- I'm gonna tell you how I make my money from YouTube
and we're starting right now.
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What is going on, my name is Nick.
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Okay, so a lot of people are getting caught up
about the ad system on YouTube, about you know,
when is YouTube gonna allow me to monetize
and things like that.
Well, there are a lot of other ways
that you can make a lot more money on YouTube
and I'm gonna talk to you about how I do that.
And don't get me wrong, ads can definitely add up,
Super Chats can definitely add up
but what I'm saying is that there are other things
that you can do that can end up
being a lot more lucrative for you.
As an example, on my channel at the time of this recording
I make somewhere between 1,500 and $2,800 from Google
so I get a check in my bank
from what happens here on my youtube channel.
That counts ads and that counts super chats.
And don't get me wrong I'm not saying
that that is a tiny amount of money.
What I'm saying is that you have to have
a decent amount of views in order to get
that kind of money from your ad revenue.
So if you're not getting a lot of views,
then, of course you're not gonna get that much money
and even though the money that you would get from ads
might supplement some other things and things like that,
there's other ways that you can make more money
from what it is that you're already doing.
So that the ad money is a bonus
instead of it being something
that you're solely dependent on.
So I'm gonna tell you about the things
that I do around my channel that currently brings me income
that is not related to AdSense or Super Chat.
Okay, so the very first thing on this list
in no particular order is Tubertools.com.
That's my website to where basically when I made that,
I knew that I'm making videos for content creators
so I needed to make an asset to where I could take
the traffic that was coming to my YouTube channel
and I could transfer some of that traffic to my website
to where I would be able to monetize
in another way outside of AdSense.
Now what happened with that is,
first I just had a front-end store
and I offered some services off of it.
Currently I have services coming off of it
in terms of design services
for branding packages and things like that.
I also have the store and I have a membership area
where people can pay a monthly fee or a yearly fee
or a lifetime and with that,
then they get access to everything in the store
plus more stuff.
Now without this becoming an ad for Tuber Tools,
basically the idea behind this was like I said,
you know, I have video creators watching my content
so it makes sense for me to take those people
and say, hey, I have this particular thing for you
if it's something that you're interested in,
go check it out and then people can make the purchases there
or they can join the membership side or whatever.
Whatever their choice is and I make income from that.
Number two on this list is services
you may or may not know that I do consulting for YouTube.
I also do in-depth channel evaluations.
Now those are in no way anything even close
to what I do on my Saturday live streams.
It's actually where I go into the backend
and I actually see what's working and what's not working
and I give tips based on the actual analytics data
in addition to what I see is going on
in the actual video content, the presentation,
the flow of the video, the structure and all that stuff.
But anyway, without this being an ad for those services,
so if you are interested in something like that,
definitely get in touch
through the email in the description.
Number three is affiliate marketing.
Now you always hear content creators talking
about affiliate marketing and I can tell you
that affiliate marketing definitely works.
You just have to find the right companies to work with
and the right stuff for your audience
so that you have that perfect fit, right?
Because like as an example, like if I have a link
that I send you to and it's an awesome tool
or an awesome resource for you,
then you get the benefit of that tool or that resource,
the company gets the benefit of having you as a customer
and then I get a commission for that
by being the person in the middle
that connected the two of you together.
And as long as you keep that pure
and the things that you're promoting
are of value to the people that are watching your content,
affiliate marketing can actually pay off really big for you.
Number four is sponsorships.
Basically how that works is companies pay me every month
in order to put their stuff in front of you.
Be it logos, making videos about them, things like that.
Basically they give me the money in exchange
for continually promoting them here on my channel.
Number five on this list is content partners.
Basically what a content partner is
is it's somebody that pays me to make content for them.
And basically how that works out is they pay me a fee
to create content for them for their channels
or for their websites or for anything else
that they happen to be putting together.
And if it wasn't for my YouTube channel
and then being able to see what it is that I do
and the type of content that I put out
and all of that stuff,
then none of those deals would be able to take place.
So all of this, everything on the list so far,
all of this stems from what it is
that I do here on my YouTube channel.
Next up on the list is Patreon.
Now Patreon is a crowdfunding platform,
if you are not familiar with Patreon
I'll put a link to that down in the description below,
I'll also put a link to my Patreon down
in the description below
if you want to help me help other creators.
Now I don't make a lot from Patreon
because it's not something that I actively promote,
I think this video right here
and maybe one other video I've mentioned it
and then besides that, I just put a link
in my description so it's a very, very passive thing
way down in my description.
So most people don't even know that I have it.
But with my Patreon account, it is something that I have
and something that does generate an additional,
just a little bit of additional income.
Next is email marketing.
So at the end of all of my videos
you're gonna see an end screen and on that end screen,
I have a link to my VIP area.
When somebody signs up for my VIP area
then that puts them into my email list
and then from time to time I send out value emails
which is basically just informational stuff.
And then I also send out emails about promotions
that I know about or things that it would be
a good fit for my audience,
and you can kind of tie this back into affiliate marketing
because when I do send out those promotional emails,
then those are basically affiliate marketing emails.
And even though it is affiliate marketing,
it's done in a completely different way
because that's its own asset within itself,
the email list it's its own asset
that generates income by itself.
Number eight on the list is merchandise.
So this is another one I don't make a lot with merchandise
but I do make sales from time to time
to where you know it's, again,
it's kind of like Patreon to where, you know,
it's a little bit extra here, a little bit extra there,
but it doesn't add up to a lot by itself,
but that other little bit adds in to the whole pie.
Oh and you can join the Nimminati
down in the description below.
Two other ways to monetize that I'm currently working on
is a physical product.
I actually have that in the works,
something that I'm putting together
that's gonna help content creators as well.
And of course, an actual training course.
It's gonna take people through the process
of starting a channel all the way
through generating real momentum and getting real results
on what it is that you're doing here on YouTube
in an organized and easy to understand way.
Both of those will also be coming your way very soon.
Now what I want you to think about
is I just gave you eight different ways
that I currently make money on my channel.
Two additional ways that I'm working on right now
in addition to AdSense and Super Chat.
So what I want you you think about
is I want you to think about the different ways
that you can make money around your channel as a pie.
Right now let's say that you're just doing
affiliate marketing and ads.
Right there you have two pieces of the pie
and they might add up to a lot
depending on your view count or they might add up
to just a little bit but the more things
that you can add to that pie,
the more things that you can create around your channel,
the more assets that you can create an offer
from what it is that you're currently doing,
the better off that you're gonna do.
And here's the thing, cameras cost money,
you know internet cost money, computers to edit cost money,
all this stuff, it costs money.
So it's important that if you want to be able
to do this full-time, you want to be able
to at the very least if you don't wanna do it full-time,
if you want to be able to at the very least
finance your hobby, then it's really important
that you put some of this stuff into place
and you might be surprised,
you might end up with a business out of it.
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