MONEY: How I Make Extra MONEY Using YouTube

[silversmyth]

Make good content. Okay that's the simple answer. Make videos... again sort of simple. Hook YouTube to your other social media accounts ask for help. You need to get up to 10,000 views. Use good tags to describe your video. Find your niche. You're selling yourself here.

What is interesting about you? Once you have your 10,000 views you will be allowed to monetize your account. This isn't a great money making scheme. But the more income streams the better right, and it's free money. I mean you're working for it but it still is social media. It's supposed to be fun! The money you make from ads will be a pittance. Especially when you're small potatoes like me. I make enough to take my family of three out for a nice burger dinner once a month. I'm not allowed to reveal how much I actually make, or i would share that with you.

So that's not where the real money comes from.

Get out there and build real relationships. My subscribers add value to my life. Some ship me gifts, it's stuff that I can do whatever I want with. Use sell (if I'd ever get around to doing that) re-gift, The first gift I received was (I kid you not) a video camera. I'm still using this camera. The lady who sent it to me enjoyed my videos and I'd mentioned the struggle of making videos with my phone and she wanted to help me out. I think she had upgraded to a new camera and sent me her old camera.

There's $200 I didn't need to spend on a camera. That's money. I was sent by another generous subscriber lots of stuff for my bugout bag. That's an emergency bag I keep in my car trunk in case I ever need to get out of dodge. But I've used it for all sorts of minor emergencies. (That's a whole other story.)

One lovely man sent me so much I don't know where to begin. Perfectly good used and unused clothing. A huge knife collection and his leather working tool set and much more and random interesting things. I haven't asked for this stuff. I did ask for something recently though. I asked for an old wind up watch that no one was using. I made a post about this watch.

https://steemit.com/conspiracy/@silversmyth/emp-proof-watch-project-how-to-tell-time-in-the-post-apocalypse

Once or twice I asked my subscribers to send me for a pedicure. So far no luck in that department! I have been sent tips to my http://paypal.me/silversmyth

This is something anyone with a PayPal account can set up and receive payments. It’s easy. It’s voluntary. I don’t want anyone who doesn’t have much to send me anything. I’d prefer they’d take care of themselves. I’m providing a service by making videos and they often want to take care of me in whatever way they see fit.

One of the major ways I earn money is by creating clay objects on video and livestream. Often one of the viewers want to have this item. They send me some money for the item plus shipping and I ship it off to them. I sold my first hand-built teapot to a lovely lady in Canada. Sometimes my subscribers want to be the boss and they tell me what to make.

Most of my jewelry customers find me via the internet and we never meet in person. Typically they want a unique custom piece of jewelry. It makes for great video opportunity.

I always send that customer a link to the video after the project is completed. It makes them want to come back for more. They are now invested (figuratively & literally) in the jewelry making process and the maker.

On of the ladies I share my pottery studio with asked, " How did you find a market for your pottery." I replied, “I think I’m selling myself.” I’m selling a creative object with a story. I’m selling to friends who like me and like what I’m doing. When they buy from me they know who’s table they are putting food on. My pottery and jewelry does cost more than stuff made in a factory overseas but it’s personal to them. And when it’s custom, it’s about them, too. It’s about us and the relationship we’ve built.

So I’ve been making some extra money using YouTube as a sales medium. And the fans of my videos support me. I am working my tail off but even a small YouTube channel with less than 700 subscribers is putting food on our table. Thank goodness I have a husband who puts the roof over our heads and pays for all our other expenses. Trying to make a living as an artisan is very challenging, but worth it!

This video is worth a quick watch...

Okay, I apologize for that. Steemit can be another income stream I hope... allowing me the freedom to do what I love.

Hope this has been informative for you and that it gives you some ideas you can use!
If you think it is worthy, please help me out with an UPVOTE and RESTEEM.
Please let me know if you did so I know who to thank! : )))

Comments

[david777111]

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[silversmyth]

Thanks for the tip, and the tip! : )))

[mattphilleo]

Hi Silversmyth. Thank you for sharing this information and your story along with it. Upvoted and resteemed. Also, have you considered teaching classes on your jewelry making? I started teaching a painting course using Teachable.com (super easy to use and free to get started) and I had over 10 students enroll right away! I don't have a big YouTube following yet, but I have about 600 email subscribers that I mentioned the course to. You could do a promo video mentioning your course to your YouTube subscribers. I pre-sold the course and delivered the content with live videos via webcam. Now that the course is recorded, I can sell it as a digital product. I think you would be able to teach your craft well!

[silversmyth]

I'm so sorry I didn't see your comment until just now. I do teach Silversmything classes. a student had a class last week and made a ring with a cabochon setting and an orange stone. Pretty awesome for a first class. Another student is interested. I'm going to look into teachable.com that's an awesome idea. : )