--- title: 'How I Earned $3000 from a Telegram Channel with Zero Investment' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=tkNMRTt09Bw' video_id: 'tkNMRTt09Bw' date: 2026-08-04 duration_sec: 1740 --- # How I Earned $3000 from a Telegram Channel with Zero Investment > Source: [How I Earned $3000 from a Telegram Channel with Zero Investment](https://youtube.com/watch?v=tkNMRTt09Bw) ## Summary The video presents a business model for monetizing Telegram channels by driving traffic from vertical videos on TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram Reels, without investing in advertising. The creator shares his personal success of earning 280,000 rubles in three months and outlines a step-by-step system for niche selection, account creation, content strategy, and advertising sales. ### Key Points - **Zero-cost monetization** [00:04] — Earned 280,000 rubles in 3 months with 0 rubles spent on advertising, all net profit from a Telegram channel monetized through vertical videos. - **Standard vs. proposed model** [01:41] — Standard model: buy ads in other Telegram channels, redirect traffic, resell. Proposed model: attract traffic from vertical videos (TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels) to your channel, then sell ads. - **Why this model is gaining popularity** [03:42] — Subscriber prices are rising (e.g., discount aggregators from 10-15 rubles in 2023 to 50 rubles now), payback period increased from 2-3 months to 1 year, competition and dumping are growing, so cheaper traffic sources are valuable. - **Niche selection** [06:02] — Choose a growing niche (best), stable, or degrading (avoid). Use TGStat and Telemetry to analyze market demand and advertising effectiveness. - **Analyzing competitor channels** [09:56] — In TGStat, check 'advertising effectiveness' (how many ads sold daily) and 'subscriber acquisition' (purchases) to gauge niche attractiveness. Example: self-development niche shows high demand. - **Finding creatives** [12:40] — Creatives are videos that drive audience to a link in bio. Example: 'Did you know there's a book with all words in English?' Publish hundreds of these daily to create traffic flow. - **Account creation** [14:03] — Create accounts on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube. Use temporary numbers (e.g., SMS Man) or buy ready-made accounts (e.g., FB Story) that are at least 30 days old. - **Account development** [19:13] — Do competitor analysis using scrapers, collect top videos, create similar scripts with ChatGPT, edit in CapCut, re-upload. Publish 50 wide-reach videos first, then switch to creatives. - **Uploading creatives** [21:53] — Once accounts are promoted (50+ videos), publish 3-5 creatives daily. Source materials from Pinterest or stock sites like Pixels. Uniqueize competitor creatives with bots or minimal editing. - **Selling advertising** [24:15] — Selling ads with external traffic is harder due to trust issues. Solutions: offer payment per subscriber (12-15 rubles per postpaid subscriber), verify advertiser's trust via TGStat/Telemetry, offer test uploads of 500-1000 subscribers. ### Conclusion The model of driving traffic from vertical videos to a Telegram channel and monetizing through advertising is a viable, low-cost strategy. Success depends on choosing a growing niche, creating effective creatives, and building trust with advertisers. ## Transcript 280 rubles I earned money in 3 months by investing 0 rubles. in advertising. That is, all 280 rubles that I received from this is net profit. That's exactly how much I earned from this Telegram channel I uploaded, and exclusively through vertical videos on TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram Reals. I created vertical videos from these social networks. Then I Telegram channel. And after that, because of this Telegram channel, I sold advertising for money. And, accordingly, in this way my Telegram channel was monetized. And in this video I will share with you my business model, namely how I managed to create such a system, which brings me such a system, which brings me 80,000 rubles monthly so far. And I have plans to scale up the profits from this Telegram channel and similar ones several times over. Watch to the end, and you'll have a full understanding of how to drive traffic to your Telegram channel from vertical videos, and then monetize it in those same Telegram channels so Telegram channels so that all revenue is your net Telegram admins. Watch the video to the end and you will understand what I am talking about. Typically, the standard model for monetizing Telegram channels that sell advertising looks like this. Advertising is purchased in other Telegram channels, that is, in channels with the same theme. From there, traffic is redirected to our From there, traffic is redirected to our Telegram channel, and then we resell this traffic to another Telegram channel. This is actually what the Telegram market looks like actually what the Telegram market looks like . And this is a standard, uh, business model. But the problem is that in recent years this, recent years this, uh, business model has become increasingly less uh, business model has become increasingly less profitable. And a little, ah, later we’ll profitable. And a little, ah, later we’ll talk about why exactly. Here's what my business model offers. I drive traffic from vertical videos, I drive traffic from vertical videos, namely TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram Reals. And then I send this traffic to my Telegram channel. And then, as usual , we redirect this traffic to other Telegram channels and thus earn money from advertising. That is, from advertising. That is, We've eliminated or at least limited advertising on other Telegram channels Telegram channels and started attracting traffic from external channels, specifically vertical videos. And so we found a new source of traffic and, logically, began to monetize it. Because when someone, any market participant, finds a new source of traffic, he usually starts earning the most, because this traffic is the least expensive and it is in the greatest demand. Now let's talk about why, uh, this particular business model began to gain popularity and why I switched from popularity and why I switched from purchasing within the cart to transferring traffic from vertical videos. First of all, the price of a Telegram subscriber is increasing Telegram subscriber is increasing every year. I know of topics where the subscriber base has grown, for example, fivefold over the last two years. These are, for example, Telegram channels with discounts on the Telegram channels with discounts on the product vertical, discount aggregators on Wberryies, product vertical, discount aggregators on Wberryies, Yandex Market, and so on. If, Yandex Market, and so on. If, say, in 2023, a subscriber there cost say, in 2023, a subscriber there cost 10-15 rubles, now it could cost 50 rubles. And this is considered a really good price. and the payback period of the Telegram channel, price. and the payback period of the Telegram channel, or rather, the payback period, is growing. And if previously a Telegram channel could be recouped in, say, 2-3 months, if we take, for example, 2020, now in 2025 a Telegram channel pays for itself in an 2025 a Telegram channel pays for itself in an average of 1 year, because competition is growing, the number of players in the market is growing. This leads to dumping. And, accordingly, Telegram became a full-fledged business. Yes, there are Telegram became a full-fledged business. Yes, there are more clients, and that's attractive, more clients, and that's attractive, but occupation has become more difficult, and Telegram businesses are striving to reduce production costs. That is, to make content production as cheap as possible, to make attracting cheap as possible, to make attracting traffic as cheap as possible. And this desire goes against the trend, namely, that the cost of advertising is rising, the cost of a subscriber is rising. At the same time, it is in the interests of Telegram channels to make in the interests of Telegram channels to make the cost of a subscriber as cheap as possible. And it is precisely the cost of a subscriber as cheap as possible. And it is precisely this model that solves our this model that solves our problem. And in this video we will talk about what problem. And in this video we will talk about what this system looks like. Watch carefully and you will have no questions left. To implement such a scheme, we need to choose a niche in Telegram, because not every topic can be implemented in this way. And how much we can earn depends on the right choice. Because if we don’t guess the niche and choose a if we don’t guess the niche and choose a dead one, then we can become a traffic guru. dead one, then we can become a traffic guru. We may have top-notch skills, but if We may have top-notch skills, but if we choose a dead niche, the soil will be infertile and there will simply be nowhere for our fruits to grow. And, accordingly, we will sit with nothing, without money, without everything else, but with skills. And everything else, but with skills. And in Telegram, niches in the domestic economy in Telegram, niches in the domestic economy can be divided into three types. These are growing. They are the best for us, because when a niche grows, it means that demand is high, and there are not many players in the market yet. And we can squeeze in among the first and earn more than anyone else simply because we were among the first to enter this niche. stable, you could say stagnant, not growing, but I'd rather say growing, but I'd rather say stable, because if stable, because if a niche has been on Telegram for a very long time and it consistently brings in money, then it's still worth being in. If budgets don't fall, turnover doesn't drop, then everything is fine with it and we can survive on it. And the third is degrading. These are the niches that are not worth entering because there is less money there, and therefore there is nothing to gain there. For example, this is the freebies theme, that is, an aggregator of various promotional codes, there is Yandex+, scooter and all the rest, because, well, there are fewer offers in affiliate programs, and there are fewer advertisers, and, accordingly, this niche is deteriorating. Or maybe it's a product, sellers have started buying less traffic in Telegram channels, and, accordingly, Telegram channels, and, accordingly, they have less money, and everything is extremely bad there. I was in this field, I sold my channels. Also my colleagues , the admins, are there now. And, in general, they are fighting that everything is very bad, general, they are fighting that everything is very bad, everything is stagnating, and nothing is growing. few clients, little money, and so on. We need to determine what type of niche we potentially want to be in. And for potentially want to be in. And for this we have two websites with which we can determine the state of the market situation. This is a state of the market situation. This is a telemeter mi, as well as TGsta. For example, here's how you can do this in TG stats. We go to the main page, select all the categories, or rather, they are already visible on the main page, and we see all the topics inside the cart. Linguistics, cognitive career. For example, I have a Telegram channel, which I’m showing you, it’s on the topic of linguistics. I researched this niche and realized that it is growing. and realized that it is growing. And in general, we choose. preferences, we can simply choose the niche that appeals to us, or simply use the trial and error method to look at the situation and choose the most at the situation and choose the most growing one. And in Telegram channels from the niche that interests us . Let's go to the Telegram channel . Let's go to the Telegram channel and select the channel statistics section. And further here we need two subsections. The first is the effectiveness of advertising. That is, we see a Telegram channel that is being purchased, and we need to understand how effectively advertising is being sold there . And here, in this section, we can see how many ads this Telegram channel sells. Here we see the Telegram channel sells. Here we see the number twenty-six. This was yesterday at the time of the video recording. And for the twenty-fifth we have three advertisements. That is, we see that advertising is sold every day, and even several times. Accordingly, what conclusion do we draw? We conclude that We conclude that there is a demand for advertising in this topic. And here is one Telegram channel, we need 5-10 more channels. Accordingly, if we see that 10-15 channels have the same demand for advertising, then this niche is attractive and can be entered. And the second section we need is attracting subscribers. And, accordingly, here we look at And, accordingly, here we look at purchases. This does not show the full picture of channel economics relative to purchasing. However, , for example, from November twenty-five, 27 mentions in the telegram. And we look at which channels this project purchases traffic from. And we see that this is a model, one could even say a pyramid, where channels with the same topic simply transfer traffic to each other . Don't worry, this is not a real financial pyramid, it's just a very similar model. similar model. And we see that 27 advertisements were purchased in the cart, and two or three advertisements are sold every day. Accordingly, are sold every day. Accordingly, we conclude that the self-development niche is well suited for monetization. By the way, I'm now talking about my English language channel, but I also have a self-development channel that I upload vertical videos to. And the niche is very attractive. there 1,000 dash 1,400 CPM, that is, for 1,000 views, and 1,000 or 1,400 rubles. That is, 5,000 views is at least 5,000 rubles. Let's move on to the second step, and 5,000 rubles. Let's move on to the second step, and we need to find creatives. What are creatives? These are videos that drive audiences to the link in the bio. That is, there are regular entertainment videos aimed at attracting subscribers to a TikTok, YouTube, or Instagram account, or at retaining an audience, and then there are creative videos specifically designed to redirect the audience to a link in the bio. And, for example, this is such creativity. The first 2 seconds I get attention. Mm, for example, did you know that there is a book in which all the words are in English. And then I show this book. Accordingly, traffic has a desire to find out what kind of book it is, and, accordingly, it follows the link to the biogranal. And so I have one more subscriber. And I publish a couple hundred of these videos a day And, accordingly, this allows me to create a flow of traffic. Next, we need to create accounts on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. We will be creating Instagram, and YouTube. We will be creating vertical videos and logically uploading them to all three platforms, not just one, because this is how we increase our traffic volumes. And, accordingly, we don’t lose it, because the same video can be uploaded to TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram. You can't reupload, for example, on one social network, say, TikTok, to multiple accounts, but you can reupload the same video on accounts, but you can reupload the same video on TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram. And now, in 2025, there is a problem with registering accounts on these registering accounts on these social networks, namely, social networks, namely, here we can either use temporary phone numbers, for example, there is a service like SMS Man, there are dozens of others like it, that is, they have temporary phone numbers, we receive SMS on them, then register accounts and forget about these numbers. You can also buy ready-made accounts, for example, on FB Story, where you select an account that has been active for at least 30 days. And, accordingly, we go to them and can already use them. As we go to them and can already use them. As for searching for creatives, we can only parse the most popular videos, that is, those that have received the most views. And if we need videos that drive audiences to Telegram, then it's as if audiences to Telegram, then it's as if the platforms don't collect data on how many subscribers a particular video drives to Telegram. Accordingly, here only a keen eye will help us: we can parse, find our competitors using software, and then very meticulously study their accounts. very meticulously study their accounts. in my paid Telegram channel, Traffic Lab. This is my closed community of arbitrageurs, where I share my own connections, ready-made developments, and market observations. You are now watching a video and there are many more similar exclusive videos in Trffic Laab . We're now talking about creating a Telegram channel using vertical videos for subsequent monetization. Specifically within this topic, Traffic Lab offers guides on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram, including account registration and warm-up, as after registration, you need to perform certain actions for several days to ensure the social network understands you're not a spammer, but a real person, and to avoid being blocked. upload warm-up videos because I showed you creative ones. But we don't upload these kinds of videos right away, because if we do, we won't get many views. We also need to optimize our accounts, specifically what to do after registration, what to do before uploading, and how to fully set them up. For example, in TikTok you can’t immediately add a link to the bio, but we need it. In general, all of this is there . To make the video unique. Also, if we're going to reupload our competitors' videos, we need to make them unique, learn how to reupload other people's videos without how to reupload other people's videos without getting banned, and also use ready-made links getting banned, and also use ready-made links in addition to what I showed, on how to upload to Telegram channels of a particular topic. And there's, for example, a link to the product, how there's, for example, a link to the product, how to upload to, uh, Yandex Market, Telegram channels with selections from Yandex Market and AliExpress, and how to monetize them using affiliate programs. A, MBLN, that is, affiliate programs. A, MBLN, that is, this is a casino, scheme traffic and direct. There, monetization also occurs through a combination of vertical videos and a Telegram channel. Or film clips. This is generally one of the most enjoyable ways to make money on the Internet. We publish film clips and, well, monetize them through views. That is, they collected a lot of views and That is, they collected a lot of views and made money. Overall, a huge number of guides and instructions await you in Trffic Lab. I invite you there. In the meantime, let 's continue analyzing our connection. And the fourth step is developing accounts on the fourth step is developing accounts on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. First of all, we need to do a competitor analysis. This is done with the help of scrapers. Mm, we need to do a Mm, we need to do a competitor analysis on Instagram, YouTube, and competitor analysis on Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok. I explained in detail how to do this in Traffic Lab. This is done using scrapers or using the using scrapers or using the interface of the social networks themselves. Next, we collect the most popular, most viewed videos in a table, videos in a table, and then come up with similar ones using the GPT chat. Then, with new, similar scenarios, we edit these videos in KPAt, after which we re-upload them to our our TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram Reals profiles. That is, we first need to collect as many views as possible from the first fifty videos. And then, when we already have a lot of views, we publish creatives. If you take, for example, my most successful channels most successful channels on YouTube and TikTok, you can see on YouTube and TikTok, you can see that I first published videos with wide reach and then moved on to creative ones. And in the end, these accounts turned out to be the most effective. And of course, I also have unsuccessful accounts. And I noticed a clear pattern. If I immediately start publishing creative videos like these, my account becomes ineffective. Accordingly, we publish such videos only when our account is already promoted. We can tell that our account is popular because we have published at least 50 videos. And also in the account settings on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and so on. I showed this in detail in Traffic Lab. And once our accounts are promoted, we move on to uploading creatives. Accordingly, we are already publishing 3 dashes a day here and driving our audience to Telegram. We take creative source materials from, for example, Pinterest or some stock Pinterest or some stock site, for example, in this case, Pixels. And if we analyze this creative work of mine, and I regularly re-upload it, then I took this image from Pinterest, I took this image from Pinterest, and this one, which is behind the book, too. And I made a screencast of the book itself. I looked at what book my looked at what book my competitor was pouring into. I also took a screenshot of it and made a creative copy. This kind of creativity takes, well, five minutes to create, and the profit we get is colossal. This can also be uniqueization. For example, we take a competitor’s creative and re-upload it to us. It needs to be made unique. There are needs to be made unique. There are special uniqueizer bots. You can also add minimal editing, which is also done in literally 5 minutes in a capcatch, and, accordingly, we get the result. And it can also be a recording from the main camera, because it depends on our creativity. It happens that we show the interface of some website from the main camera. And in this way we can, say, record the same take 100 times. And we will have 100 absolutely similar creatives that we can, uh, that we can distribute across accounts. This will not be considered a accounts. This will not be considered a re-upload. Hey! creative content looks like when it’s recorded with the phone’s main camera. And, ah, such videos convert very well , but in this case, they sell, ah, planners, and don’t upload to Telegram channels. And the sixth step. We are moving to selling advertising. Once we have accounts, creatives, and a stream on our Telegram channel, we can move on to selling advertising. And here it is important to understand the following. And selling advertising in a channel with external content is more difficult than in the case of direct traffic. Because when we have direct traffic, the admin can see where exactly we purchased it from, and, accordingly, we purchased it from, and, accordingly, trust in us is higher. If we have traffic from the outside, then the admin has doubts, because we could have poured, uh, bots and, accordingly, and in this way we would theoretically scam him . And the second reason for not having a name . And the second reason for not having a name in the market is even more complicated, because I, for example, have been in the Telegram market since 2020 and many people know me. In 2020 and many people know me. In this regard, it was easier for me. However, I have students who, even without a name in the market, managed to sell quite a market, managed to sell quite a lot of advertising. And here the solution to the problem is The first is to offer advertising with payment per subscriber. That is, payment per subscriber. That is, we put our advertiser's post in the greeting or in the feed . Let's say 200 subscribers come to him, and we 200 subscribers come to him, and we get 12 dashes 15 rubles. for each get 12 dashes 15 rubles. for each postpaid subscriber. And here we need our advertiser to have high trust, namely, we visit high trust, namely, we visit their, uh, uh , their Telegram channels in TGstat, or in Telemetry. We need him to have a lot of sales and purchases in the subscriber acquisition and advertising effectiveness section subscriber acquisition and advertising effectiveness section , and also for , and also for the description to not have changed in recent the description to not have changed in recent months, or for his contact information to not have changed in recent months, not have changed in recent months, because he can only buy the channel, and then the trust of another admin of the previous owner will transfer to him, and, accordingly, he can already scam a higher probability and offer a test upload of 500 or 1,000 subscribers. It seems like external traffic's attitude towards it is changing. While this was a disgrace in 2021-22, it is now very relevant traffic. But not everyone understands this. We can offer a test fill of 500 dash 1.1000 subscribers. I suggested this to some people, and they agreed with me, and eventually we moved to permanent cooperation. Thus, we get a system like this. We either buy accounts or create them using temporary numbers. Next, we register accounts on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram. Here we create accounts, promote Here we create accounts, promote them, and then upload creatives and them, and then upload creatives and drive traffic to Telegram. And when we already have sufficient traffic volumes, we can sell advertising to other similar channels. And, accordingly, this is how we make money from it. If you have your own product, say, you're an English tutor, or English tutor, or you have other products of your own, then you have other products of your own, then we only change one detail in this scheme, namely, advertising sales. namely, advertising sales. Here we have our own product Here we have our own product and, accordingly, , because selling our own product is more profitable than selling advertising. This scheme will be useful to you in any case , if you have any kind of Telegram channel and you want to monetize it, gain subscribers, increase volume, and so subscribers, increase volume, and so on. Good luck.