The SIMPLEST Way To Make Money On YouTube (For Small Channels) — Transcript

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1. 0:00If you're a small YouTuber, and you're
2. 0:01struggling to hit the partner program
3. 0:03monetization requirements, you might be
4. 0:05feeling like it's almost impossible to
5. 0:07make any money from this platform. But
6. 0:09what most people don't realize is that
7. 0:11you don't actually need to be monetized
8. 0:13by YouTube to start making money here.
9. 0:16There's a really simple way for anyone
10. 0:18to start making money from their
11. 0:19channel, regardless of how many
12. 0:21subscribers you have. And that's by
13. 0:23selling your own print-on-demand
14. 0:24products. And thanks to platforms like
15. 0:26Printify, you can now start selling your
16. 0:28own products for free without having to
17. 0:30invest any money up front, buy any
18. 0:32stock, or even worry about any of the
19. 0:34shipping yourself. So, in this video,
20. 0:36I'll show you exactly how to create your
21. 0:38own products for free using AI and
22. 0:40Printify, and then I'll show you how to
23. 0:42sell them through your YouTube channel
24. 0:44and start making money. Let's get into
25. 0:46it. Now, I know you're probably thinking
26. 0:47like, how on Earth do I even start, and
27. 0:50what would I even sell? Well, look,
28. 0:52there are two main routes you can go
29. 0:53down here. You can either, A, find a
30. 0:56product that ties in with your current
31. 0:58channel's niche, or, B, find trending
32. 1:00products that are already doing well,
33. 1:02and then make your own versions of them.
34. 1:04So, I'll break down both of these
35. 1:06options right now, and then you can
36. 1:08decide which is best for you. All right.
37. 1:10So, first, option A is finding a product
38. 1:13suitable for your channel. Now, if you
39. 1:15already have a YouTube channel, which I
40. 1:17assume you do, the easiest thing you can
41. 1:19do is think about what products your
42. 1:21audience may be interested in buying.
43. 1:24Now, for example, I used to have a
44. 1:26travel channel. And looking back, I
45. 1:28could have easily made so much more
46. 1:30money at the start by selling things
47. 1:31like vintage travel posters of the
48. 1:34places I visited, or even some travel
49. 1:36accessories like luggage covers, for
50. 1:37example. Like, these are the kind of
51. 1:39products I know that would naturally
52. 1:41appeal to people watching my travel
53. 1:43content. Or, let's say, for example, you
54. 1:46were in the business of self-improvement
55. 1:48niche. You could literally create things
56. 1:50like aesthetic desk mats with
57. 1:52motivational quotes or business-related
58. 1:54designs on them. Like, there are
59. 1:56literally hundreds of different products
60. 1:58you could sell depending on what niche
61. 2:00you're in. Now, the best thing about
62. 2:01Printify is the fact they've got over
63. 2:021,300 different products to choose from.
64. 2:05They've got a global print network that
65. 2:07covers so many different countries. And
66. 2:09if you want to scale this up and take it
67. 2:10to the next level after you've made your
68. 2:12first few sales, they give premium
69. 2:14members 20% off their products, which is
70. 2:16pretty cool. But look, if you're
71. 2:17struggling to think of ideas for your
72. 2:20own channel in your own niche, you can
73. 2:22just ask Chat GPT to suggest some for
74. 2:24you. All you need to do is type in
75. 2:26something like, "I have a YouTube
76. 2:28channel in the whatever niche you're
77. 2:30in." Let's say business niche, "and I
78. 2:31would like to start making
79. 2:32print-on-demand products using Printify.
80. 2:35Please look at Printify's catalog and
81. 2:36suggest products that would fit my niche
82. 2:38well." And then you'll get all of these
83. 2:40really cool potential products here.
84. 2:42Now, take some time to look through
85. 2:44these products and then pick out the
86. 2:45ones you think would be best suited to
87. 2:47you and your channel. Now, the other
88. 2:49option is for those of you who don't yet
89. 2:51have an established audience or if you
90. 2:53simply just don't really want to promote
91. 2:55products through your channel yet. But
92. 2:57obviously, you still want to make some
93. 2:58money. So, option B is finding already
94. 3:01trending products. So, in this case, you
95. 3:04have the option to find current trending
96. 3:06products on Etsy and then make your own
97. 3:09version of these products. To do so, go
98. 3:11to etsy.com and just start to explore
99. 3:14all the different popular styles,
100. 3:16trending products, and different niches
101. 3:18and then find something that you could
102. 3:19create your own version of. Now, the
103. 3:22important thing here is to only look for
104. 3:24products that already have clear demand
105. 3:26rather than just like guessing what you
106. 3:28think people might want to buy. Now, you
107. 3:30should look for things like this: best
108. 3:32seller badges or products with loads of
109. 3:35reviews or even if a product is in loads
110. 3:37of people's carts because these are
111. 3:39usually very good indicators that that
112. 3:41particular product is popular and
113. 3:43selling well. And of course, when you do
114. 3:45find a product, you just need to make
115. 3:46sure that it is available on Printify.
116. 3:48And obviously, look guys, you should
117. 3:50only ever use these products on here as
118. 3:52inspiration. You should never just like
119. 3:54directly copy them. Or again, to make
120. 3:55life even easier for yourself, you could
121. 3:57just ask Chat GPT to research trending
122. 4:00products on Etsy for you, and then find
123. 4:02ones that you could create using
124. 4:04Printify. And the great thing about this
125. 4:06option is that you don't actually need a
126. 4:08YouTube audience to make sales. You
127. 4:10could simply just set up an Etsy store
128. 4:12and sell directly to people already
129. 4:14searching for products like these. So,
130. 4:16once you've found a product or two that
131. 4:18you want to create, the next step is
132. 4:20creating your own designs or your own
133. 4:22versions of them. Now, for this example
134. 4:25I'm going to show you, I'm going to
135. 4:26actually going to refer back to the
136. 4:27travel art posters I mentioned at the
137. 4:29start. Now, for me to create my own
138. 4:31travel art, all I need is a Chat GPT
139. 4:34account and some clever prompts. On my
140. 4:36old travel channel, I actually spent 6
141. 4:38weeks at the start in Sri Lanka, and
142. 4:40people loved the videos from my time
143. 4:42there. So, I think this is a great place
144. 4:44to start. So, using Chat GPT, I would
145. 4:47basically type in something like, "I
146. 4:49want to create some vintage travel art
147. 4:50posters. I spent 6 weeks in Sri Lanka
148. 4:53and visited the following places:
149. 4:54Colombo, Ella, Arugam Bay, Kandy, Galle,
150. 4:57and Marissa. Please, can you create a
151. 4:59vintage travel design poster for each of
152. 5:01the places I visited?" And let's see
153. 5:03what it gives us. Now, I actually think
154. 5:05these designs that Chat GPT have given
155. 5:06me are actually really, really good, and
156. 5:08I would definitely hang these up in my
157. 5:09office. But look, if you weren't
158. 5:11entirely happy with the design and you
159. 5:13want to edit them slightly, just click
160. 5:14on this edit button here and then tell
161. 5:16Chat GPT what you want to change. It
162. 5:18really is that simple. But then, once
163. 5:20you're happy with your designs, the next
164. 5:21step is to save them all to your
165. 5:23computer, in a new folder preferably,
166. 5:25and then head over to Printify and start
167. 5:28creating your products. So, if I just
168. 5:29type in posters into the search bar, all
169. 5:31of these are going to appear here. Now,
170. 5:33I can choose from literally any of
171. 5:35these, which is quite cool because
172. 5:36there's so many. But I'm going to go
173. 5:38with this one here, which is a satin
174. 5:40poster. So, I'll just check it out and
175. 5:42make sure all looks good, and then I'll
176. 5:44click start designing. So, you can
177. 5:46either create a design entirely by
178. 5:47scratch using all these stuff here, or
179. 5:50what I would obviously recommend is to
180. 5:52just upload the design you saved from
181. 5:53ChatGPT. Now, once it's uploaded, you
182. 5:56need to click on the preview button up
183. 5:58here, and this is what it will actually
184. 6:00look like, which is actually really cool
185. 6:03and quite happy with that. Now, what's
186. 6:05pretty mad here is the fact that if you
187. 6:06try to do this like 10 years ago, you
188. 6:08would have had to pay hundreds of
189. 6:10dollars for someone to actually design
190. 6:12that poster for you, and even more to
191. 6:15get someone to print all these posters
192. 6:16off, to take a photo on a wall, and then
193. 6:18show you what it's going to look like.
194. 6:19But, now we can do this literally for
195. 6:21free. But, anyway, look, if you're
196. 6:22happy, just click on that save product.
197. 6:25Now, the next thing you need to do is
198. 6:27decide whether you want to create your
199. 6:29own Etsy store to sell the products on
200. 6:31or your own Shopify store. Now, I always
201. 6:34personally recommend Shopify because
202. 6:37it's essentially your own full website,
203. 6:39and you have far more control over
204. 6:41everything. Now, it does take a little
205. 6:43while longer to set up compared to an
206. 6:45Etsy store, but you get so much more
207. 6:47control and so many more features. Now,
208. 6:49the best thing about Shopify is that
209. 6:51your first 3 days are totally free, and
210. 6:54then it's only around $1 a month for
211. 6:56your first 3 months, which is more than
212. 6:59enough time to get everything set up and
213. 7:01get your first few orders come in. Like,
214. 7:03$3 for 3 months of Shopify is great. So,
215. 7:06head on over to shopify.com and set
216. 7:08yourself up an account, and then once
217. 7:10you're in it, you'll actually be able to
218. 7:11directly connect your Printify account
219. 7:13to your Shopify account. So, all of the
220. 7:16products you've actually created in
221. 7:17Printify will then automatically appear
222. 7:20in your Shopify store without you
223. 7:21actually having to do anything actually
224. 7:23yourself, which again is pretty mad. So,
225. 7:24once you've connected your Printify to
226. 7:26your Shopify store and your products
227. 7:27start appearing here, and then you need
228. 7:29to start sharing this link here, which
229. 7:32is your product link. And as soon as
230. 7:34orders start coming through, because you
231. 7:36actually directly connected your
232. 7:38Printify to your Shopify store, when
233. 7:40someone orders your product, the order
234. 7:42will get sent straight from your Shopify
235. 7:45to your Printify and the guys at
236. 7:47Printify will literally create the
237. 7:48products for you and send it directly to
238. 7:51your customer on your behalf. Like it is
239. 7:53literally that simple. It's all
240. 7:55automated. You don't ever have to
241. 7:57manually touch that product or ship the
242. 7:59product yourself. Printify does it all
243. 8:01for you. All right, so look, it all
244. 8:03sounds a bit simple and easy, but how do
245. 8:05you actually start making sales with
246. 8:07YouTube? Well, look, there's a few ways
247. 8:08you can do this. Firstly, if you're
248. 8:10someone who's talking or on camera in
249. 8:12your videos, I would recommend that you
250. 8:14naturally talk about and mention your
251. 8:16products within your videos. Now, you
252. 8:19don't need to spend like 10 minutes
253. 8:20talking about your product, but I would
254. 8:22recommend anywhere from like 30 to 90
255. 8:24seconds just naturally like mentioning
256. 8:27it and talking about it and why you
257. 8:29think your viewers would love it. You
258. 8:30can then just use screenshots of your
259. 8:32product from Printify and overlay them
260. 8:35on your video like this. Basically, like
261. 8:37just this. Just have them here. And then
262. 8:39of course, you will need to provide the
263. 8:41link from Shopify, like your product
264. 8:43link, in your video description and in
265. 8:45your pinned comment. So, when people see
266. 8:46your product on screen, they can then go
267. 8:48straight down to the description, click
268. 8:50on it, and order it from there. Or look,
269. 8:52if you aren't yet comfortable doing
270. 8:54that, which is fine, the other thing you
271. 8:55can do is simply just put the link to
272. 8:57your products in your description and
273. 8:59your pinned comments and then have a
274. 9:01cool to action being like, "Check out my
275. 9:03travel out posters here." For example.
276. 9:05Just bear in mind that you probably
277. 9:07won't get too many people like actually
278. 9:09on that link unless you genuinely do
279. 9:11mention it in your videos because people
280. 9:14just might not even see it. Or look, if
281. 9:15you do want to start making money
282. 9:17selling print on demand products, but
283. 9:19you don't want to promote anything
284. 9:20through YouTube, again, which is fine,
285. 9:23you could just set up your own Etsy
286. 9:24store and list all of your products on
287. 9:27there. Like that is the easiest way.
288. 9:29Etsy has millions of people browsing
289. 9:31products every single month on the
290. 9:32platform. So, you'll naturally get
291. 9:35people visiting your store regardless if
292. 9:37you promote it or not. It's almost like
293. 9:38free marketing. Now, this way you don't
294. 9:40actually have to worry about advertising
295. 9:42or promoting it through your YouTube
296. 9:43channel if you didn't want to. So, the
297. 9:44option is there. So, yeah, look, if you
298. 9:46do want to start making money on YouTube
299. 9:48by selling your own print-on-demand
300. 9:49products, sign up to Printify for free
301. 9:51and start today. I'll leave all the
302. 9:53links to Printify and everything down in
303. 9:55the description below, so please click
304. 9:56on them, get an account, and get
305. 9:58started. Thanks for watching.