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Speaker 4: We know that we're heavy in Toronto.
Speaker 5: We've been come to north Man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we al Toronto Like Doug Christie shout out to camp.
Speaker 3: That was a long time ago. Now you guys say,
Speaker 3: like play Toronto like Kyle Lowry or something like that.
Speaker 5: Legend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so shout out to Canada. You know, we we've
Speaker 3: we've been doing a lot of episodes of people from Canada.
Speaker 6: We make no secret of how much we love Toronto,
Speaker 6: we love Montreal, we we love our neighbors up north.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3: So this is a dope episode because not only do
Speaker 3: we get to tap in with one of the brightest
Speaker 3: entrepreneurs north of the border in Toronto, but we get
Speaker 3: to talk about some stuff that we haven't talked about
Speaker 3: yet as far as like YouTube, which is huge.
Speaker 5: Just so many questions about it. Yeah, so many questions.
Speaker 3: Yea, entrepreneurship, women, entrepreneurship, believe in the corporate We're a
Speaker 3: lot of different things, but YouTube is especially something that
Speaker 3: we got to double download because we haven't spoken about
Speaker 3: that at all. So, without further ado, lynn A Lore So,
Speaker 3: lynn A Lore is a, like I said, one of
Speaker 3: the brightest entrepreneurs in Toronto right now.
Speaker 4: She was actually in.
Speaker 5: The corporate world for a while, finance major.
Speaker 3: Finance major, and then now just a full time entrepreneur.
Speaker 3: So she has a community where she she helped women
Speaker 3: in business and really execute their dreams. And she's also
Speaker 3: a YouTuber. Shehoes on YouTube. We gotta get on your
Speaker 3: YouTube platform. She has a quarter million, she has a
Speaker 3: quarter million subscribers on YouTube, a bunch of videos that
Speaker 3: have gone viral, a bunch of videos with over one
Speaker 3: hundred thousand views, and she's just a really dope person.
Speaker 3: So she reached out to us, and you know, we asked.
Speaker 3: I asked her she wanted to come on the platform.
Speaker 3: She wanted to come on the podcast, and she was like, sure, so.
Speaker 4: Here we are, Old Canada.
Speaker 2: That's a nice intro.
Speaker 5: I appreciate it. That's an experience. That's good.
Speaker 4: So, first and foremost, thank you, thank you for joining us.
Speaker 4: You appreciate it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, thank you guys for having me on, because honestly,
Speaker 7: this is like one of my favorite podcasts right now.
Speaker 7: I'm always telling anyone who's interested in like finance and
Speaker 7: personal development, you got to listen to that Leasure podcast.
Speaker 7: So it's kind of crazy that I'm on right now.
Speaker 7: Thank you guys for having me on.
Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you for being a earner worldwide.
Speaker 4: Appreciate that.
Speaker 3: That's a fact. So all right, let's get into it.
Speaker 3: Like I said, I want to talk about variety of
Speaker 3: different things, but first I want to talk about your
Speaker 3: journey from leaving corporate. Well I was gonna say corporate
Speaker 3: American corporate, so corporate Canada and she coming a full
Speaker 3: time entrepreneurs So what did that?
Speaker 4: Because I know you come from you.
Speaker 3: Know, African parents, and if anybody knows any African parent,
Speaker 3: they don't play.
Speaker 5: That like they like to know you're going to be
Speaker 5: a doctor.
Speaker 3: They very straight from Ghana, right, Yeah, we actually we're
Speaker 3: gonna go to go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we got some some special plan for Yeah.
Speaker 6: We had a guest so kame Akle, who had some
Speaker 6: ties there, and it was like, listen, we got to
Speaker 6: bring you guys to Ghana. They need to see this.
Speaker 6: But when you come, I'm going to host you. It's
Speaker 6: going to be different from you traveling. Then we're gonna
Speaker 6: thank you. We are very much looking forward to that.
Speaker 4: And we don't have a whole plan for Donald.
Speaker 5: You gotta come with us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm down.
Speaker 7: Ganna's always a vibe. It's such good vibes, such good energy.
Speaker 7: Everyone's so friendly, so nice, so welcoming you guys, are
Speaker 7: gonna have a good time.
Speaker 4: So all right.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, I said, you you're a YouTuber and amongst
Speaker 3: other things. But what made you make the transition to,
Speaker 3: you know, working in the corporate world to actually going
Speaker 3: online and putting out content for a living.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So I started my YouTube journey about four and a
Speaker 7: half years ago. At the time, I was still in college,
Speaker 7: so it was just an outlet for me.
Speaker 2: I was like my last year of college.
Speaker 7: I thought it would be kind of fun to put
Speaker 7: out a video, and the idea of YouTube sounded fun
Speaker 7: to me too, the idea of having a YouTube channel.
Speaker 7: But I didn't mess with social media at all. I
Speaker 7: had no social media, just wasn't on it, very private,
Speaker 7: and I put out a video on YouTube because I thought,
Speaker 7: you know, no one's really gonna find it in my
Speaker 7: real world, like none of my friends or family, So
Speaker 7: it just be fun, my own little outlet, little community.
Speaker 2: So I had zero expectations for it.
Speaker 7: And after my first video got like, I think thirty
Speaker 7: two or thirty eight thousand views in like the first month,
Speaker 7: but I wasn't sure if I was like good or
Speaker 7: bad because I had zero expectations. And then I got
Speaker 7: an email from YouTube or from Google actually saying I
Speaker 7: need to put in my direct deposit information because I
Speaker 7: made seventy eight dollars. So when I get to one
Speaker 7: hundred dollars, which is the threshold that paid YouTube paid
Speaker 7: you over, they need to find somewhere to put it into.
Speaker 7: So I was like, oh my god, this is so cool.
Speaker 7: I like wrote in my journal like oh my god,
Speaker 7: thank you God. I mean so many salaries for this video.
Speaker 7: But it was still just a hobby for me. It
Speaker 7: was the hobby that just so happened to make money.
Speaker 7: And then brand started reaching out to me to do
Speaker 7: sponsored videos and I was like, oh, okay, cool, so
Speaker 7: this is like a side house.
Speaker 6: So for me, Now, what was that first video about? Sorry,
Speaker 6: what was the first video about?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 7: It was a storytime video that time. Those were like
Speaker 7: pretty popular. You like talk about something that happened to you,
Speaker 7: what you learned from it, and what the takeaway was.
Speaker 2: It was like entertaining, but still educational and more like
Speaker 2: learn from me.
Speaker 7: It wasn't worth it, or you could have done it
Speaker 7: this way, blah blah blah.
Speaker 5: Gotcha. Yeah.
Speaker 7: So then I was just doing like sponsored videos for brands.
Speaker 2: But during this entire time.
Speaker 7: I like had graduated from school, I was working full time,
Speaker 7: like a nine to five, and then I went back
Speaker 7: to university and I was still working my full time
Speaker 7: nine to five, but YouTube was a side hustle for me,
Speaker 7: so I was just doing mainly sponsored.
Speaker 2: Videos for the most part.
Speaker 7: And then it wasn't until I graduated from university that
Speaker 7: I was able to put more time into my YouTube,
Speaker 7: and then it just started to make more sense and
Speaker 7: more dollars. I unlocked the algorithm, I unlocked like the
Speaker 7: business behind it, and it really starts to make sense.
Speaker 7: So it went from a hobby that just so happens
Speaker 7: to make money sometimes to a side hustle and then
Speaker 7: I started making really good money on it, and I'm like,
Speaker 7: I could actually do this full time instead of having
Speaker 7: to go to my corporate job. So I just made
Speaker 7: that transition, which it was a transition. I want to
Speaker 7: make that very known that it wasn't just one day
Speaker 7: I woke up and it was like I'm going to
Speaker 7: quit my job as an accountant and just like do
Speaker 7: YouTube full time. I like made that transition eventually, and
Speaker 7: now I do YouTube full time and my two other
Speaker 7: online businesses.
Speaker 3: So yeah, like I said, I mean, I probably she
Speaker 3: said it's at the beginning of the show. But YouTube
Speaker 3: is something that everybody's aware of, but people don't fully understand,
Speaker 3: like it's a real business, it's an industry, and especially
Speaker 3: like a lot of kids, like you know, they only
Speaker 3: watch YouTube, and you know a lot of times people don't,
Speaker 3: they don't take it serious. They're just like, oh, you're
Speaker 3: a YouTuber or you know, you're just making selfie videos
Speaker 3: about stuff. But it's like, naw, people is actually out
Speaker 3: here making millions of dollars and it's a it's a
Speaker 3: billion dollar industry, and brands are paying millions of dollars
Speaker 3: for people to advertise their products and promote their products,
Speaker 3: and people are selling products. So that's why I really
Speaker 3: wanted to talk about YouTube so much, because it's like,
Speaker 3: I don't think people fully understand.
Speaker 4: The power of YouTube.
Speaker 3: So just to kind of give some some background perspective
Speaker 3: on YouTube, it's like it's the second biggest search engine online,
Speaker 3: second to Google, and Google actually owns YouTube, so you.
Speaker 4: Know that kind of push things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so when you think about YouTube, don't just think
Speaker 3: about it as a place that just has a bunch
Speaker 3: of brandom videos. Think about it as an industry. It's
Speaker 3: a multi billion dollar.
Speaker 5: And that's something very important about it is that it
Speaker 5: always gets younger.
Speaker 6: Like a lot of these platforms don't realize, like, Yo,
Speaker 6: how do I get a younger audience base? Well, YouTube
Speaker 6: will always have a younger audience space because a lot
Speaker 6: of kids watch YouTube, and as long as there's going
Speaker 6: to be kids watching videos, YouTube will always grow. So
Speaker 6: if you're looking for a place to start, start there
Speaker 6: because they have they have the audience.
Speaker 3: Yeah and yeah, shout out to my son, I see it,
Speaker 3: shout the choice sun.
Speaker 4: Christian shouts that Jamal's son Chase.
Speaker 5: And Jordan shout out Jordan's and they all.
Speaker 3: Watch They all watch YouTube. They don't even watch television.
Speaker 3: I don't have no favorite shows, man, So that just
Speaker 3: goes through a lot.
Speaker 7: Of people don't. People don't even watch TV anymore. It's
Speaker 7: just YouTube and like Netflix, people just stream stuff. And
Speaker 7: that's why, like before, when even some of my aunts
Speaker 7: and uncles right now, like you can't tell them I
Speaker 7: do YouTube full time because they'd be like what, why,
Speaker 7: Like are you crazy? You went throughout the school, you're
Speaker 7: an accountant and now you do YouTube?
Speaker 2: Like that sounds madness to them.
Speaker 7: But like, I've made more money on YouTube than I
Speaker 7: would have made in my accounting career for like the
Speaker 7: next few years. Let me not say you a dollar
Speaker 7: about some uncles might be might be watching. But yeah,
Speaker 7: it's one of those industries that like it's only gonna
Speaker 7: brow because people don't watch the television anymore. They're not
Speaker 7: sitting down and watching commercials in between your favorite show.
Speaker 7: Before you used to sit down watch Fresh Prince of
Speaker 7: bel Air, there's gonna be three commercials, and you're gonna
Speaker 7: sit there and watch all three.
Speaker 2: They don't do that anymore.
Speaker 7: They're on social media, they're on YouTube, they're on Netflix.
Speaker 7: So if you can't pay to advertise with the big
Speaker 7: the big guys, you're going to go to influencers, and
Speaker 7: that's more influential. You're going to go to the YouTube
Speaker 7: channels where they already have an audience that's cultivated and
Speaker 7: you kind of can you can gauge their target, your
Speaker 7: target audience through their audience, through the influencer's audience. So
Speaker 7: it makes more sense to go through a YouTube or
Speaker 7: an instagrammer than it does to put an ad on
Speaker 7: the television where you don't know who's going to be
Speaker 7: watching it.
Speaker 6: When you got that first seventy eight dollars, you saw like, wait,
Speaker 6: they actually are giving me money. I mean, did you
Speaker 6: come to a realization of how you actually getting paid
Speaker 6: or was there a process of you having to do
Speaker 6: like some research, like wait, where's this money coming from?
Speaker 7: I knew of those Google AdSense, but at the time,
Speaker 7: I just I was doing so many other things that
Speaker 7: I kind of didn't really care. I was like, Okay,
Speaker 7: I got seventy eight dollars, that's cool. That's probably how
Speaker 7: YouTube works, like access revenue.
Speaker 2: I brought a video, I got paid. Cool, I keep
Speaker 2: it moving.
Speaker 7: But then it was when I realized that, okay, it
Speaker 7: had to do with my CPM, and it had to
Speaker 7: do with where I placed the ads and how many
Speaker 7: ads I played. That's when it like a light bulb
Speaker 7: went off. I'm like, okay, so I can make money
Speaker 7: on access revenue and get money from brands and then
Speaker 7: put my little links in the bottom, get my affiliate
Speaker 7: links going.
Speaker 2: So that's when it was a process.
Speaker 7: Honestly, it wasn't like things just clicked and I was like, ooh,
Speaker 7: seventy dollars, How do I turn this into.
Speaker 2: Seven hundred and eighty.
Speaker 7: I was just like, okay, like seventy eight dollars, this
Speaker 7: is cool, But I wasn't thinking too much into it.
Speaker 6: There was a lot of verbs there. So CPM is
Speaker 6: that's how much you're gonna get paid for every thousand views.
Speaker 5: So we talked about that a lot.
Speaker 6: When we talk about the audioce it's how many, how many,
Speaker 6: how much you're gonna get paid for one thousand listens.
Speaker 6: YouTube obviously how much you'renna get paid for per thousand
Speaker 6: views in it could fluctuated, which is right, something that
Speaker 6: we had to learn.
Speaker 2: Well, the cost per million.
Speaker 7: I hear a lot of people say that because it
Speaker 7: kind of sounds and it makes sense, But the CPM,
Speaker 7: the cost per million is actually not the cost per
Speaker 7: thousand views. It's the lost for a thousand impressions on
Speaker 7: your video. So a lot of people think that though
Speaker 7: it's just a thousand year costs per thousand views, but
Speaker 7: it's the impression so matters how many ads you have there,
Speaker 7: And the CPM is determined by basically it's a good
Speaker 7: indicator to find out how much brands are willing to
Speaker 7: pay to put their ads in front of your video.
Speaker 7: So the CPM is determined by like, I don't know
Speaker 7: if you guys want to get into.
Speaker 3: This now, we're now were about to go into it
Speaker 3: right now. Actually that's what we do our Alesia. So
Speaker 3: this actually is perfect because you know the thing. With
Speaker 3: a shout out to Max Maxwell, I remember he was saying, like,
Speaker 3: you know, when he hit like fifteen thousand a month
Speaker 3: on YouTube, and he was like, how he looks at
Speaker 3: that as that's like he does real estate, So he
Speaker 3: was like, you know, he was like, you know, fifteen
Speaker 3: thousand a month, that's five investment properties. That's how he's
Speaker 3: looking at it. It's five investment properties. All you got
Speaker 3: to do is all you gotta do is put out content.
Speaker 3: Though you don't have to change the boiler, you don't
Speaker 3: have to cut any grass. So it's like YouTube, we
Speaker 3: couldn't go we couldn't do this podcast without having an
Speaker 3: episode about YouTube because it's like one of these situations
Speaker 3: where it's it's like a joke until it's not funny anymore.
Speaker 4: Because it's like I remember a doctor.
Speaker 3: I was watching he went to like medical school and
Speaker 3: all that, and his last year in medical school, his
Speaker 3: last year as a resident, he quit to become a
Speaker 3: full time YouTuber, and everybody was saying, like, you went
Speaker 3: through all of this medical training and all that, you're
Speaker 3: gonna quit to do YouTube. And he's like, yeah, that's
Speaker 3: what I'm that's what we're gonna do. And he's making
Speaker 3: like a half a million dollars on YouTube. So I
Speaker 3: think it's important for people to educate. So all right,
Speaker 3: let's break this down. Let's let's let's start from the
Speaker 3: very very beginning, since you was already on the CPM.
Speaker 3: So CPM is how you get paid, right, So all right, yeah,
Speaker 3: can you explain that in detail as far as CPM
Speaker 3: because those the good thing with YouTube is that they
Speaker 3: put ads in your video. It's not like you know
Speaker 3: what the podcast. It's a little different on the audio side.
Speaker 3: So for us, we have we have two ways how
Speaker 3: we quit our content, audio and visual. The audio is
Speaker 3: through like you know, Anchor, and that gets shipped to
Speaker 3: Spotify and app and all of the audio outlets, and
Speaker 3: Anchor kind of provides ads for us. But we always
Speaker 3: we have to try to get outside ad revenue as well.
Speaker 3: Where YouTube we can get outside ads, but YouTube is
Speaker 3: always going to be ads there because they provide ads.
Speaker 3: Now it's different what kind of contents you put out
Speaker 3: because it's different CPMs. But that's more we'll go into
Speaker 3: that later. So yeah, so and it's a CPM. So
Speaker 3: can you talk about CPM and kind of explain that
Speaker 3: to the people in layman terms.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So your CPM, which stands for your cost per millie,
Speaker 7: is the cost for every one thousand impressions, for every
Speaker 7: ad that's placed on or around your video. So you'll see,
Speaker 7: if the video's shorter than ten minutes, it'll only have
Speaker 7: one ad at the beginning, maybe an ad at the ending.
Speaker 7: But when a video is longer than ten minutes, then
Speaker 7: you're able to put you're able to place multiple ads
Speaker 7: throughout the video. So for those long skippable ads, as
Speaker 7: long as the viewer watches it for thirty seconds or more,
Speaker 7: that's an impress Or those ads that you can't skip through,
Speaker 7: that's an impression. Those ads on the side of the
Speaker 7: YouTube video, if it's on there, that's an impression. The
Speaker 7: banners that show up at the bottom, if someone watches that,
Speaker 7: that's an.
Speaker 2: Impression as well.
Speaker 7: So for every one thousand impressions you get on your video,
Speaker 7: that'll you that's your cost per million. That's how much
Speaker 7: you get caught. That's how much you get paid for it.
Speaker 7: The thing about the cost per million is that it's
Speaker 7: not determined by you though, it's determined by YouTube.
Speaker 2: So it's basically.
Speaker 7: How much ad payers or ad creators are willing to
Speaker 7: pay to put their ads in front of your video,
Speaker 7: in front of your audience. And it's basically an indicator
Speaker 7: to see how valuable marketers take your content basically like
Speaker 7: how valuable they perceive your content to be to help
Speaker 7: them with the business development and their business goals.
Speaker 3: Okay, so and yeah, and that's interesting because it's like
Speaker 3: what we found out that depending on what type of
Speaker 3: content you put out that determines your CPM. So like
Speaker 3: us Safety Channel, our CPMs are a lot higher because
Speaker 3: it's clean content, like you know, I mean, it's clean
Speaker 3: business content, so cursing, cursing, anything like that, where it's
Speaker 3: like if it's if it's if it's a lot of cursing,
Speaker 3: they can have potentially way more subscriber's, way more views,
Speaker 3: or their CPMs might be like three dollars. So to
Speaker 3: give you an example, our CPM's usually range from what's
Speaker 3: the CPM price.
Speaker 6: Bus our average right now is probably like thirty five,
Speaker 6: but we had some that go up to like seventy.
Speaker 5: We've had some that are one hundred and twelve.
Speaker 6: So really, like you said, just depends on the type
Speaker 6: of content and how clean it is and how many
Speaker 6: people are watching.
Speaker 3: And if it's so if it's dirty content, I don't
Speaker 3: want to say dirty, but if it's like cursing and
Speaker 3: stuff like that, hey, they could demonetize it and not
Speaker 3: have any anything on it at all.
Speaker 5: So people gotta realize that.
Speaker 6: So you got when you really get into this YouTube thing,
Speaker 6: you got to really like dive in and do YouTube studio.
Speaker 5: I would recommend that highly and study the analytics.
Speaker 6: So like a lot of times, if you'll see that
Speaker 6: that money sign is yellow, that means that, yo, you're
Speaker 6: not monetizing the way. There's something in your content that
Speaker 6: is causing it to not get the adspace that it's
Speaker 6: supposed to. And another thing is is like a lot
Speaker 6: of times people don't realize that they could, they don't
Speaker 6: turn on their ads. So like there's you can put
Speaker 6: on start, you can put on in the middle, you
Speaker 6: can put on at the end.
Speaker 5: You can actually place your ass what you like.
Speaker 6: So a lot of people don't realize that, and it's
Speaker 6: a gem because it's like, Yo, the more ads you
Speaker 6: have that there's more revenue. But is something that we
Speaker 6: want to we kind of skipped, and that is like
Speaker 6: when you can start monetizing, right, Like, there's a certain
Speaker 6: amount of users you have to have and a certain
Speaker 6: amount of views you have to have, right, is it
Speaker 6: like a thousand for the users?
Speaker 7: Yeah, a thousand subscribers and four thousand watch hours.
Speaker 2: They've changed it now. It wasn't like that just a
Speaker 2: couple of years ago, but they've changed it.
Speaker 7: And now you need a thousand subscribers four thousand watched
Speaker 7: hours before you can even start monetizing your platform.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, so now you're sor right, so now
Speaker 3: and that's important too. But the ten minute thing. Shout
Speaker 3: out to Mike. He actually put us onto that. He
Speaker 3: watched the video on YouTube and they showld.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The key with the clips, like even a lot of
Speaker 3: the micro clips that we put out from our episode,
Speaker 3: they're always if you notice, they're always longer than ten
Speaker 3: minutes or like at ten minutes, because then you could
Speaker 3: put multiple ads in if there's anything lowered th in
Speaker 3: ten minutes then you've only put one added. So it
Speaker 3: makes a big difference if you have three ads in
Speaker 3: a video as opposed to having one ad in a video.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and also to touch upon what determines a CPM,
Speaker 7: it's not necessarily only when the content is clean, but
Speaker 7: that definitely is a big indicator. Like if you're swearing, cussing,
Speaker 7: you're talking about some vulgar stuff that's probably going to
Speaker 7: get demonetized. So it's not even an option of having
Speaker 7: a low CPM. But there's certain niches that have higher
Speaker 7: CPMs than others. So you guys have a high CPM
Speaker 7: because of the topics that.
Speaker 2: You talk about.
Speaker 7: So some of those topics are like real estate, luxury things,
Speaker 7: so like luxury real estate, luxury cards is a big
Speaker 7: one as well. Gaming is big as well, But it
Speaker 7: depends like what niche and gaming I'm not a gamer,
Speaker 7: so well would it' be.
Speaker 2: Able to like indicate too.
Speaker 7: Deep, but finances business credit just basically oh Amazon SBA,
Speaker 7: that's another one. So it depends on how much the
Speaker 7: uh the advertisers willing to pay they're not willing to
Speaker 7: pay to put their videos in front of like pranks
Speaker 7: and like couple channels, so when you're smaller, you're not
Speaker 7: going to see a big CPM for that.
Speaker 3: But then once you become once you start what about
Speaker 3: makeup tutorial because that's very big for women, Yeah, what
Speaker 3: about makeup?
Speaker 7: So the CPM on that isn't necessarily high until you
Speaker 7: start ranking. So like for prank channels, family channels, makeup channels,
Speaker 7: because it's it's a kind of saturated, uh industry, I guess,
Speaker 7: but it's very popular. So once you start ranking and
Speaker 7: you have a very loyal customer not customer based audience,
Speaker 7: then the marketers are like, okay, I would pay more
Speaker 7: to put my video more, put my ads in front
Speaker 7: of their videos and stuff. So it depends on how
Speaker 7: large your channel is. When you're first starting out and
Speaker 7: it's a like beauty channel channel, uh, prank channel, you're
Speaker 7: not really going to see lar CPMs because there are
Speaker 7: so many people doing that and advertisers aren't necessarily willing
Speaker 7: to pay for content like that in the beginning when
Speaker 7: you're just starting out.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, so now let's go to the actual
Speaker 3: content so that I guess that's the most important thing, right, So,
Speaker 3: like you your personal, our content is financial I guess
Speaker 3: that's the hardest thing. Like people want to start, you
Speaker 3: want to become a YouTuber. You're on your journey to
Speaker 3: become a YouTuber, right, the first thing is like, what
Speaker 3: do you want.
Speaker 4: To talk about?
Speaker 3: So we talk about financial stuff because we have financial podcasts,
Speaker 3: So that's easy. How did you find your niche to
Speaker 3: talk about? And how do you what do you recommend
Speaker 3: for people as far as finding their nache as far
Speaker 3: as the content that they're putting out.
Speaker 7: So I would say the easiest thing is to do
Speaker 7: something that you feel comfortable with, something that you're confident
Speaker 7: in as well, because if you're not confident in what
Speaker 7: you're talking about, it's going to show. It's going to
Speaker 7: come off on camera. People are going to be able
Speaker 7: to detect that. So make sure whatever topic you decide
Speaker 7: to go into, you're comfortable and confident about that topic.
Speaker 7: But then also your audience is going to let you
Speaker 7: know what they want to see more of. So before
Speaker 7: you even start your channel, I would say, write out
Speaker 7: a whole list of titles of things you want to
Speaker 7: talk about pertaining to that. Okay, you want to start
Speaker 7: a beauty channel, that's cool, write out fifty videos that
Speaker 7: you can do that's relating to beauty that people want
Speaker 7: to see. If you can't come up with fifty, it's
Speaker 7: probably a topic that you're not that interested in and
Speaker 7: you're not that confident. They should probably try and find
Speaker 7: something else that you are actually interested in.
Speaker 6: So I'm not putting out a prank video. I'm not
Speaker 6: putting out vacations with the kids. I'm not putting out
Speaker 6: how to cut here. It's just it's they'll be all
Speaker 6: over the place. I do those things, but it just
Speaker 6: be all over the place.
Speaker 7: Right, Yeah, No, you want to choose a topic and
Speaker 7: then try to find videos that surround that have to
Speaker 7: do with that topic, and don't make it too wide
Speaker 7: of arrange. Like, especially in the very beginning, nobody knows
Speaker 7: who you are, and they don't want to see every
Speaker 7: single component of your life because unfortunately.
Speaker 2: Like you're not that relevant to them.
Speaker 7: So it's nice that you have kids, it's nice that you,
Speaker 7: you know, like to shape up your beard and stuff.
Speaker 7: But like someone who comes out your channel and they
Speaker 7: want to see, uh, you hanging out with your kids,
Speaker 7: they're probably a dad with kids too, and they relate
Speaker 7: to that, but they might not have the same you know,
Speaker 7: grooming procedures that you do. They don't want to see
Speaker 7: the video. The next video to be you grooming yourself,
Speaker 7: like it's not relevant to them. So you kind of
Speaker 7: have to keep a consistent theme because it confuses your audience.
Speaker 2: It confuses your subscriber.
Speaker 7: They come to your channel, they see one video that's
Speaker 7: pertaining to your family life and your kids. Then they
Speaker 7: go look for another video that has to do with
Speaker 7: that and there's nothing else, or maybe there's only one
Speaker 7: and it's the one that they just watch. They're like, okay,
Speaker 7: this is what this was nice, this was cool. He's
Speaker 7: a nice guy, and they keep it moving. But you
Speaker 7: have to have consistency in all of your videos.
Speaker 3: All right, there you have it. That's the that's the basics.
Speaker 3: On the next step, we're going to go into how
Speaker 3: to really pop off and become viral. You got to
Speaker 3: become vibrary days for sure, and you know, just some
Speaker 3: more hacks and useful tips about you know, getting popping online.
Speaker 4: So yeah, we're going to that next hour.
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Speaker 3: This is once again I want to reiterate by YouTube
Speaker 3: so on for it because for business owners as well,
Speaker 3: not just for people that want to become full time youtubeer.
Speaker 3: It's like we talked about social media a lot, like
Speaker 3: as far as it's like it's a great way to
Speaker 3: push your brand, but for entrepreneurs, and there's a lot
Speaker 3: of entrepreneurs is in on your Leasia, YouTube is extremely
Speaker 3: important to push your brand and you know, get the
Speaker 3: brand awareness out there. So even if you don't plan
Speaker 3: on being a full time YouTuber, you can still use YouTube.
Speaker 4: It's just like any other social network.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of millions and hundreds of millions of
Speaker 3: people on YouTube, So to not be on YouTube as
Speaker 3: a business owner, it's kind of like not being on Instagram.
Speaker 6: And something we learned, like we didn't start with the
Speaker 6: YouTube channel, like we didn't started to April. Everybody knows
Speaker 6: that the podcast itself started in January, but we learned
Speaker 6: it like yo, we have to grow the audience it's
Speaker 6: a great way.
Speaker 5: This is a platform. We knew that all our kids
Speaker 5: watch it, we knew we have to be on it.
Speaker 5: So we made a concerted effort to say, look, this
Speaker 5: is what we're going.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's helped out a lot, Like if we
Speaker 3: just did the audio, we would be nowhere near where
Speaker 3: we are now because we don't have the same reach
Speaker 3: that we would have if we do YouTube. And it's
Speaker 3: a lot of other things that we do exclusively for
Speaker 3: YouTube that we'll talk about. But all right, so as
Speaker 3: far as getting on YouTube, but it's like anything, right,
Speaker 3: Like same thing with social media Instagram when you start
Speaker 3: with zero and it's like, how do I grow it
Speaker 3: to two hundred and fifty thousand subscribers? So yeah, viral
Speaker 3: shout out to Drake Viral shout out to Drake Favrio Feign,
Speaker 3: then Sosa Geek.
Speaker 4: I think that's his name, that's his song, That's my
Speaker 4: favorite song.
Speaker 5: Like that.
Speaker 3: So your first video, you have no subscribers and you
Speaker 3: have thirty two thousand views on that video in a month.
Speaker 3: That's a lot. That's a lot of us. How did
Speaker 3: how how did you do that? How'd you do that?
Speaker 7: So YouTube has little pockets and little niches, little communities.
Speaker 7: So what I did was I found videos that look
Speaker 7: like my type of content, I would search.
Speaker 2: So my first video was a Storytime.
Speaker 7: What I did was I searched Storytime and then I
Speaker 7: filtered the results by upload date and that puts the
Speaker 7: newest uploads at the top. So then I searched for
Speaker 7: videos that kind of looked like they were in my
Speaker 7: neighborhood on YouTube, my community on YouTube, and then I
Speaker 7: would comment on their video like I could totally related
Speaker 7: da da. I made a video similar to that. It
Speaker 7: was a very spammy, like hey check me out, I
Speaker 7: just started a channel, but it was like it was
Speaker 7: a comment letting people know that like I did also
Speaker 7: upload something similar. So from that, what that does is
Speaker 7: it puts your comment there, and everyone does it where
Speaker 7: they're watching a video and they kind of scroll to
Speaker 7: see what the comments say. And so if your comment
Speaker 7: is there and you're one of the only comments there,
Speaker 7: even if that video is only going to get a
Speaker 7: thousand views, there's a good chance that a portion of
Speaker 7: those views are going to see your comment, and from
Speaker 7: those views to your comment, they're going to see your
Speaker 7: channel and maybe they're going to either subscribe or engage
Speaker 7: with your content somehow. So that was one thing that
Speaker 7: I did to grow my first video and how it
Speaker 7: got so many views. I was commenting a lot. And
Speaker 7: then now as I've grown, I don't really get an
Speaker 7: opportunity to watch people's videos and make relevant comments as much.
Speaker 7: But I'll watch my videos on incognito and see what
Speaker 7: shows up that's similar to my channel and how I
Speaker 7: can put my spin on it and do it better
Speaker 7: because when I watch it on.
Speaker 2: Incognito, there's no bias there. There's no other.
Speaker 4: Channel history incognito.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so incognito is just browsing in private mode. So
Speaker 7: on Google Chrome it's called Incognito and in Safari it's
Speaker 7: called Private Browser. But what that does is it doesn't
Speaker 7: warp the search information, so there's no bias. When you
Speaker 7: watch a video and you're signed into your profile, YouTube
Speaker 7: is recommending videos for you based off of everything.
Speaker 2: That you've ever watched on your profile.
Speaker 7: That's why you'll watch like one cleaning video, You'll go
Speaker 7: back to your homepage and there's like four other cleaning
Speaker 7: videos recommended to you, and it over time, it builds
Speaker 7: up a profile for you in a portfolio for you
Speaker 7: and it changes your recommendations based off of stuff that
Speaker 7: you've already searched and stuff that you've already watched. So
Speaker 7: when I watch my videos on incognito, what that does
Speaker 7: is it allows me to see what YouTube associates my
Speaker 7: channel with, and what kind of content YouTube kind of
Speaker 7: places my videos, and what kind of neighborhood on YouTube
Speaker 7: my videos are in. Then that kind of gives me
Speaker 7: more of an idea of the type of people who
Speaker 7: watch my video and what they're interested in more along with,
Speaker 7: of course, my analytics. I do watch my analytics and
Speaker 7: see what my audience likes more of I listen to
Speaker 7: the comments, but that's one way that I get to
Speaker 7: see what YouTube what the YouTube algorithm associates my channel with.
Speaker 7: So from there I'll get an idea. I'll put my
Speaker 7: spin on it, I flip on it, and I'll do
Speaker 7: it myself and then it usually does good when I
Speaker 7: when I choose a video like that.
Speaker 3: Okay algorithm, Can you tell about that YouTube algorithm?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: So the YouTube algorithm, because it's a business, right YouTube,
Speaker 7: they're just interested mainly in like watch time and dollars,
Speaker 7: so they tend.
Speaker 2: To push videos that have.
Speaker 7: High CPMs, so videos that get them more money, and
Speaker 7: then I watch times as well and high engagement, because
Speaker 7: what YouTube wants ultimately is watch time, and they want
Speaker 7: their viewers to stay on their channel or on their platform,
Speaker 7: because if you're not on YouTube, you're on something else.
Speaker 7: You're on Hulu, Netflix, maybe Instagram, you're like on another platform.
Speaker 2: So what they want is watch time and engage.
Speaker 7: So if you upload a video and in the first
Speaker 7: few minutes or first few hours, I should say it's
Speaker 7: doing well, the algorithm is most likely going to push
Speaker 7: you some more. So that's kind of like a tit
Speaker 7: behind your algorithm. Like in the first hour, you should
Speaker 7: probably be commenting back to comment and stuff like that
Speaker 7: and trying to boost up that engagement within the first hour.
Speaker 5: Can we talk about your your viral video.
Speaker 6: You know, one of the one of the things you
Speaker 6: said is like not to chase trends, but you kind
Speaker 6: of did with the dad voiceover. Can you talk about
Speaker 6: the benefit you're actually chasing that trend and some of
Speaker 6: the things that didn't work that you learn from that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, so that video at the time, it was
Speaker 7: like a makeup trend that was going around and a
Speaker 7: lot of people were doing like my boyfriend does my makeup,
Speaker 7: my voiceover and my dad. I thought it would be
Speaker 7: so money if my dad did my voice over, because
Speaker 7: he's always like tracking jokes on me. He's always making
Speaker 7: fun of me, so he did it. It was funny,
Speaker 7: it was cool, and the video did really well. It
Speaker 7: was like on different social media platforms. I don't have
Speaker 7: a Twitter, so it was like all over Twitter, all
Speaker 7: over Facebook. I didn't have a Facebook either, and it
Speaker 7: did go viral and it got a lot of views.
Speaker 7: It did make a lot of money because I ended
Speaker 7: up selling it to There was a media company that
Speaker 7: pitches to The Ellen Show and they bought that video
Speaker 7: off of me. They bought the rights for that video
Speaker 7: off of me. So I don't own that video anymore,
Speaker 7: but I still get the absence revenue from that video.
Speaker 7: But I would say that the game there was the
Speaker 7: money behind it, and it was a funny, like joke
Speaker 7: like me and.
Speaker 2: My dad still left about that video to this day.
Speaker 7: But what I learned is that when you do videos
Speaker 7: just because it's trendy, but it has nothing to do
Speaker 7: with what your channel is about, it doesn't necessarily grow
Speaker 7: your channel or your subscribers. So that video I got
Speaker 7: like two point two thousand subscribers, I believe, says my analytics,
Speaker 7: but it has like eight hundred thousand views, so that's
Speaker 7: not a very good conversion, like views versus people who subscribe.
Speaker 7: So it ultimately didn't grow my channel, and I learned
Speaker 7: that if you're gonna hop on a trend, it needs
Speaker 7: to pertain to what your channel's about. Because I was
Speaker 7: not a makeup channel. My dad wasn't on my channel.
Speaker 7: My channel wasn't like a comedy channel either, So it
Speaker 7: wasn't great for the overall growth of my channel, but
Speaker 7: it was a learning experience.
Speaker 6: I would say when I heard that saw it, I'm like, yo,
Speaker 6: I've never thought about that when people actually buy your
Speaker 6: content from me. What was that experience? Like, that was
Speaker 6: the first time you've done it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was my first time I had done it.
Speaker 7: It was just I was getting a lot of you
Speaker 7: know those I think they're like social media sites where
Speaker 7: they just have a bunch of viral videos and you'll
Speaker 7: see a viral video over and over, but it'll have
Speaker 7: different logos.
Speaker 2: In the corner.
Speaker 7: So at the time, I was getting a lot of
Speaker 7: questions from different media sources asking if they can post
Speaker 7: it on their Facebook group. They're like, oh, we have
Speaker 7: I had like six million followers on our Facebook.
Speaker 2: We're gonna post it. We'll credit you, da da da da.
Speaker 7: And I was like, yeah, sure, just put my link
Speaker 7: in the description, go for it. But then someone had
Speaker 7: asked me like have you sold it already? And I
Speaker 7: was like, sold it to who?
Speaker 2: That didn't make no sense.
Speaker 7: And then I got another inquiry around the same time
Speaker 7: that the first one came.
Speaker 2: In and was like, oh, well, we're willing to buy it.
Speaker 7: So then I went back to the first person. I
Speaker 7: was like, no, I haven't told it yet, but you know,
Speaker 7: I have some inquiries, I said some like there was.
Speaker 2: More than one. I was like, if you have some inquiries,
Speaker 2: so I haven't sold it yet.
Speaker 7: So they came with their proposal, and then I took
Speaker 7: the other person like, oh, another media company is willing
Speaker 7: to buy it for this much. So then the second
Speaker 7: one ended up having a better, better price, and I
Speaker 7: just sold it to them. But the funny thing was
Speaker 7: that that all of that happened like a year and
Speaker 7: a half, maybe two years after I'd already posted that video,
Speaker 7: So it was weird. Because the traffic had already died
Speaker 7: down on that video. I had already made my YouTube
Speaker 7: acts and money on that video and it was like
Speaker 7: dying down. So I guess some other media out they
Speaker 7: picked it up and then it went viral and like
Speaker 7: it was kind of a different community.
Speaker 2: Really, it wasn't like the audience.
Speaker 3: And another EYL alumni he had a post on Instagram
Speaker 3: a few days ago and he was like, a lot
Speaker 3: of viral videos don't go viral for like two to
Speaker 3: three years or even five years after that actually coming
Speaker 3: out with it social media or so you never know.
Speaker 3: It's like, don't give up on content because you might think, God,
Speaker 3: it's just flopped. Even Mickey Facts, we had him on
Speaker 3: shout Out at Mackey Facts and he had a video
Speaker 3: that went viral on Instagram when he was rapping fol
Speaker 3: Flex about financial literacy and he was like, when he
Speaker 3: first put it out, it didn't really get traction, and
Speaker 3: then out the blue, like earlier this year, it just started.
Speaker 4: Blowing up on like a lot of black financial literacy pages.
Speaker 4: Just so you never know.
Speaker 3: But I want to ask you about that video because
Speaker 3: you put that on YouTube and I saw it and
Speaker 3: we showed like the clip of it of the analytics.
Speaker 3: So on the clip, I actually saw the accent accent
Speaker 3: revenue that you made was like sixty eight thousand dollars
Speaker 3: from that, it's on it, it's on your page.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 2: Like, I'm not exposing.
Speaker 5: That's kind of what we do.
Speaker 3: So if that, if that's something like that, is that
Speaker 3: like something like all right, so you made sixty eight
Speaker 3: thousand on a video app that I had, Like how
Speaker 3: many viewers it had? Nine hundred thousand, eight hundred. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was like it just that's like typical for like
Speaker 3: a million. Obviously it depends on CPM and all of that,
Speaker 3: but like what was the CPM for that video?
Speaker 7: Ooh, I'm not sure what the CPM was on that
Speaker 7: video actually, but that was over the lifetime, so that
Speaker 7: was when I posted it. I think was that twenty
Speaker 7: twenty seventeen. I think I posted that or maybe twenty eighteen,
Speaker 7: but it was over the lifetime, so from the moment
Speaker 7: I posted it to the current like day that I
Speaker 7: screenshoted it, so over time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how much it made. I think it was
Speaker 2: because of.
Speaker 7: The timing too, because I posted it closer to the
Speaker 7: holidays and when it did go viral. It was during
Speaker 7: the holidays when acsence revenue is the highest. But yeah,
Speaker 7: once it starts gaining a lot of traction and it
Speaker 7: starts going higher, I noticed that the CPM starts jumping
Speaker 7: higher and higher, and so that's why I ended.
Speaker 2: Up doing so well.
Speaker 7: But I've noticed that it doesn't necessarily matter what your
Speaker 7: subscriber account is, or even what your your channel sizes
Speaker 7: or anything like that. Because some people they'll post a
Speaker 7: video on how much they made on YouTube, and I
Speaker 7: appreciate the transparency.
Speaker 2: I respect it honestly.
Speaker 7: Because someone had posted how much she makes and I
Speaker 7: think she has like one point four million subscribers, and
Speaker 7: she had said that she makes like, on average, about
Speaker 7: four thousand dollars a month. I was like, this wi't
Speaker 7: make sense because when that video went viral and I
Speaker 7: was making a lot of money off of it, I
Speaker 7: wasn't even at twenty thousand. I don't think, like my
Speaker 7: channel was pretty small. So it doesn't necessarily matter what
Speaker 7: your subscribe account is.
Speaker 2: All of that's predetermined by YouTube.
Speaker 7: And I try to tell people when they're thinking about
Speaker 7: making that transition from being an employee to being your
Speaker 7: own boss full time, and like you're using money from
Speaker 7: YouTube to try and like forecast your budget. I always
Speaker 7: tell people like, you don't really have control over the
Speaker 7: CPM because it's.
Speaker 2: Kind of like you're putting out a product.
Speaker 7: You don't know how many people are going to buy it,
Speaker 7: and you don't know what you're going to sell it
Speaker 7: for either. We're just putting out a product and whatever
Speaker 7: money you get, you'd get. And it's not like you
Speaker 7: can go back to YouTube and go tell them like, actually,
Speaker 7: you guys told me that I only had five thousand
Speaker 7: impressions on the ads this month, But I went and
Speaker 7: asked my viewers and.
Speaker 2: They told me, actually they all watched it.
Speaker 7: Like, you can't go back and dispute it with YouTube
Speaker 7: if they tell you that's how much you're making, that's
Speaker 7: how m you're making. So I wouldn't know why it
Speaker 7: needs so high, but it did, and I appreciated it.
Speaker 2: I took it.
Speaker 7: But I always take AdSense revenue as a bonus. So
Speaker 7: I don't rely on AdSense revenue because that just puts
Speaker 7: you in a very vulnerable place with your finances. And
Speaker 7: I don't know about anybody else, but I don't like
Speaker 7: being vulnerable with my Thiens. As with my finances, I
Speaker 7: like to be very calculated and very like precise, So yeah,
Speaker 7: it's kind of a toss up.
Speaker 2: You don't know why it made so much and what
Speaker 2: the reason.
Speaker 5: Is spoken like a true accountant.
Speaker 6: My next thing is the points of consistency, right, because
Speaker 6: after you went viral, it's not like, hey, I'm going
Speaker 6: to live with this one video for the rest of
Speaker 6: my life. You started to putting out more content that
Speaker 6: was more theme. Do you want to talk about that?
Speaker 7: Yeah, So after that first video, actually it was still
Speaker 7: a side hustle for me because my main priority was
Speaker 7: always finishing with UNI and like my nine to five career,
Speaker 7: so it was still a side hustle. I think after
Speaker 7: that video, I still was putting out I wasn't very
Speaker 7: calculated with my videos. It wasn't until recently, like once
Speaker 7: I graduated from UNI and I was paying more attention
Speaker 7: to my videos, that I was more calculated and I
Speaker 7: was more consistent with the theme.
Speaker 2: But also like.
Speaker 7: As time goes on, I think when I first started,
Speaker 7: I was like twenty one ish, so like my interest
Speaker 7: at twenty one is different from my interests now. So
Speaker 7: as time went on, I just started making videos that
Speaker 7: made more sense to me and what I was more
Speaker 7: interested in, more confident in. So once I started making
Speaker 7: more self improvement videos, personal finances, personal development, entrepreneur type videos,
Speaker 7: that's when I really started to understand the importance of
Speaker 7: having like a theme throughout videos. And that's why I
Speaker 7: always try to tell people like, if I had known
Speaker 7: now what I knew back then, I would have definitely
Speaker 7: themed down, niche down on my content, and I wouldn't
Speaker 7: have been creating content from like all over the place.
Speaker 7: It would have been some sort of consistent theme throughout.
Speaker 7: So now when I'm creating content, it's mainly it has
Speaker 7: to do with money and some sort of personal development
Speaker 7: just overall becoming a better version of you. So that's
Speaker 7: the consistent theme that's throughout all my videos that I
Speaker 7: try to portray in every single videos, it's about something
Speaker 7: personal development related.
Speaker 4: So if you if you.
Speaker 3: If you take the ads off of video yourself or
Speaker 3: whatever reason, Like let's say you don't want ads on
Speaker 3: one video, that's going to hurt the chances of you
Speaker 3: YouTube pushing it.
Speaker 4: Probably because they don't get paid either, or.
Speaker 7: I would say that they don't really have an incentive
Speaker 7: to push it. They might, but they don't really have
Speaker 7: an incentive to. So you could take it off if
Speaker 7: you wanted to. But also, like, why would you want
Speaker 7: to do that?
Speaker 3: Not because sometimes you might put a video out in
Speaker 3: the ads that are on the video might be competition
Speaker 3: for the actual.
Speaker 4: Video, you know what I'm saying. So so yeah.
Speaker 3: I noticed that with YouTube like something, they will run
Speaker 3: ads in a video that is like especially like if
Speaker 3: you're trying to sell something or if you have a
Speaker 3: product or something and it's like, now you got you're
Speaker 3: actually running an ad for somebody.
Speaker 4: Else that's doing the same exact thing that you know
Speaker 4: about in the video.
Speaker 5: Right unbeknown to your right but to the viewer, that's
Speaker 5: going to happen.
Speaker 7: Yeah right, Yeah, I mean it's possible that that could happen,
Speaker 7: but mainly people like they buy from people, so if
Speaker 7: they're watching their video, they're most likely going to buy
Speaker 7: from you anyways. But yeah, you could take the video
Speaker 7: the ads off if you wanted to, and then you're like,
Speaker 7: you're subscribers watching and if it picks up, it picks up.
Speaker 7: But I find that they have more than an incentive
Speaker 7: YouTube as a business to push videos that are going
Speaker 7: to make them more money, and also videos that have
Speaker 7: longer watch times that keep people on their platform, because
Speaker 7: at the end of the day, like the CPM is split,
Speaker 7: like the amount of money you.
Speaker 2: Get is after YouTube gets their cut.
Speaker 7: So if you're making more money, that means they're making
Speaker 7: more money.
Speaker 3: Okay, So so so all right, as far as like revenue,
Speaker 3: and I want to I'm glad you said that you
Speaker 3: don't rely on that because there's more ways to make
Speaker 3: money off YouTube and just add that's just like the
Speaker 3: first layer. But YouTube is it's just like any other thing.
Speaker 3: It's a platform where you reach a bunch of people.
Speaker 3: So through that you can do brand partnerships, you can
Speaker 3: promote your own products, you can do a variety of
Speaker 3: different things. So, how are some other revenue things that
Speaker 3: like you personally utilize the U see other YouTube YouTubers
Speaker 3: utilized outside of just regular ads that YouTube provides.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so I definitely make sure that I have enough
Speaker 7: revenue and income coming in from other places, because, like
Speaker 7: I said, it's a toss up. And although I can
Speaker 7: pend on the money coming in and like it's pretty consistent,
Speaker 7: there's a theme throughout.
Speaker 2: You can't rely on it because at any moment. You
Speaker 2: Tube can come back.
Speaker 7: Tomorrow and say like, hey, everyone under a million, y'all
Speaker 7: don't get paid in a war until you reach a
Speaker 7: million subscribers figure it out.
Speaker 2: They probably won't.
Speaker 7: Because that's a little wild on their end, but they
Speaker 7: have the option to do that. So I make sure
Speaker 7: that I'm making money from other places. For me, I
Speaker 7: have my affiliate links that I put in the description bar.
Speaker 7: I have my brand sponsorships, which is when a brand
Speaker 7: reaches out to you and asks you to promote their
Speaker 7: product or their brand.
Speaker 2: For a fee.
Speaker 7: And then I also use YouTube to drive traffic to
Speaker 7: my two other online businesses, which is my hair extension
Speaker 7: company and my.
Speaker 2: Business society company.
Speaker 6: You know, do you said something just now as far
Speaker 6: as the description, like you put the links in description.
Speaker 6: I think people overlook that and don't really understand the
Speaker 6: importance of the description. I know you have a little
Speaker 6: like a tip that you said, like you don't put
Speaker 6: a link within the first three lines like that.
Speaker 5: Can you go into detail about that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, So once again, because it's YouTube's platform and not here,
Speaker 7: they have the discretion to push videos that to not
Speaker 7: push videos that are sending traffic to other external sites.
Speaker 2: So when.
Speaker 7: Your first three lines above the full have a link
Speaker 7: to an external website, they're less inclined to push the video.
Speaker 2: This is what I was told from like a YouTube insider.
Speaker 7: I don't know how true that is to this day
Speaker 7: or if YouTube has changed that, because I do have
Speaker 7: like two videos that have done pretty well and they
Speaker 7: have a link on the top the top fold. But
Speaker 7: I was told this from an insider, so I try
Speaker 7: to avoid it if I can. It doesn't really make
Speaker 7: a difference for me to put the links just a
Speaker 7: little bit lower, so I tend to do that so
Speaker 7: that it doesn't kind of like throw the algorithm off
Speaker 7: or whatnot.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's something that people don't fully understand so
Speaker 3: many different things with YouTube. It's like this says you
Speaker 3: can just have like a three hour situation about that.
Speaker 4: But I want to ask you before we go to
Speaker 4: the next thing.
Speaker 5: Blog.
Speaker 4: A lot of people are doing blogs.
Speaker 3: And even were collegius and people say like we should
Speaker 3: do blogs and things of that nature, like a video
Speaker 3: blog like just a day and of life. So how
Speaker 3: do you do you think it's a good idea for
Speaker 3: like people that have like if they're putting out consistent
Speaker 3: content because some people say, like the blog allows you
Speaker 3: to people to see like the personal side of you,
Speaker 3: and it's such a different things and it's like it's
Speaker 3: like a young own reality show kind of.
Speaker 4: So what's your thoughts on blogs?
Speaker 7: So I think blogs are a good idea if you're
Speaker 7: trying to be a blogger or if you've already established
Speaker 7: an audience, because ultimately this generation we like solution based content.
Speaker 7: That's what everybody's after right now, you're after me everybody.
Speaker 7: Like when you watch a video, you're trying to gauge
Speaker 7: something from it, right So if you're making content that
Speaker 7: is even like family bloggers, you know, when people watch that,
Speaker 7: they feel like they're a part of the family. That's
Speaker 7: the value that you're getting from it. For people who
Speaker 7: do hair tutorials, that's the value. You're teaching people how
Speaker 7: to do their hair. Make up tutorials, you're teaching them
Speaker 7: how to do makeup. But like, you don't have to
Speaker 7: be teaching anything if you're providing some sort of value.
Speaker 7: If you are a you do comedy skits, that's the
Speaker 7: value that you provide there. Your people are coming to
Speaker 7: your videos for comedic relief. And if you're blogging, you're
Speaker 7: trying to make people feel a sense of belonging and
Speaker 7: like they're a part of whatever it is that you've
Speaker 7: got going on. So like with couple channels or even
Speaker 7: family channels, you might watch an episode and you're.
Speaker 2: Like, oh, but what was this, Like what was the reason?
Speaker 7: But to somebody else, they're very committed, and those channels
Speaker 7: tend to have very loyal audiences too, because they they're
Speaker 7: invested in that relationship, they're invested in that family, and
Speaker 7: they feel like they're a part of the family, a
Speaker 7: couple of friend to the couple. So if you're blogging
Speaker 7: and you already have an audience, it kind of makes
Speaker 7: your audience feel like they're a part of what you're
Speaker 7: doing already. Like they watch your podcast, they see you
Speaker 7: guys do all these cool things. You guys are pretty
Speaker 7: stan up guys, So they want to know what is
Speaker 7: the behind the scenes and what does that look like.
Speaker 7: And that's the value that you provide there, because you've
Speaker 7: already kind of built up your audience.
Speaker 2: But when you're just coming straight up up the bat
Speaker 2: and no one really knows.
Speaker 7: Who you are, if you're going to be a blogger,
Speaker 7: stick to that because then people are going to be
Speaker 7: invested in you and your life and you're a lifestyle blogger.
Speaker 2: But if you're going to be.
Speaker 7: Doing like couple, praying, couple, challenge couple, this couple, that couple,
Speaker 7: cup couple, and then all of a sudden you're doing
Speaker 7: blogs on your own and you're like, hey, guys, so.
Speaker 2: I'm out with the boys, yes Friday night.
Speaker 7: People are gonna be like, I didn't sign up for this.
Speaker 7: I don't care about what you're doing with the boys,
Speaker 7: Like where's your girl at? That's what we're trying to
Speaker 7: watch because they feel like they're a part of your couple.
Speaker 7: So if you're trying to be a lifestyle blogger, just
Speaker 7: stay consistent and stick to that. But if you've already
Speaker 7: built up an audience and you're trying to do blogging,
Speaker 7: it's more so behind the scene, and that's the value
Speaker 7: that people are getting from that. They want to see,
Speaker 7: like what is what do you guys do behind this
Speaker 7: big empire that you built?
Speaker 5: Sol story?
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