How I Turned YouTube Videos into Passive Income

i've been on youtube for four years now educating you on how to grow your youtube channel how you can make money using the youtube platform but there is other ways that you can make money in fact you don't even have to be monetized on youtube to make money i use affiliate marketing but today i'm going to step you through as closely as i can a general overview on how much i've made in four years from affiliate marketing now these videos take forever to edit so if you like these type of videos and you want to see more of these please remember to smash that like button it really does help me in the youtube algorithm this here is my website this is a project that i've had knocking around for many years in fact i've had the domain for i don't know over a decade but it's only recently that it's become a cash cow a landing spot for my own affiliate marketing before that i was using links in youtube videos so let's hop to my youtube channel i'll show you what i do to get affiliate marketing income here are my normal videos and as we go into one of my videos you'll scroll down and at the bottom of my description of my videos you'll see here the start of many many links now the very first thing that i would always highlight is at any point you are doing affiliate marketing make sure that your audience knows so at the bottom my description of all of my videos since the instant i arrived there's been this disclaimer some of my links will be affiliate marketing links these links will not affect the price of products or services referred to but may offer commission that will be used to help me fund the free youtube video tutorials on this channel thank you for your support the reason for this is that i need to declare that these are affiliate links in some cases it's for law in some cases it's for youtube terms of service generally this kind of sentence will help cover your back feel free to copy and paste that into any of your videos and scrolling up now we'll see the range of links that i have here it's always best to match your affiliate links up to what your audience would expect from you so i've got here some cool graphics you know these little pop-ups that say like and subscribe and share this is an affiliate arrangement i've got with the underdog people in which you buy the little overlay thingies and i get a kickback because these are themed in my colors but you can also buy their mega pack or their video editing or anything you wish really the way this works is i send you over there i get a small slice they do a lot of the legwork you lean on the trust that i'm gonna obviously pick a good quality product and then a lot of the legwork's done for me by then next one there's a link to my own website there was a thumbnail pack that i used to do which i will be repurposing at some point i may even give away for free if that's something that you like if you like the idea of that smash the like button because these videos take forever to edit so please do smash up that like button to help the youtube algorithm to push this out to as many people as possibly can free youtube tricks and tips it's a pdf that i made three years ago the way this works is that you get a free pdf and i would get your email address in which then i can either keep you part of a mailing list or in the long run maybe i can use that information to help pull you into training courses or just communicate with you outside the youtube platform try adobe for free once again you can try try out the adobe premiere pro editing suites and that kind of thing cheap quality hosting b-roll vid iq a fantastic app that i use all the time for optimizing my youtube videos in fact since i switched to vidiq i've tripled the size of my channel by increasing my click-through rate and dominating in search i highly suggest you check that one out a link in that description the description down below right in which you can get a 20 discount see that's how affiliate marketing works i link you to something that i feel that would seriously honestly help you i point out the link below i get a referral bonus when you go over there and buy it and then there's other things in there from like place it where it can help you create youtube intros and outros a free audio book from audible in which i tend to like to listen and learn something new each and every week each and every month each and every year so why not binge on audiobooks because i don't have time to read but i do have time to listen when walking places and subtitles you know just because i want to push this video out in spanish or hindi i can have actual subtitles here that is relevant to you and your audience in your native tongue so therefore you can read along whilst i blabber along yeah yeah yeah we get it you've got links in your description and you go off show us the numbers fat boy okay now this is me being as transparent and as honest as i can be okay now there will be some things that obviously i can't mention but overall this is generally how much i've made from affiliate marketing in the last three four years so starting off with one of my all-time favorites this is ref this is the subtitle people every time i convert they tell me they'll pay me out 100 for every conversion and you'll see here one two three four five six seven seven seven qualified leads and hopefully one here as well that's to be reviewed the way they work is that i refer someone you pay them for a service not just a sign up bonus and then i'll get a small slice of that so i'll start totaling it up in the bottom left-hand corner 700. now before i move to the blue brand i used to look after the buddies of tube but it was the red brand and since i've been around with them since 2018 you can see here that's 5 800 the way this works is i refer someone they sign up they get to use the tool and then because i've referred 5 or 10 people i'll get a free upgrade i can show more features and so on and so forth this brand supported me pretty much from the start of my channel and over time i make around about one to two hundred dollars per month from them whilst rev is slightly more sporadic it's when you convert impact now this is a dashboard where i can create a few affiliate marketing people that anyone that uses the impact platform however i've only had one company and that that happens to be a company called placeit that does the intro and outros and the graphic banners and stuff like that and since i started using them i've gained around about a thousand clicks and payments for around about 1200 quid 1200 pounds so i'll try and convert it to american dollars in the little doobie doop on the bottom left-hand corner so we're running tally totally fair now as part of my website i use adverts now i know this isn't technically affiliate marketing this is adverts against my blog website but i'm going to throw this in anyway because this is earnings outside the youtube balance sheet i use a company called izoic for this and what they do is i create blog posts and i have a website they place adverts anywhere in the site they give me a better cpm than google adsense does and in this case in just the year that it's been around on my website i've made around about 900 bucks 932. now one of the most common ones that's been around that anyone can sign up for is amazon associates be honest this is one of my worst performing ones over the time why because yeah you may go to amazon but it doesn't really do much for me and the percentages are horrifically low now compared to what they used to be now my uk account has been around for a little bit longer you can see a few more payments here but you're not really looking at much like you have to hit a minimum balance from to payout and look 30 30 quid there 30 quid there 30 quid there and i'm doing another one so let's say a hundred pounds within the last three four years now i do have other affiliate based income mainly stuff that you people go to my website and they'll purchase say my coaching directly coaching with me one-on-one i count that as an affiliate because it's an affiliate to my own programs but overall and i'm going to add the the real figure down here and i'm gonna guesstimate it because i'm not gonna look at it whilst doing this video recording you're looking around about eight nine thousand dollars-ish tell me how wildly off i am and that's over the last four years but you'll notice that it did accelerate right and now on average i make around about anywhere between five and seven hundred dollars per month in affiliate income which over time i hope to stack up and build up and hopefully reinvest into this channel and into my blog to make more to educate you and in the long run show you transparently how this works now i've done a really deep dive blog post on how affiliate marketing works it's in the description down below but i can also show you how to make money on youtube without youtube ads the video will be here and if you like this kind of video you can check out how much money i've earned on my youtube channel in the entirety of its life and per month i'm gonna have a playlist of those type of videos here