 How can I earn money from my YouTube channel? I get asked this all the time. I have a YouTube channel and people say, well, how can I make money? In this video, I'm gonna show you seven great ways that you can make money on your YouTube video channel and we're starting right now. Now, have you wondered, you know, how are these people making money? These YouTubers, I mean, do you have to be crazy? Do you have to be, you know, some type of entertainer? Do you have to be a comedian? Do you have to play instruments? And the answer is no, you don't have to do any of those things. As a matter of fact, you can actually make videos without even being on camera. But in this video, I wanna show you seven really simple ways you can make money with a YouTube channel, okay? So let's just get started. Now, here's the truth. There are five billion videos watched every single day on YouTube, five billion. I mean, that's insane. But then I think about it and I watch a lot of videos there. I watch videos on cooking. I watch videos on exercise. I watch video about the news. I watch comedy videos and yeah, I can believe it. And also, did you know that the average viewer on YouTube spends 40 minutes watching videos? And actually, I think I spend a lot longer. I spend a lot longer making them, but I spend a lot longer watching them too. Now, do you have to be some expert actor? Do you have to have some special equipment? No, all you really need is a camera, some software to edit your videos and you're pretty much in business. Now, I gotta tell you, there are plenty of opportunities to make money on YouTube. But the first thing you gotta understand is you have to have a niche. Now, mine is making money online, but it could be playing a musical instrument. It could be comedy. It could be cooking, but you've gotta have a niche. Understand making random videos on YouTube is not gonna work for you because nobody's searching for your random videos. Now, if you're some celebrity, like the Kardashians, yeah, you could do a lifestyle channel and people are gonna be interested in what you're doing on a daily basis. But if you're the average Joe, you better have a niche. I'm gonna tell you this. It's simple to make money on YouTube. It's not easy to make money on YouTube. What I mean by that is you're gonna have to put in a lot of work. You can't put up a video once or twice a month and expect to ever grow a channel. It's probably not gonna happen. You're gonna have to do it on a consistent basis and on a regular basis. Now, on this channel, I post five videos a week and I do a live. So that's six videos a week. And you say, well, gosh, that sounds like a lot, JR. There are people that do five videos a day, okay? There are people that really hit it hard. Mine is probably somewhere in between. It's not on the super high end. It's not on the low end, but I am consistent. So that's the first thing I'll tell you before we get into all of this. If you think you're just gonna dabble in it and do a few videos and make some money, it won't work out, okay? I wanna be honest with you in this video. Now, the first thing you can do is monetization through affiliate links. Affiliate links are nothing more than links underneath your video in the description where when people click on it, they go to it and you get paid a commission. Now, the simplest of all links are affiliate links. You can find a product on Amazon. You can create an affiliate link to it, put that in your description. And when people click on it and go to Amazon, you actually get paid a commission. Now, you're not gonna get paid a very high commission. It's a very few percent of that particular purchase price, but it is consistent money. And if they buy anything else within that, I think 48 hour period, you're also gonna get paid on those items too. You can also tie your blog into it. So maybe you'll wanna put a link in the bottom of your description that goes over to your blog. Maybe your blog is selling products. Maybe your blog has affiliate links there. Maybe you have downloadables there. But that's another great way to monetize your channel. The next way to make money is to monetize your channel and make money off ads that run on your videos. Now, this takes zero effort on your part. All you have to do is allow monetization of your channel. Now, this channel was recently monetized and I'll put up on the screen here. In less than a month, I made $156. Now, that's not a lot of money. However, I didn't do anything for it. Those are ads that just run on my videos. And that's not just $156 a month. That's $156 every month from this point forward. And as that number grows, you can see that can grow into a very large number. There are people that literally make millions of dollars a month off ads that run on their videos. So that's a very passive way to do it. Now, I will give you a caveat to this. I had to do hundreds and hundreds of videos before I got monetized. Some people get monetized really quick. Most people don't. Keep that in mind. You're gonna have to put in a lot of effort. You may have to work on it for six months, a year or longer to actually get your channel monetized. Now, I started to push probably, guys, I'm gonna say eight or nine months ago and then I finally got it monetized. It took me that long to do that. It took me a lot of videos, but I'm thinking long-term. YouTube is not a short-term game. It's a long-term game. It's something that you gotta put an effort for, but the upside is once you get monetized, once you start making money on these ads, you're gonna make that money every single month from that point going forward, whether you make more videos or not. Now, it is possible if you just quit making videos that your monetization could go down. However, I don't think you'll do that once you start seeing the amount of money you can make. Number three, funding from your fans. There's a thing called Patreon. If you sign up for Patreon, you can actually charge people a monthly fee. Maybe it's $5, $10, $50, $100, whatever you choose to select, you can charge them that amount of money. Now, what do they get for that? They may get extra videos. They may get behind-the-scenes stuff. They may get downloadables, but you've gotta give them something extra. Maybe they get to see the videos first before the general public sees them, but you gotta give them something extra. And if you do that, you can monetize your channel through something like Patreon. The next thing you can do, number four is master your channel SEO. What do I mean by SEO? That's your search engine optimization. That's gonna have to do with your title, your description, and your tags. And the reason that's so important, that's gonna help you build your channel. If you get good at that, you're gonna get more views. If you get more views, you get monetized, and you make money. There are five important factors to getting your channel to grow. The first one is the number of comments. So I'm gonna ask you right now, if you like this video, put a comment below and also ring the bell. Turn on all bell notifications so that you get notified every single time that I do a new video. The next thing you're gonna wanna look at is subscribes after watching a video. So I just ask you to subscribe, okay? And I ask you to do a comment. When you subscribe to this channel, you're gonna get notified about the next video I do, okay? Once you turn on the bell notifications. So YouTube is looking at your subscription rate too. Are people subscribing once they watch your video? Because they know that if they're seeing subscribers, they're actually building their YouTube audience too. The next thing is a thumbs up or thumbs down ratio, okay? How many people are giving you a thumbs up on this video? And if you like this video, do me a favor right now, write down there, smash that thumbs up button, smash that like button and give me a thumbs up because it'll help my channel. The next is the video watch length, okay? Now this is another important factor and I don't wanna get into this because I did another video on this, but the longer somebody watches one of your videos, the better off your channel is gonna be because YouTube can see through their algorithm that people are interested. So with that being said, you don't wanna have a lot of short videos. You don't wanna have a lot of one, two, three minute videos because you can't get much watch time. I think the optimum is probably about 10 to 14 minutes. YouTube will tell you they want it at least eight minutes long but there are people that do 30 minute videos or two or three hour videos. That's entirely up to you, but keep in mind to get watch time up, you're gonna have to have longer videos. And the next thing is click through rate to the YouTube video. So click through rate has to do with maybe somebody searches a subject about dogs or carpentry or lawn care or whatever it is. And when they see videos, they click on those videos to watch them. So that's another thing you gotta look at is your thumbnail. What does your thumbnail look like? Is it something that's gonna get somebody motivated? Is it gonna make them want to click through because they do look at your click through rate? Now, if you optimize your video based on all those things, your channel's gonna grow and you're gonna get more views. Number six, become an influencer. What's an influencer? Well, an influencer is just somebody who has a following. You know, maybe you have a thousand subscribers or 5,000 or 10,000. Keep in mind, you don't need a million subscribers to be an influencer. If your videos are very targeted towards a particular area, minor targeted towards making money online, I've been contacted several times to do a video on a certain product or thing. And I don't do that really right now. I may in the future, I'm not doing that right now, but people will actually pay you to talk about their product or service. And it can be as little as a hundred or $200, but it can reach into the thousands of dollars for you just to mention a product on your channel. And you're starting to see this more and more. I watch a lot of cooking ones. I like recipes, I like cooking in Sahabi. And I see more and more of these influencers, these cooks on the channel, talking about a particular product that they're endorsing. Or what's even better yet is they come out with their own products, their own knife set, their own pots and pans or walk or whatever it is. And they're just selling it to you directly. And number seven, get YouTube red subscribers. What is a YouTube red subscriber? It's somebody who actually pays to subscribe to your particular channel. And in doing so, it generates more income for you. Now, as you can see, there's a lot of ways you can turn your channel into a money-making cash machine, but you gotta do them, okay? You gotta make a video, you gotta get it done. What I see most people do is they get all excited about all the money they're gonna make on YouTube. And they make 20 or 30 videos and they don't see big results and they quit. And that's such a shame because you never know when it's gonna hit. You never know when you're gonna start getting monetized. Now, to get monetized, you gotta have 4,000 hours of watch time in the previous 12 months and 1,000 subscribers. So that's not gonna happen overnight. But if you remain consistent and you keep doing videos and you do your best on these videos, you watch other people who have monetized channels and you emulate some of the things you do, you're gonna do really well. Don't try to copy anybody else's personality. Make sure it's your own personality. People love uniqueness and they don't like somebody who tries to act like somebody else. So just be yourself, whatever that is. The one thing I do hear a lot is how much do I make on these ads, JR? And I'm gonna explain it to you in a really rough terms but basically the more targeted your audience is towards a demographic, the better off you are. If you're doing finance videos and stock investing in real estate, that's gonna rank a whole lot higher than prank videos or entertainment or comedy videos because how could an advertiser target people watching comedy videos? They really couldn't do it. But if their stock brokerage firm and you talk about stocks, they can target that a lot more. So they're willing to pay a lot more for your channel. Now with that having been said, it could be anywhere from a dollar per thousand views on up to maybe $20 per thousand views. The average YouTuber right now is getting $7.60 per thousand views but understand that's across all different types of niches. I just checked mine and I'm at $13 and some change per thousand views which I'm pretty happy with that's up on the higher end. So my channel can make more money with less views but you have to select what you like to do because you don't wanna pick a niche that's not something you really wanna do. Now I wanna give you a bonus. If you look below there is a course down there it's a $97 course. You can get it absolutely free. All you have to do is click and learn and that's all you gotta do. I mean that's it. I was trying to think, there's nothing else you have to do. It's really simple. Click on that. There's no credit card required. Also don't forget, put a comment below. 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