Top 3 ways to make money during COVID-19…

What’s up NewGen family! Man I don’t even know where to start, this whole entire year has just been crazy beyond comprehension. In my personal opinion biblical. Rumors of wars, the passing of Kobe Bryant (Rest in peace), COVID-19, and now a damn race war… Man I think it’s safe to say we need the remote from Adam Sandler and click to 2021! Never the less, today we’re here to talk about the top 3 ways to create income right now during this pandemic. Since millions on millions of people have lost their jobs and now collecting unemployment, making money right now is definitely more challenging now more than ever. With that being said let’s go ahead and dive right into today’s blog topic.

 

E-commerce/Dropshipping:

Now I’m starting off with this one is because we are in a time now where the shift is happening. Two years ago along my journey of learning dropshipping and going through the phases of creating, failing and doing over again, one thing that kept me going is that I knew that major department stores are going out of business and its due to people are shopping online. Stores like Toys R us, JC Penny, Sears, etc… are seeing their revelation of their companies, that was two years ago. Now, 2020 with the pandemic has pretty much headshot all of these businesses and many more. With majority of the world still under quarantine, everyone is on the internet now more than ever. More people on the internet means more online shopping.

Between 2020 to 2025, E-com/Dropshipping will dominate because, department stores are dying (or at least on life support). So what are the steps of building my first E-com/dropshipping store? Well it’s simple:

• Find a product
• Create an online store around the product
•  Create/run ads to your store
•  Start generating sales

Now of course there’s WAY more that goes into it, but this is just the basis of it. I personally recommend using Shopify when you’re creating your store, because it’s beginner friendly and they give you different tips and tricks to create and achieve your first successful E-commerce website. Right now they’re having a 14-day free so I highly recommend hoping on this opportunity especially at it’s beginning stages. Click here to get started! For more info on E-commerce/dropshipping check out my post, “Key tips you need to know when starting a Shopify store…” for more in-depth explanation.

 

Social Media Marketing Agency:

Now this is for the people who don’t necessarily want to deal with the responsibilities of running an E-commerce brand/dropshipping branded store. A lot of these physical businesses such as restaurants, dental offices, etc… the owners of those businesses for the most part are leaving a huge chunk of money on the table simply because they don’t know how to take advantage of the internet (Or in all honesty are just too f***king lazy to learn) that’s where you come in!

So what exactly do you do to get started? Well first learn how to market. My personal advice, take 2-3 weeks aside and actually learn Facebook ads/Google AdWords because that is the most crucial part of being able to do this. What exactly will you be doing? As a social media marketer, you’ll be creating/taking over the client’s social medias for their business and you will be running ads and you’ll be bringing traffic (potential customers) towards their business which will put more money in their pockets.

The more clients you take on and provide good results, the more money you’ll make. Now how do you get paid from doing this and do you have to use your own money? In the beginning you want to provide value ( a test run) to your client and show them that you’re worth the extra investment. You know when you’re in the mall and you walk past the food court and you got the people handing out free samples of their food. Well it’s the same concept. Give them a taste and if they like, you can write up a contract and they’ll give you a budget to utilize to grow their business. You can easily make an extra $1,500-$3,000 a month per client. Imagine having 4-5 clients paying you $1,500 a month, you do the math. For more info about SMMA check out this video by Kevin David for a more in-depth overview.

 

Print on Demand:

Now this is a unique take on making money online because, this isn’t talked about too much.  For all of my creatives out there this opportunity and the time we’re in right now is GOLDEN! Especially with COVID-19 most shipping times for online businesses are extremely pushed back and may be a good minute before they go back to normal. So what exactly is P.O.D ? It’s pretty much similar to dropshipping, but instead of already made products, you’re creating the designs. That’s right, YOU!

Clothing, accessories, phone cases, necklaces, etc… you’ll be creating the designs via photoshop. Afterwards, the fulfillment center manufactures it and sends it to your customers. Fun fact, my clothing line (01 Vision) started off as an P.O.D but will very soon become an actual clothing retailer. So what’s a good P.O.D company to go through? Me personally I use Printful. Very reliable, tons of different items to customize, fast shipping, great customer service, been using them now for 2+ years now.

Now how would you market this? I actually recommend using Instagram influencers, but of course do a lot of research on Instagram influencers before reaching out to them and utilizing their platform. They’re essentially cheaper then using Facebook ads if done right. $100 on the right IG influencer can bring in mad weight and build data so when you start using Facebook ads, you already have a head start.

 

In conclusion…

We are only 6 months into 2020 and as you can see a lot can happen in a mere 6 months. This pandemic will either do two things to you and that’s either make you more lazier than you already were or bring out that inner hustler in you. With all the bars, malls, clubs, etc… closed, you literally have nothing but time to invest in yourself and be a better version of yourself by the time this pandemic passes. Getcha ass up and get at it, no excuses! Y’all stay safe out here, especially if you’re protesting in the streets. Much love! New blogs coming this week.

How to make sure you don’t miss the opportunities that are given to you…

What’s up Newgen family! Yeah I know, it’s been a while. I’ve been in a temporary hiatus and I have some explaining to do as of my where abouts have been. You I’ve been going through many transitions of my life these past few months, everything from moving into a new place, from me pulling a Steve Harvey and leaving my job when I thought I had a plan in place, but when things don’t all the way in order you have to make adjustments and make it work. Never the less i’m back and back with a hunger to give you what I felt the beginning of this year and that’s educate, motivate, and inspire. Prepared to see more of me and content on this page as I myself am still going on this journey. So without anymore waiting let’s go ahead and get into today’s topic.

 

Opportunities…

Now we live in a world where we are born with a lot of advantages and disadvantages at the same damn time. Some of us where born in lower class homes, some with broken neighborhoods, broken families, etc… For the most part we are born with the odds of life stacked against us. However, how our life plays out is all determined by our choices and what decisions we make. With that being said we have these things in our life and they come seldom and few, called opportunitites. Now I don’t have to go into the definition of what opportunites are(if you’re really that damn slow just ask google)but some people don’t understand the seriousness of utilizing the ones we are given.

Maybe there’s a business you want to start right now, maybe there’s a woman/man that you want to pursue at the place you always see them, maybe your boss offered you a leadership position that is so good you can’t even pass up. What ever it is, just know with most given opportunities there’s a time gap, a window when you can enter. However, that window will close. Now let me ask y’all a question. How many people here have an opportunity that just opened for you, but you feel like is something you back from achieving that decision that could change your life? If this is you now, I definitely want you to pay attention to next part because this will be the most important paragraph you will ever read in your life, mark my words.

Do not and I repeat DO NOT, let your family, friends, your inner doubt, etc… Stop you from taking an opportuntiy that can potentially change your life for the better. If you’ve prayed over it and that strong feeling inside of yourself(your intuition)is pushing you towards it, take it and I repeat TAKE IT! You see the funny thing about the opportunities is that each one is different and each one will require a version of you. You also need to take in account as well that the timing is different for each one. Some opportunities, the window can be weeks, months, hell it can even be open for a couple of years. Then they’re others that are on the spot and require a decision right there and right now and if you miss it, you’ll most likely never see that same chance again. Trust me, I can speak from first experience…

Now those are just the opportunities that are given, let me go ahead and go into the part when you have to create your own. This is what seperates the victims and the victors. You see life will only hand you a handful of opportunities, but overall life will consistantly beat the living shit out of you you. However, God gave us the best gift of our life and that’s free will. You see if you were dealt with a shit hand of cards, that’s fine. How you play them will determine if you win or lose. Remember if you’re born poor that’s by chance, but if you die poor that’s by choice. What the 97% tend to do a lot is wait for an opportunity to just come and wait until it’s staring them dead in their face.

“Oh I’ll start my business when the kids are out the house”, “I’ll approach that person tomorrow even though they’re alone right now”, “I don’t think I’m ready to take that position so I’ll wait until i’m more seasoned”. Different excuses, loss chances. If you’re reading this far that means you’re apart of the 3% that takes the tools they were given and build their own opportunites. People let trival things stop them from a life changing experiences that could poteinally take them to the next level in life. Excuses are the kryptonite to opportunitity. While you’re in the position you’re in right now, you need to quit bullshitting your self and tackle this like defensive lineman. Because the plane doesn’t land when it just takes off.

 

So how to make sure you don’t miss out on your blessing?

For one, pray. If you geniually believe that this is the opportunity you should take then God will provide a path for you to go all you gotta do is just say yes to it. Two, make sure that you don’t over think it, because too much thinking on a opportunity can actually cause you to change your mind and that could cause you to miss out big time on something that could had got you going. You don’t want to be that person on their deathbed regretting all the things they could have done, but let the opportunities slip passed them. So know what you want out of life and when the opportunities pop up, attack them full force and don’t hold back. I pray that this helps someone push through a wall they thought was stopping them… Take care Newgen family!

 

 

Top 5 rules of life everybody should follow…

In this one life that we are given we’ll have to go through many trials and tribulations. With that being said, with that being said you have to have some order in your life in order to get through while you’re alive. They’re many rules to life whether they’re common sense things or stuff you’ll have to be taught, but either way it goes, we have rules to keep order and stability. So here are the top 5 rules everyone should follow while going through their journey in life. Let’s begin.

 

1. Appreciate the things you have

In today’s society we always worry about the wrong things or we worry about the things we don’t have at the moment. When I was growing up, one thing my mom would always say was, “Be thankful that you have a roof over your head, clothes on your back and food on the table.” As a kid it wouldn’t register to me until I got older. You see there’s a lot of contributing factors that goes into this and why we think like this.

For example, social media. We have this “Keep up with the Jones’s” mentality where anything we do we try to one up the next person. Someone post a picture of their brand new supercar and you feel like you should be on their level and now you’re disappointed, but fail to realize… At least you got a F*cking car! Some of y’all sad like shit because you not living in a big mansion or got hella designer clothes when you don’t even realize you’re considered rich to someone who doesn’t even have a place to call home. They don’t have a car or food to eat. Be grateful for what you have now. God has ways of humbling people who aren’t appreciative of what they have. Ironically people don’t know how good they’ve had something until it’s gone.

 

2. Become a happy individual for yourself

You know why 97% of the world struggles with this? Because, they think other people or material things will make them happy instead of themselves. Let me tell y’all something real quick. It is YOUR responsibility to create happiness, peace, self courage for yourself. The reason why most marriages fail is because one person out the group whether it was the husband or wife. Got with either or because, they wanted to be happy. However, that person doesn’t realize that when the test comes and the marriage ain’t all beaches and bananas, now that happiness is gone, but because you don’t want to feel alone, you stay in that marriage and now what was once a marriage is now a damage.

You see people, you have to learn how to be happy when no one is around you, when you’re alone & nobody is hitting your line up, when it’s just you & God. I can speak from experience, it’s not always easy, but building your inner peace and happiness will set you up for better things in life. Remember, elevation requires separation. So sometimes you’ll have to get away from people to level your self up in terms of your peace and happiness. Happy people attract happier people. Negative people attract even more negative people. Which ever one you are at the moment remember this, It’s not your mom, dad, sister, brother, friends, or even your own spouse responsibility to make you happy. You have to accomplish that on your own.

 

3. Treat others the way you want to be treated

The golden rule. This is a rule that everybody knows about, but only a few actually grasps the concept of this. Let me ask you something. Would you want someone coming in your face yelling, cussing, disrespecting the hell out of you? I would assume not. Well if you don’t want that happening to you, don’t give out that type of energy. Treat people with respect and kindness upfront and if they’re a like minded individual they’ll give that same respect in return. Sometimes that won’t be that case. You’ll give out positive and get back negative, but when that happens just know 90% of the time it isn’t you, but the person could be going through something so try to keep that in mind.

Of course other times, people can be just straight assholes for no reason what so ever and to those people I say be a little more kind, but not too much. Know your limit and set a line for yourself. Don’t be afraid to check somebody if you absolutely need to. Also, just pray for them. If you can’t do nothing else for that person, just pray for them. As I stated in the previous rule, positive attracts positive and negative attracts negative. So be mindful of the type of energy you put out especially if it’s just a day were a bad thing happened but it doesn’t play out as having a bad day.

 

4. Have a friend

In this world, you can live without your parents, you can live without your pets, you can live without your spouse, but you can’t live in this world without a friend, period. In this generation, we are being taught that we don’t need friends we need ends(money). “F*ck friends, I don’t trust a soul, but I trust this bag though!” Well, what good is it to have all that money if you can’t experience it without people that are close to you?

Let me tell you something, some people are literally soo poor all they have is just money. In life you need the 4 key categories:

• Wealth
• Health
• Love
• Spirit

If you have a balance of all 4 of these then you’re golden. However, most people are just optimizing for wealth, that’s why we have fat, soulless, lonely billionaires in this world. An imbalance of any of these things can be terrible. Optimize to meet good people while you’re on your journey of success because you will meet people who will want the best for you and that are happy that you exist.

 

5. Stand for something

Stand for something or fall for anything. This rule is the rule that’ll test people mentally. Let me put you on game real quick, if you know the truth that God has exposed to you, what ever that truth may be, stand by it and don’t let no one make you change your ground. In this world, the Devil is working hard because he knows his times is about to be up and he’s trying to take as many people down below with him, frankly he’s doing a good job, because this world has been deceived on A LOT of things. If you don’t stand for what you believe in you’ll allow anybody to say anything and you’ll fall for their bs and that’ll effect you in the long run when it’s all said and done. If you’re not willing to die over what you believe in, I suggest you follow the crowd, because you won’t last long when the world comes against you.

 

 

Should you go to college/go back?

Now before you jump down my neck about this, at least hear me out real quick. I’m not against education, in fact you need to be educated in order to be successful. However, it is the type of education you get that will determine the success you want to see. Quote by Jim Rohn, “Formal education will earn you a living, self education will earn you a fortune.” If you want to just earn a living and by that I mean just enough to pay the bills than yeah college is for you, but if you want to achieve financial freedom you’re going to have to learn outside of the school house and dip into self education. With that being said you might be in a position right now to were you probably just graduated highschool and wondering what the next step is or you can be the person who is currently in college and wants to know if the work thats being put in will be worth it. You might even be the person who never went to school, but life is beating your ass and you’re starting to wonder if you should go to college or at least get a GED. Well today, i’m going to ease your mind on those things so grab your favorite snack and get ready to read!

 

Now the first thing we have to cover is why are most people going to college. The quick answer would be because, they want to make more money in order to provide for their family or future family. In today’s society we’ve been taught that the only way to be successful in life is by working your ass off and getting a piece of paper that shows that you can read words off a text book. Quick little disclaimer by the way before I take off the filter and go in, if you’re going to school for something that actaully requires a degree like for example;

• Doctor(or anything in the medical field)
• Lawyer
• Engineer
• Scientist
• Teacher
• Anything in STEM
• Trade schools

Then this will not apply to you. You should most definitely stay in school and stick it out because we will always need you and those careers will always be in demand. If you’re not going for one of those things I’ve listed than for the most part you’re wasting your time. If most people were smart, they would start off at a communitiy college and knock out your basics and not be in dept then either continue in a community college or transfer to a university after your first two years(which will save you a great amount of debt)leaving you in a much better position. Because at the end of the day you’re learning the same shit.

Lets get another thing established right now since we’re here. The whole reason why the school system was even created was to simply create workers. Employees. Think about it, why is it that a school day and a work day have strong similarities? You wake up early in the morning, if you’re late you get a tardy(or write up), you’re in a room for 8 hours a day, you have to ask permission to use the restroom, you get a lunch break, you get sent home to do more work, you do the shit again the next day. It’s an ongoing cycle. When you were in pre-k all the way to kindergarden the teacher made you write what you wanted to be when you grow up and told you what you could do, then come 1st grade- all the way to college you were told what you couldn’t do. For 12-16 years you’ve been conditioned to work for the majority of your life and for the most part you didn’t even know it and even if you did you didn’t question it. Don’t believe me? Look back into your highschool years(or college years) a see what you did the entire day and then compare that to your 9-5 job and tell me if I’m lying.

But moving on, college can be benefitcial in a social aspect, but that’s about it. If you want to build connections and network with a lot of people then college is a option, but at the same time should you put yourself in 40k-100k in debt just to establish a social life ? Hell you can do that for free.99, I have a lot of connections and I’ve managed to have a college experience even after I dropped out. People you have to understand the times we live in right now. We are living in the age of the internet and this is the age of information. Which means anything youn want to learn about you can do it in a matter of a couple seconds utilizing platforms such as Google and Youtube. We also are in a time where any gift/passion you have you can make money off of it.

You damn sure need to stay out off college if you’re trying to do the following;

• Artist
• Music
• Entreprenuer
• Anything that involves being creative

Because the school system was not built for you. I do online businesses, before I was doing that I took some business classes at my community college. I can not tell you the amount of whooptiy scoop I’ve learned in less than a semester, literally the whole time we were doing pointless powerpoints, learning terms and definitions like that was going to help me build a f*cking business, writing papers that were just useless and I think my professor was a lowkey feminist, but I won’t get into that today. To bring in that point we weren’t even learning the new ways but the old ways how to start a business(more brick and mauter type businesses which are failing). All of my future entreprenuers and business owners listen up, why in the hell would you pay to learn from a teacher that hasn’t even started a business themselves. Think about that for a second.

Now I would actually be for college if the system actually taught you real world vaulabe skills that you can utilize and actually become successful with. There should be no reason why you go through 4-8 years of college taking on massive amounts of debt, graduate, and not be able to get a job off the back within 6 months or not even knowing what you want to do after you’ve done your time in school, period. You invested that much time and money in you should damn near be gareenteed a good job that can keep you and your family stable. So my personal advice to you as someone who has been inside I will tell you this, school is only worth it if you’re pursuing a career that requires you to have that level of education. Careers in demand will always pay good money. If the degree you’re currently pursing isn’t in those high demand careers, you’re literally putting yourself in a trap to become a 9-5 employee. If you have a burning desire to be creative or do something that doesn’t require a degree, save yourself the money and stress and go pursue it. The world has enough zombies.

 

How the choices you’re making now will hold you back unless you choose to change…

I know I’ve been working a lot lately so forgive me for my absense for the week. During this week though I’ve been thinking about a lot of things and one thought that jumped out to me the most is, the choices I make will determine my future. A quote by Tony Robbins actually brings what I’m about to talk about to life today and is, “It’s your desicions, not your conditions that determines your success” and I can single handly say I agree with this whole heartily. You see I feel like if I would had made some different choices I say 5-8 years ago I use to feel like my life would had been better or maybe worse, who knows. But anyways, I’m not here today to dive deep down into my past and tell stories, I want to help anybody today to make the right choices to improve your life, so pay attention.

 

If you’re reading this right now it’s probably because you think that choices you’ve made have put you in a bad spot or you’re probably not even in a bad spot but you’d like to level up in the next steps of your life. With that being said the first thing you as a human have to do and not only for yourself, but for your greater good, you need to first take responsibiltiy and realize that the reason why you’re at the spot you’re in right now is off the choices you’ve made. Yes that’s right, you! –But wait, it can’t be all of my fault, life has been cruel to me. That might be true, but first let me elaborate what I mean.

Now in Life, let’s keep it real a lot of shit happens for no reason what so ever. Life really can knock you on your ass and laugh right in your face if you let it. I’ll also tell you this… 15-20% of where you’re at now is stuff you couldn’t control. A relative died, someone got sick, what ever the case may be. The things you can’t control in life are the things you don’t want to devote too much energy to. Now what about the other 75-80%? That other large percent of where you’re at has been on you, the things you can control.

Money problems, weight problems, relationship problems, etc… These are things that are controllable. If you don’t have enough money, sit your ass down(Tai Lopez’s mentor calls it assiduity) go on google and type in “ways to make some extra income”. There’s literally no excuse now a days we have too much power on our hands. If you’re having weight problems, start going to the gym. You’ve ate too much and not worked out so go pay for that membership and get to work. If you don’t have a car to drive to the gym then walk around your neighborhood. In the proccess change your diet to compliment your workouts. If you’re having relationship problems first figure out where the relationship is going wrong. Is it over communicating? Bills? Trust? What ever the case is, you have a choice to identify and than execute in the change.

The point is, it is a choice. A lot of people confuse choices and uncontrollables. Your skin tone, the height which you will grow to, your sex, the weather, etc… is shit that can’t be changed. The reason why people chose to treat their choices like unchangable things is because sub-consiously they’ve been conditioned in that negative way of thinking for so long that now the body finds comfort in those negative thoughts. Your brain sleeps and manifests in those thoughts and actions. That’s why when people develop addictions tend to think that they can’t ever change, but in reality it’s the complete opposite. You chose to start the addiction, you can chose to break the addiction. It won’t be easy because when your brain is trying to break free of it, you’re putting yourself back into a uncomfortable state again. That means your body is going to crave that desire and that what makes your journey a lot harder.

How many of y ‘all truly want to do better? Maybe not even for your self but for a family member, a child, or even for your lover? I’ll tell you this right now you have to be willing to admit your lost. That’s hard for a lot of people. A lot of people would chose not to get no help over their egos and miss out on a blessing that could had took them out of that spot they’re in. What’s even crazier is that the choices you make now can have a great factor in your future. You could had been doing bad and illegal shit in your past and got into a situation that has put you on the ropes. But if you’ve made it out some shit that should had killed you, you need to now make the choices that will change your future for the better.

I’m going to say this loud for the people in the back so they can hear me… YOU CAN’T CHANGE YOUR PAST SO STOP F*CKING WORRYING ABOUT IT! A wise man once said, “You can’t drive to your future looking at your past through your rear view mirror. You’re going to crash.” A lot of people chose to dwell on the past, wether it been a mistake they made, someone did something to them(I’m not going into details), or a even that happened that you couldn’t control and people truly manifest in it. The first step to moving forward is to stop walking backwards. Simple. Today I want you to commit to yourself in making better choices for yourself. Notice I didn’t say right choices, because we won’t all the time make the right choices and descions. You can how ever improve the choices you make that will lead you into a more positive and brighter future. With that being said, I hope y a’ll have a wonderful day and I hope you chose to read this and take what I’ve said to heart.