some people are even selling these prompts for better results on platforms like Prompt Base. I actually spent over $200 buying prompts from websites like these, and I want to give them away to you for free so you don’t have to spend money.
Step number three: You’re going to use this prompt that I’m going to share with you for free later on in this tutorial. You can just copy and paste it and either change the variables in the brackets or in the green, then paste it into Chat GPT and just press enter. Now, in seconds, you’ll get a full step-by-step guide on whatever it is that you’re trying to create. In this case, I’m creating a full step-by-step guide on how to grow on YouTube fast, and you can see how detailed it is.
Next up, we’re going to use a platform that I personally signed up for a few years ago, and so far, I have over $800,000 in total sales with it. The platform is Teachable, at teachable.com. This is a platform where people are selling all sorts of digital products. You’re just going to click on “Start for Free,” then enter your full name, email address, and password and click “Create an Account.”
For the next step, you want to find software that you can promote as an affiliate. One of the networks where you can find software to promote is Partner Stack. You can just sign up for free by pressing the “Get Started” button and find a bunch of software in the marketplace. I found this tool, which helps creators on YouTube get more views, and they do have an affiliate program. So I clicked and signed up.
So far, I’ve already made over $500 with this program, but there are many other ones that you can find in the Partner Stack Marketplace and promote as an affiliate. If you don’t want to promote any software companies, you can also sign up for the Audible affiliate program, which is even easier to monetize because they pay you $5 for every free book that you give away. Audible is an Amazon company where people can find a bunch of books. If, for example, I want to find a cooking book, I can search for cooking, and there will be many books to promote. Someone can try the book for free, and I’ll get paid $5 as an affiliate. If they end up buying a book, I’ll get $10 as well.
You can also build a store with products you don’t even own yourself. Go over to Kit, click on the plus icon, and create your own kit from scratch. Next up, go back to Chat GPT and make some visual graphs to make your entire PDF guide more attractive and detailed. For example, I asked it to make a visual graph of overall yearly earnings growth on YouTube from 2018 to today. In seconds, I had this entire visual graph showing how YouTube earnings have increased.
Now, I’ll go to Google Docs, click on “Blank Document,” and start copy-pasting everything that Chat GPT has generated for me. First, I have the full step-by-step guide, and look how long it is! I can change colors, fonts, and more. I’ll also download the graph or take a screenshot, go back to Google Docs, and insert that image. I can keep adding these charts to make the entire PDF guide look more attractive and well-researched.
Once done, title the document, and more importantly, click on “File,” “Download,” and download it as a PDF. Now, we’re going to launch this PDF as a digital product. This is the platform I use to make over $800,000. Just remember, the formula for launching a digital product is this: solve a problem for someone. For example, I help faceless creators make $10,000 a month by creating problem-solving communities.
Now, go back to Teachable and scroll down to “Digital Downloads,” then click on “Create.” Name your product, paste the description, select the category (e.g., eBook), and continue. You can also design an eBook cover on Canva and upload it. Once the PDF document is uploaded, click continue, set a price, and go live with your product.
Alternatively, if you don’t want to sell it, you can upload it to platforms like Updforever.net, where people make money when someone downloads their files. You can just sign up, upload your file, and get paid each time someone downloads it.
If you want to build an online community around digital products, platforms like Skillshare allow creators to earn significant income. You can create a niche community and charge a membership fee for access to valuable content like PDF guides. Lastly, I recommend using Pinterest.com for free traffic, as it has 800 million monthly visitors. You can create a Pinterest account, build niche-specific pins using Canva, and start promoting your digital products.
I’ve created a free blueprint to help you launch your own Pinterest account and use it for traffic. You can find all of this inside our free community, “Online Business Friends.” So, if you want to see how I personally make money online without showing my face, click on the box on the screen right now to access the free tutorial on this business!