How 12k Subscribers Drove $100k in Profit in 1 Month

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[@ChannelMakers]

What ways are you hoping to monetize doing what you love?

[@Nostalgik]

I'm trying to find the specific niches inside the anime industry where people most crave content, while exploring the series I already love :) Dang solid and important info in this vid right here 🎉

[@buildwithtitains-next-leve4912]

On my channel, I do DIY-type craft activity projects, but with using a ‘LEGO-like’ building & construction toy device product that I had invented (fully designed, developed/prototyped, mass produced, and currently ‘US Patent Pending’). …like ‘LEGO KZbinrs’-although on a much smaller scale currently-we have been working with content creators/influencers to create/produce an assortment of content with using it. It has been really quite the journey and experience, so far! :)

[@iansmithfootball]

I’m a sport channel (a niche not many YT help channels tend to touch upon) and this video has given me some brand new ideas that I’d never thought of. Thank you.

[@insightfulNomad]

Hi maybe you can help me, I have searched EVERYWHERE how to create captions that move word by word (rather than the whole sentence showing up) as they do in this video and can't find out how to do it. What am I missing?

[@gograybechic]

Great info and thanks…I have an idea for a tier 1 Info product. How would it look if it was video more like a mini course and an attached pdf?

[@jmilkslinger]

This is so helpful. I've been floundering, unsure where to go next, and this provided stepping stones and planted some seeds for ideas. I'll be pondering this for a while....

[@OliWinchester]

Thank you very much... that definitely made me think about a few ideas... very well structured and well made video :)

[@iansmithfootball]

This is a really great video, thanks for the information.

[@billybm0]

Really like this style of video. There’s a lot of value here. I’m still learning and and attempting to create a video format that works for what I do but the ideas you present here definitely seem like I could apply them and make my content better. Thanks

[@BasicAmericanDadAbroad]

Excellent tips, very well-written & deliberative, thank you Ricky! 🙌

[@mychauffeurlife]

If you help enough people to pay their bills , yours disappear too

[@GrantCharge]

Very helpful video Ricky, thank you! 🙏🏻💪🏻👍🏻

[@MollysFineArt]

Thank you for the info! That's exactly the experience I needed to hear about selling smaller-sized lessons. 👍

[@itsRomainFaure]

Great content: I have a small side question with making money on KZbin that would be a great video for you guys. I just got monetized and YT is running a ton (almost too much) ads on my content. Do you recommend lowering them down until I build a strong audience that will be ok to go through those or should I just let the system run ? Thank you

[@BaebeasDogTrainingPortland]

Thank you for making this understandable. Too many videos highlight the anomaly that is not attainable by most people people.

[@GitteRobertson]

Thank you!

[@LifeontheMoose]

Great info!

[@teaformulamaths]

This was very useful, I would love to do all this, I am currently working on Tier 1, but I need MORE TIME! :D

[@user-is3ho7yu8n]

What are the products...with low price...info please

[@DOLLARSTICKY]

Your brand needs to stand out and you are good to go!

[@OurGabledHome]

Hey Ricky, I really enjoy your videos! I do have an info product that I launched after people tended to ask me a lot of questions some of which were always the same. However, I am struggling a bit to create more awareness around my info product (without being too sale-sy) and to send people there instead of giving free advice. Any thoughts would be so appreciated ~ Anja

[@MyFireVideos]

Ive implemented memberships on my channel but I don’t really push them. I also have some ridiculous tiers.

[@Swing4TheRing]

What platform(s) do you use to create/sell your info product on? What's a good platform that allows for the product to not only be viewed, but hosted on or downloaded from as well as provides a point of sale?

[@AleksiHimself]

I've been using Teachable for years.

[@ChannelMakers]

It depends a lot on what your info product is and if you have your own website or not. Podia, Learndash, and Circle are all good platforms depending on what you need. They’ll host course content, downloads, and circle has a great community platform. For simple downloads I’d use Sendowl.

[@SRDmotorsports]

Interesting as I’m about to embark on the members only video stuff but the tier stuff or designation discussed here is of great value! the lower tier being the easiest yet common solving stuff we do our way etc so and so forth thanks @ChannelMakers

[@jeffeisley]

I read somewhere (maybe 4 Hour Work Week?) that when you charge higher prices, customers complain less because they have more disposable income. Have you noticed this happen at a certain price point? Does it depend on the market?

[@Paul-yk7ds]

The guys from Course Creator Pro recommend selling courses for $500+ for this reason-you get fewer complaints and refund requests (and you make more money per customer, as well, of course).

[@ChannelMakers]

This is true. It definitely depends on what you’re offering.

[@mydachshundlife]

Thank you for breaking this down! I’ve been posting mostly shorts on my channel, because they seem to get more traction, but I’d like to monetize someday (just hit 100 subscribers!).

[@getthewordouttoday]

Great information! Was that 100k Revenue or 100k Profit? I’m looking to launch an online course on one or both of my channels soon.

[@getthewordouttoday]

Oh, I see now the title says profit. That’s quite the launch!

[@archvaldor]

KZbinrs have very little in the way of expenses so the two are usually quite close together.

[@getthewordouttoday]

@@archvaldor Every business has a lot of expenses and those expenses increase more and more as the company scales.

[@ChannelMakers]

We’re launched Project 24 when we had 0 employees, 1 part-time virtual assistant, and basically $0 in monthly expenses. Scaling adds cost but you can do a lot with a little.

[@getthewordouttoday]

​@@ChannelMakers Thanks for sharing. I saw that the title said that it was $100k profit but wasn't sure from the video whether it was revenue or profit. I indicated in my reply that I recognized that it was profit - it just wasn't made clear in the video. Yep, you sure can do a lot with a little. Glad to hear that your expenses were minimal at the beginning by only having to pay 1 contractor, no salaries for the 2 business partners, having no office rental, no utility costs, no internet bills, no studio, no monthly subscriptions for stock photos, video footage or music, no gas expenditures from driving, not having to purchase any equipment or software, not having to pay any monthly subscriptions, not having to pay a website host, not having to pay anyone to host the online course or host the community forum, not having to purchase a domain name, not having to pay any payment processors, email subscription services, etc. I'm going to guess that the PT Virtual Assistant was paid more than $0 though, so it's hard to see how the monthly expenses were "basically $0" but I'm glad that you were able to pull that off. My comment to this commenter (which was not directed at you, Ricky) was correcting a person's lack of knowledge about the amount of expenses that go into running a business and how many expenses there are and how they increase as the business scales. It seems like a weird thing to jump in on but the fact that a claim is being made that there were basically $0 in monthly expenses at the time of that launch, makes me question the claim of profits made. Maybe someone covered all of the expenditures as a gift and another gift was given regularly to cover the expense of the virtual assistant. I don't know but you made it happen. I'm grateful that you had such a successful launch! And I'm even more amazed that there was "basically $0" in monthly business expenses at the time so that all of the revenue could be counted as profit!

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

Nice video Ricky! 😃🙌

[@beyondtheredpill]

does the country you are in matter when it comes to going viral on youtube? i live in greece and make english videos but they get 20 views. could the greek ip adress be the problem? i also think that those videos could get more than 20 views..

[@Daddoesit21]

Still waiting for KZbin to pay me my first £70😂🤦‍♂️

[@pacifiky]

Hi

[@WheelieWeasel]

The fact that Ricky has knowledge on a Dirt Biking channel makes me so much more confident in listening to his advice! At first I wasn't sure how I could apply this advice vs Nates methods (which I use). Also, I feel using this particular video and Nates algorithm guide is a GREAT jumpstart into learning everything there is to know about KZbin!

[@ChannelMakers]

We’ve created or worked on channels on dozens of different topics. That’s why we can talk about them so fluently. I’ll add that Nate’s methods that were taught here were actually our (this team’s) methods. The algorithm video is great! But it went through multiple rounds of team input before the concept was ready to teach. I just wish we’d made that more apparent much earlier.

[@WheelieWeasel]

@@ChannelMakers the total transparency about these things is awesome with you guys! I’m sure not just me but a lot of the audience appreciates that!

[@heymrcody]

🙌

[@rileydeutsch9418]

I'm at 9 subscribers with a 2nd channel and all videos have 30 views and 0.9 watch time which I don't know what that means for time lol

[@juliekesler5258]

Man, I love this guy! 😉 He knows his stuff!

[@LeyftOrRayt]

Isnt that too good to be true? Like Nate before claiming his videos he did by himself and no edits?

[@YonyGut1MoviesandVideogames]

Ive noticed, since Nate left Channel Makers, a significant drop in views on the following videos. I mean, the videos now hardly pass the *10K view mark* . I guess thats normal, since my favourite youtuber which has *4.7M SUBS* , now earns 100k views on every video. Less than 100K per video, I consider it a "bad" video on a channel which has almost *5M SUBS* . Weird how the YT alghorithm works.

[@TravelinaBlitz]

1st

[@ToriksLV]

Man i miss howdi howdi.

[@savascoruh7981]

The very first thing he suggests is a huge red flag already. Just like how he try so hard to adapt into this channel which doesn't work for him as being a businessman or boss himself. Which is okay too because every person has their own strengths. Focus on the quality and consistency of your content folks. This is just about selling you snake oil, and my account will be put into hidden ones pretty soon so you won't see any more comment of mine.

[@ChannelMakers]

What exactly was the red flag? I’m just trying to understand. Also, I don’t hide users because they disagree with me. Even if they’re rude and accusatory in doing it.

[@chazlon5061]

Sorry with people like Bezos and Elon Musk, 100k a month is not impressive