How to Monetize Your YouTube Channel Fast (5 Simple Secrets)

Today, I’m going to show you 5 vital YouTube secrets to put you directly on track for making YouTube money sooner than later —

These are secrets I wish someone had told me 4 years ago when I first started.

In a world boasting expensive camera equipment, fancy effects & fake vanity metrics, I’m going to help you cut through all the noise with the little-known factors that truly make the greatest impact on the growth of your YouTube channel.

And these factors will quickly position you to to qualify to become a YouTube Partner and monetize your channel💰.

By becoming a YouTube Partner, you’ll qualify to start raking in YouTube Ad revenue which is how you create passive income in your sleep.

The problem is most people never really get traction on their YouTube channel and make ZERO dollars because they focus on going viral or ineffective trends, rather than being laser focused on the factors that leads to monetizing their channel.

Once your channel becomes monetized — YouTube actually promotes your videos 10X more to other viewers (making you more💰)!

So here’s the 5 secrets you’re about to learn to grow from scratch just like the big time YouTubers did:

1. Start a Newsletter First
2. Experience doesn’t matter
3. Video Gear doesn’t Matter Either
4. Titles & Thumbnails are King
5. Your Video Hook is Queen

With these 👆🏾, you’ll have your first 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of watch time before you know it and YouTube will be beating down your door to join their Partner Program (slight exaggeration 😉)

Here’s the secrets in details and how you can put them to work for you today:

Secret 1:
Start a Newsletter First💡

Think of your YouTube channel as an online business.

Email lists are arguably the most valuable assets any online business can have.

With a solid email list, you can reach your core audience directly, by-passing the noise, competition for attention and algorithms of social media sites.

There’s nothing more powerful than connecting with your audience directly in their inboxes.

And email lists are most YouTubers’ secret weapon:

Meet Ali Abdaal, a productivity and self help Youtuber with nearly 3,500,000 YouTube subscribers.

(BTW, that’s more than the population of my hometown of Houston, TX— the 4th largest city in the U.S.A.!!!)

But Ali’s most powerful business asset is the 160,000 super fans that subscribe to his email newsletter —

THEY are the ones who buy his courses, buy the books and resources he recommends and spread his YouTube videos to others.

Like most successful YouTubers, Ali is constantly working to convert his YouTube subscribers to his email list so he can connect with them without any middle man.

He does this by strategically placing subscriber announcements within his YouTube Videos, descriptions and his website.

🔥BONUS:

The newsletters you send out can (and should) be easily repurposed as the scripts for your YouTube Videos!

(BTW: this very newsletter will soon be a YouTube Video 😉)

This way your most avid supporters get “the goods” first and your YouTube subscribers get your content a bit later once you’ve made a video of it.

For this reason (though it may sound counter-intuitive), starting a newsletter is the first thing you should do when deciding to start a YouTube channel.

⚡IT’S EASY! HERE’S HOW:

1. Sign up for a FREE plan with ConvertKit to capture and communicate with your email list.
2. Once in ConvertKit, create a landing page to capture emails like this one for 💡Sunday Swipes.
3. Finally, add your landing page URL to Your YouTube Channel

Secret 2:
Video Production Experience doesn’t matter

Here’s the truth:

Your first video is going to be bad, really bad — so will your first 10 or 20.

It’s best to come to grips with this fact now.

But here’s a secret (of a secret): EVERYONE’s first videos were bad!

Marques Brownlee is arguably the most successful tech YouTuber on the internet —

With 16,300,000 subscribers, a Masterclass for viral videos & over 3 billion views, you’d expect ALL his videos to be top-of-the-line like this one:

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The key here is not to compare your video skills and expertise to the Marques Brownlee of TODAY🚫.

Compare yourself to the Marques Brownlee in his FIRST YouTube video✅.

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The key takeaway: push past and get a bit better and more experienced with every video.

Secret 3:
Video Gear doesn’t Matter Either

Refer back to the first video from Marques Brownlee 👆🏾.

Even at that time, Marques was not recording on the best camera on the market.

He started with what he had available and grew over time.

The same goes for you:

Start with what you have.

You can always upgrade in the future.

My plans are to shoot my YouTube videos on on my iPhone 12 Pro Max.

The phone is 2 models behind the latest and greatest iPhone and its spec don’t compare to that of the standard DSLR cameras most YouTubers use.

Guess what? I don’t care!

I’m starting with what I have.

In the past I’ve made the same mistakes many others have and shot videos with the best equipment Hollywood has to offer— and it resulted with nothing meaningful.

The video gear doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things.

⚡GREAT NEWS: If you have a smartphone, you’re already ready to go! All you need is some basic training!

If you don’t have a smartphone, invest in a refurbished iPhone or Samsung phone with a decent camera.

Here’s some loose specs:

• HD 1080p
• 24 frames per second
• Enough space to fit footage on your phone (128GB)

That’s all!

Secret 4:
Titles & Thumbnails are King👑

Titles and your video thumbnails are what really make a difference in the growth of your YouTube Channel.

Look at it like this:

Viewers have only two main factors to determine if your video is worth their time:

• your video thumbnail
• your video title

These two factors are the difference between viewers clicking and watching the video you slaved over for hours or passing it up at the flick of a thumb.

Titles and thumbnails are a major reason why Trice The Unicorn’s YouTube channel grew so quickly.

When I first started working with Trice, her channel was at the starting line at 0 subs, 0 views.

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Paying great attention to Titles and the thumbnails generated enough traction for her channel to join the YouTube Partners Program within 3 months of launching!

This is very quick compared to most channels — and that’s why you need these same secrets provided to her!

🔥BONUS:

Your video thumbnail has more impact than the Title! So make sure to put your best foot forward when creating thumbnails.

⚡IT’S EASY! HERE’S HOW:

1. Create a free account with Adobe Express. You’ll use Adobe Express to access countless, amazingly designed templates.
2. Pick out a design you like, customize any images, put your own text in place and download the final jpg.
3. Learn how to easily craft effective titles with these templates.

Secret 5:
Your Video Hook is Queen👑

Once you convinced viewers to click on your video because of the irresistible thumbnail and title, you have to hook the viewer before they lose interest and move on to something else.

Most YouTube video views drop off in within the first 30 seconds of all videos.

Your hook should come in within that 30 second window and win the viewer over to watch longer.

⚡IT’S EASY! HERE’S A TEMPLATE YOU CAN USE:

Hook viewers (or newsletter readers) with this these key elements:

1. What am I going to teach / show the viewer
2. Why it matters to the viewer
3. Why most people fail at this thing I’m showing you
4. Make a strong statement or stance
5. Bulleted list of takeaways from the video

You can structure these in what ever order you like as long as all five elements are included in the first 30 seconds.

🔥BONUS (PROOF):

And if you look at the beginning of this very email, you’ll see the exact template used to hook you into this lesson.

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See — It works like a charm.

So what are you waiting for?!

Start putting these simple but massively effective secrets to use and start growing your very own YouTube Channel today!

Peace and Love,

Jesse “The Hook” Young III El

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