It is an old method but people should take it more seriously.
The biggest problem with this method is how obvious and spammy it is. And I don't know why IMers are so obsessed with short term methods that only piss people off.
Here's how you twist this method:
Instead of the focus being "make me money", change it to "I'm going to help random youtubers, add value to peoples channels and not piss off Youtube".
There's so many ways to go about this but one niche I've been targeting is hobby / DIY niches.
And to do this you really need skills in some basic fields. Like electronics, chemistry, plumbing, forging, toxicology, air & water purification, engineering in general.
If you're young start reading books. Follow all the most popular hobby channels. You don't need to be an expert just learn more about most hobby niches than
the average person knows. And when you find NEW hobby niches, go study them a few weeks to find smarter ways to do things.
Here's how it works. I'll use a niche I almost targeted but stopped last minute cause I was too busy:
1) Find a newly released hobby video. Like "How To Make a $5 Tazer Gun".
2) When I saw the video first thing I thought was "why the hell are normal tazer guns so BIG if the circuit & battery are so small?"
Then I thought "how cool would it be to make a much smaller tazer gun, just as powerful for $5 that would be super easy to hide?"
3) So I quickly went on ebay and ordered 2 step up converters for $4.80.
4) They came to my house.
5) The guy in the video didn't build a good tazer gun. He just showed how the circuit works.
6) I was gonna buy a small plastic case, build a simple circuit (not a real "circuit" just connect things) with an on button and battery,
paint it then show people how to build it.
I have multiple other sources of income but THIS IS ALL I DO in the hobby niche.
After I improve on an idea to make it cooler and better I come back to the video to upvote a cliffhanger or hook.
Like: "Sweet video! My converters arrived today but I did something much cooler... check this out:"
Then upvote that comment.
Come back to it and post a picture (or video) of the final product with links going back to your landing page.
Then ALL YOU DO is keep ginning up the >>>comment section by talking to people, give cool tips, be nice, be helpful, be creative, add value under your
comment until it's established both by the metric of upvotes and the metric of "this comment helped the most people which anyone can see by clicking down".
After I reach that point I leave and move on to the next project.
Most the comments stick up top for 6 months - forever.
They never get deleted or ghosted. I target both young videos under 90 days and old videos with hundreds of thousands / millions of views. Old videos
work too. And on old videos if the channel owner pins his comment I just jack his comment section. Like "Grant Thompson: King Of Random" I've jacked
the fuck out of his videos.
If I listed some of things I've built, how they're monetized, how easy it is to do and how much money I've made LONG TERM since I started everyone
would start doing this. I intentionally used a bad example because my good examples would get too much attention. But if people go out on their own
looking for niches they'll see that there are really cool ideas to improve on and profit on. I said this before but on 1 video I designed a really cool "device",
let's say for melting metal, made it out of 3 pieces of pipe, thing is cool as fuck, 100xs cooler than the original video but so many people preferred to buy
it directly from me vs make it themselves. So I set up a landing page, made 2 different designs (large & small), sell the small one for $50 and the large
one for $125.
Then I ship them out (I will have to hire someone to do this for me soon).
A few final tips:
1) Always respect the channel owner. If I see an amazon link right under their video, even if I criticize their work and upvote it... I always make sure
the criticism won't hurt their sales.
2) I focus on "will this help the uploader him/herself make more money?" When you get an active, valuable discussion going right under the video....
people keep clicking back to that comment and to the original video which benefits the uploader more than stupid troll comments.
3) I always approach the video as a persuasive, stumbling nerd with honest intentions. And always work up the sale BEFORE I drop links. So people
click, read through some really cool tips and discussions (discussions build social proof) then scroll down a bit further and you see me dropping links.
I never drop links in the top comment itself.
4) I always study what I'm doing. Some videos I'll leave for a day or 2 just to study the engineering. Other videos if it's super cool and looks simple
but is really a bit complicated I'll go off and get a pencil, draw designs, read about chemicals, alloys, physics, whatever I need so I can come back
& own that video.
The most important skills you need? A basic understanding of copywriting + a willingness to learn about cool ass ideas no matter how complicated
they look on first sight. You can rest assured 9/10 ideas on YT.... the owner doesn't know shit about what he's doing. Even Grant Thompson when he
build his forge, that video got millions of views, triggered a 7 yr long insurgency of forge makers on YT.... but the actual forge that Grant built HIMSELF
was a total piece of trash. He lacked even the most basic understanding of how real forges work (it's not complicated).
That's all you do is look for trending DIY niches and ideas, master a bit of engineering, set up your own hobby site and YT channel that you use to
funnel traffic from your comments. I spend maybe 6-8 hrs a week doing this, most my time goes into local (much more profitable) but I work on YT
because it's fun, it diversifies the hell out of my earnings and is much more profitable than ambushing accounts with clickbank or CPA offers.
-BB
ps. I like clickbank because I broke my cherry there and still get checks from old videos..... but if I had to start all over I would have started with my own
products from day 1. It flips the whole paradigm from "how do I sell this product, find niches and not annoy people" to "I found the niches, I'm looking
at the product already... I just need to improve on it good enough to win peoples respect, attention and inevitably their $".
pss. What's really weird on this forum is that organic methods should attract our attention the most, they're clearly the easiest and most profitable....
(SEO is different) yet 90% of people on here go off spamming the fuck out of sites & getting banned like they're trying to reverse the rotation of Earth.
"Spamming" Google with PBNs is great for ranking long term and making shitloads of money. But on social sites with heavy moderation... all you need to do
is get social, use a bit of BH for upvotes... then make money being social on social media. I know it sounds crazy but you'd be amazed how fucking easy it is.
