I spent six or seven years chasing things that were never going to work. I had a dropshipping store, I was selling stickers, I did Amazon to eBay arbitrage. I was a budding electronic DJ for a while, and I got to DJ in seven countries. Then I started putting on my own nightclub events. I worked hard at all of them. But most had a ceiling built in from day one. Big money needed up front, thin margins, or only so far you could ever take it. Warren Buffett has a line about this that I think about a lot. It's not about how hard you row, it's about which river you're in. And I'd been rowing hard in rivers that didn't go anywhere. YouTube turned out to be my river. You don't need money to start, and there's no cap on where it goes. What it costs you is time, and all the mistakes you make while you're working out what does and doesn't work. And that's the part I'd shortcut if I could go back. I got a lot wrong for a long time before it started paying. Since then it's been 100 million plus views across the channels we've worked on, clients hitting $100,000 months, and my own channel doing months of over $10,000 as a side gig. So I've put everything I know into an 8-week course on how to grow and monetise a YouTube channel, so you don't have to lose the same years I did. There's homework every week, so by the end you've got 5 videos out. Follow and comment "YouTube" below for more info.

Had a fiery debate with a client the other night about this. Do you need to be an established expert before you can build an audience and put a business around it? Or can you build the audience first and work out the business after? Take Dave Ramsey. He was already a money guy, and about thirty years ago he started building an audience around that. Radio first, then books, then a podcast, then YouTube. And every time a new platform comes along, he jumps on it to see how many people he can reach. He's now doing something like 18 million views a month, and all of it feeds into 14 different profit centres inside his business. Now take MrBeast. He was a teenager with a camera. No expertise, no business, nothing. He built the audience first, and then started bolting businesses onto the side of it. The festivals, the burgers, the brand deals. He's worth billions on paper now, and he was just a kid making videos. And there are loads of both. And I've seen it up close with clients too. One of ours is a lawyer helping veterans with claims, who built his whole channel around the questions those veterans were already asking. So the answer is both work. If you already know your subject inside out, there's a huge opportunity to grow a business you've already got. And if you don't, that's fine too. Build something people want to watch, and you can work out what to sell them later. Either way, the hard part is the same. Getting people to find you, watch, and come back. And that's what I've put into an 8-week course on how to grow and monetise a YouTube channel. There's homework every week, so by the end you've got 5 videos out. Follow and comment "YouTube" below for more info.

I’ve achieved $100k months on multiple clients YouTube channels. I put that in a course, which i'm trying to hit a record month on for sales. I’m offering a flash sale for just 3 people, which includes a 7-day money back guarantee. Like this post + comment ‘YouTube’ & I’ll send you the details

I’ve achieved $100k months on clients YouTube channels. I put that in a course, which i'm trying to hit a record month on for sales. Flash sale for the next few hours. 7-day money back guarantee. Like this post + comment ‘YouTube’ & I’ll send you the details

Before YouTube I tried everything to make some extra money. Dropshipping. DJing nightclubs. Running events. Selling stickers. Amazon-to-eBay arbitrage. And every one of them had the same problems. You need big money up front, or there's not much room to grow, or the margins are so thin it's barely worth the effort. Usually all three at once. But YouTube is different. It costs almost nothing to start. You can put as many hours into it as you want, whenever it suits you. And you can build it around a full-time job. Which is exactly what I did. The other things I tried all hit a ceiling eventually. But this one still hasn't. I've scaled channels to 100 million plus views, and taken clients to $100,000 months. And my own channel has had months of over $10,000, while being a side gig. So if you want to give it a go, I've put what I know into an 8-week course on how to grow and monetise a YouTube channel. Follow and comment "YouTube" below for more info.

People ask why I left a good job at a top company to go all in on YouTube. And the answer goes back to being 15. That's when I started watching a fitness YouTuber called Christian Guzman. He was a few years older than me, at college, filming his own training videos. Nothing fancy. Just a bloke in a gym with a camera. Then he opened a gym. It started as somewhere to film, and turned into a business. Then coaching programmes. Then a bigger gym with memberships. Then clothing. Then supplements. And all of it came off the back of the videos. I was sat there in my bedroom watching it happen, year after year. And it was at exactly the age where you're trying to work out what you want your life to look like. I already knew I wanted to build something of my own. I just had no idea how anyone actually did it. And here was a bloke barely older than me, building an entire company out of a camera and a gym membership. And I got to watch every step of it. And the other thing I noticed is that I felt like I knew him. I'd never met the man and probably never will (@Guzmanfitness if you ever read this, thanks mate). But I'd watched hundreds of hours of him talking. So when he put something out, I trusted it completely. He never had to sell me anything. The trust was already there, built one video at a time, while he was just training and filming. I was a teenager and I didn't have the words for what I was looking at. Years later I was working at one of the most prestigious car brands in the world. Good job, good money, the kind of place people are pleased to tell you they work at. And the whole time I still wanted to build something of my own. So I tried everything. A dropshipping store. Selling stickers. I was a budding electronic DJ for a while, and I ended up DJing in seven countries. Then putting on my own nightclub events. And every time I'd give it a few weeks or a few months, and the moment it got hard I'd move on to the next one. Then I came back round to YouTube, and it clicked. What I'd watched Christian do all those years earlier was build a business in public, with the videos doing the selling for him. And that's the thing I'd been circling the whole time without seeing it. And YouTube changed my life. It got me out of that job, it's given me freedom over my time and my money, and it's let me build something I'm actually proud of. Since then we've done 100 million plus views across the channels we've worked on. We've taken clients to $100K months. And my own channel, which is a side gig for us because we're so busy with client work, has done months of over $10,000 on its own. So someone spends 20 minutes a week with you for a year. And by the end they trust you in a way no advert will ever manage. Then when you've got something to sell, they're already listening. And that's what a YouTube channel actually builds. Everything else comes after. I've put all of my YouTube knowledge into an 8-week course, which I'll keep adding to. If you're interested: * Follow me (important so that we can DM you) * Comment "YouTube" below.

I quit my job at Rolls-Royce to go all in on YouTube. Here's how that happened. I had a good job there, on the manufacturing site. It was the highest pay grade you can get without going into management. And they kept offering me the promotion. I kept turning it down, because I had my eye on getting out. So alongside that job I was trying everything. A dropshipping store. Selling stickers at one point. I was a budding electronic DJ, and I ended up DJing in seven countries and supporting festivals. Then I started renting out nightclubs and putting on my own events. And every single time I did the exact same thing. I'd give something a real go for a few weeks or a few months, maybe a couple of years. And then the moment it got hard, I'd move on to the next one. That's the biggest mistake I've made in my career. The nightclub promotions is what pointed me at social media. I had a thousand-person venue to fill and no idea how. So I ended up doing social media to get people through the door. And the first time I posted something and an actual human being walked into that club because of it, that changed how I saw social media forever. Then covid arrived. The events stopped, I was burnt out on the DJ side anyway, and I was working from home for Rolls-Royce by then. So I was spinning two plates, and I could finally give this proper time. And that's the thing about YouTube that makes it work around a job. It doesn't need you at 9am on a Monday. Nobody's waiting on you at 3pm on a Tuesday. You put the hours in whenever you've got them. And it keeps building in the background while you get better at it. It took me six or seven years to get out of that job. Warren Buffett has a line I think about a lot. It's not about how hard you row, it's about which river you're in. Now I'm of completely average intelligence. What I did was pick something that was growing, and then refuse to switch off it. And that's since become 100 million plus views across the channels we've worked on, clients hitting $100K months, and a business I'm proud of. I've put all of my YouTube knowledge into an 8-week course, which I'll keep adding to. If you're interested: * Follow me (important so that we can DM you) * Comment "YouTube" below.

We've hit $100K months on three completely different YouTube channels. Here's what we did on each one. A law firm. They help US veterans claim the disability benefits they're owed. * The challenge: nobody could find them, in a market full of other lawyers doing the same thing. * The solution: we built them a channel around the exact questions those veterans were already searching for, to make the firm the name people trust. * The result: twelve subscribers to over 4,000 in twelve months, 33 new clients, and each one worth $10,000. They eventually had to pause filming for six weeks, because they couldn't keep up with the demand. A small content creator. He came to us with 40,000 subscribers. * The challenge: he wanted to scale the channel to boost his visibility and his earnings. * The solution: careful content planning and editing built to create viral videos. * The result: now he has hundreds of thousands of subscribers, our best video past 5 million views, and $100,000 in a single month from views alone. A car buying service. He charges $1,000 to find your car and negotiate the price down. * The challenge: he needed to reach more people, and pull in clients looking for a hassle-free way to buy a car. * The solution: a YouTube strategy with content that showed off his expertise and brought in leads. * The result: multiple edits past a million views, and we helped him scale the business to $100,000 in a single month. Three different businesses, and the same thing underneath all of them. They built trust with thousands of people at once, by being useful before anyone paid them anything. I've put all of my YouTube knowledge into an 8-week course, which I'll keep adding to. There's homework every week, so by the end you've got 5 videos out. Follow and comment "YouTube" below for more info.

This video went up in October 2024. Nearly two years ago now. And it's still going. 70,700 views, 3,900 hours watched, 1,100 new subscribers and $421 in revenue. And it's still ticking over today. That's what makes YouTube different from everywhere else you post. A post on X or a reel gets its shot in the first day, and then it's gone. But on YouTube the video stays in the library, and people can keep finding it for years. Now getting that to actually happen does take strategy. The topic gets picked because it's something people keep searching for months and years later. And the title and the thumbnail have to hold up just as long. Because plenty of videos do their numbers in the first week, and then go quiet for good. And the money is only part of it. 1,100 people subscribed off the back of that one video. And every one of them now sees everything else that goes out on the channel. And that's just one video. Put out a run of them that behave like this, with a few doing far better, and the revenue starts stacking on top of itself. So every video you add is another one still working for you in two years. I've put everything I know into an 8-week course on how to grow and monetise a channel. There's homework every week, so by the end you'll have 5 videos out. Follow and comment "YouTube" below for more info.

Every YouTube channel goes through 3 stages. First you learn the fundamentals. Packaging, retention, how the money actually works. None of it is exciting, but it's the base everything else sits on. Then comes the messy bit. You experiment. A lot of your videos will be average, and some will flop completely, and that's just part of it. This is where a lot of people give up. Then one day a video breaks the pattern. It's much bigger than anything before it. That's the moment. And what you do next decides everything. You go again on the same format, the same angle, and you sharpen it. That's where the growth actually starts. And a lot of creators never get out of stage two. The ones who do just kept going long enough to find the thing that worked. And that's exactly what happened on this channel. We found a format, we went again and again on it, and on 12 August it made over $300 in a single day. I've done 100M+ views on YouTube, and I've put everything I know into a course. Follow and comment "YouTube", and I'll send you the details.

$17,482 in revenue. 1.7M views. 5,600 subs. In a single day. A record for one of our client channels and proof of what's possible when the system actually works. I grow YouTube channels for a living. These results happen when you apply a repeatable process to your channel. I cover that process in a YouTube course, about growing and making money on YouTube. Follow + comment 'YouTube' for details.

A LOT HAPPENED ON GROKBOT TODAY! 1. I created a virtual employee (AI agent) to work on YouTube brand deals. It reads brand offers we have in our inbox, keeps a live book of open offers and who needs a reply, and drafts outreach in my voice. The goal is to then have it search the internet for potential deals. Currently it requires my checks for my approval, I will soon remove that. It will autonomously find, pitch and agree brand deals. 2. There is now a new AI agent just for my client Farzad (I called him ‘Farzad’s Little Helper lol) a big tech YouTube channel we run as an agency. The agent watches the idea queue, the weekly videos, titles, and whether a video is actually cleared to go live. It’s studying his channel so it can become the channel manager, assist with operations, optimisation and strategy. 3 I made a security employee. He reads Slack, email, Drive, and the web. The rule is assume a bad prompt will get in, and make sure one confused agent still cannot send, pay, or leak an API key or give away sensitive information. If something looks wrong, it shouts. If everything is ok, it stays quiet. 4 We write long-form scripts. My YouTube strategy AI employee looks at the script folder every 15 minutes. When a script arrives from the writer, he checks every checkable figure with a fact-check agent. Wrong dates, quotes, and numbers get swapped. The YouTube strategy agent is also a scripts expert, and has studied our videos, so optimises the script for long form YouTube retention. 5. Making presentation slides used to be a second job after the script. That process is now the same . Once the facts are correct it builds the slides and drops them into Slack for the editors to place into the videos. 6. I asked it for Shorts. It cut three from this week's longer videos and put them on the channel. I used to do all of this myself/ with my team. I’m only like 4 days in and not even a dev 😂

Grok Bot is hands down one of the best products I have ever used. Maybe the best ever. I have had it less than a week. I am not a developer. I talk to one chat and it already knows my business better than me. It reads Slack, email, meeting notes, Notion, and Stripe. It knows Farzad, my clients, the courses we sell, the agency, the sales calls, and who owes each step in our workflow. I do not brief it every morning. It briefs me. Course scripts go through a Claude project we linked. Claude writes. This thing briefs it, fact-checks, and makes it sound like me before I film. YouTube is another bit. It builds the 1080p slides to go in videos, zips them with a cue sheet, and drops the pack in Slack for the editors the same turn. Caught a bad number in a SpaceX video the night I was filming, rebuilt the slides, and sent the pack. Script change, slide change. I did not have to ask twice. It sat on our sales calls and reviewed the process. Then it wrote a rule from that. Book the next call before you hang up. Send the Stripe link while they are still there. Stop emailing homework. It built a live 50% off code on Stripe for an AI course and set when it dies. Stripe is a minefield when you don’t know what you’re doing, could have taken me an hour and it did it in one click. I told it my rules for life. Question every requirement. Delete before you simplify. It holds me to that on the work, without me invoking it. This is a chief of staff I hired on a Tuesday. Don’t sleep on GrokBot.

How much money do YouTube videos make? 1,093 views = $5.23 10,823 views = $61.01 50,157 views = $442.77 107,730 views = $665.57 252,837 views = $2,430.70 502,166 views = $3,987.25 749,810 views = $10,665.17 1,070,098 views = $10,219.35 2,065,815 views = $26,488.23 5,521,010 views = $53,560.78 (RPM varies by niche and geography, these are real videos across different channels) I help people grow & make money from YouTube. I’ve uploaded my entire brain to a course which I will keep updating. If you want to find out more, follow me + comment ‘YouTube’ below.

Two Guys, Two Weeks: Episode 11 This week @pbeisel and I talk about AI bottlenecks and some solutions. Hint: Terafab → Starship → Starmind We also discuss Robotaxi liability, the elegance of Cybercab and Phil's ever improving NetP app.

How much money do YouTube videos make? 1,093 views = $5.23 10,823 views = $61.01 50,157 views = $442.77 107,730 views = $665.57 252,837 views = $2,430.70 502,166 views = $3,987.25 749,810 views = $10,665.17 1,070,098 views = $10,219.35 2,065,815 views = $26,488.23 5,521,010 views = $53,560.78 (RPM varies by niche and geography, these are real videos across different channels) I help people grow & make money from YouTube. I’ve uploaded my entire brain to a course which I will keep updating. If you want to find out more, follow me + comment ‘YouTube’ below.

After a decade of working on YouTube, with millions of views and $’s made for my clients, I thought I’d done a pretty good job. But I kept coming across the same criticism?.. If you’re so good at YouTube, why don’t you just make your own channel?! Well I had my reasons, but with that bee in my bonnet, I started my own side hustle! The David Carbutt YouTube channel was born. We began working on some of our own videos, but what happened next was shocking even to myself. What quickly became apparent is that due to our knowledge, not that much effort has lead to some top 0.1% results. This video posted a few weeks ago is soon to cross 100k views, and has generated $700 so far. 99.9% (that might be conservative) of YouTubers or videos never get to this level. So now, with the bee in my bonnet settling, I've decided to also make another really big change. We currently help (as paid services/ courses) businesses and creators. I am now going to help people wanting to scale on YouTube for free. (actually free) Why? So that some of the people we help end up thinking, wow if this is his free stuff, I bet his paid stuff is amazing, and end up purchasing our product's. I'm not going to BS you😂 But the perk of this is: - we get to help people for free which is a actually a nice feeling - if you want help growing on YouTube, I now has a means cot help you for free! I have a community you can join linked below, I will be uploading free help there in the coming weeks and months. Hopefully see you in there! (If you’re interested in my paid services, comment YouTube below and follow me)