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Steal These 5 Claude AI YouTube Strategies to Get Views and Make Money
A 23-minute breakdown of the exact Claude-powered system used to take a 50-year-old tradesman from zero to a $214 AdSense day in 29 days.
June 13thThe argument in one line.
The difference between a 4-million-subscriber channel making ,700 a month and a 1,500-subscriber channel closing a ,200 contract is not effort or talent — it is which revenue tier the channel targets, and that tier is a strategic choice you make before you film a single video.
Read if. Skip if.
READ IF YOU ARE…
- A coach, consultant, or service provider who already has expertise and wants YouTube to generate inbound clients instead of ad revenue.
- Someone who has been grinding for views and subscribers but has not connected their channel to actual revenue.
- A business owner in a high-value niche (B2B, professional services, skilled trades, finance, health) who wants to understand how video can function as a sales channel.
- Anyone who has tried generic YouTube growth advice and found it produced subscribers but not income.
SKIP IF…
- You want to build an entertainment channel, a gaming channel, or any audience-first format — the entire system assumes a high-ticket educational niche.
- You are looking for organic growth tactics unconnected to a product or service you sell.
The full version, fast.
There are four YouTube revenue tiers, and most creators are stuck in the bottom two where you need millions of views to make real money. The presenter argues for high-ticket niche content where ,000+ per 1,000 views is achievable, and demonstrates a six-step system: map your niche revenue tier with Claude, find a blue ocean positioning angle, build a four-type content mix (how-to, listicle, case study, testimonial), structure every video around a five-step framework, track which videos drive sales not just views, then convert with one of three sales paths. Claude is used at each decision point to compress the research and writing work.
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00:00 – 00:22
01 · Intro — the broken promise
Hook question + wasted year and a half following expert advice + teaser of the system
00:22 – 01:23
02 · The shocking gap
Boogie2988 (4M subs, ,700/mo) vs Carla (,200 deal, 1,500 subs) — subscriber count is the wrong goal
01:23 – 01:54
03 · The system preview
3-part framework for /month introduced; promise of showing the full system end-to-end
01:54 – 03:18
04 · Four revenue tiers
Pyramid diagram: entertainment to mass market education to niche education to high-ticket niche. Revenue per 1K views at each level.
03:18 – 06:12
05 · High-ticket niche examples
Client getting 100-200 views made last year; another made + and has a sellable company. The views vs viewers distinction.
06:12 – 07:08
06 · Claude niche revenue prompt
Live demo of the niche revenue potential prompt in Claude (Sonnet 4.6). Five-part prompt shown on screen.
07:08 – 08:44
07 · Free training sponsor block
Mid-video pitch for live training webinar; niche validator bonus offered
08:44 – 11:44
08 · Niche selection framework
Three-circle intersection: good at + enjoy + market pays for. Health/wealth/relationships as default zones. Josh and Carla case studies revisited.
11:44 – 13:32
09 · Blue ocean positioning
Golden State Warriors small ball / Genghis Khan agility as positioning metaphors. Claude blue ocean analysis prompt live demo.
13:32 – 16:43
10 · The 4-content framework
How-to, Listicle, Case Study, Testimonial/Interview. Each type has a different job in the funnel. Claude prompt for generating video ideas by type.
16:43 – 19:03
11 · 5-step video structure
Hook, Pattern Interrupt, Soft CTA, Teach Value, Hard CTA. Pattern interrupt deep-dive with funeral sales specialist example.
19:03 – 20:32
12 · Hook writing with Claude
Five different hook options in 60 seconds. Claude prompt shown. Multiple rounds of refinement described.
20:32 – 23:18
13 · Differentiation — personality dials
80% of general info is now commoditized by AI. Steal from multiple sources, not one. Steak metaphor. Claude personality dials prompt.
23:18 – 26:10
14 · Tracking and optimization
Hyros vs short.io + UTM. 4M-view video () vs 8K-view video () comparison. Claude analytics prompt for pattern detection.
26:10 – 28:11
15 · Three sales paths + email list
Calendly direct link, VSL, live webinar. Nathan Rose chess coach example. 7-day email sequence built in Claude. Hard close + pivot to testimonial video.
Lines worth screenshotting.
- Boogie2988 has 4 million subscribers and makes ,700 a month; a client with 1,500 subscribers closed a ,200 contract — subscriber count is the wrong metric.
- There are four YouTube revenue tiers: entertainment earns -10 per thousand views, mass market education earns -40, niche education earns -1,000, and high-ticket niche earns ,000 or more.
- A video with 4 million views over six years generated ,000; a video with 8,000 views over six months generated ,000 — optimizing for views is the wrong objective function.
- The first principle of niche selection is market demand, not passion — a client teaching basic HVAC career guidance makes more than most passion-driven entertainers.
- A chess coach with no prior YouTube revenue put a Calendly link in his description and started booking clients immediately — no funnel, no landing page required.
- Pattern interrupts work by being unexpected, morbid, or gross — the number-one video on the channel opens with a remote funeral sales specialist job to stop the scroll.
- 80% of general information is now commoditized by AI, which means the only remaining differentiator on YouTube is a specific, non-generic perspective built from multiple sources.
- Live webinars are making a comeback because AI-generated content is everywhere and a live unscripted person demonstrating expertise in real time is now genuinely compelling again.
- Writing five different intros for a single video and picking the best one on recording day is a professional practice most YouTubers skip.
- The videos that send viewers to other videos matter more than the videos that get the most views — listicles pull people in, how-tos convert them, case studies close them.
- First get flow, then add friction — start with open Calendly bookings, delete unqualified calls, and only add qualifying friction after you understand who your actual client is.
- The Blue Ocean Strategy applied to YouTube means mapping what every competitor in your niche does and deliberately doing the opposite on at least one dimension.
The revenue tier you pick is more important than anything else.
WHAT TO LEARN
View counts and subscriber numbers are vanity metrics — the single most important strategic decision a YouTube channel can make is which revenue tier it targets, because that choice determines whether 1,000 views is worth or ,000.
- There are four YouTube content tiers by revenue per 1,000 views: entertainment (-), mass market education (-), niche education (-,000), and high-ticket niche (,000+) — and most creators default to the bottom two without knowing it.
- A channel serving a specific, high-value audience with an expensive problem will outperform a general-audience channel with hundreds of times more subscribers, because the viewers have money and a reason to hire someone.
- The most defensible niche position is usually unoccupied white space in a crowded category — not a new topic, but a specific angle that no existing channel is covering.
- Four content types do distinct jobs in a conversion funnel: listicles bring in passive viewers, how-tos convert them into engaged learners, case studies establish authority, and testimonials close the trust gap before a purchase.
- Front-loading your best content contradicts the instinct to save it as a reward — viewers who do not get value in the first 30 seconds leave, so the hook and pattern interrupt must carry the entire weight of retention.
- Tracking which videos drive sales rather than which videos get views completely changes what you optimize for — a video with 8,000 views can generate ,000 while a 4-million-view video generates ,000 over six years.
- Starting with zero sales friction (an open booking link in the description) is more effective than launching with a polished funnel — talking to unqualified leads teaches you who your actual client is faster than any market research.
Terms worth knowing.
- Revenue tier
- One of four categories of YouTube content defined by how much money 1,000 views generates — from entertainment at the bottom (-10) to high-ticket niche at the top (,000+).
- High-ticket niche content
- Educational video content targeting a specific audience with expensive problems, where the channel functions as a lead generator for a premium offer rather than an ad revenue vehicle.
- Blue Ocean Analysis
- A competitive mapping exercise borrowed from the book Blue Ocean Strategy where you audit what all major competitors in a niche do and identify unclaimed positioning angles.
- Pattern interrupt
- An unexpected, unusual, or jarring element placed at the very beginning of a video to disrupt passive viewing behavior and force the viewer to pay attention.
- Soft CTA
- A call to action placed early in a video (typically within the first three to five minutes) that offers something free, such as a lead magnet or live training, rather than asking for a purchase.
- VSL
- Video Sales Letter — a recorded video that explains who an offer is for, what problem it solves, and the process of working with the seller, functioning as a sales presentation that runs without the creator present.
- Hyros
- A paid attribution software (starting at /month) that tracks which specific YouTube videos drive actual sales, not just clicks or views.
- UTM parameters
- Tags appended to URLs that allow tracking of which specific content piece drove a click or conversion in analytics tools.
- Skool
- A community platform where creators can host paid groups, used here as an alternative to one-on-one sales calls for creators who prefer not to do live discovery calls.
Things they pointed at.
11:44bookBlue Ocean Strategy (book)
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“Boogie2988 has 4,000,000 subscribers and he makes about ,700 a month, which is less than the average income for an American.”
03:32
“You should not be trying to get views, you should be trying to get the right views.”
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“If you go to a great steakhouse versus cooking a steak at home, technically both are just beef. But the presentation, the setting, the skill of the chef, that is what makes one worth and the other .”
24:55
“You do not just want to know which videos get views. You want to know which videos get sales.”
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“I have had multiple dozen videos that got less than 10,000 views that have made way more than that video. There are videos I posted earlier this month with only a few thousand views that have made over ,000.”
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00:00You know why most YouTubers are dead broke despite having a ton of views and subscribers? Well, it's because the advice that you hear on how to grow a YouTube channel online is usually really bad. And I wasted a year and a half following all of that expert advice before I said screw it and I built a system that makes me 6 figures a month.
00:17And the strategy to hit your first $100,000 month, well, you can steal it from me right now. By the way, here's a well known example of that.
00:24Boogie two nine eight eight has 4,000,000 subscribers and he makes about $3,700 a month, which is less than the average income for an American. Meanwhile, my client Carla last month with just 1,500 subscribers closed a 6 figure deal from And my client Josh had a $185,000 month before he even hit a 100,000 subscribers.
00:44And they're not special. They're just using the same playbook that I'm giving you today. So in this video, I'm gonna be showing you the entire system.
00:51All the way from picking a video where a thousand views can make you 5,000 plus dollars to creating the types of videos that the right types of people will binge watch. And actually converting those viewers into paying customers. And I'm gonna show you exactly how to use Cloud AI at each and every step.
01:07And these are the exact steps that I've been using the last few years with Cloud AI ever since it came out. And I've never had a single month that I haven't made at least 6 figures. So if you wanna hit a $100,000 a month, stop trying to be a dancing clown on YouTube.
01:20Stop chasing worthless subscribers, and start using the strategy that rich channels do not want you to know about. And by the way, if you appreciate me making this type of content and you want me to make more of it in the future, then let me know by gently tapping that like button and let's jump into it right now. Okay.
01:33So let's talk about why this is the first thing you need to understand. This is critical. And that is a thousand targeted views can make you way more money than a million random views.
01:43And I am not making this up. I would know because I get millions of views on my main channel every single month. So let me show you exactly why.
01:49There are four different types of YouTube content and they make completely different amounts of money. First, there's entertainment content.
01:56We're talking vlogs, pranks, reaction videos, mister beast style stuff, right? And they typically make between 1 to $3 per 1,000 views. If they're really good at monetizing, they might make up to $10 per 1,000 views.
02:08And this is fun but it pays like absolute garbage unless you get tens of millions of views. Right?
02:14This is absolute trash Unless you're like literally a top 0.1% skilled YouTuber, you aren't making.
02:22Right? You gotta be getting tens of millions of views to make money doing this, even a full time income. And even then it's sometimes still garbage.
02:29Right? Then you've got mass market educational content, right? And these are big generalist how to channels, right?
02:36So this typically pays between 5 to $40 per 1,000 views. So it's definitely a lot more money, but you're still probably gonna have to be getting millions of views to make a substantial income.
02:46Then you've got what I like to call niche education content. Now with niche education, you can make anywhere between 300 to $1,000 per 1,000 views.
02:55And that's where we're starting to talk about real money. And then finally, and this is the one that changed absolutely everything for me and my clients, you have high ticket niche content. And this is where you can make over $5,000 per 1,000 views.
03:08I even have clients making over $30,000 per 1,000 views that they get on their channel. Absolutely insane.
03:15And yes, I'm talking about long form views, not shorts. So just to give a few examples here, I have one client that gets about a 100 to 200 views per video and they made $2,000,000 last year.
03:25I've got another client that gets about 500 to a thousand views per video and they made over $10,000,000 last year and they have a sellable company. Meaning they're probably gonna sell that company for anywhere between 50 to $100,000,000.
03:37And they get almost all of their leads, their clients and their revenue from YouTube. So the point here is the views don't matter, the types of viewers matter.
03:46Right? You should not be trying to get views, you should be trying to get the right views. Now here's where Claude AI comes in.
03:52One of the first things that you need to figure out is which tier does your niche fall into? And Claude can help you map that out in about sixty seconds. Now here's the prompt that I want you to use and I'm gonna enter it in live right now.
04:04You can literally just copy and paste this. I'm gonna put it up on the screen. You can just copy and paste this and put it into Cloud.
04:08Right? Literally just take a screenshot of it. Right?
04:10It starts off, I want to start a YouTube channel and need to understand the revenue potential of my niche. My niche is your niche, etcetera, etcetera. Now I wanna be upfront about something here.
04:19This is a great starting point. But this prompt, it is the generic version. Right?
04:23The really powerful version, the one that we use for our own clients is fully customized. So it pulls in data about your specific audience, your competitors, and your existing content. Right?
04:33It gets all the context about you, the market you're in, and the situation. Right? And we can't give that one out in a YouTube video because it needs to be built for your specific situation.
04:43And after a little bit of thinking, here you go. But if you wanna take this a step further and really figure out how to monetize your niche correctly, come to the live training. And I'll put the link in the description and the pinned comment below.
04:53And we'll actually walk through it with you live. But this basic prompt is gonna get you about 70% of the way there. The training gets you to a 100.
04:59And it's completely free. There's no reason not to show up. And on the training, we're also gonna help you pick your niche in the first place if that's something you're confused about.
05:05Hey, quick break. I'm gonna be doing a live training this week on treating YouTube like a business. So this is gonna work for people who have online businesses, in person businesses, or just people who want to treat YouTube like a business from the beginning.
05:17And it's a completely free training, no strings attached. In fact, I'm giving away even more bonuses at the training. So just as an example, I'm gonna be giving away my niche validator.
05:27Um, this is gonna be available both for ChatGPT as well as Claude, which is a super valuable piece of software where you can finally figure out what the best niche for you is. So do not miss out on this training. Make sure you sign up for it down in the description and the pinned comment below because you only get it if you join the training.
05:43So if you don't join now, you might miss it. But that being said, in the workshop, you'll get to meet me, and you'll get to ask me questions directly. So I look forward to seeing you in there.
05:52So click the link in the description of the pinned comment below, put it in your calendar. And if for whatever reason you missed out on or you weren't able to attend, make sure you still click that link because we might be having workshops in the future as well, and you'll be the first to know about it. So, yeah, hope to see you there.
06:05And now back to your regularly scheduled content. Alright. So once you understand the revenue tiers, you need to actually find your profitable niche, and it's pretty simple when you break it down.
06:14So the best niche for you is the intersection of what you're good at, what you enjoy, and most importantly, what the market is willing to actually pay money for.
06:23Right? Because there's a lot of people that are good at video games and they enjoy video games, but there is not that big of a market of people that are willing to actually pay you to do video games. And that's why the only people that make money playing video games are the absolute top tier people.
06:38They get tens of millions of views. Right? And this is why we do not work with people who do entertainment content.
06:43Because in order to make money with entertainment content, you have to get tens of millions of views. So the most important out of these three things is the market demand. And I know that a lot of people don't wanna hear that, but that is the reality of the situation.
06:55Some of my most successful clients teach the most basic boring stuff. And they make gobs of money solving boring problems for other people. Now ideally, all three of these circles are sitting right on top of each other.
07:07Because if you just chase money and you hate it, you'll probably quit in six months. And I have seen it happen to some people and I've worked with hundreds of creators at this point. But on the other hand, if you love what you do, but nobody's paying for it, you got a hobby not a business.
07:19And you should probably keep it as a hobby because that's something you can always go to that you know you're gonna enjoy. But ideally, you wanna find something as close to the middle, as close to that sweet spot as possible. Right?
07:29You might not pick your number one passion, but maybe you could pick your number three or your number five passion. And that's something that you're good at and it's something that you could actually help other people with aka there's market demand for it. Now if you have absolutely no idea what niche to pick just for purposes of this video, I want you to pick something in health, wealth, or relationships.
07:47Why? Because almost everybody in the entire world at any given moment has a problem in at least one of these three areas. People And have been spending serious money to solve these problems for the last few hundred years and that's not slowing down anytime soon.
08:00So just look at Josh's example. He built his channel teaching IT security and he got to over a $180,000 in a single month before he even hit a 100,000 subscribers.
08:09Look at Carla. Her channel is all about helping business owners who are outsourcing to The Philippines source, recruit, and hire entire teams from The Philippines. And she closed a 6 figure deal right after starting with us even though her videos only get a 100 to 200 views Right?
08:23So Josh and Carla are both the kings and queens of very specific, very high value pawns. So that is the move and that is the place to start with.
08:31Now we'll talk about how later on down the line if you want to, you can transition from that very specific niche but you always wanna start off niche. Now, here's where it gets interesting. Once you've got your niche, you need to position yourself differently than everyone else in it.
08:44When everyone else is zigging, you need to zag. So it's kinda like the Golden State Warriors, right? When every basketball team was obsessed with getting big men in the center, right?
08:53Like the Lakers, know, that's my favorite team. The 2008 Lakers literally had two seven footers on the floor, Powell Gasol and Andrew Bynum. So when every other team was obsessed with getting bigger and bigger people on the floor, the Warriors did the opposite.
09:07They went small ball and they absolutely dominated. Right? They looked at what everybody else was doing and they did the opposite of it.
09:14Right? Another example is Genghis Khan like eight hundred years ago when everyone else was obsessed with giant walls, castles, heavy cavalry, lots of armor, huge horses.
09:23He did the exact opposite. He had tiny horses that were very mobile and agile. His warriors barely had any armor.
09:30Most of the time they didn't even use their swords, they just used bows and arrows. And he had no castles or walls and his armies were nomadic. So he literally just did the opposite of what everybody else was doing and that's why he created the largest land empire the world has ever seen.
09:43So that is what we're gonna do for your channel right now. We're gonna do the opposite of what everyone else does. And I like to call this the blue ocean analysis and this comes from the book, The Blue Ocean Strategy.
09:52So Claude can do this entire blue ocean analysis for you in a few minutes. So here's the Claude prompt. I'm gonna put it up on the screen.
09:58Again, you can just copy and paste this directly into Claude. And with this one, it's probably smart to kinda go back and forth with it. Let it interview you a little bit and then it'll give you a really good strategy to dominate your niche on YouTube.
10:09So Claude is gonna give you a solid eight out of 10 answer here. Right? It's not gonna be as good as working with someone who's helped hundreds of creators in specific niche, but for free in just a few minutes, this is genuinely impressive.
10:19Right? So use it as a starting point, not as a final answer. And after a little bit of thinking, here you go.
10:24Now quick reminder, if you wanna dive deeper on this, then go ahead and do the live training. Click that link in the description in the pinned comment below. Alright.
10:29Now, this next section is where it gets really good. You really only need about four types of videos to create a system that generates leads and sales twenty four seven on autopilot. And these are the foundational types that I've seen over and over again.
10:43Absolutely crush it for educational channels. First is how to videos that solve specific problems. Right?
10:49These pull in search traffic from people who are actively looking for answers right now. They demonstrate your expertise and they even rank and browse pretty well. Second are listicles.
10:58Right? People absolutely love lists. They're obsessed with lists.
11:03They're obsessed with hierarchies and rankings. And these types of videos are just super easy to click on. They're also super easy consume.
11:09Right? When somebody's washing the dishes or they're driving or they're taking care of their kids or something like that, they can put a listicle on in the background and watch it slash listen to it while they're doing other things. So this is really good for top of funnel content.
11:23Right? These types of videos get views but they don't convert as well. But their job is to pull people in and send them to your other content.
11:29So how to videos typically require you to be a little bit more engaged to get the most out of them. Whereas listicles, you can kinda listen to them passively. You know, someone might listen to an entire list of things and they don't really care about number two, number three, number seven, and number nine, but they care about the other ones on the list.
11:44And so they'll start listening when those pop up. Third are case studies that combine proof with teaching. And these could be case studies of yourself, your clients, your students, or well known people in your industry.
11:55And the important thing is whenever you do a case study, make sure you position yourself as the expert, not the other person. That's a big mistake that I see people make all the time is they'll do a case study and they position the other person as the expert.
12:06Expert. And then fourth is testimonials and interviews that provide social proof.
12:10Right? So testimonials from clients, interviews with successful people in your niche, conversations with industry leaders, etcetera etcetera, these build trust. And here's what's happening on my channel right now and why this matters for you.
12:21I have listicles that get tons of views. Those videos tend to send people to how to videos. And then how to send them to case studies.
12:29And the case studies reference interviews. And the interviews of course get the highest revenue per 1,000 views because they're essentially like testimonials. Right?
12:36Interviews and testimonials. But my videos are like little referral networks that constantly funnel viewers towards the content that actually converts. And the best part is once you have this system set up, it works twenty four seven even when you're sleeping or partying in Thailand or whatever you like to do with your free Now how about figuring out exactly which how to videos, listicles, case studies, and testimonial angles to make in your niche?
12:58Well, this is where most creators get completely stuck and Claude can unstick you in just a few minutes. Now here's the prompt. I'm going to use a real niche for this so you can see exactly what it produces.
13:07So again, copy and paste this, put it into Claude. Now by the way, stay tuned until the end because I'm actually choosing this specific niche for a reason. And after a little bit of thinking, here you go.
13:15Now this isn't gonna be as good as what you'd get working with a coach one on one who knows your niche deeply, but as a starting point, again, solid eight out of 10. Right? It does about 80% of the work for you and it takes just a few minutes.
13:27Okay. So now you know what types of videos to make, but how do you actually structure them so that viewers become leads and customers? Well, here's the framework.
13:34Step one, craft a powerful intro. Right? You've got thirty seconds, probably even less than that, more like eight to fifteen seconds.
13:41And you need to tell them why they should care, what they'll learn, and why you're credible. All in the first few seconds. Right?
13:47And I typically write five different intros for a single video and then I pick my favorite one on the recording day. Step two, and this is one of my biggest secrets, something I've probably done 500 times in my videos, is put a pattern interrupt right at the beginning. Right?
14:00So a pattern interrupt is something unusual, something unexpected, but still good. And a lot of the time, it's gonna be gross, shocking, or just get someone's attention in a way that they didn't see coming.
14:09So just as an example, the number one video on my main channel right now has over 5,000,000 views. It's nine boring but high paying remote jobs. And the very first job on that list is a remote funeral sales specialist.
14:20That is morbid. Most people don't even know that job exists, and it's a perfect pattern interrupt. And people are just like, what the heck?
14:25And they keep watching. Right? It's a pattern interrupt.
14:28That's the whole point. At the beginning of this video, I cussed a few times. That's another pattern interrupt.
14:32So front load your video and try to put something shocking, uh, incredibly valuable at the very beginning or a wow moment or just something that makes them stop and be like, woah, this is different than most videos that I watched. And most YouTubers completely screw this up.
14:45Right? They save the good stuff for the end of the video hoping that someone is going to watch until the end of the video to get the good stuff. But then nobody ends up seeing it, so don't do that.
14:54Step three, have a soft call to action early. Typically put this within the first three to five minutes, sometimes even a little bit earlier. Now usually this is going to be something that is free, right?
15:03So you can call this a lead magnet for instance. It's where you give something valuable to someone for free. And typically they give you that in exchange for their email.
15:11Now in our case, our lead magnet is literally doing live trainings where we help you through this entire process and you can literally ask me questions plus we give you AI and show you how to use the AI that it's personalized to you to actually do these things. Right? Click the link in the description in the pinned comment below to attend our next one which should be tonight or tomorrow.
15:27Right? So that's our lead magnet. Basically, wanna give something away for free that's super valuable.
15:32You don't wanna try to sell something at the beginning of a video, generally speaking. Then step four, actually teach the thing. Right?
15:38Give real specific useful value. Don't just tell them what to do. Show them.
15:42That's what the entire video is doing right now. Then step five, hard CTA at the end. Tell them to book a call or buy your product.
15:49Right? Be direct about it. Business owners and people who are typically more sophisticated actually appreciate directness.
15:55They don't want you beating around the bush, being super indirect and trying to fool them into buying your thing. Right? They understand how the economy works.
16:02And if they think you have a valuable product or service, you might as well just put it right in front of them. So that's what I'm gonna do at the end of this video for instance. Now here's how Claude massively speeds up the hook writing process.
16:11Most people spend hours on this, but with the right prompt, can have five completely different hook options in sixty seconds. So again, take this prompt right here, screenshot it, copy and paste it into Claude. I'm gonna go ahead and do this as well.
16:22And there you go. So once again, this is a great starting point. The hooks that I use on the channel go through multiple rounds of refinement and we look at data from past videos, workshop the phrasing, test different angles, etcetera etcetera.
16:34And if you have any more questions on that, again, you can literally ask me directly inside the live training. Alright. So next is something that I think most people making content right now are completely missing.
16:42At least 80% of information out there is now commoditized. Right? People can basically look up anything completely free on AI.
16:49Right? Any general information they can look up on AI. Now if it's very specialized information where you really have to dive deep or have industry knowledge on it, they can't look that up on AI.
16:58But general information, they absolutely can't. So you need to bring value to the table in a different way. Instead of stealing everything from one person, is what a lot of YouTubers do, steal a tiny bit from a bunch of different channels.
17:11Right? So take Peter McKinnon's camera style, Casey Neistat's set design, mister Ballin's storytelling, and then mix them together into something that's entirely your own. So think about it this way.
17:21If you go to a great steakhouse versus cooking a steak at home, technically both are just beef. But the presentation, the setting, the skill of the chef, that's what makes one worth $80 and the other one $8.
17:33So much information right now is a commodity, but you are the differentiator. So Claude can literally help you build out your unique channel identity as well. So I call this the personality dials.
17:43Also, it can help you build out your positioning and just help you stand out from everybody else in your niche in general. And here's the prompt. I'll put it up on the screen.
17:49You can copy and paste it and put it into Claude. And after a little bit, there we go. That's the answer.
17:54If you wanna pause the video and check it out, you can. But this is something that we spent weeks figuring out for clients inside of CGE, but Claude can rough draft it in again just a few minutes. It won't be perfect, but it gives you something real to react to, refine, and make your own and that's the point.
18:08Alright. The next step is to track and optimize. And most YouTubers completely skip this and then they wonder why they're stuck at the same revenue numbers for months or even years.
18:17And we like to use Hiros for our tracking, and I'm not gonna lie, Hiros is a pretty expensive software. But before Hiros, we used short.io with UTM parameters and then we just stored that information in spreadsheets.
18:29And both of these are basically a way of telling how many people are clicking your links and whether those people are actually buying stuff or not. Now you'll notice in the description below in the links that I post, there are typically dates on those links. And the dates on those links correspond to the day that the video was actually published.
18:46So if we publish a video today, the UTM link is going to have today's link on it. And that is how we know how many clicks the video got, but more importantly, how we know how much revenue those videos drove.
18:57Now the clicks part is pretty easy to track. And if you're just starting off there, that's a pretty good place to start. But eventually you wanna get a little more complicated and what makes it all super easy is if you just use a tool like Hiros.
19:07Hiros is pretty expensive. I think the cheapest version is over a $100 a month. But you really do wanna use a tool like Hiros once you're making like a few thousand dollars a month.
19:15Because you don't wanna just know which videos get views, you wanna know which videos actually get sales. And I can demonstrate this to you by showing you one of the highest viewed videos on my channel, which is the most useless degrees. That video in a six year period made about $31,000 which is amazing, but it had to get over 4,000,000 views to make that money.
19:34But I have literally had multiple dozen of videos that have gotten less than 10,000 views that have made way more than that video. In fact, there are videos that I just posted earlier this month that only have a few thousand views that have made over $50,000. And just as an apples to apples example, this video right here, we posted six months ago, has already made around $50,000.
19:54And by the time it gets to the six year mark, it's probably gonna make over a $100,000. And it's a heck of a lot easier for us to reproduce videos like that that only have to get 8,000 views to make $50,000 versus a video that has to get 4,000,000 views to make 30,000.
20:08So once you know your revenue numbers, you can stop optimizing your videos to get more views and start optimizing your videos to get more of the right views. Views that actually lead to money.
20:19Now here's a really underrated use of Claude. Once you've got some videos published and some data coming in even a little bit, you can feed the data straight into Claude and ask it to tell you what's working. Now if you aren't tracking with an advanced tool like Hyros, I recommend at least tracking the clicks.
20:33And if you're not tracking the clicks, at the very least what you can do is you can map out how many views you got from different videos on certain days and then correspond that with how much revenue you made on those days. And you'll probably notice patterns. You'll probably notice that if one video got a lot of views on that particular day and then you had a lot of revenue that day or the next day, well chances are it was that video that led to the revenue.
20:55But yeah, go ahead, copy and paste this prompt that I'm gonna put on the screen right now. Type it in, give it as much information as you can. You can also let it interview you as well and just ask you for whatever information you have.
21:04And then just put your best data in there and see what it gives you. Okay? So you're basically just giving Claude the job of your data analyst.
21:11Right? And for small creators who can't afford a team yet, this is genuinely very powerful and it only takes a few minutes like I said. Now one thing I will say is we've seen so many videos, so many different channels, so many different niches that we can kinda just predict how well different types of videos are gonna do.
21:26But again, that's more of a personalized service. Okay. So once you have viewers and the right viewers, you need to convert them into actual paying customers and there are three sales approaches that work really well.
21:36And these are ones that I've seen work across just about every single niche out there. So of course, there are other ways of generating revenue, but it may not work in your niche whereas pretty much all of these work in just about every niche out there. So the first one is the easiest and it's the one that I recommend to most of my clients when they're starting out and that is literally just putting a Calendly link on your channel.
21:54So just as an example, we just had a client very recently, Nathan Rose who joined and he is a chess coach. He helps adult chess learners get to a 2,000 online rating. And he'd never made any money teaching chess.
22:05And he wanted to launch a coaching program, but he was really scared about, you know, making a landing page and setting up a funnel and it just seemed incredibly overwhelming to him. So what did we tell him to do? Just put a Calendly link in your description.
22:17So you literally just put a Calendly link in your description where they can just book a direct one on one call with you. And this is gonna land them directly in your calendar. Now, you're gonna ask them a few qualifying questions when they book.
22:28And this works surprisingly well because so many people are used to seeing links that go to VSLs or webinars or lead magnets. That when you just put a direct Calendly link in your description, people book calls like crazy. Now you might be thinking, well, Shane, won't I get a ton of unqualified people booking calls?
22:44Yes. You probably will. So here's what you do.
22:46You review their answers to your qualifying questions and you delete the call if they're not a good fit to work with you. Simple.
22:52But there's this old saying in business and it's called first get flow then add friction. And you'll want to actually start talking to people that are interested in whatever your product or services are interested in your coaching because you're basically getting paid to do market research. Right?
23:05They're gonna tell you exactly what problems they have, exactly what they want. You're probably gonna get a bunch of really good video ideas as well when you talk with them. And you're slowly gonna realize who your ideal client avatar is going to be.
23:16And then you can adjust your Calendly questions based on that and you can get stricter and stricter on who you actually accept a call with. Now the second approach is a direct landing page. And typically, I recommend that people do what's called a video sales letter or a VSL.
23:30So this is a video that explains who the offer is for, uh, which automatically qualifies or disqualifies people, what problem it solves, the outcomes that you're helping people get, and the process of working with you. Now if you're targeting a b to b or sophisticated audience, you wanna keep the super short, like five to fifteen minutes max.
23:45If you're targeting more of a b to c or just mass market consumer audience, you can go up to an hour with this. I typically do somewhere between eighteen to thirty minutes. Now additionally, one thing you do if you absolutely do not want to talk to people.
23:57You are just like, I do not want to interact directly with people until they have paid me money or even after they've paid me money. I don't wanna like jump on calls with people. Is you can start a school group where people are basically paying to be inside of the group.
24:08Right? So in that case, you would just send them directly to the school group. And you're likely gonna make less money doing this, but there's also gonna be less headaches.
24:14You're not gonna have to get on a call with people, etcetera, etcetera. You could also launch a course or a digital product. You could sell templates, etcetera, etcetera, but that does make a lot less money.
24:23Okay. The third approach is a live webinar. And look, I know webinars completely fell off.
24:28They were dead for a while, especially during the pandemic when everyone was doing them and everybody was spending all day on Zoom anyways and they did not wanna spend any more time on their computers. Right? So people got burned out.
24:39But lately, they've been working incredibly well. And I think a huge part of this is the rise of AI. On a live webinar, you cannot script every word.
24:47You have to demonstrate your expertise in real time. And in a world where people are constantly wondering if everything is AI generated, a live unscripted you is genuinely compelling. And the irony here is AI has actually made live more valuable, not less.
25:01Now regardless of which of these three sales paths you use, you need an email list. Right? So anytime that someone interacts with your brand off of YouTube, you need to get their email.
25:10Okay? And once somebody joins your list, you need a sequence of automatic emails that goes out to them. And Claude can write this entire thing for you.
25:17Because one of the biggest secrets in online business is you're probably not gonna get the majority of your clients and customers and sales from that first page that you directly send them to. You're actually gonna get it in the follow-up when you send them emails etcetera etcetera. So here is a seven day email structure that basically prints money once it's set up.
25:34And I'm not exaggerating, right? An email list is almost like a freaking ATM for your business. You need to pay for a vacation, send out a couple emails.
25:41Your vacation is paid for. I'm not even kidding. So copy and paste this into Claude and then have it interview you and go back and forth on these.
25:48And we're gonna go ahead and do it right now. Uh, this is what it looks like. So once you have this sequence set up, you set it up once and it runs forever.
25:55Right? That is the passive income infrastructure. And Claude just wrote the whole thing in just a few minutes.
26:00Absolutely insane. Now listen, I know that 99% of people who watch this channel are just gonna enjoy my free content because I give the absolute best content on actually making money from YouTube.
26:10Like YouTube for businesses. Right? And I know 99% of you are just gonna enjoy my free content.
26:14You might attend my live trainings and again enjoy it for free. It's completely free and I give a ton of value away completely free. And I always wanna give it at least 10 times more value than I receive.
26:23But you're just gonna enjoy that free value and we're never gonna end up working together and that's totally fine. But for the 1% of you out there that are very serious about growing and making money on YouTube and you wanna do it as fast as possible. Go ahead and book a call with myself or my team by clicking the link in the description of the pinned comment below.
26:38On this one on one call, we'll figure out where you are right now, where you wanna be, we'll make a plan to get there, we'll see if we're a good fit to work together or not. Now we are very picky about who we work with and we're only accepting about three to five people right now. And we only accept about 18% of people who apply to work with us.
26:51Now these are the types of people that we typically work with. One, business owners who want to grow and make money on YouTube. So a lot of the time it's online business owners like coaches, consultants, agency owners or service providers, or it's even local businesses like law firms, realtors, cosmetic dentists, and financial advisors.
27:09Two, YouTubers that get a lot of views but they're struggling with monetization. Three, YouTubers who are crushing it but they wanna crush it even harder. Or four, people who are professionals, they're experts at something, they have a lot of experience at something and they want to give value to the world.
27:22They wanna solve problems for the world and they want to treat YouTube like a business. They want to treat YouTube very seriously. Right?
27:28So we don't work with entertainment channels. We only work with educational channels that are designed to solve other people's problems. So if that sounds like you, go ahead book a call by clicking the link in the description and pinned comment below and we look forward to talking with you.
27:39So see what I did there? That's the hard close that you typically do at the end of videos. Now watch what else I do right now because it's something that I taught earlier on in the video as well.
27:47Check out this video right here of how we were able to help Sean become literally number one in his niche. Become the king of his niche. And we actually interview him.
27:56We talk to him about exactly how we were able to help him do that. You can check that out by clicking right here. See what I did?
28:01I sent you to a testimonial video. See you over there.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
The uncomfortable math of YouTube is that subscriber count and revenue have almost nothing to do with each other — and this video opens by proving it with two real accounts side by side: a creator with 4 million followers making ,700 a month, and a client with 1,500 subscribers closing a ,200 contract.
Named ideas worth stealing.
01:54list
Revenue Tier Pyramid
- Entertainment: -/K views
- Mass Market Education: -/K views
- Niche Education: -,000/K views
- High Ticket Niche: ,000+/K views
Four-tier hierarchy of YouTube content categories ranked by revenue per 1,000 views. Niche tier choice matters more than view count.
Steal forPositioning any content strategy conversation — ask which tier the target audience belongs to before planning content
08:44model
Niche Sweet Spot (3-circle Venn)
- What you are good at
- What you enjoy
- What the market pays for
Standard passion-skill-market intersection, but weighted: market demand is the most important. Hobby if you love it but nobody pays; burnout if you chase money but hate it.
Steal forAny audience or niche selection conversation
11:44model
Blue Ocean Analysis (YouTube edition)
Map the five biggest competitors in your niche, identify what they all do, then find the angle none of them own. Warriors small-ball strategy: everyone else goes big, you go opposite.
Steal forPositioning strategy for any content channel or product in a crowded niche
13:32list
4-Content Framework
- How-to: pulls search traffic, demonstrates expertise
- Listicle: top-of-funnel, passive consumption, high view count
- Case Study: proof + teaching, creator = expert
- Testimonial/Interview: social proof, highest revenue per 1K views
The four video types that generate leads 24/7. Each feeds the next: listicles funnel to how-tos, how-tos to case studies, case studies reference interviews.
Steal forPlanning a content calendar that has both top-of-funnel reach and bottom-of-funnel conversion
16:43list
5-Step Video Structure
- Step 1: Hook (<30 seconds)
- Step 2: Pattern Interrupt (unexpected/morbid/shocking)
- Step 3: Soft CTA (free lead magnet, first 3-5 min)
- Step 4: Teach the thing (show, not just tell)
- Step 5: Hard CTA (book a call or buy — be direct)
Video structure framework for educational content designed to convert viewers into leads. Key rule: front-load the good stuff, do not save it for the end.
Steal forScripting any video intended to generate leads or clients
26:10list
Three Sales Paths
- Option 1: Calendly Direct Link — easy, high volume, unfiltered
- Option 2: VSL (Video Sales Letter) — 5-30 min pre-recorded sales video
- Option 3: Live Webinar — highest trust, highest close rate
Three conversion mechanisms from YouTube viewer to paying client. Recommended starting point is the Calendly link — maximum flow before adding friction.
Steal forChoosing a monetization path for any educational YouTube channel at the start
How they asked for the click.
VERBAL ASK
27:00link
“Go ahead and book a call with myself or my team by clicking the link in the description and the pinned comment below.”
Clean hard close that names the three audiences they work with, states the 18% acceptance rate for scarcity, then immediately pivots to a testimonial video link — modeling the exact referral network structure described in the content.
MENTIONED ON CAMERA
FROM THE DESCRIPTION
AFFILIATECommission earned if you click.
OTHER LINKSAlso linked in the description.
Visual structure at a glance.
