I have been online for many years and have yet to take seriously if I could make money online. I tried but was never that successful.
Finally, in 2023, I have a target to monetize my online activities. Instead of trying on one channel, I tried a few.
Here are some of them.
E-Commerce Marketplace
I wanted to sell some merchandise such as T-shirts or mugs. Finally, I chose Redbubble to do just that.
Slowly but surely, it started to get noticed, and some people bought shirts and other merchandise.
https://www.redbubble.com/people/mazlan/shop
I may use AI tools such as Midjourney to create better designs. I will update this progress very soon.
Blogs
The easiest way is to use Medium.
And I started to monetize it in October 2023.
I will use other Blogs, such as Mazlan Abbas’s and IoT World blogs, to attract traffic to my other channels.
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X (Formerly Twitter)
Since I have subscribed as a Premium X user, I aimed to monetize the tweets via ads, but I need to have had at least 5 million views for the last three months.
The 5 Million views was a challenging target, but I finally managed to get it last month, and eventually, I can monetize my Tweets.
This is my X handle (@mazlan_abbas)
Ebooks
I have turned several of my articles into eBooks, which have now become a money earner.
IoT Notes is excellent for students and lecturers because it explains IoT using cartoons, images, and hand drawings.
Startup Survival: The Journey of a Tech Entrepreneur is one of my latest ebooks about my journey in entrepreneurship and the failures and successes I faced during the six years. A lot of Startup tips can be found here.
This eBook entitled IoT Frontier was released yesterday. It covers the aspects of IoT, especially in Malaysia and beyond, with examples of different applications and the tools that you need to develop an IoT project.
Don’t Depend on One Revenue Stream
Create several revenue streams and monitor which ones that are successful.
There’s no such passive income. Most of them require hard work, especially at the start.
You need to update and publicize them continuously.
Keep the channels active or ensure they’re always in the customers’ minds.
Be active on social media to drive traffic back to the channels.
Dr. Mazlan Abbas 