YouTube full time choices

I am a full-time elementary school teacher and I do youtube part time. I plan on teaching for the rest of my career but my Youtube channels don't require THAT much work. Then again, if I end up earning $5k per month from my Youtube channels I would happily retire early LOL...only time will tell.
 
PressRecord said:
We are currently doing YouTube full time. One of our coworkers dropped out to join us and start it up. If you have a solid business plan and it's guaranteed to work then it wouldn't harm, but if you just want to play video games and record yourself and hope it works then stick to school.
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You really have people dropping out for a channel with 300-odd subs? Why?
 
MediocreMichael said:
You really have people dropping out for a channel with 300-odd subs? Why?
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I'm with Michael...it's still a risk dropping out with only 300 subs...no matter how good your business plan it. I'm not saying that it won't work...I'm just saying that 300 subs isn't enough to ensure that it will most definitely work. However, I'm rooting for you guys! Good luck, and I truly hope that you guys make it! PS. I like your channel and am going to sub on my personal account!
 
MediocreMichael said:
You really have people dropping out for a channel with 300-odd subs? Why?
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Michael Cimicata said:
I'm with Michael...it's still a risk dropping out with only 300 subs...no matter how good your business plan it. I'm not saying that it won't work...I'm just saying that 300 subs isn't enough to ensure that it will most definitely work. However, I'm rooting for you guys! Good luck, and I truly hope that you guys make it! PS. I like your channel and am going to sub on my personal account!
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As I said earlier "and I quote"
You need to develop a business plan. We have a series of channels. The ones in my signature are two relatively new projects. I've been running channels since 2007. The channels I run bring in a good portion of rent, and then we outsource the work we do for our videos to bring in extra money from online work. So same amount of work double the money. In return we pay our bills and rent from doing YouTube full time.

We actually have the next two months of rent already covered from the money we bring in. We are doing just fine. Build a business plan and you guys could be doing the same as us. If you expect to make it all from YouTube then good luck.
 
PressRecord said:
As I said earlier "and I quote"
You need to develop a business plan. We have a series of channels. The ones in my signature are two relatively new projects. I've been running channels since 2007. The channels I run bring in a good portion of rent, and then we outsource the work we do for our videos to bring in extra money from online work. So same amount of work double the money. In return we pay our bills and rent from doing YouTube full time.

We actually have the next two months of rent already covered from the money we bring in. We are doing just fine. Build a business plan and you guys could be doing the same as us. If you expect to make it all from YouTube then good luck.
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I stand corrected lol. I didn't know that you had additional channels...sorry for assuming! Congrats on being so successful on Youtube!
I just started my 6th channel and I'm doing OK managing them all right now. Any tips on managing multiple channels at once?
 
Michael Cimicata said:
I stand corrected lol. I didn't know that you had additional channels...sorry for assuming! Congrats on being so successful on Youtube!
I just started my 6th channel and I'm doing OK managing them all right now. Any tips on managing multiple channels at once?
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It's not all about the amount of channels, we bring in revenue through multiple different avenues, but it comes in from the initial work we do from YouTube. I recommend you figure out a way that you can outsource your work, don't worry about managing multiple channels, worry about how the channels you are running can bring you in more money. If you are comfortable managing 6 channels stick to it. But start developing business strategies.

You do drum tips on your channel, this is already a big entry way into outsourcing your work. If you were a gamer things will be quite hard. With drum tips, build an e-book. Sell copies online so people can have a digital copy. Put together "premium lessons" and sell videos you can't get on your page on sites like fiverr or your own online store if you are knowledgable. Take your knowledge, share it but then give a paid section. You can also take drumming and do more with that as well. Like I said earlier you can sell on fiverr. You can sell drum beats etc. Build loops and royalty free beat packs. Do all this, for your channel, but then outsource your work so you can be making extra money for it. This is just some ideas for your one channel. Now you said you have 6.

See where the business plan can come in if you start developing these back stock of money makers? Not all your money has to come from your YouTube check. But it can all come from the work you are putting into YouTube.

"keep in mind this is just 5 minutes of thinking about what you can do, if you devoted some time I'm sure you could figure out a solid way to make things work"
 
PressRecord said:
As I said in my text you need to develop a business plan. We have a series of channels. The ones in my signature are two relatively new projects. I've been running channels since 2007. The channels I run bring in a good portion of rent, and then we outsource the work we do for our videos to bring in extra money from online work. So same amount of work double the money. In return we pay our bills and rent from doing YouTube full time.
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Cool what are your larger channels? I'm not too sure what you mean by outsourcing your video work? Could you explain that a bit more?
thanks
 
PressRecord said:
As I said earlier "and I quote"
You need to develop a business plan. We have a series of channels. The ones in my signature are two relatively new projects. I've been running channels since 2007. The channels I run bring in a good portion of rent, and then we outsource the work we do for our videos to bring in extra money from online work. So same amount of work double the money. In return we pay our bills and rent from doing YouTube full time.

We actually have the next two months of rent already covered from the money we bring in. We are doing just fine. Build a business plan and you guys could be doing the same as us. If you expect to make it all from YouTube then good luck.
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I stand corrected too, as I am in the exact same position as you, my money maker isn't in my signature.
 
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