How to Make 6 Figures on YouTube

To make six figures ($100K+) on YouTube, first get videos going up on a consistent schedule, then become obsessed with one question: what deserves 100,000 views in my niche? When I recorded this, the math I used was that $10,000 a month takes roughly 2 to 4 million views a month, which is about 100,000 views a day. You get there by studying the videos pulling millions of views in niches like yours and copying what they have that you don't.

Why I Recorded This

I recorded this right after a mentorship call with one of the newer students inside my program. I didn't do a whole lot of those calls anymore. I was focused on building my business, and my companies had done over $160,000 in combined revenue the month before (revenue, not profit, but we were very profitable).

That year alone I think we had started up about 12 YouTube channels, which gave me a very different outlook on how to actually get results than I had even six months or a year earlier. So this is the problem I see holding people back.

Step 1: Get Videos Going Up Every Week

The reason you're probably not getting results on YouTube (like 90% of you) is that you don't have videos going up on your channel, or you're not being consistent.

If you aren't uploading every single week on a consistent schedule, you're already going to be blown out of the water. We usually start YouTube channels at two videos a week.

So if you're stuck, priority number one is a single question. Are you making videos?

• If you are, the rest of this is for you.
• If you aren't, stop reading and go make videos.

It doesn't need to be that complicated. There are like a thousand buttons inside of YouTube Studio and so many places to get lost. Come up with some video ideas and start.

You need data and inputs coming back to be able to improve. It's going to be embarrassing when you get started. That's how it is for everybody.

Step 2: Become a Fanatic About the Goal

Once videos are going out consistently, the next stage is very simple. Become a fanatic. Become obsessed with the destination you want.

You probably want to become very financially successful off of your YouTube channel and be able to quit your job. Cool. Keep that in the back of your head. The priority now is how you get people to care about what you make.

That's the top down order of priorities.

How Many Views Do You Need to Make $10,000 a Month?

Now fill in the blanks. Say I want to make $10,000 a month on YouTube.

If one out of every three videos you make is a 100,000 view video, some of those are going to be million view videos, and some are just going to be that 100,000 view video. You need both kinds going out to consistently make $10,000 a month.

What Deserves 100,000 Views in Your Niche?

To get 100,000 views on a video, ask yourself what deserves 100,000 views in your niche, or in niches that are similar to yours.

Say I'm trying to make $10,000 a month off of a hockey channel. I would go look at other niches like hockey: basketball, football, baseball, soccer. (Basketball, football and soccer were kind of the main three on YouTube when I recorded this.)

Ask what people are doing to have success in those niches and how you can apply it to hockey. Every single day, focus on how to make a 100,000 view video in the hockey niche based off of all that data.

Go watch 100 videos. Go watch 1,000 videos. Find the ones that are getting millions of views, and copy that over to your video.

Then compare:

• What do they have that you don't have, that you need to improve on?
• What do you have that they don't have, that you need to get rid of?

For the research side, read how to find viral YouTube video ideas.

Is Your Team Helping You Get There?

If you're doing an automated or faceless YouTube channel, you have other people doing the work for you. Ask yourself whether they're helping you get to your goal. Do they make your job really difficult, or are they consistently learning and growing?

If somebody is a liability on your team and not an asset, you need to let them go and find somebody else. The people you keep look like this:

• They consistently grow (exponentially or linearly, as long as they keep growing).
• The more time you put into them, the better they do.
• They communicate and show up every single day.

If you don't have those people, spend as much time as needed to go find them. I cover the roles in how to make $100K with faceless YouTube channels.

The Two Questions to Ask Every Day

1. Are you getting videos out?
2. If you are, do they deserve 100,000 views?

I know this isn't very tactical. It isn't a line of code to copy and paste, or a secret formula. Simply put, make really good videos and have a clear objective you're working toward. $10,000 a month. 3 million views a month. 100,000 view videos going out.

If you actually want to go make money, I would close this and go start producing stuff.

Video Chapters

• 0:00Why I recorded this
• 1:26The real problem: you're not uploading consistently
• 2:46Become a fanatic about the goal
• 3:37The view math behind $10,000 a month
• 4:28What deserves 100,000 views in your niche
• 5:41Copy what works, cut what doesn't
• 6:05Your team: assets and liabilities
• 7:11The two questions to ask every day

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