I've always been kind of I would say like a little bit obsessed with
completely passive income and of course creating content isn't completely
passive but like the fact that I went 3 and a half months without creating
YouTube video and YouTube themselves still paid me money what's up guys oh
it's Meredith here and I want to talk about how YouTube paid me to not make
videos last year I just got back from the gym I took a shower made some eggs
made some coffee I'm gonna have to do my hair later
because I want to dive into this so I am still getting used to my brand new
lights and I think they're a little too bright plus I forgot to put lipstick on
so last year, 2019, I've already shared about this before but my youtube channel
went kind of stagnant a little bit in terms of like me uploading actual videos
summer came and things got busy I did not have a really good solid routine in
place hello word of the year for 2020 routine so I didn't create nearly as
many YouTube videos in 2019 as I normally would as I had the years before
and my channel still grew I gained like around I think ten thousand YouTube
subscribers and interestingly though nothing changed with my my income with
my income that directly comes from YouTube it was exactly the same whether
I created videos or not and I want to kind of talk about why and give you some
of the numbers there and actually calculate how much YouTube paid me
do not make videos in 2019 or more accurately how much I made passively in
2019 while not making videos because some of my income doesn't come directly
from YouTube and we'll talk about that in just a minute too and I do need to
record some things for the YouTube growth lab so I'm I'm gonna have to do
something with my hair so coming over into my analytics I am looking at the
analytics for just 2019 here since I got almost 1.5 million views in 2019 which
is amazing because I published how many videos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
look at this big gap here 13 14 15 16 17 18
I only published 18 videos in 2019 that is a very far cry from being a
consistent weekly YouTube creator that's like way less than half so 18 videos in
2019 and if you look at this huge gap here and we're just looking at views
right if I come over to look at my revenue look at this gap July 20th
through November 8th I published nothing no new videos were published on my
channel for all of August September October and part of November so like
we're talking about three three three and a half months if you remember a
couple weeks ago I published a video on what YouTube paid me for five million
views and if you haven't seen that yet I'll put a card up there for you I've
always been kind of I would say like a little bit obsessed with completely
passive income like recurring passive income and of course creating content
isn't completely passive but like the fact that I went 3 and a half months
without creating YouTube video and YouTube themselves still paid me money
you can't tell me that's not passive but because I wasn't publishing any YouTube
videos I also Publishing any blog posts so this is
really more of how much I made passively during those three and a half months
that I wasn't creating content now in my last video I mentioned that I have a
pretty big goal for growing my channel in 2020 but I also have a pretty big
goal for passive income revenue in 2020 my goal will be to hit we're gonna go
with about thirty three thousand dollars in completely passive revenue recurring
passive revenue so and revenue and affiliate revenue and maybe some
evergreen course sales type revenue in there also thirty three thousand would
be double my passive income from 2019 so um yeah I have a plan for getting there
I'll share with you the three things that I'm going to focus on to double my
passive income in 2020 but let's dive into exactly how much YouTube paid me or
how much I made passively during the ones that I created zero content so we
already can see here what I made in 2019 let's put in the exact dates so we have
seven 21 20 19 through November 8 19 we're gonna hit apply and Wow not bad so
I have just under two thousand dollars that YouTube specifically paid me during
those three and a half months that I created zero content on this platform
now I'm not totally sure what the policies are for Amazon media vine or my
other affiliate programs that I'm a part of I don't know what their policies are
for sharing revenue so let me just add it up for you real quick so three
thousand seven hundred and eighty eight dollars if you combine my affiliate
revenue with my blog ad revenue hey Siri what is
three thousand seven hundred and eighty eight plus one thousand nine hundred and
thirty six dollars the answer is about five thousand seven hundred twenty US
dollars so five thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars is what I grew on a
money tree in my backyard while I wasn't creating any content at all on YouTube
or my blog how is that even possible are you wondering like wait how is that
possible the answer is search engine optimization and that's pretty much it
it's pretty much search engine optimization so even though I don't
create fresh new content the content I've already created is optimized so
that the people who search for things that I have the answer to they find my
blog they find my YouTube channel they consume my content they see my ads they
see YouTube's ads and media vines ads and they share the revenue with me
that's exactly how that works that's why I believe in evergreen content that's
why I believe in creating tutorial videos and how-to videos when you're
just starting a channel because those views will just keep coming right at you
even if you don't create any new content at all so how am I going to increase my
passive income for 2020 as I so I mentioned that I have a plan to double
my recurring passive income in 2020 and yeah how am I gonna do that you you
probably want to know what my plan is so that you can maybe do the same thing to
you right it's really begging me to shoot a video with wet hair so I gotta
do something with my hair first as I'm doing my hair I have to tell you I'm
listening to the women of YouTube podcast with Desiree Martinez I was a
guest on here a couple months ago you are a woman and you are on YouTube you
should check this one out it's really great whoo Wow
all right so let's talk about these goals so I want to double my recurring
passive income in 2020 and I do have some ideas for how exactly I am going to
go about doing that so first of all I am I'm an Amazon associate so I use Amazon
affiliate links in my youtube description and also in my blog post but
I'm also part of their influencer program so I have the you know the
influencer page and I really have not been utilizing that I think you know
definitely not to the fullest ability that I think I could be so for example
when somebody asked me what camera do you use what microphone do you use or
whatever I have an Amazon influencer list that I you know I send people to I
can say you can go to Vidro Montcalm slash gear and there's my stuff um so I
think one tactic I could do is kind of categorize lots of different things I
have YouTube gear I have you know like how I plan my videos my my notebooks my
bullet journal like what pens do you use listen people who are into planning and
bullet journaling they're into pens and stuff I think I could have a planning
category I can have a gear category plus hello it's it's Amazon it's like full of
books I have read lots of books mostly I listen to them using audible by the way
like Hello protip it's how you read books if you're
busy yeah I have lots of books that I haven't read and I have lots of books
that I have read that I highly recommend they've been really impactful um I don't
think I have I don't think I have a list of like my favorite like business books
or my favorite personal development books or anything so I think I can
definitely utilize the Amazon influencer list stuff more effectively here on
YouTube and on my blog and
over on Instagram another thing I really want to kind of focus on is instead of
like spraying affiliate links everywhere for everything I want to be a little
more strategic about consistently recommending the same things over and
over and over again maybe I would do a video on like the best YouTube lights
for your home studio or something and I might have affiliate links in that post
and in that video of course right but instead of going from lights to tripods
to microphones you know maybe I would do more videos talking about improving your
lighting how to set up your lighting how you know how did color balance your
lighting or like I mean once I figure that out I could probably do a video on
it right and so instead of kind of bouncing all over I'm thinking why not
create some content where you're consistently recommending the same
product so that my audience knows exactly what I recommend it's actually a
really good idea I'm gonna write down the whole lighting a whole lighting
series so those are my two ideas for increasing my affiliate revenue in 2020
on YouTube I don't know if I even know of any tips or tactics for increasing
your ad revenue on YouTube beyond publishing more content right because
the more views you have then the more ad revenue you will have so I'm already
planning to be publishing more content here on YouTube and if you have if you
have any tips or ideas or if you've heard any tips or ideas for increasing
your ad revenue on YouTube beyond just make more content I would love to hear
them let me know down in the comments because I'm willing to experiment when
it comes to increasing my ad revenue on YouTube and the third thing I really
want to do in 2020 is create an evergreen Sales System like I mentioned
in one of my previous videos one of the reasons why I didn't create very much
content into enos because I was focusing a lot of my
time and energy on my signature program so I created three I guess three
signature programs the search-and-rescue method the YouTube growth lab is what
it's called now and also the video pursuit society which is my monthly
membership program and none of those things are currently on like any kind of
evergreen like you can't just go and join them now you would have to get on
the waitlist and then wait for the doors open um and I kind of have an idea in my
head for a digital course that's different than those but still kind of
related and still kind of helpful to you guys but I haven't really put all the
pieces of that puzzle together yet so probably in the second quarter of 2020
I'll be working on that and then I'll work on kind of creating that evergreen
sales machine using YouTube as the top of the funnel so that's my third thing
that I'm going to be working on in 2020 to increase my recurring passive income
this year and you know I'm really excited about I'm also really excited to
kind of share what I'm doing share what's working what's not working here
on this channel really no matter what your goals are for 2020 it comes down to
taking routine action remember my word of the year routine I mean there's
really nothing that you can't accomplish if you stick to that routine and keep
taking action if you are interested in growing your audience and income online
using YouTube then hit that subscribe button let me know in the comments what
you would love to learn from me in my next video and yeah if you want to know
how much YouTube paid me for my 5 million views then I'll let you just
watch that video now