Congratulations on making a channel on youtube! A career on Youtube sounds very fancy to all of us, doing what we love, talking to the camera and earning a crazy amount of money!
Every day, five billion YouTube videos are watched around the world. And they’re not just being watched — they’re being devoured. The average YouTube session by any one viewer is roughly 40 minutes, up 50% from the previous year, according to Omnicore.
$7.5 million is approx 50 crore Indian Rupees!! Isn’t it exciting if you can earn just 1% of that by starting your own youtube channel?
Let us look at the numbers!
The Wall Street Journal reported that PewDiePie, a channel with the most numbers of subscribers earned $4 million in 2013 alone.
Next year, the Swedish magazine Expressen reported that it’s production company, PewDie Productions AB, earned around $7.5 million in 2014, most of their revenue was from their youtube channel.
I will not promise that you will become a youtube celebrity overnight but if you start taking small steps you will definitely start earning money from youtube. There are some steps how to make money form youtube.
If only there was a way to make money off of a website people spend so much time on. As a matter of fact, there is! A few ways, actually, and the proof is in the people (and businesses) who’ve cashed in on their video strategy.
Before launching a YouTube channel for the purposes of making money, you need to decide what kind of profit you’re interested in. Are you looking to use YouTube as a promotional outlet for your own products and services? Or, do you want your video content to generate ad revenue right from YouTube?
I will show you how simple people like you and me, are making their living from youtube (and they are making really huge money).
How to Make Money from Youtube?
The money will not happen on the first day of starting your YouTube channel. I will guide you through the process of starting a youtube channel, what resources are required and how to promote.
1. Create Youtube Channel
This is the 1st step How to make money from youtube, You can start your youtube channel just by logging through your gmail account but that solely, will not give you any money. To make money, you must follow all the steps described under the heading how to earn money from youtube (below).
To start, open youtube.com with your Gmail account.
Click on the bar beside the Youtube logo on the left corner.
Click on My Channels from the drop down menu (as shown in the image above)
A box with heading ‘Set up your channel on YouTube’ will appear, with your name highlighted.
Update channel with your personal information.
Create a custom YouTube URL instead of the default youtube URL to get organic search visibility.
By default, Youtube gives you a URL like this, www.youtube.com/user/abcdefd0h0d2r……. But you must create your channel’s brand name url like www.youtube.com/user/CashOverflow.
Experts say this helps your channel to get visibility in search results. There are certain mandatory requirements for getting a custom URL though, but I believe you are highly dedicated to fulfill those requirements.
2. Earning money with your hobby or passion
This is the 2nd step How to make money form youtube, Selecting your youtube channel for earning money is much related with your hobby or passion for a work.
1. If you teach someone, they understand it better? Let’s teach the world on youtube.
2. You love your dog or your cat. Let people know. Let them know how to love their pets. Or make them laugh with your pet’s videos.
3. You sing loud in the bathroom? Let the people know that you can sing.
4. You have a beauty sense, or you know about the pros and cons of brands in the market, why are you hiding then? People are eagerly searching for someone who can tell them what they should wear.
5. Do you sleep too much? People, out there are taking sleeping pills. Let them understand how you forget your daily struggle and fall asleep, teach them the way of keeping calm (Yes even this too can help you make money.
You can also earn a lot from blogging and affiliate marketing.
Here are few youtubers, as common human as you are, but they are becoming famous like some celebrity. Let’s take some inspiration from their work.
Earn extra cash by teaching on youtube
We are living in the knowledge era. Now no one waits for any confusion to be solved by a professional teacher. All you have to do is to google your inquiry. There are a lot of text, images and videos available to you within a second.
If you have a passion for teaching and you think you can add value to anyone’s life then you can become famous on youtube easily. You can do this part time as well to earn money online. Teach people about competitive exams like Board papers, Graduation exams, Bank exams, IIT, or any such professional or curriculum courses.
Make money by sharing food recipes on youtube
Cooking videos are attracting loads of viewers on youtube. Who does not want to eat a delicious food? But most of us do not know how to cook. If you have a passion in cooking and you can guide people to make awesome food in simple steps, then you can make a high grossing youtube channel. Watch Mallika Badrinath is making a massive fan base with her creativity and passion in cooking.
“Nisha Madhulika, a 57 year old housewife from NCR, with her passion for cooking, have a potential income of $502,819 through her youtube channel started in mid 2011.”
Make money by mimicry & comedy on youtube
Sometimes we copy our favorite characters. My brother used to imitate Louie Duck of Ducktales. If you are creative with comedy and you can entertain people with your mimicry, or comedy, or singing or drama you have a great potential to make money out of your youtube channel.
There is a youtube channel BB ki Vines with a unique concept of playing different characters by a single person Bhuvan Bam. Bhuvan is doing comedy in his unique way. You can also do anything more creative than him.
Earn money by storytelling on youtube
Do you have a passion in storytelling? Nilesh Mishra also has. He is now celebrity storyteller on youtube and leading radio stations of India are eagerly asking for his time on their shows.
If you too had a hidden story teller, if stories come to you from anywhere and you can accumulate a all the characters to make a beautiful story from within the mid of a chaos, then don’t wait for the right moment because this The Right Moment. Just show your talent to the world.
Sing and make youtube audience fall in love
Shraddha Sharma, a 21 year old musical sensation now, has a subscriber base of 202,206. She started simply by singing with guitar strumming and uploading a self-recorded video on youtube. She was just a kid when she was becoming heartthrob on youtube during her initial days. Now she is a fame Youtuber.
Your Interest + Your Knowledge + Audience Availability + Scope of scalability.
If you’re fits into this equation, start a youtube channel now.
3. Develop Content Strategy for youtube videos
This is 3rd step How to make money form youtube, If a video goes viral, it is awesome. This is the simplest ever definition one can suggest in this era of virality but if you have a plan to earn through Youtube, learn this definition by heart.
What? How a video goes ‘Viral’ then!
No expert says that Virality has a definition. And indeed it can’t have a constant definition because the definition is changing every day. But the vital fact is this,
Content is king of the viral kingdom. A good content always rules.
An awesome video can be made viral if it is sharable.
4. Link your Youtube channel with Adsense
This is the 4th step How to make money form youtube, I have covered the methods through which Youtubers earn money.
Login into YouTube.com and click on My Channel as described earlier.
1. Click on Video Manager just below the search box on top, as shown in the figure.
2. A navigation menu will appear on the left side. Click on CHANNEL.
3. Click on the Enable in front of Monetization, as shown in the figure.
4. Click in the boxes after reading their terms and condition as shown in the figure and click on I accept, then got it.
5. Monetization will be added under Channel heading and your YouTube partnership program will be activated.
6. Now click on this Monetisation option. When a window on right will appear with Monetisation as heading, click on ‘how will I be paid?’ as shown in the figure and click on ‘ associate an AdSense account’.
7. Click on Next below (You can read about AdSense in right).
8. A window as shown in the figure will appear. You can either sign in with your existing Gmail account or can create a new one (If you are a novice, click on sign in).
- Fill in all your information and click on Continue. (Sometimes it may ask for your password).
- Fill in the details in the specified boxes and click on Submit My Application.
- You will be asked to verify your mobile number. Choose option at your ease.
- Congratulation, Your AdSense Application has been submitted.
For approval waiting time and AdSense linking to the youtube account we have many options and google is not strictly stuck to any one single procedure, still they have a procedure which is improving continuously. Through the links in this paragraph, you will be updated with any change made by google.
In this world of versatility, we can earn even without being a partner with YouTube.
5. Use Best Tools for your Videos
If I ask you, how will you make a video? The first name which will pop up in your mind will be Mobile. Mobile (means smartphone here) is indeed the best option during your initial days when you are not earning money and all you have is your savings.
There is no doubt that you can record a good video from your mobile phone, but if you want to record a good quality video, you must buy a webcam. And gradually you should hire a professional video maker and use best home recording studio equipment to record videos professionally.
There are free tools which every Youtuber must use.
1. Google Keyword Planner
A keyword planner helps you to choose those keywords as hook, which people who are searching for on search engine, will come to your video following their search. You must choose the keyword (most of the times title of your video) wisely to get organic audiences.
2. Evernote
While recording your video, you have to speak a lot and anything spoken wrong will lead to further editing or if left, it can send a bad impression to your audiences. With evernote you can note all the main points you have to speak with a slight detail. And your data can be accessed from any device, at any place if you have an internet connection.
3. Social media campaign
(Buffer): Buffer is a social sharing and scheduling application. Once you are ready with your video, share it on and on, on every social media channel (as we have discussed initially). To do this, you are not always available. So you just schedule all your social media campaigns in one sitting on Buffer all for a whole week. Now if you do not get time, or you were busy somewhere, then also your campaign is running in full pace, uninterrupted.
4. Picture editing tool
(PicMonkey, Canva, Pablo of Buffer): Every video contains some images to make the people understand more clearly but every pic that you take is not necessarily perfect. With these few pic editing tools you can make your pic more engaging.
5. Tube Buddy
Adding annotations or cards to your videos is made easy with this browser based tool. The thing that most attracts me towards this tool is, the search function. As we can Find and Replace a particular phrase on word processor, so can be done into a video with this tool.
6. Analytics
(Socialblades- free, Vidooly- paid): Analysis is necessary for any campaign to be successful. These tools will help in optimizing the youtube traffic and to know exactly, where the campaign is hitting and where is it loosing . Yes it can tell you what time is best to tweet or do a facebook post or schedule a post on any other social platform which will tell people that you exist and they will come to your channel, following your that post back.
7. Text to Speech app
Sometimes only watching videos are not sufficient for your audiences to get what you speaking into it. In that case you will have to type your speech word by word. Or you have to invest some money to hire a person who will do this for you. But by TTS, all you have to do is play your video and put the microphone of your mobile near the speaker and putting on the TTS on your phone. This will convert all your voice into text (yes with some error but still a much large part will be covered). Just edit it once and your subtitles are ready.
