Nowadays, in every part of the world, there have been dozens of people who can gain millions of American dollar advantages from their personal YouTube channel. If you have good skills in broadcasting, you should make a try of this. The most important thing is that you should be active and creative in uploading interesting and original content on your channel.
You should at least have both two requirements if you want to invite many viewers and subscribers.
The more subscribers and viewers that you have, the more money that you’ll get for a commercial video that you upload in a free video site.
If you already be a popular YouTuber, you can also take the chance to have an endorsement of certain products. It’s understandable that the brand only chooses a popular YouTube channel, those who have dozens to a hundred thousand subscribers, to promote their products.
Recently, YouTube users are rapidly increasing, it reaches one billion hours per day. There is 250 percent of the enhancement of YouTube users who access it from their smartphones. It means that YouTube is increasingly popular in society. It is your turn to take the chance and gain money from this video based search engine site.
Therefore, many people are competing in earning money from YouTube. However, there is no instant way to be a successful person. You should keep trying until you have a YouTube channel with many viewers, yet it also fits your interests and capabilities.
You should prepare several main stuff as your “weapon”, those are:
– Personal Computer/PC or Laptop
– Internet Connection
– Smartphone with high resolution
1. Make a YouTube channel
Firstly, you should make a Google account, then make a channel on YouTube. Name the channel with an interesting and easy name to remember. Yet, you should show what is unique and different from your channel compare to other similar channels.
2. Verify your YouTube channel by Hand-phone number
The steps: Go to your YouTube dashboard > click “Channel” menu on the left side of the dashboard > choose “status and feature” menu > click verify > you will be directed to the verification page. Choose a country and insert your hand-phone number (it should be authentic) then choose to receive the message. Google system will send you a verification message in the form of 6 digit number of the code. Insert the code in the available column, then click the verification button.
3. Make an interesting video
The video that you make should attract viewers’ attention, because the more interesting the video is, the more viewers that will watch your video. To be a video blogger, you can use various tools to shoot your video, you may use your smartphone, handy-cam, or DSLR camera. The most important thing is that you have to make sure that it is your original work. You are not allowed to use others work and copyright, because it will bring a problem to your YouTube business.
4. Upload the video on YouTube
If you have made and edited the video ( you have put the text, voice, or picture trimming, etc), then choose Gallery application to import your video or other applications that you can operate well. Choose the video that you like to upload in the Gallery, click the chosen video then upload it. Give it a title, description, and also tag. The next, click the arrow button on the screen right top. The system will offer you to edit the video using the available features. Tap “got it” to get the offers.
5. Choose Interesting and Relevant Thumbnail Picture
You should make an interesting and eye-catching thumbnail picture on your video because it will appear as the front image of your video. If you make it in a unique way, the viewers surely will click and watch your video.
6. Pay attention to the YouTube SEO Factor
Use the basic SEO first to make the keyword of your video be on top search and most watched video.
The steps:
- Name the video using the relevant keyword.
- Fill up the description of the video to give the details about the content of the video.
- Tag people in order to show the list of related videos easily.
- Share your video link to your social media account to inform netizen about your video.
7. Monetize your YouTube Channel
Sign in to your YouTube channel. Choose the “account information” menu on the right top side of the screen, then click “Creator Studio”. On the left side menu, choose “channel” and click “Status and features”. The next, choose “Enable Monetization”, then approve the available agreement.
8. Connect your YouTube Channel to the AdSense
Associate and approve your AdSense account to your YouTube channel. Later, you will find the YouTube Analytic feature that can you use to track your income. You will receive the royalty if you follow the available YouTube Payment Threshold.
The steps:
– Choose Channel > Monetization, then you will see “account status” on your screen > click the link namely AdSense account.
– You will get a notification that you have switched your account into an AdSense account. Click “next” to link your AdSense account
– The next, fill up your contact information in the available column. If you have filled up all the information needed, click “send my request” button.
9. Optimize the Function of Monetization on your YouTube Channel
You should fulfill several criteria to optimize your YouTube account:
– The video must be interesting (user-friendly)
– It should be your original work that you can promote the video
– You will not earn anything if it is found any plagiarism of Copyrighted videos (others work that has already been copyrighted) in your video. So, it is better to avoid it.
– You should read carefully the Terms of Service and Community Guidelines (some rules made by YouTube management) when you make your video
– If you have activated the monetization function, you will find several advertisements on your next video.
10. Make Conversion Rate to Product Page
You should create content that shows how interesting the product that you want to show is by doing soft promotion. Then make a link on your product page in the description column of your YouTube video. For example, we will find many shoot on a certain product used by the main star or the singer if you watch the music video.
11. Sell the Video in Video Selling Website
On YouTube, you can upload a teaser video and bring your viewers to pay if they want to view the full version.
12. Bring the Traffic to Affiliate Link
Try to make an impressive YouTube channel and use it as the catalyst that will bring to the affiliate link.
13. Attract Sponsorship
You have definitely know that almost all of video YouTube’s content have advertisement and sponsorship in it. These two aspects are functioned to earn money from YouTube.
14. Perform a Live Speaking to Improve Customer Engagement
If you already have enough fan base, you may hold a meet and greet with your fans. You may arrange it as your routine schedule to make your club grow.
15. Think Out of the Box
You should be able to create interesting and creative content and think differently if you want to produce an impressive video so that the viewers will watch the video from the beginning to the end of it.