YouTube Shorts: The Greatest Opportunity Yet
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This video explains how to leverage YouTube Shorts for rapid channel growth and monetization using a simple three-step process. The creator demonstrates finding popular short video ideas, editing them in Canva, and earning commissions through affiliate marketing without needing to show your face.
YouTube created Shorts to compete with TikTok, offering a massive opportunity for rapid channel growth with simple 60-second videos.
Search hashtag #shorts plus niche (e.g., #shortsfitness) and filter by most popular to find trending topics; condense long-form content into 3-5 points.
Canva is the recommended free video editor for Shorts; use mobile video format, drag stock footage from Canva or Pexels, and add text with animations.
Each segment should be 3-4 seconds long; total video must be under 60 seconds.
Use Clickbank or Digistore24 to find products to promote, generate affiliate links, shorten them with Bitly, and add the link in the video description and pinned comment.
Since mobile viewers cannot click descriptions, pin the affiliate link in the comments to ensure visibility and clicks.
Mix Shorts with long-form videos to build a sustainable channel and eventually monetize with ad revenue.
YouTube Shorts present a low-barrier entry for creators to grow and monetize quickly, but long-term success requires a mix of short and long-form content.
What video editor does the creator recommend for making YouTube Shorts?
Canva
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How can you find popular YouTube Shorts ideas?
Search hashtag #shorts plus your niche and sort by most popular.
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What is the recommended length for each clip segment in a Short?
3-4 seconds
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Where should you place the affiliate link for mobile viewers?
In the pinned comment
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What is the average commission mentioned for the Okinawa Flat Belly Tonic?
$143
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What two tools does the creator suggest for YouTube title optimization?
Morningfame and TubeBuddy
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How does the creator suggest condensing long-form content into a Short?
Take the top 3-5 points from a longer video instead of all 10.
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YouTube Shorts as a Growth Opportunity
Highlights a key platform shift that creators can exploit for rapid channel growth.
00:01Using Canva for Simple Editing
Democratizes video creation by showing an easy, free tool for making professional-looking shorts.
02:43Monetization via Affiliate Marketing
Provides a clear, actionable method to earn money directly from Shorts beyond ad revenue.
10:14Pinning the Affiliate Link
Critical mobile optimization tip that most tutorials overlook, significantly increasing conversion chances.
12:47Mix Shorts with Long-Form Content
Strategic advice for building a sustainable YouTube presence beyond the Shorts boom.
13:41[00:01] created this new thing called youtube shorts because they want to compete with tick-tock and this is easily one of the greatest opportunities youtube has ever given us and there's literally channels making these simple 60-second or even
[00:16] shorter videos getting insane amount of views and in this video not only am i going to show you how to get these video ideas for youtube shorts and how to create them in the most simple video editor out there but i'm also going to
[00:30] show you how to make even more money with these simple videos and at the end bonus method that will help you take this even a step further and make even
[00:42] more money online so let's get started all right what's going on guys thomas garrett's here back with another video and like i said in this one we're going to be using youtube shorts and this is absolutely crazy how much youtube is
[00:54] pushing these youtube shorts and you can grow a channel so fast with these okay and before we actually create the shorts we gotta find a type of video to make right we gotta get ideas and there's plenty of ways to do this but if you
[01:08] just type in hashtag shorts and then plus you can see look all these different ideas come up and i personally went over here i typed in shorts plus fitness and i found this channel right here e-pain assist and
[01:22] they help with like all these different things like back pain all these different things however that's not what i want to focus on they're making these cool shorts where they do like exercises i'm gonna do those because i think those
[01:34] are so simple to make and so many people are at home and just not really moving around as much so these can be super profitable and a good way of finding like popular ones to make is sorting it by most popular so as you can see here
[01:49] they got like yoga poses to firm we're not to make that one but you could see like 10 best ab exercises to build a six pack at home that's great 1.8 million views okay and this is four minutes long so it's not actually
[02:03] youtube shorts but you can just click on it here and then instead of doing the 10 best ab exercises to build a six pack at home without gym equipment we could do the three best right so the way you can find the three best is you could
[02:15] literally go in here and take three of their ten okay there's nothing wrong taking their video and stealing their content or anything like that we're making our own custom content or what i did is i just typed in five best
[02:28] take five or three or however many you want to do and that's how you do that okay so now that we got that situated we have to actually create the video so the easiest video editor that i was
[02:43] mentioning is canva and this is actually what i use for all of my graphic design stuff like thumbnails and literally anything with a picture on it or video now this is new because if you go right here to video by the way there is a free
[02:58] put a link down below if you want to get paid plans but it's totally up to you if you want to get the paid plan i'll explain more on that in a minute but after you go to video right here you go
[03:11] right here to mobile video because these are shorts so they're like tick-tock they're vertical videos so you create blank all right now that we're in the video they have templates and stuff and you
[03:25] can use them if you want but i just like doing it from scratch personally so what i would do is i would have like an intro of the shorts and you can go watch see how like they do their videos if you want but i'll just show you what the
[03:39] and basically what i would do is i would type in under videos right here go to videos and i would type in like add workouts ab not ads i'm like why is that not showing up ab workouts and then i would take something like this right and
[03:55] instead of just clicking it like i did what you can do it's pretty cool you can just drag it right here and it will make it full size and then you can double click it and move it like that so it's more centered
[04:07] and that looks great right one other thing i want to show you is you see this little crown on it that says pro so that's where if you have a free account this photo or this video would cost you a dollar okay but if you get the pro
[04:22] free trial by clicking the link in the description you don't have to pay any so these are all free that doesn't mean you have to get the pro account like you can cancel it at any time and not pay it or you can go to websites like
[04:35] pexels.com and then you could just go to videos here and go to ab workouts here and download it from here and then import it into canva like this so
[04:47] you would download right here you click this little download button and it comes right in this corner right here so it's downloaded and you would put it over drop it and you see it's downloading or uploading right there and then you would
[05:01] just drag it and do the same thing like that okay so i just undid that but that's what you would do if you really don't want to get the free trial but i free so that's what i said i would mention more about canva i just like
[05:15] having the pro account because you can go right here into videos and use all this stuff for free you know what i mean so that's that right now we have to add some text on this so what i would do is i would just add some basic text or you
[05:28] can use like these combinations here which are actually kind of cool so let's do something like this that looks cool we'll do the three best ab workouts and then you wanna stretch it a little bit like that okay and then you
[05:43] can change the color right here so you see how there's like different colors you gotta like highlight this all right so that and you can make it like uh yellow maybe and then make this one let's do
[05:57] want to go to effects because they have some shadow on it you can see it kinda i would make the shadow black personally and then i always do this okay all the way to the left all the way to the left all the way to the right and all the way
[06:11] to the right okay so that's what i do and you can see it just it looks a lot better in my opinion and you could put it up here too if you want but that's just an example you can also just literally add in basic text like that
[06:25] and change everything however you want all right now if we click on it again you see this is 20 seconds long so you can just drag it or you can just type it in let's say three seconds okay
[06:37] now this is three seconds three best ab workouts okay and the last thing i will show you if you want you can click on this text and animate it alright so you can have the text like do something cool like that you can have it type
[06:51] right so that's pretty much uh the options so let's hit play up here and just see there you go that looks pretty good all right so we'll we'll stick with that now what you can do is you can literally
[07:03] just right click it and hit duplicate that way you have the same text if you want to keep it or if you want to do different text that's totally fine okay different text that's totally fine okay but now so let's do uh workout number
[07:17] one and then let's make this a little smaller let's do uh like this okay workout number one and then we'll go right here or we could do exercise
[07:31] sense and then we'll go right here and then we'll do bicycle crunch and then we'll make that much smaller so it's probably gonna be like 70 to fit oh no it's way too small let's do like 95 maybe 105. there we go because we want
[07:44] it on one line remember and then we'll highlight that and make it white and then you literally just go to right here videos again and type in bicycle crunch okay so that's like where they're like doing that right so we'll just take that
[07:57] and put the person like that this might be too uh too big let's see if we can find a better one where they're like more straightforward so sideways so what you got to do is you just click it don't drag it and then you
[08:11] want to rotate it like that to 90 degrees then you just put it up top and then drag it like that all right so that's pretty cool and there you go so you hit play boom boom nice so then we'll take this
[08:28] and we'll just drag it to like three seconds something like that maybe make it just a tad longer like four seconds because it's got to be under a minute so four seconds is fine you could even have it be a little longer depending how many
[08:40] you're gonna do but then again you would just right-click duplicate you would do go right here you would take captain's keep doing it but i think you understand and then the last step if you're
[08:53] uploading this on mobile you can actually add in music on like the shorts platform as well but we'll just go right here to audio and then you just add in some music so you just drag this on here and then you adjust it however you want
[09:07] that's what you would do so then you would just hit download right here mp4 video okay leave it there and just hit download and now you see three best right there i didn't rename it but that's that's just what it's set as but
[09:20] you could name it if you wanted to it's not a big deal but we got it downloaded so now before i actually show you how to monetize this let's go over to youtube and let's just upload it really quick okay so we'll hit right here create and
[09:33] hit upload video and then we'll drag it onto here now when it comes to titles this is something that it's not as important for youtube shorts as it is videos
[09:46] however if you are interested in learning how i make titles i use two tools i either use morningfame which is the main one i use or tubebuddy mostly morningfame though so i'll leave links to both of those down below you can get
[09:59] a free trial for morningfame and you can get a free account for tubebuddy but just for example purposes we'll do something like three best exercises to and then what did they say let's see here to build here we'll just copy this
[10:14] just for example real quick to build a six pack at home without any gym equipment so we'll delete this and then put in parentheses no gym equipment required all right so something like
[10:29] that but now that we got our title and we got our video we have to monetize it and this is with something called affiliate marketing and the easiest way got digistore24 and there's lots of other
[10:42] ways but this is how we're gonna actually make money and this is by just for our shorts videos we got another spot we got to put that link which no one seems to mention but you can make a ton of money just by recommending other
[10:57] people's products and you earn a commission okay so for example we're in click health and fitness right here and right here you can see you can make a hundred forty three dollars on average by promoting the okinawa flat belly
[11:12] tonic okay so that's perfect it's about getting a flat belly so we'll hit right here promote and then you just hit generate hop links and now you have this really long ugly link right so what you're going to want to do is click this
[11:25] copy button right there okay now you have the link copied but this is very important you're going to want to go to a website called bitly.com and then you just literally paste it in here you hit shorten and now you have this link right
[11:38] there and that link if we go to a new tab and paste it it will take us to this affiliate link and if you look at the top right here you can see t garrett so that's my affiliate link so once you create a free account for clickbank it
[11:50] would have euros up there and if anyone purchases from this website i make that forty three dollars okay so now that we have our affiliate link we go back here and what you wanna do is you wanna type in oh i almost forgot this is very
[12:03] important this is short so you have to put hashtag shorts right there that would have been bad but then what i suggest is i would just paste this link right here for right now and then i'm gonna hit enter once you're gonna take
[12:16] the title and paste that in the description as well and then right here we could do something like uh get a flat belly here or we could do like the secret to get a flat belly and then do like that and then also you could go
[12:32] like to google and do like uh arrow on keyboard click that right there and then you can grab like an arrow i always use this one so just copy that and then go back here and then instead of that we'll just put the arrow there you go and your
[12:47] description is done but make sure you copy this okay and then you just hit next next and then you go to public and then you hit publish all right now this is the video link right here so go right here
[13:02] and this is the most important part you have to go to the comments and paste that in there okay and then hit comment and then what you want to do is you want to go right here and pin it okay this is
[13:14] when you're actually watching youtube shorts you can't click on the description the only people who can click right here on the description are people watching on a computer but if you're on mobile watching youtube shorts
[13:27] comments so that way they go to the comments and this is pinned at the top so that's how you're gonna make the money on the youtube shorts platform okay now the last step before moving forward and just making a bunch of
[13:41] youtube shorts is you have to realize that youtube shorts isn't always gonna be like this it's still very new so it's eventually going to get harder and harder and harder so what i suggest doing is you need to start creating some
[13:55] full videos in there as well so maybe do like two youtube shorts and one full video like long form video it doesn't have to be super long but obviously longer than a minute and that way you can start getting monetized with ad
[14:09] revenue and you can actually build a long-term brand you know what i mean so if you want to learn how to actually make full length videos and do all of that stuff make sure to click the
[14:22] no face youtube course where i teach you how to do everything completely step by step and that's all i got step and that's all i got see on the next video
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