Student Note Packs (Faye's first $10,000, sold out of Facebook study groups)

01The full story

Faye runs a study and productivity YouTube channel, and she opens this video by attacking the category she is in: if someone tells you that you can make five figures a month for fifteen minutes of work a day they are lying, and if a creator boasts about their income but you have to buy the course to learn how, they made the money selling courses rather than doing the thing the course describes. Then she lists what actually worked for her and for people she knows. Her own number is the cleanest one in the video. Selling her notes was, in her words, how she earned her first $10,000 as a student. Not a launch, not a funnel — scanned handwritten notes, sold to students a year or two behind her, delivered as a restricted Google Drive link after payment. The context matters. This was not built on an audience: her YouTube channel had about 600 subscribers at the time, which she says helped but was small. She had already tried and failed at the more obvious student business — a phone case operation she started at 17 that did not sell out, because most of them do not, and because teenagers have neither the budget nor the space for inventory. Notes were the opposite trade: the inventory already existed, she had already paid for it with her own study time, and the only cost of a second sale was sending another link.