What Are The Odds?

Wreckless Eating said:
Not at all. It actually became more fun after we started running our channel like a business because it freed up more money to invest in the show. Plus earning a decent living is a great motivator in addition to making our fans happy.
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Thanks :) I just plan to hopefully use Youtube as a hobby along with a job because I don't think I will ever get to the stage of when I could live off it sadly.[DOUBLEPOST=1367874036,1367873888][/DOUBLEPOST]
gisikw said:
You're a bad example - you don't rely on YouTube for your living expenses.
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Can I suggest you grow a curly moustache? You would like some wild western villan ;)
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TinHatRanch said:
Let me quickly rephrase my statement I made earlier. Yes, I want to make money off of youtube but in reality I NEED to make money off of youtube. My day job has me work long crazy hours and precludes me getting a second job somewhere else and circumstances will require me to get a second job soon. So, I used to make videos when I was younger and decided why not give the long shot a chance. I will say, I think I am making about $1.50/hour at this point...tops.
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If you are deadset on making this a revenue generating channel then best of luck to you. I think if you work hard enough at it, you'll be able to achieve what you want.[DOUBLEPOST=1367874416,1367874321][/DOUBLEPOST]I think a major part about the whole, "if you make it a job you will hate it" it mostly applies to working for someone else.

In YouTube you are your own boss (presumably) and you set your own goals, objectives and schedules. If you are working under someone else's direction then yeah it can become tiresome and tedious.
 
TinHatRanch said:
Let me quickly rephrase my statement I made earlier. Yes, I want to make money off of youtube but in reality I NEED to make money off of youtube. My day job has me work long crazy hours and precludes me getting a second job somewhere else and circumstances will require me to get a second job soon. So, I used to make videos when I was younger and decided why not give the long shot a chance. I will say, I think I am making about $1.50/hour at this point...tops.
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we just had a guy rage quit from here and he started youtube thinking he could make a living off it. I love the fact you have the motivation to want to make a living off youtube and i too goal set all the time! Making money off youtube is a lot like making money off scratch and win lottery tickets if you get the right topic and goes viral it is alot like winning the lottery but i can tell you now with youtube the cash usually comes when you don't need it and you do this for fun! when you do it just for the cash it shows big time! you are never in the saf zone on youtube when you get a raise at your job you are now set at that level of income. with youtube its like being a salesman your going to have amazing months and others were you question if its worth doing it. We see big name youtubers fade to black all the time because youtube is stressfull as a job! you need to be constantly interacting with fans, going to conventions being active, doing callobs, keeping up with trends, satisfing your audience, not becoming stale, researching, staying ahead of the upcoming guys who are more attractive in many other qualitys. When you don't need something it's there but when you truly needed it its not!
 
ghostlyrich said:
we just had a guy rage quit from here and he started youtube thinking he could make a living off it. I love the fact you have the motivation to want to make a living off youtube and i too goal set all the time! Making money off youtube is a lot like making money off scratch and win lottery tickets if you get the right topic and goes viral it is alot like winning the lottery but i can tell you now with youtube the cash usually comes when you don't need it and you do this for fun! when you do it just for the cash it shows big time! you are never in the saf zone on youtube when you get a raise at your job you are now set at that level of income. with youtube its like being a salesman your going to have amazing months and others were you question if its worth doing it. We see big name youtubers fade to black all the time because youtube is stressfull as a job! you need to be constantly interacting with fans, going to conventions being active, doing callobs, keeping up with trends, satisfing your audience, not becoming stale, researching, staying ahead of the upcoming guys who are more attractive in many other qualitys. When you don't need something it's there but when you truly needed it its not!
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The guys I am modelling after do not rely on viral videos whatsoever. They've built their channels one brick at a time. The genre I am in doesn't get viral videos but it does get followers. A majority of them don't have a single video over two or three million views, most don't have a video with more than a million, yet their channels have between 100-200 million total views. They are the unsung guys on youtube. They may be "famous" in their genre but you've probably never heard of them.

I started this two months ago yesterday and have been able to do OK I think for someone two months in. I look at it like making a snowman. Lots of effort to get it moving, but the more you keep moving it the more it picks up, the more it picks up the bigger it gets. You keep rolling it until it is massive and every turn of the ball makes it grow exponentially.
 
Whoa if you just started two months ago, then you are definitely on a good pace. In a few more months from now you should see for yourself how many views you'll need to generate to get the income you want.
 
TinHatRanch said:
The guys I am modelling after do not rely on viral videos whatsoever. They've built their channels one brick at a time. The genre I am in doesn't get viral videos but it does get followers. A majority of them don't have a single video over two or three million views, most don't have a video with more than a million, yet their channels have between 100-200 million total views. They are the unsung guys on youtube. They may be "famous" in their genre but you've probably never heard of them.

I started this two months ago yesterday and have been able to do OK I think for someone two months in. I look at it like making a snowman. Lots of effort to get it moving, but the more you keep moving it the more it picks up, the more it picks up the bigger it gets. You keep rolling it until it is massive and every turn of the ball makes it grow exponentially.
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Well bud keep doing what your intested in. If it works it works thats the cool thing about youtube the road to success is not set in stone
 
William Phan said:
Whoa if you just started two months ago, then you are definitely on a good pace. In a few more months from now you should see for yourself how many views you'll need to generate to get the income you want.
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Thanks, keep in mind I feel it might be better to start out in this genre.
 
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