Best way to make money without social media

Today I was thinking:

“What the best way to make money in the Metaverse, without depending on social media?”

Not because I’m planning on quitting social media forever.

I was just curious and I like to brainstorm when I walk with my dog.

So I was going back in time in my head, in the past 10 years of everything I tested…

And the only thing I could come up with, where you can make “behind-the-scenes” money is…

Can you guess?

Email.

I’m talking about truly “behind-the-scenes” money, where you can delete all your social media apps and still be printing in your underwear, with a cup of coffee watching the ocean or the mountains full of snow from your living room…

Now, here’s the catch…

The best way to grow an email list, and make behind-the-scenes “tap money” with email, is by using social media and paid ads.

So what you do is get people from social media, and take them out of social media into your email list.

Or you can just run ads directly into your group or opt-in page to grow your email list.

Social Media Following —> Email List/Group

Paid Ads —> Email List/Group

So the sweet spot is the combination of both, at least to start.

But you get to a point, where you built an asset (email list or group) that’s big enough that you can continue making money forever with the list you got.

At that point, you’re truly bulletproof.

Now, as I said…

I’m not planning on quitting social media.

I’m actually going to double down soon.

But not with the goal of getting famous or just making some quick cash.

I’m not interested in that.

My goal is to gain attention to then take people out of social media and into my email list.

Why?

Because I want to build a massive email list for the future.

I want that asset.

And because in 10 years I don’t see myself trying to create viral “Reels”.

I want to be printing and staying more low key, while mainly focusing on the people in my communities and email list.

I used to love to be recognized back in the day when I started to see some success.

It made me feel important.

I was a 20 year old, getting 30-40 years olds that followed me on Youtube wanting to get pics with me.

But every year I prefer to have that less and less.

So that’s pointing me towards a more email-centered business.

I’m excited to share all this with you in my email program.

And I’m excited to show you what I’m doing to launch this.

Talk soon,

- Sebastian