- Furloughed Facebook.com employees are at an advantage despite current or upcoming layoff.
- Mastering tech skills and applying independent ambition to freelancing is today's new norm for surviving economic uncertainty.
- Affiliate marketing is today's new norm for building yourself up for future financial security and surviving lengthy periods of unemployment, while in transitions from unemployed to thriving entrepreneur earning a full-time income online.
Meta, a Facebook company, is allegedly rumored to potentially so to lay off possibly between 5000 to 10,000 employees. Some of these employees allegedly don't have a plan B, plan C, or an extensive backup plan when traditional employment fails. In the intermission of 5000 to 10,000 Meta employees allegedly about to be furloughed from their jobs they thought was once secured in having some sort of job security, some employees are possibly scared to death as to what their next employment gig will be. If you're one of thousands of soon to be furloughed or currently furloughed Meta-Facebook employee out of a job or soon to be out of a job, separation from the company may be today a once in a lifetime entrepreneurial opportunity for you. And if you're wondering how so, keep reading.
Three Benefits of Being Furloughed From a Social Media Company:
Using Your Current Skills to Build Your Own Online Business
If one of your mastered skills working at Meta evolved around customer service, writing code such as Perl, Python, JavaScript, Ruby on rails, scrum master, or coding with HTML or PHP, one of the ways you can set yourself up as a furloughed or soon-to-be furloughed Facebook employee is to create a YouTube channel. A YouTube.com channel is free of charge to start and allows you to express your personality in a way your target audience resonates with you. With a YouTube channel, the only thing you need is your personal ambition, your current skill set while working at Facebook as a furloughed employee now, and a long-term vision. While you're building out your Facebook channel with your skills you used working its Facebook, all you need to do is to create individual Facebook play lists for certain skills you harness. For example, if you have mastered skill sets using WordPress blogging, WordPress plug-ins, javascripting, Perl, Python, and PHP coding, then each individual playlist will be designated for every individual skill you possess. This way, you're able to categorize videos based upon individual skill sets while respectively building your YouTube subscriber base and YouTube views in hopes of becoming a near future YouTube partner. The beauty of this side hustle of using YouTube to build your business is that it requires no money upfront to make money online. Unless that is, you decide to start a blog or website which requires purchasing your own domain name, renting a dedicated server, and potentially considering purchasing website software to install on your dedicated web hosting server.
If you plan on acquiring a domain name and using blogging as a means of diversifying your online passive income potential, that'll great your potential for increasing your passive income potential beyond making money off of YouTube in the future as a YouTube partner. And while you're in unemployed or about to head to the unemployment office soon to file for unemployment income because you're about to be laid off from Meta, now's the perfect time for you as a current or former Meta employee to consider starting a YouTube channel centered around niche topic of your current skill set or skill sets. Using your current skill set to build your online business is the ideal way of proving that not only do you believe in yourself and your entrepreneurial ability to prosper financially, but you also believe in yourself enough to thrive without relying on a full-time day job for your total income. This is where the beauty of your personal ambition is put to the test. If you currently work at Facebook or worked there in the past and no longer with the company and you've earned a handsome salary while working, what's stopping you now from putting your entrepreneurial ambition to the test in overdrive by starting your own online-based side hustle and seeing how far your skill set can take you financially?
Acquiring a Domain Name and Starting a Blog With Your Unemployment Check
Some people look at buying a domain name as just another bill to pay. A domain name is more than just another bill. Looking at a domain name from a bigger viewpoint, your own domain-URL address is an investment in yourself. More than just investing in yourself and your entrepreneurial ability. A domain name is also your online real estate; a unique place people can find you across the internets. Your own domain name combined with renting a dedicated server and installing WordPress as a self hosted blogging solution on your dedicated server allows you to speak your mind respectively and unrestricted in blog posts. With your own domain name, rented dedicated server, and a self hosted WordPress blog installed on your dedicated server, your voice is just as loud as a United States Democratic or Republican politician.
As a furloughed Facebook employee with time on your hands now to focus on turning your skill set into passive income using the power of the Internet, you can set yourself up to earn multiple streams of passive income using self hosted WordPress blogging as one of many ways to earn a full-time income online. Blogging about your current skill set allows you to build free search engine traffic in your targeted niche for years to come. As long as you're consistent blogging about your current skill set and doing it as a genuine labor of love for at least 2 to 3 years despite your current situation off enduring unemployment and financial hardship, you'll fare out in the long run to be quite successful using blogging as one of many streams to earn independent and healthy passive income from. And besides, blogging about your current skill set as a genuine labor of love earns you free advertising when your blog posts are share to Facebook, twitter.com, LinkedIn.com, ReddIt.com, Slack.com, Diigo.com, Foursquare.com, Pinterest.com, Facebook fan pages, Facebook groups, and marketed through permission-based e-mail marketing lists. People will automatically share your content across social networks if they find your blog posts meaningful. Focus on solving problems in the body of your blogs and people will reward you with free advertising. Free advertising results in increased passive income. And that's and undebatable statement!
Building Your Business Using Affiliate Marketing
As blogging allows you to combine our post to definite potentials for setting oneself up to earn multiple streams of passive income from monetizing a blog with ads and being in the YouTube partner program, affiliate marketing makes the pot that much sweeter financially. Building your business using affiliate marketing as a furloughed Facebook employee is a sure shot an ideal method for becoming a future online millionaire despite your current unemployment. Some people choose not to use affiliate marketing because they are unsure if it'll work for them. These types of people are potentially uncertain about their entrepreneurial ambition and putting it to work at full strength for generating a full-time income stream online.
These types of people also potentially have families and are looking for an instant check. This is where the power of your personal belief is put to the test. Believe it or not, affiliate marketing is making everyday people online millionaires in secrecy. And if you don't know what affiliate marketing is, it's the process of partnering with the online advertising to promote their products and services as an affiliate in hopes of earning affiliate commissions by joining their "affiliate program." Building your business using affiliate marketing is absolutely possible through monetizing your blog with ads from "affiliate program networks," in addition to inserting "affiliate links" in the description of YouTube videos. And, inserting [affiliate links] in the body of YouTube videos can be done without owning a domain name and a self hosted WordPress blog.
Affiliate marketing is also today's new norm for generating steady streams of income with or without a day job. Make no mistake that affiliate marketing is not MLM-multilevel marketing. With affiliate marketing, there's no need to recruit a downline and rely on others to do their part in order for you to make money. With affiliate marketing, you basically join an affiliate program on an affiliate network as a publisher and promote affiliate links from affiliate programs that accept you as an affiliate marketer for the purpose of generating affiliate commissions from the affiliate links you promote, either by promoting affiliate links through YouTube videos, or promoting affiliate links on your self hosted WordPress blog. With your unemployment check as a furloughed Facebook employee, you can get started online with a domain name, self hosted WordPress blog, and pay your first must dedicated web hosting server bill all for potentially less than $500 upfront. With a dedicated server, your server will withstand hordes of traffic coming in from search engine listings and social networks. A dedicated server is highly recommended for your self hosted WordPress blog as an unemployed former Facebook employee.
Food For Thought
If you blog about your past experience working at Facebook and blog about meaningful things such as showing people how to solve problems in technology or otherwise, you can set yourself up to be the "ask the expert blogger." And when people start looking to you as a blogging authoritative figure, that helps you to make more money from ads on your blog, as well as promoted blog post links inserted in the body of your YouTube videos pointing back to specific pages on your WordPress blog.
Inserting links to specific blog posts in YouTube videos is also a great way to build exponential traffic coming from YouTube, alongside getting steady streams of traffic from your blog posts being indexed in organic, unpaid search engine results pages. And when your blogs and YouTube videos start gaining steady streams of high traffic every day, this is what helps YouTube potentially make money online 24 hours a day. The end result is becoming independent from working for someone else on a regular day job.