- In this video we're talking about
how you can make over $4,000 a month off of YouTube.
(electronic whooshing)
Okay, so I have a little bit of explaining to do.
This is not my office.
I actually just moved and I just got back from Thailand
and this is the home of my new studio.
Right now it's just full of all the stuff
that I haven't fit in my new place.
There's just shelves and boxes And everything.
But I don't have studio to shoot in right now
so this is my makeshift studio.
In this video we're gonna be going through
how you make over over 4,000, five, $6,000 a month
off of affiliate marketing.
And this is only one of the ways
that I make money off of YouTube.
And over the course of 2019
I have made over $4,000 a month
off of affiliate marketing.
And in this video I'm gonna go through
how I got to this point in three years.
I've only been on YouTube since 2016
and I've been able to grow this
into a very sustainable business.
And this actually only one of the ways
that I make money off of YouTube.
There are a bunch of different ways
that you can earn a living from creating a channel.
And the whole idea around building this
into a business is diversifying your income.
And I actually just did a virtual summit
with Thinkific and TubeBuddy
and I highly suggest if you're interested
in making money off the platform you go check that out.
There's 12 speakers, I'm one of the speakers
and my talk is all about diversifying your income,
and all of the different revenue streams
where I make money on the platform.
And I go through and break down how you can do it too.
So guys, let's get into affiliate marketing.
So this has been a very successful way
that I've found to make money on the platform
because basically anything that you talk about
on your channel can be turned into affiliate revenue.
What is affiliate marketing?
So essentially when you promote a product or service
and you send someone to a website
and that person then goes and makes a purchase,
you can get a percentage of that sale.
And almost every product out there or every service
has some sort of affiliate marketing program tied to it.
Now the big one and the one that everyone
uses here on YouTube is Amazon Affiliates.
Because anything that you promote on Amazon
you can get a kick back on.
So if you're talking about camera gear,
that's something I talk about a lot on my channel,
then I'm gonna send people to the Amazon page
with that gear.
And if they decide to buy the product
after watching my review,
then I'm gonna get a kickback because I set up
an affiliate link so that when someone clicks
on that link it tracks them to Amazon
and tracks to see if they made a purchase.
Now how that works is basically that
link creates a cookie, and that cookie
stays on your browser for short period of time.
It could be 24 hours, it could be 72 hours,
it could be an entire week.
So it just depends on the affiliate program,
but basically how it works is when you
sign up for an affiliate program
you get unique URLs.
These are only tied to you.
And so that every time someone clicks
on one of those URLs and goes to the website,
it's all tracked in a backend somewhere.
And so the cookie stays on
someones browser for a period of time
and then if somebody makes a purchase
in that period of time, on that website,
you are gonna get a kickback.
And it could be anywhere from 4% up to 10%
and I have some affiliate programs
that go all the way up to 50%.
And so what that means is every time
someone makes a sale I'm getting 50% of that sale.
There are so many different products and services
that you can talk about on the platform,
that then you can then earn a little commission off of.
Now this is also something that you can use
to help structure what you create on the platform.
Something that I've always suggested
is you do a mix of content
but all centered around one niche.
I mean this is a very important idea
when it comes to building a successful channel on YouTube
is that you want one audience.
But, for that audience, you can serve them
in a bunch of different ways.
So for my channel specifically,
I like to do filmmaking, I like to do YouTube,
I like to do just content for creators.
So it makes sense that if I talk about gear,
that fits right in line with my niche.
But I could also do tutorials
and I could also do videos like this.
And whenever I talk about products
within any of these videos,
I can use an affiliate link and get a kickback.
So one of my things that I talk about is gear.
And I'll do videos specifically on gear
and not only do I do videos on the gear
that I actually like and I actually use,
but I also like to reviews on new products.
So I'll give my reactions to it,
whether it's good or bad because obviously
you don't wanna just praise everything
that you put on your channel.
You wanna talk about the goods and the bads
and let someone on the other side of the camera
make an educated decision if they want to
actually purchase that product.
However, that's besides the point,
that's for another video.
What you wanna do is you wanna target new products.
So things that have just come out.
Because people are gonna be searching for those online.
And so when there's a lot of attention
to a product because it's new,
you can build a following off of that.
So you can get people over to your page,
new eyeballs, they see who you are.
They might like the way that you present information,
and they might hit that subscribe button.
But also if you create an awesome review that actually
makes sense and somebody's interested
in buying that product,
well they're gonna down in you description,
they're gonna hit that link,
and you're gonna get an affiliate sale.
And a place like Amazon it's not only a product
that they buy within that cookie window,
that you're gonna get that affiliate purchase on,
but it's everything that they buy within that cookie window.
It's kinda crazy to think about.
But if someone goes to Amazon off of a link
that you put in your video,
but then that goes on a shopping spree
and buys like 30 things,
you're gonna get an affiliate sale on all of those items
because you sent that person to Amazon.
That's how that affiliate program works,
and that's why that is so powerful.
And I highly suggest, sign up for Amazon Affiliates
because there is so much potential
for you to earn money off of affiliate marketing
when using Amazon.
Now, I have an entire list of affiliate programs
that I've signed up to.
And that's what builds out my entire affiliate portfolio.
All the music on my channel is through Soundstripe right now
and I'm an affiliate with them.
So every time someone goes over to Soundstripe
and decides to sign up I'm gonna get a kickback.
TubeBuddy, that is the tool that I use for keyword research,
it's the tool that I use to do A/B testing on my channel.
There's a lot of features that are packed
within the TubeBuddy and I really like the software.
So every time I talk about it
I'm gonna get a kickback
if you decide to go down
and do a free trial with them.
Which I highly suggest because not only
is it a great tool, but they're also helping
host this virtual summit which is gonna give you
a ton of knowledge at how to be a YouTuber,
and how to be successful on the platform.
Again, check the link in the description
because it is a free virtual summit.
Now, I'm also and affiliate with Thinkific,
because that's where I host all my courses.
So if you decide to build your own course platform
and you use on of my links I'm gonna get a kickback.
You can see how powerful this is.
All the tools, all the services, all the products
that you use can help earn a living on the platform.
All right, so I'm gonna pause the video right here
and I just wanna talk through
a kind of step by step, practical tips,
that are actually going to help you
with your affiliate marketing.
I'm in my office now which, you know,
is flooded with gear and I'm just kind of
getting everything back to normal
after my trip to Thailand.
Hey ,that's Thailand.
But, I wanted to give you guys
some things that you can jump off with
after this video and actually go and start doing
that's going to help you.
And not just talk about, you know,
affiliate marketing as an idea.
So the first thing that you need to do
is come up with a list of products
or services that make sense for your channel.
Now, once you figure that out step two
is go find all of the affiliate programs
that are associated with those products.
So, you might just find them on Amazon
and that might be the best place to do it,
but things like TubeBuddy are gonna have
they're own affiliate programs.
So you need to go into Google,
and you need to type in "TubeBuddy Affiliate Program,"
or "TubeBuddy partner program."
And you need to find where the website is
that you can go to sign up
to be an affiliate or a partner.
The different websites use different terminology
but essentially if you type in
partner or affiliate, or something like that
you'll most likely find the program
associated with each website.
Now step three is, once you've signed up
and you've been approved,
you need to bookmark all of these programs
so that it's easy to go back and find all your links.
Now, if it's something where you just need the link,
maybe it's create a document that has all the links.
But personally I go back into the backends all the time
of all the different affiliate programs
to check my conversion rates,
to see how many sales I'm getting
for how many people are actually clicking on my links.
And that's gonna help me make educated decisions
on whether I should continue to promote
certain products or services,
or if some things just don't resonate with my audience
and I'm just not going to talk about them anymore.
Now, to get people to actually click your links,
my next tip is to verbally do call outs
to click the links.
Now this is not just an affiliate marketing thing,
this is for everything on YouTube.
If I want you to subscribe to my channel
there's more of a chance that you're
gonna hit that subscribe button
if I say, "Hey, hit that subscribe button
"if you wanna see x y and z."
It's just one of those things psychologically
that triggers someone to actual go through
and click that subscribe button.
So the same thing happens for affiliate marketing.
If I'm talking about say, this gimbal right here,
instead of just doing the video
and talking about the gimbal,
at some point in the video you need to say,
"If you wanna know more about this gimbal,
"then I highly suggest you go down to the description,
"'cause I put a link there
"so you guys can go check it out."
So I would give a verbal call out
to give someone an action of something to do.
And that's going to increase the amount of people
that actually will go down and click on that link.
And so my next tip would be, is don't be overly salesy.
Don't be just talking about these products to make sales,
but talk about products and services
because it makes sense for you channel
and it makes sense for you as a creator.
So for everything you're doing it's gotta make sense.
Otherwise your audience is gonna just think
that you're selling to them and pushing products,
and you don't want that.
You sill have to have a thriving channel
that has value for your audience.
So if the products that you're putting
into your videos provide value in someway
then go ahead and find the affiliate program
associated with it and there's more of a chance
that you're gonna be able to get sales
because what happens is, if you're honest,
if you're making good content,
you're making stuff that is helpful
for the person on the other side of the camera.
Then you're channel is going to grow
and people are going to be more connected
to you as creator and they're gonna trust you.
So if someone's interested in say this microphone
and I'm talking about this microphone,
well there's chance that they're gonna go
and buy that microphone because they've seen
me work with it, they trust me as a creator,
and they trust my opinion, and if I say,
"Hey, this is a good microphone,"
then they're gonna be like, "Great, that's one
"that I wanna go get."
I go to YouTube all the time
to figure out different products that I wanna purchase
for whatever it is that I'm doing.
And if I do find it from a creators YouTube channel,
I make sure I go down in the description
and click on their affiliate link
because they're the ones that
helped me make that decision to buy a product.
Now one thing that really is gonna take this
to the next level is signing up for
kit.com and Geniuslink.
Now I did an entire video that break down
why these two pieces of software are powerful.
But what's really interesting,
when you look at my Amazon Affiliates backend,
you'll see that I've created two different tracking links.
One for just links directly off my YouTube page,
and a second one for links that I've put on my kit.com.
And I am performing just as well on my kit.com
as I am just on the links on my YouTube page.
What that means is that kit.com
is driving over 50% of my traffic to my Amazon links.
Which means that people are searching through my Kit,
and then deciding to make a purchase,
not just my videos on YouTube.
So this is why I suggest using a Kit
and no matter what niche that you're in
build a Kit around the products
and services that you use.
And all of this works together
to build you portfolio of affiliate programs
that you're signed up to,
to be able to make more money off of YouTube.
And what's crazy is, like I said
as the beginning of this video,
I have been making over $4,000 a month
off of all of my affiliate programs.
It's a really great way to be able
to earn a living off of the content that you're creating
so that you're not relying on ad revenue.
Because if you rely on ad revenue
the rug could be pulled out from under you at any point
and all of a sudden, all your money is gone.
However, if you are interested in learning
how you make more money off of ad revenue,
then I put a video right here that breaks down
how you can make more money off of ad revenue.
All right guys that's it.
I'll have my studio done pretty soon
so you're not just looking at junk.
But it is what it is
and I'll see you on the next one.