When people say they don't believe in making money on YouTube. I'm like,
Oh yeah. Well, I don't believe in you scam,
scam, scam. Okay. Maybe that was a little bit harsh,
but what we're going to go over today are five sure-fire ways that'll get you to
a thousand dollars on YouTube and way beyond whether you started your channel or
not. You're going to want to listen in on today's training.
It's a little bit noisy out here, but before we go inside,
I just want to tell you guys that you're in good hands with this video,
because I'm your teacher. I've been able to produce multiple,
multiple six figures organically without advertising or paid ads on this
channel. And I've also built up this audience to over 165,000 subscribers.
So with that being said, I know a thing or two, and I want to share it with you.
So let's go ahead and get right to it. As we continue this discussion.
If you are curious how long it took me to go full time and to
make a full-time income on YouTube,
that was back in the day when I hit or I had about 3000 in between
3000 and 4,000 subscribers on the channel.
So it wasn't a big channel at all.
And I highly believe you can go full time on this platform with a small
subscriber base.
It's been proven over and over with my channel and students that have gone
through the in fact subscribers to sales program that we have.
And so the point is YouTube is a platform that helped me get out of a very scary
situation in my life where I had no health insurance,
because I had made the leap of faith and left my nine to five job.
I had a mountain full of debt, including my credit card bills,
which were over $70,000 in credit card debt.
It was so scary.
I remember the banks were constantly calling me and shutting down my accounts.
And so I made some pretty big financial mistakes and it was a big hole that I
had to dig myself out of,
but it proves that is definitely possible to go full-time on YouTube and not
have a huge subscriber base. And remember,
once I was able to cross that scary hump or that dip actually better said
in my life where I was like in major debt. And it was that scary situation.
Once I was able to start generating revenue and replace my old nine to five
revenue when I was an engineer.
So generate more than $3,000 a month from my new YouTube channel.
It afforded me the lifestyle that I had dreamt about,
and the reason why I left my nine to five job,
I was able to now travel wherever I wanted,
live my life on my own terms, do what I want when I want.
And I was finally starting to see some momentum.
And so the first way that we're going to talk about in this video,
because I know it's the elephant in the room,
and everybody wants to know about it. And that is Google AdSense.
And Google AdSense is the way that YouTube pays creators who qualify.
So who have a thousand subscribers in a minimum of 4,000 watch hours on the
channel.
It's how they pay them to compensate them from the advertisements that are on
their video.
So different companies and small businesses use YouTube ads to advertise their
products and their, and they run them on different channels in videos.
And so basically YouTube is so generous that they're willing to share that ad
revenue with creators because without the creators content,
YouTube advertising would not be possible.
And so YouTube ads has been very fun over the years,
and it is a nice source of passive income and the highest month that we've ever
had on this channel, Marissa Romero has been $12,700.
That is the record up to the making of this video.
And that's something that you definitely don't start out with.
I remember back when I was still a small creator,
I was making between 500 and a thousand dollars with the Google AdSense program.
And since then,
it's obviously grown as the channel and the subscriber base has gone up,
but that's definitely a bonus to look forward to when you start off your YouTube
channel.
And so once you get monetized for the channel or officially become a part of the
YouTube partnership program,
there's definitely a method to the madness to increase that revenue.
And you know, why not earn more passively with these simple tricks.
And that is to really pay attention to your CPM.
Now there's a difference between CPM and RPM.
When you look at the analytics on your channel and RPM is more of
a value that is closer to what you're actually getting paid.
And so CPM is the more popular number it's been around for longer,
that exact metric.
And that's the amount of money you get paid per thousand views.
And so more so that's the amount of money that is being charged to advertisers,
and that reflects the amount of money your channel is making as a whole.
But again, remember you have to share the revenue with YouTube.
And so the RPM is more so for that creator metric and what you're actually going
to take home after the revenue share.
So the way to raise the CPM and get it high. And when,
I mean high, meaning over $10, closer to $20,
that's a good number to aim for is you really want to niche down and be sure
that your channel is focused on certain topics and that your channel,
isn't a mix of fitness and cooking and all kinds of stuff,
because then you'll never have a niche and your channel will never be able to
grow, which means you won't even be able to qualify for the YouTube partnership
program.
So definitely you want to stick to three main topics within a niche
within a sub-niche, right?
And that's going to allow you to really capitalize on that CPM and keep it
high and continue to raise it so that the YouTube algorithm knows what type of
advertisers to put on your channel. And the other thing is consistency.
My ad revenue definitely drops if I'm not consistent and if I post less
and it definitely grows and maximizes if I just stay consistent to my posting
schedule and I post on the channel twice a week,
and if you're not able to post twice a week, that's okay.
Stick to once per week, but don't go less than that. Just stick to it,
no matter what show up, you can do it, I believe in you.
And those two things are the key factors to keeping that CPM high and to making
the maximum amount possible with your Google Adsense.
And so just to give you more motivation and perspective on things in the fall of
2018,
that was back when I met my now fiance and I wasn't really
working that much.
I probably worked about two hours a day on average for that entire fall.
Okay.
And I was able to support myself comfortably and generate affiliate commissions
comfortably from the YouTube platform.
And we're talking between five to $10,000 a month at that time
that I was generating between the affiliate income and my Google AdSense
revenue. So it was mostly affiliate income,
but the point is I was only working one to two hours a day.
I was out exploring all the time and really goofing off.
And I probably should've worked a little bit harder,
but the channel held it down. And it was very, very,
very little effort and maintenance that I had to put into it to keep the revenue
going. And just to tell you at that point, my channel wasn't huge.
It was less than 20,000 subscribers, maybe 15 K somewhere around there.
So definitely know that the possibilities are endless with a small
YouTube channel and to get a summary and a recap,
and to learn more about the six step process to building a wildly profitable
channel, go ahead and download our subscribers to sales blueprint.
You can grab it up here or the very first link in the description.
And so the next way to really capitalize and make money on YouTube is to build
that audience. And what do I mean by this? When you build up an audience,
it doesn't matter if it's, you know, thousands and thousands of subscribers.
If you're building that audience, you are building a monetizable machine. Okay.
So that's the whole point of building up the channel and building up that
audience. So once you build up those viewers,
you can monetize it however you want.
So the number one thing that helps with building that channel fast is title.
So we're going to hop behind my computer and I'll show you a trick.
That's going to help you get good SEO titles.
It makes sure that you have strong keywords in there so that you can have good
titles from the start. So let's hop behind my computer.
All right so welcome to behind my computer.
And we're taking a look at a tool called two buddy.
It is a SEO tool that's out there. You can sign up for free.
I'll have more information in the link where you can get a 30 day free trial of
any plan that you want for absolutely free. But the point is, this is a very,
very powerful tool when it comes to researching your
titles and making sure you have good keywords in your title.
So it doesn't matter the subject.
What basically what Tubebuddy does is it has a database of YouTube,
like API, all the data, all the keywords on the platform.
And so that's why as I'll show you right now,
it's able to evaluate the title that you want and give you a rating for it.
So if I were to type in how to sing for
beginners,
it's going to me based on my channel size and based on the stats
that I have, whether it's good. So it says poor.
So this is a very important thing.
We do want to start with unweighted because likely if you're a smaller channel,
you won't have that much data on your channel.
So you want to go with unweighted and you can see other stats down here,
like search volume, how it is like are people searching for it,
the competition, the optimized strength.
And so you can see these different factors down here.
You can also see different things like how to sing for beginners step-by-step so
we can explore a different keyword to try to see if it's better for the channel.
This is good. So this is, I like this because it's good,
which I would definitely use a keyword when Tubebuddy ranks it as good.
So I like using keywords that are ranked good up to. Excellent.
So the dark green means excellent. And then you can see here,
the search volume is poor. Competition is excellent.
Optimization. Strength is excellent.
So search volume basically means that a lot of people are searching for it.
So the number of search videos, 48 million,
that's a lot number of monthly searches.
So the search volume is, is low. The,
the rating is low, but that's okay because these other factors are good,
which means I would definitely go for it. So how to be in us,
how to sing for beginners step-by-step.
So maybe you're a singing coach and you want to start a channel about singing.
This would be a good one. So if we typed in another one,
totally different niche,
like how to save my marriage
or something like that from divorce. Okay. Let's see what that looks like.
So we'll see the unweighted overall ranking and score,
and we can keep evaluating it like this.
The other thing that's cool is you can see the different results that are on
there, and you can see that, Hey,
there's other videos about this topic, but these thumbnails kind of suck.
So you can definitely capitalize and make a better video on this
topic and get other title ideas from the winning videos that
are already ranked number one on YouTube. So definitely check this out.
This tool. I wish I would have had it when I started my YouTube channel.
Cause it would have helped me and save me so much time.
But if you want to learn more about to buddy, again, I have a discount code.
After you sign up for the 30 day free trial, you can check that out in the link,
in the description and check out the information about the discount code as
well. So titles again are very, very,
very important to building that audience and building it fast when you're first
starting your YouTube channel.
So the next way to really crush it on YouTube and make money is with a digital
course, a digital membership,
something where you're packaging your knowledge and selling it in the form.
Of course.
So maybe you're making different video modules to explain a process,
to explain a repeatable process that you know,
has gotten results for clients or customers that you've worked with,
or maybe you've overcame a life situation.
And you're able to package that knowledge and help people solve the problem that
they're having right now, going through that same situation.
So maybe for example,
I think of a friend of mine who is a fertility coach and she's helped several
women in their struggle to get pregnant. You know, doing certain things,
you know, obviously besides the thing,
but doing certain things to help them like, you know,
diet and nutrition and other things that she had to go through to get pregnant
successfully.
And so the point is a digital course with the YouTube platform is in my opinion,
one of the most profitable things you can do.
And the great part about it is it's a low cost and it could be free to do so.
It's virtually little,
little to no upfront costs for you and you create it once and you can sell
it infinitely.
There's no cap and there's no cost of good to how much you can sell this
course. And I like talking about this because with our digital course,
for example,
we were able to cross six figures in just the course revenue alone within
nine months of launching it. So that's how quickly your core sales can add up.
And again, it's purely passive income.
Once you create the course and create the module and launch it to your audience
on YouTube.
And I wouldn't get discouraged either if your YouTube channel is still small,
because again,
going back in time to when my YouTube channel was small and I launched my first
mini course, it sold,
it didn't sell as much as my course does now because I have more traffic,
but it definitely sold.
And it was a great source of passive income to add to the Google AdSense,
to add to the affiliate commissions and the other types of revenue that I was
earning. So don't be afraid if don't think that, Oh,
I need X amount of views and subscribers to launch a course.
No there's people right now that would subscribe and pay for your course because
they trust you and they want to learn from you.
And they trust in the process that you have to offer.
And so the next way we're talking about making money with YouTube is by creating
graphic products.
Now this barrier to entry is going to require for you to have some skill.
For example, I'm not a graphic designer or I'm not a sound producer, anything.
So I would have to build up a skill in order to do this, but this is a really,
really great way to get your feet wet with selling digital products online.
And these products look more in the form of sound effects graphic
templates,
maybe you create some animation effects that people can use over and over logo
templates. For example, you can create an in-screen template for you tubers.
The list goes on and on of all of the different types of reusable graphics that
other people can use.
And so that's a really awesome way to have a product that's a lower ticket
product, most likely less than $50,
less than $30 and start selling those different assets over and over and
over again.
And so these products are very valuable and can be used over and over.
And this reminds me actually of Etsy. If you heard of Etsy,
the e-commerce platform where the latest profitable thing on Etsy,
for example is selling graphic templates.
So people sell like wedding invitation templates, resume letter templates,
and you can sell these to with the traffic you're generating with your YouTube
channel,
but just goes to show the profitability with these different design
templates and how you can really, within less than a couple of days,
come up with these graphic assets and start selling them via your YouTube
channel. And that brings me to another point with, you know,
growing a channel and being patient and really generating an income online is
there's so many people wanting to make money online, make money on YouTube,
and they're just doing a mediocre job and that's why they fail.
So really have patience and develop that skillset and keep pushing and pushing
day by day, do another income producing activity.
That's going to help your channel grow.
And it's going to help you develop products online that you can sell. All right.
So the next way to monetize a YouTube channel is with print on demand.
And so this method should not be taken lightly. Now, what is print on demand?
If you're looking at my shirt and you see subscribers to cells,
that is our course and program logo, and it is printed on the shirt.
So any design logo or something that you have that you want to have printed on a
shirt, a cup, a shower curtain, a towel, a pillow.
That is what it's all about.
And there are so many different companies out there that do print on demand.
But the cool thing about YouTube is once you hit 10,000 subscribers,
you can integrate Teespring,
which is a platform where you can get started in selling shirts and designs for
free and connect that to your YouTube channels.
You could have it displayed right beneath a YouTube video.
So I could do that if I wanted, but I'm not,
but it doesn't matter what kind of print on demand story you have.
You could have it on a third party platform and still put the link to your store
and put the link to your merchant and your products in your YouTube videos.
And so that way,
and so the cool thing is you have the YouTube platform and the SEO,
organic traffic going to these products.
So maybe let's say you have a YouTube channel about art.
You're an artist loved painting. And that's what your YouTube channel is about.
You give art tutorials, you can very,
very easily create an e-com store that has print on demand products on it,
with your art designs. How cool would that be?
And you can sell it to people in the description, in your video. So you can,
you know,
maybe you're doing a video about painting and you do a time-lapse of you
painting a picture and you're like, Hey, if you think this picture is dope,
go ahead and click on the link below and you can buy it on our print on demand
store and Teespring.
You can still set up the Teespring store and put the link to the specific
product page of your Teespring store in the description. And back in the day,
when I used to do e-commerce and print on demand, it is very, very profitable.
You can easily crush a thousand dollars and make passive income with print on
demand because you don't have to do any of the fulfillment.
The print on demand company does that, and they're happy to do it,
and they fulfill it and send it to the customers.
You don't have to worry about shipping and handling.
And so the next way we're talking about monetizing YouTube and making a thousand
dollars and way, way, way more is with affiliate marketing.
And my opinion affiliate marketing is the fastest way to monetize a YouTube
channel and the fastest way to make money.
And it was the method where back in the day, when I was struggling,
remember that story where it was one of the worst times in my life.
That was how I made the first dollar online or on YouTube.
I made $33 and 50 cents from an affiliate marketing commissions.
And so by promoting another person's product or service,
when people clicked on my affiliate link, that was on my YouTube channel.
I generated a commission for helping the company get that sale.
And so I just made a super in-depth tutorial about affiliate marketing,
about where to start about affiliate marketing funnels,
about what you should look for when choosing an affiliate marketing product to
promote. And so I'll leave that video link in the resources,
in the description for you to check out later, but definitely it's never, ever,
ever too early to start monetizing a channel with affiliate marketing.
I don't care if you have 50 subscribers, 200 subscribers,
you can certainly start putting your affiliate links in your YouTube channel
description right away. All right. Y'all,
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