Hey, my friend, welcome to the art of online business podcast.

My name is Rick Mulready and I'm an online business coach.

I'm an ads expert and most importantly, I'm a dad.

And this show is where we help establish online course creators and coaches create more profit, more impact, with less

hustle. All right, let's get into it.

Hey, hey, what's up, my friends? Rick here. And today we are talking about,

one of my favorite recent topics. I see recent over the past year or so.

And that is growing a YouTube channel because so many of us, right, especially in the past

year and a half, have been looking for an additional traffic channel, especially organic,

right, with how messy ads have been for the past year

and a half. And YouTube is something that I think, and I'm going to be talking a lot more about

YouTube here on the podcast, but in addition to podcasting, I think that everybody should be

doing a YouTube channel as long as, right, of course, your audience watches videos on YouTube, which is a whole lot of people, right?

And so I invited my good buddy Pat Flynn from Smart Passive Income to join me here to share the number one secret to YouTube success in growing

a successful YouTube channel. A lot of you might not know, but Pat has, in addition to his

Pat Flynn YouTube channel, where he has like 344,000 subscribers, where he talks about online

business and so forth, Pat has created a Pokemon

YouTube channel. It's called Deep Pocket Monster. He launched it in early 2021. And in 12 short months,

he had 100,000 subscribers on this channel. And at the time we recorded this interview, he has

137,000 subscribers. And in the past 30 days,

he's done about $8,000 in ad revenue from this channel, which is just over a year old. And so Pat's

going to break it all down for you. He's going to be sharing with you exactly what it takes

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