What is up all my fellow apes, orangutans, gorillas and freaking silverbacks out there? How are we doing today? It is your boy, your boy trace trains, your boy, you boy, uh, coming back with other youtube videos, i'm done! I'm done, i'm done anywho. This is going to be talking about how to become a youtube millionaire and i'm not kidding when i say that this is very doable for people out there. I'm not saying it's going to be easy. I'm not saying it's going to be handed to you, i'm not saying it's going to happen, but i'm going to provide you the steps, how i did it, how you can possibly do this as well, so this has been a very heavily requested video by some people.

In the discord, uh personal messaging on instagram, twitter, yada, yada yada, and i want to walk you through step by step, the no tactics, not the thumbnail, not the title, not the tags. We already know all that stuff right. How do you provide meaningful content and get started so that you can develop your own personal niche? This doesn't even need to be finance right. That's what i decided to get into, because i'm passionate about it right, but it can be whatever you want to be right.

It can be comedy: vlogs, uh, prank, videos, cooking, there's, there's a video out there for literally everybody, and it's all about dominating that niche and providing real value. That's different from other people's videos right, so we're going to get into this. I wanted to draw up and show you guys an orangutan as per usual. Every time i get a microsoft whiteboard i got, ta represent the freaking gorillas apes monkeys out there.

This is orangutan in japanese in case you're curious. This is how you'd spell orangutan so o right here: r-a-n-g-u-t-a-n orangatang, that's how you'd say it so anyways uh, let's get into the video, but first i want to show you guys that i'm not bs in you when i say that i make seven figures a year: I've done the math for you. This is my youtube analytics. This is how much i've made in the last 28 days.

That's what i'm basing my numbers off of for my youtube income right. So that's what i've done over the last 28 days. If you were to look at february, i think i pulled in somewhere around the neighborhood of sixty seven thousand dollars, sixty six yeah sixty six thousand nine hundred. So far in march, i pulled in seventy two thousand in january, pulled in fifty seven hundred back when the channel was still growing so um.

It differs from nisha niche how much money you're going to make it. It very very greatly depends on your cpm, your playback based cpm rate uh, which is how much you make per thousand views, but regardless that's what i've done and if you're in a finance niche there's pretty high cpms that can pay you well, and i've done the Math for you right, so i make that much on youtube. Weeble is the brokerage platform that i use for trading right and i have an affiliate program through them, in which i pull in a pretty decent amount of income as well. Just so far here in march.

I have made twenty four thousand six hundred ninety dollars. Low balling, it could be higher, could be lower, i'm just basing that off the lowest possible number. That's i'm currently getting paid by weeble patreon is a creator's platform. We're gon na get into why it's important to have diverse incomes like this, like i'm showing you um patreon.

Is you know an income stream in which i i get you know five dollars a month? Is the minimum payment plan for people to be a part of an awesome discord community get investing advice, talk with a great community of investors, yada yada yada my full-time job and make about four thousand dollars a month. I did not include my merch store uh, as that has just gotten off the ground, so i'm not gon na clue that in my income stream, but that brings me to a grand total of about 118 000 a month or about 1.4 million dollars a year so That is what i've done. Uh! That's me personally, i don't show you that to brag. I show this to you, because this means that you can do this as well, because i am not an intelligent ape.

I'm telling you that right now there's a couple things that contributed to my success. Two of them are controllable. We're gon na get into that as we go through the video, so no bs. This is just the way that i got it done, there's different ways, but this is my five step guide, so anywho brand a small niche, a micro niche within a larger niche.

Now, what do i mean by this? If you were to get into primarily cooking? Think about all the cooking youtubers out there that exist, there's got ta, be thousands of them trying to make it. Thousands with you know a couple hundred subscribers a couple thousand subscribers, maybe tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, but if you want to dominate that niche, there's likely already somebody out there who's done that broad topic: you're, not gon na hit it you're, not gon na Hit it i mean, if you just search up on youtube, cooking, cooking, tutorials, right. Look. What pops up you're gon na see videos with millions of views.

Millions of views you've got gordon ramsay. You've got 65 000 10 million 27 million 4.5 million 1.6 million 14 million you're not gon na hit those you're. Not your videos aren't gon na pop up when, when people search those videos, they're not gon na, be able to find what you're talking about so a way to go about. This is to go and and - and you know, specialize within cooking tutorials.

So maybe for you that means you focus on making pizza, maybe within pizza. That means you focus on making spinach pizza or you know, fettuccine pizza or you know just pepperoni pizza whatever it has to be. You want to diversify yourself and stand out as the guy who specializes in a small niche. Now.

What does that mean for me? What did i do? I focus on microvision and stock technical analysis. Now finance is very, very broad. You can get into real estate. You can get into talking about bonds, you can talk about the feds.

You can talk about news, you can talk about uh, you know fundamental analysis, there's a whole broad spectrum of ways that you can play it out. I'm gon na show you guys my channel and what i primarily focused on in the beginning, so i got into microvision. That was one of my first very first long-term stocks, and it took me a while to find that you know i kind of dabbled a little bit played with some other stuff and eventually i found a rhythm i got into microvision and talking about stock technical analysis. So, as you can see here, microvision bam made my video on this and it did pretty well.

I noticed hey that got a thousand views that stood out from the rest of the videos that i've been making. So i focused on that right. I found my micro niche within my larger niche and built my audience around that and you need to focus on providing good content we're going to get into that later into the video. But that's what i did right.

I found that micro niche and i became the subject matter expert on everything microvision. I did my time. I did my research. I learned the ins and outs right and i became the microvision guy.

That's what people knew me, as you know, three months ago, before this whole amc, gamestop craze, which is probably you know something a lot of people don't know, but it's going to improve your competition right. There's gon na be less competition, which means when people search those videos, you're gon na, have a higher chance of them clicking on yours, because there's less videos in that specific niche right now, as your channel grows, you can taste test other subject matters right because you're Gon na start, you know getting optimized by the youtube algorithm. Your videos are going to stand out they're going to get more views because they know hey this guy. This guy already gets views.

He's got a pretty good audience. That's retaining people right that he brings real value to so you can start dabbling in other things. For me, that meant other stocks, that meant broader finance subjects, whether it meant talking about the news, whether it's talking about um. You know the federal reserve uh different.

You know fundamental analysis spreadsheets real estate, whatever it had to be right, i could i could start dabbling in other things, because i established myself and decided hey. This is where i'm going to start, and then i can broaden up from there once i have an audience that i'm providing real value to now we're going to get into this farther into the video, but make sure that you're, not a fraud. You want to make sure that you actually understand what you're talking about you got to provide real content right, there's, there's there's a couple different niches and - and you know things that people are looking for on youtube. There's education and, i would say, there's entertainment as the big two.

Are you an entertainer? Are you an educator if you're an educator, you better make sure that you're actually educating right, don't waste people's time? That's what it comes down to so and lastly, i want to say i want to talk about. This is study others in your niche right so likely there are people out there who have already done what you're doing and maybe doing it better than you're doing when you start and that's okay right, you're, not gon na be the best guy on youtube. In fact, i go back. I go back to my videos from way back in the day and i just think to myself man how far we have come, how much we have learned right and you can learn a lot from other people.

So for me specifically, i would go and look at other people like chris saying chris sane was one of the first stock guys that i ever watched - and i learned things that i liked about his channel things that i didn't like about his channel and i adjusted My style accordingly stock mo was also another big guy that i watched stock mo right. I think i learned things i like about his channel things that i don't like about his channel and i applied the fundamental basics from that and created my own brand right. You want to brand your content and make sure that you stand up from other people. Don't don't just copy others right you can.

You can learn from others and take what they do and flip it in a different way. That's your own style right, but make sure that you study others, because you can learn a lot from what other people have done. That's it's like reading a book right. Why waste your entire life going through learning everything as you go when there's somebody out there, who's likely already done it.

Who can offer you lessons that they learned along the way that you can take without having to waste time right? So that's! That's the the beginning! Piece of this is brand a small niche and, as you establish a little bit of a you, know, credibility of following some people that you're retaining, because you bring them great content, great value. You bet you make their lives better than they were before. So you can broaden out at that point. You can start taste testing.

The next is two learn as you grow. Don't learn then grow, and this sounds kind of tricky, but i want to use an example here, so my dad was in the army for a very long time, 24 years right and there's a there's, a specific way that the army goes about training and it's not The second here it's not it's, not the latter; it is the former right the former. Is you learn as you grow right? So in the army, you start off as a second lieutenant, and you know nothing. You know jack about how to be the second lieutenant.

You stayed a second lieutenant for about a year and a half right 1.5 years. Now, as you get towards the end of being a second lieutenant, you start to know pretty well what you're doing right you, you check those boxes. You know what you're doing, but then guess what you get promoted up to first lieutenant and then your learning process starts all over now. Just because you don't know how to do the job doesn't mean that you don't do the job.

You still do the job and likely you're going to suck at the job when you start, but that doesn't mean that you can't learn as you grow. This is the army way. This is what my what my dad taught me. He said: hey, there's, two sorts of people out there.

You don't learn then grow. You learn as you grow right now. What would the flip side of this be? If you were to learn then grow? Well, that would be, let's say that you spend a year and a half learning how to be a second lieutenant, and then you start being a second lieutenant. You dominate that, for you know your year and a half, and then you go into first lieutenant.

Well, you can't take a break here, hypothetically speaking, if you want to take an entire year to study up on being a first lieutenant. You know that's a lot of time that you're wasting when you could have been dominating that space and most people out there. That would turn a 20-year army career into a you know, a 40 to 45-year army career. It would likely extend the time to which people can retire.

I mean you would you would have people out there who are literally, you know, 60 year old retirees and that's not the way the army works. It's not feasible, it's not maintainable. We know how that is right. You can apply that same sort of methodology to whatever your niche is right, learn as you grow you're going to start and you're not going to be that good you're going to suck but you're going to get better and i'll.

Tell you that from experience, because when i come to my youtube videos, i look at my channel. I was not that good. When i started like don't get me wrong. I spent as much time learning as i could, but you don't know what questions to ask until you know a little bit about what you're doing right.

So i got into youtube. I got into technical analysis, i got into stocks and i started somewhere right. I made some money. I made some mistakes, but you learn from the mistakes and you capitalize on your strengths right, so use that as a tool as you're going learn as you grow.

Don't learn then grow because otherwise you're just going to be sitting there for two years trying to get get your feet wet, reading books studying different youtube channels right, but you can't really learn the game until you start playing it right. I could draw something up on a whiteboard. You know 50 000 times, but until i go out and do it right, i'm i'm not going to be able to do it like i did on a whiteboard. The game just changes it it entirely changes once you actually get your feet wet.

You can read all the books in the world about how to tie a knot, but you can't tie that knot until you physically. Do it right? It's just not the same, so you'll suck you'll get better and don't be a fraud right. So take that opportunity don't be confused when i say it's okay to suck right. It is it's okay to suck when you start, but it's not an excuse.

When you find a mistake, when you find something that you're not good at within your specific niche, maybe it means you try to make it a pizza, but instead you made you made calamari. I mean obviously that's a that's a very drastic example, but you get my point here is learn from your mistakes. Don't let them just be repeat, mistakes right, and then i want to you know, come back to this last thing here, which is refer back to one b and one b says study others in your niche right. So when you make mistakes, come and watch other people's videos in your specific niche, what are they doing? What mistakes have they made? What are they doing? Well that i can learn from you know as i'm going on this journey right.

I would much rather start and suck at it and learn as i go, and at least i've got my foot in the door right you're, not you're, not you know, you're not footing around with a concept you're doing it you're doing it once you've done it right. You've already taken the hardest part of that first step towards building your own brand building your own youtube, channel and business, because that's what this is as a business is starting once you start, you have a obligation to keep going in your head. You think to yourself: you know what i've already started. I've already started, and now at this point i can start really working towards what that end goal is and if your end goal is to make seven figures a year right, seven figures you're, getting there you're getting there right.

So take that as as number two number three consistency - and this is going to depend a lot on your niche right. So here's an example. I went on to big daws uh, big dos vlogs, and i i went on there and had about an hour-long podcast with him. Now.

Consistency for him looks a lot different than it might for a finance youtuber right. So for a finance youtuber such as myself, consistency means that i have to keep up to date with the most recent news right, because it's time-sensitive information they're not ever green videos - i'll admit that right. But it's information that you really need to get out on a day-to-day basis, so if you're a finance youtuber, maybe that means you have to put up videos every day to be competitive with other youtubers in that niche. Now, for somebody who does vlogs or somebody who does you know, entertainment you're, not necessarily tied to make videos every single day, because you want to make it valuable content, you want to make it actually funny.

You want to provide value to your people right, uh, your team, your community, and for you know for these guys. Maybe that means once a week. Maybe that means once every two weeks, but you got ta start uh. You got ta, get out the door and build a relationship with people, because that's that's what this is right: you're, creating a relationship with people when i was on big dad's vlogs.

We talked about this. I asked him. I said: hey man, what is your biggest piece of advice for building a successful youtube channel since you've been doing this game right? And he said you know what man think about it like this you're gon na have better friendships with the people that you talk with. Every day, rather than the guys that you talk with once a month, the same thing can be said about a youtube channel right: uh, you're, gon na build better relationships.

You're gon na build more trust, you're gon na build more authenticity, there's gon na be people who feel like they connect with you. If you connect with them on a regular basis, don't try and play the game. Man, i'm telling you like you, got ta, be passionate about this stuff. You got ta get out of bed and think to yourself cause i get out of bed at three or four in the morning, every single day, freaking pumped to talk about stocks to talk about finance, because it's exciting i love connecting with my community.

I love talking about stocks. I love talking about finance right. You got ta, find that niche for you in which it's feasible for you to be consistent to upload on a regular basis, because you're excited about it. You're excited about talking about what you're talking about.

You're excited to connect with your community you're excited to build those relationships, and you know it is good for the youtube algorithm right. The youtube algorithm is going to favor people who upload on a regular basis over those who don't right and coming back to this niche piece once you've established that niche you've got recurrent viewers who click on your videos every single time they put, you put them up. They're subscribed to you, they love the stuff that you're putting out right. The youtube algorithm is also going to favor that consistency, especially in your specific niche, and push that out to other people, so that you can broaden your audience right.

So consistency is number three on the list for me number four, and i think this is honestly one of the most important things about building a truly good youtube. Uh business is built on authenticity, not algorithms. Now don't get that confused with not paying attention to the algorithm right, you do have to pay attention to it. You got to figure out what videos are trending uh, what your audience is looking for, it's not about what we as a creator want to do.

It's about providing value for the people who watch our videos right. We can't be that selfish. You got to find that middle ground where you enjoy what you're doing, but it's actually something that people are interested in. But what i mean by build on authenticity is this: don't be a like bigger right? Don't ask people all the time to subscribe to your channel to like your videos, yada yada yada, i've seen the statistics.

Man, i've seen them. I know when you remind people to like your videos to subscribe to your channel. They are you're more likely to get likes and you're more likely to get subscribers, but are those real subscribers? Are they real likes? Are they going to be recurrent viewers? The odds are no, because you haven't built a relationship with that person. You need to build authenticity right.

People are going to subscribe to your channel and like your videos, if you provide real freaking value, if you make their lives better, whether it be educational, whether it means they connect with your personality, whether it means they think that you're, a freaking, real, dude or dudette Right you're gon na provide that value and personality to people so that they feel obligated. I mean that's what it comes down to is man. You know what this person on youtube is so much different than these other. These other people, who are just out there for likes looking for money.

Looking for the clicks looking to ride trends, whatever it might be right, they actually care about. You know the value they're providing to people. They want to build a relationship with people. That's where authenticity is so huge and i build my entire youtube business off of this right.

It goes a long, long, long ways: jordan, belford the wolf of wall street right. He has this tip that he said to everybody. He says you can build a lot of income off of being a fraud right, but eventually frauds get caught and they lose all their money and that's factual. He lived that life, he was a fraud, he came out straight forward and he said you know what i did some stupid mistakes.

I built my entire life savings, all my income off of fraudulent and he got busted now you know you are gon na. Have those asterisks those people who who don't end up, you know getting caught, who make all their living, but that's a one in a thousand one in a hundred one and ten thousand sort of situation that you don't want to be in right. Build your income build your brand and your business off of authenticity because, first off it feels good. It feels good to have genuine relationships to actually have a community that you care about, and that cares about you but you're going to keep recurrent viewers you're going to get more watch time, you're going to get more views and you're going to get more people that Come back to your channel to watch more videos right.

That is insane. It is a big big difference and that's why my channel personally, since i focused so much on being authentic, since i focus so much on transparency being a real person before someone who's just hunting for likes and clicks and subscribe buttons right. I have recurrent viewers and i'm able to lock in this this generalized same revenue. You know, day over day.

Over day i mean, if you look at my my views, my watch time. My subscribers you've got ups and downs, true enough right, but they stay generally. About the same i mean my views, go pretty pretty. Well, i mean honestly, the most you know fluctuation i have is just how many videos i put up that day.

So that tells you the whole story guys. Is it matters? Authenticity matters, don't be a fraud, don't be that guy a ton for likes, don't be that guy hunting for subscribes. It might take longer right. It might take longer to get that real audience, but you're gon na build something that you can't buy and that you can't beg for right.

When somebody begs me to do something, i don't want to freaking do it, i don't you have to motivate people intrinsically to want to care and give a about what you're talking about. Lastly, on this topic, i want to talk about trend uh. What does that even say a trend creation, not riding right, so don't be that guy, who is trying to uh ride a trend? Now it's okay, to do that. You know every now and then, if you see something, that's a hot topic right ride it for a video, that's okay, test the waters but create your own trends, create your own trends.

Don't ride, don't ride waves all the time right. We don't want to build a brand based off of what other people have done. We want to create a brand based on what we have done so, for example, right. My youtube channel really blew up because of amc and gamestop, and that was by complete accident.

I was just doing what i do. I was playing swing trades i was playing investing. I was playing technical analysis of playing numbers and i saw hey. Amc has a real chance to do something.

Freaking awesome here. Two days later, luck and timing played into the equation. Right luck and timing. Two uncontrollable factors: the amc situation blew up got a viral video 250.

000. 300 000 views right, but because i was authentic and i was just doing what i do. I started my own sort of trend. I created my own wave and you can do that right now.

There's there's four things that play into this equation and two of them you can't control two of them. You can. The controllables are right here grit. How hard are you gon na work right? How are you gon na keep showing up to the plate? Are you gon na keep batting? That's important.

Number two is skill. How good are you at your craft right? These are two controllable factors. You can do this. You can make sure that you're learning you can make sure that you're showing up every day and are gon na work out.

You're gon na you're gon na work hard on every single other person on youtube, covering what you talk about two uncontrollable factors and if it scares you that's okay, it is a little bit scary. Is luck and timing? Luck. Did you talk about the right thing? Timing, did you talk about the right thing at the right time right? These are two things that we can't control, but if you keep showing up to the plate right, you keep that grit. You keep that skill.

You make sure that you're always learning on the job. You're always trying to master your craft one of these times, you're going to hit that it's all about the luck and timing and eventually whether it takes 100 videos - 200 videos, 300 videos you're going to do it for retrospect right. How many videos did i make until i had my first viral video right? Look at all this all these videos that i had, and i didn't get a hundred thousand plus views on any of these at all right. None of these took off.

None of them are 100 000 plus views. Well, what did it take? We keep scrolling, keep scrolling keep scrolling. I started youtube in december 16. 2020.

My first viral video was right here. A month ago, a month ago, i got my first 100 000 plus view video 256k right here, and it took me hundreds of videos to get there. So if you keep showing up to the plate, you keep mastering your craft, eventually you're gon na hit that looking timing and you're gon na get where you want to go last thing that will build you that seven-figure income on youtube is a multi-stream income. Now, as i as i showed you guys right if i was just to play youtube alone, i'd make a pretty good amount of money right.

I'd make 73 000. You know, i would say, between 60 000 and 80 000 a month right. That's that's about what i've done. The 73 600 number is based off the last 28 days, so i'm using that as the average, for you know, monthly income as right now.

But if you were to take the rest of my income streams out of the equation, that really changes the game. If i wasn't working my full-time job, if i wasn't, if i didn't, have the patreon, if i didn't have weeble uh, i've got a merge store as well that i've been pulling in about. You know ten thousand dollars a month, but that's just recent. I haven't included that right.

If i took out all those income streams, i'm not a millionaire. I don't know what the math comes out to, but i'll do it right now, 73. 600 bucks times you know 12 months you're, looking at eight hundred eighty three thousand dollars now doesn't sound like a big difference, but that's almost double. I've almost doubled my income by having diverse income streams right passive income streams, and it's huge right.

So whatever that means for your niche, it's gon na be different for everybody. Maybe that means advertising deals. Maybe that means brand sponsorships. If you, if you have a cooking channel, maybe that means that you, you uh, you contact a knife company who's gon na you know, sponsor your videos, pay you per video that they're in to use their knives.

Maybe that means, if you are a vlogger, that you uh, you know that you represent some sort of clothing brand. Maybe that means, if you're a technology youtuber that you focus on and advertise for uh. You know a certain computer or a certain microphone or a certain keyboard, whatever it might be right. You want to find those brand deals, those sponsorships, those affiliate marketing programs uh within your niche, because that's where a huge piece of income comes from now i'll be honest with you right when you start off youtube that first thousand subscribers that first 10 000 subscribers.

You probably won't be making a lot of this, but i urge you it's very, very important to establish these when you're young into your youtube career. For example, i started my patreon the first month that i had it. I i think i made it. It took me about a month to make you know a thousand dollars, my first thousand dollars to get that many people to sign up to pay me a thousand dollars a month and now, as it's sitting, i make sixteen thousand dollars a month on patreon i'll.

Just pull this up and show you guys, but if i didn't establish it, when my youtube channel was young, i wouldn't be where i'm at right now, patience pays. It really really truly. Does my friends look at this now, i'm at 16 000 a month and i'm not showing this to brag - i'm showing you this because it takes time right. Um trust also equals income.

That's something i really want to double down on. Is you do not want to build your brand off of fraudulence right, make your products, something that people are willing to pay for, don't think to yourself? How can i do this? The easiest way for the most possible income, because you are going to screw people and that's not the way you want to build your income. You should be thinking to yourself. How can i establish trust? How can i provide real content and real value to people's lives? That they're going to feel inclined to compensate with their hard-earned money because that's what it comes down to right, your audience is going to be a broad, a broad variety of people right, some people that are making you know 20 000, here maybe 100 000 a year.

Maybe a million a year, but how are you going to keep those people? How are you going to convince them that hey? I should spend my five dollars on you. Instead of you know, five dollars on a baconator from wendy's, because i'll tell you what a baconator from wendy's provides me a lot of freaking value and you got to provide somebody more value than they could spend somewhere else right. So keep that in the back of your mind, affiliate marketing, we've already talked about that and then branding we've already talked about that. So that was a pretty broad overview on how i built my youtube channel.

This isn't the only way. This is my way and i've found a lot of success doing this, so i wanted to walk you through the process because i think there's a lot of people out there who might be scared to take that first step, whether you want to be a finance youtuber, A a vlogger, a food guru you want to get into technology whatever it is, take that first step right get out the door uh. You don't have to know your craft to a t. To start the channel right, get your feet, wet, learn it as you go figure out the process and you're gon na get where you need to go, my friends and that's what i've got for the video today.

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