Potential to make millions, need some help

Paid advertising through search ? It seems like you are already getting pretty good amount of traffic from organic search. I wonder if it will be feasible to drive traffic using paid methods as i don't know what niche you are in.

This is what I would do.

I'd make a video saying what you just said there. I'd put it on a basic landing page like this:

Headline
Video
Text
Email Form

I'd then put together some decent banners - or pay someone, maybe better - and buy ad spots on all the major webmaster forums.

What you want is 1 person to manage this aspect of your online business, who will likely go on to hire an appropriate team: Affiliate Managers, Reps, etc.

Hi,

I can definitely help you in paid search on Google, Bing and Yahoo. I am Google Adwords certified and having 10+ years experience in paid advertising. Please contact me if you are interested and need more information.

Thanks

Jas

Awesome Job on the YouTube channel. I recommend that you use Facebook (Bing). The other resource that many people don't talk about it StumbleUpon Paid Discovery. Don't forget there are many other Video Sites that you can be siphoning more views from as well.

BuySellAds.com is one platform that you might want to consider as well. Great job on the YouTube Channel!!

Good Luck!!

It would be best to get a mentor like Anik Singal, Andy Jenkins, Eben Pagan and Frank Kern. Those would be my recommendations.

How much $$ does a typical mentorship from these people run? How involved would they be?

If you wanted to attract affiliates, why not just send an e-mail blast to your list to promote your products?

I would take some of the income that you are earning an invest it in paid marketing like pay per click.

Start with Yahoo ads and also start very small. Once you do that and get a feeling and some expertise through trial and error, then you will make better decisions whether this is for you or not.

The best lesson when it comes to paid ads is through trial and error.

I'm pretty sure I know who you are, just by the way you're talking -- I won't tell anyone, but I'm a fan and you're a genius.

Good luck on growing your business.

Your business made over a million dollars last year. Stop trying to spend all your time trying to learn this stuff. It's going to take a lot of your time, that you could be using on other areas of your business that you're good at, and hire somebody.

You can begin by advertising on this forum for such persons. There are lots of experienced Internet marketers on this forum. You can also sell Solo Ads on this forum to that big list of 200,000 you claim you have. Solo Ads are very expensive you could make a killing off it.

Just one more opinion, partner up with a known marketing company, perhaps someone with similar product solutions as the ones you create.

IF it is a multi-million dollar idea, search for those multi-million dollar companies who already have a team in place. Maintain control, but, consider letting a "division" of your company do all the work?

It just makes sense to me to "lease: or rent" an existing team of experts who can scale it up big time, without costing you any time or money...if you can part with a piece of the future action.

gjabiz

Leverage. Use it.

If you pulled in $1.5million why wouldn't you just pay a coach 20-50k to show you everything you need to know about PPC? Seems like the quickest way to leverage the profits you have made and if it flops, hey, you still got another 1.45mil left .

so you have 2 million subscribers on your channel, can you link it here or just give me some tips. ?

1. I do not agree with all of the people above who have said go and post this thread on other forums to try and find the right people. Generally speaking, the only type of people you are going to attract with threads like this are the type of people you don't want to work with. People who are just infatuated by the figures you mention and want a slice of the action. People who talk the talk but don't actually walk the walk. Unfortunately that would account for majority of people on a forum like this and most other money making forums. Remember, only about 3% of people who get started in online marketing ever go on to earn a proper income from it.

2. From what you've said you already have a very profitable business up and running. What you need to do is to take it to the next level whilst things are still going strong. What you also need to do (from the sounds of things) is to make your business less dependent on Youtube. If Youtube disappeared tomorrow where would your business be? I know you said you have an email list but it's only a fraction of your total subscribers and so that's something you need to address right now. Nothing lasts forever on the Internet.

You don't need programmers or people who can setup webpages, etc. Those sort of people are a dime a dozen and easily found. What you need is a real marketer. Someone who knows how to maximize the dollar value you can earn per year from each of your subscribers. At 2,000,000 subscribers and $1,500,000 in profit, that means you are currently making about $0.75 per Youtube subscriber per year. It's hard to say without knowing what your channel is, who you are, what proportion of those subs are actively engaged, etc, but I'd like to think you could be doing multiples of that figure per year with a proper marketing plan and funnel in place.

So my tip is to not advertise or post on sites like this. You will attract the wrong type of person. What I would be looking for is someone with proven results and someone you have to convince to work with you. You should be prepared to pay them very handsomely for their advice (as an example, I myself paid $25,000 for mentoring last year alone) because it will pay for itself many many times over... provided you choose the right person. You might also look at doing some type of profit share depending on who you work with as that motivates the person to really work hard on maximizing the profits of your business.

I was going to say something similar to WillR. 99.9999% of the people on WarriorForum are not pulling anything near what you say you're pulling.

You need to be asking people who are where you want to go - not people who are incredibly far behind you.

Reach other to other successful YouTubers - how are they growing?

The best advice I can offer on this subject is this...

Don't hire someone to do spend your money until you have
at least a more than basic understanding of how to do it yourself.

If you do, you could be in for a huge surprise... on the negative side.

There are many who will claim to have some degree of expertise
in the field but there are precious few who actually do... and you can
drop very large sums of cash very quickly on paid advertising if you
don't know what you're doing.

Don't be in a hurry. Do some study and research. There's plenty of
good material out there. Learn the basics... run a few test campaigns.
Get a feel for how it works.

Don't walk in blind...

Very interesting. If you are interested, we can become partners. I have the experience and knowledge that you need. My skype id - gennexttech

Good job. Think it's awesome that you have 200K subscribers with YouTube and I think it's 1 of the best ways to market yourself. Do you have to make "funny" videos in order to get a huge amount of views or just have really good info that is unique? Done some videos myself that are near the top of the search results but still need to get subscribers. I've asked for them in my videos and even have captions with how to get free daily leads & autopilot commissions. Any recommendations?

I would start simple... I would do Facebook ads.

Also, I highly recommend finding a coach or a mastermind group that specializes in paid advertising.

Thanks!

Jeremiah

I agree. I am doing paid advertisement of my website now and I'm sure its very effective to increase my website traffic.

Buddy, I understood your question and think that Will's post is spot on but let me tell you some I would do first.

Bullet proof your business before you do anything else. A YT Channel can be gone tomorrow and so are your 1.5 Million.

Get a business together which does not depend heavily on YT in terms of conversations. You already have started to build a list with a nice 200k subs as far as I understood, so go ahead and try to do as much as possible to pull those 2 Millions subs into an email list - THAT is your real value.

Now, about paid advertising.

Trying makes the master. Looks like you have time and money so in your position, where you can afford to burn a few K to know what works, I would love to learn it myself.

Brad Callen is a Adwords Pro and he maybe has a coaching offer somewhere, try to find him and ask.

Frank Kern is good, but most probably not easy to catch. Eban Pegan - same story.

Wishing you good luck.

G.

Keep doing what you are doing and grow organically. If you have 2.5 million subs, YouTube will definitely market your channel on its own.

Hey could you also PM to show me how to grow a YouTube channel?

The Warrior Forum is NOT the place for you, and certainly not the place to seek for advice involving a 7 or 8 figure business.

You must understand that 95% of the people in this forum do not make even US$1,000 a month, and therefore you will hear lots of opinions from unqualified posters.

You're at a level where the Warrior Forum cannot possibly help you, and could furthermore easily misguide you. Be smart, and ask for feedback in circles where the majority of the members are in your same level, not several stages underneath.

@microload, It appears you would like to investigate if scaling out your offer to new markets will provide a profitable return. Organic traffic is -never- a complete reach into a potential customer base. I see the goal as how to get your product seen by as many potential customers as possible.

There are two skills, and they (more likely) are a company (or two) capable of providing the needed services rather than a single person (or two). You will need demographic analysis and an ad agency that understands how best to reach each demo effectively.

Not all ad agencies are created equal. Some can optimize spend by demo, others can perform a more complete services including assessment of the actual size of your market. It is seldom profitable to reach 100% of a demo, but you need a solid number for your reach against total size available.

You do not need to hire someone. An agency's presentations will tell you which segments are worthwhile to pursue. Then it is a matter of testing messages to reach each demo.

Conversion Rate Experts may be a resource.

Perry Marshall is the person to go to if you want to learn about paid marketing (Adwords, Facebook ads).

The way you acquire customers is part of your brand. Clearly your customers like the model you are using and are happy to sign up to your list. Paid advertising could even harm you, it may alter the perception of your 'brand' which may be see as quirky, subversive , cool etc.

By buying banner ads or using google adwords you will become just another corporate advertiser. You will be competing head to head in a new environment. You current model seems to work just fine. You have a relatively safe position in your niche.

You can try paid ads, but be careful in changing a model which works well, and be careful not to dilute your contradict currently successful brand. To grow you could expand and improve your range of products and reinforce your position of strength in viral marketing, by adding different activities. Or continue viral marketing but diversiy the platforms you use such as other video sites not just youtube.

People hear 'millions' and get excited.

I've PM'ed you with my 2c. And no, I'm not looking to run your future advertising campaigns.

Cheers

As others are saying, if you are doing something that works, why try to do something different . . . why not keep doing more of what works. For example, find good affiliate programs and make viral videos to sell their products, as well as making other types of products of your own, or you could test different product areas using affiliate products, and the very best converting areas, make your own products for them too.

If you are interested in creating viral videos as an affiliate for a genuinely exceptional product range (worth many millions), PM me

Chris

The first step is to give me half

Honestly though, I have no clue. good luck in your search!