316: YouTube for Bloggers: From "Accidental" YouTube Channel to Full-Time Income

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

How To, Entrepreneurship, Business, Education

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Meredith Marsh is a “total introvert with over 3 million views on YouTube.” When Meredith started VidProMom.com she didn’t set out to be a “YouTuber”. She started a blog and YouTube channel because she wanted to help families better capture those classic, picture-perfect family moments. What she discovered was “a pretty big gap in the whole video creation side of things for people who are creating videos for fun,” Meredith said. She started creating a video series on how to use a GoPro and some of the software - and things quickly snowballed. Her YouTube channel was getting more subscribers than all her other social media metrics and blog visitors added together – so it was obvious that YouTube was the ideal platform for her content. A year after starting her channel Meredith left her day job, and her blog/YouTube channel that started as a side hustle is now her full-time job. Tune in to hear how to set up your YouTube channel for success, how to master the YouTube algorithm to reach more people, and how to make money from your new video content. Full Show Notes and PDF Highlight Reel: YouTube for Bloggers: From "Accidental" YouTube Channel to Full-Time Income

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0:00.0	Side Us will show at 3.16. This is YouTube for bloggers. How one mom turned her accidental
0:07.5	YouTube channel into a full-time income and her advice on how you can do it too. What's up, what's up, Nick, Loper here,
0:16.5	welcome to the Side Hustle show because your 9 to 5
0:19.4	may make you a living, but your 5 to 9 makes you alive.
0:23.1	Awesome, show for you today on a topic I see as a huge area of opportunity,
0:28.0	not just for myself, but for side hustlers and entrepreneurs in general,
0:32.0	and that is YouTube. We've seen a few examples on the show recently like
0:36.4	Nate Dodson a couple weeks ago where YouTube is a major traffic driver and
0:41.1	point of discovery and in his case sits at the top of a
0:44.0	sales funnel pulling in tens of thousands of dollars a month.
0:47.6	Still, YouTube can be a tough channel to crack and that's why I invited Meredith Marsh on the show this week to school me on all things
0:55.3	YouTube and specifically YouTube for bloggers. If you're already creating content online,
1:00.4	you have some unique advantages that adding video to might be like
1:05.7	dumping gasoline on the fire. So Meredith hosts the Vid Pro Mom
1:10.5	YouTube channel in blogs at vid Pro Mom.
1:13.4	And she also hosts the video pursuit podcast.
1:17.2	But she has 30,000 subscribers on YouTube
1:20.0	and has turned this little side hustle experiment
1:23.0	into a full-time income.
1:24.8	Stay tuned to this episode to learn
1:26.7	how to set your channel up for success,
1:28.6	how to master the YouTube algorithm
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