Evan Carmichael posts free videos daily from his basement, driven by passion to help entrepreneurs rather than profit. He occasionally gets sponsorships from brands like TELUS and American Express, but YouTube ad revenue alone doesn't sustain the channel. His real motivation is sharing wisdom with the entrepreneurial community.
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Most of my videos are free; I create them out of passion, with occasional sponsorships from brands like TELUS and American Express, and modest YouTube ad revenue that does not significantly fund the channel.
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Hi, I'm Evan Carmichael. Welcome to another edition of Ask Evan. Today I'm going to answer a question from one of my readers, Miriam, who is a Facebook reader who asked the question, "Dear Evan, many thanks for the videos that you put up. It's really inspiring and full of wisdom. I love them a lot, but I have a question to ask." Is all you serve for free? So thank you, Miriam, for the great question, and I'm glad you liked the video. That's great. That's what makes me want to do more of these for you guys. Most of the videos that I do are for free. I try to do a video a day, don't always accomplish that, but I try to get a video coming out every day. And I started doing the videos because people were asking me questions, and I would usually write detailed email responses back to them, and I thought I could help more people by creating a video. It helps that person, and it also helps everybody else who might have the same questions. So I thought it was an opportunity to help more people than just the one-on-one that I was doing before. And I've always been a visual learner, so I like watching videos myself that related to business. So I thought I could help a lot more people learn that way as well. Now some of the videos that we do are supported by some of our sponsors. We work with some brands like TELUS and American Express, and they will sponsor some of the videos. I may mention them somewhere in the video or on the description. But for the most part, most of these videos, especially the Ask Evan videos like this, I don't get paid to do. They're free videos. Sometimes you may see a couple ads that YouTube puts on there, but those do not pay very well, let me tell you. So it's just something I love doing. I film these once a week on a Wednesday morning, and it's always one of my favorite days of the week because I know I can come down to my basement studio and just film away, and I know I'm going to be helping a lot of entrepreneurs. To answer your question again, no, most of the stuff is not paid. There's no revenue model behind it. It's just following my passion, doing what I love doing, and hopefully helping a lot of entrepreneurs in the process. Hopefully that helped answer your question, Miriam. For those of you watching, if you like the video, please give it a thumbs up below. Again, I do this because I love doing it, and I always love seeing those thumbs ups. Makes me want to keep doing these videos for you guys. It helps let me know that you enjoy them. And if you have a question or comment, I'd love to hear from you. About, you know, the same topic around the videos or brand new question about your business, I'd love to try to help you out if you want to leave a comment under this video. So thank you and we'll see you on the next episode.
