 This video is going to be the ultimate discord guide now discord is still new underrated highly misunderstood and it might be the biggest opportunity that absolutely nobody is talking about right now people are making millions of dollars a year on discord so it's no longer just a place for nerds to talk about their video game crushes although you can still do that so whether you're somebody who just wants a discord so you and your friends can have a burping competition and voice chat or you want to create a server that could potentially make you a millionaire this video is going to be for you no but with all joking aside i am going to go over what you actually need to know in order to start a discord now i recommend watching the whole video all the way through but if you're really busy there will be timestamps down in the description below and you can check those out gently tap the like button if you appreciate timestamps on my video and let's go ahead and get into it oh and by the way one thing i do in my videos is in order to go above and beyond i will have a gift for you at some point in this video so definitely stay tuned for that because you're not going to want to miss out on it oh and by the way you can kind of just look at my discord server i'll have it pop up on the screen here so you can see how professional looking it is how many different bots there are and if you want to check out my free discord server there will be a link down in the description below i've gotten lots of compliments even from others who own discord servers as well all right so we're going to start at the very beginning first we're going to go over how to create a discord account so you want to type in discord to google you can either go to discord app.com or discord.com now you can download discord of course that's recommended but you can also just open it in your browser but what you want to do if you already have an account and you're not logged in or you need to create an account is just go log in if you don't have an account click register if you do have an account type in your information here i'm going to go ahead and do that all right so once you have created your account and you're logged in i'll just go over some super basic stuff here on how to actually use discord all right so once you've created your account and you're logged in i'll just go over some super basic stuff on how to use discord so these are discord channels over here on the left you can kind of scroll through them for instance you know this is meet kevins this is andre geeks so if we want to go through andre geeks uh channel oh it looks like some people posted an announcement okay you can go ahead and read the announcement looks like they posted some stuff in crypto okay we can read about that and generally speaking with discord unless you want to annoy a lot of people make sure that you keep the discussions related to whichever chat you're in so for instance college degree chat career chat you know you probably don't want to ask like college degree questions in the investing chat now if you want to react to something that somebody said you can just go to their comment like this and you can choose your own reaction if you want or you can just do the same reaction that other people did like that and if you want to reply to people you just go to the comment you want to reply to and click reply and this is a little bit redundant because i already click reply to them but if you didn't want to do that you could just go at and then type their name in as well chris is a guy who comments all the time in my discord really cool guy then you just post it by pressing enter now you can also control whether you get notifications or not by right clicking and then you can just go you know mute channel or notification settings and choose whichever one you want so yeah that's just a super basic overview of the basics on how to use discord now we're going to go ahead and start a new discord so we're going to go down here to the bottom left and click add a server now you can create your own server from scratch if you want you can also go ahead and use a template and the different types of templates are going to be gaming school clubs study group friends artists and creators and local community now i think the most common one is probably going to be artists and creators and gaming so if you click on artists and creators it's going to bring you to this for me and my friends or for a club or a community and again this just totally depends on what you are creating it for so in this particular case i'm going to do it for a club or community and for the server name let's do eat more hummus and then you can upload a photo that's going to show on the left if you want to and then click create now the great thing about this is it already created several different text channels for you which is nice so you've got general events ideas and feedback announcements welcome and rules these are all things that you would have created anyway so it saved you a little bit of time now let's say you don't want one of these channels for whatever reason you could just go to the little gear icon here click it and then click delete channel and then let's say you don't want one of the categories so for instance you don't really want voice channels as a category you just hover over the category right click and then click delete category now let's say you want to create another category you just go to this drop down menu click create category we'll name this category gaming because i'm sure a lot of people watching this want to create gaming discords we don't want it to be a private category and then you just go ahead and click create but let's say you wanted to create like a cryptocurrency category just type that in create category and it's just going to appear right under and whenever you want to rearrange these all you have to do is just drag it so I just put the text channels category under the cryptocurrency in the gaming category I don't think it really belongs there so I'm just going to go ahead and drag these but it doesn't really belong there so I just put it right back now we're going to go ahead and add some different channels within the categories now when you add the channel most of them will be text channels the voice channels are for chatting with other people as well as screen sharing all right so this one's going to be called gaming general chat but I want to spice it up a little bit I want to add an emoji to it so what I'm going to do is go to google and type in gaming emoji emoji pedia is really good and I'm just going to copy that and then go back to the beginning and I'm basically just going to paste it of course there's keyboard shortcuts like control v but that's going to be different depending on what system you're on so you can also just do paste and then you want to do a space so it just looks kind of nice and then you just go ahead and click create channel now I made this and I realized that the name is a little bit too long so what I'm going to do is go to edit channel and I'm going to shorten it to gaming chat and then I'm just going to click save changes escape and there you go gaming chat all right so I'm going to go ahead and do that same thing to a bunch of the other channels and I'll be right back all right so I added in some more categories here as you can see all the same stuff information text channels gaming cryptocurrency added in some funny little emojis for each of those for instance maybe you want to create a channel about how much call of duty sucks now because it does let's be honest but very important I added two more types of channels that you probably don't want the average person who joins your discord to see the first one is a moderator channel and the second one is premium content so what I personally like to do is I like to make it very easy to see where the general like normal discord is the free discord is versus the private or the premium discord and so as you can see I put some lines here around the premium content so you can just right click on that go edit category and you can see what I did so I put you know some lines there but the diamond premium content another diamond and then some more lines so that's kind of what I like to do just to show that it's separated and then sometimes people like to do that with all the text channels as well all right so this is the part where it gets a little more difficult people have a kind of a hard time with this one and that is setting up roles and the reason we want to set up roles is we want just the normal people who join our server to only see this we want our moderators and admins to be able to see everything and then the people who subscribe to premium content we want them to see this and above so almost everything except for the moderators rooms so the way we do that is by adding roles so you want to go up here to the top and go to server settings then you want to click on roles now guys if you look at my roles I have a ton of them right I really went all out on my server and created a bunch of different roles I also reward people for commenting a lot and then I also have a bunch of bots on here as well but when you first start you really just want to keep it simple there are several basic roles that you want to make sure to add so what you want to do is go to create role it's going to have it as new role right there we are just going to create a basic member role now really important here you want to choose the color and make sure you don't choose a dark color the reason for this is because most people who are on discord are going to have it in the dark mode obviously and if you choose a dark color it's going to be really difficult to read people's names this is a mistake that I made with my discord so you really want to try to choose a light color now you can just choose one of these if you want to I mean you know green is nice you can also choose a custom color if you want to so you can slide this anywhere you want choose this color and then you just slide the little ball around so maybe you want like really bright obnoxious green that's where you would choose and luckily what discord does is it kind of shows you what it looks like with the color that you selected and that's really nice because when I created my discord this was not an option now when it comes to display role members separately from online members definitely click yes on this one and the reason for that is because the person wants to have the special color and then also you want them to show up on the right side of the screen and here's what I mean by that so this is the right side of the screen you know I've got level 10 level five level ones verified members it shows the bots people for whatever reason really want to be able to see like what role they're in on the right side of the screen that's really important to them it's like a hierarchy thing so you definitely want to always click this now other than that we're actually going to keep this role exactly the same because this is just a super basic role we don't really want them to be able to do anything so for instance you wouldn't want to check this because this would mean that they could just at mention like a bunch of different people and when it comes to the permissions same thing just keep it exactly the way that they have it and then I already did it but always make sure to click save changes it should be a little rectangle that pops up around right here so that's just the basic role next we're going to go ahead and add a moderator role okay so I clicked new role again type in moderator we'll choose a really ominous color for moderators bright red because we all know moderators want to be feared on discord now again you could choose an image here that is extremely specific to the discord that you're in so I'm not even going to bother this time but yeah if you want to choose an image that can look pretty cool you want to go down here display role members separately from online members go to the right there go to permissions all right so scrolling down a little bit here there are a few things you absolutely 100 want to allow your moderators to do kick members and band members without a doubt you want them to be able to do this I would also give them the ability to put members in timeout now those are the ones you definitely want to give your moderators the other ones are kind of preference but I usually give them a good amount of power so for instance manage roles that one's pretty iffy they could really mess up the roles if you let them manage channels you know obviously anyone that you would make a moderator you trust them so that's okay manage emojis and stickers I would say yes view audit log yes manage web hooks I wouldn't do that one manage server I would say no that's more of an administrator role manage nicknames yes because sometimes people will make kind of like inappropriate names you want them to be able to change that manage messages definitely manage threads I would say yes and then coming down here a little bit mute members deaf and members I would say definitely yes for those move members I would say yes priority speaker I would say yes and then the last thing you want to do is make sure to drag the moderator role on top of the member role so very important that moderators are on top of members and then make sure to always click save changes and next we are going to create an admin role I'm gonna go ahead and make the admin gold so you want to click a display role separately from online members again and then with this one you go over to permissions scroll all the way to the bottom and give them administrator rights you don't really have to bother checking any of these other ones and then you want to drag it to the very top and click save changes next we're going to do a bot role really quick and I'm going to go ahead and make this role bright blue I'm going to do display role separately from online members and you actually want to keep the bot role towards the bottom so you just click save changes and then finally we are going to create a premium role and you probably wouldn't name it premium you'd name it something much cooler than that because people are basically going to be paying in order to have this role and have access to the different chats so you'd probably name it something cooler than that but I'm just going to go ahead and name it premium and make that this nice green color here I'm going to scroll down display role separately from online members and then save changes and then you really want to drag the premium role probably like above the member role and then click save changes again because I forgot now of course there's no one on the server right now except for me but what you can do is go over to the right here and it shows all the people logged into the server which is it's just me right click it go to roles and you can change the role so in this particular case I'm going to make myself admin and there you go now when it comes to permissions for the individual channels and categories what you want to do is click the edit channel go to permissions click on advanced permissions so just go down the list and click X for all of these you don't want normal people to be able to see the moderator chat and click save changes but then you want to go to the left here and go to moderator you want to give them the ability to view the channel and basically you want them to be able to do everything all right so I went all the way down the list and I'm just going to go ahead and save changes and then remember we're in the moderator chat right now so what we're also going to do is let admins participate so same exact thing goes for them we're going to click the green check mark for everything and actually I realized with the admins you'd probably give them all the permissions with the moderators manage web hooks you might not want to do that for them so I'll just go ahead and put that one to the X and to be honest you might not want them to manage permissions either or to manage the channel it really just depends on how much you trust your mods but I'll just put those over to the X and another one that is questionable is the create invite so you know if you don't want them to be able to invite people to that particular channel um you you'd probably want to do that as well so but admin should have access to everything and then you want to go ahead and do the same thing for your admin chat go to permissions um you know go to everyone and just do X's all the way down the line and save changes and then you want to go to roles add the admin and do the green check mark all the way down the line and so basically you want your admins to have access to both the admin and the mod channel so when you go back to the main page and you see these little locks on the hashtag that means that other people can't see it and then if you don't want to go through and do it on the individual chats like for the premium content for instance you can right click it edit category go to permissions for everybody um it's premium content so you don't want everybody to be able to see it so you're going to go ahead and do all X's here and go ahead and save changes and then you're going to go ahead and do the exact same thing for the moderator and the admin you're going to give them access to that so I'll go do that really quickly and then skip over it and then lastly you are going to add the premium members and you're going to allow the premium members to view the channel of course you're not going to allow them to manage the channel you can allow them to send messages and messages and threads allow them to create public threads now allowing them to embed links um that's going to depend on what you want generally speaking if it's a premium channel you should probably allow them to embed links but you know a lot of them do have issues with spammers allow members to upload files or media in these channels yes add reactions use external emoji external stickers read message history I would say definitely yes and then after you're done go ahead and save changes and then you're going to see that all three of these chats are locked and only people who are admins mods or premium content members can see this now one thing that would be super annoying is if you had to manually go in and change everybody's role right so everyone who joined the server you'd have to manually go in and change their role to general or mod or premium that would take up a lot of time so what you want is a bot to do that for you and the best bot for doing that is the me six bot so it's me six dot xyz then you're going to go ahead and click add it to discord going to authorize and then you're going to want to select the server that you're setting up and so obviously it would be this one make sure the right server is selected eat more hummus continue and you do want to have all the permissions because you want it to be able to automatically control stuff on your server so you don't have to do it and then just go ahead and click authorize it's going to make you do a capture to make sure that you're not a bot now when you go back to your server you see that you finally have a member unfortunately it's a bot but you know at least you have a member now when you've added it you need to give it a role so you right click you got a roles and you click on the bot role that we created a little bit ago now there's a ton of different things that you can do with the me six bot the most obvious one is just sending a welcome message so you can go there and click you know send a message when users join a server you can select the channel go to welcome and rules and it has this you know custom message here so it'd be like hey user welcome to the eat more hummus server now you probably don't want to use the generic message you probably want to change that to something but in this particular case i'm just going to keep it that way click save and then you're going to scroll down to the bottom here and there are some other options you could send a private message to new users that that would be a lot of private messages if you have a bigger discord so i don't recommend it you can give a role to new users which i definitely do recommend so you click that button right there go here and you want to give them the member role and it warns me here that i have to put the me six role above all of the other roles listed so i'm going to go back to the server go up here click on server settings go to roles and then i literally just drag the me six bot all the way to the top save changes i go back here and there's no longer a warning message and then always make sure to save now the me six bot is honestly amazing there's so many different things that you can do with it there are free ways to use it of course but they also have some paid options as well so for instance you can set it up to where whenever you go live on twitch it'll notify people whenever you make a tweet it'll notify people put it in a you know a twitter channel same with youtube instagram and reddit all right so you now know how to set up a basic discord there's a lot more to it when it comes to the bots there's so many different bots out there and there's so many different things that you can do with them if i went into that this video would be hours and hours long next part we're going to talk about how you can make money from discord now i'm going to talk about the most common methods selling your own services is one method you can also partner with a sponsor like nord vpn you can sell premium roles if you have a discord server that's really popular it's almost like selling a skin on a video game basically you can also sell premium bots to servers so you can make your own version of me six you can sell paid promotions within your server so this is basically the same thing as allowing an ad to be in there and then the one that i believe to be the best and that is create a premium part of your own server now a lot of the time people will want to see you know premium live streams for instance they'll also want to have premium chats where they can you know chat with other premium members and it's usually a good idea for you to be relatively active especially in the premium chats i mean that's kind of why people paid for it because they want to be able to talk to you but there are people making hundreds of thousands of dollars a month no not hundreds of thousands of dollars a year there are many people making hundreds of thousands of dollars a month by doing this on discord so for instance max maher is doing this and the way he does it is through patreon which is a really good way it's the way i do it as well very simple very easy to set up and most of his members are here in this 90 999 dollars per month range but he has a good amount of people in the 3499 dollars per month range as well and then he even has another one that's about 50 dollars a month and he has over 10 000 patrons if you do the math here with his average patron being between 999 and 4999 i'm going to guess it's probably about 15 dollars or so he's making around 150 000 dollars a month and uh he does coaching he does buy and sell alerts he does the live streams so yeah i'm not picking on him just one example there are many other youtubers and discord owners that are doing the same thing in fact here is my patreon where i tell people about my investments i help them pick college degrees and careers i also do one-on-one coaching sometimes i answer people's questions i do live streams my patreon is a great way for you to access me and it is connected to my discord and of course if you would like to consult with me you can check that out down in the description below so when you're on patreon you do have to set up paid tiers and of course i'm not going to do that in this video that would be something to do in a completely different video but it's very easy so once you want to do after you've created your patreon is click view page edit your page then you want to go to tiers and then you want to edit the tier and then you want to scroll down here and click into the advanced section and then right here it would say connect to discord now i'm already connected to discord so it's different but that is how you would connect to your discord you'd click that and it would have you basically install the patreon bot onto your discord now that's already installed onto mine so if we go back to my discord we go to server settings and we go to roles it will show up as patreon i've renamed it to patreon premium subscriber bot but you want to make sure that this is very close to the top you don't want to put it over owner but it should be over just about everything else so if it's not close to the top of its way down here make sure you drag it up then once that's dragged to the top you're going to go back to patreon you are going to click give patrons access to select discord roles going to go to the roles here and then you would find the role that you made now in the example of the simple server we just made i named it premium and this example on my server it's named premium subscriber i'm not going to click it because i don't want this particular patreon tier to have premium subscriber status but that's what you can do and you can even make multiple patreon tiers and then give people access to different parts of your discord for instance maybe you have one patreon tier that gives you just basic premium discord access you have another patreon tier that gives people access to live streams another patreon tier that lets people directly message you you know something along those lines but after you're done you would want to go down here and click save tier now you could definitely create your own server i would say for a server like mine probably takes around maybe 10 to 20 hours but you don't have to do it all at once you kind of just do it as you go along and it's really easy to read articles online or watch tutorial videos but there are a few shortcuts that you can take first of all there are discord templates so a really good website is discord templates dot me and you can look at different servers and kind of just see how they look so this server for instance you can kind of see the templates that it has on the left and then all the different roles that it has and then if you like it you can click use template and your discord server is going to match that one so that's one kind of shortcut you can do if you find a discord server template that you really like now when it comes to how to get your initial members in the discord server there's many different things you can do first of all you can invite your friends the way you do that is go up to the top here where it has the title click on the drop down and invite people and i'm not going to click on it but if you did click on it it would give you a link and you can send your friends that link or in some cases it'll just automatically send it to them you can also post your discord on other social medias so you could post a link to it on your facebook or if you have any other social medias like youtube another great thing to do is to be active in other discords and then you know don't like advertise yours too much but you know just make it obvious that you also have one on discord itself you can put it in your profile description so when people click on your profile or hover over it they'll see that you do own your own discord you can find specific subreddits that have to do with whatever your discord is about so for instance if your discord is about a very specific video game maybe you would find the subreddit about that video game and people would be interested joining the discord you can also advertise your discord so you know right here discord dot me slash advertise now when i first started my discord i didn't want to learn how to do any of this advertising stuff so i paid somebody else to advertise for me and the way that i found people who advertised for me was i went to fiverr so when you're on fiverr all you have to do is just type in discord promotion and there are a lot of different options for you here now be careful with some of these because a lot of them are going to be a little bit sketchy they might just give you like fake discord members so look into it make sure you look at the reviews etc etc also make sure you read discord's terms of service and make sure what they're doing isn't going to get your discord in trouble but yeah this is kind of a fast way in order to advertise your discord and actually if you want somebody to create the discord for you so you don't want to spend those 20 hours creating it you can also use fiverr so you type in create discord and there are people who will set your discord up for a relatively good price now keep in mind you're probably going to get what you pay for here you know if you choose a person who's charging five dollars they're probably just going to you know get some random template out there and then make a few changes here and there there are people who do specific types of discord so i will create nft stocks and crypto discord servers there's lots of people who do gaming group discord servers so whatever discord server you want to make there's going to be somebody on fiverr who specializes in it now i do have a gift for you here there's people that i've personally used or friends of mine have used that they recommend on fiverr and these are people who are good kind of like at the more expensive level people who are a little bit more affordable and then people who are dirt cheap but they still make relatively decent discords and i'm going to go ahead and put a link to my rolodex to people who i've used who i think are pretty good down in the description below i'm going to put it a little bit below my affiliate link so it's going to be kind of like halfway through it's going to be a google doc if you enjoyed the video and you made it this far check out the video about asking 100 supercar owners what they do for a living and if they went to college the super fun video you are going to love it gently tap that like button hit subscribe button ring the notification bell and comment down below any thoughts comments etc the job on the video and i will see you next time