- So making money vlogging is a little bit different
than other styles of content on YouTube.
- So on this video, we've got five strategies
on how to make money vlogging, coming up.
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- Benji here.
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- So if you've been around this channel for very long,
you know we have talked about how to earn money
on YouTube quite a bit, but never really
from the perspective of vlogging.
And in this video, we're gonna be covering five
strategies that don't include google ad sense.
Now a lot of people know you can make money
with YouTube ads, the problem is, you need 1,000 subscribers
and 4,000 hours of watch time
to even get considered for that program.
But here's the good news.
The strategies in this video, you can apply right now.
So let's jump into 'em.
- Strategy number one.
Merchandise.
You know, what I love about this strategy is
even if you only have one fan, you can start selling merch.
For example, shirts, you know, I'm a vlogger
and I talk about Green Juice all the time, so I've got
a lot of fans of Green Juice, so I made a Green Juice
shirt, and I was able to sell that fairly quickly,
because I had built content around a specific topic,
was able to make money through merchandise.
- Yeah, and you can use a site like Teespring,
you know, part of the influencers community is Gott Love,
and they just put some shirts together that are about
their vlog, put 'em up on Teespring, and you only actually
print them when someone buys them.
So you don't have to have any inventory,
and you can start making some sales and income immediately.
Really simple with a site like that.
- Strategy number two.
Affiliate Marketing.
Now if you don't know what this is, this is where
you actually get a little bit of commission
from referring a product.
We love using Amazon affiliates.
A great example of this,
I'm juicing with my family in my vlogs.
A lot of people are asking, what juicer are you using?
What blend are you making smoothies with?
If I put the link down in the info box,
and they actually click on and buy that device
or juicer or blender, I get a little bit
of that affiliate commission,
and that's a great way to make money.
- And two quick power tips here, is stay on message
for your channel; and also give calls to action.
So you probably noticed with Benji that in the first tip,
he had Green Juice shirts, then you hear that
in affiliate marketing,
it's related to Green Juice and blending.
There's something more powerful than just doing
random tactics when it comes to earning money,
and actually staying connected to your values,
your message, and the things your audience really knows
you for, and what you really love.
And the second tip is make sure you give a call to action.
So when he's juicing, when they're in the kitchen,
he might say, and hey, if you're curious about
what blender were using, I'll link it up in the YouTube
description below, so you guys can check it out.
If your audience doesn't know the link is there,
then they will never find it,
so you will never build your income.
And we're actually not gonna cover affiliate marketing
in depth in this video, so if you want to learn
about how to do it, how to set it up, and get started
immediately, we'll link to a playlist on the YouTube card,
and in the description below,
with our Affiliate Marketing series.
- Strategy number three.
Sponsorships.
You know, one of the things that a lot of people know
about YouTube is people get sponsored if a brand
or company pays you to talk about their product,
their service, you can get sponsored, get paid.
And I say a dollar saved is a dollar earned,
so even if you can't get paid,
what if you get free products?
Again, going back to the Green Juice example,
because I'm juicing a lot, a lot of Green Juice
or juicer companies wanna send me
their juicers for free.
Again, I'm not getting paid, but because I don't have to pay
for that juicer, I'm actually saving money,
and that's just as good as making money.
- And so I hope you're seeing a theme here
about really figuring out core messages that are
parts of your vlogs, and then doing those.
So again, Green Juice, when you build out a brand
of the things you love, the products you love to use,
consistently in your vlogs; you can start
working with companies. - yeah.
And as your channel grows, you can also look
at marketplaces like FAMEBIT.com and they connect
brands with influencers like yourself,
and eventually you need to get like 5,000 subscribers
to start with them, but now it's a marketplace
where you can find even other
sponsorship deals for your vlogs.
- Strategy number four.
Promote your current business.
We have a friend, John Kohler, who's actually
one of the most well known gardeners on YouTube
and a lot of people don't know he has this side
business called discountjuicers.com.
A lot of people who are watching his videos are
health conscious, they're into gardening,
fruits and vegetables; and because they're interested
in that, they're probably gonna be juicing, and he
has this side business where he actually recommends
and sells juicers on his website.
- So ask yourself, how can you use your vlog to promote
the things you're doing in your every day life?
Especially if you're doing business.
And maybe that's real estate that you're doing,
or maybe you're doing fitness, and you can build
your vlog around that to promote that business.
Another tip would be network marketing.
We have friends that are promoting companies
like essential oils with Young Living,
or Beach Body doing fitness, on YouTube.
Tying their vlog into it, building their teams,
selling products with something that they love,
and using YouTube to increase that influence.
We were talking off camera about LuLuRoo,
or LuLuRah or...
- LuLaRoe
LuLaRoe, which is a clothing distribution network
marketing company and again if you have a lifestyle
Instagram, a lifestyle vlog, you could be using
those channels of influence to be furthering
the business that you're doing on YouTube with vlogging.
- Strategy number five.
Sell your content.
One of the things your forget, as a vlogger, is you're
creating a lot of content, and you're getting great
at producing content, recording,
editing, putting it out there,
engaging with people.
And that is so valuable for business, so don't forget
that it costs a lot of money for not just the business
but anybody to create content.
So as a vlogger, consider the value you bring
to the table with the video itself.
- Yeah, such a great example of this is our friend
Traveling Jules, who travels the world full-time,
uses social media to promote her content.
But you might be surprised,
she doesn't have a million subscribers,
she doesn't have a hundred thousand.
She has a relatively small audience, but because she's
developed her skills of storytelling, video production,
writing, and shooting; she's really a one woman band,
if you will, for creating content.
And travel boards, travel agencies, want to work with her
because of the content she's creating that they can share
on their own social media platforms.
So never forget, you are a video influencer,
you are a video creator, and your skills that you're
developing right now, you can begin to build those,
and then sell those to companies to build your income.
- Bam!
Lastly, the point you wanna make is a lot of people
rely on the Ad Sense income to create income revenue,
right, to make money.
But these five tips are something you can start doing
right away, so explore these, and ask yourself,
what is it I'm already doing that can help boost
income for, or where can I find more income
opportunities with some of these strategies
for the things that you already love
talking about and recording about?
- Question of the day.
Have you started earning money as a vlogger yet,
and do you have any tips or creative ways for building
income as a vlogger?
Let us know in the comments section below.
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