Want to make money online? Becoming a YouTuber could be a good choice for you.
YouTube gets more than one billion unique users in a month: that’s a huge audience. Many people are already making money with youtube:. With every 1,000 views, you will be able to get an approximate return of $2-$4.This might not seem a lot, but if you consider making 100 videos with 5,000 views each, that would already be $1,000-$2,000. That would be a decent amount of money from your efforts
However, it may not be
that easy from now on. YouTube has applied a rule to the partner
programme. Creators
won’t be able to turn on monetization until they hit 10,000 lifetime views on
their channel as an effort to remove bad actors in the community.2 This is a heightened threshold for creators who
want to earn a living from YouTube.
Having a million views
on a video is nowhere near simple. Luckily, income does not flow only from
YouTube revenue or ads, there are also other ways.
See YouTube as a facilitator to make
money, not a monetizing platform.
It’s easy to get
started, simply use Google’s Creator Playbook.
But it’s more challenging what you do with it afterwards.
If you want to start a
journey on YouTube, do not see it as a monetizing platform, rather, view it as
a catalyst to further your income source. Here are some ways on how to make
money on YouTube:
1. Use YouTube to get
traffic to your website and blog.
If
you’ve got a website or blog which brings in income, you need traffic.
Many
websites were hard-hit by Google’s Panda, Penguin and Hummingbird updates. If
this happened to you, you’re hurting. You can use YouTube to not only regain
traffic, but also increase it.
Get
started with the Creator Playbook. Once you’re set up, consider
repurposing some older content into videos, as well as creating new videos.
Make sure that you link to your own website in the first line of your video
descriptions, so you can funnel your YouTube traffic to where you want it to
go.
2.
Create products and promote them on YouTube.
If
you’re creating your own products or would like to, YouTube offers unlimited
ways for you to promote your products and make sales. Products you can create
include ebooks, apps, art, and music.
Create
your products, and add them to a shopping cart. Then use YouTube to promote
them. Add a link to your product in your video’s description, so that viewers
can buy.
3. Sell others’ products as an affiliate marketer.
“Affiliate
marketing” means selling products in exchange for a commission. Hundreds of
thousands of companies offer attractive deals to affiliate marketers who
promote their products, including huge companies, like Amazon and eBay, as well
as smaller companies.
Additionally,
there are many affiliate networks you can join. These networks include
ClickBank, Commission Junction, and ShareASale.com.
To make money from YouTube
as an affiliate marketer, review your affiliate products on video, or create
“how to use this product” tutorials. Don’t forget to link to your products in
your YouTube descriptions – make sure you’re using your affiliate link, or you
won’t get credit for sales.
4. Create a Web TV series.
Love
telling stories? YouTube lets you create your own Web TV shows. You’re limited
only by your imagination… and your budget.
You
can create a comedy series, a drama series, or your own talk show. Be aware
that YouTube limits your show’s length to 15 minutes. To upload longer videos,
you’ll need to increase your limit.
If
you’re a frustrated TV or screen writer, get a few friends together, and record
your own TV shows. You never know. If you get lots of views, you may develop a
new career.
5. Become a YouTube
personality.
YouTube
stars can make a lot of money.3 PewDiePie,
despite having lost major advertisement recently, remains number 1 of
the highest-paid YouTube stars with $15 million in 2016. It was estimated that
he could receive over $13,000 for a week of publications.
If
you’ve got quirky ideas, or are passionate about your interests, develop your
YouTube channel. You never know, you may be the next YouTube star.
6. Monetize your videos
with the YouTube Partner Program.
After
you’ve created several videos, it’s time to join the YouTube Partner Program.
All you need to do is enable your channel for monetization, and you’ll receive
your share of the income from advertising on YouTube.
Just as the YouTube stars
do, you’ll get paid for each thousand views on your videos. Click this link to get
started – your first step is to verify your channel.
7. Teach: share your knowledge with tutorials.
Tutorials
are huge on YouTube. If you know how to do something, you can teach others, and
make money from your videos. Beauty videos are popular. Michelle Phan, for
example has over 1.3 million views.
8. Test-market your
products.
YouTube
is an amazing resource for market research – you can soon discover whether your
brilliant, innovative idea is likely to be profitable.
For
example, if you’ve got an idea for a product, but need funding, create some
videos before you create a Kickstarter.com campaign. The
views and comments on your videos will tell you whether your idea is viable in
its present form. The YouTube audience can even help you to make it viable, so
that your efforts to get funding are successful.
9. Become an expert on metadata: use keywords to get an
audience.
One
hundred HOURS of video are uploaded to YouTube every MINUTE.4This means that there’s a huge competition
for attention. You need to do everything you can to ensure that your videos get
found. Your videos’ meta data will help.
“Meta
data” is data which gives information about your videos. In its Creator
Playbook, YouTube tells you how to
create your meta data:
To maximize
your presence in search, promotion, suggested videos and ad-serving, make sure
your metadata is well optimized – your video’s title, tags and description
10. Build your brand using
YouTube.
As
marketing guru Tom Peters pointed out way back in 1997, you’re a brand, and you
have power.5 YouTube
helps you to amplify YOU.
Whatever
you’re doing, and whatever your job, YouTube can help you to become known for
your strengths, and make money. Even if you have no clear idea on how you could
make money on YouTube, get started creating videos about your interests.
You
may just stumble across a gold mine… just as the people who turned their pets
into stars have done.
11. Turn your child or pet into a star (and make money).
Two
cats, Lil Bub and Grumpy Cat, started out on YouTube, and have become worldwide
stars, with book deals.
12. Scheduled videos
It
would be much more easy for viewer to catch your content if you publish it in a
specific timeframe in a regular basis. It might also make them more tending to
following your channel, which is to subscribe to you.
It is crucial to have base
audience which would always come for your content so that you can ensure your
number of views for each video. This also is ensuring a steady amount of
income.
13. Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding
is becoming more and more common with the introduction of Kickstarter and
Indiegogo. It could be a great source of money if you have a great idea for a
media project on YouTube. Not only does it generate your initial fund, it also
contributes to establish audience and revenue for your project in the future.
For
example, famous YouTube channel Corridor Digital uses Patreon as a way to fund
their videos or movie projects, with return of special perks for these
supporters.
14. Seek sponsorship
Lots
of company nowadays provide sponsorship to YouTube channels for direct
advertisement. A common source would be Audible from Amazon which frequently
sponsor knowledge-giving show such as Vsauce and Veritasium. The good thing
about it is that you can directly receive the sponsored amount rather than
splitting it with YouTube.
To
reach for a sponsorship you might need to work on a detail proposal about the
things you are able to provide. Make sure you know well about your audience and
the brand you are approaching.
Bonus Tips!
Measure your earning goals
It
is important to check your progress regularly in order to tell if you are still
on the right track in terms of finance.
Sets
goals for yourself to measure. If you are not meeting the goals. the current
way for income may not be working for you, or that the quality of the videos
are falling . It might be a signal for you to work on some changes.
Be
creative
Quality
content is always the key to attract viewers. And to have high quality content
you can never be lack of creativity.
The
internet is changing so fast that a trend can come and go within a week. New
ways for you to gain extra revenue could pop up without you noticing.
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