 I did a video last year talking about content creation and how we make money making videos and of course a year later it's we make more money and but I didn't reveal how much money and a few people had asked and I wanted to make sure this wasn't true apparently it was just a myth I heard you weren't allowed to talk about how much money YouTube paid you I watched a lot of other youtubers videos that now have revealed the amount of money and they seem to have no ill consequences from it well other than people being shocked about how much money they make you may not be shocked or maybe you will about the amount of money I make I don't it's it's not as much as I'd like it's not as much as some of the other big YouTube stars but it will show that there is a plan to making money on YouTube now first if you could take one second and click the like buttons I'm posting this in YouTube and this is going to be on Facebook so wherever that like button is on either one of those platforms that does help our algorithm driven life to let other people know they may be interested in learning about this as well so we're going to get to the revenue in just a second don't worry it's not click I'm going to show you all the screenshots here of how much I directly make from YouTube and talk about that but I also want to say there's two different ways we make money well there's a couple different ways but we're going to show the revenue from YouTube show the revenue from Amazon affiliate those are the two big ones that are like recurring revenue but we do get a lot of inbound leads from this so that's part of our sales process I'll probably do another video on that of how we get inbound leads but essentially it's we give everything away we dump videos out there that are deep in depth tutorials that people go hey this is cool here's a good tutorial on this but they still watch the tutorial and end up hiring us which a lot of people seems to think is a counterintuitive thing that if you told someone how to do it they still wouldn't hire you to do it that's completely not true by having all these videos over 800 them on my YouTube channel many of them being tutorials and showcasing you know exactly how to do something we're talking about a project and the methodologies that we did to do it that brings us a lot of inbound leads that is still the majority and is bigger than any of the revenue numbers here like I said I'll probably do a separate video on that and it's it's like the projects and the bookings and my whole flow for that is going to be it's kind of in depth and goes beyond the scope of this all right now the reveal we're going to press this little button and switch right over to the screen so for the last 28 days I have made 25 $2568 in estimated ad revenue it's always estimated now the first thing is there's no clear answer to how much I make per video and the reason why is because the video ad rates change dramatically with where the video is viewed and the type of video it is so if the video is deemed monetizable by YouTube as in friendly for advertisers that is what drives YouTube is someone has to pay for all the bandwidth it takes to have people viewing my videos so if they deem it worthy and content non-controversial this is always the big debate with YouTube of their censoring things no they need to pay the bills and they're going to be driven by their advertisers and what the advertisers want or don't want their ads showing up on so the ad buy rate will vary greatly it turns out if you do videos talking about finance the ad buy rate is high I think toy videos do okay there's always very and it comes down to who's advertising I know we see different rates go up and down based on each individual video we do and of course that's going to drive what the advertisers are buying at the moment so not really easy to tell you exactly how much per video but cumulatively right now I am making this every 30 days about $2,500 from YouTube now let's look at what I did for all of 2018 so we go over here 2018 and I made 15,000 in total but if you added 12 times 25 isn't that a different number yeah it is and let's break that down at the number of videos I had towards the end of 18 this is cumulatively what occurred in revenue and by the way the monthly number that you see is 2,500 right now but it was only about a thousand for this month last year the difference is more videos and it's cumulatively as long as the videos are still relevant and people are still viewing them and people are getting value from them and watching them those videos continue to make money the videos that people just don't watch anymore because they're old they're a news article from two years ago and there's no interest in it those fall off and quit making revenue because they no longer have any views so it's always a cumulative of videos that are kind of rolling forward as long as they're relevant of still making money and because there's more videos overall on the platform that I've uploaded and especially this year quite a few of them now this year so far in 2019 I've made 16,356 dollars so that's a cumulative of what's going on right now and if I look at a monthly snapshot come December and November of either year that those particular months are where the majority of the money spikes up because the ad buy rates are higher because it's shopping season now moving over to Amazon this is the other primary source of income right here and this is my last year how much we received in Amazon now these are affiliate links I'm not doing drop ship I'm not doing anything anything special you're just clicking an affiliate link below we have them labeled as such on our YouTube channel and what happens is if I review a product whatever that might be I say hey here's a you know handy dandy tool and you'd like to buy it we all have an affiliate link and we get a very small percentage and I see very small you can see the rates here shipped revenue of 486,823 dollars that means there was that much ordered through my Amazon affiliate link so half you know the what is that half a million dollars you have about five hundred thousand dollars on listen revenue and my earnings off of five hundred thousand dollars in revenue was 19,000 but it required me to do nothing but show the link I did not have to ship it package it deal with returns or anything Amazon's taking care of the whole process there's a lot more money made of course if you do direct sales there's better margins etc etc we're focusing on this that way I can just do the video with our goal being an inbound lead that or just you know sharing information or the inbound lead that comes in it has brings revenue to our company through following up with that and processing either a consulting job or some type of contract work we get that's still the bigger goal because that pays so much more but this is kind of that steady revenue that comes across I just want to be very public about it when you help but I say help the channel by clicking the link below I mean help the channel by clicking link below it's uh as much as I like the inbound leads for all that they it's kind of this big mix of your trying to optimize everything and I think people should be honest I mean I it takes a lot of time to make over 800 videos process some learn the skills put it together in a lot of the videos I know I'm not going to get a ton revenue because I like sharing some of the business stuff and I don't have anything to really offer other than just wanting to see the community better but those things help me produce those videos you clicking those links you putting all um it I mean it doesn't cost you anything to click these links you're not paying a higher rate from Amazon I'm just Amazon's being told that you bought something referred by me so I get this that's really simple now this is what I did and so far this year uh no I'm sorry this is this is last year 2018 and this year is a little bit more as the channel's gotten bigger so my revenues thus far as of August 21st 2019 are 13,000 so last year we made in total 19,000 so far in August we've already hit 13,000 and I just like to be very public about how my business works how we do the videos and where all this money comes from so to speak when someone else is it you actually make money with YouTube yeah it's accumulation of things and I think it's a very fair trade for me to put together all this stuff I mean I would like to make more and some people make a whole lot more especially some of the financial videos wow some of those people make a lot just based on the ad revenue from the videos or you know or some of the affiliate stuff or if you have a cool product YouTube is a really interesting platform for this I encourage a lot of people get involved in it but I didn't want to be very clear when people say you just want us to watch your videos to make money well there's some of that yeah I like people watching my videos I like when they enjoy them it's a labor of love but it's also a way to make money and enjoy what I do as a creator I love to produce all this and put the time and put the content on there and for those of you that may have seen my shirt says working with shippers all day make sure crimp hands strong we sell silly shirts on teespring that's another revenue generator we sometimes get links for companies that give us like affiliate links like tech supply direct and things like that none of that is added up near to what amazon has sometimes the t-shirt revenue and by the way I use teespring because they're integrated right into youtube so I'm not actually processing orders and shirts that would be very difficult but that means I make the lowest amount of money so I'm only making I've had good months where I've made like a few hundred dollars from shirt sales but they're being shipped to people automated ordering I just see the orders come through it's a few dollars a shirt literally just like I think it's like a couple dollars a shirt it's not much it's not a lot of revenue but they're nice at ease to help out people get a cool shirt we get paid for the time it took us to you know draw whatever design or think up whatever silliness that we want to put on there it's all these little cumulative revenue things and I probably have to put a spreadsheet together to try and summarize all those and we're always working on new pitches the tech supply direct one is the most recent one where we get a small couple percent and you get ten percent off discount by using our affiliate codes and we have vpn sales and those don't add up to much either that's a quantity thing too enough people have to sign for account to make just a couple dollars and we have a whole affiliates page that you can see and like I said we're very honest about any of the things we do because I like to operate my business with transparency I like to operate my youtube channel and social media creation stuff with transparency as of right now I'm going to upload this to Facebook which means I'm not going to get paid at all because Facebook's system is not ready yet for such things they have some beta pilots who are trying to pay creators I don't think any of it works well matter of fact Facebook may insert an ad and by the way I don't get any money for Facebook inserted ads as of right now yeah I don't know if they're ever going to catch up with the way YouTube does it but YouTube's the preferred platform because of that but that's it I just wanted to let people know for those of you going who I wonder how much he makes that's how much I make this is the screenshots directly from you know I don't think I need to go as far as to prove that I didn't doctor these screens in some way with you know I'm not just not going to bother doing that and for those of you think I make 10 times as much I don't that's exactly how much I make from these videos and if you're interested in talking about the process keep an eye on my youtube channel we've dive into a lot of different topics while we'll be covering a whole inbound lead process we get from youtube and how we put that together using you can book me and google sheets for inbound leads to process them it's not anything that secret I just haven't taken the time to put it together yet but it's absolutely those are the the entirety list of tools I use to manage inbound leads and book them into oh and stripe to actually take the payments so that's yeah there's my other secret there are no secrets uh and if you want to get started in any of this I have some videos like how we built the studio I have videos on some of my workflow follow along on my channel there's a lot of stuff that just give it all away man I'm not uh shy about telling anyone I've had several people stop by my studio check it out because they want to know how we do it it's I'm an open book if you want to know any of this stuff and it doesn't cost as much as you think to do some of the tutorial stuff a microphone and a camera are not that expensive maybe I'll do some budget stuff I have a high budget one we're like this entire studio but I probably do a low budget one as well to kind of break down like your basic to get started in this it's uh it's not that difficult everything the challenge is all in the ideas and a little bit of skill in editing gotta have the idea first ideas are easy ideas are cheap everyone's got them but then you gotta execute those ideas that's where the real have a story execute the ideas put a plan together that's really the the hard part buying this gear and all that that that's actually the pretty easy part it's not super expensive I'll leave links all this uh if it's on youtube and on facebook I'll try to I'll just leave a link back to the youtube channel thanks thanks for watching if you like this video give it a thumbs up if you want to subscribe to this channel to see more content hit 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