- I'm gonna tell you 10 different ways
to make money on YouTube without having to rely on ads,
and it doesn't matter if you're
a big channel or a small channel.
If you don't wanna rely on ads,
I'm gonna tell you exactly what you need to do,
and we're startin' right now.
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Okay, the first thing that I wanna say is,
that you clicked on this video because
you're wanting to learn how to make money from your channel.
So, do not sell yourself short by clicking away,
make sure that you watch this entire video,
because there's something in this list for you.
And, as we're getting into this,
I want you to think Youtube, instead of thinking of it
as an ad platform, I want you to think of Youtube
simply as nothing more than a traffic source.
If you can make that change in the way that you're thinking
about Youtube, it's going to make a humongous difference
on how you approach everything it is
that you're doing on your channel.
Okay, so the very first way to make money on Youtube
without relying on ads, is to set up a blogger website.
When you do that, that is going to give you the ability
to send people from Youtube to your blogger website,
where you can make money from ads, or you can
make money from other things that are on this list.
I want you to think of your website as a very
valuable resource, and as we're going through this
entire list, I want you to think about
how you could apply some of the things in this list
to your website, so that you can amplify
what it is that you're doing over there, as well.
And, the great thing about having a website is,
they don't have all of the requirements
that you have on Youtube.
On Youtube, you gotta have 4,000 hours of watch time,
or you have to have a thousand subscribers or whatever.
On your own website, you do not have those requirements
that you have to, or those hurdles,
that you have to jump through in order
to monetize your website.
So, using Youtube as the traffic source
that's going to send people over to your website
where you can monetize the viewers there,
that is a way to win without having to rely on ads.
The second thing that you can do,
which is extremely popular all over Youtube,
it's extremely popular all over the internet in general.
I mean it's kind of what makes the internet work
is affiliate marketing.
So, basically with affiliate marketing how that works is,
you set up with companies, let's say Amazon
as an example because it's the easiest.
You set up an account with Amazon and then,
if you send somebody to Amazon, if they click on
one of your links, they go to Amazon,
and they actually buy something, then you will get
a commission of that sale.
On Amazon specifically, you don't even have to
sell anything that they directly clicked on to look at.
So, if you're sending them there for camera equipment,
and they're buying diapers, you're still gonna get
a commission of those diapers within the first
24 hours of them clicking on your link.
Which is pretty awesome.
Now, if you are going to do any type of affiliate marketing
from you Youtube channel or your website,
I'll put a link at the top of the screen that will
take you to another video where I talk about
some dangers and some disclosure information
that you need to make sure that you're doing
in order to make sure that you're compliant with Youtube.
And, this also applies to your website as well.
Okay, the next one on the list here is,
if you are live streamer, if you're interested in
getting into live streaming, or if you just want to
set up a link where people can actually donate
directly to you and what it is that you're doing,
www.streamlabs.com actually offers a way
that you can do that.
So, if you're live streaming, you put a link
in your description, somebody can click on it,
and they can pay via Paypal, or via credit card
to donate to whatever your cause happens to be.
And, the really cool thing about that is,
you don't have to have any monetization enabled on Youtube.
You don't have to have your adsense on,
you don't have to have the ability to accept super chats,
because it's all done in the stream labs end,
and Youtube doesn't have anything to do with it.
So, even if you fall under those requirements,
you can still make a few extra bucks by using stream labs.
Number four, if you create any type of creative content,
you can sell digital products.
Even not necessarily creative content,
if you make content to where you can create
some type of digital product that you can sell from it,
then you can sell digital products.
That can be a template pack, that can be a photoshop PSD,
that can be light room presets.
It can be anything like that, but you can set up a store,
I'll actually put a link in the description to Selfie,
to where you do not have to have a website.
You can use them, and through them they have the
shopping cart thing set up to where you can send people
directly from your Youtube channel, to your Selfie page,
and on your Selfie page it's going to allow you
to take payments from people to where you can sell
any type of digital product that you can create.
Number five, if you have knowledge in your brain,
if you have a certain skill set that you think
people would be willing to pay for in terms of
the information that you can share with them,
you can create a course.
Now, with creating a course there's usually some
up front money that you're gonna have to put out.
You're gonna have to put out some up front time,
but the return on courses can be huge.
I have a handful of friends that make a ton of money
off of courses, so if you have information like that
in your brain that you think other people would pay for,
then definitely courses are a fantastic way
for you to make money off of your Youtube channel.
I'm actually working on a course myself.
Number six, merchandise.
You can set this up through www.spreadshirt.com,
you can set this up through Teespring,
you can set this up through Amazon Merch.
Basically, the idea is that you create designs,
you upload those designs to one of those sites,
and then you can send your Youtube viewers to those sites,
and then if they make a purchase, then you of course,
get a commission for that purchase.
Now, here's the thing, if you do like an
Amazon Merch Account, you can make an entire store
that's not necessarily branding just your channel,
but it can be targeting your main demographic of people.
Same thing with all of these sites.
Instead of making it to where you're just trying
to promote your own brand, you can make it
to where you're basically putting together
a bunch of different items that people that are interested
in your topics would be interested in wearing.
As an example again, on the Photoshop tutorial thing,
you know, in your particular store you could have
something like, you know, "Photoshoppers Do It Better."
You know, something like that, just as an idea
off the top of my head.
The next one on the list, even though
there is some work involved in this one also,
you're gonna have to send out a bunch of emails,
or contact a bunch of people on Linkedin,
or contact local businesses or whatever,
but you find companies that are in line
with the type of content that you're making,
and you try to get sponsorships, full channel sponsorships.
Or you try to at the very least, get sponsored videos
on your channel.
That's another great way to make money without ads.
The next way is through Patrion or other crowd funding
type of places to where you can put additional content,
or show some more about your life, or some
behind the scenes stuff, or something like that.
And, get people that are watching your Youtube videos
to head over there and support whatever it is
that you're doing over there.
Of course, this all works better if you are offering
something good in return, instead of just setting up
like a donation page, but depending on you know,
how you structure everything, and what your plan is,
and what you're trying to accomplish,
and what you can give them, and the type of content
you make, and all that stuff,
Patrion and other services like it can be
extremely helpful for making money without
having to rely on ads.
The next one on this list is services.
If you have a particular skill set that you are
very good at, you can offer those services
off of your Youtube channel.
Let's say as an example, you are a photographer
making videos about photography so that
you can show your skills, so that you can
use that as your own personal portfolio,
is a fantastic way to generate more work for yourself,
and you can also build courses around it,
and you can also build digital downloads around it,
and so on to where you can really have
a lot of assets in terms of all the different things
around your channel that helps keep it all propped up
in terms of monetization without having to rely on ads.
You might be watching this right now,
and you might be thinking,
"Hey, I don't have any skills that I can offer."
There's something, and if you don't have a particular skill,
or you don't think that you have a particular skill,
then maybe it's time, if you really want to make money
from what it is that you're doing on Youtube,
maybe it's time that you spend some time
developing a skill, so that sometime in the
very near future you could offer that as a service as well.
Another one on this list, and I actually have
a bonus one after this.
But, another one on this list number 10 is,
using a service like Youscreen, or another type
of subscription service to where you can send people
from your Youtube channel to get exclusive content.
Now, you can use a service like them for
membership stuff, you can use it to actually put
just exclusive content.
Stuff that you're not putting on your Youtube channel
by itself, but you know, like a regular series
or something like that, where you can send people
directly from your channel to sign up there
so that you can collect a monthly recurring stream
of income from your Youscreen channel,
or another service that's similar to them.
Next up on this list is, if you can create,
this one's gonna take money up front,
but if you can create a physical product,
I actually have one that I'm working on right now as well,
but if you can create a physical product
that would be a fantastic fit for the people
that are watching your videos.
You do not have to have a ton of viewers
in order to make a really good additional
side income off of ...
Or even a full time, a full blown business,
off of a physical product in order to
get money off of your Youtube channel without ads.
Like, as an example, let's say that you have
a Youtube channel where you are showing
character costumes from different movies,
different TV series, and things like that,
I'm talking to you, Heidi.
One thing that you could do, or you could create,
or you could have made is, you could say,
"Okay well, they wear these particular
"types of accessories, be it bags,
"or jewelry, or something like that
"in these particular films or videos
"that I'm covering.
"So, what I'm gonna do is,
"I'm gonna make an etsy store
"and in that etsy store I'm going to
"make or have made the particular types of things
"that people are wearing in the videos
"that I'm sharing so that
"people that are watching my videos,
"because they're interested in this stuff,
"they can head over to my etsy store.
"See all of the different things that I have available
"for all of the different characters that they like."
And so on, and then maybe you can generate
some sales that way.
If you have more ideas of ways that people
can make money without relying on ads
from their Youtube videos, let me know
in the comments down below to help other people
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