In today's video,
we're talking about eight realistic ways to not only make your first $1,000 on
YouTube,
but also to take it a step further and create passive sales to work for anywhere
to create an automated sales machine and to create an audience of raving fans.
That'll not only increase your views and subscriber counts,
but will be your tribe for life. Hi,
my name is Marissa and in the past three years,
I've been teaching all about this topic and I've been helping beginners start
from zero with no audience, no product, no following,
no email list and go from zero to creating profitable businesses by leveraging
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One method to really kill it and make your first thousand dollars on YouTube is
with live streaming. Now with live streaming,
you can think of it as connecting directly with your audience and being able to
talk to your subscribers right directly on a live stream.
So you can get up there and make a presentation on.
Maybe you're creating something from scratch. You're creating a certain craft,
or maybe if you're in their fashion industry,
you're having a fashion show or you're demonstrating a product, whatever it is,
you can do it with a live stream,
or maybe you have a company sponsor your live stream and you help
that company demonstrate their product and they would pay you to do it.
So there's a lot of ways to go about live streaming,
but a big way that a lot of YouTubers are making money and monetizing with live
streaming is from donations. So your subscriber base,
they can donate to you live during the stream.
And also they have this thing called super chat where somebody donates their
chat could be moved to the top and they could be prioritized in the comments and
get their questions answered. First. It's really, really cool,
but essentially with a live stream,
it's very high converting when it comes to either promoting somebody else's
product or promoting your own product or service.
And this brings me to my next point, which is affiliate marketing.
So affiliate marketing is a big,
big way to dominate on YouTube and to create not only just your first thousand
dollars online at several thousand dollars online.
And there really is no limit to how much you can make with affiliate marketing.
And so the way it generally works is if you are an affiliate for a certain
program or a service, or let's say a business tool that you like,
you can create different videos on YouTube. You can create tutorial,
style videos, or, you know,
whatever type of value based video you are producing on your channel.
And then you can talk about either reviewing a product.
You can compare products, or you can make like a top five product,
like maybe it's top five travel backpacks,
and you have affiliate links to all of those backpacks in the description.
There's so many different types of ways to skin the cat for this type of
monetization strategy. But I just wanted to say, this is a great way,
like low hanging fruit to not only make your first a hundred dollars on YouTube
thousand dollars on YouTube,
but just to create passive income in your online business in general.
So that's why affiliate marketing is so good rate because when you combine
affiliate marketing with evergreen SEO videos and also traffic from
YouTube,
you're creating a system where you can make sales every single day from your
YouTube videos,
by putting your affiliate links in the description and know you don't need your
own website to do this. You don't need to create a blog.
Does it help if you create,
say a landing page and a funnel for your affiliate link? Yes,
that is an advanced strategy,
but definitely not necessary to get up and going and to get your affiliate links
in the description right away of your YouTube videos and make a thousand
dollars. Okay.
So the next way to monetize with YouTube is with YouTube memberships
and the button. So I'll talk about both here. So with YouTube memberships,
you do need to unlock this feature when your channel hits 10,000
subscribers or more. So once you hit that 10,000 subscriber milestone,
you'll be able to unlock the membership portal,
which basically allows you to host like a subscription based service.
So it's kind if you sort of Patreon where people can subscribe to a
creator's service, it's the same thing, but offered on the YouTube platform.
So when you sell a membership,
so let's say somebody pays you $20 and they get access to ex
exclusive content, maybe a membership kit that they receive every single month.
You get pay eight $20, but YouTube does take,
I believe 30% of the profits because it is hosted on the YouTube platform.
So that's why YouTube memberships are cool,
but you can get started if you wanted to, with this crowdfunding model,
by using a service or a company like Patreon to host
memberships and subscriptions of the YouTube platform.
And so the other way I talked about the applause button, I don't have it.
I'm actually not sure.
Youtube kind of just leaves it up to their discretion to decide which creators
get the applause button feature. But basically the applause button is just,
you can say thanks to a creator.
So if my applause button ever shows up on my channel, you can say, Hey, thanks,
Marisa, here's $15 for doing what you do.
It really helps support the channel whenever you do see an applause button,
but I don't know what the requirements are. Honestly,
I've seen applause buttons on channels that have 20,000 subscribers and on
channels that have 800,000 subscribers. So I'm just not sure. Okay.
So the next method is with online courses to make your first thousand dollars
on YouTube.
This is probably my favorite up there with affiliate marketing.
And it's not only just my favorite,
but all professional YouTube creators around the world. So it,
according to a recent fire up fire,
according to a recent study by signal fire,
the top three monetization strategies for professional YouTubers,
meaning a professional YouTuber is somebody who makes at least six
figures from their channel per year. So one of the,
the top three of those strategies is with online course is because it really is
something where you can scale this type of income to the moon
and you don't need to trade your time for dollars.
So that's why this method is so popular.
I talk about this more in my masterclass that I mentioned my subscribers to
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But the cool thing about it is you can get paid for your knowledge.
So if you have a skill, if you have an experience that you've overcome,
if you have interest, hobbies,
and expertise that you wanna package up and share,
maybe you already are a professional consultant helping people. One on one,
you can use an online course to serve several people at once,
as opposed to just one client at one time.
So that's the power of online courses. Okay?
So the next thing we're talking about today is brand deals,
brand deals to creating your first one K with YouTube.
This one is interesting because a lot of people or YouTubers in the beginning
think that brand deals and sponsorships are like the number one way to make
money. When in fact they're not, that's a good way to make money.
Don't get me wrong, but let me talk about Brandi.
So Brandi is when a company or, you know,
another influencer or somebody else says, Hey, so and so creator,
I want you to help me promote my product or service on your YouTube channel.
I will pay you to create a big that mentions my product,
or that gives a full, dedicated video about my product now brand deals.
They typically, you typically start to get attention.
And people start to reach out to you as a creator around the 20,000 subscriber
mark. On average, this is what I've noticed.
But it doesn't mean that if you're a smaller YouTube channel,
that you can't reach out to companies and ask them to pay you because a lot of
companies will be happy more than happy to pay small creators for a
dedicated YouTube video. Now, the question is how much to charge.
It honestly varies. Those are metrics that you can come up with by yourself,
but some things to consider is the price of your time.
How many hours a is it going to cost you to put together this campaign?
What is your time worth?
Are you willing to do it for a little bit cheaper in the beginning just to get a
couple of brand deal campaigns under your belt? Maybe that might be a good idea,
but the pricing, it just, it just varies.
I would say definitely don't underestimate the value of your time because brand
deals, brand deal and sponsored videos. They're hard work.
They take a lot of time because you have to get to know the product.
Sometimes you have to demonstrate it on your video and they have different
guidelines sometimes on what you can and cannot say.
So it may take away some of the creativity of the creators. So just,
you know,
keep that in mind when you are putting together your pricing guidelines. Okay.
So the next way to make money on YouTube is with Google ads.
So this is when your channel officially gets monetized for the Google ad
program, and you can start to get paid from the ads that play on your channel.
So the skippable ads in the beginning, the little popup ads,
mid rolls end rolls, no pre-rolls mid rolls, end rolls.
I think it's called,
but any ad that is on your channel and is advertised by your content,
you get 55% of revenue share. So to qualify for the YouTube partnership program,
you need 4,000 watch hours,
and you also need a thousand subscribers within a 12 month period.
So I tell creators it's not hard to reach this milestone.
The key is to really post a lot in your first six to nine months of having a
YouTube channel.
So that way you can get that watch time metric that watch time metric is
much harder to get than the subscriber count. Cuz a lot of people,
they reached the thousand subscriber count first and then they still have to
wait a couple of months to get that 4,000 watch hour metric complete.
Now Google ad sense can be really fun in last year.
The channel actually did over six figures in Google ad sense revenue,
which was really cool. And the year prior,
it was just under six figures for the Google ad revenue.
So I'll leave a couple links in the description where I go over like the income
of Google ad on this channel and some tips.
But I just wanted to say that Google ad revenue is just the icing on the cake
with all your other revenue streams that you create from the channel.
Because at any point in time, something can help happen to the algorithm where,
you know, ad revenue goes down. So you shouldn't depend on ad revenue ever.
You never know what could happen to your channel.
God forbid it gets hacked and deleted or something like that.
But just keep that in mind about Google ad sense. Okay.
So the next revenue stream that we are talking about our consult calls or
coaching, whatever you'd like to call it,
this is a really great way to just get up and running with your YouTube
channel as far as monetizing it.
This is a great way to monetize when you have just a hundred,
300 subscribers and you want to make money faster.
What I would do is create a lead magnet where you create the PDF
ebook style lead magnet. It doesn't have to be long,
maybe five to eight pages or something like that.
And then you create a landing page and a thank you page so people can opt in,
get your freebie.
And then the key is to create an email lead magnet follow up sequence.
Now this is associated with email marketing where you would send up an
autoresponder or a sequence of emails, which follows up to your leads,
who opt in. And in those emails,
you can offer people a 30 minute consultation call an hour long consultation
call. So you can start charging people,
an offering to basically get on the phone with people and consult and they
can pay you to do it.
So there's several ways to set up a payment system for consultation calls.
You can use Calendarly,
which is a tool that helps you schedule and people can also pay you to get
on your calendar. So it's a very, very efficient system.
Now the X method is a huge one that a lot of people do not realize.
And that is opportunities outside of YouTube.
That will come up just because you are a YouTuber.
If you haven't noticed by now having the title YouTuber, you know,
after your name is, is very admirable. It's like having the title of author,
business owner entrepreneur, a all these other titles.
So when people know that you're a YouTuber,
you automatically will get more and more opportunities that come up like
opportunities to speak opportunities for podcast interviews,
all kinds of opportunities to be,
to do maybe a collaboration with another creator. So this is really,
really cool.
And a lot of these things you can monetize with cuz when podcast hosts,
you they'll say, oh, do you wanna add your link to your program in the link,
in their description? So that's tapping in and monetizing their audience.
The same thing with these speaker events and the same thing with collaborations.
And as an example with this, I recently had an opportunity.
Somebody asked me to week at their private event with their program and their
students. And they said,
I'll pay you a thousand dollars to give a one hour presentation.
All you gotta do is, you know,
prepare some slides teach my students and do a Q and a. And I was like,
yeah, of course I'll do that.
So those are the types of things that I I'm talking about,
where you can get paid for opportunities that come up because you are a YouTuber
and people discover you and they want to collaborate with you. Okay?
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