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Okay so the number one way that you're going to make money as a travel vlogger is from adsense
So adsense is basically the ads that play
During and before your videos. It's the skippable ads that play right here
It's the ads that sometimes show up below your videos
Adsense is owned by Google and YouTube is owned by Google and YouTube decides to give you the Creator a cut of what they make
From the ads that play over your videos
It is a small cut but you do get a little bit the more views that your YouTube videos get the more
Revenue that you're going to make from Adsense so once you've amassed 1,000 subscribers
You can choose to monetize your videos, and if you monetize your videos then you can start to make money from the Adsense program
You'll sign up for the Adsense program once you sign up and start your channel
Okay, so the next way to make money on YouTube is affiliates
Basically you sign up for affiliate programs and by far the most utilized one as far as youtubers is
Amazon affiliates
So if you sign up for the Amazon affiliate program you can start making money when you send customers to Amazon from YouTube
so basically what you do is you put these links below your video and when your
Subscribers when people who watch your videos go down in your links
and they click one of your links from Amazon you have 48 hours to turn that customer over if they make a
Purchase on Amazon you get a certain commission from that so you'll see most youtubers do this but especially
You can see the big ones like Casey Neistat he will link to its camera and all of his gear and people are really
Interested in the gear that he uses so when they go down in their description
They click the camera that Casey uses, and if they buy anything off of Amazon within the next 48 hours
Casey gets a commission on anything. It doesn't have to even be
The camera or anything that they clicked on that really had anything to do with Casey
Okay, the next way is kind of new, but it is a great new thing that I think is going to be a game-changer
once it really catches on. The next thing is Patreon. More and more youtubers have been getting Patreon so
Patreon is a website
basically where a
Creator such as a youtuber, an artist, just anyone who
makes something who creates something
can tell their fans or
subscribers to go to the website and
they
basically, it's
It's kind of like a donation
but it's not exactly in donation because the creator gives something back so on YouTube a
Subscriber will go to patreon and they'll give say $1 or $5 per month
To the creator and the creator will give them something back it might be early access to videos it might be
Something they send them in the mail or merch
Shameless plug really quick I have a patreon because I am constantly traveling I send people
Postcards from wherever I'm traveling in the world check out the patreon right there.
Ok so the next way is sponsored posts
You might have to amass some kind of a following before you can get the really big sponsored posts a lot of
Photographers that I watch do this people like Samuel Elkins and MangoStreet. Look how they do it here:
So Squarespace is one of the big ones they seem to sponsor everybody's video by the way go to squarespace.com slash I'm kidding
I don't actually have a sponsored by them yet
But maybe soon so something like Squarespace
You you as the youtuber you send your subscriber to Squarespace to get their
20% off and you get a cut as well from Squarespace, so it's kind of an affiliate link
But it's also a sponsored post
There are a bunch of other kind of sponsored posts where
the sponsor will pay you to make these posts on your videos or your social media and
You'll probably have to get a bigger following to do this
But I have seen some smaller channels get this you'll see like one travel vlogger that I watch HeyNadine
She's done this a few times where her whole video is sponsored by this one company who sends her to a place
Sends her somewhere in the world or a hotel
Sends her
somewhere and they pay for the hotel they pay her a little something in her whole video is really about
this. The Vagabrothers did this with a
with some kind of
With some kind of scent company
So a lot of youtubers will have a blog to go with their YouTube channel
it's somewhere to send your viewers in case something happens with the YouTube channel you still have your
Subscribers and your fans on your website
So you always have them there you can send them emails and different things like that
But with the blog the ways that you can make money are
Adsense again, so adsense isn't just for YouTube, but you can actually put it on your website
And it's the banner ads the different ads that you see when you go to some websites
Those are usually pay per click or pay-per-view
Ads so you get a little bit if someone clicks on those. The other way that you make money on a blog is by again
Using affiliate links you don't have to just use them on YouTube you write a blog post you input some of your affiliate links
You can get your
Subscribers to go there and to click to view your gear or something else like that. So the next thing is brand deals
You can get brand deals for
Everything that you can think of for example
Apparel companies you can wear their clothing if you're into fashion
And they will pay you to wear their clothing at the beginning
They might just send you their clothing so that you can get them exposure, and so you'll get the free clothing but over time
They'll also pay you as well. And the next thing is merch sales
This one is pretty self-explanatory
Merch is like t-shirts mugs those types of things
Many youtubers will be selling their t-shirts of their logo and that type of thing
But you can go further than that
We are in the middle of making our merch right now, and by the time you see this we might have it up
I will link it above my head up here if we have it out, but check it out to get some ideas
I'll also go more into merch
How you can make it where you can make it in another video.
And I will link that one above my head. ok the next thing along those lines is also basically it is brand deals
But you can use the brand deals on your social media
and I just wanted to show some examples of this. two of the
Best examples of this are DoYouTravel and Gypsylust these are
very popular travel Instagramers
And they do this basically hotels Airlines apparel companies
They all pay them to promote them on their Instagram posts so basically they they take a picture in a beautiful location
Where they've probably been sent for free say for this example the Tourism Board will send them to
Bali and they take a beautiful picture there
And they tag the tourism company and so the tourism company is getting exposure the country is getting exposure to their
Millions of viewers and they're making it look phenomenal so more people want to go there
I read even a couple of years ago. DoYouTravel and Gypsylust they were making about
$10,000 per post, per photo; take one photo make ten thousand dollars.
and I believe it's gone up since then but I don't really know the figures you can do this with really anybody you just
You have to reach out to people to get some of these brand deals
Once you get big you won't have to reach out at all and they'll just find your email, and they'll contact you
but if you're a smaller youtuber you can reach out and ask for a free product or maybe a
small amount of money to
Promote across your social media and on your youtube channel, okay, so the next thing
While you're a smaller youtube channel like I was saying earlier
You might not get paid the big bucks to do these things, but it doesn't take that much
to get something for get something for free get a product for free or
Get highly discounted rates say at hotels and all you really have to do is ask
So you can try to get free accommodation at hotels and hostels by calling ahead or and telling them that
You can promote them through pictures on your social media
through Instagram stories or on your YouTube channel by putting that place in
your vlog maybe doing a review on a hotel or a hostel you can get
free entrance fees to go places and then
Promoting the place that you went on your YouTube video clothing companies are kind of an easy target because there are a lot of smaller
Clothing company people who are printing t-shirts who just really need the exposure to get anywhere
and they will send you a free product and maybe a small amount of money if you
Have somewhat of a following and you can wear their product in your videos in your pictures make it look really good
So that's a start, okay, so that's it for today, so this was how to make money as a travel vlogger
But I have a ton more videos, and I will link to them above my head. This is a playlist on
Everything you really need to get started Travel blogging so once again
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