 How to make more money on YouTube in 2020? Okay, so you've got a YouTube channel or you're starting a YouTube channel. And I gotta tell you, if you're doing what worked on YouTube three years ago or even a year ago, you're gonna be left behind, you'll probably fail. So many things have changed. And in this video, I wanna explain those things to you so that you can get results. And I also wanna tell you what I did in the beginning that really, really messed me up and almost tanked my YouTube channel. And we're starting right now, let's get going. Hey, I'm JR Fisher, welcome to my channel. Do me a favor real quick, make sure you subscribe. If you aren't subscribed, don't forget, turn on bell notifications, turn on all notifications that way you become part of the Fisher family, the VIP group, it gets notified before anybody else. That's pretty cool, right? I also have a great course down there. It's a $97 course. For limited time, you can get it absolutely free but you need to click that link down there, click and learn, no credit card required. Check it out. Now, do you have a YouTube channel? I wanna hear about it, put it in the comments below. What challenges have you been coming up against? What successes have you had? Some of you have had some great successes and if you put that in the comments below, other people can learn from it and you're gonna help some other folks out. So that's really cool too. So let's get right into this. What do we need to do? And I'm gonna share with you what I did that almost tanked my channel. And oh my God, I would never do it again but it is something I messed up. So I'll share that with you in a second. First off, let's look at what you can do. Number one, YouTube monetization and that is using affiliate links. Affiliate links are great. Anytime you talk about something in your video, you should have an affiliate link below where people can go and get that product or service. Almost every company has an affiliate link nowadays. If you go down into my description down there, my affiliate link down there is for Kartra. Kartra is the software we use to actually grow our business, build our business, and it saves us a ton of money because we were able to get rid of a whole lot of other software because Kartra does so much. It does emails, it does sales pages. It goes on and on and on, memberships, you name it. So there's a link below. If you wanna see what Kartra does, you can click that link, watch the free video, and if you like Kartra, you can get it for $1 for 14 days. That's pretty cool and that's my affiliate link. And I have other affiliate links down there. I have Amazon affiliate links. Right now I've got some lights around me. Got a computer, got a phone here going on. And I have affiliate links for that stuff through Amazon. The way those affiliate links work is when you click on it and you go to Amazon and you buy that product, I get a commission, which is pretty cool. You don't pay any more for the product, I just get a commission. Now if you don't buy that product, but you buy anything else on Amazon, within I think it's 48 hours, I still get a commission. So that's pretty cool stuff, guys. So why wouldn't you wanna have some links in the description of your video? Number two is become a YouTube partner and put ads on your videos. Now this is not for the beginner because you do have to have 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of watch time. Now that takes some time to get that. In case you haven't figured that out, that's like hundreds of hours a month and 12 months to actually get enough watch time. But it is something to shoot for and it is something that can make you money. Number three, make money from your viewers from Patreon. Patreon is a site that people can actually pay you money to get special content, they get more content. Maybe they get Q and A is that type of thing. You can go to patreon.com, check it out, put your Patreon link in your description below your video and you can actually receive money from the audience that you've already got. Number four, master YouTube SEO. What is SEO? It's search engine optimization. Now search engine optimization on YouTube comes in many different forms. The first thing I'll tell you is you wanna make YouTube videos on subjects that people are already searching for. That's really important. If you're just making random videos and the title of your video is not something people are searching for, you're gonna get a whole lot less views than somebody who has that optimized. I recommend a tool called TubeBuddy. You'll see a link below in the description. And if you use TubeBuddy, once again, it's absolutely free so why wouldn't you use TubeBuddy? It will help you pick those titles that people are searching for. There's also a paid version that if you use my link, you'll save 30% on. So check that out. TubeBuddy will really help you do that. Now, in addition to that, SEO comes into play when you have tags on your videos because tags are the words that people are searching for. So you wanna make sure you put tags in there. In YouTube, they allow you up to 500 characters in there. So you wanna put all you possibly can because why wouldn't you want to, right? These are keywords that people are searching for and if your video's tagged with those keywords, then of course your video's gonna come up, you'll get more watch time. Now, in addition to the things that you can do and that's certainly not all of it, but that's part of it, there is certain algorithms that are looking at your videos that can help you get your videos with more views and more subscribers. YouTube sets these up. It's things like comments or people commenting on your video. Now, the best way to get somebody to comment on your video is ask them to comment on your video like I want you to do right now. Comment below, let me know what you think of this video, what you've been doing to grow your YouTube presence and tell me about your YouTube channel. Maybe I'll go over there, maybe I'll subscribe. So you've gotta tell them to comment. You also gotta tell them to like your video. Now, YouTube is based on interaction. It's not positive or negative. So if you get a bunch of negative comments that doesn't mean that YouTube's not gonna show your video. On the contrary, they probably will show your video because all they care about is interaction and if your videos are getting interaction, then of course they're gonna show it to more people. Now, obviously we don't wanna make videos that just upset people and make people just mean comments. Obviously we don't wanna do that. But the reason I tell you this is because whether somebody gives you a thumbs up, which is another thing that YouTube looks at, or they give you a thumbs down, all YouTube knows is that they interact it and that's all they care about. They also care about how long they're gonna stay on your video. They also care about how many videos they watch on your channel. They also care about click through rates. So if you do good thumbnails and a lot of people are clicking on your thumbnails, that's gonna increase your traffic and that's gonna increase your SEO. Now, keep in mind when you're making your videos, don't make them too short. I see a lot of people doing one, two, three minute videos and if you're doing videos like that and I know I did it in the beginning, that was something I did. As a matter of fact, that's the thing I wanna admit to you. In the beginning, I was doing one, two minute videos. It doesn't work, it doesn't work. Now, if you wanna teach somebody how to do something real quick on screen, that's fine. You're never gonna grow your channel that way. It's not gonna happen. And the reason it's not gonna happen is the way that YouTube makes money is they run ads on videos. And if they're running ads on videos and yours are only a minute or two long, how many ads can they put there? Not many, not many, okay? So they say the optimum from what I've heard and all the information I've got is about 10 to 14 minutes. If you stay in that time zone, obviously they'll have more room to run ads on your videos. If they can run ads on your videos and they can make money, they're gonna show it to more people and you'll get more views and your channel will grow. So make sure you do it a little bit longer videos. Don't do what I did, it almost destroyed my channel. I wasn't building, I wasn't doing anything. I was doing a bunch of one and two minute videos and they just didn't do me any good. So I have to admit that, that's something I did. Number five, make the most of your YouTube marketing funnel. What's a funnel? A funnel is something that leads somebody to the next step and hopefully leads them to buy something from you. So if you've got a YouTube video and you tell them in the video that they have a free download in the description, that will get them into your list. Once they're in your list, then you can market your other products and services to them via email. So you wanna make the most of these videos. You should never have a video where they can't opt in to get more information, get a free download, buy something from you. You just always gotta have that in the description because you're wasting that space otherwise. If they watch your video and they want more from you, where do they go to get it? So you've got to provide that to them. There's gonna be a bunch of people that don't want anything else from you. They're never gonna opt in, they're never gonna give you an email, but there's a portion that does. And since there's that portion that does, you can build out a funnel. I use Cartra, I'll put a link below for it. Cartra's an awesome piece of software. It can automate this whole process for you. If you click my link below, it will actually let you watch a video for free. And if you're interested in Cartra, you can get a trial for a dollar. So I'd highly recommend you doing that. But you gotta make the most of this YouTube funnel. Number six, become an Amazon influencer. What do I mean by that? An Amazon influencer is somebody who selects some products from Amazon and they actually talk about it on their channel. This is a great way to make money. I don't do a lot of product reviews, that's not my thing, but there's a lot of people that have made a ton of money doing that. You know, maybe you have a cooking channel and there's a particular blender that you're gonna use in your recipe, or there's a pot and pan set, or there's some knives or something. You can put all those links below and actually make money off that. And you can actually talk about that product in your video which will really increase the chances of them clicking on your affiliate link. Number seven, promote YouTube red. YouTube red's pretty cool. What it is is that people can pay $9.99 a month to not see ads on their YouTube channel. Now, that's pretty cool for YouTube, right? Cause you either gotta see ads and they make money or you gotta pay YouTube and you don't see ads and they make money. So either way they make money, which is pretty cool. If you promote that, YouTube will actually pay you a percentage of that $9.99 and since that varies and there's always change and I won't say what it is, but it's pretty darn good. Now, the big question I always hear is how much money will I make on ads if I put them on my videos? And it really varies depending on what market you're in. The way YouTube looks at this is they say how likely is this person watching this ad gonna spend money and buy this product or service? So if you've got some type of entertainment channel where there's a bunch of bloopers and people falling down and silly stuff, that audience supposedly, according to YouTube, is not as likely to buy something as somebody who's doing a channel maybe on stock investing and real estate and those people are more likely to buy it from the advertisers that are on those videos. So to make a short answer really long is what I'm doing. I'm starting to do it the other way around. Is there gonna pay you anywhere from probably a dollar to $9? CPM or per thousand views? So dependent upon how many views you get is really gonna be your income. Now some people make a modest few hundred bucks a month. Some people make millions of dollars. So somewhere between there is probably where you can be once you get monetized. But it's entirely up to you. And the thing is the more you create, the more your odds are of making more money. So it's really more back to creation again to make money on YouTube, you gotta keep creating. Now I did a quick list here so you can see what some people make. Ryan Kaji is $26 million. This is based on 2019. Dude Perfect 20 million. Anatasia Radnowski, 18 million, not too bad. Rhett and Link, 17.5 million. Jeffree Star, 17 million. Preston, 14 million. And PewDiePie, which we've all heard about is $13 million. So can a lot of money be made? Yes. Can it still be made? Yes. You just have to get in the pool and you gotta put videos up and you gotta post them and you gotta do good videos and you gotta consistently do it. So that gives you some really good ways to make money on YouTube. I told you about my mistake. Don't do that, which is making videos that are too short. I know sometimes it's harder to do a 10 minute video, but I don't know, I found it really hard to do a one or two minute video and really do anything in quality because it was so short. And I was so glad when I found out that was the wrong way to do it because I didn't wanna do two minute videos. I didn't like doing two minute videos. They weren't fun for me. So this way I can actually talk to you, we can interact. You can ask me questions. You know, a two minute video, I just can't get out. I can't get out the information, okay? So let me get out some more information right now. I want you to comment. Put your comments below. They're super important to me. Put in there what you thought of this video. What else you'd like to see in videos too? If there's a subject that you want me to do a video on, put that down there also. Don't forget to subscribe and I'm about to ring my bell here. And ring the bell. 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