 How much money can you make in your first 100 days on YouTube? Well, stick around and I'll tell you. Hello, welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Alec. And as I mentioned in my video yesterday, I finally reached my milestone of my first 100 days on YouTube. And I'd set myself the goal of posting 100 videos in 100 days. But as I said, I covered all of this in my video yesterday. So I'll leave a link to that up in the top corner where basically I broke down all of the stats in terms of how the channel had grown and so on in that period. Now, one of the things I mentioned in there was about the dirty word of monetization. And how on YouTube, in order to get monetized, you need to reach 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours. And a lot of people have that in their mind as a goal of something that they want to reach. But for me personally, it is not something that was ever top of my mind because I know there are quicker and easier ways to actually earn money from the content that you are creating. And so what I thought I'd do in this episode or video, it's not an episode, is it? Sorry, we're not on TV here. In this video, I thought I would share with you my sort of basically cost revenue breakdown for the channel so far to give you an idea of what might be possible. Now, I said in my intro how much money can you make on YouTube. I'm sure if I had been a lot more pushy in some of the products and services that I've got, I probably could have pushed this up further. But really, as you'll see when I start going through them, it's not something that I really push as such in my channel. So rather than how much money can you make on YouTube, it's just really a case of this is how much I did in fact make. And I'm sharing this with you just so that you don't need to think that you need to wait for this YouTube monetization to kick in before you can actually start to at least cover some of your costs. And that was one of the aims that I had was that I wanted to try and as soon as possible make this channel at least self-sufficient because I was doing it initially as a means of self-development so developing my own skills and things like that. But I didn't want it to be a sort of cost to me. I wanted it to be basically covering itself. So that was my aim. And I have achieved that in that it has covered its costs. Well, kind of. Well, we'll get onto that. So the first thing that I thought I'd do is talk about what are the costs that I've got? So let's just bring up a little overlay. I've not programmed these into my stream deck so I'm clicking on overlays instead of buttons. So these are the costs that I have got and these are basically not including equipment. I'll come onto that shortly. But so first of all, we've got Ecamm Live. So that is the program that I use to produce these videos. And that costs $40 a month for the pro version. So I use that in my work as well. So I use it for in my Zoom calls and Teams meetings and things like that. And so the pro version allows me to do that. It also allows me to have interviewees on or guests on. And so I don't do many interviews on Zoom as such. Just the odd one or two here or there. But I do use it on my live stream so that people can come and chat basically. So that's why I've got the pro version of Ecamm Live and that is $40 a month. Now, all of these do have options to pay annually and I believe that Ecamm Live, if you pay annually is a 20% off, I think. Now, I didn't actually pay for it annually. I paid for it monthly. Some of these I've done annual. Some of them I've done monthly. If I was to have paid for all of these annually, it would have been basically a $1,500 upfront cost. So I wasn't prepared to do that for the channel. I wanted it to just sort of earn its keep as it was going along. The next one down is Squarespace. Now that is what I use for my website. Now, I also added on the, there is an email marketing sort of pack that you can add onto it. And I did add that on because as you will find out, I've got one of the things that I do on my website is I give downloads, digital downloads. And so I want to be able to capture those email addresses so that at some point in the future, when I do have other products and services that I may want to just let my viewers know about or people who've been to my website, then I will be able to do that. So there are cheaper alternatives, to be honest, for email marketing, but it was just something that was all integrated. And so I decided that I would just add that on at this stage because it just makes it all seamless for in terms of the setup. So I added that on and I did pay for Squarespace and that e-commerce package upfront for the year. And so I've just divided that by 12 to get $23 a month. And that also includes, by the way, my Google apps. So my Take One Tech email through Gmail is all included in that as well. Next, we've got Epidemic Sound. That is what I'm using for my music so that I am basically not infringing on any copyrights. Probably a good time to mention. If you are starting a YouTube channel, I would recommend if you're gonna be using music that you check out Epidemic. I shouldn't have run this with my overlay on, should I? There we go. You go to takeonetech.io slash epidemic. And there you can basically, they've got a massive catalog of audio, sound effects, music, and yes, you can use those. And basically the way that it works is you whitelist your YouTube channel, your any other social accounts, your Facebook, things like that, Instagram and Twitch as well. And so then you can use the music that you download on those and you don't need to worry about any copyright strikes. There are other ways to get music. There is also, I should mention, built-in music in the YouTube studio so the way you can actually download music from within YouTube itself. So you can use those as another option, but I've just always found that there is a much bigger selection and it's better quality in Epidemic. So that is why I use that. So then apart from that, let me come back to my list of things. So you can see that Epidemic is basically $12 a month. And in fact, that was actually, I say that. I say that. That was one that I paid for upfront for the year because they had a special offer on it at some point where it was $144. It might be a perpetual special offer. Can't just remember to be honest, but any case, that is how much I paid for it. $12 a month. Next one is TubeBuddy and unbelievably at $4.5 a month. I do pay for that monthly. Real cheap skate. The TubeBuddy is what I use to basically, it helps me with all of my checklist basically as I'm uploading the videos. So it helps me with tags, things like that, making sure that I've done all the things that I should do, the title length, all that sort of stuff. So TubeBuddy is really, I think a no-brainer to be honest. So all of these ones that I'm starting with down here, these top four are basically, I would say fairly sort of essential to the channel for me. And so if you're starting on YouTube, then having a website, not necessarily with Squarespace, but having these top four is something that you might wanna consider. So the next one down is Restream. Now there is a free version of Restream actually, or free level, and that is what I use to stream my live streams to multiple platforms. Now with the free version, you can stream to absolutely loads of platforms, but the one that you can't do is you can't stream to a Facebook page. You can stream to your Facebook profile, your personal profile, but not a Facebook page. And because I wanted to start doing my weekly live streams out to my Facebook page, I actually signed up for the paid version, although I only did that last month actually, for the first few months I just wasn't bothering going to my page. But anyway, so that is an option, I suppose. Now the next two are definitely an option for somebody who's doing a YouTube channel, but we'll come onto why I use those a little bit later. So I've got Calendly, which is for scheduling appointments, because I do have ways that people can get in touch with me and book time with me. And there is a free version of that as well, which allows you to have one appointment, I think. But I wanted to have multiple different appointment types and things like that. So I went for the paid version, and I also wanted to be able to accept payment directly through Calendly as well, so that it could link in with my Stripe, which is for credit card payments. So that is why I have a paid version of Calendly at $12 a month. Next, I have Zoom. Now, I do actually already have Zoom that I use for work anyway, but I wanted to keep this separate to the stuff that I was doing with work, so I created a separate account. And you can use a free Zoom account obviously, but Zoom can go up to 45 minutes if you've got more than two people on. But if you've got two people on, you can go any length of time, actually. But if you've got more than two people on, the limit is 45 minutes. And so I wanted to remove that limit and also add a couple of extra features like the higher resolution that you can get with Group HD. So that is why I actually pay for that. So the total of all of those services is, in fact, is 119. So then what I've done is I've assumed that this is for four months. We're actually three months in, so just over three months, so it's 100 days. So, but I've assumed that, well, we're into the fourth month now, aren't we? So that's basically $479.16. And then there is a couple of domains that I bought as well. So I bought my takeonetech.io and also I bought takeonetech.live as well. So they were about $20. I didn't bother going and actually checking exactly. And that comes to $499.16, or let's call it $500, eh? So that is how much it has cost so far. Again, this is setting aside equipment because I don't know how really to quantify the equipment because I had some of it before and there's a few things that I have bought. So I specifically bought this microphone for my recordings, but again, I was using this sort of before as well for some of the work-related recordings I was doing where I've been making various different course material and stuff like that. So I'll probably do another complete breakdown of what equipment I am actually using and so we might want to factor that in. But for the moment, these are the actual sort of running costs of the channel. So that is the costs. Now let's now talk about monetization. And I mentioned obviously that we can monetize before waiting for YouTube. So how am I doing that? Or how have I been doing that? Well, basically five different ways. So first of all, there is Buy Me a Coffee. Now this is something that I don't really publicize or push as much as I potentially could. I mean, I could put this up here right now and say if you want to support the channel when my little widget loads up, if you want to support the channel then go to buymeacoffee.com slash take one tech. And there you can go and some people don't really know what Buy Me a Coffee is so I should probably explain. You can go and just basically buy me a coffee for $5 or three coffees for 15 or whatever you want. In fact, let me just bring you over to the page and I can show you what it actually looks like. So here we are on my Buy Me a Coffee page. Just take this overlay off for a moment. So on my Buy Me a Coffee page, you can go over here and it just simply says buy Alec a coffee. There you go. There's one coffee and you can support for $5 and you can add a little message in if you want. Or you can buy five coffees or three coffees or a hundred coffees if you want, whatever it's just an easy way for people to basically make a donation to the channel. And I can tell you, having been doing this for a hundred days and I drink about a liter of coffee every morning before I start my videos, I've definitely had quite a few coffees. So anything that goes into here, you can safely assume it is going to replenish my coffee deficit, my coffee fund. So that is how that works. And there are other things you can do in here like book a call with me, but I'll come back to that in a little while. So that is how basically Buy Me a Coffee works. But again, it's something that I do mention it some of my live streams, it tends to be in the bottom of my little lower third that I have at the bottom. I also mention it in the descriptions as well, but it's not something that I sort of promote. I don't say on every video, head over to my Buy Me a Coffee link page. I usually just sort of say, check out my subscribe button and hit the like button, something like that. So I don't really push the monetization things is what you'll soon find out or may have noticed. So the next one is Amazon affiliate. And this is obviously a common one that people do. I am gonna leave my Buy Me a Coffee link up at the bottom corner, whichever corner it's in. I'm gonna leave that up there for now. The Amazon affiliate is something that I do. Again, I don't really do lots of reviews and things like that. I know some people just decide that they're gonna be a review channel to get the sort of the Amazon juice, if you want. I've just constantly doing reviews and recommendations and things like that. So I don't tend to do that. I just talk about the things that I do actually genuinely use. And then if somebody's interested in them, then there's usually a link or there's always a link if I've mentioned a specific product in the description and people can click on that to go through to Amazon. And the way that that works, by the way, just so that you know, if you are not familiar, is that it's not necessarily just the product that they click on. But once somebody has gone through to Amazon, having clicked your link, then I believe it's for 24 hours within that period if there's anything else that they buy having browsed from your link. I might be completely wrong about that. It's something like that, that you also get any revenue from that as well. So it's not necessarily just the product. So I have mentioned products in my videos before and people have clicked on the links and people have bought things subsequently. So I have received some revenue from that, but I'll give you the breakdown of the revenue in a little moment. And by the way, if you are interested in finding out of anything that I am currently using in my setup, I've just got to get rid of this overlay again. This is very unprofessional, not really prepared for this. So over at my website, takeonetech.io, I do have a gear page. So if you click on the gear, no, not that kind, it's just the equipment I'm using. Here I list all the gear that I am using or recommending. And so here you can see I'm recommending various different things to do with my audio. These are the things that I use. And so basically this is a list of everything I'm using. And in cases where I've done a specific video about it, I always do include the video there as well, my teleprompter and so on. So basically any links that people are clicking on in here are Amazon affiliate links as well. So that will take them to Amazon. And then obviously I will get the commissions from that. So the next one is digital download. So I should probably come back to my website really. If I come back to the website, what we also have is my store. So click on the store. And what you can see here is, well first of all, this is my little notice. It says wait, before you buy any of my overlay or icon packs, you may want to check out the tutorials I've made about how to make them yourself. So I'm clearly not pushing the sales too much there. I could probably do a better job of pushing the sales. Cause I'm just directing people to videos for how to do it themself. But nevertheless, here I've got basically three different icon packs for Stream Deck. I do intend to add more overtime as well. As I sort of can be, as I have the time to actually create them and or not create them, but package them and things like that. Because I do have loads of different icons that I use on my Stream Deck. Also overlay packs is something that I will be adding at some point for Ecam Live as well. I haven't been doing it at the moment. So it's just the Stream Deck icons. And they're basically, I've got an icon pack for 3000 icons here for $15. Or I've got a couple of smaller packs that are specific use cases like this Stream Deck calculator and this ProMouse ones. And they're just $2 each basically. So not exactly high ticket items. Just there for people who have watched the video about them and think that they may be useful for them really. That is the sort of digital download aspect. Now the next is basically other affiliates. So there are quite a few other different affiliate programs that you can sign up to. So one of them you may have noticed, I just snuck it in earlier was my epidemic sound. So that is another affiliate program that I'm a member of. Also, I mentioned TubeBuddy earlier. Well, I'm a member of the TubeBuddy affiliate program. And so that is ways that you can basically get recurring revenue if people use your affiliate link. Another one is SetApp. So that is something that I talk about because I use that for a load of the apps that I use. So people who sign up for that, you don't actually get a financial gain from that as such, but you do actually get basically the way SetApp works in case you weren't aware. Let me just tell you about it now. I'm getting all of my affiliate links into one video. SetApp basically is a collection of over 200 apps and you just pay one monthly subscription of $9.99. And then you get access to all of those apps and all of the perpetual updates that come with them. And they are adding more apps all the time. And I've done a whole series of videos about some of the SetApp apps that I use. And it works out a really cost effective way to get access to all of these apps and to try out new apps as well. So it's something that I use and I recommend. And the way that the affiliate program works is if somebody goes to try SetApp by going to takeonetech.io slash SetApp, they try it for a week and they can download all the apps that they want and try them all out. And then if they go on to actually subscribe, they will get, by using my link, they will get an extra month free and I will also get a month free. So I'm not actually getting financial direct, financial reward there, but it is just actually saving me money on the cost of my SetApp subscription, which I do use. So that is how that one works. So then the next source of revenue, whoops, a daisy, you pressed the wrong one there. I gave you a sneak peek at the results there. So the next one, in fact, I think that covers all of the affiliates. And the next one is consultations. So basically, if you go to my Buy Me a Coffee page, as well as being able to buy me a coffee, you can also, right at the top there, just book a call, let's talk tech. And you can book a call with me and it's all just done automatically through Buy Me a Coffee and you can book an hour of my time and then we'll have a chat about whatever it is that you need to do. There's also having done calls like this, then sometimes people want other products or rather other services from me. And so that's something that I can talk about as well. And so provide those as well. So that is what I mean when I talk about consultations. It's basically either those calls on Buy Me a Coffee or it is sort of follow on work or things like that that have come out of the calls basically. So that is basically the five ways that I am monetizing my channel. So let's have a look at the revenue that I've got so far from the channel. So from the consultancy, the total that I've had is $1,346. From Buy Me a Coffee, there is $250. And I should mention actually with Buy Me a Coffee, it's either as I've showed you, you can just buy the odd coffee here or there or you can actually become a monthly subscriber where or supporter rather where you're paying either $5 a month or $10 a month recurring. And that is all included as well in this $250. So that's from ongoing supporters but also from people buying the odd coffee, three coffees, five coffees, whatever they want here or there. Next, the iCompacts that I mentioned on my website. So they are the total of that so far is been $109. From Amazon Affiliates, I think the number of sales I've had so far through Amazon is 18 or that I've been shipped but there's actually four still pending. So but they only register the commission on actual shipped items. So there is four more still to come but it's not a huge amount. So if you're thinking that you're gonna make a huge amount on a few sales of Amazon, then that's not necessarily the case. And I think the total amount of all of that product is $347. So $347 of shipped product on Amazon and that is the commission that I've received from it. So that sort of gives you an idea. It's around about two or 3% something like that. The items that I tend to recommend, I've not done a lot of sort of big ticket items as it were. So a lot of the things are little connectors and dongles and things like that that people have bought. So that is anyway, that is just where I am with Amazon. And then with those other affiliate programs that I mentioned, the total is $31. So it's worth pointing out that as I say, some of the Buy Me a Coffee revenue is recurring because it's monthly supporters. And then also some of the affiliate revenue is recurring as well because that stuff that we'll carry over on a monthly basis with TubeBuddy, for example, when people sign up to that, I will get a small commission for every month that they are a member. So some of this is recurring commission and some of it is fixed, but I haven't bothered splitting that out because we're only talking a few dollars here and there. So the total amount of revenue actually received so far is $1,749. Now most of this has come through Stripe actually. So the consultancy, the Buy Me a Coffee and the iCompacts have come through Stripe. So if I go over to my Stripe page for a moment. So this is basically from May the 1st. In fact, I actually started the channel, went live on May the 14th, I think, about 100 days ago. And so there you go. You can see the gross revenue is 1,700. And then the rest is basically coming from, where are we? The other $49 is basically the Amazon affiliates and the Amazon and the other affiliates and a couple of other things where it's coming in from elsewhere. So that is basically a summary of the revenue. So let's have a look at how that all stacks up with some totals. So the total revenue is, there we go, 1,700. The costs are around about 500. And then there are some fees. So that revenue is literally just the cost of the items that were purchased or services that were purchased. But then there is some fees in there. So around about 4.5%, something like that, depending on what word it is. So buying your coffee has a little percentage. There's credit card fees and things like that and Stripe fees and so on. So that amounts to about $78, something like that. So there we go, the total is $1,100 basically. So that is essentially the sort of net profit of the channel in 100 days. And that does not include my time. I'm bearing in mind as well that some of those consultations and things like that, that is actual time that I'm trading there as well. So if you look at it in terms of 100 days, it's basically averaging out at around about $11 a day. So if that puts things into perspective a little bit for you. But it does just show that you don't have to wait as I say for YouTube to back up the money truck because you're gonna be waiting a long time. But in the meantime, there are ways and things that you can do to try to basically monetize what you're doing on YouTube and to sell the services that you've got. And if you are creating some sort of content or so for example, my iCompax, I don't really plan to make a living out of creating and selling iCompax and overlays. But if it's something that you're doing anyway, as part of your channel, whatever your channel or your niche is, then there's always ways I would think that you can maybe package up some of what you're doing and sell that onto people who value what you're doing. And the same with the consultations, usually people have got some sort of topic that they're talking about in their channel unless they're just talking about total nonsense. And so I would imagine that there would always be people who would be willing to all want to know more. Although my content is largely tutorials, what I've found is there are a lot of people who although they can sit and watch the video, they would actually just like to be able to be talked through things and ask questions and stuff as they are going along. So perhaps that is something that you may have not thought about that you might want to think about. In any case, that is all I've got to say at the moment. It was just a little bit of a summary because I thought that people may be interested to see what you can do on YouTube in 100 days and just putting a little bit of sort of effort and thought into how you are going to package these things up as products and services. And with that, I will wrap it up. But if you have found this useful, then don't bother with the like and subscribe button. Head over to my Buy Me A Coffee page, buymeacoffee.com slash take one tech because that is what fuels the channel at the end of the day. So I won't make a habit of being that pushy. I don't like being pushy to be honest. So maybe you don't need to go there. Maybe just go down and hit the like and subscribe button instead and share it with all your friends so they can also come and support the channel. So that is genuinely all for me tonight today. So until the next time, have a great day and I'll leave a link to some more YouTube related videos over in the bottom right over there. Have a great day, everyone. Bye bye.