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Mar 4 10 tweets 4 min read
Can you sell an online course without overpromising huge results?

In PTYA we have a no-promise policy.

We believe there’s no secret to YouTube success.

If there was a magic bullet, it’s building a system 👇
The early days of a YouTuber are very scrappy.

It’s a week-by-week effort that you reinvent with each filming session. But that’s good only for the initial months.

If you really want to “make it” on YouTube, you’ll need a plan.

Especially if you want to do it part-time.
Systems have lately become a bit of a buzzword. But basically, these are sets of processes that should take us to our desired result.

Or as @JamesClear would say “Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about the processes that lead to those results.”
@JamesClear Let’s assume that our goal is to get 100k subscribers.

For that, you’d need to post at least one video a week for a year.

For that, you need a video script ready every week.

For that, you need one video idea each week.

We can go on and on, until...
@JamesClear ...until we reduce our goal to matchwood.

That’s why you should be trying to piece these (repeatable) processes together to build a system around your content production.

Otherwise, you’ll keep reinventing the wheel with each new video.
@JamesClear So even with a no-promise policy, we teach the closest thing to YouTube's secret sauce which can take your channel from 0 to 100,000:

The Infinite Content Engine.
@JamesClear This is the system I’ve developed to grow my channel from 0 to 2.7M subscribers while doing YouTube only part-time.

But the system doesn’t only help you grow your subscribers count.

It also takes care of major challenges that a YouTuber has to face like👇
@JamesClear 🤝 Building a team

🎥 Dealing with cameras, mics, and lighting

💡 Running out of ideas

🏗 Structuring your videos...

💰 Monetising your channel

♻️ Repurposing your content

📨 Outsourcing content production

To mention only a few.

@JamesClear If I could give one piece of advice to someone who wants to make it on YouTube, it’d be that - create a system around your production and treat it as a media house.

Not as a scrappy week-after-week effort.
@JamesClear If you'd like to know more about how to grow a YouTube channel and build systems, check out Cohort 5 of my Part-Time YouTuber Academy 😃

We sold out 50% of places in the first 24 hours so grab your spot now 👇

academy.aliabdaal.com/?utm_source=so…

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Mar 6
My YouTube channel makes over $130k each month from Adsense and sponsorships.

Our overall business revenue which includes courses, affiliate deals and products is over $350k per month.

It’s bloody ridiculous.

Here’s how you can monetise your passion too 👇
There are loads of ways to start making money on YouTube, but I found that these 6 are the best:

🎬 The YouTube Partner Program (YPP)
👯 Sponsorships
🔥 Affiliates
⭕️ Community Earnings
💻 Online Courses
👕 Merchandise

Let's break them down 👇🏼
🎬 1. The YouTube Partner Program (YPP)

There are 2 requirements you have to meet before qualifying for the program:

- 4,000 public watch hours in the last 12 months
- At least 1000 subscribers

Sounds easy but YouTube is hard.
Read 21 tweets
Mar 6
It takes between 52 and 152 videos to get your first 1,000 subs on YouTube.

The trick to creating all these videos is making filming and editing as frictionless as possible.

Here’s how 👇
⌛ 1 - Consistency

The more you do something, the more it’ll become a habit.

All you really need to do is make one video per week. That’s it.

Focus on this week’s video, then move onto the next, before you know it you’ll be on a roll.
🏋️‍♂️ 2 - Low Lift Content

If you’re in this for the right reasons, you’ll probably be bursting at the seams with video ideas.👇
Read 16 tweets
Mar 5
Getting started on YouTube is easier now than ever before.

With a bunch of free tools, a positive mindset and consistency, here’s why you can become a YouTuber in 2022 👇
Content’s easy to create 🎬

Smartphones have lowered the barrier to entry.

Most phones have good camera quality (at least to start with) and there’s a bunch of free tools to use to improve the quality (if you want to).
Free tools 🆓

‘I need to buy X and Y programmes to make it as a YouTuber’.

Nope - there are a ton of free tools to use if you know where to look. Just Google ‘Free Video Editing Software’ and work from there.

Read 9 tweets
Mar 5
We've had amazing stories come out of PTYA, here's what some of our students had to say about the course :)

First up @david_perell
Tech entrepreneur @johncoogan would average 100 views on his videos

Since taking PTYA he's grown to 140k subs and has had multiple videos go viral 🤯
You may recognise Charlie from Charisma on Command, a channel with 5 million subs 🚀

Charlie's hosting two guest workshops in Cohort 5 focusing on building systems and teaching us how he's built a business from his channel 💰
Read 12 tweets
Mar 5
Work will never be the same.

We’ve seen a big shift into remote living and the world is moving towards being decentralised.

More people are going PART-TIME than ever before.

Here’s why and how to adapt👇
As you may know, I and my team are currently working on the next cohort of Part-Time YouTuber Academy.

And while Part-Time seems like a catchy name and nothing more than that, I’ve recently realised that it’s actually the core of the whole course.
Looking back at my life I became aware that I had the most fun when I was working part-time.

When I was a student, I tried to start a company. When I was working as a doctor, I started a YouTube channel.

And now I’m a YouTuber who dabbles with medicine part-time.
Read 8 tweets
Mar 4
Over the past 4 years of making videos on YouTube, I’ve figured out loads of ways of generating new video ideas and a system to manage them.

One of them I like to call the ABC(s) of idea generation 👇
1. A → Ask Your Audience 🙋

Everyone has an audience, even if you’re just starting. If you’ve got social media followers it’s easier but even if you don’t you can still ask friends, family etc
This is a super-easy way to generate a handful of ideas and get your creative juices flowing.

So how do you do it? 👇
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