If you want to quit your 9 to 5 and learn how to make money with your YouTube beauty channel then you´ve found the right place!
Although the beauty industry has grown its own place within the platform and social media world there´s still room for most of you.
However, there are a few things to consider if you want to make money as a beauty vlogger.
Let´s dive in!
1. Affiliate With The Right Brands
In case you´ve never heard of it, Affiliate Marketing is one of the most effective (and efficient) ways to make money online right from the start, no matter the niche you´re in.
How does it work?
It is actually fairly simple, you´ll be able to promote other peoples products and services in exchange for a commission for every sale you make for them.
The ONLY thing you should consider when it comes to affiliate marketing is choosing the right brands to work with within your industry.
As many pro YouTubers said many times over the years, your number one concern should ALWAYS be your viewers.
Now, one easy to demonstrat that is to not promote crap. You should only promote things that you really believe in, that you use or that you like. That´s it!
Make sure to choose right, take your time, do your research, and let your fans know that you value their time and attention and that you only promote things that you´d use.
Here´s how:
Try a few different strings to find what´s out there and do some researh to go with the best option for YOU.
As you can see, you can easily find great resources online by doing a simple search on Google.
You just need to make sure do a follow up on those same products and select a few that make a good partner for your own channel and that have a
2. Get Sponsors In The Beauty Industry
Your second most popular option as a beauty content creator is to work with different brands in order to get video sponsors that pay you to promote their products and services.
Now, this might sound surprising, but it is far easier than it sounds.
Nowadays you don´t need to be a respected celebrity to work with big brands and get paid by promoting their products, you just need a reliable fanbase/audience.
In fact.
There are even great services that provide you with a marketplace that´s already set in place to easily find brands (and so that brands find YOU) to work together.
One good example of this is Famebit, which is the official sponsorship market for brands and creators that YouTube is now in charge with.
Famebit charges a small fee, which is a percentage of your earnings, once you get paid so you don´t have to pay anything upfront to try it out!
Although it´s a great platform there are other options you might want to consider if you are really interested in sponsorships.
For example, you can check out inzpire.me, another great services both for creators as well as great brands that want to get known.
You can get paid doing what you love and it´s 100% FREE to join for creators.
They even help you out by providing an easier way to manage brand collaborations, connect you with other channels, and determine your value as a personal brand.
3. Make Some Adsense Money
Unlike the other methods of monetization you could think
That being said, there´s a few things you can do and that are pretty effective when it comes to how much you can make from Ads.
Here they are:
- Make longer videos – One of the first (and possibly most effective) things you can do to increase your Adsense revenue is to make longer content. Why? Simply because that way you´ll be able to put more Ads on your videos, therefore doubling or even tripling your Ad revenue.
- Let YouTube do its magic – The second thing is that you shouldn´t try to optimize manually too much, it is far better to let the platform to make the most out of your videos by itself without losing engagement with the viewers. If you try to increase Adsense by changing too many setting you´ll end up losing a significant part of your audience in the process.
- Monitor audience retention – Last but not least, keep an eye on how your audience retention numbers evolve. This means that you have to monitor whether if your viewers watch your entire video, 50% of it or even less. That way you´ll be in a better position to change things in order to improve and, at the same time, you´ll be able to know exactly
wherer to put more Ads when you have a long video. (10+ minutes long)
4. Sell Your Own Expertise
This is one of the KEY aspects when it comes to hiting those 6 or even 7 figures online.
Why?
Simple! Because by selling your own courses, digital products, or informational resources you can scale your income FAST!
You can start by building your personal brand, share more about your background, how did you get started in the first place, so that people find can relate to you and trust you and your message.
It´s like Gary Vaynerchuk, the owner of Vayner Media, says: “Tell Your Truth!”
You´ll find is one of the best ways to build your brand, differentiate yourself from your competition, and, if you think about it, it´s your most reliable resource to be unique and innovate, simply because nobody else can be YOU.
Now, once you´ve spend some time giving advice, sharing more about you, building a relationship with your viewers and getting to know your fans you can start thinking of packaging your knowledge into a consumable form.
If your previous work was good and has helped people in some level you´ll be rewarded. If you haven´t then you won´t. Period.
What To Sell?
If you don´t know what to sell to your audience, or what do they need and how you can give it to them, meaning what´s the best conduct, then it is pretty simple what you should do…
…ask! plane and simple, ask your fans, listen to their problems, concerns, and most common issues and make sure to address those elegantly and effectively.
Whether it´s through an online course where you teach how to dress or aply make up, or you write a helpful motivationl e-book where you share about your story, it won´t matter as long as you do a fine job with your audience research.
For lack of a better word, that is CRUCIAL!
5. 101 Consulting
Last but not least, you can trade your time for money!
Think about it, it is what you are already doing with your full-time job with the slight difference that you´ll get paid for doing what you actually like to do.
Now, how much money you can make depends entirely on how valuable is your time and expertise perceived by your audience and potential clients.
Get ready to set up your site so that people can make an appointment with you or simply recieve proposals by letting people know what´s your business mail/skype.
This is a great complement to grow your income substancialy when you are getting started as a small beauty channel, so make sure to take advantage of it.
One of the main things to consider is that you are your own boss so the amount of money you can make has no limits! (rather than how much time you can actually put in)
Related Questions
How to grow a beauty channel on YouTube? There are several ways you can grow a beauty channel, some of the most effective ones are paying close attention to what your fans ask of you, learn about SEO to optimize your videos to rank better, focus on quality content instead of video production. In fact, I´ve published a post on this matter: How To Grow a Beauty Channel.
What are some good beauty video ideas? You can do makeup challenges, make collaborations with other beauty youtubers, answer some of your most common questions from your fans, a “day in the life” type of video showing your makeup skills to stay awesome during your entire day, tips to be ready for work in ten minutes or less, etc.