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Travel on your own all over the world! This is a bright YouTube channel about independent travel with Vitalik and Lisa. The endless journey has been living within us for a very long time. As one of our subscribers said: "When you first enter your channel, you stay there forever." On our Travel Channel you will find Thailand, Vietnam, Bali Island, rush through the USA, see the Philippines, Sri Lanka will win your heart, Europe, Maldives will capture your soul, Singapore and Marina Bay Sands, Koh Samui Island, Koh Chang, Boracay and much more!

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• There are many myths about making money online. Someone thinks that such an income cannot be high; for someone, freelancing is associated with network marketing and fraud. But there are other people as well. Some of them are Vitaly Ichin and Liza Gracheva. These are a couple of young entrepreneurs, video bloggers and information businessmen. In just 4.5 years of hard work, the guys managed to rise to the top of the freelance Olympus. Now young travelers run their thousands of channels on YouTube, have a network of promoted accounts on Instagram and VK. The story of the guys is a powerful motivator for ambitious young people who do not want to spend their best years in the office.

  Petersburgers, 29-year-old Vitaly Ichin and 27-year-old Liza Gracheva are the authors and founders of the travel project "On our own". This young couple has left boring offline jobs, Russian cold weather and routine far behind. And for 4.5 years now, Russian freelancers have been traveling and traveling around exotic hot countries.

  The guys are incredibly positive YouTube bloggers with almost world renown. They themselves do not consider themselves to be either millionaires or tough businessmen. Young people have visited 34 countries of the world, purchased real estate in Russia, have accounts in large banks, which already have savings. In an interview, Vitalik and Liza say without concealment that interest on deposits is another source of monthly, albeit small, but income.

  Communicating with subscribers in "Periscope", the guys easily share life hacks, give useful advice on the topic of making money online. They talk about their constantly growing income from advertising on VK and Instagram, and in their arsenal there are affiliate programs, paid video courses, shooting with a quadcopter from the air and many other ways of earning money.

  

  - How it all began? How did you come to freelance?

  Vitaly: In 2011, I returned to St. Petersburg from the army and got a sad job as a security guard in an amusement park. The gray reality of St. Petersburg was not at all pleasing. The work brought in 18 thousand rubles, but I even managed to put it off. In his free time, he was engaged in a group in VK, made beautiful pictures for posts, mastered Photoshop and other editors. After some time, I realized that you can earn real money on the group. By that time, working as a security guard, I had saved about 30 thousand rubles. I took a risk and invested them in the promotion of the "Success Diary" group. The project went off. The first 100,000 subscribers were collected in just a month. Send the first money from advertising. Up to 10 advertising posts could be ordered from me per day. One post then cost 500-700 rubles.

  Vitaly: After some time, the audience of the "Success Diary" group grew to 800,000 subscribers. In proportion to the attendance, the prices for advertising also grew. One post easily paid 1000-1500 rubles. It was at this time that I met Lisa. She became my muse and ideological inspirer. We went on vacation to Turkey (Marmaris) with the proceeds from advertising, and then went to Thailand for the winter.

  Lisa: Now the group has almost 950,000 subscribers. We exchanged posts in partner groups, thereby expanding the audience. Such mutual PR is one of the main strategies for the development of groups and publics in VK. They bought advertising from us quite often. Vitalik and I thought it would always be like this.

  - Have you had any failures? Or is your life a continuous rainbow film?

  Vitaly: Of course there were. And more than once. Now I'm going to tell you about the most powerful trash that happened to us at the end of 2014. At that time, a crisis came to Russia, and with it the paying capacity of advertisers fell - those who ordered commercial posts in our group. The same black day has come. We lived then in Bali. Suddenly, the demand for advertising fell to 1-2 orders per week. The last 15 thousand rubles are left on our cards. Happy days are behind. Uncertainty lies ahead. We didn't even have the money to buy tickets to Russia and return home.

  Strategic mistake # 2: "We were drinking and spending ALL money without thinking about the future." I didn't think about tomorrow. He lived here and now. Lisa and I had a lot of fun traveling. We thought that such a chocolate life would never end. We were wrong. But now we know for sure: you need to think about where you will be in a month and in a year.

  - How did you get out of the crisis? What have you done?

  Vitaly: On a warm Balinese evening, we sat by the sea and reasoned. We made plans. Dreamed. Speaking of dreams: we never lost heart for a moment ...

  Out of our ears, we heard about a new and still incomprehensible service for Russians - Instagram. We were very interested in this topic. And no wonder. According to the Instagrammer guys, for one advertising post in an account promoted to 100 thousand subscribers, you can take up to 10,000 rubles.

  We borrowed 200,000 rubles from relatives and invested in the promotion of two communities on the insta: books and horoscopes. The promotion took a very long time - as much as 3 months. All this time we worked almost 20 hours a day and lived in the cheapest room in Bali. We worked according to Moscow time - that was required by the promotion strategy. After 90 days of hard work, our Instagram profiles had 100,000 subscribers each. We started giving paid ads. And, lo and behold, our hopes were justified - this is a mega-demanded segment. We now have a network of 18 accounts, and our personal popular Instagram page. The total audience on Instagram from all accounts exceeds 2 million people. When we started, there was little competition, prices were high, and ads were bought frequently. Now the market is filled with many pages with the same topic, the competition has become very high, and, accordingly, earnings from advertising fell by about 3 times. We feel that the days of uncertainty will soon come again. But this time we are ready for such a turn, since there are already plans for new projects that we are starting to develop now.

  We now have a network of 18 accounts, and our personal popular Instagram page. The total audience on Instagram from all accounts exceeds 2 million people.

  

  - Guys, tell us about your YouTube channel. How much income do you make from videos?

  Lisa: Our video blog "On our own" is our whole life. A brainchild that we have just begun to develop at a decent level. This whole project is based on the pure enthusiasm of two people, that is, ourselves. We love filming and sharing videos. Previously, we shot more amateur films while traveling - just as a keepsake. Then they decided to create a travel channel, and now this is a whole video blog with a three-year history and a huge amount of useful information. Youtube is another very profitable niche, but getting popular and gaining millions of views is very difficult. While we are at the development stage, and the channel's income is very small - $ 200-300 per month. We have several cameras, a quadcopter for aerial filming, stabilizers, microphones and other "gadgets" necessary for filming, we shoot very high-quality videos and spend 80% of our time on video, so we hope that our efforts will be justified and the channel will become really popular.

  Strategic mistake # 3: you can earn a LOT on YouTube and NOT on Google Adsense. For a long time, we filmed and posted videos from travels more for the soul than for earning money. But in reality, the YouTube channel is a gold mine. The audience is more than loyal, you can sell information. Many bloggers earn hundreds of thousands of rubles a month selling courses through affiliate programs.

  - What do you expect from the promotion of the YouTube channel "On your own"?

  Vitaly: The video blog does not bring in a lot of money yet, but this income can be classified as one of the most stable. This is my dream job. You don't owe anyone anything, you shoot for your pleasure. You are truly free. Friends, there is nothing more valuable than freedom!

  Now we are actively making money on affiliate programs, and yes - this brings us up to 25% of the total income in freelancing. We traveled far and wide across Thailand, Bali, Indonesia and the Philippines. We visited the Maldives and filmed a series of videos for our subscribers. We do not advertise cool hotels and places where millionaires live. It's boring. Our videos show real adventures, countries and cities through the eyes of ordinary tourists. That is why our channel is popular.

  - Why do you rent budget hotels and eat in street eateries in every new country? Why don't you choose a more expensive type of tourism?

  Vitaly: Who needs all this show off? Our audience is freelance guys just like ourselves. We are united by a lot: a thirst for adventure, a passion for travel, FREEDOM from stereotypes, work "for an uncle" and domestic realities. Therefore, having arrived in a new country, we settle in ordinary hotels, show ordinary restaurants and cafes - places where locals and tourists with an average income go. And that's cool! We have chosen a different path - the path of free life where we want, that is, somewhere in the warmth. Approximate spending per month we have 1000 $ for two, which is quite a bit. And for us it is better to live somewhere in a budget hotel in Bali than in rainy St. Petersburg.

  - Guys, tell us about your plans for the future.

  Lisa: Work, work and more work. Development of new accounts on Instagram, building up a client base - advertising buyers, paid shooting of clips from a quadcopter (we also make money on this), self-realization. We will visit new countries and show videos of the most unusual corners of the planet. Nothing keeps us going. We are free and determined. The thirst for adventure in us will never run out!

  Vitaly: My biggest dream, which is also my nearest plan, is to travel across the United States in a cozy trailer. Also, Lisa and I want to travel all over South America and shoot a bunch of videos for our regular subscribers. The most important thing is that the Internet does not disappoint. For example, in Singapore and Thailand, this is not a problem. There are Wi-Fi points on almost every corner. And in the Philippines and Vietnam - the Internet is only through a very, very slow 3G. The hardest part is filling the videos. It's a shame, when you start uploading a video to YouTube, a day goes by, the screen "download 99%", and then the video flies, you have to start from scratch.

  My biggest dream, which is also my nearest plan, is to travel across the United States in a cozy trailer. Also, Lisa and I want to travel all over South America and shoot a bunch of videos for our regular subscribers.

  - What is the best place on earth for you?