5 Ways Of Making Money As A YouTube Influencer

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A YouTube Influencer is someone who has a great number of subscribers, likes and comments on YouTube videos, sets trends and provides valuable information.

A YouTube Influencer has the power to influence the purchasing decisions of the subscribers because of his or her authority, knowledge or relationship with the audience on his or her YouTube channel.

To be honest, to become a YouTube Influencer involves a lot of hard work especially when you need a lot of people to subscribe to your channel. 

Kevin David, went from broke to successful in 90 days with his YouTube Channel. He was an accountant and when he left his job, he tried to make a living online but failed so many times.

 Finally he made it. He started a cool niche which got a lot of views and 838000 people subscribed in 2019. He earned nearly $50,000 in ad revenue from one video through Google AdSense.

 He currently has 1.23 million subscribers now as at January 2021. And this is just one of the ways that you can earn from YouTube as an Influencer. There are other Influencers who have made millions of money from YouTube.

If they can do it, then you can do it too. The key to success is to get a cool niche that millions of people love.

How To Become A YouTube Influencer

1 Choose A Niche - You need to choose a niche before you start a channel. What do you have passion for? What are your interests? Do you love beauty products, do you love teaching, do you love animals? What do you love doing? 

Use the Google keyword planner to check the search volume your keywords get. Search all your areas of interest on the Google keyword  planner to know how many people are interested in this keyword.

Then go to YouTube, search for channels with this keyword, check the number of views and subscribers they have. This will give you an idea of what niche you should choose.

If what you love doing has a low search volume, please don't go into it. You will have to look for an interesting niche with a high search volume. This is very important.

2 Start A Channel -- You are now ready to start your channel. After creating your channel, Click on the + icon below to upload your video or videos. 

Fill in your profile - The audience will check your profile. Go to Channel Settings, upload a beautiful profile picture, write your name and describe what you do. Do not sell yourself short. Include your website Url, your social media handles or links and your tags.

3 Upload High Quality Videos - This is another key thing. If your videos are not good enough, there will be little views and few people or nobody will subscribe. Make sure your videos are of high quality. Before you upload your video, check other YouTube Influencers videos. This will guide you.

While uploading, please fill in the description, add tags, specify if your video is for children or not. After uploading, if you want to edit your video or videos, you will need to download the YouTube Studio App.

You can also check your channel analytics and other useful info there.

4 Upload Valuable Video Contents Regularly -  Upload valuable video contents regularly. If your video content is valuable, people will make comments, subscribe and this will also encourage social shares too. Its just like running a blog or a website.

You must be polite and friendly in the video. Your video background must also be great and beautiful.

If you need ideas on video contents, check your comments, see what your audience is talking about or the questions they are asking. This will give you video content ideas.

5 Drive Traffic To Your Channel  You can drive traffic to your videos trough social media. You need to create a Business Facebook page in your Facebook account and place the video link on your page.

Tell your audience the title of the video to get them interested in the video. Your video description is very important. Write catchy video titles and descriptions. Stick to the social media where you get traffic from.

You can also get traffic from your Website or Blog by embedding your video on your blog or website. 

Another way to get traffic is to run a YouTube ad campaign. You will pay between 0.04 to 0.30 dollars for a view. 

6. Encourage People To Like And Subscribe  - You need people to like, comment and subscribe. This will determine how much money you will make. This will also reflect the level of engagement on your channel.  

If you already have subscribers on your blog or website, you can appeal to them to also subscribe on your channel. You will be amazed that a lot of them might prefer videos to blog contents

7. Ask Questions And Answer Questions - Ask questions in your videos. When you do this, some of the people will answer through the comments section.

You can even ask your audience politely in all your videos to please like and subscribe. A lot of YouTube creators and influencers do this and I do it too.

Answer your audience's questions in the comments section timely.

5 Ways Of Making Money As A YouTube Influencer

1 YouTube Partner Program - This program allows YouTube creators and influencers to make money by monetizing their channels with video ads.

This allows YouTube to show other brands ads and other peoples ads before, during or after your videos.  The ads can also be shown in form of a thumbnail.

You make money when your own audience view these ads for some seconds. YouTube also shows skippable and non skippable ads. You can make between 0.01 to 0.03 dollars on one view.

For you to qualify for  YouTube Partner Program

a You need to have 1000 subscribers

b. Your videos must have 4000 watch time hours over the last 12 months

c. You must comply with YouTube policies and guidelines.

2  Affiliate Marketing --  You can include affiliate product or service links in your video description. Just like content marketing, you need to let your audience know the benefits of the product, the results and show them testimonials too.

3. Sell Your Product -- You can make a lot of money selling your own products. Since your audience know you and you have a relationship with them, it will be easy to sell your own products to them especially if they are of good quality and they solve problems.

4 Brand Promotion or Sponsored Content -  If you have a high level of engagement on your channel, many likes and many subscribers, brands or companies might approach you to talk about their brands and encourage people to buy from them. They will pay you a lot of money for this.

Before doing this, you need to read and obey YouTube's policies concerning this.

5. Donation -- You can ask your subscribers for donations or funding. They will gladly do this just to appreciate you. Please don't over do it. Ask for small amount.

Conclusion

You can become a great YouTube Influencer. Please note, before you go for YouTube ad Campaign, ask your friends and people in your social circles to subscribe first. When the audience see that people are already subscribing, they will be encouraged to subscribe too. 

I wish you Success

Derin