before you start youtube automation there's one thing you should...

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before you start youtube automation

there's one thing you should know to set yourself up for success and not waste both time and money

which is: how to actually monetize your channel properly

so here's the exact strategy me and my students have used to make 100s of thousands of dollars:

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there are a lot of ways you can monetize your channel

ad revenue, affiliates, sponsorships, digital products, communities

and a lot of people think they need to rely on ONLY one of them

but that's not true

the best way to get the most out of your youtube channel is to have multiple income streams

so let me show you exactly how to do it and how it helped me go from $0 to $100K/month

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step 1: focus on ad revenue first

this is your foundation

you need to prove your channel can get views consistently

post 4-6 times per week and get to $5K/month with ad revenue

once you hit that, you've validated your channel works

now it's time to add the other income streams based on what type of content you're making

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step 2: affiliate marketing (if your content relates to products/tools)

if you're making content about AI, finance, health, tech, whatever

you can add affiliate links for products related to your niche

I've made $14K from just ONE affiliate program (elevenlabs)

and that's one product out of dozens I've promoted

for every 100K views you can make $2K-$5K in affiliate commissions

but only if you're making content where promoting products makes sense

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step 3: sponsorships (works for any niche)

once you're getting consistent views, brands will start reaching out

or you can reach out to them yourself

I've made over $300K just from sponsorships on how to ai

brands will pay anywhere from $1K-$5K per video depending on your niche

this works for pretty much any channel that gets views

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step 4: digital products (only for educational channels)

this is where it gets crazy bro

this is how I made over $1.2M in the last 365 days from ONE channel

(note: this only works if you're running an educational channel)

finance, health, AI, productivity, business, self-improvement, etc.

you create a simple digital product that solves a problem for your audience

could be an ebook, templates, prompts, guides, whatever they need

it costs you literally nothing to fulfill (you have the expertise and you can package it using AI) 

someone buys it, they get it instantly via email

pure profit

step 5: communities (also only for educational channels)

this is where channels scale to $50K-$150K/month

look at rob nuggets - 90K subs, runs a school community for $99/month

over 1,400 members

that's over $140K per month just from the community

and he's still doing ad revenue, affiliates, sponsorships on top of that

but this only works if you're teaching something

people pay for deeper access to knowledge and community support

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so here's the full monetization stack:

ad revenue: works for everyone, get to $5K/month first

affiliate marketing: only if you make content about products/tools

sponsorships: works for any niche that gets views

digital products: only for educational channels

communities: only for educational channels

pick the ones that fit your niche and stack them

one of my students matyas runs an educational channel

made $19K in his first 45 days with just ad revenue

then I told him to add a simple digital product

now he's made $28K in total sales from digital products on top of his ad revenue

all from just adding ONE product and promoting it in his videos

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now if you want my full guide on how to start a faceless youtube channel and monetize it properly

retweet + reply "MONETIZE" and I'll send it over

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