I mean four million dollars on Shopify
dropshipping this month click the link
down below alright yeah guys um no I
don't actually even do Shopify not that
everything against it so I think in this
video I'm gonna break down some of my
income sources from last month show you
kind of what's going on I don't know how
many more of these we're gonna do in the
future but I had a lot of people asking
questions about it so I thought we just
go through it and I'll show you guys
kind of breaking down some of the income
sources there's really kind of five
primary ones from the last month I know
just a lot of people are curious about
it and it's definitely weird to talk
about personal finances or like my
personal finances I know this channel is
primarily discussing personal finance
that's the topics of it but talking
about like my specific finances does get
a little bit weird so I think this could
be the last of the sort of income update
videos but it was last year when I made
a video that discussed some of my income
sources of how I was making like seventy
two hundred dollars a month it was
exactly a year ago since then has grown
about six fold in the past twelve months
is that going to continue in the future
I don't know I'm not really planning on
making a whole lot more money than
what's going on right now I'm just kind
of doing this for fun but you know let's
just kind of get into this video and I
hate that I have to say this every time
but I'm not selling you anything there's
no like online courses so you don't to
worry about like just getting like 100
emails per day from Nate O'Brien just
trying to get you to like buy my courses
there's none of that okay so if you want
to see more videos like this make sure
you subscribe the channel drop a like if
you find any value in it and let's get
started here alright so let's talk about
the first income source that is not
actually very regular I don't see this
very often but it is one that comes up
from time to time and that is when I
actually sell stocks or securities so as
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you guys probably know if you've been
subscribed to this channel for some time
I do quite a bit of investing and
there's times where I'll buy a bunch of
stocks sell a bunch of stocks maybe
mutual funds ETFs right and so in the
past month in January I did sell quite a
bit of my Facebook shares and I did this
for reasons that we're not gonna get
into too much in depth in this video
because you didn't come to learn about
why I'm not as bullish on Facebook as I
once was but so that was about 2,900 I
think there's 29:59 a total profit from
that and I don't really wreck
nice my gains until I actually sell
stocks or securities and I don't do that
because I don't pay taxes on it until I
actually sell those stocks so yeah that
that was a total profit from that now
keep in mind that this is from many
years of having money in facebook stock
this is a couple years of Facebook stock
growth so I did buy in about 150 dollars
a share sold it for a little bit over
200 so my total profit was like 55 or 60
dollars per share but that was over
multiple years of investing and look I'm
not the best investor like there's
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there's plenty of times where I lose
money on different companies different
stocks but the markets have been going
up in the past couple of years so
there's sort of this saying that you
could be a monkey in throw darts at a
dartboard and you could have made money
in the past like 10 years from the stock
market so I don't think that in any way
I'm any better of an investor it just
happened that it was a good choice to
buy Facebook stock at the time and I'm
glad that I did sell it and make a
little bit of profit from that so that's
one of the first income sources that I
wanted to share with you if you're
interested in investing I do have a
number of videos on this channel related
to it of course I'm not a financial
advisor I'm just a random dude on the
internet talking to a camera here so
please make your own financial decisions
I'm not a financial advisor guys okay
and so that is the first income source
that I wanted to share with you so my
second income source is something that a
number of people are very much
interested in I get asked this question
all the time and because I have shown in
the past I'll just show you guys now
again and that is YouTube ad revenue
from this specific channel so this is
kind of a weird one because for the
longest time I always just made this
assumption that people on YouTube don't
make very much money you might say one
or two dollars per thousand views and
I've even googled it and you can look up
articles about how youtubers are broke
they work at 7-eleven even though they
have a million subscribers and I can
just tell you that in a lot of cases
that's that's not true I know a number
of youtubers who have 1/2 million or
million subscribers and they're doing
extremely extremely well with their
finances or at least bring any money and
some of them buy like Lamborghinis and
stuff and just blow all their money but
the point here is that I think people on
YouTube kind of make more money than
what people might sort of expect
obviously it depends on the niche
you're in so from YouTube ad revenue
I'll pull this up but it was thirty
thousand four hundred thirty one dollars
and eighty two cents in January alright
so I'll just I'll just quickly quickly
show you here this is the YouTube app
February hasn't actually been as much so
you can see like february i'm can't redo
something looking at it backwards it was
like twenty three thousand dollars or in
the past twenty eight days wait i just
got a hold so you can see it and then if
we look at like january this is the one
that was thirty thousand and if you look
at the month before that in december it
was twenty four thousand so yeah so so
it definitely fluctuates it's been going
down a little bit just because february
hasn't been as good of a month as
january was partially because i was on
vacation partially just because i
haven't put out as many videos and it
you kind of see that effect going
forward so in january i only put out i
think four or five videos so that's why
so far my february revenue has been down
because it's kind of reliant on the
videos that i put out the month before
now january was along your month there's
31 days so might be lower in february
but okay couple things going on here
first of all this is a really good month
for my channel this isn't always what
happens sometimes it's it's less than
this by 50% or more
but look from this it looks strange
because you see $30,000 from 2.9 million
views that just sounds off it just
sounds weird but let me explain this
because i think a lot of people just
sort of don't think about the fact that
there are so many companies now dumping
billions of dollars into youtube ads so
for example on my videos i make money
every time that you watch an ad before
video starts during a video maybe I'll
just place one right here or something
and then after a video ads my play every
time an ad plays I get fifty five
percent of that revenue YouTube takes
forty five percent last year YouTube
made nineteen billion dollars from
YouTube ads okay I didn't make 19
billion I made a hell of a lot less than
that trust me I wouldn't be making these
videos if I did make 19 billion so look
here's the point
companies ten years ago when people
thought about you know maybe you make a
dollar two dollars per thousand views on
YouTube companies weren't putting that
much money into ads online they were
still using billboards radio ads
magazines TV commercials on on cable
television and I think just in the past
ten years there's been such a shift in
where companies are dumping the bulk of
their money so they used to dump it onto
these physical things where I can't
remem I was in a car I was sitting in
the passenger seat I came out the last
time I was looking at billboards reading
billboards who does it anymore people
look at their phones they're on their
phone all the time they're not looking
at billboards or at TV commercials or at
magazines who uses that I don't know I
certainly don't and so because of that
companies are dumping so much more money
onto platforms like YouTube like
Facebook like Instagram rather than
dumping it on to those traditional media
outlets so that's why this ad revenue is
way higher than what I would expect it
to be especially if I was thinking about
this a couple years ago and if you
actually tracked the ad rates over the
past couple of years of my youtube
channel which I've been on YouTube for
about three years now they've been going
up every single year they've been going
up and up and up and up so when I first
started three years ago I was only
making maybe three or four dollars per
thousand views and it's gone up
significantly since then now it also
relies upon the niche that you're in so
for example the niche that I'm in I
talked about money I talked about
finance and guess what there's a hell of
a lot of money in finance think about
banks and how much they are willing to
pay to acquire new customers this is why
banks will offer you a two hundred
dollar account opening bonus you'll see
those those things all over the place
where maybe a brokerage firm offers you
a hundred dollars to sign up for their
brokerage firm that's how much money
they're willing to pay somebody to get a
new customer right and so I'm getting a
piece of that cut because they're
running so many ads on my channel and
they're competing against each other so
I'm just gonna take some random brands
here and say that Ally Bank might be
running ads and maybe say chase JP
Morgan American Express they're all
trying to run ads on my videos right and
so if they're doing that they're bidding
against each other that that's the way
that ads work on YouTube they bid
against each other to get that ad spot
and so they bid each other up to a
certain price point that's why that's
the the analytical response to why the
ad rates are definitely higher than what
some other people might get on YouTube
so some of these days were about let's
see the highest one here was about
thirteen hundred thirteen seventy three
in mid-january and then it kind of
tapered off towards the end I think this
is when I was in Mexico it was just a
tad bit under six hundred dollars in ad
revenue from
this channel now there's a number of
other youtubers who kind of show their
ad revenue as well so if you for some
reason don't believe me you obviously
don't have to nobody's forcing you
through but I think Graham Stefan
Ryan Scribner there's a number of people
there's dozens of people who have kind
of showed their ad revenue and kind of
how those ad rates fluctuate and really
does depend on the videos I've had
videos that have literally made me over
twenty thousand dollars from a million
views and then I have other ones that
have gotten over a million views that
only made me three or four thousand
dollars it really just depends on the
content that you're putting out the
title of it for example any video that I
put out related to minimalism doesn't
get that much money I don't make much
money from minimalist videos and that's
because who would want to run ads
against a minimalist video where in the
video I literally tell people to stop
buying stuff right nobody wants to run
ads on that and so that's why from my
minimalist apartment video going off the
top of my head I think I probably only
made maybe four maybe five thousand
dollars from one and a half million
views versus other ones where I talk
about money more that are going to make
a lot more money from those ads now a
couple things that I want to bring up
here first of all look I'm not in any
way talented or special or smart and so
the point here that I want to make is
that if I can do this anybody can do
this and I literally mean that because a
couple years ago when I started this
channel and you can go pack
i I don't want you to go back and look
at my old videos because most of them
are actually deleted but if you go back
and look at my early videos they were
absolutely horrendous they were terrible
I couldn't put two sentences together
and so over time I just kind of get
better at speaking and learning how to
talk and communicate with people I'm a
big time introvert I'm not a natural
speaker I think if I took an IQ test
I would hopefully maybe score 100 which
would be average but then again I guess
stupid people don't know that they're
stupid so I don't know where I'd score
but I hope that I would be at least
average but my point here is that I
literally like there's nothing about me
that's that's smarter than anybody else
so the point here is that if I can do it
anybody can do it and also I noticed one
thing that I was kind of nervous about
starting a channel in the beginning
because I thought you know people aren't
going to take me seriously I was 18 when
I started my channel I'm 21 now and I
thought who the hell is gonna take an 18
year old Siri
when he talks about personal finance
when he talks about saving money or how
to invest and I was kind of nervous
about that but I said you know what
let's just put out videos anyway and I
realized that most comments are
generally pretty good I would say for
every 100 good comments I'll get one bad
comment where someone will just say
something really really mean but usually
kind of funny actually it cracks me up a
lot of times but look so if you're
concerned about anything like your
reservations about like putting yourself
out there on the internet I would argue
to just go for it I think it's fun
it's definitely kind of fun like when
you bump into somebody who watches your
videos and they like what you do or you
get messages from people who just say
like how much your content has helped
them it's definitely a great feeling and
I don't regret any of that so I think
that's enough from the YouTube side of
it from the ad revenue side of it but
let's talk about some other revenue
sources here and the next source of
revenue is from affiliates and sponsors
now look I can't take you into the exact
details of this hopefully you can
understand I've signed contracts with
companies so I can't go into detail on
like the exact earnings from this but I
can tell you that it was over $8,000
from affiliates and from sponsors this
is something I've been dropping a lot
lately I haven't been doing a lot of
affiliates or a lot of sponsors and I
just do that because I don't really like
to recommend a lot of products so for
example brands and companies they will
offer to pay me money
for mentioning them in a video or
sometimes you'll see that I will leave a
link to certain products or things down
below in the description so if you click
them on the the read more or you click
on the description button there down
below on this video you'll see maybe
I'll put a couple links one follow me on
Instagram and another maybe for like get
up 1.75 percent interest with this bank
account when you click on that link and
then you sign up for that bank account I
might get a kickback of say $100 or $150
for every time somebody signs up for an
account like that so you can just kind
of do the math there that if you get
$100 per sign up and you're getting
hundreds or thousands of people to sign
up for it through that link it can
definitely add up so it's sort of the
separate affiliate marketing revenue
source and sponsor source that comes
from these videos and it's definitely
something that's nice to have to sort of
diversify a little bit so that I'm not
reliant on
revenue specifically because there's
something called the ad pocalypse which
has happened in the past and it might
happen in the future where brands don't
put as much money onto YouTube ads for
whatever reason there's a number of them
so kind of this affiliate revenue or the
sponsor routes or nicely go as well to
kind of diversify but with all that said
it is still kind of all reliant on my
YouTube channel at the moment so it's
not the best it's not the best having
all these sources reliant on this
specific channel there's a couple more
here that I wanted to discuss that we
could really bring up here they're not
massive income sources but I think this
is something that anybody can do with
you know if you have five dollars or if
you have no desire to create a personal
brand or make videos or anything it's
something that people can do so one of
those is from dividends so I've talked
about dividend stocks on this channel
before in the past
so from dividend payments I think was
about seventy one dollars in the past
month from dividends so companies will
pay dividends or essentially this little
like bonus think of it as four for
investing into those companies so if you
buy coca-cola stock or you buy Apple
stock they'll have these little
dividends that might be a dollar two
dollars three dollars that they might
give you every three months every
quarter for just kind of owning the
stock as like a little thank-you or a
piece of the revenue that they're kind
of giving you for you for owning that
stock okay let's wait to think about it
and I actually have videos on dividend
stocks so if you're interested I'll try
to remember I usually forget this but
I'll try to remember to link a video
maybe like up here or down below
probably down below in the description
if you want to learn about how to start
making money from dividend stock and
then the final one here that is bringing
some money it's just from bank account
interest I think this is kind of a
no-brainer
it's one of the safest routes to go it's
insured by the government so for example
I get about 1.7 percent interest on my
bank account through online savings
accounts right and so from this it's
about one hundred fifty dollars a month
at the moment and obviously fluctuates
depending on how much cash I have in
certain accounts but what's nice from
this is that it kind of is sort of like
inflation protection so 1.7 percent it
protects me against inflation it's gonna
be a couple thousand dollars a year i
would argue that i'm kind of cash heavy
at the moment just because i'm looking
for new investments new places to put my
money at the moment which i
no problem with holding a little bit of
cash at certain times when you want to
kind of really think about where to put
your money next so that's something else
that kind of just keeps up with
inflation but because I do pay taxes on
it I do count it as income so those are
my income sources I think between all of
them they add up to a little bit over
$42,000 from this past month I'm gonna
be honest going forward I don't know if
we're gonna do these these these income
update videos in the future just because
it's been can it's been getting kind of
weird talking about income personal
income on this channel you know I think
it's a little bit different when it was
like a lot lower and the channel is
smaller now it's just kind of personal
and I think it does feel a bit we're
talking about like revenue and income
and everything related to that so this
might be the last time that we're doing
this specific video but maintenance this
channel is primarily based on personal
finance and helping people kind of save
more money invest more money just put
themselves in a better financial
position will always be discussing those
topics in the future so if you haven't
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