 What is going on everybody want to make sure you can hear me? I got a little error message on my screen today I have no idea why it's doing that when I want to make sure you can hear me and Welcome to Wednesday We're gonna be talking a little bit about how to make money on YouTube today, and I want to make sure that this broadcast is going out so I'm getting all kinds of error messages But I think I'm there. I think my live screen here. So it's not showing it But today we are gonna talk about YouTube. I've been getting a lot of questions about it. If you're new here today James is loud and clear of course Struck the like button. Yes, that's right. You gotta hit the like button guys It's super important that you do that when you hit that like button it gets a little bit more distribution for my videos And it helps me get some more views and subscribers all that good stuff still about Little over a hundred subscribers away from that five thousand Fame bit mark. If you don't know what fame bit is you can type in fame bit You'll see what it is. It's kind of a designation of YouTube, but if you're new here, don't forget to subscribe and Excuse me get that subscribe button down there and ring the bell turn on all bell notifications and Yeah, so you know every time I go live or every time I upload a video. It's very helpful He says sound is great. And so is the video awesome It's so weird because of my YouTube studio here. It shows. It's not broadcasting, but if you can hear me I'm gonna go with what you say. I'm not gonna go with what they say Because it is working Now keep in mind we are gonna talk today about how to make money on YouTube However, if you've got another area that you want to know about about starting running and growing online businesses Feel free to put anything in that chat section there Any questions you may have And I'll try to answer any of those if I don't know it I'm gonna tell you I don't know it But I've done a lot of stuff online. We sold millions of dollars of both digital and physical products So I probably will have some idea as to what's going on with your question I have a really big promotion starting today kind of the beginning of it I'm gonna do a little test email and then once I figure out some of the results of that test email Then I'll blow up the email to the rest of the list, which would be kind of cool So YouTube how do you make money on YouTube? How do you do that? How do you actually make a living on YouTube? And is it possible? Well, it's not only possible. You can make an incredible living on YouTube Now I don't make the majority of my money off YouTube. I'm just really kind of building On that sitting in all the bricks and getting it all set up, but I do make money off YouTube Make the majority of my money off my survival food company Which has been around for 11 years now, I guess something like that. So that's where the majority of my money comes from However, I know a lot of you guys are really interested in how to make money on YouTube So I do want to go, you know through that with you First off, you're not paid by YouTube for the videos you upload. That's not how it works And they're not going to be monetized by default Okay for you to start making money on YouTube you have to enable monetization or your YouTube settings And from there you're going to have options to join the YouTube partner program to do that You are going to have to have 4,000 hours of watch time in the previous 12 months and you're going to have to have 1,000 subscribers to actually Isn't qualified for that However, there are other ways to make money on YouTube I'd like to talk about some of those ways because until you get to that point To where you can make a lot of money, you know through ads and all that, you know You could make money through other ways of doing it Now building your audience Really kind of pushing in a good position to monetize your channel in a variety of different ways That way you'll be able to take advantage of all the opportunities if you understand the makeup of your audience For many youtubers looking to monetize The more niche your channel is and mine is how to make money online But the more niche your channel is the better position you'll be into work with brands looking to target specific audiences later on I gotta tell you I have a great respect for your show and coming up with content I just did four episodes and had to do it on fly this partner had an emergency I hope your partner is okay. I don't know who your partner is, but hope they're okay Paul And I do appreciate your support. I really do So when you think about your YouTube channel guys, I want you to think about you know the gender of your audience Does it skew towards one particular group? Mine is 80% men and about 20% women. I look at that every day I mean I check that out every day the age range of your audience the majority of my audience is 18 to 24 that's where the majority of my audience is now from these lives You would never guess that because we're a bunch of older white guys However, that's majority of my audience and then the rest is from 25 To 34 and that makes up about 86% of my audience. So from 18 to 35 is my audience Now on the lives, it's not represented that way. However, you know, that's what YouTube tells me With this democratic democratic with this demographic information in hand, you'll have a better understanding of your audience You'll be able to target your brands better And later on down the road When you look at these analytic analytics and you can go into social blade and see how you're growing it You can figure out how to build your brand and maybe even get some endorsements So let's get into how to make money on on YouTube first off You got to become a partner And let's look at some of the ways you can do it. Okay, once you've done that Okay, once you've actually become a partner on YouTube, you can actually monetize your channel Monetizing your channel means that when those ads play on your channel, you're going to get a percentage of the revenue And I think I'm guessing that this I've looked at in a while But I think it's about 55 to 60 percent right in that range there that you're going to get of the revenue That is charged of the advertiser Now I do want to reiterate if you don't monetize your channel That doesn't mean that ads aren't going to run your channel. They're still going to run in your channel It used to be the ads would not run on your channel unless you chose to monetize your channel It's no longer the case anymore Let's see what Paul's got to say here Upside we did it anyway With just myself learned I need better notes and an outline to hit the time needed you okay What you've done and once you're monetized guys you might as well go ahead and you know apply for the monetization program because You're going to run the ads anyhow. Okay, they're going to run ads on your channel. You have no choice about that And the number of views you get doesn't always correlate to the revenue earn If your revenue or excuse me if your video gets thousands of views, but no one watches or clicks the ad You won't make any money This is because of YouTube's criteria for billing advertisers a viewer must click an ad or watch the ad 10 seconds 15 seconds 30 seconds for you to get paid However with the release of YouTube premium you no longer need to rely on advertisers to create engaging and enticing ads to earn revenue You can use premium now YouTube premium is a paid membership program that allows fans to watch and support their favorite creators Without ads so they can actually pay YouTube to see your content with no ads For creators not much changes is they're going to get paid for content consumed by non-members on YouTube along with content on YouTube premium Let me get a sip here my throat is going out early already And this is a day I get to film videos, so I've got 12 videos to film today. So I gotta get my throat in shape Do you recommend affiliate marketing on YouTube? That's real clear 100% yes An affiliate marketing is no more than putting links in your description to different products Products that you use products that you endorse products that you review When this video is over with in the description, you will find affiliate links in this video Okay in the description section How far out do you plan your episodes and where do you find the inspiration for lives? How big is Jessica's audience Jessica's audience actually depending on her channel. She has a couple different channels But her audience is about the same size as mine On YouTube for her dog training much smaller for her DIY, but she just started that channel. That's brand new And I answered the thing about the affiliate marketing so I got that Why should you look beyond ads for revenue? Well because in the beginning you can't get paid on ads And if you can't get paid on ads, then of course You know, they're not gonna do you any good now YouTube received a lot of backlash you do its decision to be more transparent about advertisement the platform and what qualifies as Advertiser friendly content essentially many creators fear that due to the nature of their content They would lose out on ad revenue that helps support their channel. So according to YouTube Your content could get excluded from ad revenue if it includes any of the things I'm going to read off to you now sexually suggested content including partial mutity and Sexual humor. So if you're even kidding about it violence including displays of serious injury or events related to violent extremism inappropriate language including harassment profanity and vulgar language promotion of drugs related substances Including selling use and abuse of such items Controversial now that's that's a really that's a really nebulous. They were controversial. What does that mean controversial or sensitive subjects and events? I don't know what a sensitive subject in a bit is okay Including subjects related to Political conflicts. So if you're talking about political stuff natural disasters and tragedies even if graphic image Imagery is not shown So there's a lot of leeway there for YouTube to demonetize you But the reality is YouTube has been demonetizing content that it doesn't deem advertiser friendly since 2012 Via an automated process without warning and without content creators knowledge. So if this happens, you can appeal it Get another sip here Let's see what you guys have to say Love Jessica's dog channel By the way, great information. Can you prevent competitors from advertising on your channel? Huh No, not really because you don't control what ads go on your channel You can advertise on other people's channels But you really can't prevent what they're gonna put on your channel because you don't even know it in advance So it's kind of impossible to do that. You don't control the advertising YouTube controls that So what else can you do you can sell merchandise? Okay, so there's plenty of products to sell that can help you make money through your YouTube channel So making and selling merchandise, you know, like t-shirts or mugs Toad bags snap bags, whatever you want to call it has a benefit beyond their actual revenue Merchandise increases your exposure by putting your online brand and personality into the offline world And it actually increases this relationship between you and your fans is they literally buy into what you are doing So you could put products like that On your channel and make money also You could also partner with merchandise companies if you want to do that Don't forget to be awesome. That's DFT PA You'll be competing with other youtubers and have less control over adding products offering discounts integrating your content that type of thing You can even go a step further if you want by manufacturing and selling your own unique products Empowering your business through YouTube channel. So that's something else you could do Crowdfunding another cool thing you can do with crowdfunding When money is all that stands between an idea and its execution Crowdfunding is a good way to go whether you need help buying better equipment You know hiring actors covering production costs, whatever it is. You can use crowdfunding Now like in the chat section there and I've had people do this You could hit that dollar sign there and you could actually contribute to this channel So you hit the dollar sign and say I'm gonna send you a sticker and I'm gonna give you a dollar or five dollars or ten dollars Any of you can do that right now And this is only during the lives you can do this. You can also use something like patreon Where they're gonna pay a monthly fee? Jessica has patreon on her channel. She has quite a few people involved in that and she gives them extra content She gives them extra value and they pay a little bit each month to be a member of her patreon So you can also do that and of course you can do stuff like Kickstarter and Indiegogo if you have a product that you're trying to launch also So that last one I talked about the patreon is what's called fan funding And it's similar to crowdfunding except you set up fan funding streams Source of donations that type of thing for your audience as a creator You're actually contributing your voice to the internet world without forcing your audience To do anything, okay, they can just join up and pay Next up what else can we do? You can use super chat for crowdfunding Which is what I just talked about here where you can click on that dollar sign and add some money to Support my channel or anybody else's channel. You can use patreon. Like I said, it's a membership platform It's a really easy for creators to get paid fans can subscribe to their favorite creators for as well as a dollar a month Receive exclusive rewards. You can use tip P Which lets you get a combination of both off and recurring donations offline and or went off and recurring donations You can also license your content to media. You can do that See here Paul says I think even the I think given the nature of today's censoring you need to gather email case there's a problem 100% you gotta have an email and We have quite an extensive email list not big enough not big enough never big enough Okay, but we have an email list and I know that I can tap into that anytime I want if I want to sit down an email Make some money. I can just do that. I can say I need you know 50 grand. So I'm gonna send out this email It's nice to know you can do that you can also like I said license your content If you happen to create a viral video with mass appeal would say a funny clip or something like that You know featuring your dog or whatever you can license your content in exchange for money TV news outlets Morning shows online news sites other creators might reach out about the rights to use your videos if this happens to go viral I don't hope for that my content is never going to be viral because I teach people how to do stuff And that's not going to be funny or entertaining or anything like that, but you may have some content like that You can also list your videos in a marketplace such as junk in media. That's J. U. K. E. M. Put this in here J. U. K. E. M. Media. So maybe you want to List your Videos in there and you can do that and you can actually charge a few years ago There was a woman who put in put on one of these Chewbacca mask I don't know what it was and she was in her car and she was laughing and doing it and that went viral And she actually sold that that video Yeah, it was Chewbacca and That made her a ton of money Next thing you could do is you could work with brands such as an influencer or an affiliate and a lot of you may think Well to be an influencer. I have to have millions of followers. No, you don't you can have as little as a thousand followers And actually become an influencer Brands are investing more and more in influencer marketing They're spending their typical large Advertising budgets on influencers who've already won the loyalty of their audiences because they're like well These people already got an audience so we can just go after these people So, you know, you can actually do that It's it probably is in the range of about twenty dollars per thousand subscribers or two thousand dollars for a hundred thousand followers Which it's not that much if you think about it, right? So that's another way you can do it One of the best ways is to use something called grapevine logic It's one of the more popular influencer market places. You only need 1,000 followers to join. So let me put this in here great Vine Put my notes up here great vine logic So if you've got a little as a thousand you can do that Have you used a publicist or anyone to promote your products now? I really don't I really don't use a publicist or any of that stuff They kind of tell you what to do and I don't like that the next one. I told you about is in the beginning fame bit Fame bit. You got to have five thousand followers to join You could also do channel pages with other YouTube brands if you want to do that There's another one called crowd Tap Crowd tap crowd tap is a complete small content creation Task incomplete or excuse me in exchange for money and other rewards. There's no restriction on how many followers you need to join You can just do it. So that's something else you could do Some influence or marketplaces offer you free products where others are known for having big brands who are willing to pay more Capitalized on opportunities that best suit your needs but list yourself in as many places that you can and you could just search You know influence or marketplaces you can find a whole bunch of them Alternatively you can also become an Affiliate marketer if you want for different brands if you like certain brands you can talk about the brand You can review the brands and you can use an affiliate link for that You can use like click bank if you want I've used click bank before that pays anywhere from 1% to 100% depending on the product and You want to sell without annoying your audience. That's another big important thing You don't want to bug them. Okay, so Many of these strategies I told you about for monetizing involved promoting products or campaigns crowdfunding But you want to make sure promotions don't sabotage the integrity of your content, you know You don't want to constantly be bombarding people with buying stuff I know there's several channels that I've watched And was a you know subscriber to and I quit watching it because they were just all ads That's all they did was talk about buy this buy that And it ceased to be good content and it started to look like just big commercials all the time You can record a call to action in your videos I know Sam the cooking guy will sometimes insert like a little blurb in there about a pan or some Gadgety users or something it's like a 30-second thing or you know Raycon of your buds or whatever and he'll insert that in his video so you can do something like that So yeah, there's a lot of different ways you can actually make money on YouTube without actually You know having to be monetized, which is the one thing that you know people think now I will tell you it's a good idea after you get going to add links in your video descriptions for you know Whatever products and patreon page, you know your website a film it links that type of thing It's also a good idea to grow your channel is to promote your offer on other platforms We will post some of my videos they go to I think Instagram they get a Twitter They go to Facebook so people will see those videos there too, and it brings them over to the channel now I will tell you places like Facebook They don't want to show your links to your YouTube channel We we post them there, but we don't get much interaction on them because they they see it They say it's a competing social media platform, and they just really don't want it on their network So a lot of times, you know, it doesn't get seen. We don't get a lot of distribution for that reason Do you think doing Reveals helps a channel I'm not quite sure what you mean by that Paul if you mean like Showing a product or opening something, you know like the other day I opened the box of stuff that you sent I think that stuff does help I did it more to give you promotion than to give me promotion though So yeah, are you ready to monetize your youtube channel? Well, uh, what compels most creators To create is rarely money So, you know these big youtube creators, they really like doing what they do like I like teaching you guys I like you know giving you guys information letting you use it getting good results out of it The thought of making money For the world to enjoy it really And Making this content for people to enjoy is really why I do it now. Am I going to make money? Yeah, do I want to make money? Sure, I'm not stupid. However, that's not the only reason I do it The hard part for many businesses is getting and keeping their audience's attention Okay, youtubers have figured that bit out if you can do that if you can and I think it's giving people quality content Quality content could be humor quality content could be teaching you how to cook quality content Could be me showing you how to make money on youtube. It could be any number of things Which you got to determine what that is Uh, and if you do those things You can make money on youtube not that hard to do Uh, um, let's see. I've got a record today. So I don't want to go too long I've got to do 12 videos. I don't wear out my voice. But guys, if you have any questions Feel free to put those in that chat section there if you're not watching this live You can put it in the comment section I do swing back by and I answer a lot of those comments so you can go back there and do that But yeah, so that's how you can make some money on youtube. I think you can do it. I know you can do it I've done it. Um And it grows every day. It's extra money every day and the cool thing about Excuse me youtube Is that it's out there forever, you know, it's like if I post something on facebook It is out there forever, but nobody's ever gonna see it You know, if I posted something three years ago on my timeline What are the odds of you coming across that now, you know, facebook is not going to show it to you But if I do a video on seo and it's a good video on seo As a matter of fact, I have one with meta tags and it gets thousands and thousands of views every month I did that video five or six years ago I think six years ago and it still gets thousands and thousands of views every month Um, which earns me money every month when something I did five six years ago And I keep saying five or six because I can't remember which it was But that's the cool thing about youtube Is your content will consistently be shown over and over year after year after year And you still make money on those videos So I've got a lot of videos that make me a lot of money every month Uh, and I did them years ago or months ago or whatever and they're still sitting there making me money It's like it's like real estate. It's like if you own a bunch of rental properties Uh, and you were collecting rent on these properties every month But the only difference is when I make a youtube, I don't have to do any maintenance I don't do anything. Okay. That you that video is just out there once I've done it I'm done. I never have to do any work on that thing again. Um, so that's the cool thing about it Um, so let's see here Paul says have a blessed week in a head gang Yes, well, we're not the weekend yet a week. He was just weak. Okay. I thought you said weekend. Excuse me Put a little jack daniels in that cup. We'll clear that throat Yeah, probably not Paul But that's a great idea and if I was doing videos at night, I may do that I'm not opposed to that but during the day. Yeah, I can't drink can't drink and work never have been able to I fall asleep makes me tired Um But yeah, my throat in the morning is really tough. So I have to just kind of get a cleared out And at 10 o'clock I start filming my videos It's 9 24 here on the east coast my 10 o'clock I get to start filming those videos got 12 to do today and I really need to kind of Um get a base of videos that's going to cover me for about a month or two because when I moved to Texas I know I'm not going to be able to record. I probably won't be able to live as much guys But if you're interested, I'll do some live videos of us traveling and getting there and doing all that stuff I think that made me a little interesting So, yeah, that's what I got for you today. I hope you enjoyed it If you did put in that chat section that you got something out of this put in the chat section What you'd like to learn about I made this video because you guys were asking for more youtube stuff and how to make money on youtube So that's why I put this out there So this content that you get really comes from you and your your suggestions your questions your desires that type of thing When are you going to show texas videos? Well, I don't even have a closing date yet paul. They are working on the house. I got some pictures Then putting the stonework on the front of the house And they really haven't done much on the inside they got the sheetrock done so they got to get the cabinets in They say when they get the cabinets in it's about 75 done And then they'll do the appraisal and all that kind of stuff and then we go ahead and get a closing date But I don't even have that yet and I'm thinking 60 to 90 days from now. So what is this? This is april 28 So I don't know. I don't know On april 28 may june july maybe you know june july is what it looks like to me. I think Let me switch my screen over here because I still have it on the long screen. Here we go And I was looking at my notes there. So hopefully I'll be in them and what I'll do prior to that time is I'll tell you guys You know, you'll see us packing up moving out and heading out to texas Guys, thank you so much for listening today. Thank you so much for showing up. James brian says whiskers are shaping up Gargle with salt water for your throat. Yeah, I've heard that one. Thanks again. Peace and blessings always everyone What a kind guy. What a nice guy. All right, you guys have a great day. Thank you so much for being here Don't forget to subscribe hit that subscribe button. Don't forget to Bring the bell turn on all bell notifications. So you're notified every time I go live every time I upload a video And give me a thumbs up. Give me a thumbs up. 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