Wow, 100,000!? When you've gone through what I've had to go through to get to a
hundred thousand subscribers on my youtube channel, you'll understand this
reaction. Here it is. Sorry it's an ugly cry. Only other youtubers know why this moment is so
crazy, it's so surreal. To think about all the effort that goes into one video.
Doing your makeup, scripting, thinking about what you want to say, thinking
about how to make your audience laugh, how did entertain your audience and to
do that over two hundred and forty five times, that's a lot of work. It's a lot of
work. People post ten videos and quit because YouTube, it makes you feel like
you suck. It makes you feel like your efforts are so little in the beginning.
I'm freaking proud man. In this video I'll be talking about some things on my road to
100k and how you can get 100,000 subscribers within less than a year. Some
tips that I've never ever ever talked about on this channel before and some
personal stories that might shock you. Definitely stay tuned because all of
this is going to help you soar on YouTube and get to a hundred thousand
subscribers way faster than I did, so stay tuned. There's still time to enroll
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accelerate your journey to 100,000 subscribers on YouTube and 100,000 in
revenue. So if you're interested in that go ahead and click the link below to
watch the master class where you'll also get an action guide which will
immediately help you propel you and your online business forward. So I want to be
the first to admit something to you today and that is I quit YouTube, I cold,
just quit YouTube. I started it originally in 2017, in the beginning of
2017 and I posted probably eight video and I'm like "Wow, I only have like ten
subscribers and no one's watching my video," so I quit. And you could see clips
of my very beginning videos and what that looked like- It's Marissa Romero
here, um let's see I just got done working out earlier, excuse the mess- but
I had the same reaction of so many people I've talked to who end up
quitting the platform. It was hard! I was like "Man I'm making these videos and
editing them, screw YouTube I'm done." So my real YouTube story starts back in
March of 2018 when your girl was living in Phuket, Thailand. That's right, I had
just left the United States, just sold my entire house, all my belongings, and I had
an entire life in a suitcase, and that was it. I stormed off to Southeast Asia
and really it was scary because I didn't have a business. I had just recently quit
my ecommerce business, I was pretty broke because not only did Facebook Ads break
me, there was one point where I was losing like $100 a day with Facebook Ads,
but I was in extreme debt. Like extreme debt, it was so embarrassing. The debt
collection agencies were calling me left and right and I would get letters in the
mail and I would have my friend check the mail so my parents wouldn't see all
these debt collection letters, like "Oh Marissa, you owe 18 grand,
oh your credit card has been closed, Oh Marissa your credit score is like 400," I
was like "Ah!!" It was just this awful pressure and luckily my flight to
Thailand was only two hundred dollars, literally only two hundred dollars to
get to Thailand, my rent was only four hundred dollars a month which, split down
the middle with my partner at the time, was only two hundred dollars a month so
my expenses were super low, I was barely surviving.
And although the beaches were beautiful and I thought I was living la vida loca
and it was like tropical and pretty, here I was faced with a decision to make. It
was either sink or swim for me. And so what do you do in that type of situation?
Naturally, as human beings we survive. We go into survival mode and do everything
we can to make sure that we come above that water and we're not drowning
anymore. So when I decided I was gonna swim my way out of this catastrophic
rock-bottom, I looked at YouTube and I'm like "You know what? I'm gonna give this
another shot and I'm gonna go hard and I'm not
gonna stop until I make my first dollar on this YouTube platform. I was seeing
other people do it, they were growing pretty fast on this platform, and I
thought "You know what? If they could do it, I can do it." They were giving value on
all these topics that I knew about and I thought "You know what? I'm gonna go hard
and publish every single day and just see what happens, and I know it will work
because it's working for them. Why wouldn't it work for me? And you know
what I started winning, in my eyes, I started winning, I started gaining
subscribers, like one subscriber a day, and two, and then three, and four, and then it
just kept growing and finally I made my first $33 sale online. I was like
yes! 33 freakin dollars and fifty cents, don't forget about the fifty cents. So
with that being said my first advice for you when you're growing your YouTube
channel and your online presence is to celebrate the small wins. I don't care
how small you think your wins are, you have to acknowledge that you're making
progress of putting one step forward in front of the other and that's what I
always committed to myself and that's what I did from the very beginning,
literally, check out this video. Today is April 22nd I got my first 500
subscribers on YouTube and I'm kind of proud of it. Some people might be like
embarrassed of like the small milestones and just kind of thinking that
their small milestones and small accomplishments might not be good
enough, but not me. I'm like "Hey, I got my first hundred subscribers! Hey, I got my
first 500 subscribers," because I know what soon to follow is my first thousand,
than my first 5,000, then my first 10,000. Yeah that was me at 500 subscribers back in 2018. I felt it in my heart,
I knew that I was going to grow, so then I got 1,000 subscribers shortly after that.
This is a celebration video and thank you video because yesterday, June the 4th, 2018 I passed my 1,000 subscriber mark.
And then 10,000 subscribers. This is a huge milestone that you guys helped me attain. I would not be where I am today,
I would not have hit the 10,000 subscriber milestone and I'm seriously honored so thank you guys so
much. And then before I knew it I had grown 20,000 subscribers in the first
eight months of being on YouTube. How I got 20,000 subscribers on my youtube
channel in just a matter of eight months. I would constantly acknowledge and be
proud of myself at every single milestone. I mean, check out
seventy five thousand subscribers. I'm gonna talk about how much I earn with a
YouTube channel that has seventy five thousand subscribers, sorry, I
just had to take a minute because I'm like "Wait, I am talking about myself."
Sometimes I wake up I'm like "Shit! I'm a youtuber!" That's just still crazy to me.
So by the way if you're loving this video and getting value be sure to
subscribe to the channel, hit that notification bell because I'm posting
two videos like this every single week. And if you guys are interested in some
serious growth tactics on YouTube, be sure to check out all of these videos
with my youtube growth playlist and I'll put that and leave that in the link in
the description. Alright so this brings me to my second tip with growing fast
and getting 100 K on YouTube and that is to level up. Okay yes, I do tell people to
start with what you have and don't let that be an excuse from starting. But as
you continue to grow and get more subscribers on YouTube you definitely
want to level up your game. In the beginning I started with a pixelated
webcam. It was dark and I had my iPhone, and I used those two pieces of equipment
and that's it. Those two things took me all the way to 15,000 subscribers, so
there's really no excuse. But I thought "You know what?" I was making a good amount
of money now, I was getting comfortable so I thought "You know what? Let me invest
in a 4k camera," and that's exactly what I did. I bought a Panasonic g85 which, if
you want to know the bundle I got I'll leave the link in the description, and
I'm like "You know what? I need to level up," because a lot of people in my niche,
there's nothing wrong with doing screen share but they were doing a lot of
screen share, so I was like "Okay well let me do some screen share" but I'm like
"How can I stand out and make myself different from my niche and level up and
make the quality of my videos better?" and that's what I did, I bought a camera and
I focused on the experience of the video and how my subscribers would like the
video as opposed to just putting out a normal screen share like I
was doing in the past. For example,my intros went from something like this-
If you're new to this channel go ahead and smash that subscribe button, so like
I said, it's late, it's dark, why am I making this video in my PJs?- To after I
got my 4k camera to something like this- Yo what's up my beautiful people, my name
is Marissa and welcome to today's video where we will be talking about five
legit ways to make money online today- And finally when I outsourced my video
editing to a professional editing team, they looked as cool as this- Who is sick
and tired of having their boss breathing down their neck with their fiery, stinky,
hot breath like and just like "Rghh!" You're in luck because we're gonna go over four
ways, realistically, that you could make $800 per week without a job- So the
bottom line was I saw a huge opportunity to level up with the 4k quality of my
videos and also outsourcing my videos to a professional editor. So once my google
adsense was making enough money to pay for my editor and cover those expenses,
I definitely outsource every single video so I can get that time back in my
hands and they can do their job, which they're way more better at than I am and
my brand and overall YouTube channel can go to the next level. So my editing team
and I, we saw a huge opportunity for things like overlay text, b-roll, pattern
interrupts, these cool After Effects graphics, just all of these elements and
titles and transitions of making your video better. That's exactly what we did.
And so me as the creator in them as the editing team, we definitely leveled up on
the channel. So the next extremely important thing I have for you to grow
fast to 100k on YouTube is to protect your channel, because if you have no
channel and it gets hacked like mine did, which you can see the entire story in
this video right here, then that freaking sucks. Trust me, I've been there. I know
what it's like to have my whole entire online business taken from me overnight,
no revenue, nothing. I'm really proud, especially after my channel got hacked
this year.
I didn't know if I was ever gonna make it this far again, like, there was so
much doubt and defeat in my mind, so this this was really special. This
was really special. And when I got emotional the other day it was because
of that, like, holy shit, I was hacked! I had had my opportunity of reaching
100,000 subscribers taken away from me within seconds. So if you're wondering
what you could do right now to protect your channel check out this video on how
to protect your channel from hackers right after this video. Cyber security
and cyber crime is not a game and it should not be taken lightly,
trust me. All of this brings me to my next point about what you are going to
experience on your road to 100k and that is the haters. Oh my god, the haters.
If you have a fight for it, you can do it. You can. Anyone can. You just got to
stay strong, you really have to stay strong. Through the haters, through the
dislikes, to the mean comments, the people calling you a bitch. The haters on
YouTube are on another level, why? They're keyboard warriors and they don't give a
damn about your feelings or anything. I mean, I've gotten the worst hate comments.
Like, the worst. This is a real-life comment:
"Marissa Romero because I thought I will learn something besides your stupid [REDACTED]
you talk a lot of blah, blah, blah, who wants to see that,
you stupid [REDACTED]. Louise says "This is the worst ecommerce video I've ever seen, the worst
thumbnail, and she even has that horrible intro. George Ruiz there's a huge
difference between being successful and lying about how successful you actually
are. Look at the likes and dislikes ratio bro. This video sucks simply because of
her overhyped, over-exaggerated, no proof claims. Until I see proof, this video is
shit and everybody agrees." When you get your first hate comment, don't worry. It's
going to hurt, it's going to sting. It's thing like crazy like the freakin new
killer Hornets that just arrived to the United States like "ack!" And you're gonna
get so mad but you have to just breathe, calm down, just know that they are in a
much worse off place than you and they are so jealous of your growth and that
is why they are putting their dumb ass two cents in because you literally have
to recognize that there's something so bad going on in their lives that it
makes them feel better to bring you down. So let them haters keep hating. Plus, it's
good engagement, regardless whether it's a hate comment or not, it's good
engagement for the YouTube channel. So this brings me to tip number five and
that is when times get hard, go harder. And this is going to be the toughest
part mentally because you're gonna think "Oh my gosh, I'm doing all this effort and
I'm not getting any views or subscribers," because if I had to guess more than 95%
of creators are not willing to put in so much work for so "little return." And the
perfect example I can give is with my partner. I mean, he has a channel in
Spanish. He's Colombian and he's in the make money online niche and it took him
so long to finally get some momentum going. I mean, literally, it took him like
six months of posting all the time, like two to three videos a day to get 300
subscribers and now he's finally getting about 300 subscribers per month. I mean,
it took him a year to really start to gain this momentum and he wanted to quit
so many times, so bad, but he knew he had that vision in the
back of his head that kept telling him "No, if I keep going I will succeed and
I will eventually grow," and that's exactly what's happening! His channel is
growing so fast right now and it's only going to start exponentially growing
because that is how YouTube works. Your channel grows pretty slowly from 0 to
100, but then from a hundred to a thousand it grows faster, and then from a
thousand to five thousand it grows even faster, and so on and so forth. You reach
new heights and new plateaus of your channel and your numbers start to level
up and everything gradually continues to keep going up and up and so remember
with YouTube the two things that are gonna keep you consistent and keep you
going every single week in producing content is knowing the fact that you
just have to be one step ahead in knowledge than somebody else.
And I messed up so much, like I just got on camera, I didn't care, I had really bad
intros like this one- Alright guys, Marissa Romero here, and I'm getting
ready to set up my video camera, oops, to talk to you guys about what is affiliate
marketing? Now, I'm setting up, I'm in Thailand, and there's all these plants
everywhere so just give me a minute and in a few seconds I will be all set up
and ready to talk to you about what you came to this video to see. And as well, in
the beginning, when I first started learning, as soon as I learned something
else in my niche and in my profession I would just teach people the same thing.
Like in this old video right here where I technically film this in my old office
as a civil engineer, shh, don't tell anybody. You are now in the business of
lead generation, so what that means is you're trying to drive internet traffic
to your opt-in or capture squeeze page so that you can get their name and email
address. You want to get as many leads as possible, build your autoresponder and
get your email list to grow. So if you feel it in your heart that you could
make it to a hundred thousand subscribers on YouTube, I'm here to
verify that you sure can and if you take anything away from this video today is
that you can absolutely do it. Literally living my dream life, and this is, this is,
this is real. Anyone can do this, literally, anyone can do this if they
have the fight for it. If you have the fight for it you can do it.
You can, anyone can, you just got to stay strong. you really have to stay
strong. So if you're wanting to cut your learning curve in half, reach a hundred
thousand subscribers faster than I did, and a hundred K in revenue faster than I
did, I invite you to come and watch this free master class about the four-step
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we'll see you on that master class.