How to Monetize on YouTube From Day 1 (The Secret)

99% of YouTubers don't make nearly as much money as they could because they're playing the monetization game backwards. There's one video that you only have to make once that will pay you for years. In fact, just over the past year, I've made over a million dollars from just one video that I've uploaded. Now obviously these results are not typical, but in order to do this, you don't need 1,000 subscribers, you don't need 4,000 hours of watch time, you don't have to wait to get accepted into the YouTube Partner Program, and this works for both personal channels and faceless channels. And today I'm pulling back the curtain on one of my biggest secrets for making tons of money on YouTube, which is something that I like to call the money magnet video. And it's an asset that 99% of creators have no clue even exists. And you can use AI to basically make it for you, which I'm gonna show you how to do in this video. Now, if you don't know, this video is part of a 5-video series of the new way of doing YouTube. And in video number 1 in the series, I broke down what the new way is. And in video number 2, I showed you the only 7 niches that I recommend right now. And if you skipped either of those, pause this, go back, watch them. This video won't make as much sense unless you have that foundation, because what I'm about to share with you in this video is gonna tie some of the things we talked about in those first two videos together and turn it into potentially actual deposits in your bank account. Now the thing is, most people think about YouTube as a never-ending hamster wheel where they have to constantly be posting multiple videos every single week, and they see it as something that they just have to do for the rest of their life. I see YouTube a little bit differently, and by the end of this video you will as well. YouTube is actually a an amazing evergreen machine to get views and sales and build digital assets that can pay you for years and years into the future. And as I mentioned, there is only one video that you only have to make once and upload once for the entirety of your channel, which I like to call your money magnet video. I've also called this a flywheel pillar video in the past. And what this is, is a 20-minute to 60-plus minute video that delivers massive value and then seamlessly funnels your viewers into a paid solution. That paid solution could be an online course, for example, software with recurring commissions, coaching, access to an AI bot, or all of the above. And I have channels monetizing with all of those. And we can also get into the new way of selling education as well. If you do want to sell, for example, online courses and whatnot, things are changing right now, and there's a way better way of doing it than most people do. And it's the way my company is doing hundreds of thousands of dollars per month. And if you have no idea what to sell, do not worry. I'm going to show you exactly what to sell in just a second. Even if you're a beginner, you're not an expert, I'm going to show you exactly what to do. And so the thing is, most YouTube channels, they're chasing the pennies from ad revenue. And my old YouTube channels that did get millions of subscribers, that's exactly what I did. I chased ad revenue and I made relative pennies from it compared to what I do now, which makes me millions of dollars per year. I actually got that award back there for making over $10 million with this method. And now, even if your channel sells absolutely nothing, this method that I'm about to share with you will still help your channel go viral. And that's because every other video on your channel is going to link to this money magnet video and drive traffic to it, therefore keeping people on YouTube for an extended period of time after they watch one of your videos. Most people, they think about getting the view and that's all they think about. They don't think about funneling people to another video and what people are gonna do their next hour after watching your video. If you keep people on the platform of YouTube YouTube is gonna give you all of the views and all the subscribers that you could ever want because you're helping their business, and then only after that you sell something after you've built a ton of trust with people, and those people will convert like crazy, therefore making you a ton of money, and you don't have to wait to get monetized. Now the 3 rules of a money magnet video are number 1, have something to sell, and I'll show you where to find that in just a second. Number 2, solve actual problems and do not focus on entertaining people. And number 3, keep in mind all of your future videos are going to funnel back to this. And you can do that by setting up what are called end screens, which will pop up at the end of all your videos and direct people to your money magnet video. Now, there's 3 simple steps to implement this correctly, and you can use AI for this as well. And step number 1 is to actually have something to sell. This can be your own course combined with an AI version of yourself. For instance, this is working incredibly good right now. If you want to sell education, this can be an AI software, either one that you own or one that you're an affiliate for. For example, one of my students, Kari, makes over $10,000 per month just promoting a couple software as an affiliate, and he gets monthly recurring commissions for life from a bunch of those. Both of my software companies, TubeMagic and VidAi, pay out monthly recurring commissions for life for everybody that you get signed up. And places to find products include Digistore24, my new platform called Moon, and ClickBank. And also you can go to any AI of your choice— Google Gemini is really good for this— and use the deep research function to find affiliate options for what you're doing. Typically you want to look for something that pays out at least $100 per sale or something that's going to make you recurring revenue for life. Step number 2 then is to actually generate your pillar video. Now as you can see, I have a pillar video template right here that you can use for your money magnet video that goes over everything in order to get the maximum amount of conversions and keep people watching, but it needs to solve a problem. And the best way to make sure your channel actually solves a problem is to figure out the offer as to what you're selling. And the best way to do this is to use this template right here, which is, this product will help people do what they want without what they hate. And then you fill in the blanks as to what people want is in your particular niche and what people hate in your niche is. For example, if you wanted to be an affiliate for Higgsfield, who's the sponsor of today's video, then you would say Higgsfield helps people generate any type of content they want without having to spend hours and spend thousands of dollars hiring people and graphic effects artists to do that. I've done this a lot within my business as well, helping people grow profitable YouTube channels without showing their face. That's what I've done a lot in the past. But now we help any type of YouTube channel grow super profitable channels without having to rely on a huge team and without having small profit margins. And if you have trouble with any of this, just find whatever you're selling, whether it's your own product or somebody else's as an affiliate, put it into any AI of your choice and ask it to use this template that I gave you. So now you have the offer, you have the Flywheel Pillar video template, and I'll tell you how you can get access to that as well. What you're going to do is download this template right here onto your computer, and then we're going to be using the sponsor of today's video, Higgsfield, to put this all together for us and to basically do all of the work for us in making this entire Flywheel Pillar video. But by using AI. And the tool within Higgsfield we'll be using is the Supercomputer tool right here, but in a little bit of a different way than we have used it in some of the past videos in this series where I showed you how you can generate normal standard content on YouTube. But now we're gonna use it for our pillar video as well in a very unique, cool way. But all of those other videos that we're going to upload onto YouTube, you can think of those videos as feeder content. And feeder content drives views to the pillar video. That's their only purpose. Yes, make the best videos you can. Yes, focus on evergreen subjects. I showed you exactly how you can get incredible video ideas in the first video in this series, but don't just stop there. Think of those videos as feeder content for your money magnet video. So in Higgsfield, I've uploaded our Flywheel Pillar Video Template right there. And just to give you a preview of the overall structure of this template, we go over an introduction where we hook people with a big promise. We tell who this is for, how it's gonna help them, what's covered, and we're gonna go over several secrets which break down the most common objections that people likely have for doing this. So for my offer, teaching people how to make money on YouTube without showing their face, I first of all show that that's actually possible in the first secret. In the second secret, I show the best niches to do this in because people want to see examples. And then in the third one, I break the disbelief that I couldn't actually generate videos by showing people how to do it incredibly easily. And if you want to see an example of my flywheel pillar video in action, if you go to basically almost any of my YouTube videos like this one right here, skip to the end of it, then you will see me pointing out that video. And then if you go to watch this, this is my Flywheel Pillar video. So as you can see, it's structured as just a screen recording that breaks a bunch of common beliefs that people have and then talks about how I can help people do this, and then it sells my program at the end of it. Now, for the purpose of this example, since you can go and watch that video on your own if you want to see it, I'll do a slightly different example. I'll show you an example of promoting a software as an affiliate for this. Let's say you wanted to be an affiliate for my software TubeMagic. It's essentially a suite of different AI tools that I've built for myself to help me with YouTube. And so I'm gonna type in here, help me make the slides for my pillar video that promotes tubemagic.com. Attached is the template to follow and try to make this at least 20 to 30 minutes long. It can go a bit longer than that, For example, I've seen very successful pillar videos that are 2, 3 hours long because you're demonstrating doing different things as well, which you can certainly also put in your pillar video. And my main pillar video right now is an hour and 36 minutes long, so there's nothing wrong with doing that. And then we're also going to put in the main offer for TubeMagic is that it helps people produce super viral videos without what they hate, which is having to spend hours writing scripts, doing research, and hiring freelancers. And I'll say, first, script it out, and secondly, then make the slides for this entire video that are highly engaging and they all match the same color scheme and style. We'll say ideally red to match TubeMagic, and they are modern and look really nice. And then to get the absolute best quality, I'm going to select Opus 4.7, which is the best Claude model out right now, which will be doing the backend work for this with writing the script and everything. You don't have to use that. It will use more credits, but it's going to give you the absolute best result. And I recommend that for this video because this is the most important video for your whole channel. So it's really important that we go the extra mile making this as valuable as possible. And then we'll go ahead and click to generate this. And right now Claude is analyzing the template PDF and then the script and it's designing the slides. And it's also even going to Tubemagic.com so it can read about the offer that we're promoting, what it's about. And it's asking a couple additional questions. Which aspect ratio would you like the slides to be? That should be 16:9. For the visual style, I want it to be a premium style with gradient colors right there. And it's asking if it should leave some space or placeholders for your name and any host headshot or just keep the slides purely about the message. So if you had a personal channel, which I recommend doing, even if you have a faceless channel, you know, I recommend having a character who's the face of the channel. I would highly recommend choosing this option where you leave placeholders for your name and everything else. So we're gonna select that, and then you can upload a picture of your character here, and then it'll put it in automatically. And you see, normally what you'd have to do if you didn't have access to Higgsfield is you'd have to sit down and script out the entire pillar video from start to finish, and then you would have to design individual slides for each one, or even even if you had access to AI, you would have to individually generate every single one, making sure it's a cohesive style, making sure it all makes sense. But this Higgsfield supercomputer is essentially like an AI agent which is doing this all for us. As you can see, it's scripting it all out right here, which is incredible, and it's putting all of this together. And then it'll go ahead and even generate our slides completely for us. And just like that, Higgsfield has all of our slides done. These actually look really good. And so then what you'll do to record this is I recommend just getting a free screen recorder like OBS, for and just record your screen and do a voiceover with your real voice. However, if you want to use AI voices, like if you have an AI character and they have a certain voice or you want it to be different than your own, you certainly can do that. But just to make this super simple, my recommendation is you just go through this, screen record it, and use your own voice. And here's kind of an example of what I would do. If it's a personal channel, you would definitely want to have a webcam on. As you can see how I have a webcam in the corner here. You don't want to be covering up anything important. So I'd probably move myself to be like right there. And then of course, you're going to want to tell Higgsfield what your name is and everything. So it can input that right there. But then we would just simply present it, just saying something along the lines of, in this free training, I'm gonna show you exactly how to make viral YouTube videos without writing scripts, doing research, or hiring freelancers, or any of the other stuff that most people hate when it comes to doing this. And what most people don't know is that you can actually generate really viral scripts in under a minute. You don't have to spend 6 hours writing and doing endless research and everything else. And this is built for people who are just tired of grinding, who are stuck at a blank page, or 9 to 5 people who want a side hustle, aspiring online entrepreneurs, or people who run multiple YouTube channels. And I'm going to show you 3 different secrets for doing this. So you can kind of get the point of what I'm doing there. You basically just read through all of this, give a lot of value, which your slides will do if you follow the process that I showed you. And if you want to get access to Higgsfield at the best price, they gave me a great deal to give you and you can check that out down at the link below. And now at this point you might be saying, Matt, that's awesome, but I want to get that template for the flywheel pillar video for my money magnet video. Now, even though I usually only share this template within in my program Tube Accelerator, you can feel free to check out the pillar video on my channel and take notes from that. And if you do want to join Tube Accelerator 2.0 when it does open very soon, you can feel free to do that as well and get the actual template plus training data for Claude and other AIs. And then step 3 with this is to link all of your past and future videos to your money magnet video. And the way you do that is through end screens as well as putting a link in the description of all of your previous videos. Now this will make your channel do amazing because it increases something called session time. Most people don't even know this exists, but it's essentially how long people spend on YouTube after watching one of your videos. And plus you're gonna be making a ton of sales from this as well. So it's a huge win-win. Now there is a secret ninja version of doing this that I teach within my program Tube Accelerator 2.0. And one of my students who ran a decent-sized channel named Musa implemented the ninja version of this and he made over $300,000 in a day. Now I have to be clear, those results are not typical. You'll probably make nothing near that. But if you're excited about this method, you really want to do this, you just want the absolute best information for doing so and accountability and people who will be there in your corner making sure that you do this the right way for sure, then I have some very exciting news. Tube Accelerator 2.0 will be launching in just a couple days, which will include that ninja strategy plus the word-for-word script plus the template plus the list of products to promote, plus we can actually sit down and decide what is the best niche and the best product for you specifically to promote, whether it's your own product or somebody else's, and develop a tailored monetization plan to what you're trying to do specifically. So make sure to get on the Tube Accelerator 2.0 waitlist down at the link below, and you'll get 24-hour early access before the general public. And in the next video, I'm gonna show you some actual example case studies of both my own channels and students' channels. And so if you thought this video is super valuable, you're gonna absolutely love the next one. You do not want to miss it. And if it is already out, you can check it out next to me right here, and we'll go over case studies and example channels channels for doing this the right way. My name is Matt Par. Thanks for watching. Make sure to get your name on the waitlist down at the link in the description and check out Higgsfield as well, and I will see you there.