 What is up, you guys? Welcome back to the channel. Welcome to the next decade. Welcome to 2020. Happy freaking new year. I hope you guys are well. I hope you guys are blessed and I hope you guys are focused for this next year. This next decade, I hope you're focused and have everything you can possibly have to really succeed beyond your wildest dreams in this next year. What I wanted to cover real quick, you guys, was basically how I got my first 1000 YouTube subscribers and how you can do the same exact thing. I for sure didn't do anything fancy. I for sure did not do anything special. If anything, in 2019, I just started being more consistent. That's all it was is I started being more consistent. I started adding a few more things to my to my uploading the tags, for example, the description. I downloaded a couple of different plugins that kind of gave me some good insight and good tips, but to tell you the truth, I didn't I didn't really follow them. And I don't really follow them. Maybe I should. Maybe maybe my channel would be 10 times further than where it is now. If I did pay attention to more of the analytics, but I just knew at the end of the day, it was going to be all about content. The person that could put out the most content normally wins. And that's kind of how I approached my YouTube in 2019. And kind of just took it to the next level because it started in 2017. It all started in in July, June or July in 2017. We'll look at the numbers right now, but it happened in in the middle of 2017 when I just started putting up videos. Nothing special, simple videos shot for my cell phone. I wasn't doing tutorials really like this. In fact, I think I started to but it really kind of started a lot of this came from my cell phone and just doing blogs and talking about business, but nothing fancy at all. At all at all. And that's kind of where it started. And as I started to kind of get some type of little, little tiny momentum, I started taking it a little bit more seriously. And then as I started looking at other YouTube channels and what my mentors were doing and how they were building one. And then I started looking at incomes and I'm like, damn, dude, I can, if all I got to do is be more consistent and put up content via video on stuff that I'm already doing, then that shouldn't be hard. And all of 2018 went by when I'm just kind of still playing around with it. And it wasn't until 2019 when I really took it seriously and I really started putting up more content and staying focused on my niche and staying focused on the actual topics that I was talking about. And that's when I started to really get some momentum. That's when I broke the 1000 mark as far as subscribers. And then that's when I got monetized and getting monetized means you can start making money from your channel. So it wasn't until 2019 when I when I hit 1000 subscribers and then I surpassed that and then I became monetized and started seeing some little YouTube money. That's when I got super fired up and I'm like, dude, this can't be that hard. And that's what I'm here to kind of tell you guys today. It's not, it's not hard at all. If you're building a business, you have a topic to talk about. And even if you're not really building a business, whatever your passion is. Yeah, forget about even building a business. For those of you that just have a passion and just have some type of knowledge or you have some type of skill, or you have some type of talent. Put it up. True story with regarding my neighbor. I have a neighbor, 18 years old, super talented when it comes to the guitar. Kevan shout out to my buddy Kevan. And, and I'm telling this guy I'm like, dude, do you understand all these all these little videos that you're making of you playing the guitar, rather than putting it on Instagram on Instagram stories were gone in 24 hours. I'm like, dude, you need to start putting that on YouTube bottom line. And with all that content, you'll have you'll be able to build a subscriber base super, super fast. And you'll start seeing us an extra income off from at all. And he was blown away and I still believe he doesn't believe what I'm saying. But I'm going to really put things in perspective and really show you how simple it really can be and what fires me up is the extra income to talk about what you're already talking about. Or to talk about what you're already fired up about and simply park it over here versus all these other social media platforms. I'm telling you, man, once that check does start depositing, you'll get fired up too. And so what I'm going to really do is kind of keep it simple and keep it basic and kind of just show you what started happening on my channel. Where my subscribers really started increasing and it didn't increase by much. I'm not even a huge YouTuber at all right now. My money is not even big at all. But I'm telling you, it's growing. It is growing. And I just truly believe as I spoke about on previous videos, a few hundred a month will change anyone's life. I don't care who you are. It just will. And so I'm going to kind of just give you my insights and kind of give you some tips and strategies on what you can do in 2020 to start building a YouTube channel. Because that's where it begins. It begins by, first of all, it begins by wanting to do it. You got to want to do it. Secondly, you got to be consistent with it. And I'll tell you what exactly consistent means. You got to have patience and you got to really be in it to win it. Because on your way to 1000 subscribers, you're going to have to put out a ton of videos like a ton, a ton. And maybe not hundreds, but for sure, at least a couple hundred. Like right now I'm a little over 300. Actually, let's look at it right now. I think I'm at like 360 something as far as total videos that I've done since day one. Let's see. I think I'm at 360 something. And in this new format of YouTube, like this is how YouTube looks now. This is the new one. I always go to Creator Studio Classic. I like looking at the old school way. Now, now I know I'm going to have to get used to the new one. But until they remove this Creator Studio Classic here at the bottom left, I'm going to keep using this because it just it's it's easier for me to navigate. And it shows it right there. Boom. Videos 368. So I literally had up, I think I had up, I think I had up over 300. I think that's the thing, man, you got to be in it to win it. Like, I think I put up over 300 videos before I even hit 1000 subscribers. So it's like, who in their right mind would even do that? Like what the hell? Like who the hell is that freaking crazy? To keep putting a video, keep putting a video, keep putting a video when you ain't getting no money from it and you're getting like seven people to view your videos. Who the hell would keep going? Don't ask me. I don't know how I did it. I don't know why I did it. It's not like I, I had this dream of building a YouTube income because I didn't. I'm not a YouTuber. Like, I didn't have that goal until recently until I started seeing the damn money deposit and I'm like, Holy shit, like this extra few hundred goes a long ways like it does. And so that's why now going into 2020 I am fired up like I'm here to take it to 100,000 subscribers. That is my goal in 2020 is to take it from where I'm at, which is a small amount, a little over 1400. So depending on when you're watching this video, man, right now January 1st, 2020, I'm at like 14, 14 freaking. Let's go back to it. I'm at like 1460 as far as subscribers. Let's look at it again. 1460 not even 100,000 views yet. Okay. So again, you got to get to 1000 subscribers and 4000 watch hours. So as you go into your analytics, you can look at how many hours you can look at how many minutes and you just do the math on how many hours you need 4000 hours of your content being watched and 1000 subscribers. So I hit that towards the middle of 2019. And then that's when I started getting fired up, because I was then I was now monetized and then and then what you have to do is break the $100 threshold. They don't pay out the commission unless you hit at least $100 for the month in ad revenue. And so there was one month and I'm going to show you there was one month where I did not reach $100. The following month I did and it paid out the previous month and that month. So I got that first check, which was over, which was almost 300 bucks. And that's what fired me up. I'm like, Holy shit, almost $300. Like, are you kidding me? That's what fired me up. That was in November of 2019. And then I got another check in December of 2019 and it was a little bigger. And then now I'm about to get another check this month, which is a little bigger. And so that's what's so crazy about this man is that I'm getting paid on videos that I made literally a year ago, two years ago, two and a half years ago, I'm getting paid out on these videos. And and only God knows how long it's going to continue like I'm going to continue to rock with it. I'm going to keep continue to roll with it into the wheels fall off. Because as I keep mentioning, man, when it comes to content and I got this from Gary Vaynerchuk, shout out to Gary V, when it comes to content. Don't try to create. None of us are really creators. Like we're not creators. Some of you guys are creative people, but most people that I know they're not creative. I'm for sure, not a creative type of person. What I would, what I would always learn from Gary V and what I picked up from Gary V is he would always preach. Forget about trying to create because when you try to create, it takes you forever to try to create. It takes you forever to think about different creative ideas. And before you know it, you're procrastinating and a week gone gone by and you haven't put out shit because you're too busy trying to be creative and you're waiting for the right moment. That right moment is not going to happen. What Gary V would always talk about is you need to document simply document what you're doing document your day document your life document your business document document what you're what you're currently doing and put that out as content. That's the biggest thing that Gary V continues to talk about is you have to document. And so that's what I really started doing from day one is I started documenting my business like what I was thinking what I was doing. And then and then as I started getting into landing pages and more Facebook advertising, then I started documenting that and started started doing tutorials on that. And it doesn't matter the topic it really doesn't. But you got to stay on topic you got to stay within a niche and you got to stay with within topic. And that's what you want to really get YouTube algorithm the YouTube algorithm needs to know exactly what the hell you're talking about so we can go out there and find you the audience. So you can't talk about dancing on one video. And then the next video you're teaching people how to bake cookies and then the next video you're teaching people how to run fast. And then the next video, you're teaching people how to do yoga. You can't have that kind of channel. What I'm what I'm saying is you got to find your passion find your passion find what fires you up whether it's your personal stuff and you just love doing yoga, but you have a completely different business and life. And you want and you're fired up about yoga start doing videos on yoga and upload nose, or if it's like my neighbor, my neighbor literally 18 years old fired up he works at a car wash. He's a full time college student, but he just happens to be good at the guitar. And that's what he's putting content out on right and I'm just telling them I'm saying hey man forget about putting them on all these other platforms, put them on YouTube. So you can start building a subscriber base and start getting paid right so whether you're a business owner or, or just fired up on something, find out what that fired up is find out what that passion is and start documenting and putting content up around that and start putting yourself an audience around that interest and that niche. That's how you're going to do it. And so as I started narrowing mine in in in, well actually I truly believe mine has always been narrowed in it's always been about entrepreneurship, online entrepreneurship building some type of business. That's what I what I started with in 2017 and that's what I continue to talk about. But now I do more tutorials like this screen share I'm showing you, you know how to do certain shit right. So that right there I truly believe because I narrowed it in and really stayed on on topic and on focus topic topics of social media marketing online entrepreneurship and everything that goes goes on, you know around that. That's where YouTube was like okay, this guy we know what he's talking about he keeps putting out the same videos on the same type of shit. We know exactly who the audience is for him. So subscribers started coming my way, people started, you know, engaging in my content, and my numbers started to increase from, you know, from from from 40 to 60 to 300 subscribers to 700 to 900. Now today at the at the filming of this video I'm at 1460, which is still nothing. And that's why I'm truly convinced that every single one of you guys can do this and I'm truly convinced that a few extra hundred a month forget about if you become a major vegan subscriber YouTuber forget about all that what an extra 500 a month change your life. And especially if it was residual, and especially if it was around stuff that you're fired up about, you can be an accountant, and you're an accountant from nine to five and you absolutely forget about it. But you love freaking landscaping, and you happen to be very, very good at it. And you know everything about a freaking lawnmower and a freaking weed wacker and tools and a garage because you got a nice little, you know, man cave garage and and it's all set up. And that's your passion. That's what I'm talking about man, you don't have to build a business around it. You're fired up on and start doing videos on that. Teach people what you got going on. If you're a badass landscaper, other people want to be badass as well. You can start documenting and start doing little tutorials and start sharing your knowledge on what you're doing to be badass. And I'm telling you man your subscriber count will start to grow. YouTube will start to form YouTube will start sending you money. I'm telling you man and and and and and and and I don't know man I'm lost for words to tell you the truth because you help I hope you guys can really tell how fired up I am on this stuff. Because I know social media and I know social media marketing and I know what everyone's doing they're throwing spaghetti against the wall on all these different platforms to see what sticks and I'm telling you man. It's going to take you a long as time to see stuff stick. In the meantime, you might as well build something you might as well build a channel and eventually monetize it. That's all I'm saying man. So not only will you be able to monetize it by YouTube ad revenue and YouTube ad money. All the links in the description you can lead people to a landing page you can lead people to your Shopify store you can lead people to your Amazon product whatever the hell outs you got going on around what you're trying to do. If you're trying to build a business around around it right you can lead people with the links in your in your description look at everybody anyone that has a decent YouTube following look in the description. Chances are they're getting you to buy something they're probably an affiliate somewhere they're probably you know selling some random product on Shopify, and they're just getting started but the fact is that it started with the YouTube channel. And now they're able to put different links in the description to also profit even more. So, but just the YouTube ad money alone I'm telling you man. It is a journey, it is going to take some upfront work, but I know for a fact, I know for a fact you guys can do it and I know for a fact it can change your finances in 2020. So I'm going to show you some basic numbers man, because to tell you to tell you the truth, I still don't know how to work all the analytics with with YouTube I just don't man. Videos are polished. None of them are highly edited at all. I still barely barely know how to do a damn thumbnail. It's like, but I'm seeing this money start to come in. And I'm telling you man, it's just it is just getting me more excited and motivating me even more to go all in and to encourage all my followers to do the same damn thing because I know you're fired up about something I know you have a passion and I know you have a skill. I know you're knowledgeable about something. It may not be your daytime business. It may not be your daytime job, but I'm telling you, you have a hobby, you have a passion. And this is where you want to start putting it up. I'm telling you man. Okay, so let me show you some simple, simple numbers. Let's look at the analytics of where I was at in 2017. This right here, this is the first video that I put up. It was June 18. And it was a video of me interviewing my mom. It was two minutes and 32 seconds. It ain't nothing. The next video July look at that man. I go from June 18 to not putting up another video into until July, July 10. So you can already tell in 2017. Let's look at the next video. The next video from July 10 to August 7. That was my next video. Now, now after this first one of my son and my mom, right here in July of 2017, this is when I start getting fired up because June, July, August, September, it was in September, July, August, September. So in July of 2017 is when I start learning about social media marketing and how I can start building my own agency. And I start talking about it. Okay. August, I'm talking about it. But look at the gap in the date. I didn't put out another video until August 7. August 8 is just a random video two minutes and 39 seconds of me talking to my son. And then the next video doesn't go up until the 15th. And I'm talking about procrastination next video August 18 three days later. Another one. The same damn day. I didn't know what the hell I was doing next day pulling up the 1923. And then I put two up on the 23rd like I don't know what the hell I was doing. And then the 25th and then not another one until September 7. And then the short videos that I was filming on my cell phone talking about business right talking about where I was that mentally and and what I was doing talking about clients. Because at that time I had just started my social media agency actually I started in 2016. I started in 2016 but in 2016 I was selling website services. It was the same niche but I was selling them website design right and that started in 2016 December of 2016 I remember closing my first client December of 2016. But it was in September of 2017 when I started offering them social media marketing services and Facebook advertising that was in September of 2017 and even I dropped my first video. Me closing a client let me see just yet right here right here just launched right here September 26. The title is just launched my social media agency that is a video that is a video you guys September 26 2017 of me closing my first client. I have the credit card I'm processing the credit card on that on that video you I'm literally doing a walkthrough of me processing the credit card and here's what's so funny. I'm going to keep it real man. This is honest to God truth. If you watch that video you're going to think that I'm freaking which I am processing the credit card but you're going to think that it's all fine and dandy. I line I'm keeping it real with you guys. I got my first client pulled their credit card to do my to do social media marketing services and Facebook advertising under my new company name right. I had just launched mine September 26 I get the first client I'm recording a video on processing the credit card and the damn credit card declines but you can tell that on the video but I'm going to keep it real with you now because it's freaking hilarious. That credit card declined I'll never forget that that was my first credit card and it declined it declined now it ended up approving a couple days later the client had to go and deposit some damn money. But it declined on that freaking video and it looks like I'm fired up which I am with the damn credit card declines and then I don't do another one until September 30. I'm just interviewing my son talking about a book and then the next one doesn't go out till October 9. So all of September you guys look here are the numbers from June when I dropped that first video to December 2017. I close out that year which is only six months. That's when I started my YouTube channel. I close out that year with 41 subscribers. Are you kidding me dude. And all of the videos were trash all of them. Now it was I for sure started doing like this one screen share. Actually that's not even a screen share that's filmed on my damn cell phone. These are all cell phone. These are all cell phone. All cell phone. I didn't start doing screen share until until like shit. Let me see. I didn't start doing screen share. So now we're into into 2018. Here's 2017 cell phone video cell phone video cell phone video. Look at that all into 2017 October November November December all cell phone. I'm just all over the place. I'm talking about business right so I'm staying somewhat on topic but they're all on my cell phone and that's when I first got my office here in San Diego. Now I'm now I'm crushing it from home again in my previous video man had to cut expenses you got to cut expenses. I just realized that an office was not necessary at all. I am literally building a laptop business. I'm building a laptop lifestyle type of business. And I and I reduced every bullshit expense that that was possibly eating up my wallet and renting an office was for sure not needed. But but that that all started in 2017. And that that's where you see me in this office right here and then for the next year into year and a half I'm doing videos from my office. But but mainly on cell phone on cell phone all this into 2018 here goes January so now let's look at 2018. Let's look at the numbers, the analytics for 2018. I go into 2018. Here's January 1, 2018. Now let's go all the way to the end of the year 31st, the 18th. Okay, so now all of 2018. I'm still putting up videos. I got 540 subscribers, a full year and a half has gone by a man a full year and a half. 12 months plus the six months. And I got 400 and I got 540 subscribers. Or shit I don't know if it's 540 or 625 it's one of those but shit either one of them whatever it's still not much. Now am I starting to get fired up at this point yeah for sure I'm I got fired up when I first when I hit 50 subscribers when I hit 100 subscribers 300 subscribers I was getting fired up I'm like holy shit people are actually really listening to me. But I'm telling you my videos were nothing crazy at all at all at all into March of 2018. I'm still doing videos on my cell phone the majority of my videos were on my cell phone, and I'm going to keep it real. I got to get a cell phone it to this day I still don't even I don't even have an iPhone and iPhone is my dream phone, but I just can't for I still can't get the nerve to drop a G on it. And it but I am 2020 I'm definitely coming with it I'm going to go get a damn cell phone here soon, but I at this point I still don't to this day. And all these videos were shot on a old ass Android, nothing special at all all into 2018. I was talking shit on my cell phone 21 2224 drop a video 28 and another one may first video of my son boxing. Again, kind of all over the place right now now I'm kind of all over the place. And I just started putting a lot of videos on motivation but here's the fifth, here's the ninth, here's the 15th, right, and then the 18th 22nd. And then and then look I go from May 22 to June 8 before I drop another video and it's a video on my cell phone another video on my cell phone. I'm acting crazy at all. And then so that's all a 2018. And I'm at, I'm at either 625 or I'm at 540. Actually, you know what, no, I got up to. Here's what it is it's 6665 or 625 minus the 85 that's what it is and that's how you get 540. 625 85 625 625 minus 85. There's the 540. So that's what it meant I got 625 but then 85 of you damn guys freaking ended up leaving me and that's all good shit ain't nobody. I'm not going to keep everyone right not going to keep everyone happy, but it is what it is get used to that part that's not I mean that's that's that's that's normal. People will start to build email list people will unsubscribe from your damn email list right shit don't matter who you are the best of the best people unsubscribe every day. And so that comes with the territory so that's I don't care about that at all. Got up to 625, but then lost 85 and that's how I ended up the year at 540. Okay, and then it wasn't until 2019. It wasn't until 2019 but let's take 2019 slow, because I think that's super important as well let's go into 2019. Let's go into. Let's start with January 1. And let's just take a look at the first six months of 20 of 2019. So, let's go to June 1. So, January 19 to June 19. Let's look at how many subscribers I had then. Look at that dude. Look at that. Actually, well that's that's actually you know I take that back I take the back let's go back. I needed to do it from the beginning. So, let's take this back to the today one June. Let's go June 27 June 1, 2017 to June 2019 look at this man perfect freaking number look at this man look at this. Two years. It took me two years to freaking years. I hit 1051, and then I lose 159. So, in two years, 892, I did not even have 1000 subscribers, I did not even become monetized. Two freaking years, 24 months. See the thing is man, is that I didn't start learning YouTube really until 2019 to really put things in perspective not to really you know freaking sugar coated but but that's the truth. I didn't know what the hell I was doing. I still don't really. I know a little bit I know how I cracked 1000 I know I know exactly how the momentum started happening and that's what I'm going to share with you guys, but I'm showing you guys these numbers. Because it is hard work it did take the time it did take the time, but I'm telling you man. This is not a full time income to begin with anyways I'm telling you that you have some extra time within your day no matter how busy you think you are, you have some extra time. Nowadays where we could just pull out our freaking cell phone. That's what I did for two damn years cell phone talking shit, staying on topic on my cell phone and then uploading the damn video and then and again not even knowing exactly how to upload it the right way. And so I'm telling you, if I can do that. And it took me two damn years when I know you guys can do it this year what I'm going to show you right now is simple stuff what I'm going to show you what took me two years. I know for a fact that you guys can get there this year 2020 you guys can get you guys can freaking quadruple my numbers man you guys can 10x these damn numbers. This year alone if you take me seriously if you take this word, and if you take this advice, seriously, you guys can freaking 10x my number, but look at that dude, look at that two years man two years. And I didn't even crack the 1000 a legit 1000. I got there and then I lost them. 892 is what I finished that. Okay. And then we take it up. We take it up. Let's see. Let's see I did up cracking 1000 comfortably. And then and then getting monetized because the same time I actually know what when I did hit 1000 subscribers. I didn't quite have 4000 watch hours yet. So that's what kind of held me back a little bit is that I had the 1000 subscribers they stuck right. But I didn't have the watch time. And so that's what you have to have as well you have to have those watch hours you have to have 4000 watch hours. And then you're monetized right so I'm going to show you all that but look, June 2019. Let's go July 2019. Let's see if I hit at the following month. Let's go. Let's go June let's go July. So July 1 let's hit apply. That's my bad. 942 I still don't have it. I still don't have it. Let's freakin see. Let's look at this dude. Look at this July August. Actually my bad. Let's go to August August 1. Look at this man. This ain't that long ago you guys this ain't that long ago. I finally get it. I finally hit 1000 I close out that time period with 1000 and 21. So now I hit the 1000 subscriber threshold but I still didn't have the watch hours at that time. I didn't have the watch hours until I want to say. Let's say September October. Yeah until September until actually yeah it was in September because I ended up getting. It wasn't a full deposit because I didn't have $100 thrush I didn't meet the $100 threshold in order for you to get a paid a monthly paycheck. You have to hit $100 for the month right as I mentioned but I didn't have $100 but I know but there was like 40 bucks there so I know I hit the 4000 watch hours September. It was in September. So in September. Let's hit apply in September 1066 is where I was at when I ended up hitting 4000 watch hours as well. Look how long that took me you guys look how long that took me and you hear me over here talking about freaking an extra 300 a month it's like who in the right mind would even do that that math doesn't even make sense I'm going to keep it real. Right, like it's like who like you break that down it's like what am I making three cents an hour. You know what I mean like if you really put things in perspective and do the actual math but I'm but I'm over here fired up. Right, how does that even make sense. It makes sense to me because I understand residual income. I understand putting up a video one time and then being able to get paid on it over and over and over again. That's YouTube. Now is it going to take some time to get there. Yes, is it going to be hard work. Yes, is it going to be easy. No, but it's going to be worth it. Hell yeah, because that's residual income it's going to take you time to build anything. Anyways, I don't give a shit what you're trying to do man trying to be an author it's going to take you some time to write that book. You're trying to freaking make a hit song like Drake every week. That's going to take you some time to try to write the damn song. You try to build a business that's going to take you time. You're trying to go to school and get your law degree. That's going to take you time. You're trying to go to school and become a doctor. That's going to take you some time. No matter what the hell you do is going to take time. All I'm saying is that use a little bit of that time to talk about what you're fired up about and park it over here because even as you're just playing around with it. Time is going to go by regardless. And if you could start seeing a check in 12 months from now, and that check can continue to snowball and increase every day. I'm here to tell you that will change anyone's life. Okay, especially if you're not in in this country. If you're in another country the Philippines if you're in freaking Singapore and you were in Asia if you're in Brazil. If you're in any of these countries man, this money will change anyone's life and I'm telling you yeah it might not be a full time income right now. But if you can invest an hour or two on the side of your busy ass schedule to go talk about what fires you up and park it here that income as it does as it as it as it grows. I'm telling you man it will change your life. That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying and that's residual income. You're over here producing the videos one time. You're investing your time. You're talking about what you're fired up about. Okay, you're an accountant by day but at night you're fired up about freaking yoga and you're talking about it on YouTube. I'm telling you man there's a there's an audience for it. Other people are interested in what you're interested in as well and YouTube will start paying you for it man invest your time in 2020 talk about what you're excited about. And now I'm going to show you how how I truly believe it started to it started a snowball from for me right so here's what happened okay here's what happened. In September of 2019 which was not that long ago, I hit the 1000 subscribers I hit the 4000 watch hours. And now today I'm not that much higher than that I'm at 1460. But here's what started happening. Here's what started happening. I started getting little checks. Okay, so let's go to. Let's go to the actual analytics of the income. Because this is exactly exactly how it broke down and and and I'm just getting started man I'm just getting started, but it's starting to grow man it started to grow. And that's what fires me up so let me go to the to the creator studio classic I hate this new version, but I'm gonna have to get used to it because it is what it is. But let's go to the revenue real quick, let's go to the revenue. So, here's what my bank account is seen. Okay, nothing crazy again man I'm just telling you man, it's about to get crazy this year because I know I truly believe I know that I know the damn code. But right now, I'm fired up over a few hundred man, I'm fired up over a few hundred. Let's look at these analytics. We click on analytics. Damn is it taking me back to the new analytics. Man I thought I can get around this damn freaking new version of it but I'll show it to you in this. Okay, so here's what happened man let's look at let's look at. Let's look at lifetime. Let's look at lifetime. And then we scroll down and we look at revenue click on revenue and then we click on yes right here. Okay, perfect. Here's where it happened man. Here's what happened. This was 2019 September 2019 October 2019 November 2019 December 2019. So as I told you, I became optimized I hit my 1000 subscribers. I hit the 4000 watch hours around October of 2019. And then September is when that first is when that revenue that ad money started accumulating. Okay, now but but but in September, I didn't hit the $100 threshold. So that money sat and to tell you the truth what's so crazy is that I wasn't even paying attention to it I didn't even know I just knew that I was I was way off and I just had to keep doing it. All I stayed focused on you guys I wasn't caught up in the details I wasn't caught up on on the analytics I wasn't caught up on on the how to really all I was doing was putting up content putting up content putting up content just putting out videos like they were going out of style. That's why I started doing in 2019 and obviously I started learning the tags and the description and all that stuff and the thumbnail. But really there wasn't there's not really much to it. But I didn't really start paying attention to that until this time until until October until October because here's what happened. So in October, I ended up getting a check for the 24848 plus the 4258. So that check of 291 came to me in. Actually, you know what, it came to me, it came to me let me do the math, because I think that was the, um, that was a 312 the 24848248 plus the 4258 that was 291. Okay, that was 291. That was 291 that was paid out in in in November. That was paid out in November. So so even though it says it right here. It's it's it's it's the next month. So what you do what you do in September is paid out in October. What you do in October is paid out in November. This 312 was paid out in December. This 3339 for the month of December is paid out in January. Okay, so that's why it looks this way. But the 42 and the 248 was my very first check and that was paid in November. Okay, that was November 21. I'll never forget it when I got that check. It was a day before my son's birthday. Okay, where I got a check for 291. This 312 was what I did a video on a few days ago that 312 was paid out in December. That's what I saw just this past December 2019. Now look what I'm about to see in in in January. So what I'm about to see this month, January 2020 is 339 79. It keeps going up man, it keeps going up. And what I'm going to see in February, I have no doubt will be in the 500s. And who knows how crazy it exponentially grows from there because I truly believe this is increasing by little increments. But I know once a channel really takes off and I go from 1400 subscribers to 7000 subscribers. That's going to be growing by the hundreds per month. It's not going to be little a few bucks here a few bucks there little increase. This is going to be increasing by hundreds per month and even thousands I'm going to be at 5000 a month. And all of a sudden the next month is going to be 7500. It's going to keep increasing and it's going to go by thousands eventually. My goal this year is to take this channel to 100,000 subscribers. So shout out to every single one of you man what I'm doing you guys can do it too. All I'm thinking of is the investment. I'm willing to put up the time I'm willing to put out the time I'm willing to invest the hour here hour there. To talk about what I'm already fired up about and share it with you guys and eventually become monetized. That's what's going on over here man. So these have been my YouTube checks. This was all the end of 2019. And so from from the months that I showed you, I truly believe that it started to increase because of my consistency. And because of the tags that I started using on these on these different videos and staying on topic. So that's what you guys want to do man number one. Here's what I'm going to leave you with number one pick your topic, whatever you're fired up about start talking about that. Okay, that's number one. Number two is you want to start putting out three videos every single week, religiously. Okay, like it was your religion. Okay, three videos per week, no matter what. And that's what I'm going to do this year in 2020. I'm going to keep it simple. A lot of you guys that are that have been subscribed. You've seen me go on a blitz in December of 2019 and I put up a video every single freaking day. The goal is to really kind of get the algorithm going and really see if it worked in my advantage, which I really haven't seen just yet we're just January 1 2020. So I haven't really seen the fruits of that labor to see if it really really, you know, helped or not. But I know the magic number for most YouTubers are three a week, three a week, three a week. If you could put up three a week. That's 144 videos in a given year that right there can explode someone's channel. So that's all I'm going to be doing this year man is I'm going to be putting up a new video. A new three new videos every week. I'm going to keep it that simple. And what I want you to what I want to show you also is how you're going to be doing this. So let's let's let's see if I can. In fact, I don't know if I have any videos on my computer saved. But let me let me see if I can. Let me see if I do. So all you're going to do is you're going to come up here. You're going to hit this upload video right here. And you're going to upload the video. And what I plan on doing just to kind of let you guys really know my strategy is every Friday. Again, I dropped a video yesterday talking about the top 10 tips to help you, you know, crush it in 2020. You got to have a schedule on my schedule. My Fridays are meant for my YouTube videos. So all I'm doing it's not like this is taking a lot of time out of my week. It's not. I'm literally going to delegate three hours on a Friday. Now not everyone can do it. Choose your day, whether it's the weekends, whatever, man, choose your day, choose your time. Mine happens to be Friday afternoon from 2pm to 5pm. That's when I'm going to be producing three videos. And I'm going to schedule those videos to go out the following week. That's it. And I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to schedule them so I'm not going to publish them public live right away. I'm going to schedule them. But all you can all you're going to do is come over here, hit that upload. And I don't have any videos like I thought I did. Yeah, I don't have any videos, but all you're going to do is you're going to choose that video. And then you're going to upload it. Okay. And then in the tags, you're going to want to make sure you put tags, all the keywords should be keywords that you're doing research on. So if you're over here, and there's a few different plugins that you guys can download. Here's what I want you guys to install keywords everywhere. This is a free plugin. Get that one. And then also get to buddy. Okay, they're free plugins. This is going to help you with the analytics is going to help you with the keywords. This is going to help you know what words to put in the tags. Okay. Another way to kind of know or kind of, you know, kind of gauge off of is let's say for example, your topic was landing pages. Right here, landing pages, landing page design, landing, landing in London. Let's go landing pages for beginners, landing pages that convert landing pages for affiliate marketing, landing page tutorial. All of these different keywords are what you could start putting in the, in the keyword section of the video. So as you upload a video, you're going to put tags, those are keywords, and those are going to be all words based on around that topic. Don't put different words. That's what I did in the, in the very beginning 2017 into 2018, even in the beginning of 2019, I'm putting all these different words that have to do with online entrepreneurship that have to do with social media marketing. But we're very different than the video. So if I was doing a video on Facebook ads in my tags, I would have how to build a business online, how to make money online, how to start a business. I would have all these words that are somewhat in related but not really like if I'm doing a Facebook ad video, a Facebook ad tutorial video, every keyword is going to be on Facebook ads, Facebook ads for beginners, Facebook ads that convert Facebook ads, video ads, Facebook advertisement, how to run Facebook ads. Every keyword is around that exact topic. Okay, that was the game changer for me. And once I learned that I noticed that my videos were starting to get more views and more subscribers were starting to come around. Okay, now also that's number one. Also in the description. Okay, now this is one thing that I've yet to do and this is what I'll be doing as of now. In the description. What I did and what I had is the same description in all of my videos which are which are the actual now this is the one where this is one that I did yesterday, where I actually listed all this this is what I'm saying here's the tip. The tip is that in here and this is for Google SEO purposes. This right here is what you want to start doing in your description. Write what you're talking about in the video. So whatever the hell you're talking about, let that be also what you write out at the very top of the description. Okay, what I did all of 2017 into 2018, even in 2019. I just kept the same default description, because these are different, you know, products that I got profit with Karcher online digital agency blueprint digital course profits fb ads for beginners, all of my social media links right. That's what I use as my upload default, and I use that for all of them, which is totally fine. But that's all I would put. So on these 300 plus videos. It's just, it's just this damn this bottom part. It's all of this. Just promoting what I got going on right and my social media links obviously, but when it comes to the video when it comes to the topic of the video, you want to talk about that in the description as well and that's what I didn't do. So I got this far you guys without even putting the proper keywords and in the description, you want to put keywords. So again, right in the description what the hell you're talking about in the video. And use to buddy and keywords everywhere to help you with the keywords to put to kind of give you ideas on what keywords you should be putting in that description. This what you want to start doing. And that's what I'll start doing from this day on is I'll start writing a few, a few, you know, fresh copy of what's going on in the video I'll start putting that in the description. But I'm telling you, man, for 300 plus videos, I didn't, I didn't. And I know that that right there is a huge, huge part of your success on your YouTube channel is, is, is the keywords and the SEO and the description. That description needs to be talked about. You need to write a few sentences on what the hell you're talking about in the video. Okay. That's number two. Number one, actually, let's start all over. Number one is the consistency. You got to be putting up three videos a week. Number two, you want to start putting the tags in the keywords. And as you upload, you'll see, you'll see all the different keywords. These are my keywords right here. These are actually, um, I think these are my keywords. Yeah. Or these are the ones that that freaking let's let's look look actually know what I can just edit the video and I can show you right here. So number two is these keywords. All right, these keywords, stay on the same exact topic of the video. Okay, so here's the title. Here's the description you see me on yesterday's video I wrote out the top 10 tips. And then, and then there's my upload by default, right the whole bottom part, but over here. And then the thumbnail you want to customize your thumbnail, get a cool thumbnail. I use Canva for the thumbnail so you can come over here to Canva. And this is all free. Right. You come over here, you type in YouTube, and you're looking for YouTube thumbnail. Right there. YouTube thumbnail. You come over here, click on the blank one. And then you can come over here. And there's so many different templates that you can use. You can upload your own or you can use all these different templates. This one's free. I can click on that one. And I can use that one. In fact, I think that's the one I'm using now. That's my new template, but it's a different color, but that and different image, obviously, but that's that's the new one. And then look, upload, you come over here, get your picture, drag it over. Okay. And then you title that thumbnail. This the key words. This is super important how to run Facebook ads. You want to title that thumbnail for sure that's super, super important as well. Save it, you're going to download it. That becomes your thumbnail. Okay, that becomes your thumbnail. And then also it's down here. It's the tags. Yeah, this is what I'm talking about. So this is what I wrote. These are the tags how to make money, how to make more money. Motivation. Let's let's go motivation. And then as you because I have to buddy, all I do is I type in the keyword and it gives me suggestions. This is what I want for sure. Right. I want this for sure. Tips to become a better marketer. I'll show you if that's even popular, which it's not. So tips to become a better person tips to become a better morning person. Now it kind of doesn't have anything to do with it, but it kind of does. Right. And if it's down here to buddy is suggesting it, then I'm thinking that it's a popular keyword. Again, man, how to how to flirt lose weight. New Year's resolutions. New Year's resolution. I'll put that right. So all keywords that are somewhat related to the video and the topic of what I'm talking about. Okay, so that right there. Those are your tags. Okay. So number one, consistent three videos per week is the minimum and that's kind of the maximum. Delegate some time to go produce three videos of what you're fired up about. Number two, right out the description. You can have a default one. So I'll show you how to get to the default one. And because this right here. This is my default. It's not like I type this on every single video. This is what I have in the description of every single one of my videos. It's this whole highlighted part right here. But it's not like I type that on every video. Hell no, I, I, I upload it once and then and then YouTube automatically brings it over for every video that I put up from that point on. Now, if I record a video on my cell phone and I upload it to YouTube from my cell phone, that description, the default description is not going to not going to come up. You're going to have to copy and paste it. But if you're, if you're doing a video like this on screen share on your computer and you're uploading the video from your computer up to YouTube, that description will come over if it's your default, which I'll show you how to, how to get there. But it's really the top part. I want you to write out that top part right out that description, whatever the description doesn't have to be crazy long at all. But you want keywords in here. You want to talk about what the video is all about. Type it out and then have, have your default one down here. And that's what you want to do. Okay. And then the keywords, download the, the thumbnail for sure. That's number three and let's call the keywords number four. And, and, and again, to buddy and, and keywords everywhere will help you with the keywords for sure. Okay. And a lot of you guys know how to use Google keyword planner. If you know how to use that, then for sure go off of that as well. But that's all I've done, man. And that's all I've learned that other people have done. And that's how they blown up, man. So I'm telling you, man, I'm coming with some freaking ginormous goals in 2020. One huge goal. One huge goal is going to be freaking taking my channel from where it's at today, which is super, super small. Right. But I'm already starting to see this money. Let's cancel out of that because I don't want to save that. Let's go to let's leave. What else was I going to show you guys, I was going to show you guys three. Oh yeah, the default, the default. So look at 1460. I'm calling it right now, man. I'm calling it right now. I'm putting it out in the universe. I'm going to be consistent. I'm going to put up these videos and I'm going to crush it. I'm going to take it from 1460 to 100,000 subscribers in 2020. I'm that committed. I'm going to be that consistent. And it's freaking game time. And all I'm telling you, man, is that if my little channel right now is giving me a few hundred right now, that gets me fired up. What do you think that monthly checks going to be when I'm at 100,000 subscribers? Where's that monthly check going to be when I'm at 10,000 subscribers? That's 10xing where I'm at now. 10,000 subscribers. My life has completely changed financially. 50,000, 60,000. I'm calling it right now, man. I'm going to 100,000 subscribers in 2020. So shout out to every single one of you, man. If you're new to my channel, please subscribe. I'm dropping weekly content on social media marketing, affiliate marketing and making money online. Shit that I'm actually doing every day. I'm in the trenches, go to an agency. I'm in the trenches producing online courses, making money on YouTube, making money with affiliate marketing. I am in the trenches closing deals every single day. And all I'm doing is documenting and bringing value to those of you that are looking to do the same. So shout out to every single one of you guys, man. I wish you nothing but major, major, major success in 2020. Here's the last part I'll leave you with. And that's the default because you don't want to, you don't want to bring over all that content, all that copy for every single video. So you want to write out your stuff, right? Write out what you're going to keep as default for, you know, for generic purposes for every video. Like your social media links, for example, you know, that's something you don't want to have to write on every description every single time. So all you're going to do is going to hit the video manager, like I just did, click on settings. And then you're going to come over here, upload defaults. And this right here, you can write out this description. Okay, you got 5000 characters, write out this description. And this, this remains the one that that comes over on every new video that you upload on your computer. Okay. And if you didn't upload that video from your computer, you did it on your cell phone, upload it on your cell phone and then come over here to your computer and get it pretty. All right. Copy it from here. And then paste it on the new video. Okay, because you're not going to, I don't think you're going to, I don't know. That's, that's how much I don't know. I don't know if you can do it from your cell phone. I haven't been able to so, but again, I haven't, I haven't even done, I don't even know it all yet. So I don't, I don't do the title because I don't, it's not the same title for every video, right? But there's description. These are all my products. These are my social media links. This remains the same. I need this on every single video. But now I'm, all I'm telling you is that you can bring it over. But also what I want you to do is hit enter a few times and write out a description, write out what the hell that video is all about. Put some keywords in there. Get descriptive with it. Get detailed with it because that's going to help you with Google SEO and that's going to help YouTube. YouTube's algorithm when it comes to getting your video shown by more people. Okay, so that's what it is, you guys. That's where we're at in 2020. I'm just convinced that you guys can do the same thing if not even more. And it really can be that simple. So invest your time, stop wasting your time and go out there and create an extra stream of income for you and your family. I'll see you guys on the next video over now.