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Today, I want to share with you how I earned an extra $1,500 from a brand new tiny YouTube channel.

I'm going to share the story with you and five tips for how you could apply this to a brand new channel yourself or even if you're more established,

one of the best ways to start earning significantly more money. And this is something that not a lot

of people are talking about, but that is incredibly powerful. And really, anybody can tap into this.

But I've got to take you back to the case study. And so this happened March 21st, 2015, I uploaded a video. That video

only got 2,022 views. Now, if you've been on YouTube for any length of time, you could

upload a short of like your dog digging a hole in your backyard and get 2,000 views. Yet that video earned me $1,500.

And so I'm going to explain exactly how that happened and how this works and how you can use

this strategy in 2025 and beyond. Now, today's episode of the Think Media podcast is brought to you

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It's like an online workshop all about some of the most unique and contrarian ways to make

money on YouTube and from social media, even if you don't have a huge following.

So if you're interested in that, you can check out a link in the show notes,

and I'll tell you a little bit more about that later.

But let's dive a little bit deeper into this story.

So in 2015, I was actually living in Irvine, California,

with my wife, Sonia, and our two Chihuahuas in an apartment. Now, what was kind of crazy was the cost of

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