 This video was not brought to you by big be coffee because I had to pay for this They're not a sponsor of mine, but I figured I want to talk real quick because some people have the myth that You make just millions of dollars in YouTube despite the Forbes articles and things you've seen There's a lot more to the story and it's not exactly making me millions of dollars But it does make some money and we're gonna talk about that. So as a business owner I've been in business since 2003 and I make money doing IT services. That's really not a secret Well, maybe it is me. You don't know me and you're watching this on Facebook You know, I didn't know what time did I thought he just posted stupid things on Facebook occasionally and mostly? That's what I'd post on Facebook case you guys I get in depth on stuff, but whatever I'm cross posting this on both my YouTube channel and on there now a big growth thing for my company Doing IT services has been doing YouTube videos and how does that work? So we came up with the idea. Well, okay, I should even say that I Decided to go on YouTube certainly didn't invent YouTube not the first tech guy in YouTube by far But we've seen a gap in the market and something I think we could cover and I've been you know doing this In matter of fact, I'm not the only one. There's been a few channels They've kind of grown with me. I've watched a few other youtubers in very similar genre. We're talking about enterprise tech And I started these videos and you know, it's one of those it was a difficult journey But figuring out what does the audience want and what do I want to have a passion talking about well? it turns out more people than I ever expected are really interested in firewall videos and a lot of the Details of how we do our job. So we've been covering that and I love sharing ideas and I've done this a lot with public speaking events I speak at different Linux conferences. I've been flown and spoke at the Microsoft events and interviewed people It's been a lot of fun all the different aspects of my life and doing that and what YouTube is is a great place where I can do that at scale and By doing it. We have a few different income streams that come from it And so one of them is first going to be if you watch this on YouTube You may have seen an ad and if you see those ads pop up Well, yeah, there's a sharing of revenue between whatever that ad buy cost was YouTube gets a cut of it They give my channel a cut of it. It's not lucrative, but hey, it's a few more dollars in the bank The next thing we have is a series of affiliate links. So we have Amazon affiliate links They're labeled affiliate link down there, which means I get a percentage of any of the Amazon sales We also work out different brand deals such as private internet access and we have an offer code for them I'll throw it below perhaps in this YouTube video, but it's also on any of the videos I specifically do about VPNs if I'm covering private internet access I use you put my affiliate link at the top of that particular video and once again We get a few dollars on that we also get a few dollars and you get a discount for things like Google Fi I've put those links on there So I get a credit on my fi bill and you get a few dollars off if you sign up for Google Fi using my offer code These are all just different, you know cumulative Revenue streams that we have but it's not where all the money comes from the bigger majority of the money directly related to YouTube and how it's growing my business right now is by sharing all this knowledge and people who don't understand this I've Convinced them otherwise as I've had friends that told me you can't do it this way I proven someone wrong can be fun They said if you share the entirety of how you do something they wouldn't hire to do it They'll do it themselves. I can tell you that's absolutely not true Lots of people have watched my in-depth firewall videos. There's no secrets There is top-to-bottom when I cover a subject or even how to set something up for my virtualization videos my lab videos Whichever ones they are I don't leave anything out. I cover it top-to-bottom and We have had a ton of companies here in 2018 hires and I've been you know, just really looking at it It's we went from This local IT company To a much broader doing all this work globally company just from YouTube and I I'm really excited about it I'm excited where it's taking me as of right now We have close to 43,000 subscribers on there and that growth keeps coming up more and more as I post more videos So it's been like I said a lot of fun. It's been an interesting journey And I hold no secrets about how any of it works and if you're interested in talking to me about YouTube or want me to cover on the other aspects. This is part of what I do. I post these videos out here I asked my audience. What would you like to see and through that feedback? I've gotten other videos ideas started and things like that And I want to encourage other people to do this and sharing knowledge to me is just one of those things It's how the open-source community has worked for a long time And it's how open-source is kind of winning in the market by the sharing of ideas You just get a better overall market. So by sharing a lot of knowledge, we have an IT I've got to want just become friends with some cool IT people and geek out and do deep dives into the topics and things like that That's been exciting for me a lot of companies as I said have hired us around the world. We've done work in Europe We've done work in Israel we did work in Canada We did this whole wireless system out in LA at these series of apartments and it's just been this cool phenomenal growth Now we're not stopping doing anything. We're doing locally. So we're still doing all the same local IT This is just an expansion to our business and eventually I'll have to hire even more people To help fulfill all the business that comes in for this So it's one of those things I just want to make sure people understand by sharing the knowledge you have and if you have a lot to share Putting it all out there doesn't mean they won't hire you for that knowledge You're actually kind of showcasing the knowledge you have on a particular topic and it's just it's an amazing system how it works So don't be afraid to get out there and share things This is just kind of my rant on this topic But it's like I said, I can't speak enough good to the way YouTube I say YouTube now But the reality is I'm going to keep being a video creator because once the cats out of the bag We're doing video creation YouTube is the platform right here in December of 2018 I could be talking on a completely different platform whatever's next so far YouTube has treated me well and Their discovery system is really second to none. That's why I like theirs Facebook is interesting because they're trying to get into the video game I don't post as much on Facebook because they just I don't even know how many views this video will get on Facebook But I'm guaranteeing it's going to get a lot of views on YouTube And that's kind of the difference matter of fact You have to pay to promote your videos on Facebook as opposed to YouTube pays me to post videos on YouTube So you can see where it's it's more difficult because if you be last me like hey you supposed more videos on Facebook I'm like yeah when you only get a hundred views versus ten thousand views when you post a video It's kind of like why even bother uploading it It just kind of gets buried in the noise and political arguments that Facebook has really Unfortunately kind of dived into which is why I unfollow most people on Facebook and just spend my time in the forums talking about things But if you're interested in talking to me about this like I said, I'm always open even if you are a local IT guy Hi, Doug. I don't think by sharing anything that I do in my business Means that it will your success means my failure or my success means your failure. That is things that make me mad We can all be successful together But I just want to share some of this This is how I've been growing my company some of the other revenue streams that we started and why I built this whole studio and bought this camera and gear and It's it's just been a real fun learning experience and I got a reply to an email from a guy from France next So if you're watching hi, he wants to me That's just kind of cool you to meet interesting people that have interesting ideas and projects They want to hire me for I mean he watched my video on how I did some storage solutions and wants to talk about building a custom storage solution So that's my next email. I'm gonna reply to alright. Thanks. 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