The Definitive Guide to Making Money Online: Gold City Ventures Review

Flash­back to 2015. I had just turned 25 and spent the week in Ecuador soak­ing up knowl­edge from Finan­cial Inde­pen­dence experts. I was rid­ing high on all the things I want­ed to start doing and imple­ment­ing. I wrote a post about my expe­ri­ence and pub­lished it to my tiny lit­tle blog.

A few months lat­er, my email start­ed blow­ing up with noti­fi­ca­tions some­one was com­ment­ing on my blog. That some­one turned into one of my clos­est friends in the Finan­cial Inde­pen­dence com­mu­ni­ty — Julie of Mil­len­ni­al Boss. We have done a lot togeth­er over the years — attend­ed mul­ti­ple Fin­Cons as room­mates, co-host­ed an amaz­ing pod­cast and changed peo­ple’s lives.

Most of my suc­cess in the blog­ging sphere can be direct­ly attrib­uted to her. The one post on my site that’s opti­mized for SEO is because of her and it’s my most suc­cess­ful post by far. She tried to explain the intri­ca­cies of Pin­ter­est to me in an effort to help me boost my traf­fic. The pin she made me? Briefly trend­ed on Pin­ter­est and helped me set a record amount of views for that month. Any amount of suc­cess we had on the pod­cast was direct­ly attrib­ut­able to her.

I was incred­i­bly lucky to get all that knowl­edge per­son­al­ized to me straight from the source. She does­n’t have time to give per­son­al­ized advice like that to every­one, so she teamed up with my oth­er friend Cody from Fly­toFi to cre­ate a course to teach you every­thing she taught me.

That course is open now!

Gold City Ven­tures is com­prised of three sep­a­rate sec­tions. If you have any inter­est in blog­ging for prof­it, cre­at­ing an Etsy dig­i­tal down­load shop or crush­ing the free­lanc­ing game, you need to buy their course.

Gold City Ventures: Blogging for Profit

The first part of the course you can get is how to start Blog­ging for Prof­it. If you have a blog you want to mon­e­tize or have been think­ing about start­ing a blog as a side hus­tle, this sec­tion will cov­er every­thing you need and more.

How to set up your blog? Check.
Plu­g­ins? Check.
SEO? Check.
Pin­ter­est? Check.
Face­book ads? Check.

If you fol­low their rec­om­men­da­tions, I can almost guar­an­tee you’ll make the cost of the course back with­in the first 6 months. The only rea­son I haven’t been made tons of mon­ey from this blog is because I don’t care to opti­mize my blog in that way. If I fol­lowed their advice, I could make tons of dineros. In fact, each one of these cours­es is com­ing with an affil­i­ate link so they can track who sends peo­ple their way. I might make a lit­tle bit of mon­ey off this post, which I feel great about as I strong­ly believe in not only my friends but the prod­uct they created.

If the thought of blog­ging for prof­it is over­whelm­ing to you, (and let’s be hon­est, there is a lot you can choose to learn and imple­ment), this course will cut through all the crap and tell you exact­ly what you need to do.

Gold City Ventures: Etsy Digital Downloads

Last sum­mer, Julie and I ran a few Mas­ter­minds on cre­at­ing an Etsy Dig­i­tal Down­load shop. It was so cool to see peo­ple soak up the knowl­edge and put their indi­vid­ual spin on our information.

Y’all, we lit­er­al­ly changed the course of peo­ple’s lives. One of our par­tic­i­pants cre­at­ed a prod­uct that earned over $500.… a MONTH. Can you imag­ine what you would do with an extra $500 a month in pas­sive income? The impact that would have on your FIRE num­ber would be HUGE! Anoth­er par­tic­i­pant earned over $300 a month. Not bad for a prod­uct that requires lit­tle time to man­age (as opposed to a phys­i­cal prod­uct that requires ship­ping. Aint no one got time for that!!)

I think the go at your own pace course will be much bet­ter than the 6 week for­mat we had for the Mas­ter­mind. Life hap­pens and it was incred­i­bly dif­fi­cult for some to carve out time to work on their shops. I know the tim­ing of the meet­ings (night in the US) was a prob­lem for some not in the US, so this is a good oppor­tu­ni­ty to get more knowl­edge on your own time!

My own Etsy shop has slow­ly start­ed to pro­duce some mon­ey for me. I think I’ve earned $50 so far from sell­ing my stained glass pat­terns. If I had cho­sen a bet­ter niche, that num­ber would be 100x. This course will teach you every­thing you need to know about cre­at­ing an Etsy dig­i­tal down­load shop and get­tin’ dat money!

Gold City Ventures: Freelance Toolkit

Cody has spent near­ly a year as a free­lancer. I was one of those peo­ple encour­ag­ing him not to quit his high paid day job, but in hind­sight, I’m glad he did! He is crush­ing it out there on his own. The third offer­ing from Cody and Julie is their Free­lance Toolk­it in which they tell you all their secrets on how to be a suc­cess­ful freelancer.

As an added bonus, they’re not the only instruc­tors in the course. They got some oth­er mega­suc­cess­ful free­lancers like Paula Pant, Vin­cent Pugliese, and Steve Stew­art to offer lessons. That’s HUGE! Many of the guest instruc­tors were my inspi­ra­tion for going at it on my own.

My Thoughts

“Uh, Gwen.… has­n’t this whole post so far been your thoughts?”
My answer to you is.…. SHHH!! Get out of here with your logic!

On a seri­ous lev­el, I believe this is the defin­i­tive guide to mak­ing mon­ey online. If you’re at all inter­est­ed in blog­ging for prof­it, cre­at­ing a pas­sive Etsy dig­i­tal down­loads shop or going at it on your own to free­lance, this is the prod­uct for you.

Now, these side hus­tles don’t inter­est me. It’s not where my tal­ents lie but the great thing about human­i­ty is that we’re all dif­fer­ent peo­ple with dif­fer­ent skills and inter­ests. It’s hon­est­ly impres­sive I failed at free­lanc­ing when I know so many suc­cess­ful free­lancers but when you’re not cut out for some­thing, it’s not meant to be.

I’ve been work­ing on a mis­sion to “know thy­self” over the last year or so and can def­i­nite­ly say this kind of hus­tle isn’t for me, giv­en who I am as a per­son and my stage in life.

HOWEVER.

If you’re a new mom to be like Julie who’s fac­ing a mater­ni­ty leave and sub­se­quent loss of income, this might be a good alter­na­tive for you. If you’re look­ing for a way to pad your income to bol­ster less than amaz­ing pay at your day job, you should get one of the cours­es out­lined above. If you have crush­ing amounts of stu­dent loans that will take decades to pay off, hus­tle some time off that time­line by buy­ing one of the courses!

The Details

It’s $197 to buy one of the cours­es. You can ONLY get in on this today through Sun­day. They’ll open the course again next year, but it will be more expen­sive so if you think you might want to do this, I strong­ly encour­age you to jump on it quick! In addi­tion to the course mate­r­i­al, you’ll be added to their VIP Face­book group so you can inter­act with them eas­i­er. They’ll be hold­ing once week­ly Face­book lives to be avail­able to answer any ques­tions that pop up too. An incred­i­ble deal, if you ask me (as some­one who did some­thing sim­i­lar once and knows how much val­ue this pro­vides to the course tak­ers — you’re get­ting a steal of a deal).

Here are the links again just in case you don’t want to have to scroll all the way back up to the rel­e­vant sections:

Blog­ging For Profit
Etsy Dig­i­tal Downloads
Free­lance Toolkit

I wish every­one involved the best of luck! Have fun out there get­ting your hus­tle on!