 How to earn money on YouTube, six tips for beginners. Okay, so you've heard about it. There's all these people making money on YouTube. How are they doing it? Well, I'm gonna give you a little hint. It's not the way you think. In this video, I'm gonna show you how you can quickly make money on YouTube and you don't need any subscribers and you don't need tens of thousands of views or anything like that. I'm gonna show you how to make money quickly and we are starting right now. Hey, welcome to my channel, I'm JR Fisher. I've sold millions of dollars of both digital and physical products and on this channel, all I do is teach you how to start running and growing online business. I've been doing this since 2009 and I love it. I love being able to work where I want, when I want, when I want and making a good living. So in this channel, I teach you all these things. In this particular video, I really wanna talk to you about YouTube because it's kind of mysterious how people make money and I wanna kind of uncover these things. By the end of this video, you're gonna be really shocked at the way people actually make money on YouTube and it's not what you think. Now do me a favor and hit that subscribe button down there and ring the bell, turn on the bell notifications, turn on all notifications, that way you're notified every single time I do a video and you don't miss a single one. You're part of the VIP Fisher family. So make sure you do that. I also, I wanna remind you, I have a $97 course that I'm giving away free for a limited time. You'll find the link down in the description there. All you have to do is click and learn. Fact is, YouTube has become the world's portal to learning and entertainment. As a matter of fact, I actually have YouTube TV now and it gives me access to all kinds of stations and everything. It's a lot cheaper than satellite or cable. YouTube has really morphed into something different and it's time that you took advantage of it too because a lot of people are. Now I wanna put a graphic up on the screen here and talk about it for just one second. Total YouTube users. Now this is for 2019. Worldwide YouTube has over 1.9 billion monthly active users and that means log in. YouTube has over 30 million visitors daily. Think about that guys. YouTube is available in more than 91 countries and it supports 80 different languages. Every minute, 300 hours of video are uploaded on YouTube and YouTube is currently the second most viewed social platform and the second highest ranked site. Out of 86% overall on-demand music streaming demand, YouTube accounts for 47% of music content. In 2018, YouTube doubled its number of pre-rolled display ads and YouTube contributes 6% of the total Google's ad sales revenue. YouTube is the fourth most valued social platform according to B2B marketers. So YouTube is a place you gotta be. I think you figured that out. YouTube is, you're here now. You're listening to me now. There's gotta be a reason for that, right? I wanna talk about first off the six things that beginners and heck pros need to do this too. They don't all do it. The six things you need to do to set up your videos for success. Now the first one, number one is a well SEOed headline. That title of your video needs to be something that people are searching for. So a lot of people will create a video and go well I wanna do a video on X. That's not what you should do. What you should do is figure out what your niche is whether it's survival, whether it's making money online, whether it's cooking, whatever it is and figure out in that niche what people are searching for. Now the best way to do that is through using TubeBuddy. And I will put a link below in the description to TubeBuddy. If you click on that, you can get a free account and if you decide to upgrade later on, you can get 30% off. So make sure you use my link down there for TubeBuddy. But in TubeBuddy, you can actually type in a title and it will tell you if it's going to be a title that's gonna get views or not. Wouldn't that be helpful, right? Before you title your video. So what I do is I actually come up with some ideas and I will put those titles into TubeBuddy and I'll figure out which ones have the highest ranking and then I go do a video on that particular subject. Best way to do it. Number two thing you're gonna need, a lot of people just delete this, they don't have this and blows my mind is an engaging thumbnail. Keep in mind when some people search on YouTube, they're gonna see a whole list of videos there and the videos with thumbnails that stick out, the videos with thumbnails that look engaging, that look exciting, that look funny, that look cool, whatever it is that gets their attention, they're gonna click on those. So without a good thumbnail, you gotta understand nobody ever clicks and they never watch a video. Thumbnails are really, really important. That's number two. Number three, the video has to be the right video link. Now, here's the truth. The way YouTube makes money is that they run ads and they run ads on your videos, okay? So they do want your video because they have to run their ads somewhere and that's the only place they can do it is on your videos unless you run an ad directly to your own video. But the bottom line is for them to run ads on your video, it has to be long enough for them to put enough ads in there. If you're doing a bunch of one and two minute videos, they can't squeeze in ads on your video. They certainly can't do but maybe one if they were gonna do that. So what they do is they look at the videos that are long enough, which is about 10 to 14 minutes. That's what most of my videos are. And they take those videos and they show them more to people. They show them more to people because they know they can put more ads in those videos. So if you're doing these little short videos, I see it all the time, a two minute video, I know that they're only gonna get with so much views unless it's some viral thing. But they're never gonna make any money on those videos because no ads can be run on them. They're not long enough. Number four, a good description. A good description is super important. That's the description below the video. You're gonna see a description on this video here. And I've got links down there. And I've got, a matter of fact, I got that free course down there. You can get my free course. That link is in the description there. But it should tell people what your video's about. You can also put timestamps in there that show people at what time you're talking about a particular subject. The next thing you need to add is tags. This is another thing TubeBuddy can help you with because TubeBuddy will actually suggest tags for your videos. You can click on them and just automatically add them to your video. TubeBuddy looks at your video, looks at the title and makes these suggestions. These tags are super important because what these tags are is they tell YouTube what your videos are about. For example, if you're doing a video on getting more traffic, you may have SEO techniques, you may have blog content, you may have a bunch of terms that have to do with getting traffic to your website. And then when somebody types in the search bar, you know, SEO content or how to do SEO, your video's gonna come up because you tagged your video with that term. That's why it's so important. You've gotta have tags on your videos or YouTube can't even show them to anybody because they don't know what your videos are about. And number six, super important, used closed captions on your videos. Now there is a generator that comes inside YouTube and you can click on it and it will generate a text version of your video. It's not accurate. You're still gonna have to go through it and you're gonna have to make whatever corrections you need to make. Now, keep in mind, it's not available in every video. I'm not quite sure why that is. If somebody knows, you can put it in the comments below but it's not available in every video. It doesn't mean you shouldn't put the closed captions on your videos. You should still do it. You're just gonna have to listen to your video and write it down and put it in there or have somebody else do it for you. Okay, so we've got those basic steps down. Let's get into how you're really gonna make money. Everybody thinks it's just from paid ads. That's just further, couldn't be further from the truth. I mean, let's think about this. To get paid ads, you're gonna need at least 4,000 hours of watch time within the previous 12 months. And if you think about that, that's over 300 per month that you're gonna need to get. Maybe 300 and some odd, I don't know what it is right now, but bottom line is you're gonna need a lot of hours of watch time. Now, how are you gonna do that when you've just got a handful of videos? In addition to that, you're gonna need to get 1,000 subscribers. If you don't have 1,000 subscribers, you can't even monetize your channel. But that doesn't have to stop you from making money. Number one way to make money on your YouTube videos without any of that stuff is with affiliate links. You're gonna notice on this video right here and all my videos below are affiliate links to Amazon to different things that I'm gonna sell to my courses or whatever. And when you click on those links, that's where I make money. So do click on those links by the way. But that's where I make money. Number two way to do it is opt-ins to a list. If you notice I have opt-ins below here. People can click and opt-in to my list. I can market to them. I can sell them things. I usually give them something free for opting in like that course I was talking about. You can get that for free still. It's down there. Don't forget to grab it. But these opt-ins help me build my list for free. Otherwise I would have to run ads and get opt-ins that way. Number three is I can actually sell something in my description. I can put a link in there to a product I'm selling. I can put a link in there to a course I'm selling, to some training I'm selling, to some downloads, whatever it is I wanna do, I can put that in the description. When you put that in the description down there, it will generate you money. A portion of the people will actually buy what you got if they like your video. Number four is sponsored videos. Now when I first started doing videos I thought this is crazy. Who's gonna pay you to do a video? Who would actually give you money? And it's funny in recent months I'm getting contacted by people who wanna sponsor my videos. I built up a little bit of traffic. Not a lot, we're working on this channel. But it's interesting that once you get a little bit of following, these companies will just contact you and say, hey, we wanna pay you for you to talk about our product. Now I don't really talk about other people's products that much, but another thing you can do is let's say you're a photographer. And let's say you like a particular line of equipment, you can actually approach that photography company. Maybe it's a website that sells equipment. Maybe it's the actual company that makes it and say, hey, I've got a following of 10,000 people or 50,000 or whatever I've got. And say I will do a video and I'll review your camera. I'll review your light, your stand, whatever you have. And you'll find a lot of these companies will actually give you the equipment or at least send you the equipment so you can do the review on it. And it gives you content for your site. Now I will tell you if you're gonna do these reviews, make sure you only review things that you really believe in, that you really like because this is your credibility and it's super important that you do that. Okay, number five, the original one was paid for ads. That's right, if you have videos on YouTube and you finally reach this 1,000 subscriber mark and you finally reached 4,000 hours of watch time, you can monetize your videos. Now the things you wanna watch out on monetizing your videos is you don't wanna put too many ads in there. You can decide what you're gonna do. You can decide what type of ads you're gonna be in there. But also keep in mind that when you monetize your ad that your competitors can actually run ads on your videos. That can happen. I've seen it happen and it's not necessarily bad. I'm just letting you know that that can happen. Now keep in mind, I think you have to have $100 in your account before they're gonna pay you out. So they will pay you out once you get to $100 and that's usually a monthly payment. But that's something you can do. Make sure, like I told you in the beginning though your videos are long enough to run ads. Don't do one and two minute videos or three minute videos. It's not gonna do you any good. Even if you're getting tons of views, the odds of YouTube suggesting your videos because of the fact that they're short is almost null. They won't do it. And the number one way to get views is through suggested videos. So YouTube has to like what you're doing. They have to like the looks of your video. They have to like the fact that people are watching it. They have to like the size of it. And then they're gonna suggest it. When you suggest it, it starts the ball rolling and you'll get paid. Now how much you get paid really depends on the niche you're in. You know, if you're in one niche that is maybe just entertainment you're gonna get a whole lot less than one that is maybe financial because that pays more. I don't have a scale for that. I don't know if anybody has a scale for that. Basically what YouTube does is they pay you what they're gonna pay you and you accept it. That's how it works. You know, that's their terms of service and how they're gonna pay you. That's just the way it is. But I look at that as extra money. You don't need that extra money, but it can come in helpful. I mean, some of these YouTubers that have millions of followers are making thousands, maybe tens or 50,000 or 100,000 a month just on advertisements running on their videos. So that's kind of an overview of how a beginner should get started on YouTube. 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