hey tech wait here and welcome to
another episode of the tech lead now I
have a special guest here and I'm going
to be telling him how I make over a
thousand dollars on YouTube wait doesn't
the title say a hundred thousand very
sure it does there must be a typo there
I make over a thousand dollars on
YouTube every month I'm pretty sure it's
a hundred thousand well I mean I I don't
I don't make that much let me show you
mine
I mean I'll show you right here yeah I
mean maybe I can talk about it I make
over $100,000 on YouTube that's that's
gotta be photoshopped refresh that yeah
here you go you're good I mean there's
gotta be a bug or something there I'll
have to look into that I still have
access to the Google servers as an
ex-googler
lead well don't you have a name I'm
Graham Stefan okay
Graham if you're so smart maybe you
should just run the whole show for us
then okay I get that way yeah welcome to
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to the show so I will record this for
you guys just so that we know that this
is not Photoshop there we go okay so
yeah the last 28 days we have 74th out
almost $75,000 today didn't post yet so
it'll probably be about 77 and if we go
and break that down by video should be
top earning videos here I'll just go
last 90 days
as we could see the Tesla video pretty
much paid for the Tesla which is crazy
seventeen thousand for the Ben malla
video how to make a hundred dollars a
day
67 hundred dollars on that why I won't
be getting the Apple credit card $6,500
six income sources five thousand and
this by the way has been a very long
tailing video if we go here that video
made sixteen thousand dollars $1600
January made $2,400 Wow that's
absolutely amazing it is
yeah how are you making all this money
what are you talking about in your
channel
lots of clickbait guys lots I'm kidding
no not clickbait no it's all financial
related topics so it's really any I I'm
a nerd when it comes to credit cards
making money investing that money and
that's really what I talk about because
I could talk about that forever and not
get tired about which oddly enough when
you talk about making money it makes
money so it's like this it's a cycle of
I like making money and I like talking
about it which makes me more money so
personally I have been inspired by
Graham's channel and I came down to Los
Angeles to visit him learn more about
what he's up to and he puts out really
high quality content about personal
finance and real estate agent advice
check out his channel look up Graham
Stefan on YouTube link in the
description below now how long have you
been running your YouTube channel 2 half
years and what has it been like
throughout all of this time it's been a
journey I mean it's been a grind it's
it's never something I started to make
money I just started making YouTube
videos specifically because first of all
I've always wanted to make youtube
videos and I've always watched people on
YouTube and been envious that someone
can go and make youtube videos and like
have fun always wanted to do it so I
started it had no intention of ever
making any money from it I just really
like talking about finance because I
didn't have any friends
to like talk about money with and talk
about investing with so I would go and
read it instead and like talk with
Internet strangers and I figured like
hey you know I think I know enough that
I can start making videos on this topic
and the fact that people then watched it
and then I started actually making a
little money from it and that was kind
of encouraging to me to think that you
know I can actually turn this into a
profitable hobby and then now it's sort
of evolved and grown to such a massive
level that I figured well now I should
really devote more time to it because
you know now I can actually see this end
result which is incredible
yeah so I think that's interesting that
you know a lot of people that they look
at youtubers and they think that well
they're just putting on YouTube videos
and they're making a lot of money right
away but I think that Graham has been
developing his content and audience over
the past two and a half years when you
first started you probably weren't
making much and then over time you
slowly began increasing your revenue
right the first year I was making this
is 2017 I was making three videos a week
for the entire year I was probably
spending about 32
50 hours a week making videos and again
I didn't have a life I did you know I
just basically was so into making into
videos I made 26 thousand dollars in the
first year one year of working like you
know 4050 hours a week 26 grand yeah
that's pretty much like a second job
that you've picked those 426 K a year
yeah and not only that but that took
time away from me working as a real
estate agent which is really where I
made most of my money so not only was I
making less but that was taking time
away from where I could be making more
but I enjoyed it so for me it was just
it was fun I think this is interesting
in that this is a long-term journey
right he didn't just give up right away
or even after a year say this is
something that you felt that you had
enough passion and interest in to really
push through and continue well the
reason why I think a lot of people get
discouraged is because they do it for
the money and they they maybe see my
channel and I think oh my god these
means so much money I want to make money
too and they will do it to make money
this is probably the worst thing that
you can do if you just want to make
money YouTube is a grind I think it's a
big risk that you make a ton of videos
without any payoff whatsoever I could
have just as easily been stuck at a
thousand subscribers for you know three
years then I could you know potentially
hit a million this year but I don't do
it for the money I think the money is
just a byproduct of really enjoying what
I do oh wow that's amazing because I I
only do it for the money so would you
really consider this type of income say
passive income that's a really tough one
to answer because I would say it's it's
both of a yes or no no I would say
probably 20% of the income that I make
is from old videos so they made like two
years ago like my Roth IRA video that I
made in 2017 I believe still makes about
five to seven hundred dollars a month
two and a half years later it's still
making oh wow I have some other videos
that I made on my credit cards that are
2 years old that still make a consistent
- for you know five hundred dollars a
month consistently that I think is
pretty passive because they rank really
high on certain keywords but I would say
the vast majority of it is what are do I
post today and what did I post last week
and the thing is as soon as you post
video that's the one that gets pushed
and that's where all of your views come
in so even though 20% of my income comes
from old videos I try to think that it's
people cycling in from the new videos
that go and just happen to watch an old
video too so I think if I stopped
posting altogether I think I'd probably
make between 2 and maybe 5,000 a month
right now for probably the foreseeable
future until YouTube either changes up
their algorithm or it no longer is the
site that people go to for videos right
so it's actually a ton of work to get
the bulk of that revenue right it's not
like you just make some videos and you
sit back you have to constantly maintain
that and you have a pretty tough
schedule you're putting out like three
videos weekly currently yeah what's that
like it's people here's the thing I
refrained from making a video on this
because I don't want to ever make it
seem like I'm complaining so I'll tell
you and it's on this channel but it's
not something that I would want to make
because anytime I make a video like this
I realize that people don't have as good
of a schedule and don't may you know I
don't want to make it seem like I'm
ungrateful for any of this it is a very
taxing schedule because I probably spend
per video anywhere between 8 to 12 hours
just creating a video that comes down to
planning the video it is filming the
video editing the video coming up with
titles thumbnails that that's just the
work involved then there is probably
another two to four hours per video of
research that'll do like the fun
varieties video I probably spent eight
hours of research on that specific just
on the video just to figure out what am
I gonna say on the video or coming up
with topics that I think are gonna be
current that people want to see that are
trending that are gonna do well on
YouTube yeah there's a lot of research
they go and I enjoy that though so you
know I'd probably be doing it anyway
right so what you may see is like say
the 10 minutes or 20 minutes of an
actual video result but each minute of
that maybe took like an hour to promote
easily there is probably at this point
probably between 70 to 80 hours a week
that goes into making YouTube videos and
that's on top of everything else I do
it's not like this is my only full-time
thing even though I'm putting a lot of
time right now in YouTube that is 70 80
hours a week
in addition to me doing everything else
that I that I do is a real estate agent
and managing rental properties and
looking at you know other properties to
potentially I mean it's I I don't have a
life right now but I think that's the
sacrifice now that I need to give up at
this point to really grow in the long
term and I'm happy doing that people
think I just am at my desk talking for
10 minutes off the top of my head but
there is so much research that goes into
those videos so I don't look like an
idiot I'm never going to make a claim or
say something in my video that isn't
backed up by data and research and I
guess otherwise I'll lose credibility if
I go and make stuff up off the top my
head that's that's it Wow that's
inspiring that's absolutely inspiring
but you know I am inspiration hey do you
want to know what my middle name is
actually not really so you're making a
ton of money here you're generating some
passive income you're what a lot of
people would consider successful where
do you go from here I don't have a plan
to be completely honest I had zero plan
I'm just winging it at this point I
figure out what I mean the only thing my
only plan is basically I save 100
percent of what I make that's my only
plan right now it's just don't blow it
small opportunity I got to grow in
social media and I don't take it lightly
and I figure I'm gonna sacrifice
everything else and just focus on this
and save it all and be smart with it and
invest at all because I don't want to
blow this why don't you just go out and
like you know buy a Lamborghini or
something like that very close to part
of it I think I realized is that that
the whole Lamborghini thing I think was
really cool to kind of relive what I
wanted when I was 16 because I think I I
noticed a lot of people go back to their
teenage years and they they get the
things that they want when they were a
teenager because those were really big
aspirations and at 16 like you want this
house and you want this car and you want
all these cool things and then it just
becomes less exciting as you can
actually get them and right now the
Lamborghini like I really even until
recently I wanted the Lamborghini and
then it went from that to wanting an SLS
AMG there but now it just like is that a
smart choice and I get at least now more
enjoyment from making
the smart choice of not getting a
Lamborghini and plus partially my buddy
bought a Lamborghini Huracan Spyder
self Anthony and we went to Atlanta to
basically drive it all the way back from
Atlanta to LA that was seven days
straight in a Lamborghini Huracan Spyder
driving across country I gotta say you
get the Lamborghini out of your system
very quickly by driving it 2,200 miles
non-stop you know six seven eight hours
a day it's out of my system like now I
don't have the desire to get a
Lamborghini after that by the way Gramm
do you want to learn how to code because
I'm able to teach you how to program in
like C++ no not really
so maybe you can tell us a little bit
about your background seeing how
successful you are you must have been
like a straight-a student or something I
was the worst student ever I hated
school could not do anything I hated
homework didn't see the point
so it's terrible to say I didn't see the
point of learning math I just was like
why why am I gonna do homework I would
mostly get DS because that was
technically passing a good grade for me
would be like a C so what you did was
after high school what happened no
college didn't get into college I
thought for some reason I'd get into
college and become an investment banker
because they knew they made a lot of
money and didn't get in college had no
back-up plan so I forget like let me get
my real estate license give that a shot
and see how that goes and then I fell in
love with doing that but in terms of
academics I don't know a lot about many
things I know a lot about one little
topic of real estate and investing and
that's really all I know how to make
money and invest it excellent well
thanks so much gram for telling us your
story well now it's my turn and I'm
going to be telling you how I make over
a thousand dollars per month on YouTube
certainly not as much as how much Graham
is making but I think it's still very
interesting a story I don't need to hear
that so I'm gonna get going I got I got
my sports car here I got avocado toast
that is waiting for me wait I'm you
don't know how to reverse a link list I
don't need to know how to reverse a
reverse or whatever it is I'm a real
estate agent don't just leave me here
with these people my subscribers are
rabid Wow that was absolutely amazing
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