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You need to have this mentality that you play for winning, not prevent for losing.
From 9-5 employee to $69k/month with faceless AI YouTube channels: Ken shares his journey, mindset, and strategies for success.
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Key Takeaways
- A strong, committed mindset is crucial for success in YouTube automation.
- YouTube automation can generate significant income with high profit margins.
- This business is not suitable for everyone due to lifestyle sacrifices and mindset shifts.
- Coaching and mentorship can dramatically speed up learning and results.
- Starting with trial and error is normal; refining niche and content is key.
What the video covers
- Ken transitioned from a demanding corporate job at McKinsey to running faceless AI YouTube automation channels.
- He emphasizes the importance of a winning mindset and going all in without fallback options.
- Ken started YouTube automation in early 2026 and saw rapid growth within 5-7 months.
- He earned $39k from AdSense and $30k from selling a channel in June 2026, totaling $69k revenue.
- Profit margins are very high, around 95%, making YouTube automation a lucrative business.
- Ken advises that this path is not for everyone due to the sacrifices and mindset required.
- He highlights differences between corporate beliefs and online business success principles.
- Ken credits coaching and mentorship for accelerating his progress and refining his channel strategies.
- He abandoned his initial poorly performing channel to focus on better niches and content.
- The business model relies heavily on AI tools and automation to scale efficiently.
Chapters
- 00:00Winning Mindset for Business Success
- 01:31Ken’s Background and Corporate Experience
- 03:40Starting YouTube Automation and Early Challenges
- 05:41Channel Performance and Pivoting Strategies
- 07:39Is YouTube Automation for Everyone?
- 09:46Work-Life Balance and Business Philosophy
- 14:01Teamwork, Coaching, and Accelerated Growth
- 20:19AI Tools and Automation in YouTube Business
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Business in general is not for everybody. This channel is doing good as well. I'm just going to schedule videos for all my life.
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I would say that I even generated a new niche. Can you tell me why you decided to quit?
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That we have from good performers, bad performers, it makes this kind of playbook. You burned all the boats, you went all in, right? And you're crushing it.
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A lot more than I made in management consulting. But I'll do everything to make it work.
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Three things, like what niches I will go in. Already so many proofs of concept.
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And I can tell you a bit about my current setup. So, my current setup is me.
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Hey Ken, please introduce yourself to the people who are watching, who you are, and how everything is going.
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Yeah. So, hello everyone. My name is Ken. I'm from Finland, this boring northern European country, and currently doing YouTube. And before YouTube, I was in a corporate job, so it's kind of quite a big change, I would say.
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Uh, channels are going great. That's how I can say. Okay. And uh, can you tell me why you decided to quit, right? The corporate job and what exactly you did before YouTube?
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Yeah, so why I decided to quit my corporate job was, uh, how do I say? Like it didn't feel like something that was really for me.
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Because I'm this kind of person who likes the hustle. A lot of stuff. For example, when I was young, I had this kind of Steam. Steam is this gaming platform where you can sell like CS: GO, you know, Team
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Fortress kind of keys. So, I was doing that kind of business. Always has been a hustler, and I felt like the rigid environment that was in corporate, especially like I worked, uh, in management consulting, which is the most corporate job you can have,
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basically. And it's like McKinsey company. So, yeah, it has been quite different and really enjoying my lifestyle. It's a lot nicer and I can work on something that I really enjoy a lot.
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Yeah. And how many years did you work the corporate job in total? Yeah. Yeah, I basically like So, I finished my university in 2024.
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So, I worked a bit over a year in a corporate job. Like yeah, it's not a long time. Like at McKinsey it was How to say? Like it wasn't 8 hours per day. Like it was more like 16 hours per day.
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[laughter] In McKinsey kind of job and they don't tell you this often when you start.
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But it was fine. Like I like to work, but the job wasn't like interesting to me. At least it didn't feel really, uh, meaningful.
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Mhm. And was it a hard decision to quit the job or no? Uh, to be honest, like for me it wasn't really a hard decision to quit the job. Because I always wanted to do something my own. Like either it's
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like a startup or like some kind of else. And yeah, I felt like there it was a good fit to work on this YouTube automation space with here.
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Yeah. And well, like basically what the time frame, right? Like you quit the job and you decided to go all in into YouTube automation. Like how many months passed? How much time?
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So, [snorts] basically when I started everything, like it was early January when I started first time. I had this one channel that I was running and it kind of sucked. It had a really bad [laughter] First second when I showed to you, like
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you really hated that channel. But really like I started putting like 100% effort like immediately when I met you in end of January. So, I DM'd you on Twitter and decided that hey, I think that I need someone to show like
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what are the beliefs that I need to succeed, what are the right inputs to success because this was still like a very new topic to me and I really wanted to win here. And now I think it has been
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from January around 6-7 months has passed. So, I think Yeah, around 5 when we started.
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5-6 months, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, not too long time. Yeah, that's very good. And would you consider yourself a successful student that made progress very fast, right?
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Because you burned all the boats, you went all in, right? And you're crushing it.
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Yeah, but I mean like the most important thing is like the mindset. So, if you start something, you can't really think that hey, even I was working for some good corporate like I can go back.
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It was something more like personal for me that I wanted to prove that whatever I choose, uh, I will succeed at any cost. Like that was the mentality you need to go in.
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I like it. Yeah, I like your mentality. That was like pivotal, right? Thing that why I took you on for the coaching and why I chose your application because you already, okay, you burned the boats, you decided to go all in and you had some,
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let's say, tries with YouTube channels, right? You at least created something. You just weren't a complete beginner, you know, like of course like you never had like monetized channels or you made revenue from YouTube, but you at least
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tried something, right? And I I saw that you definitely need, you know, our help because the channel as you mentioned, it was pretty bad and the niche was [laughter] pretty bad.
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I remember you were posting like the same thumbnails, yeah, like the same thumbnails, risky thumbnails, right?
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Like spicy ones. So, it's crazy. And where is this channel right now? So it's there or like you abandoned it completely.
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Yeah, I abandoned it like first, second when you said that like it's guys like like I think yeah, it was good.
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It was good for me to take opinion from somebody who has worked over 10 years, right? In this YouTube business and immediately like can see something that I couldn't see before. I didn't just ditch that worked on something else immediately.
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Yeah, got it. Got it. Okay, cool. Cool. And the main question, right? Like how much you made last month, right? Like June 2026 with YouTube automation in total?
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Yeah, that was that was generational. Round about I want to even do better. So, basically there's two parts. So, the first part to give this of course like AdSense. I made 39k from AdSense, which is pretty good.
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But also I sold one of my channels for 30k. So, in total it was 69k, right?
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It's quite a lot of money, like a lot more than I made in management consulting.
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[laughter] In one year, yeah? That's super good. I mean like of course you have to count taxes and everything like that.
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Almost Yeah, yeah, it's just revenue of course like you know different people from different countries optimize their tax.
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So, we can talk about revenue and also the profit margin, right? And taxes can be different for basically everybody. And what was your profit margin, right? It's like 95% or something right?
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Yeah, it's around 95%. It's like it's quite good if you compare to any other business. I feel like YouTube automation is it's no-brainer. If you do some kind of factory like the margins are so low.
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Or so Exactly, but would you would you say it's for everybody or no? Would you say everybody could quit? Right? Because I don't want you know to even say it's for everybody or everybody should quit their jobs and
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go all in and use YouTube automation or any other online hustles. Would you say it's for everybody or no?
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Uh in one word, no. I wouldn't recommend it to everyone because like there is one thing that I think many people hadn't really discussed before in these your episodes, uh, as they have big big different background than I
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do because I think the most beliefs that you learn from corporate it's it doesn't really fit for online business in my opinion. Like you need to have two things. Like the first thing is that you believe that you can live doing this
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kind of online business like YouTube automatization but make your living out of it. And the second is that you kind of have to sacrifice a lot from your life.
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Because like what we do here like me and Andrew like this is not career, right?
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Like this is not something that where you get promotion from associate to you know engagement manager or partner kind of promotion, right? There is not that kind of career track. And
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like little career path is really big move to make. But to me like in the first place I I didn't really care like career. Only thing that I cared was something that I do I enjoy.
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And also like you will make lot of how do I say lot more money [laughter] if you enjoy if you don't enjoy you will anyway like lot more money than focus on like career which is bit artificial concept in my opinion in the first
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place. Yeah. Yeah, I do agree and that's that's very good that you mentioned you need to have like a good uh and let's say like pain like a big pain threshold, right?
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And and like risk tolerance because that's why you know business in general is not for everybody, right? If people don't want to risk, right? If people want to move, you know, as safe as possible, right? Just like low key,
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right? Getting some paycheck to paycheck, right? Of course, you know, that's why you win, right? That's why, you know, other students win. I work with this fight, you know, my friends win because Of course, of course, you know, you need
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to sacrifice something. Right? Of course, you need to, you know, like brace yourself, right? Like you need to believe in yourself and you need to believe that okay, it works and I'm going to do everything to make it work.
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That's the most important. And you need to, okay, you take the risk, right? And even people, of course, like you're a young guy, right? But if people have families, kids, right? Like the like like a wife or like a husband. Uh so,
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they need to, of course, like discuss it, right? Discuss like okay, if we move on, right? If you take this risk, right?
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And even if we fail, you know, for from the like first try, you're going to keep trying and trying and until we're going to make it, right? Or, right? Like we don't take this risk and we just keep
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living, you know, like a like a general generic life, right? Without, you know, like even opportunities to make more money, without you know, opportunities to do something they could enjoy, right?
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And without opportunity to live uh kind of in freedom, right? Because even for you, like this let's say like time, this like I think few months or four months as you mentioned, you also traveled, right? So, you quit the job, you decided to go all
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in into a completely different business and you decided to travel, right? Like like around the whole Asia.
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How was that for you? Why did you even decide that? [laughter] Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like to be to be honest, like uh I think I would even do better if I would have stayed in one place instead of traveling all
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Asia, like going to Bangkok or Tokyo or Seoul and just stay there for whole time. So, how do I say? It was It spring brought bit more logistics, which kind of took away, you know, attention, but I think I did well, like even on the
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Yeah, absolutely. That's why, you know, like it's just people are very different, right? Like some people just want to lock in, right? Like without food, like, you know, 16 work shifts or something.
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Yeah. But it's not why we do business, right? Like we do business to live, let's say, like a free life, right? Uh to not be attached to like one place or like one country, one job, right? And And just to enjoy life,
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right? So, you're more like lifestyle entrepreneur, right? So, you're a little bit different, let's say, from David, right? Or let's say like Joey or Ranga, right? They are more locked in, but you're young, you can enjoy life, right?
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It doesn't matter like if you make, you know, 100k per month right now, right?
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Like in June, or in November, right, this year. So, you can just wait a little bit and you're going to make it anyways. You're going to come to that point if you will be more locked in and if you decide, "Okay, I just want
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to tackle it, you know, from like a sport perspective, right? I just want to hit numbers. I want competition, not just money, because you make good money, right? Like you You spend less than you make. So, it's not that, you know, like
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people like students who are hitting like like six figures per month, they spend everything. No, they just They like the hustle, right? Like we like just to compete, right? Like we like to out-scale people. It's It's more like
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sport. Yeah, I agree with you, but of course I at the same time like I believe you could shouldn't be satisfied with the numbers that you have right now.
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Right. Absolutely. Like for example, I I can give you example from my previous life. So, I used to study in university. And if you got this kind of MVP, like management consulting, your people thought you are boss, really boss. Of
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course, if you compare to them, like you are boss. But, it's like you have pool of small fishes and you are like little big fish, like it doesn't really matter, right? Like Yeah.
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for me example, like I make quite little compared to your other students, right? And that should be my comparison.
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I don't feel like they're never satisfied because if I get satisfied, there's like some Vietnamese guy who is more hungry than me and we like he could come and take all my channels, fishes, and everything.
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So, Exactly. And so, you always need to, you know, juggle these like you know, work life, like let's say a little balancing it as well.
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Right? So, you don't want, you know, to work like 1 hour per day or, you know, a few hours per week and just rely on on channels, right? Like you have team that paying training. So, as I like to say,
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right? In in business, uh in the online business especially, right? Like we are not comparing to offline or something.
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Uh it's it's not possible to be in the middle, right? So, you either grow or you go down. That's very important because there is no in between, right? Okay, it can be it can be in between for like a
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few months, but still, right? If you don't progress, you definitely declining, right? And the channels will decline, more understanding of the business, right? Will decline because still, you competing with people who spend, you know, more time in specific niches,
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let's say they analyze, you know, every day, even like a few time per weeks per week. So, it's it's hard, you know, to to compete if you want to want to work like 1 hour or 2 hours per week.
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Yeah, I 100% like agree with you. Like to be honest, I don't myself believe in the concept of work-life balance at all. Like yeah, I I mean sound quite chill guy, but in my opinion like if you just want to balance five
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different things like you couldn't do anything. Like in my opinion you can't do it well. So you have to make some kind of sacrifices and I think many people don't want to make it. Right?
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Yeah. That was also separates losers from winners, right? Like if people don't want to sacrifice something, if you don't they don't want to risk, they just can't win and out perform people who can do it.
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Yeah, 100% that. I think like also many people they they they they got advice from people that they won't want to become, right?
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Like for example in this YouTube game, I think it's really good to ask from you because you are like in the arena doing YouTube yourself, like not only coaching but also doing YouTube. I have like in high level, right? But of course like if
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I ask someone else uh get someone else could say, "Hey, you can you work too much. Like you should chill a bit like make good money per month like 30k per month and just chill.
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Like but is that something that I really want? It's different thing. I don't want their life.
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Yeah, but why why why did you choose exactly, you know, me as as your coach?
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Why not somebody else? Yeah, I I think that's good point and there's like two main things. So the first thing is uh I followed on you on X and you gave some like good source like something in my opinion feels still on
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the edge of this YouTube game. Like some advice that I haven't heard from before.
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But the second factor which really like uh why I selected you was like you seem trustworthy guy who really wanted to help. Like honestly I I can see like you're you have the like good values.
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[laughter] Of course like this is personal opinion like what values are good, but I can see also like you value your family a lot, which I also like value by myself. So, there was not only like the source, but also this value
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alignment. So, those were the reason why I I wanted to work with you. Yeah, I never flex, you know, I never show like lifestyle or something. It's just straight away value and I don't care about, you know, like less eyeballs
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than other people online get, right? And don't record like Instagram reels in order to lure or something which just doesn't make sense.
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Yeah, and you probably would have like 100, 200k if you just put Rolex there. I [laughter] don't know if you Rolex, but just Lambos and Rolexes there.
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But you attract different kind of person. Exactly. Yeah, and even right now, right? I can take less people than, you know, I have like like offers or requests for coaching.
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So, I only choose the best ones like like you are right now, right? So, you made like a huge progress in these like let's say like few months, half a year. Yeah, so I'm I'm really proud of you. And okay, can
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you please not only tell, but show, right? Like one or few channels. So, what niche you like to proceed with, right? Like what niche you dominate?
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Yeah, I can show uh let me show my one channel. This will take some time.
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So, basically uh I want to say like niches are niches. I don't remember how that go the current, but I'm mainly in explainer kind of niches. So, basically explaining different kind of concepts, and this is one of my channels like as you can
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notice last month it made uh 21k. So, it's doing well. And yeah, that's the basically the niche. Uh it's this kind of like what I like to do is this bit more like older people topic like historical or you know like space
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or prehistoric or ancient kind of topics. I also enjoy it by myself. So this is one channel that I have.
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But also I do bit like separate kind of uh formats. So let me show you another channel.
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So here is my another channel that I do and this has this actually was my first channel. Uh what you know this year it got monetized in April because I had issues with Google AdSense uh the step two.
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I remember yeah. Yeah like that was super annoying issue but this would have been monetized here already in February.
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But this yeah this channel is doing good as well. It's this kind of like every your life as every level kind of niche where I'm one of the like leading players. It's super saturated niche but for that I think I I've been doing
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pretty well to jump in quite early. Yeah exactly and you have also right like these systems the automations so it's not just you creating the videos because people can see RPM is nice right because like videos are long and even
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though approximately what your cost for a video? Yeah for the cost for the video I think it's around three USD three to four USD.
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So it's not that much if you think like the returns that you get. Exactly.
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Yeah that's why I say like it's no brainer to do YouTube automation. Exactly. Yeah and you have like a few team members right like the the structure we set up so like okay they're performing good right like they're making
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everything and your job as we discussed also you know on all the calls on the previous call as well that your job is what? Can you can you uh explain to people what your job is and in the in the future, right? Like what
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the job of a let's say YouTube operator, right? Who has okay team management, right? Like team structure, some VAs for even admin admin tasks, right? So what you should focus on and what also people can take from it. So what they need to focus on in
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order to grow the network without being stuck in one channel. Yeah. So to summarize everything what you need to do, in my opinion, is focus only on high leverage stuff.
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But also ready to give responsibility for other persons in your team. Uh I can tell you a bit about like my current setup. So my current setup is me plus three VAs. And what I mean by assigning these low leverage activities, it means
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that some task that guys can do like from $1. Uh you find person who can do it.
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[laughter] Like $1 or $2, like scheduling videos, because that's not the one that really moves the needle, right? Like my job, the most important job for me is the idea, like three things, like what niches I will go in,
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ideate on videos, and how to package it interesting way, right? But ideally like in the future with me and Andrew discussed is the idea that I will train these VAs a bit more about this packaging part and ideation part, so I
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can only focus on like what to do next and expand my portfolio of channels.
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So it's lot more like training staff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. So it's not only also hard skills, right? Such as let's say like analysis of scripts, right? AVZ videos made by but it's also about soft skills and you know some so many people
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they lack it and it's like empathy and emotional intelligence, right? So you need to know how to talk to people, right? If you just treat your employees like not in a very good way, right? You just tell them what to do, right?
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Without showing like a bigger picture, right? Like what Because we also discussed it with you on the call, right?
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You always want your even like simple VAs, right? Like they are responsible for admin tasks, the something that doesn't move the needle, right? You still want to upgrade them, right? Like you still want to show them Of course, not all the people are
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interested in it, but you want to show them next possibilities, right? Like next future goals because like usually the payroll, right? Like the salary is not, you know, even during the first three reasons why people leave the company, right? Like mainly, okay, they
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like infrastructure and one of them out of these three is that they can't see the growth, right? Like if they're stuck in one position, they're getting the same amount of money, right?
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Still like not everybody, but mainly people need some progression, right? Like they want better life, they want like bigger salary. So, they also need to see the picture, right? Like what they can end up at, right? It's not
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just I'm just going to schedule videos for whole my life, right? No, I want to, you know, be responsible for the channel's growth, right? Of course, not everybody just to pinpoint that, right?
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I want to be responsible of the performance. I want to get incentivized, right? I want to get some bonuses. I want to, you know, even show myself, right? That I'm not just a like a scheduler. I can actually,
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you know, produce results and people and the boss, which is you, can be, you know, like can rely on me, right? And I can show, right? That I'm capable of doing something more rather than like scheduling videos. So, that's very
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important. Yeah, 100% agree with you. I like it What's corporate do really well is to show this future career path.
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For example, at the company where I worked at, they had clearly like, "Yeah, in 2 years you will become this one and this one and this one, right?" Yeah. Yeah, exactly. That's why also people choose this path, right? Or like
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why people choose like a path of being like a athlete, right? Athlete or like a I don't know, like a footballer player, right? Or like soccer player, whatever, right? Because they see already so many proofs of concept, right? Of Of Okay, like this guy is just
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my role model, right? I'm going to always always pay attention to his path. And it's like so straightforward. The same in career, right? Your life is kind of already planned for you, right? Like okay, like this year you're just like a
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clerk, right? Like the in 2 years you're going to be like a low-level manager, right? Like in 3 or 5 years you're going to be like a middle manager. In like, you know, 10 years you maybe going to be
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like a, you know, like like C-level of some departments, right? That's why for people and it's more like NPC, right?
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Don't you think? It's like a game, right? That And they are not like, you know, like key player or, you know, like the main character. It's just NPC, right? Like it's everything is is already scheduled for them. I think it's it's
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really boring to live to live this kind of life. Yeah, 100% I agree with you. Like this might be something that people don't like. That's what I'll say next.
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I mean, yeah, we are ruthless, right? We don't We don't care. We don't care. We just want people to change their lives, right? Rather than I just our opinion, right? If people don't don't like it, they can just click and and and close
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the video. It's just our mindset that you and and me have, yeah. Yeah, you live like only once, right?
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Like that's kind of meme sentence, but it's true. Yeah, exactly. Okay. Oh, yeah. Okay, no more motivation. I think it's it's enough.
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[laughter] Okay, let's go through through the some questions. Yeah, just for people to find out and learn more. So, have you had any terminations or demonetizations because your content is pretty easy to make.
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And it's mainly AI images, right? Like not mainly it's 100% AI images. So, have you had any any problems with YouTube?
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Uh not really. Not any problems like you and Yeah, you and your partner pretty much like thought best tactics how to avoid that and yeah, I haven't had any issues regarding my content that many other, for example, my
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competitors they have had monetization issues. It's kind of like interesting. Yeah, exactly. Me and me and Sabrina we showed everything, right? You secure You secure your channels. So, everything is stable and even though, right? I don't think that right now you you are scared
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about something, right? In this business also you don't want to rely on one channel, right? Like one niche or something. You just spread out everything. You spread out the risks, right? Like you don't have all eggs in one basket. So, even if
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one channel, right? Even a few channels get into some problems, right? Like let's say termination, monetization, you don't care. You have the system, you have the tool, you have your people, right? You have understanding and skills. So, you just move on, you
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rebuild and you're going to be even better, right? And of course like it's not possible that all your channels get you know, terminated because of, you know, our setup that you are using. So, it's it's totally fine. Good.
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Good. And um Yeah, and when when we were talking about the team structure, the employees um I forgot to mention, right? It was like 5 minutes ago that the tasks, right? And the automations and the like your tasks. So,
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as we discussed also before this call, uh okay, your tasks, of course, like something high leverage always, right?
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Like ideation, division of the company in general, right? Uh the team follows for now, right? Like since you don't have like let's say like head of operation or like C-level stuff.
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Okay, simple VAs for now, that's enough. So, very important that set up the system that Okay, allows you to automate processes, right? That you came up with, right? And they're working. The system, right? On your level is not even
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supposed to come up with like some crazy new innovations, right? Like still you need to learn it, right? As the business owner, as let's say like you're only like a few months or like less than half a year in your automation, right? So,
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you learn it first and then you can teach your people, right? And when it comes to uh automating, right? Making everything into one pipeline, right? And replicating already your proofs of concept, you always nowadays need to set up like AI agents, AI system, right? For
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different tasks, right? And can you give a little bit of idea to people? So, okay, my team could help you to set up this automation for let's say only thumbnails, right? So, what the bottleneck you had with thumbnails?
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Yeah, basically the bottleneck of the thumbnails was that I was mainly making them. Like not manually, but with AI tools. Even if they were really straightforward. For example, in my format, thumbnails are pretty same.
Speaker A
Visually, they look quite same, but they only like change the items. That's what we did with Andrew, like Andrew's team and me, we developed this kind of tool that speeds very good level of thumbnails based on like outlier data
Speaker A
that we had. Can you show a little bit of sneak peek, let's say? Yeah, I can show. Give me a second.
Speaker A
So, basically just to tell you super high level how this works. It will first analyze like what's the channel's uh thumbnail style and what works there.
Speaker A
So, based on the data that we have from good performers, bad performers, it makes this kind of playbook.
Speaker A
And based on this playbook, uh what we can do here is that we can write the title of the video, um what we have here, and then also I put reference like just to make it like lock in that specific style even better.
Speaker A
And I can show you like some example that I have made. Uh there's like three thumbnails, but these are for same video.
Speaker A
Uh I think quality-wise for this format, uh these are pretty good. Uh thumbnails. Exactly.
Speaker A
Which I'm super happy about because this saved so much time from me. Yeah. So, you're you're happy to work with my technical lead, right, on setting up Yeah.
Speaker A
Yeah, 100%. Uh shout-out to Vlad. Shout-out to Vlad. [laughter] Exactly. Good. Good. So, you can say that, okay, all my team members, right, that helped you during the coaching, everybody was helpful, so all good on this side.
Speaker A
Yeah, 100%. Uh your your partner, Yury and Vlad, uh all of them, like amazing people.
Speaker A
Amazing. Yeah, I I'm so happy and we make sure that everybody, you know, is on track, on the right track.
Speaker A
Good. Good. Thank you. Thank you for showing everything. Just a few more questions, right? So, what would you tell to people who, right, that were struggling, who were struggling to make their first money, and what they can change, or what was like pivotal for you
Speaker A
that, you know, moved the needle so much, and, you know, just made it, you know, work.
Speaker A
To me, for me, it's this kind of 80/20 thinking. So, what it basically means is like focusing on high-leverage tasks. I follow every stuff you like move this on one else.
Speaker A
Because like each of us we want to start by ourselves. Maybe there would be point that you make money, but if you don't really are ready to not assign task for other people like uh you don't you can scale a
Speaker A
bit. And the second thing that I think really important in the beginning is that you really uh believe in yourself that you can make uh that kind of I think you had this episode with David uh the Spanish guy
Speaker A
and he put it in really good way that you need to believe that you can make a specific amount of money because if you don't believe that you can make like even 10K from YouTube you have no chance
Speaker A
to succeed like I can 100% say that. Exactly. Exactly that's why it's called like a limiting belief, right? Because it it actually limits you.
Speaker A
Yeah, 100% agree like it's so important to believe it to buy yourself first that this is possible.
Speaker A
And for me like I I always believed like it was possible, but with Andrew I feel like we really ask like went lot faster to that point.
Speaker A
And still it's just the beginning, right? All right because I need you to hit like six figures per month this year.
Speaker A
Yeah, let's do it. Right? Like Absolutely. Absolutely. And okay and what we can also pinpoint that even during like let's say uh pretty pretty quick journey so far in YouTube automation you already had the first exit, right? Can you tell
Speaker A
more about it? Uh what you can share? So how it went? Why you decided to sell it, right? And as much as possible, please.
Speaker A
Yeah, so the context for the channel uh it was my second channel that I started.
Speaker A
And basically the main reason uh why I sell it was that I [laughter] I kind of got bored of the ideation. I think the content wise it was really good and the niche was super interesting. It was this I kind of
Speaker A
I would say that I even generated new niche. This called how do I say like finance / relationship. And that was the moment where it really like went up and also I had buyer that really wanted to ideate on this channel and see lot of
Speaker A
potential. So, that's why we agreed on the sale. And I can show you like quickly Yeah. Yeah, you can just show the channel because of course you don't have any login or any you know access because you already sold it. But just to know
Speaker A
for people to outline, right? And to consider. So, okay. Yeah, this was the channel.
Speaker A
Yeah, and how much the channel was making? So, it was I think it existed so I think it existed for like one or two months.
Speaker A
Right? And what was like the revenue per month when you sold it? Yeah, so at that point when I sold it it was like if I remember correctly it was from four to six four to six K. Like between those
Speaker A
two. And I guess they like see a lot of potential for that channel because the HB Yeah, because it was the beginning.
Speaker A
Yeah, it was still super beginning of that channel and yeah, it's still doing good. I am still in contact with the person who I sold. So, happy to see it is in good hands.
Speaker A
It's It's very important right like when you do business and you want to make like you know business not just for one year or you know just quickly. But if you want to you know you if you want to
Speaker A
make it like more stable, right? And then the grow the reputation is everything, right? So, you want to keep like good connections, right? You want to build more connections, more trust, right? So, it's just not about reselling the channel like a dead channel that is
Speaker A
not making money, right? In order to just cash out something. It's also okay, it's win-win, right? Which is very important. And so people always can uh think in this way, right? Rather than scamming somebody or something. It doesn't make sense, right? Like you're a
Speaker A
good guy, like the buyer, I think it's he's a good guy, right? So, you can even do some partnership, some business together, right? Or you can sell even next channels. So, it's very very important.
Speaker A
Yeah, always having this long-term view. Like, I think in this business it's not like you do short-term stuff, right? Like you have to think each stuff like long-term.
Speaker A
Even when you make YouTube channels, like uh where you see this go, this channel, and yeah.
Speaker A
Good. Good. Okay. So, um I think one of the main questions is how you feel and how your family, right, uh feels about you, right? Like their emotions about your kind of fast success, right? Even if it's a good
Speaker A
first like not not the end point, right? It's just the beginning. So, let's say like a intermediate goal that you hit.
Speaker A
So, what are the emotions? What are the feelings about it? I mean, like it's kind of funny because as some people can notice, I'm Asian, right? So, people who are Asians know like what kind of parents they have.
Speaker A
They are the kind of parents that expect you to become doctor or like lawyer or at least minimum McKinsey consultant.
Speaker A
That's like the lowest role that you can have in this Asian hierarchy. But anyway, uh so, it was kind of interesting. I come from lower uh middle-income family.
Speaker A
And I make like how do I say, like almost like 10x per month than my father did before he retired.
Speaker A
So, they are quite amazed. But I was always there with like risk-averse persons, like hey, can do have plan B.
Speaker A
Uh I think they haven't really still processed this success that I had. Uh have be honest.
Speaker A
Oh. Okay. But me like I have like yeah, it's nice number, but I will always believe that I can do these numbers and even hit higher.
Speaker A
Like I think that's important. Exactly. Um belief to have to succeed here. Yeah. Good. Good. Yeah. Thank you so much. I mean that's pretty good and valuable advice, right? And strategies that we gave out to people Yeah.
Speaker A
here. If you want to add something, right? Like maybe you know, for the audience, maybe for even yourself, right? When you going to maybe watch this video in 1 year or 2 years. So, what are what are the important things
Speaker A
you would like to pinpoint apart of everything we discussed? I think like as I said before, like it's the limiting belief part, right? Like if you come from environment where is not much abundance of wealth, right? Uh you have this kind
Speaker A
of scarcity mindset. And what does that scarcity mindset mean practices that you don't want to, for example, spend money to outsource stuff, these lower level activities, or spend money to like learn new stuff, right?
Speaker A
Like I I think that's really big limiting beliefs that many people have in this YouTube space.
Speaker A
Yeah, also so so many people, right? When when they start something, sorry to interrupt you. Uh when people start something, they think they can also learn fast, right?
Speaker A
Uh you know, themselves, but they are wasting a lot of time, right? Yeah. Yeah, and also like um if you spend some money for like learning stuff, you want to learn from best.
Speaker A
Uh like Andrew was best in this industry, in my opinion. Some can argue, but in my opinion, he's the best.
Speaker A
the support, like of course like I have to work, but I mean, like, you need to have this mentality that you like, you play for winning, not prevent for losing. Like, that's really important mindset to have, in my
Speaker A
opinion. I mean, so, let's finish on this note. It's It's absolutely uh crucial. Thank you so much, Ken, right?
Speaker A
I'm going to see you in the video when you're going to make six figures, right?
Speaker A
If Because it's it's very important, right? Not just the number, but the type of person you become during the way, right? Like, the skills you get, new mindset, you know, openings, right?
Speaker A
Like, new tactics when it comes to team management or something, right? It's It's all about learning and becoming a better person, not about just, you know, revenue on your bank account.
Speaker A
Yeah, exactly. I think that's the journey of entrepreneurship, like, why Like, it's really important uh reason to do it. Like, you develop yourself a lot faster and learn about yourself than working for corporate.
Speaker A
Exactly. Good. Thank you so much. See you in the next video. Yes, thank you, Andrew.
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