 Welcome everybody, JR Fisher here. I wanna welcome everybody this beautiful Friday. My gosh, I'm in San Diego and it's like gonna be 80 degrees today. We got beautiful weather. And hey, man, we got some trainers today that's gonna blow your socks off. Do me a favor, type in that comment section. Tell me where you're at, what's going on in your neck of the woods. I'm giving away some free software today. So you're gonna have software at the end of this training that you can use to optimize your channel, okay? Optimize your videos, optimize your channel, get more subscribers, get more views, and it's a free software. So you're gonna get that today. So you're gonna get some really cool stuff today. I'm also gonna give you a list of niches that you should get into if you haven't already, if you already have a channel. Hey, you can apply what I got here. I really appreciate you guys being here. That chat section is really important to me. So if you're watching this live, put some questions in there. Let me know what's going on. Let me know what your weather is, where you're at, any of that stuff. If you're not watching this live, you can certainly put it in the comment section below. But hey, we're live today, right? So if you're watching me live right now, it is Friday. It is what, the 30th of October, 2020. Look at this, look at this. We actually may make it through COVID-19, right? We didn't think at the beginning of the year we were gonna come out the other end but it looks like we're going to. So put some comments in there. Let me know what COVID's done to you, what's going on. I'm gonna jump in here and get you guys trained up. Jessica's not with me today. Unfortunately, unfortunately, she's got her moms in town and they're going to the Wild Animal Park, I believe. So they're gonna be out there, running around, checking out all the animals here in San Diego. They finally opened that up, I think maybe 50% capacity or something like that. If you've got any cool stories about COVID in your town, and I don't mean cool that you have COVID, but I mean, there's things that it affects and things that are going on. Feel free to put that in that comment section too. I'd love to hear it. So today, we want people watching you. Yeah, we don't normally want people to watch us but when we have a YouTube channel, we do. We need them to watch us, okay? So that's all we're gonna talk about today. Before I get started though, I do wanna tell you, if you go to YouTube, or not YouTube, if you go to Google, sign in at Google, search JR Fisher, okay? Search my name, give me a review. I would love a fine-star review. That'd be really cool, okay? And email me, let me know you did it. I'll give you my book for free and I'm gonna include the audio also when I had to find popular products to sell online in four simple steps. I mean, you could use this book and immediately find some products to sell. So that's pretty cool. So I wanna go through the steps with you first off, okay, there's only four steps to getting more views online, getting more views on your videos, getting more subscribers. There's only four steps. Here is the most important one and this is the one that most people skip. Find out who your successful competitors are. Find out who these people are, guys. I mean, instead of reinventing the wheel, there's people out there and they're already doing what you wanna do and they're already successful at it. And if they're already successful in doing it, figure out who those people are, okay? The next step, and I'm gonna show you how to get this in just a second, so calm down. I'm gonna give you the link to this. Get TubeBuddy Software. I'm gonna give you a link where you can get it for free. For free, you can do this for free. That's pretty cool stuff, right? So get this TubeBuddy Software. I'm gonna give it to you, I'll give you the link on the next screen. And then, once you have that software, what I'm gonna have you do is use some tools within YouTube and TubeBuddy Software. I'm gonna show you how to use both of them today, okay? I'm not selling you anything, okay? I just wanna show you how to do this. And then what we're gonna do is analyze our competitors, okay? And then I'm gonna model my channel or videos after my successful competitors. That's it. That's all you gotta do. It's really, really super easy. Now, as I go through this, I'm gonna be playing a recording, a screen recording that I did. I'm live right now. It is Friday, October 30th, 2020. I gotta think of the date there. It took me a second. But if you wanna ask me questions while I'm playing this recording, I can answer you in this chat section. And I implore you. Please put some comments in there. It really helps my video. It helps with the YouTube algorithm because if there's comments in there or there's more people talking in there, then of course they're going to share this video with other people, okay? So let's get right on over to YouTube right now. I wanna show you how to do all this. And I'm gonna play this little video I made for you and you can know, you're gonna know, by the end of this, exactly how to get more subscribers, more views, all that stuff on your YouTube videos. Okay, I am at YouTube right now. And what I wanna do is show you how you go step by step based on your niche, how to use other people's channels and what they've done success-wise to figure out what you need to do success-wise. Now I'm gonna do this a couple different ways. I'm gonna use some tools that YouTube has available. But I'm also gonna use a tool called TubeBuddy. And I highly recommend it. I'm gonna give you the link for that so you'll see the link. You can download, that's a free software. And if you use my link, you can get a 30% discount if you ever wanna go pro, but right now it's free software. So the first thing I'm gonna do, and you can see TubeBuddy is actually installed right there, okay? And I can show you some other uses for it. But for the purpose of this, I'm just gonna show you how to look at other people's channels. So let's assume that you want to be a food travel blogger, okay? So I'm gonna put food travel blogger up here. I'll say vlogger, that's the cool thing, right? Because that means we're doing videos. Okay, so I've got food travel vlogger. Now, if you noticed, the number one one pops up here, we're gonna use this one here. But this is Mark Wiens, okay? So he's obviously got this optimized for food travel vlogger, it wouldn't have come up. Now I do subscribe to him, so I'm sure that has some weight on it. He's got the first video here, the second video here. Then we drop down to the Best Ever Food Review Show. It's sunny, I do watch him too. Let me go back here one. And let's see here. I've got different ones down here. Travel Ruby, strictly dumpling, I actually follow him too. And Food Ranger, I follow him too. I like this stuff. I don't do videos on this, but I do like this stuff. So the first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna go to his channel. Now the way you go to somebody's channel is you're gonna click on their name here. You don't click on the actual video. So in this case here, I could just click on his name right here. Now when I click on his name, it's gonna bring me to however he's got this dashboard set up. Now he's got it set up, it looks like, to the most recent uploads, which is fine. But I wanna do a little analysis on this particular channel here, okay? So the way we're gonna do that is the first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna look at his videos. But I also wanna show you, I've got this channel litics right here I can click on and it will show me everything about this channel right here. And here's the cool thing I want you to see. Right here, these are all the channel keywords he has. So if I were doing a channel like his, I could literally come over here and copy the keywords, okay? And here's all of his keywords right here. And I could copy them to the clipboard and then paste them somewhere, okay? So it's really pretty easy to do to just go into one of these channels and get all this, you can't do this unless you have TubeBuddy installed, which I have installed. So that's one of the things you can do here. When you can look at all of his stats here, what's going on, you can look at total lifetime, 1.4 billion. And now this guy here is off the charts good as far as traffic, videos, he really knows what he's doing. And let's just take a look at some of his videos here. Now I'm gonna click on videos right here. When I click on videos, it's automatically gonna sort these by the last video he did. Now if I wanna dig in here and say, hey, I want to see a video that's really, really good and I want to do one like it, I'm gonna go up here to sort and I'm probably gonna sort by most popular. If I sort by most popular, what it's gonna give me is the video he has with the most views right here. Now this particular one happens to be extreme Chinese food, jacuzzi chicken. So let's click on that one right there. And then here he is. And let's take a look at what he's got going on here. Okay guys, first off, since I have TubeBuddy installed, like I told you before, this is really a great tool. I can look at the SEO of this particular video right here. And it looks like his SEO is 100%. That's how well he's optimizing it. So if you look at tags and title and description, he's got 20 out of 20. Tags and title, 20 out of 20. Tags and description, 20 out of 20. Total tag characters, 20 out of 20. Title, words and description, 20 out of 20. So he's done every single thing he should do correctly. This shows how many likes this got, how many upvotes. It gives you a little more information on his channel. Now, just because this SEO is 100%, doesn't mean there's not more he can do. And if we look right here, it says here he could have info cards added. He doesn't have those. He does have the high resolution thumbnail. He has the end screen added. He does have a comment pinned. That's a simple thing. You put a comment on your own video and you pin it to the top. You get more credit for that. And if YouTube says this is best practices, you can bet they're using this to actually find videos for people when they're searching. Liked on Facebook, he's done that. Captions added, he's done that. Comment hearted, he's done that. Chapters added, he has not added chapter. So that's a new thing actually that YouTube's doing. We can add chapters. So he hasn't probably gotten a chance to do that yet. Now, if I were gonna do a video like this, now I'm gonna go ahead and copy this title right here. And I just wanna check it. And I'm not gonna show you how to do all of this in TubeBuddy right now. I just wanna check this though and see how this title ranks that he's used in here. And then we'll look at another channel and it's a different type of niche. So right here, unweighted's 34, weighted's 34, not bad. I mean, a guy like him, he has so many subscribers. What is he at right now? 6.8 million subscribers. I started watching him when he had a million. So he's come a whole ways from there. I was going to Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand. And at that time, that's all he did was Bangkok, Thailand. So I was watching some videos he had, but now he travels the world and he's really grown his brand. He used to do like five or six minute videos. And if you notice this one, here's 29 minutes. Reason being is you're gonna get more view time the longer your videos are. So it is kinda recommended to have longer ones, at least eight to 10 minutes. I usually do 10 to 14 minutes. If I was gonna do a video like this, extreme Chinese street food, jacuzzi chicken, and market tour in Kunming, Yunnan, China, I could go right here and look at all the tags that he's used right here. Once again, I could copy these tags, okay? Copy them to clipboard and paste them somewhere. So if I wanted the same tags that he had right here, I could just copy them because I've got this tool that helps me do so. Now let's look at another person. This is a friend of mine, John Crestani, okay? So we'll put John Crestani in there. And there's John. And let's go to his channel now. He's got 428,000 subscribers to 481 videos. And he's got kind of a lifestyle, you know, rich guy, travel the world type thing, image going on. So same thing here. I've got Channelitics up, so we can see Channelitics here. We can see how many videos he's done in the last 30 days. He's done 17. You can look at the number of views he's got, lifetime. And once again, if I wanted to do videos like what he did, now let's take a look at this one here. Here we go. Crestani here again. Okay, so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna look at his title here. And check that in TubeBuddy to see if that's a really good title. It probably is. I don't know. Doing this on the fly here. Let's see if that is a good title. Explore. And let's see what we come up with. He's got a poor for weighted, but that's just against his channel. But he's got an 85 here for X1. The one thing he's smart about is he's picked a title that it doesn't have that many videos done on it. You know, sometimes you'll pick a title that has 50 million videos done on it. This one has 223,000. So he's picked a really smart way of going about this. Now, if I wanted to, let's look at here. He's 95% on the SEO score. What's he missing there? Tags in the description is all. But he's done a really good job here. If I wanted to use, and a couple other things he could do here before I get on the tags, it's not like on Facebook he didn't add chapters. This chapter thing is new guys, so a lot of people won't have that. But if I wanted to grab his tags, once again, I could just grab his tags, okay? And add those, or I could do it to a tag list, or I could copy it to my clipboard, okay? So I know now that this would be a good title to use. How to do affiliate marketing with paid advertising. Make $100 a day. And you know, you could take this, and let me show you something you can do in TubeBuddy. I'll just show you a little trick real quick. He's, I'm gonna put that title in there because I've still got it. Make $100 a day. And he's got, let's see here, 85. Now, what if I change this title just a little bit? And I put $200 a day. Would that change things? Okay, let me get a space in there. I don't like that, there we go. I had 85 before. Look at this, 46 if I say $200 a day. Now it does have fewer videos here, but you can play around with little parts of your title like this. So let's make this $300 a day. Explore. And what YouTube's basically doing, and TubeBuddy's really doing, is they're saying, hey, you know, there's not much competition, or there's a whole lot of competition, or what's the strength. Now there are fewer videos at that much per day. So let's just go down here, we'll try a couple more real quick. And we'll go to $400 a day. Let's see what we get there. Remember our best was $100 a day, and that was at 85, so now it's going down. And anytime you put in a larger amount per day, normally your odds of that video go down a little bit because people don't believe they can make it. Now it looks like this one here is not bad, that's at 50% weighted, 24. Now this weighted has to do with my channel. So guys, yours will be different than what mine would be if you were putting this in here because it's gonna look at your channel. And let's just, for fun, put $1,000 today. I would assume it will have a lower rating because people don't believe they can make that even though you can't, that's 53, not bad. So I can check those titles there. Now, once again, I can go to his channel right here. That's what I'm gonna do. And when I go to his channel, I can sort by videos. Now it automatically sorts by the last one he just did, but I'm gonna sort it by most popular, okay? And his most popular one was three years ago, Imitation to Learn, How to Create, Automated. Okay, let's let me let this ad run out real quick. Now this is an intro one. It's a 315. I think he actually used this one for an ad. So it shows it's got a whole lot of views because it's only three minutes long and it really just talks about him. So that's a bad example. He would want a two one like that. Any of these ones, like a three minutes, two minutes. Now this one here, it looks like a real one he did. He is a character, I will tell you that, quick money in one day. So we'll listen to the front of you. You know how to make big money and I'm gonna walk you through that by step. This is kind of funny what he does in these videos if you watch, so he has his little intro here. And you know, watch some of this stuff from other people's videos and see if it fits you. So he's doing a little training here. Let me just fast forward through this. Because I know what he does in this video and I just want to get to that point. There it is. So he's sitting in a desk with piles of money there. This is a little over the top. This is not something I would do. However, this is going to appeal to a certain crowd out there. I don't want that crowd. So you got to look at this and say, does this method, do these techniques, does this style work for me? Now, I do teach people how to make money online. He teaches people how to make money online. I don't want somebody who's gonna get turned on by the fact that I've got a Ferrari or Lamborghini and I've got piles of stacks of money on my desk because you're gonna get, I guess somebody probably who's easier to sell but they're looking for a quick fix, easy way to make money and that's not what I do. I teach people how to make money, sustain money for a long period of time. And I actually say you gotta work hard, okay? And some of these videos don't say that. But you do, okay, you do. You do have to work hard. So if you don't want to work hard, you can go ahead and get off this video right now because this is what this one's about. But once again, if I wanna do a video like this, and let me check his title one more time. Copy it and I'll put it into TubeBuddy. Stick it on me and let's see what kind of ranking that has. So there's a very poor ranking but that doesn't mean it's bad. Here's the problem with the ranking. There's 93 million videos for quick money online. It tells you what those people are looking for, okay? So I probably wouldn't want that title. It would be way too competitive to try to rank for. But if I did, I could copy all of his tags right here by using TubeBuddy and make a similar video. So this is kind of an overview of how you can spy on your competition. And you could do this with just about anything. I'm gonna put makeup tutorials and I don't know any of these. I don't know any of these people. However, I know this is a huge market. This one here's got 1.2 million. We'll say this one here. I don't know who this Nikki lady is, but let me just click on her real quick. And she's got 800 videos, which is pretty darn good, guys. That's a lot of videos. She's got 1.38 billion views. So she's racking them up. And it looks like she does all kinds of videos on makeup. She's got a lot of before and after ones. I mean, that one's amazing. The flawless fall Halloween makeup. They're in the middle. That's pretty amazing right there, the difference in her face and then what she does with it. But she looks like she's got some cool stuff and it's very helpful to women who wanna do this. And she's got some interesting titles. I'm Coming Out. How did my makeup in high school? How I did my makeup in high school. So I don't know how much Nikki tutorials. She probably does other stuff too. I don't know how many videos you could do just on makeup. But I don't know. If you're a woman, you may say, J.R., you could do this for the rest of your life. Oh my God, makeup tutorials are awesome. So that gives you an idea of how to look at other people's channels, how to utilize TubeBuddy in analyzing them, and how to also search, like I can search her videos here to find her top video. I'll go right here and I'll sort by most popular. Her top video is this one here, The Power of Makeup. Hey guys, I'm here today. So there she is. And if I wanted to make a similar video, she's got 100% on the SEO score. She's done all these things she's supposed to. There's other things she could improve on down here. You know, the funny thing I've noticed about people is that when they're supposed to do something, whether it's working out or dieting or working on a YouTube channel or whatever it is, they feel like they have to do every single thing right. You don't. I mean, ideally that would be cool if you did every single thing right, but do something. You know, don't say, well, I can't do all that so I'm not gonna do anything. You know, that's like saying, I'm not gonna exercise two hours a day so I'm not gonna exercise 15 minutes a day. Or I've missed two days so I might as well can it. Don't do that to yourself, okay? Don't be that hard on yourself. Do what you can do. That's it. Just do what you can do. That's all that really matters. I did notice here as I'm talking that she's got 13.6 million subscribers. That's amazing. I'm telling you, she's making some money. If she's got that many, she's making some money. I also noticed here that she's got all the products she used right here. These are all affiliate links. I don't know where they go to. Let me just see if they're through Amazon or what they are. It looks like our style, me. This could be her own product. Oh, this is Sephora. So she has links through Sephora right here. But just because you can't do every single one of these things, just because you can't have all the perfect tags, just because you can't have a perfect SEO score, doesn't mean you shouldn't do what you can do, okay? So no matter what your niche is, you can go in here. You can figure out what they're doing. You can emulate some of this stuff and you can build your channel. This is the secret to building a channel is looking at people who are successful already and adopting some of their methods and bring it over to your channel. All right, let's continue the training. Okay guys, let me move on to the next screen here. The one thing that everybody's been asking me for and let me get myself on the screen here a little bit so you can see me, you see I am live. Where is it here? There we go. There, that's what I'm talking about. There we go. All right, and I'll get myself here on the screen. At least I think I will. Maybe I won't. I'll head it off to the side. There I am, there I am. Okay, I see me. I'm upside down for some reason. I have no idea why I'm upside down. Let's see if I can adjust that. Oh, technology's awesome. Technology is awesome, guys. Let me see here. It's gonna put me upside down for some reason. I have no idea why. Okay, so I'll be upside down, whatever. I'm upside down. Nothing I can do about it. You just roll with this stuff, guys. So if you're doing a YouTube video and you end up like this, hey, it's the way it is. Nothing I can do about it, okay? It's broke right now, but we're gonna go with it. But the point is, guys, let me get back over to this real quick. Yeah, so if you want ideas on how to create a YouTube channel, I'm gonna suggest that you go to this link right here. So this will give you ideas. It's free. I'm not charging you anything. But the first link there is channel ideas, okay? So these are the top YouTube channel ideas. Also, below that, I have also put the TubeBuddy link there. So if you wanna get TubeBuddy, you saw me going through these videos. You saw me figuring out the tags and figuring out the titles. And I had all these analysis information. It's because I have TubeBuddy. TubeBuddy's free. Use my link right there. And when you use this link, if you decide to go pro on down the road and get some more of the features, it'll take 30% off, okay? So just, but go get the free one right now. You don't have to buy anything. I mean, I have the paid one because it helps a lot. Here's my buddy, Richard Senta is in there. Let's see, what does he say? My channel is Richard Senta. Cool, you may wanna add cooking recipes or exotic recipes or something to that name, Richard, so people know what it is because when they're searching on YouTube, if they already know you, it doesn't matter. They'll be searching Richard Senta. If they're searching exotic recipes or barbecue recipes or whatever it is or just recipes, your name will come up that way. It won't come up if you don't have something in there to tag your names, do that. Currently has a lot of my personal videos that I've liked. Some are music videos, COVID or Tesla folders. How do I make those private folders if they are public now? It's really simple. You just go into edit and you change what that video is. You can change it to public or private or whatever. Very, very simple to do. So that's not hard to do. This is the page you guys are gonna come to when you go to get those, the free 24 best YouTube channel ideas, $47 value, you can have it for free. I'm not charging you anything for it, okay? This is my software. Everybody always asks, what do you use for marketing? This is the software, okay? If you go to this link right here, this is BIT.ly forward slash cartra dash trial one. When you go there, you don't have to buy anything whatsoever. You don't have to, okay? However, it will play a video. It will tell you all about Cartra. And if you decide to get Cartra, you can get it for $1. So people are always asking me about that. So don't forget, I haven't told you to do this. Oh my God. You gotta subscribe. You gotta subscribe. I was supposed to tell you this in the beginning. And the other thing you gotta do is ring the bell, turn on bell notifications so that every time I go live or do one of these things, you will be notified about it. You don't miss out on anything. You have to go looking for it, okay? And don't forget, join my inner circle. If you wanna do that, you get access to my current courses, private Facebook groups, probably weekly coaching calls, masterminds in San Diego. And that may change. And Richard, if you're listening, I may be showing up in Texas real soon. We're gonna be in Austin next week. And we're gonna be looking at some homes there because I'm over the taxes here. So I may see you there next week, okay? Plus the networking in my group is good. Insight into high level masterminds. And you are more likely to succeed as a member too, guys. I mean, because you're part of that. I'm also gonna give you access to the WebCash Academy, Ecom Road, email earning systems, Digital Cash Academy. Also, you're gonna get access to Facebook Edge University. And of course, the coaching calls. So this is a $46,382 value. You can get access to absolutely free for joining my inner circle. If you wanna know about the inner circle, this is my videos blocking some of the links. Let me change that, Richard. And I will, I appreciate you saying that. And besides that, I'm upside down. I don't know why I'm upside down. But I am upside down for some odd reason. And I wonder if there's any way of fixing that. I don't know, I'm not gonna mess with it right now. I'm just gonna get off the screen there, okay? I'll get off the screen. There we go, there we go. I'm off the screen. You can see all that stuff now. Okay, and don't forget, guys, when you join the inner circle, you'll be part of the community. You have people you can talk to, things you can do. So that's cool. And you know what? Let me go back to some of these links because he said it was blocking these links. Let me get back here real quick, guys, so you can get those links. There's the Cartra link right there. If you wanna jot that down, that's BIT.ly forward slash Cartra dash trial one. So you wanna get that one. That is the software, that's the marketing software that you, it's a must have. It's just a must have. It'll save you so much money because you want to buy all these other softwares and email providers and all that crap. And I know I went to it. And then, okay, so yeah. So you got those links there. So you should be good there. Those are the other two links. The first one there is the YouTube channel ideas. If you don't have a channel idea, that's a good one to get. The next one is the free TubeBuddy. And that is BIT.ly forward slash free dash TB for TubeBuddy. So you wanna get these two links, guys. These are free things for you. These don't cost you anything. That software that I use to analyze these channels, you need it. You need it because if you don't have that, you're gonna spend a lot of your time trying to figure things out when you don't need to. All you gotta do is go to one of these successful channels and use that software and you can analyze the channel and get their links. You can get their tags. You can get their titles. You can figure out what videos are working. You can make similar videos. I mean, why try to reinvent the wheel? And a lot of people say, well, I wanna make videos on X. Well, maybe you do, but does anybody wanna watch videos on X? Because if they don't, you're wasting your time. You're not gonna build an audience if you don't do that. Now, I also talked about the inner circle. Let me get back to that real quick and all the things you're gonna get in the inner circle right there. And if you wanna watch a video on what the inner circle is, go down there to where it says jrintercircle.com. It's in the bottom left there. Forward slash enroll and you don't have to enroll, but there's a video that will play there that will tell you all about it and that way you can get involved in it. And there's all the things you're gonna get with the inner circle too, all that. Now, I'm gonna do some question and answer real quick. I've had a lot of people submit some questions to me, so I like to pull those out. But you guys that are live, you can ask questions too. I can just put it in that chat box over there. If you put it in that chat box over there, I'll see it and I will answer your questions live, live. I said live, there's that Cartra link one more time guys. Trial one, it's bit.ly, forward slash Cartra dash trial one. You need this software if you're gonna sell anything online, you really do. And once again, if you give me a rating on Google, I'd really appreciate signing into Google, search JR Fisher, give a review, preferably five-star email me, let me know and you get my book for free along with the audio, okay? So we're under the questions now. Now at this point, I normally put myself up on the screen. However, for some reason, that video is upside down. So I'm not gonna do that because it's just irritating. Somebody's asking me, how long does it take before you can run ads on your videos? That's a great question. And it really, time-wise, I can't tell you. I can't tell you because it's a qualifier and the qualifier is this. You have to have 1,000 subscribers, okay? You have to have 1,000 people subscribe to your channel and don't use any of these services when they say they're gonna get you subscribers. That's all bogus, it's gonna get your channel blacklisted, don't do it, don't do it. You have to do it the real way and get real subscribers. And then you also have to have 4,000 hours of watch time within the first 12 months. Now, don't let this scare you because people say, oh my gosh, it's gonna be forever before I can make money. Not true. You can make money on your very first video if you offer something for sale, okay? In the description of your video, you can say, hey, I've got this course, it's $19, it's $29, whatever it is. And if you do that, then of course, you can make money on the very first video. Somebody's here, what's Richard saying? Yes, I'm in Houston, but Austin has some great barbecue legends. So I'll meet you there for lunch or dinner. Awesome, yeah. Yeah, we looked at Richard, we looked at Salt Lake, and we looked at Franklin's. I'm not getting up at six in the morning to go to Franklin's though, I'm not doing it. So we looked down at Dripping Springs there, and I don't know if you know that, Harry or Richard. But I think Salt Lake's down there, so it looked good. And there's a bunch of other ones. I mean, I'm sure I'll find a barbecue place in Texas somewhere, but we're gonna be there very soon. We're gonna be there next week, so we're gonna be looking around. Next thing, guys, put any questions in there too. I've got a whole list of them that you guys asked me. I don't have time to go through all of these. The next one that somebody is asking me here is do I need thumbnails on my videos? And 100% you need thumbnails on your videos. Now, here's the thing with thumbnails. It used to be they had to be all exotic and crazy and weird poses and all that. And what we found is that the simpler thumbnails, like red background with some white lettering on it, two or three words, get a higher click-through rate than those fancy thumbnails that you make in Canva or Photoshop or whatever. But 100% you need one. Because if you don't put a thumbnail on your videos, what's gonna happen is YouTube will select a screenshot from your video and that's exactly what they're gonna show for your thumbnail. It will not get people's attention. They will not click on your videos and you will not build your channel. So yes, yes, yes, yes. Somebody also asked do I have to put a description in? No, you don't put a description in. That's only if you wanna get more views. That's only if you wanna get more clicks. That's only if you wanna sell your stuff. That's only if you wanna be successful. So yeah, you gotta do it. You don't have to. And here's the thing, guys. There's a lot of things to do on a video and I've got a lot of videos on this channel and you're welcome to go through my channel and type in YouTube and you're gonna find a lot of videos. But here's the thing. You can't do it all. I mean, I don't do everything perfect. I do enough to where I make a living and I make a pretty darn good living, actually. Our survival food company is just skyrocketed. People are waiting. I don't know if you guys know it. If you're new to my channel. My initial company was a Survival Cave Food and I'll put that in here and just put a .com on there, survival. And you can search this on Google and you will see that there's probably under 20 million hits for Survival Cave Food. We do some crazy numbers on that. We'll do six figures a day at Survival Cave Food and I know that sounds like so much money to me. Do you say it now? Because I remember the first thing I sold online was 10 bucks. I mean, I was thrilled. I was like, oh my God, I made $10. Somebody actually sent me money online. I was like, oh my God, this is insane. They sent me $10. But the thing is, guys, it all starts there. You just gotta sell something. You don't start off selling six figures a day. You don't. And when somebody would have told me I would have ever done that when I started, I would have said, you're insane. There's no way. You can't do that. You can't make that kind of money. That's like big corporations that do that. But it's not. You know, I know a guy who just did a video on it. As a matter of fact, he'll make $4 million this year and he has no products. No products whatsoever. It's all digital stuff that he is selling. Let's see here. Do you know if Facebook can let you choose your thumbnail pick? What they do, Richard, is don't do it. Don't do it. They will give you three of your screenshots and you can click on one of them. But why do that? You can use TubeBuddy and you can make your own thumbnails right there. And that's a free software that I put up there. Don't use the ones from YouTube. I'm telling you, you will not get clicks. Does it work? Ben's proven. Don't try to go against the grain. Just don't. You gotta make thumbnails. It only takes you a second or two. Especially if you download that TubeBuddy program I've got. You know, I mean, and it's free. You know, it only takes you a second or two to do that. Definitely do that. Next question I've got up there is can you sell t-shirts? Yes, you can. And I would recommend that you use something like Teespring or something along those lines where they will actually print up the t-shirts when you need them. That way you don't have to buy any inventory. A lot of people do that. And you can't put them like you'll see some videos with all the t-shirt designs are right below the video. You have to have a certain number of subscribers. You have to have a certain volume before you can do that. If that doesn't stop you from putting a link in the description below, get my t-shirts here. Click here to see my t-shirts and setting up a store with your t-shirts. You can put it on Etsy, you can do whatever you want. And you can sell mugs and curtains and blankets and when you sell whatever you want. But yeah, you can make some money doing that. And I tell you what I'm getting more and more and more of is sponsors. People say, hey, you know, you've got so many thousand subscribers now and we wanna sponsor you. We wanna, you know, I have one the other days is 10 minutes and we'll give you a thousand dollars for a video. Now I gotta tell you, I didn't do the video. I didn't do the video, it was number one, I was so busy with other stuff I didn't have time to do it. But it was nice that somebody would give me a thousand dollars and do a 10 minute video. At this point, I'd rather sit and make videos for myself than somebody else. But I'm telling you, as soon as you get a little bit of a following, these people are gonna start tapping you on the shoulder. They're gonna say, hey, make a video for us. Do a video for us, you know, we want videos done. And be really careful doing this, protect your brand. If you don't protect your brand, you're gonna be screwed. And what I mean by that is don't do videos for products just because somebody's giving you money. I don't, I don't need the money that way. I mean, I make a good living off my other businesses. But, you know, if you believe in something, that's one thing. Like I tell you guys to get Cartra because I think friggin' Cartra's amazing. It's just an amazing, amazing software. And I know if you get it, you're gonna get good results. So I tell everybody to get Cartra. And I'm an affiliate for that, okay? I make like a dollar or two, I don't know what we make off that. I don't even look at it anymore. But the point is, don't get behind something you don't believe in, okay? Don't do that. It's just not something you wanna do. Guys, I'm probably gonna go ahead and slide out of here. Now, I really appreciate you guys showing up. If you like this video, if you like this kind of information, do me a favor, put a comment. Say yes, I like it in the chat area right now or yes, do more or no, it sucks if you don't like it, I mean, whatever. And if you have an idea for another video, if you want me to actually do a video and I may call out your name, so if you put your comment in there, you know, hey, I want you to do a video on SEO. I want you to do a video on building a website. I want you to do whatever, put it in there. Now, for the past few weeks, I have been doing videos on YouTube and I'm gonna do probably a few more weeks on YouTube because so many people want to get involved in YouTube. And I gotta tell you, Facebook sucks for us anymore. It sucks for a lot of people I know. They are canceling people's accounts right and left if you're trying to advertise and YouTube is so much more user-friendly. So I show up more on YouTube and I'm not saying I'm off of Facebook, but I will tell you, I'm not putting the effort into Facebook that I used to, okay? And put in the comments, have you had a bad experience with Facebook? If you've had a bad experience, I'd love to hear about it because it kind of makes me feel good to know that we had a bad experience and maybe you did too. So, you know, put that in that chat section right now. Have you dealt with, you know, Facebook? And what do you think of Facebook compared to YouTube? I know YouTube has been a whole lot more friendly to me. YouTube has brought more people to me, more customers to me, more followers to me than Facebook ever did. And I put a ton of work into Facebook and I'm not saying I'm not there, I'm there, okay? I'm there. However, that's not probably where I'm gonna put my efforts in the future. I'm just not, okay? And I'm not, I'm not gonna keep paying taxes in the San Diego, Richard. I'm breaking, I'm breaking down. I can't do it anymore. It's like 56% guys. They have a, and not to get too political, but they got a Proposition 30 here now. And Proposition 30 is that you can't remove a homeless person from their location. And what that means is homeless people are going into, you know, suburban neighborhoods and camping out on people's front lawns and you can't call the police and remove them. There's nothing you can do. I mean, they're defecating on the law. They're leaving, you know, syringes on your front lawn when you come out and you can't do anything about it. Come on, guys. Come on, that's ridiculous government. I can't handle it. And I don't get political, but come on, I can't handle that anymore. It's just ridiculous. Let's see, Richard, since a great video, I'm going to watch it again while it's fresh in my mind. Thanks. Oh, okay, I appreciate that. I really do. And you know, there's, I think there's some videos on thumbnails too, Richard, if you're interested in that and how to do thumbnails, I think they're out there. My dog is up on my leg here. Let me, let me, let me see here. I'm gonna get my dog up here just for a second. Hang on, hang on. And she wants to say hi to you guys. And I hate to put up this video because I know it's upside down, guys, but I'm gonna do it just for the simple fact that you can see Kim. Kim is helping me out today. And she is like the most awesome dog, guys. I know, Richard, you're a dog lover. This is Kim. Oh, Kim, there you go. She wants to get up on the desk. Kim, Kim, you're getting famous here. Look at this. You're getting famous, girl. She's such a good dog. Okay, so there's my beautiful dog, Kim, if you can see her. And yes, I know I'm upside down. Something happened to my screen. However, Kim wanted to say hi before we left for the day. I'm gonna head out to lunch now. I'm a wife's out with her mother. Yes, we have a mother-in-law visit, but she's also a lady, so it's cool having her around. I really appreciate you guys being here. Sorry this video's upside down. I don't know why. I'm not a technical person, and yet I can make video live. If I can't get my video flipped over and I make money online, maybe there's hope for you too. I really appreciate you guys being here. I really, really do, guys. Thank you so much for showing up. And go through my channel this weekend. Check out some of the videos this weekend. Look at some other stuff you can learn. Kim says that's a good idea. Don't you say that's a good idea, Kim? Yes, Kim says it's a good idea. So guys, do that. I'll see you next time. Thanks for watching.