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How To Make Money & Afford RV Life (9 ways that have worked for me)…
I got this comment that says, “How big is the trust fund?” on one of my videos. One of the things that I don’t talk about a lot is how I make money on the road. I started a business before I ended up in an RV. It wasn’t like I quit my job and bought an RV. In this post, that’s what I’m going to talk to you about today! Some ways that I’ve been able to make money on the road, and ways that you can too.
PS I made you a video to go along with this post, too (scroll down to watch it)
💡 My First Online Business: Private Labeling
The first way that I started making money online—my very first business idea—was to private label products.
That means I decided to go online and get someone else to make a product for me, and then put my own brand labeling on it. So, I didn’t actually make the product… I just put my name on it.
🧪 The Product: Smoke Serendipity
The product that I made was called Smoke Serendipity. This was an e-liquid that I made—or I bought—and put my name on.
I had this made overseas.
If you don’t know what an e-liquid is—this is the stuff that you put in those vape pens, and then you smoke it.
🌍 Sourcing Through Alibaba
I looked on Alibaba.com and found someone that ended up making the packaging for me. I had the logo designed somewhere else.
If you ask me where I got this great idea—someone else gave it to me.
Vaping and this smoking thing was a really big trend at the time. So I went on Alibaba, found a company to make it for me, and I spent like $3,000 to have it shipped over here.
🚫 The Big Fail
Little did I know… after putting together a website and trying to market the product… this was kind of considered like an “XXX” or a bad thing.
You can’t really market smoking cessation products or anything like that.
This was a BIG, big fail.
Private labeling in general is not a fail—but this particular product was.
💸 Lessons Learned
So, this was my very first idea for starting a business—and it cost me a lot of money.
I ended up losing a lot of product… and eventually, I quit selling it just morally. I couldn’t do that anymore.
So, I scrapped it.
🏷️ What Is Private Labeling?
Like I said, I went and found somebody to make the product for me, and then I sold it.
Private labeling can be anything.
You could private label all kinds of products. There are tons of people that private label products.
That was the one I did.
💸 Flipping & Reselling: How I Make Money While RVing 🚐
So the second way that I make money and RV is to do what’s called flipping or reselling—sometimes also referred to as retail arbitrage—items on Amazon, eBay, Poshmark, Facebook Marketplace, there are tons of places to sell online..
I would buy items that I’d find at places like Goodwill, Target, Walmart, and thrift stores, and then go online and resell them. I’d buy them at a low price—maybe find them on clearance or discounted—cheaper than what I could sell them for online.
📱 How I Got Started Flipping Products
So I would literally take my phone—and I downloaded (you could either use eBay or Amazon)—they have an Amazon Seller app, and there are even third-party apps. I would take these apps and go around scanning stuff all around the store.
Depending on what it was—like if it was clothing—I had a clothing app. I would just scan the items online and see if they were selling for a higher price. I also had to figure out whether I was allowed to sell them or not, depending on the platform. So there’s a little bit more involved, but…
Basically, I would buy these products and flip them online.
🏠 From Around the House to Full-On Flipping
It actually started with me taking everything I had around the house and selling those items online. So if people gave me a gift, or I had things just laying around—these were items from new to used—I would sell them.
Eventually, I ended up getting into return pallets.
Yes, pallets!
I was getting pallets delivered to my luxury condo, having to unpack them and carry everything upstairs.
📦 Scaling Up: From Clearance Aisles to Auction Pallets
I went from buying single items at the store… to going to auctions… to having pallets delivered to my house.
It got crazy.
That was what I was doing before I started RVing. And then I kind of took that business on the road. It’s something I’ve always been able to fall back on, and it’s what a lot of RVers do to make money!
🛒 The Ultimate Shopping Addiction Hack
Literally, I would just buy these items, come home, and list them on eBay, Amazon, and many other different apps I found.
Back when I started reselling — I still had my corporate job I kind of got caught in the act with a program that I was looking at on my computer—like I would go on my lunch break or during my time off. It was literally like…
I had so much fun shopping, and it’s like you cure your addiction to shopping—with selling.
Because when you’re making money from it, you don’t care as much about shopping. You’re like:
“Oh! I can make so much money off that!”
>> Learn EVERYTHING you need to get started reselling @AmbayExchange, my online reselling blog!
📚 The Third Way I Make Money and RV: Writing a Book
So the third way that I’ve been able to make money and RV is to write a book.
Now, the other two things that I mentioned actually cost money… but writing a book is completely free!
✍️ My Book: Brand Like a Boss
So I actually wrote this book. It’s called Brand Like a Boss and it’s by Blogging Brandi—you can see this beautiful face! 😄
I really don’t promote it that much anymore. This was something that I did years back, but it is still for sale on Amazon, so you can still go buy it!
>> Buy My Book – Brand Like A Boss
📦 How I Published It for Free
I went to Amazon, and they have what’s called Kindle Direct Publishing. It’s absolutely free.
You can create your own book, sell it online, or even have a printed copy and sell that to people. You don’t even have to hold the inventory!
People can either:
- Buy it online and have it mailed to them,
- Or download it to their Kindle app,
- Or whatever device they use—there are different platforms for this.
💼 What My Book Is About
You can write a book and publish it absolutely free.
So this book was about business and branding, and what I did a lot of when I was consulting and coaching people. That kind of turned into this book.
I wrote this book… it’s not perfect, but I did it.
It was something I really wanted to do and put out into the world.
✅ Yes, You Can Do This Too!
So yeah—you can do this completely free on your own!
>> READ: How I Wrote & Self-Published my Own Book (plus how you can too) — this post is over on my personal blog
🎓 Making Money and RVing with Online Courses
So in order to make money and RV, I wanted something that I could do digitally, and creating an online course is something that you can do absolutely free.
There are many different platforms for this, and I personally use Thinkific.
🧠 What I Teach in My Online Courses
I’ve created courses teaching people all about business, personal branding, marketing, websites, SEO, YouTube—
to courses on how to get started RVing, how to transition into that lifestyle, and how to RV in general.
So pretty much… RVing and business!
🆓 How to Get Started (For Free or Cheap)
It’s absolutely free to set up a basic course on Thinkific—at least at the timing of this video—and it has been for a while.
If not free, it’s minimal to invest in to get started after you actually publish your course.
🛒 Pre-Selling Your Course (Before You Even Create It)
You can also do what’s called pre-selling on a lot of these platforms—just like with a course, a book, or anything else.
You can pre-sell before you actually create it.
For example, whenever I created RVersity last year, I pre-sold the course to people before I ever created the course.
📺 From Live Teaching to Prerecorded Lessons
Now, it’s actually prerecorded, after I got feedback from people that had taken the course.
I originally delivered it live each week, and now you can go take it yourself—
and not have to have me present.
🌍 Create a Course About Anything!
I make money with online courses about business and RVing,
but you could create a course about:
- Health
- fitness
- Baking
- sewing
- Or just something that you’re passionate about!
You could create an online course on anything people are buying online—pretty much.
📱 The Fifth Way I Make Money and RV: Creating a Mobile App
The fifth way that I’ve been able to make money and RV is by creating a mobile app.
So, I actually created an app that you can use on your phone.
And yes—this did cost me money.
💡 My App: RVersity
I invested in a company—or rather, some individuals—to help create this app for me.
It’s called RVersity.
It allows you to create checklists and things on your phone to take with you, so it’s an RVing app.
It’s still in beta, and I’m not going to say it’s something that makes me a ton of money…
But it’s out there!
💵 Monetizing the App (Sort Of…)
The app currently costs $5, as of right now.
So it’s something I’ve been testing and playing around with. It’s just one of the many ways I’ve been able to make money on the road.
🧪 A Test-Fail-Repeat-and-Grow Kind of Project
This was something I had to invest in, and it’s kind of a “test, fail, repeat, and grow” situation.
I’m having people check it out and give me feedback before I really push it out there.
🧑💻 How I Found My App Developers
I actually found the people to develop my app on a website called Fiverr—
spelled F-I-V-E-R-R.
I went on there, and even though it says “$5,” I did not develop my app for $5. 😂
You can find people from all different price ranges on there.
So I went on, did some interviews, and found a group of people to help me develop my app.
💰 The Sixth Way I Make Money on the Road: Affiliate Marketing
So the sixth way that I’ve been able to make money on the road is through affiliate marketing.
If you’re not sure what affiliate marketing is, let me break it down:
Whenever you hear people say something like,
“Hey, you should go get my book—I’ll put the link below to check it out on Amazon,”
that could mean they’re using some type of affiliate link.
🔗 What Is Affiliate Marketing?
And it doesn’t have to be a book. It could literally be something like evaporator foam no-rinse.
So I could say:
“Hey, I love to use this eVap foam on my RV AC—check it out in the link below this video and pick it up so you can use it on your RV.”
That is something I can do on my:
- Website
- Social media
- YouTube channel
- Or anywhere else I share content
Basically, you’re just sharing a link to products or services that you use—and you get paid for it.
💵 How Much Can You Make?
The amount you earn can vary, but usually it’s pretty minimal.
- The bigger the item or the more expensive it is, the more you’re going to get paid.
- The smaller the item, the less you’ll get paid.
- It also depends on what platform you’re doing the affiliate marketing through.
So you’re essentially just:
Recommending someone else’s products or services—and getting paid for it.
🛒 How I Do Affiliate Marketing
I personally do this through Amazon, using their program called Amazon Associates.
Amazon pays you for marketing their products and services—and this is a very well-known platform that a lot of people use.
But Amazon isn’t the only one…
You can literally go to any website or product you like, scroll to the bottom, and see if it says “Affiliate Program” or “Become an Affiliate.”
Or just Google:
[Product Name] + Affiliate Program
You might be surprised how many companies will pay you just for recommending what you already use!
🤔 Should You Promote Everything?
These could be products that you:
- Already buy and use
- Or maybe even haven’t bought yet
But personally, I wouldn’t recommend products or services I haven’t bought and used myself.
That can give you a bad name, and your audience won’t trust you.
🧶 What Can You Promote?
Affiliate products can be about anything, like:
- RV gear & supplies
- Sewing or arts and crafts
- Business tools
- Hobbies, fitness, lifestyle—you name it!
Amazon does it.
Tons of other programs do it too.
✅ Get Started Today—for Free!
Affiliate marketing is just one way that you can make money in your RV,
on the road or off the road.
Technically, you could start today—because it doesn’t cost any money to get started.
>> Learn More About Affiliate Marketing In THIS BLOG POST
🎥 The Seventh Way I Make Money and RV: YouTube
So the seventh way that I’ve been able to make money and RV is through YouTube.
Now, it does take a while to get started on YouTube and actually make money from it—to monetize your channel.
But there are some stipulations.
⏳ How YouTube Monetization Works
I think you have to have:
- 1,000 subscribers, and
- Maybe 4,000 hours of watch time
It takes time to build that up.
So YouTube is not something I would say to just focus your time on—especially in the beginning.
>> Learn: Why I Started A YouTube Channel?
🌐 Part of My Multiple Streams of Income
I have a process inside of RVersity that I talk about with people, which is called multiple streams of income.
YouTube is just one of those income streams that I use to make money.
💸 How YouTube Pays Me
It can range. The more videos I post, the more videos I monetize—and the longer people watch my videos, the more I actually get paid.
But if:
- People don’t watch my videos
- I don’t make videos people can find
- Or they’re just not interested in the content…
Then they’re probably not going to watch them—and I’m probably not going to make money.
🧭 What Kind of Content I Focus On
So, I try to make videos that:
- Help people
- Solve a problem
- Or really guide them in their journey—whether it’s RVing or entrepreneurship
Because when your videos are useful, people watch them.
And when people watch them—you get paid.
>> Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE to my RV YouTube Channel if you haven’t already 😉
🧑💻 The Eighth Way I Make Money and RV: Freelancing My Skills and Services
The eighth way that I’m able to make money and RV is freelancing my skills and services.
Freelancing means that you’re working for someone else—it could be multiple people or just one person—but you’re not actually employed by them.
You can work for anybody, multiple people/companies. You’re kind of your own boss, but you work with others on many different projects.
💼 What Kind of Freelance Work I Do
Some of the things I’ve been hired to work on include:
- Website design
- Video editing
- SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
- Helping people with marketing and management on social media
- Graphic design (like YouTube thumbnails, business papers, email headers)
- Email marketing, and so much more!
>> READ: How I Started A Very Much Loved Successful Business Blog (& You Can Too!) — this was a Freelance Job!
📹 How People Find Me
Now I make YouTube videos—and for those of you who know me, I had another channel on YouTube where I marketed a lot of my business content before creating RVersity.
On that channel, I taught a lot—and people would find me on my personal Blogging Brandi YouTube.
So, people find me from:
- Social media (mainly YouTube)
- My email list
- Word of mouth from people I’ve worked with
Then they reach out and hire me to do freelance services for them.
🌐 Where to Start If You Don’t Have a Network
If you don’t already have a network of people that would hire you for your skills and services, there are still plenty of options.
You can go to a website like Fiverr.com and:
- Browse available jobs (gigs)
- See what other people are offering
- List your own services and start earning
You can start out offering your services at a lower price and then work your way up.
⭐ Fiverr Pro & More
Fiverr even has something called Fiverr Pro, which is a bit more advanced.
I’m not sure exactly how it works—you may need to take tests, prove your skills, or submit credentials—but it allows you to be listed as a professional.
I personally have never sold anything on Fiverr,
but it is a place where you could definitely list your services and skills,
buy services, or hire people to help you (which I do a lot).
So yes, Fiverr is a great place to get noticed—or to build your freelance business.
📣 How to Market Your Services
You can also:
- Promote your gigs on social media
- Tell people: “Here’s where you can get my services—go buy a gig from me!”
Another platform worth trying?
🔗 Don’t Forget About LinkedIn
LinkedIn is another option—it’s part of social media too.
Having a LinkedIn profile is like having your resume online and it’s a great place to connect with people professionally.
They even have a career section where you can:
- List your services and skills
- Apply for jobs
- And get discovered by people looking for help
There’s a free version and possibly a paid version, depending on what features you want access to.
📞 The Ninth Way I Make Money and RV: Consulting & Coaching
The ninth way that I’ve been able to make money and RV is what I do now, which is consulting and coaching.
Over the years, I’ve learned quite a bit about:
- Business
- Entrepreneurship
- Creating and selling digital products/services online
- And of course, RVing
When you do this for five or six years—from travel trailer life, to van life, to now motorhome life—you pick up a few things!
🧳 I Teach People How to Start a Business and RV
What I do now is help people:
- Get their business started
- Make money on the road
- Whether they want to build a full-time business or just create a stream of side income
- And most importantly, figure out this crazy mobile lifestyle
I’ve lived on and off the road, in and out of suitcases,
and had to figure out how to keep my life mobile through all the ups and downs of RV living.
🛠️ What I Help With
So if you’re wondering things like:
- What do I do if something breaks down in my RV?
- How do I buy the right RV for my lifestyle?
- How do I make money while traveling?
- How do I build a budget and stick to it on the road?
- How do I put all the pieces together?
That’s exactly what I help people do in my coaching and consulting calls.
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