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Get Monetized on YouTube FAST (4k Hours 1k Subs)

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So, you want to get monetized on YouTube, but it feels so impossible to hit those YouTube monetization requirements. Let me tell you, it's not going to get any easier. But today, I'm going to give you the no fluff strategy for getting monetized on YouTube as fast as possible. And I'm going to show you

the most common mistakes creators make that keep them from getting monetized month after month, year after year. Let's get into it. First, it's important to understand what do you need to do to get monetized. YouTube has a variety of requirements and there's different levels of monetization. So, it's important to know what goal you're

reaching for so you can actually hit it. The type of monetization we're going to be talking about today is the monetization gets you full access to all monetization on YouTube. And the requirements for that are 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours within a 12 month period. So, those are the requirements. There are other

monetization requirements for short form, but that's not what this video is about. So, if that's what you came here for, I'm sorry you're not going to get it. I'm going to tell you the better way to get monetized on YouTube so you can make way more money. Let's break down the first half of this, which is the

1,000 subscriber threshold. This may feel daunting, but I can guarantee you by doing just a few of these things that I mentioned, you're going to get those subscribers so much faster. The number one thing that you have to do every single time is make sure that your niche is clear and that you have a clear value

proposition for your viewers. So, anytime someone comes to watch your video, they need to understand what it is you're offering them. And so there's quite a few ways that you can do that, but number one most important thing to do is to have some sort of commonality between all of your videos. When someone

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comes to a channel and they see you have one video in this topic and one video in that topic and it just seems to be spread all over the place, they're not going to be interested in all of your videos. And that's going to make it really hard for YouTube to know who to

show your content to. And if YouTube is struggling to find out who to show your content to, you're never going to get returning viewers or you're never going to get those people who want to come back and watch more of your content because the rest of your content isn't applicable to them. Remember, someone

who subscribes to your channel is someone who's bought in to what it is you have to offer, to the type of content that you're creating. So, you need to make sure that the content you're creating is consistent across the board. A little note on this one is it's important to also help people understand

who you are. Remember, there's a lot of people on YouTube and in the topic you are going to be doing your channel on, there's probably already a lot of creators, but that doesn't matter as long as you find your unique value proposition. You will probably have a unique way of showing something or doing

something or storytelling. Uh, all of your life experience will make you unique. And so, you need to figure out what the balance is there for providing value for whatever it is the audience came for initially, but then also helping them get to know you a little bit and letting that be part of your

value proposition. Hey guys, really quick. We just dropped our brand new challenge as part of our monthly creator challenges. I'm so excited for you guys to check it out. If you're interested, go get the link in the description and we will see you on the inside. Okay, back to the video. The next thing you

need to do is you have to have solid and effective calls to action. Now, maybe you're familiar with calls to action, maybe you're not. Basically, all this means is that in every single video, you need to invite your audience to do something. So, it may be asking them to subscribe to your channel. It may be

asking them to watch another video. It doesn't really matter, but you need to give them a strong call to action. And you can't just beg them to do something. People don't fall for that anymore. They may have in the past, but you have to give them a good value proposition. So, for example, if you have a really great

video that somebody watched and they really liked, you can encourage them to go watch another related video or a follow-up video and say, "Hey, subscribe now. I'm making this follow-up video and you're gonna want to watch this. You're not going to want to miss it." give them a real reason to subscribe or if you're

asking them to like the video, say, "Hey, if this video was helpful for you, please give it a like. It really helps the channel." Actually giving them a reason to subscribe or a reason to follow through with your call to action is going to make them much more likely to do so, which speaks to the algorithm.

It helps YouTube again figure out who to show your content to. Very, very helpful. The last one here is channel branding and consistency. This kind of connects pretty early with the value proposition, but if your channel branding is consistent and you are having this consistency in your publishing schedule and in the type of

content that you're creating, then people are much more likely to subscribe. We already talked about the consistency in the content type, but even publishing schedule can make a difference early on. I wouldn't say that I'm the biggest advocate for having to publish every day or every other day or even once a week, but the more

consistent you are, the more likely people are to understand and recognize what it is you have to offer, and they are going to like that. So, early on, that can be valuable for your channel. That's really all it takes. These three simple steps will help you get to 1,000 subscribers so much faster, and you're

going to be on your way to getting monetized. Now, let's switch gears and talk about your 4,000 watch hours. So, for 4,000 watch hours, the number one thing that you should be doing is focusing on long form content. Now, you might ask yourself, what exactly is long- form content? I'm really thinking about anything over 5 minutes long. 5 to

7 minutes or longer, even 10 minutes or 15 minutes or 20 minutes. Those longer form videos are going to help you get those watch hours. Watch hours are key. And you need 4,000 of them. That is a lot of watch time. If you think about how many hours are in a day, and if you

did all that math, you would come to realize that 4,000 hours is a ton of time. But if you can get people watching your videos, if you can get them following your channel and subscribing, you're going to get a lot of people who are watching little bits of your channel at a time, and it's going to make that

4,000 hours come a lot faster. And so, when you do longer content on your channel, it's going to help people have more content to watch. So long content, the long- form content is so key and it's way more effective than short form content for a couple reasons. Now this is something you don't want to forget.

When you are doing short form content, that short form content may get a lot more views than your long form content. But most views and watch time on short form content does not count toward monetization. Remember that short form views in most case and watch time don't count towards your monetization. There are a couple small exceptions, but it's

not going to be worth it for you to try and get monetized with the short form content in this way. So, long form content all the way. The second thing here, make bingeable content. Content that is actually interesting and engaging to your audience. If you think about when you go to YouTube and you

think about what you want to watch, go onto the YouTube homepage and see what interests you. If the videos you're creating, you wouldn't even want to watch, that's a really good indicator that you need to change and improve something. Now, I get it. You may not be to the point where you can actually

create the kind of content that you love watching on YouTube, but you can probably do at least a few things to improve your content creation process to make your videos a lot better. Make sure that you lead with curiosity. Make sure you're telling a story. Make sure you have all these interest elements and

whatever you're showing in your video, whether you showed it on camera or you added it in the editing, make sure that it's quick. And make sure that there's a lot to see visually. People need to be engaged. There's so much content for people to watch on YouTube. One of the biggest reasons young creators fail on

YouTube is because their content just isn't engaging enough. And so really strive to create that content that is bingeable and engaging and that it's just something that's good enough that people would want to watch longer. When you actually get people to click onto your content and you get them to watch a little bit longer than normal, that is

something that signals to the YouTube algorithm that your content is good. So, your content will not only get longer view duration, which helps your watch time and your your 4,000 watch hours, but it's also going to get pushed out to more people, which is going to help your watch time even more. A couple quick

tips here is number one, you can use searchable topics to help you gain some early traction. This isn't something I would do forever, but getting a search topic can help you get earlier traffic. Um, now when you do browse and suggest types uh content, content that is going to be recommended by YouTube to people,

that has a lot more potential to be spread farther, but it can be harder to get into that early on. So, if you want to practice and do some more searchable type content, then that content can get picked up a little bit faster, but then you eventually are going to want to move

into that browse and suggest type content that YouTube will recommend to a much wider audience. The next thing, quick tip here, is post at least once a week. If you are brand new or you're you're not seeing much success on YouTube right now, you need to publish at least once a week and do your very

best to make your quality as good as possible within that week. You need to hold yourself to some standard and giving yourself some accountability and making sure that you're publishing consistently is super super key. And then the last thing here is use the community tab and try and start engaging your community. Pretend like you have a

big community. pretend like there's a million people watching and that you're creating just for every single individual person watching. You may be creating that type of content for nobody right now, but in the end, you're going to make it look like and feel like a really good thriving channel. And so when you do start getting people onto

your channel, they're going to feel very comfortable and they're going to like being there. The biggest mistakes that most people make when it comes to getting monetized on YouTube is number one, irregular posting. You're just not posting consistently and so you never get any momentum. The second one is not tracking your analytics and doubling

down on what works. As you create videos, you're actually getting data points and you can see what topics do really well, what video styles do really well. You can see where people are falling off on your videos and where they click off. You need to take that data and you need to learn from it. And

you need to try and improve your next upcoming videos so that you can make those analytics even better the next time and learn and learn and learn. It's all about this cycle of improvement. So, make sure you're checking your analytics and learning from them. And the last thing is just burning out. You need to

do everything you can to try and avoid burnout. It's easy to do. It's easy to just run on this hamster wheel, try and create YouTube shorts and try and do Instagram and Tik Tok and try and do all these different things, but the reality is the best thing you can do right now

is create one long- form video every single week consistently for the next year. If you do that, I can nearly guarantee that you'll be monetized on YouTube. We have our YouTube system where we guarantee that people can get monetized at least within 50 videos by following exactly what we teach. And if that's something you're interested in,

go check out this video right here where we talk about our plan for getting you success on YouTube. If you're serious about your channel, it's time to lock in and get your channel dialed so that you can start seeing the success and the growth that you want to see. All right, thanks for being here. We'll see you,

channel makers.