 Hey everybody, JR Fisher here. Want to make sure you can hear me. If you would do me a favor, put in that chat section. If you can hear me, I would appreciate it. It is Wednesday. What's today's date? What is today's date? 17th of March already. Man, the year is just fly and buy. And today I want to talk to you guys about monetization of your channel, how much money you can make, all those good things. So do me a favor. Put any questions or comments you have in that chat section. Let me know you can hear me if you would. Just put in there, hey, I can hear you JR. That would be very nice if you would do that. I really do appreciate all your comments in there. I really do appreciate you helping me out in spreading the word. I have a couple of you guys, James and Paul and several other people who always show up and I really do appreciate it. And I want to talk to you about your YouTube channel. Guys, this is probably the biggest opportunity for you since sliced bread. I mean, it really is. I mean, think about it. Why would I get up every morning and go live on this thing if it wasn't working out for me? And some days I don't have a lot of people when I'm going live, but later on I have more people and more people. And the thing with YouTube is once you do a video, whether it's live or whether it's recorded and you uploaded it, it pays you forever. Imagine that, it pays you forever. Why wouldn't you want to do that? And it doesn't matter how good you think you are or how bad you think you are, you're going to get views. Some people are going to watch you. It doesn't matter if it's one or two or 10 or a million, but you're going to get paid. And that's what I want to talk about today is getting paid and how to get paid. There's a couple of things and I'm going to share with you what my CPM is and that's cost per thousand. A cost per thousand is what an advertiser pays to have an ad on one of my videos. And then RPM is my revenue per thousand. I think it's called revenue, I don't know, it's RPM. And that's what I get out of it. How much money do I get off an ad running on one of my videos? And I'll share all that with you today. So first off, you got to have videos, okay? And that's the primary thing, you've got to have videos, guys. Why wouldn't you want to do this? I have no idea why everybody doesn't just have a channel because all you got to do is shoot a video a day or something and you're going to make money. I mean, it just boggles the mind why somebody wouldn't do this. And all videos, just so you know now as of last year we'll have ads run on them. So if you do a video on YouTube, you're crazy not to get yourself monetized because they're going to run ads on your videos anyhow. I mean, it's going to happen. So why not get a cut of that? So let's talk about that for a second. How do you get monetized? The way you're going to get monetized is they have a couple of requirements. And the first requirement is that you have 1,000 subscribers, 1,000 subscribers. Now, if you've got none or you got 20, you may think, oh my gosh, that's so many subscribers. It's really not. And you can get them pretty quick. I had 1,000 subscribers, which wasn't a problem when I wasn't, I got monetized and then they changed the rules. And then I lost my monetization because I have enough hours of watch time because I wasn't uploading on a regular basis. So once I realized that I started uploading on a regular basis and I got my watch hours up and now I'm getting paid. And I want to see you guys get paid too. I really, really do. I mean, there's room for all of us there guys. It's not like, you know, I've got a YouTube channel and I want to keep all the viewers to myself. Man, there's billions of people. I mean, billions. It just, there's so much to go around. It's so plentiful. And if you don't have this monetization, I want to talk to you about how to get it and how much money you're going to make too. So the first thing is you're going to have 1,000 subscribers. How are you going to get 1,000 subscribers? Number one way to get subscribers is ask them to subscribe. Okay, so I'm going to ask you right now. And by the way, I'm live now, but later on people are going to watch this and I'm not going to be live. And they're going to hear it and then I can get subscribers off that. So please subscribe. Please turn on bell notifications. Turn on all your bell notifications and you're notified every single time I do a video. That's the first thing you're going to have to do in your videos. You've got to ask people to subscribe because they don't know. They don't understand that that actually helps you out. They don't know that you need that to get monetized. So that's the first thing you want to do is ask people. You want to ask them for comments and please do comment, put your comments in that chat section there. Guys, if you're watching this after it's live, put it in the comment section right below the video. And in doing so, that is going to get you more distribution. Okay, the more engagement you have on a video, the more YouTube's going to show it to more people, the more they show it to more people, the more subscribers you get. So the other thing I will tell you is on your channel, make sure you have a channel banner at the top and it looks professional. If you don't have a channel banner when people go to the channel, they're less likely to subscribe. So just, you know, pay somebody on Fiverr, you know, $10, $15 and get a banner stuck up there. It doesn't cost you hardly anything. It doesn't have to be super professional, but it's got to look decent. You can't just not have one. So you want to have that banner up there. The next thing you want to do is have thumbnails on all of your videos. You can hire somebody to do this. You know, I have a video editor and he puts thumbnails on mine. Now, when I do these lives, if you notice they all look the same. The only thing that changes on there is the date. But that's all that's really required, you know, is that I have a thumbnail. If you don't have a thumbnail on your videos, people are going to be scrolling through on their phone, looking at videos that they want to watch. And if they just see a screenshot and somebody with weird expression on their face, they're probably not going to click. So that's why that thumbnail is so very important. It needs to be engaging. It needs to draw people in. In addition to that, you need to upload on a regular basis. So you can't like upload, you know, on Monday and Tuesday one week and the next week you upload on Wednesdays or on Saturdays. It's got to be consistent. It needs to be the same day, preferably the same time. YouTube allows you to schedule your videos so I can take 10 videos and upload them and then schedule them out for the next two weeks, which is exactly what I do. And I generally will keep, you know, 10 videos scheduled and then another eight or 10 I'll have in process of being edited so that my video editor can edit those and constantly put those up. It's a lot of work. However, I know every single time I do a video and I'm going to share with you my numbers on this live today too, but every time I upload a video, I'm going to make more money per month, every single time. I mean, if somebody told you that, you know, wouldn't you be like, oh my God, I want to do that. You know, I make more money every single month. Says, I'm wondering if it wouldn't be better to live stream say at 6 p.m. San Diego time when most of the nation is home from work. I get what you're saying, James, but it doesn't work that way, unfortunately. I have the data in my YouTube studio and you do too, once you get enough data, you'll have it in there. You can look and see when the majority of your subscribers are online. So that's when you really want to do your lives or your uploads or whatever. And that's what I gear it towards. I don't do it when I think it's convenient or when it's the best time. I never guess at any of this stuff. And that's another thing you shouldn't do. You shouldn't guess. You should look at your channel. Now, maybe your channel does have the majority of the subscribers at 6 p.m. Pacific Time, but it may not. Mine doesn't. Mine doesn't have that many of my subscribers online at that time. So it says they're early morning people. They're at 6 to 9 a.m. 6 a.m. on Eastern to 9 a.m. Pacific. So that's why I go live at this time. And that's a great question. I'm glad you put that in there because a lot of people don't understand that. But that's why I put it in there at that time. So what did I say? Thumbnail, I said upload regularly. Oh yeah, the next thing is you have to have longer videos. You can't upload a bunch of 30-second or 60-second videos. And I know they have what's called YouTube Shorts now. And yeah, some people will watch those. But the problem is you need watch time. To get monetized, not only do you need 1,000 subscribers, you need 4,000 hours of watch time in the previous 12 months. Now that is what, 240,000 minutes of watch time. That is a lot of watch time. So to get that much watch time, it makes sense that the videos need to be longer because let's say they're watching 50% of a video and you did a four-minute video, you get two minutes. But let's say you did a 10-minute video and they watched 50%, you get four minutes. So it only makes sense to do longer videos. Now I've seen some people now, I mean, my God, they'll go live for like two hours. I don't wanna do that because I feel like you're probably just rambling on if you're live for two hours. You're probably not really doing great content. But you know, some people do that. Paul says, I like how you batch your other videos and crank out a bunch and release over the week. Do your lives, get edited after you're done with live. No, I don't edit any of the lives. You know, what you see on the live is what you see and that doesn't change. So, you know, if I mess up, if I screw up, if I don't say something right or I make a mistake, yeah, I just roll with it. The problem with editing them is they can, you can tell they're edited. You can tell they're not, you know, the real thing. And I think people actually wanna see the real thing. So okay, so I've covered 1,000 subscribers, 4,000 hours of watch time. You gotta have thumbnails. You got to upload regularly. You've got to upload at the right time, which you're gonna find your data in your YouTube studio once you have enough data. In the beginning, you won't even see that. What else can I tell you? You gotta have tags. So, you know, tags are how people find your videos. So if they're searching for, you know, how to SEO a WordPress website, they're gonna be typing in how to SEO WordPress website. So you wanna have the tags SEO and WordPress website in your tags. The way you're gonna do that is with a tool called TubeBuddy. In the description when this video is over with, there is a link where you can get TubeBuddy for free. And if you wanna get the upgraded version, you can get 30% off if you use my link. Let me get a little sip here. Clear my throat. Understand it's early for me. Hi guys, Melvin. Melvin, I haven't seen you in a while. What have you been hiding, man? That's one of our regulars there too. Really appreciate you being in here. So, I've told you about tags, titles. Titles, oh my God, titles are so important. With TubeBuddy, you can actually figure out what title's gonna be best for your video. You can type in a rough idea and get TubeBuddy, guys. Really, it's free. You're gonna find it in the description of this video. At the end of this video, just grab TubeBuddy and have it, but you can calculate how many videos are actually out there on that subject. You can know in advance if people are searching for that particular subject. It is so darn useful. It really is. Melvin says, been in school, what did you learn? I love how the colors on your thumbnails pops. Yeah, thank Billy for that. Billy is my video editor. He's really good at that stuff. I mean, that's his thing, that's what he does. And what I do is I put my face on each one. That's another thing. When you're doing these thumbnails, they say that people are more likely to click on a thumbnail with a face on it. So, you wanna put a face on there, some goofy expression, whatever. You wanna have it really zoomed in on your face. You don't wanna have it in the distance. Because once again, everybody is watching everything on one of these. This is what they do. They don't watch it in any place else, but on phones. I mean, some people do, but for the most part, they just don't. So, we've got our tags, we've got our title, we got our thumbnail, we're gonna upload often and we're gonna have longer videos. And when I say longer, YouTube suggests eight minutes. I do 10 to 14 minutes, something like that. And when I'm recording so that I know I have that length of time, I usually have a timer set next to me like my phone and I'll have bullet points on my computer screen and I can look over at a bullet point and I can talk about it a little bit and I can look down at my phone and see how much recording time I've got. And that's how I hit that 10 to 14 minute sweet spot. Could they be 15 minutes? Sure. Could they be 20 minutes? Sure, why not? Could they be, you know, seven minutes? I guess. They want you to have eight minutes and the reason they want you to have eight minutes is so that you can put ads on there. So they make more money because if you've got a really short video and they can't put ads on there, they can't make as much money. So it only stands to reason that they're not going to promote your videos. I mean, just play by their rules. I mean, it's really that simple. Let's see here. Sean Cannell of Think Media says his channel grew exponentially when he did challenge. Do you think challenge might work for you? I'm not sure what challenge you're talking about, James. Yeah, let me know what you're talking about there. And I do like Sean Cannell. I've met him. I went to one of his talks up in LA. Yeah, really good guy. I've heard that keeping title and headline under five words ranks higher thoughts. No, I don't think so. I think actually the titles that work best for us is when we hit two sets of keywords. So it may be SEO and WordPress and then we would put a slash or a dash and then we may put get more traffic to your site. That way we hit two different sets of keywords that worked better for us. But you got to play around with it. How hard was it to set up the playlist? Playlists are super easy. All you do is create playlist and then start adding videos to it. Very easy. And playlist or another thing, which I'm glad you brought that up, Paul, when you do a video and you put it on your channel, you have a URL for that video. So you've got one URL, okay? But if you put it in a playlist in addition to that, you now have two URLs. So you've doubled your SEO by doing that. So having playlists are super important. All your videos should be uploaded to your channel and they should also be in a playlist. And you can put a playlist of three or four, five videos, whatever you wanna do. A lot of times I'll do a series where it's part one, part two of a particular subject and that becomes the playlist. So you can also do that. So now I wanna get into the money, the money, okay? There's two parts to your money. Once you've got a thousand subscribers and you get 4,000 hours of watch time, then you can get monetized. You have to apply for this. You gotta set up a bank account where they can deposit to it and all this. But your CPM is gonna be the cost per thousand that advertisers are gonna have to pay to advertise on your videos. That's your CPM. This will be found in your YouTube studio under revenue. So you can go to YouTube studio, click revenue and you can see where that's at. You have to be monetized to see this first, okay? Otherwise it won't exist. Let me get a sip. Now, this cost per thousand is what YouTube's gonna charge the advertiser. That's not what you get. You don't get the cost per thousand. Next to that, you're gonna see RPM and RPM is your revenue per thousand, what you're gonna get, okay? How much you're gonna get out of that. Now here's the split. Generally, Google will give you about 68% of ad revenue. That's not true on YouTube. It's 55%. So you're gonna get 55% of your RPM. So I'll give you an example. An RPM can range. I mean, RPM can be $6, $10, $20, $50. It's all over the place, your RPM. Your RPM is based on, excuse me, your CPM is based on what the advertiser thinks of your niche, okay? So if an advertiser wants to advertise on a prank channel, even though they get a lot of views, their CPM is very low because, you know, think about it. If you're an advertiser, who is watching a prank video? You can't target them. You don't know who they are, okay? If you're an advertiser and let's say I'm selling knives, steak knives, and I wanna sell steak knives, I'm probably gonna go to a recipe channel because now I know that everybody watching that recipe channel is gonna be interested in steak knives. So the CPM is gonna be much higher for, let's say, a recipe channel than it is a prank channel, okay? Do you understand that? Somebody who reviews movies, that's gonna be a very low CPM because, you know, how do you target people who are interested in movies? You can't unless you're maybe selling movies, you know, links to movies or something like that. So you gotta think about that, guys. You gotta really think that through. My channel is all about making money online. So people with credit card offers, people with banking offers, investing offers, all those types of things, or if they're trying to sell money-making offers, can advertise on my channel and they know the audience that they're gonna be hitting. So I would say an average, you know, a CPM is probably around $9. You know, some of them are as low as $6. So let's say you got $9 CPM. Let's put this in here real quick. So $9 times 0.55, that person's gonna get $4.95 per thousand views, okay? If they've got a $9 CPM. So what's my CPM? You interested? As of this morning, it was $41.29. $41.29, so that's my CPM. So $41.29 times 0.55. For every thousand views, I get that. $22.71 for every thousand views. So you can take my channel and say, well, you know, he's got 50,000 views or 20,000 views, whatever it is, and that's how much money I make, you know, on my channel, which is pretty good per thousand views, but it's based on thousand views. So if you think about it, every time I do a new video, I get some more views. Is it millions? No, it's not, but I get more views. Now, I was watching a video last night by MrBeast, and he's one of the biggest YouTubers in the world, okay? And we're gonna say his CPM's a lot lower because it's really hard to target his audience. So let's say it's $11, okay? Now, the particular video I looked at had 28 million views, 28 million, okay? So that came up with a number, okay? And that number times 0.55 with 55%, that's what he made for that video. Is that insane? Sure it is, it's insane, okay? He made a lot of money. That's why some of the videos he could do, like what I just watched, he gave away four houses and bags of cash. He gave away four houses and bags of cash. That is on the extreme end, I mean, really extreme. If you look at one of his videos and try to figure out how he's getting so many views, it's pretty simple to break down. The first thing he's doing is giving away stuff. People love giveaways, they love when people give stuff away. Second thing he does is he does a massive amount of edits. So each scene may be a second or two. Obviously on this here, I'm just staying on camera so it's not gonna be as engaging as somebody jumping into a pool or getting knocked through a door or whatever he's doing on his. So he has massive amounts of edits. He probably had in that one video I watched five, 600 edits in 10 minutes. I mean, that's massive. But that holds people's attention. Understand that's what he's going after. He's not teaching people like I am. If I was doing that many edits, it would drive me nuts because I'm trying to teach you something right now. But that's how he's pulling that off. Just so you know, that's how he's getting all those views. And he's an interesting guy and he's engaging and he's funny and he has a crew with him. I mean, there's a lot of components there. He has great camera work, his lighting's good. I mean, there's a lot of things there. Don't worry about trying to be Mr. Beast. You're not gonna be Mr. Beast right off the bat. As a matter of fact, he talks about that and in his first year on YouTube, he got 40 subscribers, just 40, which is not a lot, okay? I'm approaching 5,000 now and that's another thing. When you get to 5,000 subscribers, you can join FameBit, F-A-M-E-B-I-T. FameBit is the sponsor arm of YouTube. So what FameBit is, is once you're a member of FameBit, you can join it and YouTube will find sponsors for your videos and they will actually pay you money for you to talk about their products. Now, I will not talk about products. I get a lot of people who offer me, you know, sponsored video stuff and I just don't do it because I don't like the product. It doesn't fit with my brand. But if I come across a good one and I like it, yeah, I'll take the money and I'll do it. Because I'm here to make a living. I'm here to make money. My job is to teach you how to make money. If I don't make money, I'm not doing my job, okay? So some people say, oh, you're just doing this to make a living. Yeah, I am, I really am, sure I am. I'm doing this to make money. But I wanna help you guys make money and I can't help you make money if I don't know how to do it, okay? So that is part of my channel, guys, is that I make money and I teach you how to do it. Let me look at some of your comments here. Can you run your ads to your site as a self promotion? 100% yes. As a matter of fact, I do that. What I'll do is I'll say, I wanna run this ad to anybody who's viewed one of my videos or my channel in the past 180 days. So I can literally do that. So they may be on another channel, but if they viewed one of my videos in the last 180 days, they're gonna see my ad because I can target those people. I think you can go up to 540 days or I can say I wanna run my ad to somebody who went to one of my pages. So let's say they went to my sign up page for my master class and they didn't sign up and they didn't go to the master class. I can retarget them and run an ad to them and say, hey, remember that master class? Here's the link to go ahead and sign up for it. I know you were thinking about it, but you didn't do it. I can literally do an ad like that, it's crazy. I can target people that precise. So yeah, you can certainly do that. What other questions we got in here? Let's see, money doesn't talk, money screams. Yes, it does, it does scream, you're right, Paul. If you provide an email address, I'll forward the link to Sean's challenge video. James, you can just send it to training at jrfisher.com. I can't put an email in here, it won't let me, but just training at jrfisher.com, training at jrfisher.com, that'll get to me. Can you put an offer in your video that can link to your product or just tell them to go below an area where you have an affiliate offer on products? Yes, matter of fact, I'm doing that right now. In the description of this video, when it's over with, you can't see the description of lives until they're over with. There'll be a link to a free course, you can click on that, it's a $97 course, you can get it absolutely free. There's also links in there to my affiliate links to Amazon for the lighting equipment and my cameras and microphones and all that stuff that I use. You can find those links in there. As far as your ads go, if it's an ad video, there's gonna be a little box in the bottom left and they can actually click on that box, excuse me, and it will go to whatever your offer is. So, on ads, it's a little different because they literally will put a clickable link in there and you can do that. Let's see, can you put an offer? Okay, did that. Channels with sponsors is a turn off for me. Yeah, I get it, I know what you're saying and I'm really careful about this stuff. I don't wanna overdo it as far as sponsoring stuff and talking about products. If it's a product that I would use and I really like, then yeah, I'll talk about it. I'm not gonna do it too much though. A lot of YouTubers are really, in my opinion, they're doing it too much. That's just my opinion. They can do whatever they want, it's their living. But the point is, of today, is you can make a lot of money. My CPM is freaking $41, that is insane. Normally it's six to $10, mine's $41. So, every time I do a video, every time I talk to you guys, every time I help you guys, I'm literally making more money. So, how often would you do that? And let's say you're one of these big YouTubers that each time they do a video, they make $10,000 or $20,000, you know, that month. And then from that month on, every single month, because that video keeps getting shown, how many videos would you do in a day? If I told you, I'm gonna pay you $5,000 or $10,000 for a 10 minute video, how many videos would you do in a day? I mean, you may get up really early and you may stay up really late making videos, right? Well, the point to this is, you have to do that before you make the money. You've gotta start making these videos and putting them up on your channel and in doing so, in the long run, you will be making that money and I know that. I mean, I know that the more videos I do, the more money I'm gonna make. I have over 800 videos on my channel now and they're all just working for me. All day long, 24 hours a day, these 800 videos are working for me. So, guess what? I want 900, I want 1,000, I want 2,000, I want 3,000 because they all work for me. Imagine, I mean, you could set up your retirement, okay? By doing this in two or three years, you could literally set up a retirement plan of videos. Is that crazy? Why wouldn't anybody, and guess what it cost you to do this? Nothing. You take your phone right here and you shoot videos and you upload them to YouTube and you get paid every single month. This is craziness, guys. Don't you see how everybody should be doing this? And I understand the fears, I understand the fears of getting on camera. I understand the fears of not doing well and all that. You just gotta get over it because the fear of not paying your bills is much greater, believe me. You know, I've been there. I've been there where I had stacks of credit card bills and I didn't even want to open the envelopes and look at them. You ever been there? You ever been where you had a stack of bills and you're like, well, if I don't open them, I don't owe them. You know, if I don't look at the amount then it can't scare me, okay? I've been there. I knew what it was like to owe all these credit cards and heck, at one point in my life when I was much younger, I was paying one credit card with the other credit card. Craziness, craziness. Get a cash advance on one credit card to pay the other one. That's insanity. But you know what, you don't have to live like that. You could start doing videos right now. Pick a niche, pick a subject. Ask me a question here in the chat about what you wanna do. Paul says, how many times can you retarget an audience? That's another good question. Oh, you got good questions today. What you can do is you can set it up to where how many times a particular viewer will see your ads. So I can say I've got this video running in this particular campaign and I don't want people to see it any more than three times every 30 days. I can say I don't want them to see it any more than three times a week or no more than twice a day. Whatever I want, I can select how often they're gonna see my ads. Now, if I have 10 different campaigns, the person could see my ad in a whole bunch of different campaigns, right? Does that make sense? In other words, there's one campaign I'll say no more than three times a month. The next campaign, no more than three times a month. The next campaign. But if I've got several campaigns, they could still see me six times a month or nine times a month. So you can certainly do that and you should limit it because you don't wanna just hammer somebody with the same ad over and over and over because if you do that, you have loss of, what do I wanna call this? Diminishing returns. You have diminishing returns after a while. What changes are you going to incorporate into your new studio in Texas? I don't even know yet. I really don't know. This is the honest to God truth. We have four bedrooms, a library and a family room in that house. Now, those are what the rooms are labeled, okay? It doesn't mean that you can call whatever you want. I don't even know what room I'm gonna be in. Oh, yeah, we have a game room. Or excuse me, the family, we have a dining room, a library and a game room and then four bedrooms. So I don't even know what part of the house it would be and I know the game room supposedly is in the back of the house. It has a lot of windows, a lot of sunlight and I kind of like that idea. But the front of the house has the library and dining room faces the street and it has a nice view. I don't know. I don't know what I'm gonna do. I think I need to have it engaging. I've tried to make this office pretty engaging. I use a backdrop for this one here. This room has zero light. This room is pitch black. Until I come in here and turn on all these lights in here and crazy amounts of lights in here. But until I do that, this room is pitch black, okay? And I don't like that. I don't like not seeing some daylight but in order to get the right lighting for this video, that's what I have to do. So do you have any more questions about videos about getting monetized? I didn't tell you my exact income a month but I did tell you how it's calculated. So you can play around with that and come up with what you want. I can tell you it goes up every single month. Why? Because I make more videos every single month. Just makes sense, right? If you make more videos, you're gonna have more income. Videos to me are like real estate. Like if I had a rental property, I just keep adding these rental properties. I keep getting income of all these different rental properties which are essentially videos. The only difference is, I don't have to buy the video. I just make it. I just put time, I invest time into it. I don't have to maintain the video. Once the video is up on YouTube, there's no maintenance. I don't have to worry about property taxes on it. I don't have to worry about fixing the plumbing system or the heat system. I don't have to worry about repainting it or yard maintenance or any of that stuff. I just do a video and I set it out there and every month, money comes back on it. That's pretty cool. I mean, that's pretty cool. And some videos earn me hundreds of dollars a month just a single video, which is nice because it's every single month. Can you target people who are only the ones that have bought from you before with a higher ticket price? I keep looking for those trees behind you to move. Yeah, they aren't gonna move. Yes, here's what you do. It's not necessarily somebody who buys from you, but it is somebody who buys from you. So let's say somebody goes to your sales page and they enter in all their credit card information and they click purchase. That page takes them to another page, which is the thank you page. Thanks for buying from us. So what you can do is you can say, I wanna send my videos to anybody who has viewed my thank you page. Now the thank you page is a URL. So what you do is you say, I wanna send my videos to anybody who has been to this URL. So essentially those are people who bought from you and yes, you can run that ad and we do run that ad. So that is out there. Let's see, I hope your Austin kitchen is at the east end of your Texas home. I have to think about that. I don't know. I know it's got plenty of light. There's plenty of light coming in there so that's not a problem. I like how this new background is brighter than the bricks. Yeah, the bricks were kind of old school, weren't they? I didn't like the bricks so much. I had to get rid of the bricks. The bricks are still in my closet over there. I'm gonna show you how the bricks are. Who knows? I may pull out the bricks one day. But I'd like to decorate it enough to where it looks good. The only issue with real windows is that the lighting is not always what you want, okay? So if you have a gloomy day and a rainy day, that's what your video is gonna be. So I would have to adjust the lighting around it. And I understand when you set up one of these studios like I set up this room here, this room stays this way. This light, that light, this light, that light, these two lights, that light over there are always sitting in that same position. So this room is unusable for anything else because it's all set up this way. It's got wires all over the place, you know? It's not conducive to being visually appealing. So if I were to set up that front room in that house like this, you know, when you walk through, you're gonna see this mess of lights and wires. That's the only problem I have with that. So I gotta run that through my brain a little bit. Thanks for sharing this today with us. Hey, am I the only one who love the bricks? James, you like my bricks? Well, I'll bring the bricks out one day for James so he can look at the bricks. So guys, I've got another meeting on YouTube ads now. I gotta head over to, please put your comments, suggestions, shares, whatever in that chat section. If you're watching this after the live, don't forget to subscribe. If you're watching it now, don't forget to subscribe. Don't forget to turn on bell notifications. Don't forget to give me a thumbs up. Everybody do that real quick right now. Just hit the thumbs up, hit it, I'll wait. Did you do it? I hope so. Only you know if you hit that like button. I really need that, that like button means so much. I never realized it before, but that like button means tremendous amount of exposure for me. So I really need that. So that's it for today's Melvin. Leonard missed your videos. Well, go watch them, Melvin. I want you to. I love having you around, man. Make sure you go out there and watch some of those videos. I know you've been gone for a little bit, so I've probably done a couple hundred videos since then. I've done a bunch. I'm now doing five videos a week, Monday through Friday. I do six lives a week, Monday through Saturday. Did somebody said something about one of the lines? Did I get that comment? I'm trying to get all the comments here. I thought I saw something about the Saturday lives. If so, put that comment back in there. I'll be sure to catch it. Can you put your, you know, you answered that. What chain I got that? Can you tell I got that? Wearing black reminds of Ebson organ. Ever think of wearing red? Thinks a bunch, James. Peace and blessings. Who is Ebson organ? Who is that? Can you just see here real quick? I know I should go, but I gotta look this up now because he's just sent something. I don't know what it is. It is Ebson organ. You know, I've got like one red shirt. I don't wear a lot of bright colors. I'm like dark blue, basic skills, workplace stuff. I'm not quite sure. I'm getting differing results for what that is, James. So maybe you could put it in there. Do lives get more value than post-pre-recorded? Sometimes, yes, sometimes no. I just do them. I do lives more not to see if I can get more traction or more views or more traffic. I do them so I can actually answer you one-on-one and give you an opportunity to actually ask me a question. You can certainly ask me questions in the comments section on ones I just upload, but if you want live interaction with me, which I think some of you do, you really wanna know your answer like right then. You wanna talk to somebody. That's why I do the lives. I really just do it for you guys. With giveaway on Saturday, any thoughts of other promotions like contests? Yeah, yeah, I have thought of that. I haven't done anything yet. I've been giving away some gift cards. So if you guys want gift cards, you can show up on Saturday. And I thought about getting rid of the gift cards too because I don't want people to show up just for gift cards. I want them to show up because they're serious about learning how to make money online because that's really what I'm serious about. Just giving you something does you no good. It really does you no good whatsoever. Somebody just hands you cash and you didn't work for it. It's just not, it's worthless. It really is. I've given people access to some of my courses for free before and they never do anything with it. They don't even watch it. They don't go through it. But when I charge somebody a thousand dollars, they're very motivated to watch the videos and they get value out of it. I've heard Russell Brunson say the same thing. He has a mastermind and he charges like $10,000 a year and he lets some family members into it and some friends for free and none of them did anything. None of them, not a one of them. So then I think that's Evan Pagan, double your dating. Please forgive my clumsy fingers. Oh, okay. I've heard the name. I don't know if I'd want to double my dating but I've heard the name. I think that would be a bit much. But I'll check that out. Yeah, is that, I guess maybe the dark color shirt is the way to pick up chicks or something? I don't know. I got a wife, I don't need to worry about that. Not my thing. All right guys, I'm gonna get out of here. I've gone a little bit long today. I appreciate you being here. Don't forget to subscribe, ring the bell. Don't forget to like this video. Let your friends know about the channel please. I really want to get the word out. I appreciate you being here and I will see you tomorrow.