- I'm gonna tell you how YouTube channels make money
so you can make money too and we're starting right now.
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My name is Nick, welcome to another video.
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Okay, so this is my list if you are a YouTuber
who makes money from your channel,
make sure you put your method down in the comments below
to help other people that are gonna watch this video.
As a heads up, in this video,
we are not gonna talk about ads at all
so it doesn't matter if you're monetized,
if you're not monetized or whatever.
These are all things that you can do
to make money from your YouTube channel
because with ads you have to get a ton of views
in order to make that anything substantial.
Number one is sponsorships.
This can be one-off video sponsorships,
this can be long-term multiple video sponsorships,
or this can also be brand ambassadorships.
In a nutshell, sponsorships are where a brand pays you
to make a video about their product or service
or to mention their product or service
or whatever type of deal that you work out.
But basically, it is a one-time thing
or something to where you make those videos
over and over and over again
over the course of a period of time.
It is very important that you do not underestimate
the value of sponsorships.
Even as a small channel,
you can still do very, very well with sponsorships.
Number two is affiliate marketing.
Affiliate marketing in a nutshell
is where you recommend a product or service
and you put a link to that product
or service in your description
and when somebody clicks on that link
and they make a purchase,
you actually get a commission of the sale.
A lot of content creators do this and they do it
because it can pay off big.
So I recommend that at the very least,
that you look into affiliate marketing.
Number three is services.
Services can pay off really, really big
if you have a skillset that you can leverage.
If you're really good at something
and you have a specific skill
that you've developed over time,
you can let people know about it on your channel
even if it's not content
that you're making your videos about,
you can still let people know about it
and you'll be surprised at the amount of leads and clients
that you can generate from offering services
from your channel.
Number four is merchandise.
Now with merchandise, in most cases,
it's not something that you're going to get rich off of
unless you develop an actual brand around your merchandise
but I want you to keep something in mind.
A lot of content creators think,
hey, I'm just gonna put out merch with my logo on it
and that's where they stop which is okay
if that's what you wanna do but if you wanna amplify
what's going on with your merch business,
then what you can do is you can make designs
that are specific to the demographic of people
that are watching your videos.
As an example, in my case,
if I were to make a shirt about vlogging,
well there's a good chance
that somebody's gonna pick up a shirt about vlogging
because a lot of vloggers watch my YouTube channel.
Make sense?
Okay, awesome, glad it makes sense, let's move on.
Another really cool thing about merch is
on YouTube depending on your channel size,
you can actually have that merch shelf down
underneath your videos to where you can offer merch
directly on YouTube which is pretty cool.
And if you are a live streamer,
you can also set up a merch store through Streamlabs
which is also really easy to do
and that's another way that you can make money
from your live streams.
Next up on the list is crowdfunding.
Now crowdfunding comes in a bunch of different forms.
For example, Patreon,
I'll put a link to them down in the description below,
is one where you can set up additional perks,
additional benefits for joining your Patreon
and then people pay you every month
in order to have access to those perks
or just to support your cause.
Some people are making a ton of money on Patreon.
So at the very least,
it's something that you should consider.
In 2019, January to be exact,
I'm also going to be boosting up my Patreon as well
because I thought of something
really clever to offer in there
that's gonna be a huge value to everybody.
So I'll put a link to mine down in the description below.
Some people also just put a PayPal link.
If you don't wanna sign up with any of these services
and do any of that other stuff,
some people will just put up a PayPal link
and they'll say hey, if you enjoy my content,
shoot me a few bucks in PayPal.
So that is also a form of crowdfunding
as is Super Chats if you're a live streamer.
And channel memberships if you have a channel
that allows channel memberships.
Which with channel memberships,
I've also got some additional perks for you
and there's a link to my channel memberships
down in the description below.
But the idea of crowdfunding is at the end of the day,
you just want to offer something in return.
You want to make it in exchange of some kind,
so if people are going to give to your cause,
you gotta think of what it is that you can offer
as an additional thing
to those people that are giving to you.
This is where making helpful content
comes in extremely handy
because you're putting out all of that value first
so people already know the value that you bring.
Next on the list is making your own products.
It doesn't matter if it's a digital product
or a real-life product
that you can actually pick up and touch,
the idea is to come up with something
that would be a perfect fit for the people
that are watching your videos.
And I know you might be thinking hey,
what type of stuff can I do on my videos?
Most types of content have something,
for example, if you are showing people how to knit,
you could make downloadable patterns just as an example.
Same thing goes for costumes,
if you're doing any educational stuff,
then you could of course offer any additional training
that you have for download.
As another example, if you're a gamer,
because I know a lot of gamers watch this channel,
if you are a gamer. you can also make things
like quick win guides to where you show people
exactly hey, this is how you get
through this, this, this, and this the fastest possible way
and sell it for a few bucks.
Another thing to think about as well
is if you are making YouTube videos
for a specific demographic of people,
you can use your YouTube channel to springboard
a new company for yourself.
You know if you're an entrepreneurial type person
where you would see the advantage
in doing something like that.
Next on the list is sending viewers
to your own blog or website.
Here's where this one gets cool.
Let's say that you have a small channel
and currently because of the watch time requirements
and the subscriber requirements,
you're not monetized on YouTube.
That does not prevent you from having your own blog
that you run ads on (imitates explosion booming).
But look, you can make a blog or a website
that is about the same type of stuff
that you're making your YouTube videos about
and you can build that asset next to your YouTube channel
and you can use that to funnel traffic
to your YouTube channel,
you can use your YouTube channel
to funnel traffic to your blog
and you can get as creative as you want to
with selling ad spots or running ads
or whatever it is that you wanna do on your own website.
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Thank you so much for watching,
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