That's wicked man, great going!
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I had a nice pick up yesterday on this weeks video. Was pushed to people's home pages by YT and got about 1k views from it and some really nice comments. Came on a nice day since getting told I was getting the boot at work. Might just go all in on this instead.
Also, while all this was happening, this guy pinged me through fb messenger offering me wheels for free?! I was like what in the world is this!? Is this what YT famous feels like?!
This is way more fun that being in the office tbf
Also, while all this was happening, this guy pinged me through fb messenger offering me wheels for free?! I was like what in the world is this!? Is this what YT famous feels like?!
This is way more fun that being in the office tbf
So I have a plan... they'll give me 10 months before I get the proper kick. On top of that the company has processes in place to support really stressed employees... wink wink that should give me 2yrs paid... plus when I get back, they then have to give me 10months... so I think I can milk this for about 2-3yrs from now. So I will.
Then I'll start properly looking at what my plans are.
For YT I'll continue to do stuff on the RTB channel. It makes decent $$ normally and I will start to up my work on forward planning what I want from that.
RS Garage stuff I figured I need it to make money and not just cost money, so have a plan for that, too. I am going to start to start small with some car flips. I used to do this back when I was in my early 20s for money on the side basically, but figured it could serve me 2 fold here. Content and the builds should pay for themselves (in theory, or I failed lol).
I'll now have a car with a tow bar. I can rent car trailers here for 25EUR a day. I can start small, like, there is a new VW Beetle for sale near me for 700 with a blown HG. They're going for 3500 (mad france prices on second hand cars) but also comes with no papers. I made a friend next door in the garage doing my RR Sport paperwork so dropped him a line about my plans and if he could help me with paperwork and ****. He's up for it and also as he sells cars might be interested in a deal somewhere.
Would be a nice trade up challenge. I would like to trade up from 1k to an R8. I've always had an R8 on my vision board and think this could be a nice thing to do and give me some content too.
I've also got some mates around here who have expressed interest in doing some degenerate **** together with cars, so that'll be nice.
Essentially, if I can buy myself a couple of years, while also progressing other revenue streams, it would buy me a lot of opportunities to go all in, while keeping the $ to help fund it to start.
That's my plan anyway....
haha I know! It's also got something like an 8% CTR which obviously means the thumbnail is working haha
Oh hell yes!!
Need to get to the point I can buy a defender and do this haha They start at ******* 17k here!! Better get started with all this ****
Spoke to a couple of mates last night and think I may have another candidate to join me on some adventures, which will be good.
Mind, I'm slightly hungover right now and need to go and fit these coilovers to the aygo. Painkillers and a bacon sandwich will sort me.
I got another lovely boost from YT homepage last night.
Gained 61 subs and that video passed 2k views. It all seems very small, but from the amount they were getting, 2k is huge for me. It feels from 2k - 20k is only 5x which seems achievable with consistency. Then 10k - 100k is only 10x that lol I'd be absolutely BUZZING at that, so this is pretty cool.
I'm actually quite excited by the prospect of windmilling into this
Mind, I'm slightly hungover right now and need to go and fit these coilovers to the aygo. Painkillers and a bacon sandwich will sort me.
I got another lovely boost from YT homepage last night.
Gained 61 subs and that video passed 2k views. It all seems very small, but from the amount they were getting, 2k is huge for me. It feels from 2k - 20k is only 5x which seems achievable with consistency. Then 10k - 100k is only 10x that lol I'd be absolutely BUZZING at that, so this is pretty cool.
I'm actually quite excited by the prospect of windmilling into this
On the RTB side, these are the sort of deals I love. I always try and build decent relationships with the companies I use/look at / etc. I spoke with a company that I've made content on for a bit. Their general referral program is a bit sack, but they're in the same arena as other things I do, so it's good content and easy.
I reached out to them to talk about more of a relationship, which led to a call with them and now I have a laid out deal for me, which is very much nicer.
This also led to conversations with their product manager on roadmap etc. which I'll keep up to date with so I have all the latest scoop of things.
This is, in real money (EUR):
Which means I can get wins just on sign ups, which is a real bonus these days.
I now have about 4 of these relationships, which I want to build up over time, but just 2 of them brought in 700EUR in Jan, so adding this one should hopefully boost that up some more. It's great because you make the video once, and people find it when they find it and suddenly you get a nice little payment.
Lets see if that channel can hit the 10k this year and get the average $$ per month to over 1.5k. Last year I averaged 723 per month, which isn't bad for a channel that costs nothing to make content.
I reached out to them to talk about more of a relationship, which led to a call with them and now I have a laid out deal for me, which is very much nicer.
This also led to conversations with their product manager on roadmap etc. which I'll keep up to date with so I have all the latest scoop of things.
This is, in real money (EUR):
- 12.50 per sign up
- 50 per investor between 50-500EUR
- 112 per investor who invests 500 - 1750
- 175 per investor who invests more than 1750
Which means I can get wins just on sign ups, which is a real bonus these days.
I now have about 4 of these relationships, which I want to build up over time, but just 2 of them brought in 700EUR in Jan, so adding this one should hopefully boost that up some more. It's great because you make the video once, and people find it when they find it and suddenly you get a nice little payment.
Lets see if that channel can hit the 10k this year and get the average $$ per month to over 1.5k. Last year I averaged 723 per month, which isn't bad for a channel that costs nothing to make content.
Thanks man! I saw this one and thought the latest video was better for that. It was longer, so had more in it in general, so fewer cuts.
Ha the thing is, I'm pretty much like that daily
I can understand if it's not for everyone, but I do do my best to be "me" as that's important to me, too.
DUDE! I hate this... about myself! I catch it in edits sometimes and I can from time to time remove them, but others it's just too obvious and it grates me listening to it being said again lol it really annoys me. I'm trying so hard to not do that, I don't know why it happens haha
Probably the old adhd being let out
It is funny though, there are certain channels people tell me to watch and I really try... so many times...but I just can't get into them. Just don't gel with the people. Nothing personal to them, just can't.
I'll try and limit these. Some of them are actually long ass pauses, but I was totally up against it getting this video out haha I'll have to rewatch it a couple of times to make sure I don't repeat those. I realise as well I go from talking super fast, to just pausing when I film, which isn't obviously ideal. I will try and work on better pacing of when I talk, and if I mess up or pause, just say the whole line again to make it easier to edit. Got to work out the little things that make it easier.
Thanks though! Definitely appreciate all the feedback. It's all a learn!
Yea, maybe not! I'll test it out in one coming up and see what it's like. I've already done next weeks, so can't do that but have one for the week after I can test this on. I'm trying to get slightly ahead this week as I'm on holiday soon, so will be out for about 3 weeks of doing things.
I genuinely do appreciate the feedback though, as it's important for me to get better and for it to be something people want to watch and watch as much of it as possible, so I'll be sure to try and make it flow as well, without jumpy bits, to try and improve where I can.
Often it's hard to get feedback other than people just not watching, or people leaving after 5 secs so it's really nice to have some proper feedback like this.
I spent year avoiding anything that wasn't positive by way of feedback on anything, but this does nothing but protect my ego, which I ****** right off because it doesn't help in any way. No one is calling me a nob, and even if they are, they don't know me, so I don't take it personally. I just use it to try and make things better! Don't fear about giving negative feedback at all. It's often far more important than positive anyway!
Based on his views and some low end estimations, he probably makes between $10-30k a month just from his views alone. You don't need that many subs and his views on vids are over 500k - which is, say $4 per 1000 views, which is then 500 x 4 which is 2k - but then you have videos on 14m views, which would be $56k for a video. If you're doing 1 vid a week that all get 500k, it's very likely he'll get over 10k for that in a month, not including views on his older videos still generating.
I said min. on 10k though. Could easily be 30k and I'm sure he'll have sponsors, too. Most sponsors at that level will pay 5-10k per video
I've watched a load of YTer breakdowns of their revenue generation and it seems like for most of them ad rev is about 25% of what they generate.
They'll have affiliate deals and sponsors as a huge chunk.
EDIT: Yea, I can see sponsors and affiliate deals in his videos (just checked)
They'll have affiliate deals and sponsors as a huge chunk.
EDIT: Yea, I can see sponsors and affiliate deals in his videos (just checked)
There is so much like patreon, merch sales, sponsors, affiliates...
That's pretty ******* sick though. What do you offer on memberships?
On the RTB side, these are the sort of deals I love. I always try and build decent relationships with the companies I use/look at / etc. I spoke with a company that I've made content on for a bit. Their general referral program is a bit sack, but they're in the same arena as other things I do, so it's good content and easy.
I reached out to them to talk about more of a relationship, which led to a call with them and now I have a laid out deal for me, which is very much nicer.
This also led to conversations with their product manager on roadmap etc. which I'll keep up to date with so I have all the latest scoop of things.
This is, in real money (EUR):
- 12.50 per sign up
- 50 per investor between 50-500EUR
- 112 per investor who invests 500 - 1750
- 175 per investor who invests more than 1750
Which means I can get wins just on sign ups, which is a real bonus these days.
I now have about 4 of these relationships, which I want to build up over time, but just 2 of them brought in 700EUR in Jan, so adding this one should hopefully boost that up some more. It's great because you make the video once, and people find it when they find it and suddenly you get a nice little payment.
Lets see if that channel can hit the 10k this year and get the average $$ per month to over 1.5k. Last year I averaged 723 per month, which isn't bad for a channel that costs nothing to make content.
I am now in conversation with the product guys as well, so that will be interesting to have more conversations with them.
I went back to them on the offer above as well and said we're not far off a mutually beneficial deal, just need to move a bit and sent back :
* User sign up = 25EUR
* User invest up to 500EUR = 62.50EUR
* User invests between 500 - 1750 = 125EUR
* User invests over 1750 = 189EUR
The main win there would be the doubling of the base rate for user sign up. I'd argue that, if you have a user signed up, you have a hot lead there, and if you're not converting them you need to measure this and understand your funnel better - Which I am going to discuss how they measure these things as a part of our product call.
Would be nice to get like 25 of these sort of things lined up
Thanks man, that's actually, again, really great feedback. I will definitely try and do more of the voiceover / b roll / working footage as well I think. I have a really nice mic as well for my other channel / office so sounds really good. I actually like watching that style of video, too, so really should try and replicate that
Thank you!
Thanks man, I did take this into consideration! I'm trying to get things in as much as possible to make it as good as possible. I have already scheduled the next 2 videos (on the volvo actually) because I'm on holiday from tomorrow, but will continue to try and mix up the B roll, less chopping, more voiceover style as well. Will all come together!@randomshenans watched the new video last night and it was massively more watchableI thought the video side of things was great. Not that I've got a media production degree, but his B-roll suggestion sounds great if you feel you need to have the umms etc. cut out
Really appreciate your feedback man, thank you!
Thanks man! I have nothing for this week. I spent a whole day cleaning the Volvo and detailing it just before I went away, right up to the day. Checked the footage and the mic died pretty much at the start of filming and I didn't check.
Ah well, I'll have something done this week! I have a few things planned... although some decisions for the Aygo need to be done on Turbo vs. Supercharger as I can't seem to get the company to respond to me about charger mounts, so might end up just turboing it and roadtripping to amsterdam in it!