Hi everyone, it’s Tyrone from Tyroneshum.com! Today, I’m going to share with you the tools that I use in my business that’s able to generate a $10,000 a month income for me. The tools that I use are actually very small and simple — it’s no more than just a laptop, a video camera, my mobile phone and also storage hard drive. The rest is basically my mobile to wherever I am to be able to run my business. I can run my business from home, I can run my business from anywhere in the world and this is what lifestyle business entrepreneurs are able to do.

I’ve been able to achieve this very fortunately because everything I’ve relied on is heavily on my own systems which is the automation part and outsourcing to staff overseas in the Philippines.

The first tool that I want to share with you is my trusty laptop — I have my Macbook Pro as you can see right here and it’s a very to use system and what I find is that with the Macbook Pro, it actually saves me a lot of time to be able to get through and do the things that I need to do. The reason why I recommend getting a Mac for anyone out there is because it’s less time with any of the problems that I had when I used to have a PC. Before this, I used to own a PC and I was all the way for PCs but since switching onto Mac, my life has changed and I would not be able to go back to PC anytime at all, I just can guarantee that.

If you haven’t got a Mac, I recommend getting one and having a look into it. Yes it’s a little bit more expensive but when you look at the long term productivity that you get out of it and also the things that you can get and do with it, especially like the video marketing that I’m able to do and the systems I’m able to implement, it just saves you hundreds to thousands of dollars in the cost of buying computer. So that’s the first thing I have, it’s my trusty, 17-inch Macbook Pro laptop and I’ve got all my software and all my tools loaded up inside there.

The next thing I have is my iPhone — my trusty, Apple iPhone. Now, you might be thinking, what’s the point or what’s the necessity of having an iPhone? Well just with anything that I need to contact people and need to have everything that I need to locate within there, the reason why I have an iPhone is because it’s linked straight into my Macbook. I used to have an HTC and if I had HTC, it would not be able to work with the Mac.

The beautiful thing about the iPhone is there’s so many applications that you could load into it — a lot of times, I’m on the go and what I find is that I put all my podcasts that I listen to with all those I like to listen to. When I’m in the gym, I usually have my iPhone on and I’m listening to really cool podcasts, interviews, learning as I’m gone and that’s the reason why I’ve got an iPhone. Also, just keeping contact with all my family and friends and business contacts as well. That’s something that I’m pretty sure most people would have by now.

The next thing I have is my trusty, portable hard drive. This portable hard drive is just a Seagate, 250GB hard drive here. All it does is it just backs up all my data. So any of the video recordings I’m doing right now, for example this video I’m recording — once I’ve uploaded up to Youtube or anywhere that I send it up to, I’ll back it up, put it onto the hard drive and have the copy there. That’s something that’s a physical hard drive but I also have my backup systems online. I probably have shared this with you previously, it’s a system that I use called Dropbox. Dropbox allows you to be able to store up to 3GB of data online as well.

If you want a biggest storage like up to 50GB and so forth like how I’ve got here in the storage hard drive, I use another system called ADrive. It’s a free service that you can use and it gives you up to about 50GB of storage space which is really ample online.

So the next thing is what am I doing now — what tool am I using to be able to record this video? I have myself just a simple flip Mino HD version. Anything that I record is in HD version which is 1,280 x 720 pixels — pretty standard, pretty common right now that goes onto Youtube, Viddler, any of the large video sites that you have there. At the moment, I can’t share with you what physically it looks like but this is the box of it and this is what I bought. I spend about 200 bucks for me buying this one which is really, really good. You can get the newer version that’s out there as well and that’s slimmer and much new but you don’t need to spend more than 200 bucks or so.

Also, what you probably see on me is this microphone that I’m wearing. It’s an mp3 microphone. And, what I have here is I have a secondary mp3 player which I’ve got in my pocket right now. I’ll pull it out for you, you probably can’t quite see it but if I zoom in just to show, this is just an mp3 player that records my audio so you don’t get that bucket of it. At the moment, the camera that you see which is recording this one, the flip Mino is about three meters away to be able to record everything that you see around me. If I didn’t have this one with me, you probably hear me in a bucket, echoing voice so having this mp3 recorder, it records my audio and I basically synch it back once I’m finished with the video onto my laptop, that’s how you get that crystal clear sound that you hear from me right now.

If you want to go even more professional which I’ve done a lot with green screen specifically for training and also to do a lot of professional recording, I have my trusty Canon HD video camera which is what I also use to record really high definition, really high quality videos which I do for massive presentations.

You don’t have to go and spend anything like this. Simple recording like the flip Mino is sufficient enough to do simple videos like what I’m doing right now. I recommend this only if you’re going to be doing green screen recording or anything that’s going to be in high professional value that needs to be burned to DVD. This thing cost me a little bit over a thousand dollars but it records really, really good quality and shot high quality videos. You can see the difference if you’re watching a DVD, but to record and put back onto the Internet such as Youtube and other video websites, you wouldn’t notice the difference.

So those are the tools that I use and majority of what I do in my business is video marketing. You probably notice that I do a lot of video marketing. The reason why is because I don’t like writing.

As much as people say that blogging and writing is going to help with content and building a new website, I think what’s happening is that there’s been a more shift or change for people to move online to start doing video marketing. I highly recommend if you haven’t started doing video marketing to use your tools and build up your business like what I’ve done right now, I highly recommend it.

It doesn’t stop you from actually getting your videos transcribed to be able to create that rich content so what usually happens for me is once I finished doing this kind of recording, I would get my virtual assistants to transcribe my videos and then that goes to post on my blog and syndicate out to article networks.

Basically these are the tools that I use to be able to generate a $10,000 a month in my business or 5-figure income business. It’s quite simple, there’s nothing more to it and anyone can do it. All you have to do is have the basics to be able to get you started. Just take action and find the right things that suit your business.

In a future video, I’ll show you exactly the softwares I use as well so that you can get a better idea of how I can integrate everything to be able to leverage my time and do a lot of other things. Well, that’s it for me today, I’d love to hear your feedbacks and comments. Just feel free to leave your comments below as well and I’ll see you in the next video. I’m Tyrone Shum from Tyroneshum.com. Have a great day!