what's up everyone welcome back to my
channel now in my last video i shared
with you guys that i made over ten
thousand dollars in just one month
thanks to social media and at the end of
that video i promised you guys that i
would teach you my tips tricks and
strategies on how you can potentially
monetize your social media platforms as
well
the reason why i decided to create a
video like this is because back then
before i was on social before i started
my own business i genuinely thought that
the only way that anyone can make money
on social media was if they were a huge
influencer and brands were paying them
to post or if you had thousands and
thousands and millions of views on
youtube in order to make good money off
of adsense revenue well i'm here to tell
you that of the 10 plus thousand dollars
that i made last month none of it was
through brand partnerships and only a
very very very minuscule portion of it
was through adsense money that's why in
this video i will definitely touch on
those avenues but i also want to share
with you guys the alternate ways that
people actually make money on social you
don't have to be a big influencer and
you don't have to have a million views
on youtube and in just a moment i'm
going to share with you guys my youtube
earnings to really paint the picture of
why people generally can't make a living
off just doing youtube so with that
being said if you are down to learn more
then keep on watching so the first way
that you can make money off of being on
social media is obviously youtube
revenue now you have to have i think 4
000 hours of watch time plus 1 000
subscribers in order for your platform
to be monetized i got monetized i think
about last month and i'm going to show
you guys exactly how much i've earned
since then now the reason why this is
the number one tip is not because it's
the number one way it's really for me to
get this out of the way so that i can
show you guys exactly how you really
can't make a good living off of just
youtube unless you are making you know a
million plus views per video hey guys so
right now we are on my revenue page
within my creator studio or my analytics
um on youtube and this is my lifetime
revenue i've made about 1200 from
youtube ever since i got monetized on
january 20th so keep in mind that
anything before january 20th i was not
making money on now what i want to show
you guys is the money that i've made per
video this video how to gain instagram
followers organically is my number one
performing video on my channel i have
about
250k views on that video and from this
video i've made about 882
now keep in mind again that it's not
because i did 250k views
there's two factors to this that kind of
vary for everyone so i didn't get
monetized until january 20th so that
means that all of the views that i got
from january 20th until now that's the
views that i've made money on but not
only this i also want to share that
views does not equal money for youtube
in order for me to actually make money
off of my ads
the people who click on my videos have
to watch the ad or they have to click on
it so that's how youtubers make money
now obviously when you get to the level
where you get monetized on youtube for
your videos you can actually choose the
different ads that you play for instance
you'll notice that on some ads you can
skip on some ads you can't um i
personally don't really care for um ads
and stuff so i don't really care if i
make money or i don't make money like
this for me is just really good side
cash that's why i don't force you guys
to watch the full ad i personally hate
it whenever i see ads that i don't that
i can't skip but a lot of youtubers do
choose to make them non-skippable
because they are forcing you to watch
the entire ad so that they can make
money now this is obviously good to make
money on but it also lowers audience
retention like i don't know if you guys
have ever you know not watched a video
because you couldn't skip an ad i
definitely have done that and for me i
didn't want to do that for my channel i
want people to actually watch my content
and not skip it because they can't skip
an ad
so this is just kind of what i want to
show you but not only this i want to
show you what i made from january so
if you watched the video that i posted
previously i said that i made about 13
000 last month thanks to social media
about 400 of that came from youtube so
like i was saying earlier in this video
youtube earnings did not contribute that
much to my total earnings last month for
my business so you know last month my
top performing video again was this
video about how to gain instagram
followers organically it generated about
350 for me so yeah guys this is kind of
what i wanted to show you and you guys
can use your own judgment call on
whether or not this is enough money for
you personally for me i would not be
able to make a living off of this um i
probably need other streams of income so
that's why i created this video to show
you guys that there are other ways to
make money and you don't have to just
rely on adsense money because if you
were relying on adsense money then
you're probably gonna need to get
another job
because you're definitely not gonna be
able to sustain yourself um just through
adsense money now that we have the whole
youtube revenue thing out of the way i
can now share with you guys exactly how
i make my money using social media after
i share this tip i'm obviously going to
share with you guys more tips that i
don't use but that you can use so that
this video really paints a really big
picture and gives you guys as much
options so keep in mind that this tip is
probably going to be the longest because
it's how i make money so the way that i
make money is through content marketing
and what content marketing is i
literally googled it so it's the
official definition so you guys don't
get confused is that content marketing
is a type of marketing that involves the
creation and sharing of online material
such as videos blogs and social media
posts that does not explicitly promote a
brand but is intended to stimulate
interest in its products or services now
even after explaining that definition a
good portion of you are probably
scratching your heads wondering what
exactly does that mean so put in more
simpler terms what it means is that i
create free valuable content for you
guys whether it's on instagram youtube
my website blog so on and so forth and
as a result a good portion of you guys
will find my one-on-one coaching program
and invest in coaching with me and of
the 10 plus thousand dollars that i made
last month about 97 98 of it was
completely from my one-on-one coaching
service and the reason why i thank
social media for that income is because
had i not posted content on social media
nobody would ever find my website nobody
would ever find my services and
therefore nobody would invest in it now
i'm trying to be a mind reader here but
i have a feeling that a lot of you guys
might still be confused you guys might
be wondering okay well i post content
but nobody's buying my stuff
the reason why nobody's buying your
stuff is because you don't have a sales
funnel now what a sales funnel is is
basically it's a process that is
designed to guide your customer to buy
your product it's basically like taking
someone from point a of finding you on
social media to point b which is buying
whatever you offer but in between point
a and point b there should be a series
of steps to guide that customer through
that journey so that they can either
have enough trust with you to buy your
product or for you to actually see if
they are a qualified lead now in a
second i'm actually going to share my
screen because i prepared a cute little
powerpoint to show you some examples of
sales funnels and how it might apply to
your business so if you're interested in
that then definitely hang on and keep on
watching all right guys so here is kind
of what a funnel looks like and if you
are familiar with my channel there's
many times where i've mentioned the
words know like and trust you want
people to know who you are eventually
like you and then trust you enough to
want to purchase from you or invest in
you in the future now the reason why
this is a really great photo is because
it not only incorporates no like trust
but it also shows you guys exactly how
to get there so in the top of the funnel
this is where you want your audience to
really get to know who you are in a very
low risk way
for instance you watching this video
this video is absolutely free but you're
getting to know who i am as a business
coach you're getting to know what i know
you're getting to know what i have to
offer and literally this costed you no
money no risk at all to watch this video
another way that you could do this is
through your blog posts social media
anything that allows you to share
knowledge and share things for free so
that people can really test drive you
and understand who you are and even if
you aren't you know doing social media
you see big businesses do this all the
time for instance if you went to sephora
there's always free samples of you
getting to try out the new makeup or you
getting to try the um the cream it's
really kind of like try before you buy
and this is really important within your
funnel so if you are already creating
content on social media you're already
doing the first step of creating the
funnel however the reason why a lot of
people don't end up making money on
social media is because they don't build
the rest of the funnel then next in the
middle of the funnel is where you want
to create like this is kind of where you
start building trust this is where maybe
you do more advanced content for your
audience um you know for instance for me
the next part of my funnel is my
facebook group you know if you want to
get more content from me you want more
personalized help from me then join my
facebook group once you join my facebook
group that's how you can really build a
lot more trust with me because you get
to know me a little bit better um
and later i'm going to show you other
examples of this after you've created
like with someone that's when you want
to create trust and this is kind of when
at this point the person trusts you
enough to actually invest in your
product or service you know this is kind
of where you make the sale this is when
you present them your product you
present them your services so on and so
forth so if you were using the example
perfume you know after the person's
tried out your sample and then maybe um
their next step is to go to an event
from your brand where you guys where
they get to actually experience the
perfume a little bit more um then
eventually you know they've they've had
such a wonderful experience then they
buy the perfume i don't know that was a
really bad example but
i'm just trying to paint the picture for
you guys on how this works so next i'm
going to show you kind of more concrete
examples of how that might work for your
niche all right so here i kind of built
really quickly what a beauty blogger
funnel might look like so if you are
watching this video and you're creating
content on makeup already your makeup
tutorials are generating awareness but
the next thing that you might want to do
in your funnel is maybe you can create a
free guide where people can download and
that's where they get your best makeup
hacks you know maybe it's a checklist of
all the best tools that you use in order
to get flawless makeup i don't know
by creating this downloadable guide
people have to give their email in
exchange for this guide and therefore
that's how you grow your email list
that's how you get people to actually
opt in and literally tell you hey i'm
actually really interested here's my
email so there's actually an exchange
afterwards you know now that they've
opted into your newsletter that's when
you start sending them newsletters maybe
you start sending them newsletters about
your products so on and so forth and
eventually through the newsletters or
through
whatever is going to help them make the
best decision on whether or not you know
your product is right for them
eventually they take action on it and
maybe that's when they sign up to be a
makeup client of yours for their wedding
who knows next we have the foodie
blogger funnel now i created this super
quickly with a foodie blogger in mind so
let's say you are a food blogger or
you're a chef or your your channel is
all about food
in order to build awareness you want to
start actually creating cooking videos
you want to start doing um reviews on
food on certain ingredients um this
isn't my niche so i'm just guessing here
but this is kind of where you would
start at the top of the funnel
next in order to actually generate real
interest from people maybe you have a
free downloadable video so this is kind
of way more advanced than the videos
that you post on youtube it's a lot more
exclusive and in order for people to get
it they have to sign up um to get the
video in their emails so
let's say if you were a foodie blogger
your free video download is going to be
a five minute vegan recipe so people
download it and then you've collected
their emails you start sending them
newsletters and then eventually maybe
you offer an advanced webinar so you
know a webinar is really kind of like a
master class that's live for you to
actually maybe you know hop on and teach
them how to cook something step by step
and then at the end of this video
training you say hey guys like if you
really liked this then make sure you you
buy my 45 cookbook and that's when your
audience makes the decision on whether
they trust you enough or not to buy your
cookbook now obviously this is very
business driven so if you are someone
who just purely looking to do youtube or
to create content for fun then by all
means you do you but i'm just kind of
sharing you how i make money and how
i've been able to monetize my social
media in order to benefit my business so
i really hope this helps guys and let's
just get back into the video all right
welcome back so now that you kind of
learned the way that i make income
through social media i'm now going to
share with you guys the different ways
that you might be able to make income if
you weren't interested in doing content
marketing one of the ways that you can
also make income through social media is
called affiliate marketing and what
affiliates are is basically retailers or
companies that actually give you a
commission based on x amount of sales
that you produce through using their
affiliate link for instance let's say
right now on my channel i'm using a
bunch of equipment for youtube that's
why in this description box of this
video you're actually going to see a
bunch of affiliate links through amazon
meaning that if you guys were ever
interested in understanding what i use
for my tech you can actually click on
one of those links and if you end up
buying anything on amazon then i get
like 10 of those sales and obviously
it's not just amazon that offers
affiliate programs but it's also you
know fashion brands makeup brands
anything or any company that you can
think of usually they do have an
affiliate program if you are in business
and you took an amazing course that
really helped you out you can always
contact the course creator and ask if
they have an affiliate program so that
every time you recommend something you
get a portion of those sales so again
affiliates is one way that you can make
income through social media however in
my experience and in my opinion you need
to drive a lot of traffic to either your
blog your youtube or wherever your
affiliate links are in order to actually
make decent money and what i also don't
recommend especially if you're looking
into amazon affiliates is starting too
soon because with amazon affiliates i
actually got my account shut down
because they have this rule where if you
don't produce a sale within 180 days
your account gets closed and the mistake
that i made is that the moment that i
started youtube i started using
affiliate links however i wasn't getting
enough traffic on my youtube to actually
produce sales for amazon and therefore
my account got shut down so i want to
kind of caution you guys with affiliate
links and making sure that
whichever company that you use affiliate
links for that you actually pay
attention to what their rules are and
what their thresholds are because
there's a huge chance that your accounts
might get shut down if you're not
producing enough sales next tip i have
for you especially if you are a content
creator is to use a platform called
patreon now i'm not on patreon but i
know a couple people that are and they
are making good money out of it so what
exactly patreon is is it's kind of
another social media platform where
content creators can create exclusive
content for the subscribers and their
subscribers actually pay them money now
this really helps out let's say if i
were to do it i would say hey guys do
you want like a private video on how to
choose a niche for your business if you
guys said yes then we'd hop on patreon
and then you guys would kind of pay me
in order for me to teach you guys
something that's ultra exclusive and
that you only have access to so i
definitely want to shout out patreon
again i'm not on it so i can't speak to
how much money you'll make what the user
experience is like but i know from my
friend denzel i'll link his video right
here i'll link his channel right here he
actually told me about this platform and
i thought i'd at least shut it out in
this video now the last tip i have in
order to monetize your social media
account is kind of a no-brainer everyone
knows about this but that is brand
partnerships and collaborations the
reason why i'm still bringing this up is
because there is money to be made when
you collaborate with other companies and
other brands i used to work with
influencers in my old corporate job and
i was really exposed to that world and i
really understood how much money some
influencers actually get paid there are
some influencers that get paid 10 000
plus dollars in order to just post one
thing on instagram shouting out a
company's product that's definitely a
huge way to make money however you know
for many of us that have a small
following it's really not that feasible
to make a decent living unless you again
you are a celebrity status or if you are
a huge influencer with a lot of clout
but that's not to say that it is
impossible even for me in my short
journey on youtube and also being a
small youtuber i have been approached by
brands and companies to create content
for them in exchange for a monetary gain
on my part so again i don't want to say
that it's impossible it is absolutely
possible but if you are thinking of
making millions and millions and
millions of dollars like kylie jenner
you're gonna need a kylie jenner
following however keep in mind that it's
not just about the following that
matters it's also about the engagement
that you get on your channel or on your
instagram as someone who has worked with
influencers before i was a part of the
pr world for a very brief moment in my
last corporate job i can tell you right
now that i actually do not work with
people who have bought bots do not work
with people who have bought engagement
it's
there's a lot of tools out there that
big companies use that makes it really
easy for us to see if you are fake and
if you are real so i just want to at
least tell you guys that just because
you buy followers doesn't mean that the
money is going to come you need to work
for it so anyways i hope you guys
enjoyed this video hope you guys learned
at least one thing that was new and if
you did learn something new definitely
let me know in the comments below as
always i hope you guys have a great day
hope you guys have a great week and i
hope you guys have a great life and i'll
see you next time bye guys