There are many ways to make money online, one of them is uploading videos on YouTube or Vlogging as it is professionally called. Some persons upload videos on YouTube not for the purpose of making money but just to entertain or to make others h appy, like comedy. Others do it in their leisure but do you know there is good money in uploading videos on YouTube?. Many people have become celebrities today by creating video contents to teach, entertain, review and have attracted audience which in turn has attracted awesome earnings.
Steps to make money from YouTube
1. Create videos to sell your products or services
You can make good money from YouTube by creating and uploading videos to sell your products. For instance, if you are into pop corn production you can actually upload a video showing the process of production. It will attract large audience, you can drop your contact for those interested in purchasing in bulk.
Many YouTubers who are into beauty products actually penetrated the market through this process. You will make money in two ways which is monetizing your channel. When subscribers are up to 1000k and you got 4000 viewing hours, Google will start paying you. This is why you need a skill, you can learn a skill and then breakthrough in it with your presence in the internet.
There is nothing that is a waste, people are searching the net for one thing or the other including what you have to offer and that’s where you will make money from. You can sell e-books, art prints, virtual classes etc.
2. Become an Affiliate Marketer
There’s so much money to make from affiliate marketing. It is one of the ways to monetized your YouTube channel You can pick any product of your interest and make a review video.
Look for a company with affiliate program, such as; Ebay, Amazon, Click bank, Jumai, Konga etc. and apply to join. Company dealing on health products are good bred. It is very easy to sell these products because when it comes to health people will give up everything to stay healthy or recover from ailment.
When you are accepted, the company will give a link, whenever a buyer click on this link to purchase the product you will get paid for that. You can earn 10k, 20k 0r 30k for just one purchase. Lets assume, you had 20 people buying product in a month, you can imagine how much you will be making.
Apart from link, you can include your code in the description box so those who are not clicking link can have option of using your code when filling form during purchase of the product. There is a folk who made a review on Samsung phone, each phone goes for 400k plus for each phone bought with his link he made 7% imagine selling up to 10 phones in a month.
3.Create sponsored content through brand deals
Getting a brand deal is another way of making money, it is almost like affiliate marketing. Companies interested in your channel’s audience can sponsor your videos or give you product placement deals in return for a shout out. Before you can earn in this manner, you must have been uploading quality videos that is in line with their products.
For instance, some Vloggers on food niche get deals with seasoning companies like; Maggi, Knorr cube etc, Pasta companies too like; Indomie etc. You don’t have to wait until a company contacts you, once you are able to develop a large number of followership you contact the brand you are interested in working with.
In other not to violate YouTube policy make sure you notify them by ticking a box in the advanced settings tab of your video manager to indicate your video contains paid ads.
4. Get Featured on YouTube Premium
Apart from making money from running ads on your YouTube channel another way is through YouTube Premium.
YouTube Premium is a paid membership service which enables people to watch ad-free videos. The creators don’t have to do anything but will earn whenever YouTube Premium members play their videos.
There are rules guiding being a YouTube Premium member just like in YouTube monetization. Most of the revenue generated through Premium membership fees will go to creators and total revenue distribution is based on how much Premium members watch your content.
Premium members are allow to get the opportunity to download and watch your videos offline and play them in the background which adds to your watch time.
5. Apply for YouTube Partner Programme
You can always apply for YouTube Partnership Program whenever you hit 1k subscribers. Don’t start jumping when you see 1k subscribers because that’s just one of the criteria to meet. Other steps to get you into YouTube paid list are; You must live in an eligible area, link Google AdSense account to your channel, have 4,000 viewing hours.
Let me shock you, it is very easy to get 1k subscribers than get 4000 viewing hours. To attain this make sure you have quality videos especially on things that are interesting to the public. Make sure you upload videos often if possible every day. I started Vlogging for more than a year now, I’m just about 3000 watching hours. I have only 83 videos, it is not about the number but mainly about the substance. If I were to be uploading videos weekly or 3 times a day, I would have reached the trademark.
How to enable monetization on YouTube
When you have met all the requirement, click into your profile and click on monetization. Some YouTubers have more than one account, ensure you login to the YouTube account you intend to monetize.
- Go through the Partner Program terms and click agree.
- Connect an existing AdSense account if you already have otherwise, create a new one for you channel
- The next thing is to define your monetization preferences
Go to dashboard and open the analytics tab, select revenue then scroll down to see Monthly estimated revenue. This chart will help or give you an idea on the prediction of what your earnings would be.
How many views do one need to make money on YouTube
The number of views you get in a month doesn’t translate to your YouTube earnings. If you like get 10k views if nobody clicked on ads in your channel you aren’t going to earn a dime from ads.
YouTube has standard or criteria in paying publishers who run ads on their channel. It is as simple as this, a viewer must click on ads or watch it in full for you to earn certain amount.
Unlike before were YouTubers depend solely on advertisement to earn revenue now like YouTube premium exist to help you make money without ad clicks or consumption now.
How to make money from YouTube videos
For those who wants to make money from YouTube videos, here are tips to follow:
- When the video you created is longer than 10 minutes you will have a good opportunity of making money from ads revenue. When your video is long it will record a high viewing hours this is because videos that have a higher average watch time will appear higher on YouTube search result. This means the possibility of users viewing your content is high.
- Collabo with other YouTubers
To make money from YouTube collaborate with other YouTubers in the industry.
Is it hard to make money on YouTube?
It may be pretty challenging to make money on YouTube especially as a newbie but if you know your onions you can make money within a short time. All you need is 4000 watch hours and 1000k subscribers within the last 12 months. It can be very frustrating having more than 2000k subscribers and less than 2000 viewing hours. To fast forward earning time produce more videos that are engaging.
To earn $1000 in YouTube AdSense your video will require 500,000 views, this means $2 per 1000 views. The amount you earn is not the same every month, you can only earn base on the number of views or ads watched which cannot be same all the time.
