In this solo YouTube monologue, Evan Carmichael answers viewer questions about turning passion into profit. He argues that true business success comes from loving what you do, not from chasing quick eBay flips. He outlines three core steps: (1) Model success – find entrepreneurs who have already achieved what you aim for, work for them, or study their strategies, especially through partnerships; (2) Leverage partnerships – he shares his own breakthrough at age 19 when a partnership deal brought $13,500, rescuing his failing software startup and eventually leading to an acquisition; (3) Start small – avoid risking all savings on a single idea, instead run low‑cost tests, iterate, and scale what works. Throughout, he mixes personal anecdotes with actionable advice, urging viewers to share their own stories, like, and subscribe.
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How to make even more money. So this is part 3 in a series that I've been going back and forth with, with some of my YouTube viewers. Love you guys. I got a question a while ago that was about— a guy wrote in and said, "Hey, I want to make money on eBay. What can I buy for cheap and sell for a lot of money?" I said, "Listen, dude, this is the wrong way to go about it. You got to find a product you're passionate about. It's not just about making money on eBay. If that's what you're trying to do, you're not going to be successful. You got to love your business." And then Chefs TV wrote in to say, "Hey, is it okay if I try to start a little business on the side that I don't like to make me money so I can support this business that I do like?" I said, "No, start right away with the business that you do like and just find a smaller way to get started." Because if you're focusing on something you don't like, it's never gonna take off. It's never gonna give you the money you need to be successful. And now I got another question from the original guy who wrote in, and this one's a great one. So it's Card Games TV 1. What we're asking for is a how-to video, how to make money doing what we love. Share your tips and secrets to making money doing what we love. Now we're asking the right question. This isn't just how do I make money finding something cheap to sell on eBay and sell it for a buck. It's how do I make money from my passion. This is the key question to make your business take off. So here's how I would answer it without knowing too much about your industry. The first thing I always look for when I'm getting into a new industry or coaching somebody who's launching into an area that they don't understand yet is model success. Okay? Find somebody who has already done what you're trying to do and apply their strategies to your business. And this could be someone who's in your business right now, and maybe even you go out and get a job working for them. If you're working for them for 3 months or 6 months, even a year, you know it's part-time and you're learning. You're getting paid to learn and getting paid to make mistakes, right? Instead of you having to pay, instead of you investing your dollars and failing everywhere to make your mistakes, you're getting paid to do it and you're making connections and you're learning how something works. So I would look for somebody who's done it, who's doing it right now, built the ideal company for you, and offer to go work for them and get as close to the entrepreneur founder as possible. You're going to learn so much It's going to shortcut your path so much, and you're going to get paid to do it too. The next part of that is model success. You can look at people who are not in your industry or who you have no personal connection to, you can't go and get a job from, but you can learn from them. And this is what saved my business, my first business, okay? I was 19, I had a software company, and I was failing, like brutal failure, $300 a month, couldn't survive. I thought I tried everything, right? I'm trying everything I know of to get this business going and I'm just not making any money. And the thing that saved me was I realized, you know what, I'm not the first guy to try to sell software before. And I started looking at companies like McAfee and Microsoft and Intuit and looked at how they got started. How they go from idea to their first million dollars. You know how Bill Gates from Microsoft makes a million dollars now? That doesn't interest me. But how do you go from 0 to 1? 0 to 1, that's what I wanted to do. And he did it through partnerships. And so I applied that strategy, made it work for my business, and it started to take off finally. Like, within, within 2 weeks of realizing this strategy, I closed my first partnership deal, and I had $13,500 in my bank account from that partnership. That may not seem like a lot to you, but to me, I'm making $300 a month, $13.5K, I was celebrating, man. That was huge. That was a huge deal for me. And then I went out and I did it again and again and again. I started closing more and more partnerships, and that saved my business. Like, that saved me from having to go get a job. And eventually we got acquired. And so Model success. Like, look up to entrepreneurs in your industry. Look up to people who have, who have done other great things that may be outside your industry. You know, you like what Richard Branson does with his marketing? Apply that to your business, even if you're in a different field. Take the entrepreneurs who you look up to and you love and see what they're doing really well and make it work for your company. The last bit of advice I have for you is start small. Too many entrepreneurs, they dive all in, they take whatever savings they have, they pump it in on one thing, and it doesn't work out. And chances are your first thing isn't going to work out because you don't know what you're doing yet, right? It takes time to figure that out. You're going to make mistakes along the way, so don't dump everything you got into one idea. Spread it out. Do little tests, little failures until you find something that is working, that you really love doing, and that you want to expand. Do those things. Model success, partner up, and start small. That's how you start making money from your passion. Believe. For those of you watching, you have a story to share, I'd love to hear from you. Leave it in the comments below. How did you find your passion? How did you start making money from it? Share below so other entrepreneurs who are struggling right now can read your story, be inspired. I'd love for you to put that down. If you guys like this video, thumbs up below, click on my face, subscribe to the channel. Part 3 of the series. Thank you guys so much for watching. I'll see you soon.
