Let’s Get Monetized!
A 30-Day YouTube Bootcamp
Getting monetized is the goal.
But you're no closer to 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours than you were in the spring.
And in case you were off doing things this summer, YouTube just gave you a deadline, which now makes the whole thing feel a bit impossible.
So it's game face time.
But I don't want you to panic, because that is actually a lot of time. I got my new channel monetized in 71 days, from zero, 3 months ago.
I was going to make a course… but now I’m doing something better.
I figured this was finally the moment to put together my YouTube Guru course, then I realised another course is not what you need right now. What you need between now and February is a 5'4" drill sergeant, aka me, yelling "Let's go!"
So that's what this is. Let's Get Monetized is a 30 Day Action-Oriented Bootcamp. A kick in the butt with a curriculum attached.
What we're building is one series.
Every video you make is a brick. Right now you've probably just got a pile of them, and nobody likes sifting through rubble. Stack those bricks into a building and people have direction. They can explore it. They can get lost in it.
Here's what that actually fixes:
You stop starting from scratch every week, because the next episode is already decided.
(We’re also going to make them longer) so every view banks more minutes.
People who like episode one go watch two, and then three, so one viewer is worth several views instead of one.
And they subscribe, because there's more coming and they want to know what happens next.
A series fixes both the subscriber problem and the watch hours problem. Three episodes or six, 20 to 25 minutes each, depending on what you can realistically pull off.
Four weeks, taught live.
Live so you can actually ask your questions in the moment. By the end you'll have your series mapped out and ready to shoot, plus a much better handle on what makes a series work in the first place, where your channel is actually going, and what your analytics have been trying to tell you this whole time. There'll be feedback along the way. And if you can’t make it live, of course, all sessions are recorded. We build it, then you go film it.
The honest part.
I can't actually promise you'll get monetized ( I don't control YouTube, after all…) There are no shortcuts here. Just some hard work and some strategy.
What I can promise is a much better shot at making that February 1 deadline instead of hoping and praying.
These aren't huge numbers. You have time. You can do it. And I'll be right there in your corner, being extremely loud about it.