10 Hours a Week YouTube, 10 Hours a Week Freelance

25-year-old Ben Awad has a short video talking about his computer science career path…

After getting a computer science degree he wanted to land a job for a big tech company…

You know: Facebook, Google, the classic move. But ultimately I decided against it, maybe because I got rejected, maybe because I had my own aspirations. 

Either way, I started a YouTube channel in college making coding tutorials. I like doing that so I just continue doing that and that also brought me business doing software consulting. 

Ben’s YouTube channel now has 480k subscribers 📈

Unclear how much he earns from the channel + consulting, but I suspect he’s cracking at least $70,000 per year 🤑

Better yet…

[YouTube and consulting] also gave me time to build startups on the side. The first one I did was a cooking app called Saffron. I basically spent 10 hours a week making YouTube videos, 10 hours a week freelancing, and then the rest of the time working on stuff like that. 

[…] as my startups and my YouTube channel have been doing better, I just do less and less consulting and more of the stuff I actually wanna do.

You can check Saffron here. I doubt it earns much money since it only has about 140 ratings overall on the app stores.

But Ben says he “got good” at coding by building that app 🧑🏻‍💻

His newest project is Voidpet – “a self care pet collection app” – which apparently had 100,000 downloads in 3 weeks…

Anyway, I like Ben’s blueprint and reckon many people could emulate his approach to earning a living online.

It breaks down like this 👇

• Build an audience by teaching/sharing what you know (or what you’re learning) online.
• Leverage that audience to land lucrative freelance projects.
• In your spare time, build and launch your own projects that have passive income potential.