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What if I told you that YouTube could replace your salary in just a few months? And not only that, I'm going to show you exactly how you could do this three times faster than ever before. And I'm going to show you in this video exactly what I mean.
The first thing I want to show you is one of the thumbnails that I've used in this very video. Yesterday, I introduced you to pixels. P I K Z-EL S. You can go to pixels.com, or you can use the link below. That is my affiliate link below in the description. Either way, I want you to check this out. This tool is a game-changer for anybody who wants to be on YouTube or who has been struggling to find those those thumbnails.
Now, I'm going to show you more than this, but first I want to show you just how good this tool is. Have you used anything? Canva, Vid IQ, ChatGpt. Have you used any AI that has produced a a a picture this good? The prompt that I put in was simply Arlland looking in a mirror and seeing her reflection. Maine Arlland looks surprised. Mirror Arllin looks pleased and mischievous. It says AI made this. And then I added an arrow, right? And I'm testing both of these as thumbnails right now. So, you might have seen one or the other. This took maybe a minute to produce. I'm going to show you in a minute this happening live so you know that it it can happen for you. You just type in what you want it to be.
And what I'm also going to do in this video is I'm going to show you why thumbnails matter. Why does it even matter that this is this good? And how does it help you make more money? So, what I'm going to do is I asked uh my viewers to send in their YouTube channels if they wanted me to review their channel. And I'm going to do that for a couple of channels right now. But I'm going to go back and forth and show you how this this thumbnail creator is going to translate into you making more money.
So, are you ready? Let me know in the comments right now if this video is for you, if you're here for it, and if you're ready to learn something new. Right. So, YouTube. We're on YouTube. There are a few ways to make money on YouTube. One way is to get paid by YouTube by the number of views that you get. Um, another way is to put your own uh product up, your own offer, your own consulting and link to that in the description or from the video itself. You can say it out loud or put it across the video or in the pinned comment.
And I work with dozens and dozens of people who make all kinds of money through YouTube, and they started with nothing. No videos, no fancy equipment. They didn't even really know how to use YouTube. But you can figure it out in a matter of days, and you can be off and running as quickly as you want to.
So, we're going to start with Encore earners. I have not looked at this yet. I just opened it on my screen, and now I'm going to look at it for real. So, thank you for showing me this. Okay, so this says so the banner. I like the banner. I think the banner um has too many people in it maybe because I don't know exactly what it's about, but I'm going to hold my uh reserve my opinion about that because I might learn more. So, it says it's like income diversity university for women in midlife. I like that. Whenever you say something is like something else, that really helps bring it in and paints the picture for your audience. So, that's really good. And that's just for sales and marketing. Um, statistics say 65% of women between the ages of 40 and 65 won't earn enough to retire. So, this says something that's kind of intriguing. It makes me want to click more. And then it tells me a little bit more. And you have your links to different places including your school uh group, which I think is fantastic.
Um, okay. So, then let's go for the video section. Let's look at your thumbnails. Your thumbnails are are really good. They're really good. They are uh they have like a boldness to them. There's a clarity in them. You're in every picture. I like that a lot. I think that is very, very solid. And I think if you like, you're kind of the person that could really thrive over here in pixels, right? You could take that as a demo and then describe it, describe this, and turn this into something. So, I don't have your picture, but let's say don't let AI leave you behind. Um, let me see. Hold on. Let me get the prompt for this. I'm going to see that. See if I can do that fast enough. I'll get I'll I'll see about a prompt. And just one sec.
And I think that, you know, if you're already doing a pretty good job, if you're already doing a pretty good job, this is where this gets into hyperdrive, right? Where you can just kind of take this, you make I mean, you're they're doing a great job. I don't know if you're doing them or someone else you're paying someone else to do them, but it it kind of fits all the pieces that I like about um that I like about thumbnails. So, if let's look at this. Let's see if we can prompt pixels. So, we're going to use my picture because that's what I have. Let's see. We're going to say Arlland seated confidently at a modern desk in a bright Hold on a second. at at a modern desk in a bright upscale living room with minimalist decor. A staircase rises behind her to the left. She smiles with calm intensity. One hand under her chin over her head in bold text. Don't let AI leave you behind. In all caps, room feels aspirational yet real. Natural lighting, tasteful artwork, slight depth of field. Arlin has warm brown skin, not too light. And I have trained chat GPT to say that for me. natural gray locks, sleekless top, keep her centered. I don't know what it's going to do with the hair because it's using my persona, which does not have that type of hair. But let's see what it does based on the prompt. And you really truly could just put in one or two sentences that were just, you know, a third of this length, and you would still get something really great to start with. So, let's see what it does. Let's compare it. This is fun.
Okay, so we have this one, and then I'll also get this prepared to listen to. Let's listen to the hook. Okay, I'm about to tell you something that I thought I would never say. I built my own AI. Oh, I love it. Me, a woman in midlife with zero tech background. I love that. That hook is amazing. So cool. I'll come back to this now. Let's look what it came up with. Okay, so it's not really my face. Uh I maybe because I did not put my face here. Hold on a second. You know what? I didn't put my face there. So, let's do it one more time. Let's do it one more time. It it and without putting my face there, it came up with that. That's pretty sweet, right? So, let's do it one more time. Now, it has my persona connected to it. I forgot to do that last time. And let's just compare these two. So, yours is great. It's like It's almost like you don't have to really do anything different to yours. I'm just saying that if you even wanted to elevate it just a little bit, you have this. And if you're paying somebody um to do these and maybe you all can work together by working with this instead, you know. So, let's see what it's Let's see how far along it is. So, it's 27%. So, let's get back into your video.
Okay. With zero tech background, unless you count learning how to cast Netflix on my phone, but we won't talk about that. That's funny. I love it. Check this out. I did it in the space of a single afternoon. And no, it's not because I'm a tech genius. It's because I wanted to create something that I wish existed when I started my midlife journey. I love this. I love this angle of this of this um channel. I think it's very good. Let's see. So, I did have to click through to get to your first link. So, I would suggest you put your link sooner. Um, so you might say, "Want your own custom GPT?" and then link and then you can give more information here, right? Or want to join my membership and learn more about AI link and then on that first line and then put more information below it. But I do love that you already have some links. You're already doing calls to action. That's really, really solid. Uh, I like that it's called Encore Earners. I don't know if I know what that means necessarily without having explanation. So, you might want to consider changing the name or adding to the name a little bit just to give it a little bit more uh depth of of information. You might even say like income diversity university, you know, or uh midlife university or something like that. I don't think I'm showing you the screen. I haven't been showing you the screen the whole time. That's okay. We'll come back to it.
Okay. So, I'm here. Uh anyway, I was saying that I do love this. I love the video and and I uh I think the title I created a custom GVT to help you figure out what comes next. The only thing I would say about this title is that a lot of people most people do not know what a custom GPT is. So they don't know that it's something that they will want to click on and understand. You have so much going for you on this on this page. I love the content and that's usually the hardest part. So I love that. But I would say something else like I created this AI tool that will help you in your midlife. da da da or you won't believe what this tech tool will do to da da because you have to think about it if somebody who's not as ver well-versed as you are is looking at this and and and scrolling are they going to understand let's go back and see oo you got guns okay okay guns for some reason it didn't give me locks because I don't have that in my persona but it did give me uh this room very interesting so I'm trying to tell you like I have been taking YouTube seriously for a year and a half. I've been on YouTube for more than 15 years. Uh I've tried to make YouTube work for five years and I have never until yesterday found a tool a thumb maker creator that is this good. I cannot stress it enough.
So let's talk about this a little bit. We talked I said that I would tell you how it's going to make you money. So we have your channel. Think about your own channel. The way one of the ways you can make money on YouTube is by YouTube paying you by number of views. Another way you can make money is if you sell your own offer, your own school, your own membership, whatever, right? So, it would stand to reason that you want your ideal customers to see it. You don't want just anybody to see it. going viral doesn't really help at the end of the day, but what does help is getting more people who are your ideal client in front of you. And so when you have um a channel, I'll go into mine. When you have a channel, you get analytics. You get to see analytics. And you get to see if you look on the screen here, one of those is your impressions click-through rate. And usually that's going to be between three and six% for the average channel. And if you can get it higher than six, if you can get to six to eight, that's great. If you can get it 8 to 10, you're probably going to have a really, really successful video for whatever that means for you. If you can get it higher than 10, it's off to the races and there's no there's no stopping it. Um, and that won't stay forever. It'll always get lower and lower as more people see it and there's more impressions. But the point of it is let's say your click-through rate where it's like from I have one here that's actually pretty low right now. It started off higher, but it's gotten lower and lower. So right now, this one actually this one just went up cuz I added this. So this is a great example. So it had been between 2.6 and 2.7 yesterday and today. It kind of gone down from being up to five, right? 2.6 and 2.7. That's not great. And what that means is every for every thousand times it's shown on YouTube, 26 or 27 people are clicking. It's not great. So now I added this from pixels. I added this uh new thumbnail and now it has gone up in just a few hours to 3%. Very small change, but it now means that instead of 27 people, 30 people will will click on it for every thousand. And imagine I keep playing with it and I find one that gets it up to five or six% or even higher. And the way that that helps you is if more people see it and more people click on it, then more then YouTube will pay you more if you're monetized. And if you're not monetized yet, you'll have more chances for people to see it and then click through to your own offers. So, you could 3x the amount of people who see your video by going from a 2% CTR to a 6% CTR or from a 3% CTR to a 9% CTR by just having a better thumbnail, right? Just having a better thumbnail. Let's see. This one is has been doing really well in the last uh 11 days and its CTR is 9.8 9.3 really high and it's only going up. And I haven't changed this one. It's just an eye catcher. People want to get rich and they want to get rich easy. So, it's just an eye, you know, it's just getting people and it's coming up here. So, it's just getting um Look at that. In the last two days, 11 days later, 7,000 views, 230, 275, 240 per hour. And this is up from yesterday. It's just going higher and higher. So, this one could really take off. Already has 1.2,000 2,000 subscribers and it's made me $835 in a week and a half.
So imagine you take all of your your thumbnails and this is for you and for everybody watching and everybody watching takes all of your thumbnails and you look at your CTR, your click-through rate. You go here and you look at your reach and you say, "What is my click-through rate?" If it's lower than five or six%, could I make two or three versions of it here and see if there's a better one that lifts it even days later? You can go back. Did you know you can go back days, weeks, months later and you can change the thumbnail of your video and because YouTube is showing it just to a few people, it will still it still could take off. There's one that's um doing really well. Let me look here. There's one this get paid now. That one is 61 days old and it's just it has 2,300 views in the last 48 hours. It's just every day it's 2 months old. It has 10,000 subscribers. Let's look at the CTR. It's over here between 7.5 and 6.7. It's just it's just doing its thing. I'm not going to touch this one. I'm not going to mess with this one because it's doing well. It could probably do better, but I'm not going to mess with it. But if the ones that are like 2.9, you better believe I'm going to look at that.
Is that making sense? Let me know in the in the comments if that's making sense to you why you would want to optimize your your thumbnails and and and all parts of this. So, this is the next one I'm going to review. Crafts by Q LLC. You might want to remove the LLC because the LLC doesn't do much for it. If I put my finger over the LLC, it's much better to the eye. So, that's the first thing I do. And then the I like the banner. It's a little tough to tell though because these are so small and imagine a lot of people are going to be looking at it on mobile. I can't really tell what this is. I don't know what this is. It says custom designs, digital creations, endless possibilities, but I would make like things much bigger, like one thing bigger or have three things, but they're bigger. Does that make sense? Okay. So then it says, "On this channel, we keep it real, resourceful, and ridiculously fun from Circuit from Cricut Crafts," which I know what that is now. And then it stops and then you have to read more. You might want to try to say more here about what this is faster so that even if I don't click more, I understand it faster. That's what I would do. Click on videos. Let's look at latest. So let's look at your thumbnails. Your thumbnails could definitely stand to go over here to pixels and give it some love. And if you don't know what to prompt, go to my prompt shop and I'm going to have a bunch more here where you can just copy these prompts, put them into Vid IQ or Pixels, wherever you're doing your thumbnails, and they'll help create these for you. You can just change the words and and there'll be more and more creative ones as we go along. So, this one, modern Cricut design. If somebody doesn't know what Cricut is, they're not going to know what why they should click. That's why you have two views because we don't know what Cricut is. It took me a while. I just found out about a month ago what Cricut is. It's like a machine that can help you with stickers and stuff. So, most people don't know that. So, you could say something like, "Want to make stickers or want?" Let's see what it's about. I can tell you what we could say. Yeah, it's me and I'm coming back with another video. Okay. It says, "Watch me turn a free template into an awesome t-shirt." That's awesome. But listen, it took you six seconds to start talking. You got to get in that hook. A hook is like boom. If I clicked on this, I want to get to the point. So, you got to go boom. Don't be doing all that, you know, and you can go in and you can trim it. Let me show you. You just go into one of them, go to editor, trim and cut, and then move this around and trim and cut. And you can learn more about what how to do that. Okay. So, let's see what you're doing. So, you're showing this here. Oh, the word is this red. Okay. So, I I I like it kind of like you did a live maybe and you're just showing the replay here or it's similar to that. So, you're doing step by step by step by step. Yeah, it's cool. And you're using the machine. So, I like it. I think that it's hard to hear you. So, it may be tough for somebody to watch this for straight out of my 40s, which which was it's not terrible sound, but it's just a little hard to hear you. So, I might get a mic or I might do something. But it looks like you're doing this live on the go and you're making it happen. I love that you're posting. Like that's really the most important part. I think your your thumbnails need to have more like my thumbnails look all over the place admittedly, but at least they do feel like it's mine. Yours has some of them have your picture on them, some of them don't. Some of them you can't even see you because you're not turned toward like towards the camera. Then you're saying why me moments for a 80-minute video that's about DIY puff shirts. I don't know what that means. You got to make it make sense, right? You got to connect it to, okay, I'm looking at this. So, this would have been better if it said DIY puff shirts or make your own shirt t-shirt. Make your own t-shirt with you facing the camera and it's boom. So you could do that over here and say uh uh orange background says make your own puff shirt. T-shirt. Puff t-sh right now. So make your own t-shirt. Okay. Uh I'm going to put my own because I have my pictures, but you have your own pictures here. Arlland faces camera looks excited and is teach and teaching you how to make a shirt uh shirt machine uh with a shirt machine. Okay. Colorful and exciting. I'm just going That's just like off the top of my head. gonna generate it. Now, this is costing uh credits every time I do this. So, you got to remember
Like, how many, how many times you want to do this, how much the credits cost? You can do all that on the site, but to me, it's absolutely worth it. You see how many credits I have? I have more than 4,000 credits because I bought them. I'm like, "This is so good. I have to buy this." And remember, this is just incredible, happening behind the scenes, right?
Remember, I'm going to be adding to my prompt shop. Go to arlandprompshop.com. I'll be adding all kinds of prompts and pictures and stuff. So, all you have to do is come in, copy and paste, and then you'll put your own name instead of my name. Or you'll put, you know, if there's any place where it says put your own words and things like that, you will do that for anyone that you like. And then you can use it once per video. Or you can buy one time for three credits, two credits, whatever it costs. And then you could just have it across the board. That's your style.
So, let's see what this one looks like. We're going to take this one right here. This "why me" moments. Again, it doesn't really make as much sense. So, we're going to get people to try. We're going to get people to click.
Let me tell you one other thing I love about what you're doing. You're posting every day, once a day. You are giving it all you got. And I love that. Okay. We're just going to make it a little bit better packaging so that people click on it. This is almost done. Let's see what it comes up with. And again, I don't know what it's going to look like because I'm I'm doing this live for you. So, it says orange background. Says make your own t-shirt. Look at that. That's impressive to me. Look at it. It's coming out of the machine. It's all these little die-cut things. You could even put puff shirt and maybe explain what that means, you know, and then might even do that. But that is remarkable.
So keep this in mind when you're looking at this and then come back here and look at that. You see which one is which? Which one are people going to click on? You know what I mean? So that's what you're going to do. You're going to use these tools that we have that are so so impressive, that are just outrageously advanced at this point, and we're going to take as much advantage of that. I even did one where I'm like I'm on a cliff and I'm excited now. Like the hands are kind of weird, obviously, but like it's still so cool. I could do so much with this. I could add words to it. I could change it a little bit. It's just the coolest thing. And look at that prompt: Ireland is hanging from a cliff with water below. She looks adventurous but a little scared. Make it colorful. And then it came up with this.
So, anything you have like this is the real flex and the real key. Go back for anybody who has a YouTube channel, especially if you sent in one to me. Go back to your channel. This is what I'm doing. And go to every single one and say, "Is there any one that I could just make a little bit better? Little bit better." Like, like I said, yours is amazing. Yours is really good. But is there anything I can do to get just a little bit better? A little bit more elevated? And you want to make sure that your title and your thumbnail complement each other. They don't have to say the exact same thing, but they make sense as a package. You want to make sure those first five seconds are immediate value. Rewind this video and see how I started it. I did that on purpose. And you want to give value every second of your video, if you want people to stick around and if you want people to to join you in your memberships or join you in a call or get to know you better. But you don't have to be monetized on YouTube to make money on YouTube day one. You can just aspire to that and have both of those going eventually. You can make enough money to replace your own salary on YouTube if you take it seriously and if you don't sleep on these incredible, incredible AI tools.