Imagine having the freedom to work from anywhere while generating enough income from your YouTube
channel to pay your bills and enjoy your life. Wouldn't that be sweet? In this video,
you'll learn how to be a full-time YouTuber in 2022 or work towards that goal. You'll learn
what it means to be a full-time YouTuber, how to determine how much money you need to make,
ways you can make money from your YouTube channel, how to increase your income
and how to grow your YouTube channel fast.
What does it mean to be a full-time YouTuber? For me, being a full-time YouTuber means I can
be my own boss and have the freedom to work from anywhere at any time. It took me a few
years to become a full-time YouTuber because I was a professional web designer before I
started a YouTube channel. I had to figure out the ways to make a full-time income from YouTube
so it could replace the income from being a professional designer.
It still means I need to put in the work to grow my channel. If I want to take time off
to go on vacation or travel, then I'll often batch script and batch film several videos in advance.
This gives me the freedom and flexibility to enjoy my vacation while still generating
income from my YouTube channel. How do you determine how much money you need to make?
Add up the bills you need to pay each month and the extra income you need to live on.
For example, if your total expenses come to $3,000 per month
and you want an extra $2,000 to live on, then you need to make $5,000 from your YouTube channel.
Here are the numbers to build a 100K per year business online. All you have to do is
get 2,500 email subscribers and if only 10% of them become customers who spend $400 per year,
you'll have 100K per year income. For example, you offer a free report,
free e-book, free cheat sheet on your video in exchange for viewers' contact information.
As your channel grows so will your email list where you can recommend your products
and services. Here are some of the ways that I make money from my YouTube channel. I generate
thousands of dollars each year from my YouTube channel by placing AdSense ads on my videos. To
achieve that, you need to be a member of the YouTube Partner Program and have 4,000 watch
hours and 1,000 subscribers in the past 12 months. YouTube get 45% of the ad revenue and you get 55%.
If you create a video that's over eight minutes long, you can place multiple ads throughout
your video, but I only recommend placing two or three ads at the most so you don't turn off your
viewers. Another way I make money on YouTube is through channel memberships. This is where
channel members pay a small fee each month to support my channel and receive several perks,
such as tips and tricks and live streams. If you want to support my channel and become a channel
member click the join button below this video. Another way I make money from YouTube is with
branded content or creating a sponsored video for a company that wants me to promote their product.
Typically, I get paid $500 to $1,000 per video and try to do a video series so I get paid each
month from that same company. Brands want to expose their product to specific audiences
so I'll often get emails from companies to expose their product to my audience.
If the product doesn't align with the interests of my audience or myself
then I usually reject the offer and move on. Only accept brand deals that help your audience. Click
the link in the description to watch my video on how to monetize your YouTube channel in 2022.
Another way I generate income from my YouTube channel is offering coaching services.
I offer one-hour coaching calls for creators that want me to review their channel and discuss ways
to get more views and subscribers. Click the link in description below to get more info.
Another way I generate income from my YouTube channel is promoting affiliate programs related
to the content on my channel. For example, I often promote the keyword research tool TubeBuddy
because it helps creators find the correct keywords and save time managing their channels.
I'll place a link to Tubebuddy in the description below this video.
The beauty of promoting affiliate products on your channel is that you don't have to create
the product or the marketing materials. All you have to do is promote the affiliate link and click
the commissions which is often 50% or higher. When you promote multiple affiliate products,
you can make a substantial amount of money. I still generate a consistent income from
affiliate products that I reviewed several years ago. You do the work once and generate income
week after week, year after year, as long as a video remains on your channel.
Another way I generate revenue from my YouTube channel is creating more own products.
For example, I create an eBook called Tube Boot Camp that gives you the blueprint for growing
and making money from your YouTube channel. I also have a YouTube membership course called
Tube Video Boot Camp containing videos that show you how to grow, manage and monetize your YouTube
channel. I'll place links to the eBook and the course and the description below this video.
How do you increase the income you make from YouTube? The secret is to create multiple streams
of income instead of relying on one income source like AdSense ads. The ad revenue you receive from
YouTube fluctuates a lot throughout the year so it's not very dependable. Therefore you need to
have multiple streams of income to generate a consistent income every month from your channel.
Even if you're a small channel with a small audience, I highly recommend creating one
income stream right away. As your channel grows you can add more income streams.
Another way to increase your income over time is to save some of the money that you generated from
your YouTube channel and place it in a retirement fund such as a Roth IRA. The big benefit of
placing your money in a retirement fund is that you don't have to pay any tax when you take it out
and it builds up over time. If you continue to set aside a portion of your earnings you make from
YouTube and place it in a retirement fund, it'll give you a great piece of mind. Just keep in mind
that stocks go up and down so you have to make a long-term investment to benefit the most from it.
Here are some tips to grow your YouTube channel so you can be a full-time YouTuber. Number one,
know your audience. Only create videos that your audience is interested in because the YouTube
algorithm follows the audience. Number two, create engaging videos. How long people watch a video
or successive videos in a row is a huge ranking factor on YouTube. Keep an eye on your audience
retention graph in YouTube Analytics to see where the dips and spikes occurred during your video.
When you make your next video, try to improve your audience retention. Number three,
create compelling titles and thumbnails. Your thumbnail and title is what viewers see first in
the search engines and suggested videos or on the YouTube homepage. If you don't create a clickable
thumbnail and a compelling title, then nobody will watch your video and you'll have wasted all that
time creating a video that no one is watching. YouTube says that the average click-through rate
is between 2% and 10%. Try to aim for 10% or higher. If you increase the click-through rate
and the watch time for your YouTube video, there's a higher probability that your video
will be surfaced to more people on their watch pages. Number four, interact with your viewers
and subscribers on the comments. The more you know about your audience, the easier
it'll be to create the right content for them. If you want YouTube to be a full-time job and
make a consistent full-time income from it, you need to create a well-thought-out plan.
Watch the video on the screen right now on how I plan and film my YouTube videos.