Building a YouTube Empire Brick By Brick

[avilux]

Just scanned through the thread, at a lost as to the income you generate,can you explain without giving your secrets,as I se a hugh amount of time invest but no return $$$$,would you share.
Thanks

I mean it's more long term than short term investing. It's possible to make a full time income off of YouTube very quickly, but the odds are stacked against you. It's more like a year or two down the line, maybe even a couple years down the road. Depends on how much you put in. I made over $130 in the past month, but probably soon it'll be 4 figures, and then 5, and so on. YouTube grows exponentially when your videos go viral, and then your channel. If you keep reinvesting your money, you may not see exponential growth forever, but you can definitely be making 6-7 figures off of YT. I mean in 2012 alone there was a couple thousand channels making $100,000 or more.

 

[avilux]

Report #52 Well I released my video today and it's going well so far. 10K+ views. Excited about it but Reddit hates it haha. Oh well, both good AND bad publicity helps

I'm at 3,292 subscribers, 526,606 total views and 21,000+ realtime views. I'm going to be promoting quite heavily into the night, and I have been for most of the day so far! The month is going to be over in a couple of minutes here, so I'm really excited to see the stats for November. I think I'm ending it on a nice bang. For December, the big thing is basically getting the 96.7K subs I need to finish my goal. The biggest thing will be connecting with people and doing collabs, so that's my goal alongside getting 2 more replication videos out

So far so good!

 

[avilux]

Well I'm back with report #53. The channel has 580,731 total views, 3,552 subscribers, and 8,800 realtime. I posted my video late by a few hours and this post's definitely late as it's been over a week really. I moved temporarily to Poland (winter break vacation) and clearly it's been difficult to get things back up again lol. I had my computer and left it at home.. on accident. Or at least the most important piece, the SSD with everything on it. So basically I'm kind of left scrambling here trying to reinstall all my old programs on my uncle's computer haha.

Life always throws challenges at you. The channel's been steadily growing however a reddit promotion is way overdue and I'm sure we'll get some nice boost from that. At this point, we are getting close to the end of the year.... which is a little ehhh, but hey, just gotta keep pounding away. You never know what could happen. Still good progress overall.

 

[freestyleislife]

Hey mate, any advice on using reddit? I'm gonna try to play areound with it, but want to know if you have any specific tips?

 

[dawniey]

Your videos are pretty good. You seem like a pretty nice person. I think that you need to step-up your thumbnail game. The ones that you use now are pretty mediocre. You can get photoshop cs6 for free - just type "cs6 for free" on google. I think that you can also find a PS tutorial for free on udemy.
btw. While youre in Poland - Do a couple of videos where you film yourself and talk about food, girls etc. Vids of that type tend to be really popular here . Name it like : American Guy Tries Polish Food. It should get you a lot of views and subs.

 

[wounded eagle]

Do you know if putting too much ads in 10 mins videos affects it in a negative way ?
I'm putting like 5 ads/vid and I don't know If it's hurting it.
btw. Following I'm also on a yt journey after a month of work with 5 channels, I made about 500$ and i hope to at least double it in the next month.

i want your skype

 

[dawniey]

i want your skype

it was a couple of months ago.. right now im at $3000 - $4000 /month - just ads

 

[wounded eagle]

it was a couple of months ago.. right now im at $3000 - $4000 /month - just ads

iam new youtuber and i want your advice

 

[seodean]

Good going, Avilux. Best thing I like about your journey is consistency, Keep on grinding, mate.

 

[dawniey]

iam new youtuber and i want your advice

You can find everything you need on this forum

 

[avilux]

Report #54 As you can see, I'm a fair bit away from 100,000 subscribers. My current stats are: 3,834 subscribers, 630,930 total views, 11,000+ realtime views, and $144.05 total revenue (estimated) from the past 28 days. This month I currently earned $79.67 in the first 17 days. I'm kinda annoyed by YouTube's crappy analytics this month, as the first took over 2 weeks to update (and everybody had OVERestimated analytics at first, so I thought I'd earn $9 more that day). I don't particularly care about the few bucks, but it's like the 3rd biggest website in the world has such terrible analytics? It kept glitching almost every single day up until now.

I lost 561 subscribers in my lifetime and my quality recently has dropped slightly, so I've been working on getting it back up. Today is my first actual work day in a while. The reason I am here, and not in a much higher place is well.. it's my own fault.

I got lazy, I got demotivated, I got crushed (HOWEVER I never lost hope!). Moving to Poland for the time being forced me to plan my future much harder. It also forced me to waste a bunch of time reinstalling all my old programs, getting locked out of a bunch of accounts time and time again (which took hours for some of them to reverify as my phone doesn't work here lol), and it's just been a bunch of various things in conjuction with each other. Also I got quite distracted by hunting for ladies haha (which the rewards are so amazing.. it's been wonderful, however I'm putting the gals on hold for now until I can get YT to be a fulltime job).

I stopped reading my Napoleon Hill goal every day a little bit back. I got off the tracks, but hopefully now all will be going smoothly again. Still good progress, and I'm definitely not upset. I'm quite backlogged on messages, so that's the first thing I'm doing. Always good to start slow again

 

[avilux]

Your videos are pretty good. You seem like a pretty nice person. I think that you need to step-up your thumbnail game. The ones that you use now are pretty mediocre. You can get photoshop cs6 for free - just type "cs6 for free" on google. I think that you can also find a PS tutorial for free on udemy.
btw. While youre in Poland - Do a couple of videos where you film yourself and talk about food, girls etc. Vids of that type tend to be really popular here . Name it like : American Guy Tries Polish Food. It should get you a lot of views and subs.

Yeah my thumbnails severely went down in quality, but I pirated Photoshop successfully finally I'm excited most that probably when I return here, I'll be able to pay pennies on the dollar for a camera guy/gal. A second person would allow me so much more freedom to actually do the type of videos I'd like to. Vlogs are okay but ehhh

 

[Ninjakilla69]

Yeah my thumbnails severely went down in quality, but I pirated Photoshop successfully finally I'm excited most that probably when I return here, I'll be able to pay pennies on the dollar for a camera guy/gal. A second person would allow me so much more freedom to actually do the type of videos I'd like to. Vlogs are okay but ehhh

Awesome journey man. I want to pursue YouTube one day but honestly I do not have the motivation to do it.

 

[savax]

Might as well back up my thread that I made a few days ago in the Making Money section. And this is a journey to follow after the Digital Marketing thread was finished just a few minutes ago.

I welcome you to the crazy adventures of AVILUX and I'm sure you'll enjoy the ride. If not, at best you'll learn something that could your IM career.

Today is the first day I'm deciding to go HAM on my personal YT channel. I haven't been able to focus much on it as I was quite busy working on my marketing company over the past couple of months. My first video went live on the 19th of March this year. Now I'm 60+ videos in with 317 subscribers.

My first goal will be aiming for 1,000 subscribers. From there on it should be much smoother sailing for 10,000 subscribers. All my attention will be focused on this. Split attention can destroy anything, and even though I believe slightly in multi-tasking, I must test out how well I work when I apply all my efforts into creating this.

Even though I've worked with millions of followers on Youtube before, I've never had a personal channel before. (I mean, I tried once before but only uploaded 2 videos or so and never bothered to promote it, so that doesn't really count.)

I will show you step by step on how to create a YT empire. My niche? It's rather unique. It's not for the broad audience, I'll tell you that. I'm a little nontraditional with my videos and my general marketing approaches. I'm not focused on the money. I'm just focused on building a solid base for this channel now, so that I'm able to have a cement floor for my Empire in the months to come.

Where am I now? A few days left into my rent at this current apartment before I'll probably have to borrow money from my uncle in order to sublet or find a roommate or something next week.

Am I stressed out? Only partially, really the pressure's coming from the fact that I want to DOMINATE.

I'M HUNGRY TO DOMINATE AND EXCEL IN WHAT I'M BEST AT. I cannot stand to be average.

Other than having 300 subs, I also have over 51K total views and one of my best videos is towering above the rest, approaching quickly 20K views.

Report #1 I shall spend tonight rendering tomorrow's video, and then the rest of the time will be left up to promoting my channel as much as possible. I shall be using Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, Forums and other YT channels to promote. And one post on FB.

I'm already running Followliker for my IG account which has over 12K followers but most are ghost at this point. (There's been periods of time where I just stopped caring about my personal IG totally and engagement is CRAP!) I'm messaging nearly 100 people right now with a picture and a decent message to get them to subscribe. I shall do a promotion post tonight as well.

I will use Twitter to build a brand new account just for engaging with people for certain hashtags. I shall be trying to connect with as many people as possible tonight.

For reddit, I will be using multiple accounts. Some will be "spam" where they just post to many subreddits the same video(s), while others will follow the 90/10 rule to try and maintain quality.

For forums, I shall try and find some tonight that will fit in my niche and build quality accounts there.

Long-term, the strategy is to give, give, give and finally get.

Hi, Did you bought Youtube views, like When you started?

 

[avilux]

Hi, Did you bought Youtube views, like When you started?

No. I made it quite clear in multiple posts throughout the thread that I'm 100% opposed against fake views/subs/etc.

 

[avilux]

Report #55 I have shifted my focus over from growing my channel to monetizing my current subs/views in such a way that won't really screw my progress. I will make most likely more mention of it when I hit 5,000 subscribers, but I would like my audience to help make me some cash from affiliate links. And then Probably I'm still waiting to advertise my friend's clothing brand. At least 10,000, although my original goal was to wait till 25K or 50K. I'm waiting with Patreon for sure though till 25K or 50K, it's WAY too early for that. I can't sell my own products/services either since it's way too early.

I have found my highest earning videos (which surprisingly are NOT my most viewed actually.. the CPM's on my most viewed are ironically the WORST out of all my videos lol). I will begin promoting the higher CPM videos soon. It's a shame upvote.club isn't working atm (still waiting for it to come back next week!).

Google Analytics is screwed up yet again (big surprise... NOT) so I can't even report that accurate results but currently I'm sitting at 4,025 subscribers and 669,037 total views. My realtime views went down due to the holidays to 7,400. The last reported day for earnings was the 22nd, but at least that was a nice once over $7. The average daily earnings right now for the month is approaching $5.20. I really would like to end the month with at least over $200 from adsense alone as I know January is always the worst month for adsense

I think this will be the last report till the very last day of the year. I've contacted a fair amount of channels I thought I had connections with for collabs.. no response even though they saw. Oh well, it's business I honestly am not worried at all. 2017 is my year to crush it. And worst case scenario? Who cares, I'll still be able to live very comfortably in Poland come summertime. Plus I'm still young

 

[ostrich]

I think you can earn more with affiliate than you do with Adsense.

 

[dawniey]

Co kilka miesięcy popularni "Youtuberzy" robią warsztaty w których uczą co i jak. Polub ich fanpage na FB i czekaj aż będą robili jakieś warsztaty w twojej okolicy. Pytając ich osobiście będziesz miał większą szanse na to że jakiś z tobą zrobi wideo. Wysyłanie im dm raczej nie zadziała. Dostają setki podobnych wiadomości codziennie.

 

[dawniey]

I watched his video and found out that he speaks 5 languages. That's why my previous comment is in different language. Sorry If it confused somebody .

 

[Fireglass]

Thats exciting to see where youre at now. I started early this year and am at 13,000 making 8 a day. I Just got onto this site and have been scrounging. looking for the best ways to take my channel to the next level. your post is a story of inspiration to me. good luck