Introduction
It took me less than an hour to make over $240 using ChatGPT for free. You see, chup 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 jgpt side hustle. And don’t worry, I don’t have a course to sell you at the end, and everything I share today is completely free.
Step 1: Creating an Account on ChatGPT
Step number one: we first of all want to go to ChatGPT and create an absolutely free account in there by entering an email address or by signing off with Google, Microsoft, or Apple. When you create an account in chp.com, this is how everything is going to look like.
Understanding Prompts in ChatGPT
Now, chpd operates in a way where you have to give it specific instructions that are called prompts. Essentially, prompts are the way we communicate with chpt, directing it to give us and perform specific tasks or just generate particular types of content. For example, I can give it a prompt: “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 or instruction. The better, more detailed prompt that you enter, the better and more detailed results you get. Some people are even selling these prompts/instructions that are very detailed for better results—they’re selling them on platforms like PromptBase.
Step 2: Accessing Premium Prompts for Free
So, I actually spent over $200 buying prompts from websites like these, and I want to give them away to you for free so that you don’t have to spend money.
Step 3: Using the Prompt to Generate Content
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, paste it into ChatGPT, and just press enter. Now in seconds, you’re going to get a full step-by-step guide on whatever it is that you are 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 this is going to be.
Step 4: Using Teachable to Sell Digital Products
Next up, we’re going to use this platform that I personally signed up for a few years ago, and so far, I have over $894,000 in total sales with it. The platform in question 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.”
Step 5: Finding Affiliate Programs to Promote
For the next step, you want to go and find a software that you can promote as an affiliate. One of the networks where you can find software to promote is PartnerStack. You can just sign up for it for free by pressing on the “Get Started” button over here, and you can find a bunch of software in the marketplace. Like, I found this tool that helps creators on YouTube get more views, and they do have an affiliate program right over here, so I would click and sign up now. So far, I’ve already made over $500 with this program, but there are a lot of other ones that you can find in the PartnerStack Marketplace and just promote as an affiliate. If you don’t want to promote any software companies, you could also just sign up for Audible’s affiliate program, which is even easier to monetize because they actually pay you $5 for every single free book that you give away.
Step 6: Using Affiliate Marketing to Make Money
Audible is an Amazon company where people can find a bunch of books. So, if I, for example, want to find a cooking book, I can just search for “cooking,” and there’s going to be a ton of these books that I could promote. Someone can try this book for free, and I will still get paid $5 as an affiliate. If they actually end up buying some of these books, then I will also get $10 as well. And in this case, if I want to find something related to YouTube, then I can just search for “YouTube,” and I can find a bunch of these “YouTube Formula” books and promote them to get paid $5.
Step 7: Creating an Online Store Without Inventory
Besides that, you could also just build an actual store with products you don’t even have to own yourself. If you go over to Kit, you can click on the plus icon over here, and you can create your own kit from scratch.
Step 8: Enhancing Your Digital Product with Visuals
Next up, you want to go back to ChatGPT and make some visual graphs to make your entire PDF guide that you are building a little bit more attractive and a little bit more detailed and well-researched. So, I’m asking it to make a visual graph of overall yearly earnings growth on YouTube since 2018 to today, and as you can see, in seconds we got this entire visual graph that shows that from 2019, we have increased so much to today that people are making a lot more money—four times more money than back in 2018.
Step 9: Building a PDF Guide
So for the very next step, I’m just going to go to docs.google, click on “Blank Document,” and right over there, I’m just going to start copy-pasting everything that the ChatGPT has generated for me so far. So, first of all, we have this full step-by-step guide, and look at how long that is. So I’m going to copy that, I’m going to paste it here, and I can, of course, change colors and fonts and all of those things.
Step 10: Formatting and Downloading the Document
If you want to change the font, I can just select one here. I’m also either going to download the graph like this, or I could also just take a screenshot. I’m going to go back to Google Docs and just insert that image. I can keep adding these charts to make the entire PDF guide look a lot more attractive and a lot more detailed. Now I’m just going to click here to title the document, and more importantly, I’m going to click on “File,” “Download,” and download as a PDF document.
Step 11: Launching the Digital Product
Now we’re going to go and launch this PDF document as a digital product because this is a platform that I use to make over $800,000 for free. But just remember that this is the formula that we’re going to be using to launch any kind of digital product, and this is what actually made me money. When you’re selling something, you just want to think about how that’s solving a problem for someone.
Step 12: Selling Your Digital Product on Teachable
Now, you’re just going to go back to Teachable, and as you go back, you’re going to scroll down, simply go to “Digital Downloads,” and click “Create” right over here. Now you’re going to give your product a name, so I’m just going to copy it from the PDF document, and I’m going to paste that here. The description of the product could also be taken either from ChatGPT.
Step 13: Customizing Your Product and Price
Select the category—in this case, it’s going to be an eBook. So, I’m going to continue with this. In terms of the image, we are going to go back to Canva, just search for “eBook covers.” So just type in that here, and you’re going to come across a bunch of different templates that you can easily customize. You can just double-click on the text to make all the necessary changes.
Step 14: Launching and Selling
Then, you’re going to click “Share,” “Download,” download as a PNG file, and then I’m going to go back here, upload an image, click “Continue,” “One-time Purchase,” “Continue” again, and just set a price. Now, in this case, I’m just going to sell it for X bucks.
Step 15: Selling on UpForever.net
If you don’t want to sell it, there’s also another option, and it’s to go to UpForever.net, which is this platform where people are making money when someone just downloads their files.
Step 16: Building a Community and Generating Income
What you could effectively do right now is build a community on Skillshare, this platform where people are selling digital products.
Step 17: Using Pinterest to Drive Traffic
Lastly, I just recommend using some external platforms to get free traffic to your school community, to this digital product that you launched, to that download link, or to your affiliate links. And that platform actually has 800 million visitors per month, and the platform in question is Pinterest.com.
Conclusion and Bonus
I’ve built this free blueprint that you can follow, and it shows you a step-by-step process of launching your own Pinterest account so you can use it to get traffic and get sales.