 nine steps to make money on YouTube. Hey, are you trying to figure out how to make money on YouTube? Well, in this video, I'm gonna give you the nine steps that you're gonna need to make money on YouTube and we're starting right now. Hey, I'm JR Fisher. If you're new to my channel, only thing we talk about here is how to start, run, and grow online businesses. Now, I've been selling online since 2009 and I've sold millions of dollars worth of digital and physical products. And on this channel, I just share with you the things that have worked for me so that you can get good results too. Now do me a favor. If you've tried to start an online business, put a comment below, or if you have a successful one, put a comment below. I'd love to hear what you're doing and what's worked for you and what hasn't worked for you. Don't forget, I want you to join the Fisher family. How do you do that? You hit the subscribe button right here, right below me, right there. Hit that subscribe button. Now next to it, there's gonna be a bell. You wanna click that bell and then you wanna turn on all notifications. What that will do is allow YouTube to tell you about every single new video I get. And that way, you don't miss out. I also wanna give you a free gift for staying to the end of the video. It's a $97 Ecommerce course that you can get absolutely free by clicking the link in the description. Okay, now let's get on with the nine steps to making money on YouTube. I think most people get the wrong impression about the way to make money on YouTube. And I think they get the wrong impression because the people who are making money on YouTube don't really readily share how they're doing it. Now I don't know if they wanna keep those secrets to themselves or what it is, but we're gonna share them in this video. And the other reason I think maybe they don't share how they make money on YouTube is they're almost a little embarrassed about how much money they do make. A lot of money can be made on YouTube, but it's a lot of work, but the payoff is very great. So let's get right into the nine ways that you can make money on YouTube. Now the number one thing I think we all hear about is you get more views, you make more money. Now what that is actually is that, is YouTube running ads on your videos. And this certainly can be an income source, but it won't be your income source in the beginning and it shouldn't be your goal in the beginning because first off there's a couple of qualifications. The first qualification is you have to have 4,000 hours of watch time on your videos within the previous 12 months to even qualify. So if you don't have 4,000, and it's hard to get 4,000 hours if you don't have hundreds and hundreds of videos. So that's the first qualification. The second qualification is you have to have 1,000 subscribers. Now to get subscribers, that takes time too. So to get 4,000 hours of 1,000 subscribers, that's a really tough thing to do. Now here's the good part about all this is that the top YouTubers will tell you that only 3% of their income comes from views. It actually comes from other items that they do on YouTube that make them money. Okay, so here's how we really make money on YouTube. The way we really make money on YouTube is have somebody watch our video, okay? And once they've watched that video, they want more of what we've got. Now, number two, another great way to make money on YouTube is to give away free courses. You say, wait a second, give away free courses? Yeah, you remember in the beginning, I said you could get my free course, my $97 e-commerce course. Now, why would I do that? Why would I give away a free course? Because what you're gonna do is you're going to give me your name and email and I will give you some free content and I will also market other products and services. I have to you, okay? And a portion of you guys will actually buy it and I'll make money. So the number two way is to give away a free course. Number three way is PDF downloads. What's a PDF download? A PDF is just a word doc that you saved as a PDF so it can't be changed. And it could be a list of 10 ways to do something or five things for a guide or a 10 step method to whatever. And when people opt in for that, you put the link in your description below just like I will for my course. They will opt in and you'll get a name and an email and you can market your services and products to those particular people. Number four is gonna be through e-books. E-books are awesome. They are small, they're easily consumable and what you can do in your video is let them know that you're gonna give away a free e-book. To get that free e-book, there's gonna be a link in the description. They're gonna click in it and they're gonna need to opt in to get this particular e-book. E-books can be as short or as long as you want but generally they're more on the short side. Maybe 20 to 40 pages and this will give that particular person more information, more good content and they sell them a little bit more on you and it enables you, once again, you've got their name and email to market to them, your other products and services. Number five is checklists. I love checklists. As a matter of fact, I downloaded one yesterday at a meeting I was at for YouTube and they had a checklist that I could opt into. So I got that checklist and that checklist will help me with making videos because that's what it was about. And they had that at their particular meeting but you could do the same thing in your description. Put your checklist. It could be a checklist of things to look for in ingredients and foods when you go shopping if you're health conscious. It could be five things that you need to do to grow your plants in your house. Whatever it is, it doesn't really matter. The point is it's a checklist and a certain portion of the people that watch your videos will download that checklist and it puts them on your list. Once again, you can market your products and services to those people. Number six is guides, okay? This can be a guide to just about anything. It can be a guide to food storage. It can be a guide to cooking recipes. It can be a guide to hunting, camping, fishing, whatever you want. People love guides and that keyword guide means a lot to them because it's gonna actually walk them through whatever they wanna learn. Once again, we put a link in our description. Let them know about it in the video. Once they downloaded it, we can then market to those people. Number seven is click to my site. Now, I don't like this one as much. However, it does build traffic and it will build traffic for you too. Basically, all you do is you say if you want more information on this particular subject or if you wanna get whatever, go into the description and there's a link to my actual site and you can visit my website and see all my products and services. Number eight would be emails. Now, I've already mentioned this a couple times but once you've got people's emails, you can email them about your digital products or courses. Maybe you have a more in-depth course. You gave them a free course and you have a more in-depth one, so you email them about that. And then number nine is gonna be follow-up emails with physical products. So you can actually sell physical products to people. You'll notice on YouTube, you will see people selling t-shirts all the time or mugs or hats or caps or whatever. Now, to qualify to have that banner of all that information on your channel, you have to have thousands of subscribers to do that but you can put a link in your description that says if you wanna get t-shirts, hats, caps, mugs, whatever you want, I put a link in the description. You can click there and go get those products. You can also email them. Like I said, email them the information about it and sell them the products to the email that you already got from one of the other downloads. Number 10 is to send follow-up emails about coaching. Now, a lot of people love to have one-on-one coaching and a lot of money's made in coaching. I've done some coaching myself too and I've charged some pretty high rates for doing that but coaching is great if you have expertise in a particular area. Once you've got their email, you can send them emails and they can apply for your coaching. Now, you can also have a link down there where they can actually apply for your coaching in the description so you don't have to go through the email step if you don't want to. And number 11, number 11 is the last one. Is it the only one? No, there's 10 more before that. And number 11 is what? Number 11 is running ads direct to your videos. YouTube will allow you to run ads in Google ads and actually put your video as the actual spot that they're gonna go to. So maybe you have a link at the top, maybe they're searchable ads, maybe they're in stream ads, maybe they're banner ads, but you can actually run ads to your actual videos and some of these videos you can actually sell them something or just build up traffic for your site either way you wanna do it. So running ads to your videos will build more traffic to your site and you can also send them to a video where you're actually selling something in the video and the product can be sold at the very end by clicking a link in the description. Usually these ads that you're gonna be running to your videos are gonna be unlisted videos so the only way they're gonna see them is if you're actually putting them in an ad. Now one thing that will add to this is if you're running ads to videos, make sure all your videos are on a separate channel from your main channel because what happens on ads is they're generally a lot shorter, sometimes only two minutes and if you're running a lot of ads to short two minute videos then it's gonna drive down your watch time on that channel and your main channel, you wouldn't have as much watch time as possible. If it's an ad channel you don't really care about that because you're just running ads on it so make sure that you separate those videos that you're running ads to from your channel to a separate channel and you can have as many channels as you want so that's really simple to do. Now for all these methods to work, here's the truth, you gotta have good videos, okay? Good videos are super, super important. You don't have to have the best video, you don't have to have the best equipment, you don't have to have a studio or anything like that but they've gotta be good so I made a list of the things I think you should have in your video. Number one, you gotta provide real value, okay? So your videos should actually help somebody out. When they get to the end of that video they should say, well I learned this thing or now I know this or now I know not to do this. Make sure your videos are doing that. Number two, be organized in your videos and your thoughts. Don't just put a camera in front of you and have no plan of action and just ramble on and talk and I know a lot of us think well we can just do that because I have a ton of knowledge and I can just talk but the thing is it won't be organized, it won't sound organized and it'll be really hard for the viewer to actually follow. Number three, have good lighting. Good lighting is essential and when I say good lighting that just means lots of it. Now, if you're gonna film indoors like right now I've got one, two, three, four, five, six lights on and it doesn't even look that bright. Seven lights, I forgot to count that one so we've got a lot of lights on but it doesn't look that bright but if you're filming outdoors it's a whole lot easier to do it. If you do it early morning, you do it late afternoon you're gonna have enough light. If you have to do it indoors get by a window that you have some good light coming in and if you can supplement that light that's super important so lighting is super, super important. Number four is have good sound. Now, people will watch a video that's not a great video as far as visually appealing but they will not watch a video that is bad audio. They just won't do it. If you have bad audio, you're gonna have a problem. So what I would tell you is if you don't have a big budget in the beginning you can use your iPhone and all that but make sure you film close up because that microphone will pick up all the sound. If you get far away from your iPhone the actual microphone will pick up sound from everywhere so it's not gonna just pick up your voice it'll pick out any ambient sound around there and the sound's gonna sound very echoey and it's not gonna be good. So if you're gonna film further away you're gonna need an external microphone and until you can invest in that just do close up videos. Number five, you're gonna need to upload on a regular basis, okay? I was at a meeting last night and there was a gentleman there and he said he started a YouTube channel and that he's been on YouTube for three months which is great, three months, it's awesome and his first video he uploaded three months ago and that's awesome, that's really good and when he was asked when he uploaded his next video he said one month ago, he says, well how many videos have you uploaded in three months? He said two. So first off, you know he didn't have any kind of schedule whatsoever. The next thing I'll tell you at number six is upload on a regular schedule. So two videos in three months will never grow him a channel it's not gonna happen. YouTube videos takes a lot of work, a lot of time, a lot of effort, a lot of planning, it also takes a lot of videos. So to grow a channel you're gonna have to do a lot of videos unless you're just an incredible video editor and you're so dynamic and you have such a personality that people hang on your next video which is very, very rare. You're gonna need to upload on a regular basis and I would say at least once a week to really get any traction whatsoever. Now the last thing on my list number seven is I would tell you to have at least 10 to 14 minute videos. Some can be longer, some can be shorter but here's why that time is so, so very important. The number one way that YouTube makes money is through ads and they put ads on your videos and they can put up to four ads on a single video but to do that, to get the four ads on a single video they need at least 10 minutes of video. So if you're recording videos that are two or three minutes long and I know I did this in the beginning I didn't know any better then they can't run ads on those videos and they're gonna be less apt to show them because their whole goal is to make money but if you've got 10 to 14 minute videos you've already gotten over one of the hurdles which is you have the video that's long enough, okay? So if you've done all the other things you've got good content, good lighting, good sound and your video's long enough then you're gonna stand a better chance of people seeing your videos. If they see your videos they're gonna be more likely to watch them. If they watch them they're gonna be more likely to subscribe and you'll grow your channel. Okay, so that pretty much covers the ways to make money on YouTube. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you've got some enlightenment. A lot of people don't know there's all these different ways to make money on YouTube. 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