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Hello, everybody, and welcome. I am super, super excited to share today’s blog post with you. This is gonna be jam-packed. This is gonna be a full-on training showing you exactly how to set up a YouTube automation channel.

Now, recently, I had the pleasure of doing an interview with Business Insider. And in this interview, I talk about how I use YouTube and digital marketing and affiliate marketing and email marketing to grow my business to over 20k a month.

And these are skills that anybody can learn how to do. So, I’m gonna share with you some tricks and tips today in this video on how you can go about setting up a YouTube automation channel in my opinion the right way, in the smart way.

Because a lot of people who are talking about YouTube automation and all these gurus that look like they’re about 12 years old that are promoting these YouTube automation channels, one thing they don’t tell you is, their YouTube automation channels are not making money right away.

In fact, a very small percentage do, and it takes time. We’re talking six months to a year. Me, personally, I’ve had my YouTube channel since 2017. I didn’t make any money the first year. The second year, I maybe made a couple hundred bucks.

It takes time. But when you apply the things that we’re gonna talk about in today’s video, you can potentially start earning money fairly quickly. This is not necessarily about making money with YouTube AdSense.

We’re gonna talk about how to set up your channel so you can get people to go to links in your description and click and purchase. That’s affiliate marketing. And that is how you set up a YouTube automation channel that is gonna stand the test of time.

So, let’s get right into it. First things first, when it comes to creating a YouTube automation channel, you need a niche. Now, the three most popular niches are health, wealth, and relationships. So, any kind of niche that deals with some sort of pain or some sort of problem.

Also, the pet niche is a very popular one as well because people love their pets. They treat ’em like kids. So, I’ll throw that one in there as well. So, you need to find something that you enjoy talking about, something that you can see yourself talking about for a long time.

And by talking about, I don’t mean showing your face on camera, but you need to have an interest in it. Because if you don’t have an interest in it, if you just choose a niche because you think it’s gonna make you a lot of money, you’re not gonna make it, you’re not gonna last.

So, take some time, get out a piece of paper and a pen, and start writing down your passions, your interests. And then next to that list, I want you to write another list with all your skillsets. And then what you’re gonna do, this is real simple, then you’re gonna take a pen and you’re gonna draw a line between your passions and your skillsets.

And ultimately what we’re trying to find is where the passions, the hobbies, the interests and then your skills which you’re good at kind of align. And that’s your sweet spot. And then we wanna make sure that your interests and your passions can solve a problem, that there is a pain point there.

So, don’t take too long with it, but that’s a good starting point for you. Now, I’m gonna share with you guys real quick here a channel that I found. Now, I know a lot of people when they talk about YouTube automation, they wanna show you these channels on Social Blade which is a website that rates channels.

They wanna show you these channels and they wanna say, “Look at this channel. “It’s making a million dollars a day.” Unfortunately, those numbers are not necessarily accurate. It’s more of a estimate.

This is a channel that I came across, and I think this is a great representation of a faceless channel. And this looks like somebody who’s fairly new in getting started. When you look at this channel, they only have 23 subscribers and 25 videos.

But look at this. When you go through and you start looking at their videos. 15 views, 40 views, 140 views, 200 views, 1000 views, 234 views. That is a good sign. Anytime the views are over the number of subscribers, that means people are interested in this topic.

That means people are interested in these topics and they’re looking for these particular items. So, this is a great one here. Top 7 porch swings. Let me show you guys this. All right, there you go. So, look at that, links in the description.

So now if you scroll down, now, here’s a little bonus tip. I wouldn’t just write product link. I’m not sure why they have that there. I would have my link right away or my number one link right away. I want people to see it.

And then, look, here’s all the links to the description. These are Amazon. Now, here’s a tip for you guys. I recommend if at all possible to find your products or source your products off of Amazon. Amazon pays a very small percentage.

It’s a good place to start. But if you can go directly to the source. Like for this example here, 10 best dog collars. I would go to the dog collar manufacturer themselves and see if they have an affiliate program or a partner program.

Any niche that you’re in, you can simply go to Google, type it in, like you could type in screwdriver affiliate program, webcam affiliate program. And a lot of times you can go directly to the source.

So, that’s just a little tip. Keep that in mind. Also, another thing is look for digital products because they tend to pay more money. So, I’ll put the link to these guys below. You can check them out.

They’re called Top Gadgets Corner. But this is a great example of what we’re gonna actually build right now. So, the first thing we need is a script. Now, when you’re doing a faceless YouTube channel, you are creating a script.

And then we’re gonna take that script and we’re gonna actually upload it to a video creation software. And this is the really cool thing. Everything is basically done for us. We’re more or less copying and pasting.

And really, all you’re gonna need to create a YouTube automation channel is a little creativity and a little bit of time. And you gotta be persistent. You gotta stick with it. So, vidIQ is a great, great platform.

I’ve been using vidIQ since 2017. Of course now with AI, creating a YouTube automation channel could not be easier. So, you can actually go to vidIQ. Now, they have paid, and they have free versions, and they have their new AI tool which you can use to write scripts.

You can also go to places like ChatGPT. Jasper is another great one. There’s tons of AI tools out there. But for the sake of this video, I’m gonna show you in vidIQ. And what I would do here is, let’s use the dog collar example.

I would just type in, “Write me a script about the top 10 dog collars.” All right, I’m gonna hit send. The AI is gonna start doing the work. So, look at this. It even creates an introduction for me. And then it starts going through all the different dog collars.

Number 10, number nine, number eight, number seven, number six, number five, and so on. Now, I might need to prompt it again to keep going ’cause it only went to four. That’s fine. I could write another prompt.

But for the sake of this, let’s take this. And what I’m gonna do is copy it. Now, obviously when this first comes out, the script, it’s not gonna be ideal. So, we need to do a little bit of editing. So, what I like to do is I like to take it, go into a a Word doc, and then I’m just gonna paste it in there.

Obviously, I’m gonna get rid of this part sure. And then you just wanna do some basic editing and make sure it’s for humans. And I’d go through here and I’d do a quick edit, and then I’d also separate my sentences.

I don’t want too long of sentences because when I upload this into the video creator, I want to actually separate the scene. So if you have run-on sentences, if you just have one long paragraph, it’s gonna look silly.

And then I also want to go through here and I just want to change some of the language. So, I would just put maybe number 10, and I’d get rid of this. And then I’d go through this entire doc and do that same thing.

Now, the tool we’re gonna use to actually create our video is called InVideo. I’ll make sure to put all the links below for you guys. They do have free and paid, of course. You may find other tools out there that you can use.

This is one of the simpler ones. I think it’s very, very easy to use. When you come to the dashboard, you’re just gonna go to Templates and you’re just gonna click on the plus button, and it’s gonna give me all these different templates that I can use.

All right, so the tool we’re gonna use today for creating our videos is called invideo.io. I’ll put the links below. You guys can check it out. They do have free and paid. And there are also tons of other video software that you can use.

Pictory is another good one. I like that one. I’ll put the link below. You guys can check that out. But basically they do the same thing. We upload the script, and then it turns the text into video. So, when you come to InVideo, you can just simply go to templates.

And then over here on the left-hand side, you actually want to go to AI Text to Video. So, this is gonna create a video for us based on the script that we just had written in vidIQ. And you could pick any of these.

For the sake of this video, I’m just gonna pick this first one here. And then over here on the right, you can choose the Landscape, Square. Obviously, you want to use Landscape for YouTube. And I’ll just click Use Template.

And then look at this. Over on the left, I’m just gonna paste my script. And it’s not gonna be ideal right now because I’m not gonna take the time to go through the whole thing. But I wanna show you how easy this is.

And then I hit Create Scenes. So, it’s gonna take my script, and it’s gonna turn it into a video. It’s absolutely insane what we’re able to do now with AI. It’s just boggles my mind. So, that will take a little bit of time, but once it’s done reading your script, it’s gonna take the script and it’s gonna do its best to match the script with images.

Now, you can see here right away, obviously this is not a dog, it is a waterfall. But it’s a super easy fix. I would go to Videos, and I would just type in dog, and it’s gonna give me all of these dogs.

So, you need to take a few minutes to go through each clip and make sure that the image matches the text. And I could just grab this one here, simply drag it in, hit Add, and look. Now that video is there for that text.

Now, there is background music. You can keep it or get rid of it. I would also go down to the bottom here where it says Storyblock Audio. And you want to take your audio and you wanna reduce it a little bit.

If you’re gonna have music, you want it to be soft in the background. So, that’s step one. Now we need somebody to read the text. We need audio. You can certainly do it yourself. You can actually do it right here on the video.

You can record your audio. Super easy to do. Little bit more time-consuming. Or you can go to something like murf.ai, and you can have an AI voice read the script for you. So, you can come here to murf.

ai and you can actually look. You can test any of these. – Julie Once upon a time, there was an old goat who had seven little kids. – I mean, isn’t that insane? You can do female voice, you can do male voice.

Let’s try the male. Now, you can do. – Dan, I believe that every writer has the potential to write better. – So, you would copy your script, your final script, upload it to murf.ai, and then the AI would create the audio for the script.

How crazy is that? Obviously, this is a paid route. You can go to sites like Fiver, you can go to Upwork and have someone do it for you. Let me show you here. If you go to Fiver, you just type in voiceover.

There’s tons of people that will do voiceovers for you. Also, you can go to Upwork, type in YouTube cash cow, and people will do this entire process for you. I’ve never used anybody here personally. I would recommend doing it on your own first or get a YouTube mentor and copy a blueprint.

And if you really take this seriously, over time you can come to Upwork and reach out to these people. You can usually type in YouTube cash cow or YouTube automation. If you’re gonna do it on your own, you don’t need to spend a lot of money.

You can go and get like this mic here, the FIFINE. I actually have this mic. I use it, I travel with it. It’s a USB mic. It’s only 29 bucks. So, that is an option for you as well. So, you’ve got vidIQ to create your script.

You’ve got InVideo to create your actual images. You can create the voiceover yourself, or you can use AI or you can pay someone on Fiver to do it for you. So, now we need a product. Well, one of the best places for you to go as a beginner is ClickBank.

They have tons and tons of great products, digital products, physical products that you can use. You can also go to Amazon and sign up for the Amazon Associate Program. It’s free to do. You can also simply just go to Google, type in whatever your niche is, your product, and slash affiliate program, slash partner program.

It shouldn’t take too much time to do it. Some of the key things is, you wanna make sure it’s a good product, it’s a quality product, it’s something you would use yourself. If you can use it yourself, even better.

But do a little bit of research, make sure that it is a quality product, it’s a good product. If you’re gonna be doing lots of different products, start with Amazon. ‘Cause that way you can source just about anything.

So, ClickBank. Come here. Once you sign up, you create an account, it’s free. You can go to all of these different categories. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. They got everything. Health and wellness, home garden, education, e-business, cooking.

So, let’s stay on our animal track here. So, if we come here, look at all these products. 22 bucks, 55. These are all the commissions that I’ll get paid. $188 a sale. Let’s search average conversion high to low.

Treatless dog training secrets. I like this one. Let me show you, this one I’m actually familiar with. So if I wanted to promote this product, let’s say I want to take the video that I just made in InVideo, the faceless video.

And somewhere in that video, I might say, “Hey, check out the treatless dog training secrets “in our description below.” Or I might even do a video all about treatless dog training secrets. And then I would say somewhere in the video, “Head to the link in the description “if you wanna learn more.

” So when I come here, I just simply click Promote, and I’d click Create a HopLink. And then you’ll see here on the bottom, it’s gonna give me this link. And I’m gonna copy. That is my affiliate link. Now, obviously I don’t wanna take that big, ugly link and put it in YouTube.

So, what I’m gonna do is I’m gonna go to what’s called a link shortener, like bitly. I’d come to the dashboard, I’d select Create New, and I’d go to Link. And what I’m gonna do is, I’m gonna take that big old ugly link I just got from ClickBank, I’m gonna put it up here, and then I’m just gonna hit Create.

So, it’s gonna shorten that link for me. And I can even edit it. Look at this. So, I could edit the ending and make it a little bit prettier. Get rid of all these ugly numbers.

You gotta kind of play with it for a little bit. So, it gave me that one. You gotta kind of play with it, but we’ll take that for now.

It goes right to the affiliate product that we just looked at, the great dog training secrets. And this is what’s called a landing page. So, people are gonna come here, check this out. And if people end up making a purchase, you get paid a commission.

All right, so we’ve written our script, we’ve uploaded our script to InVideo, we’ve changed all the images to make sure that everything matches up. And we’ve also created the voiceover. Either you pay someone to do it, AI does it, or you do it yourself.

And we’ve picked our product, and we’ve taken that link and we’ve shortened that link using Bitly. So, now we need to create a thumbnail. And one of the easiest ways to do that is going to a site like canva.

com. It’s absolutely free. When you come to the search bar, you simply type in YouTube thumbnail. And you’re gonna get all these different thumbnail templates that you can use. Now, they have free and paid.

If you see the crown, that means it’s a pro version, it’s paid. But there’s plenty of options that are free. This one, let’s see here. Oh, I like this one. I like the blue. And what I would do is I would come in here, I’d hit Customize the Template.

And obviously I’m gonna get rid of this image. I want a dog image. I’d go over here, I’d type in the word dog, and it’s gonna give me all different… Actually, this is really cool. It brings up pre-made dog templates.

That’s new to me. I didn’t know that one. So, look at this. Now, when you scroll over ’em, you’ll see that there’s pro, and then this one is… As long as the pro doesn’t come up. Look at this. So, I can simply select this one.

It’s pre-done for me. And we’re doing what? Top 10 dog collars. And I would just drag this up here ’cause you can drag and drop. Take this down here, boom. And you can fiddle with this a little bit. But for now, for our purposes, this is gonna be fine.

Dog collars. Everything’s drag and drop. Super, super easy. I go to the top right, I hit the Share button, and I want to download this as a PNG. And then I’ll click Download. Next, I want to go to the YouTube channel that I’ve created.

I know you guys are smart and you probably know how to do a lot of this already, but you need a YouTube channel, obviously, to do this. And you’re just simply gonna go to Create, upload your video. Now, once your video is uploaded, you want to upload your thumbnail.

. So, we’re gonna take that thumbnail that we just created. I’ll go down here, Upload Thumbnail. And let’s see here, go to my Download section. Okay, so I’m gonna upload my thumbnail. You’ll see here in the description, this is where I’m gonna put my link that we created in Bitly.

So, I wrote something like, “Grab our number 1 recommended dog training here,” and then I put this link right here. This is the link, my affiliate link, that people are gonna click on. And when they make a purchase, that’s how I make money.

That’s how you do this YouTube automation the right way. And this is how you could potentially start earning money right away. You don’t need to wait to be monetized, and you don’t need to wait for AdSense or anything like that.

I’ll hit Save. And then let’s take a look at this here. We’ll see what it looks like on YouTube. There’s my little video. Okay, I’m gonna pause it. What I wanna show you guys is, look at this here. So, I just uploaded a random video.

So, the main thing here is, I want you guys to see I’ve got my title. And here’s where I put my affiliate link. So, this is what people would see. They watch the video, they wanna learn more. They’re gonna come here, they’re gonna click, and look at this.

That is my affiliate link. Takes ’em here. If they purchase this product, that’s how I get paid. And that’s how you grow a real automation business. It’s how you do it the right way. You don’t need to make it really hard, people.

It’s not that hard. The more you upload, the more views you get. The more views you get, the more clicks. The more clicks, the more purchases. This takes time. If you’re serious about doing this, in the beginning, you’re gonna fumble a little bit.

But just get started. Commit to uploading just one a week. If you can do more, if you do three a week, even better. But commit to at least uploading for the first three months consistently. Pick a schedule, pick a time.

And then after those 90 days, then go back and evaluate. “Is this working right? “Are people watching? “Are people clicking?” Here’s another thing, too, with Bitly. You can go back and see how many people click on that link.

So, you will know if people are making purchases and you’re getting clicks. You need to kind of go back and look and see. “Okay, I made 10 videos, “I got 1000 views total, “I got 100 clicks. “And from those 100 clicks, “I got three purchases.

” So, now you know, “Okay, this is working. “I need to do more of what’s working.” I hope you guys enjoyed that. Let me know in the comments what you think. Let me know when you get started. I would love to hear from you.

Love to hear how it’s going. Thank you so much for reading, and I look forward to seeing you in the next blog post.