Ali Abdaal – Part-Time YouTuber Academy
Learn how to Grow your YouTube Channel
Making Money from YouTube
18 months later, my YouTube channel was at 100,000 subscribers and was making as much money as my full-time job working as a doctor in the UK. And now, as of May 2021, my channel has 1.7 million subscribers and I make over £100,000 ($130k) each month, with 5-10 hours of effort each week. I know — it’s bloody ridiculous.
The Secret to 100,000+ Subscribers
- Producing content that your audience finds useful
- Posting this on YouTube once a week
- Repeating this for at least 2 years
But sadly, as with all things, getting started and maintaining quality + consistency is easier said than done.
The Challenges of Being a YouTuber
- It feels daunting to create videos for 2+ years. You won’t see much growth, or any money, in the early stages.
- You’ll have to get over the fear of judgment from friends, family and strangers on the internet.
- You’ll have to figure out what you’re going to talk about, and why anyone would care what you’ve got to say.
- You’ll need to learn about cameras, microphones, lights, video editing and post-production.
- You’ll worry that you’re going to run out of ideas.
- You’ll be constantly thinking about the YouTube algorithm, while simultaneously trying not to think about the YouTube algorithm.
- You’ll end up negotiating with brands, plucking numbers out of thin air because you’ve got no idea how much to charge them.
The Part-Time YouTuber Academy
It’s based on the Infinite Content Engine, the system I’ve developed to grow my channel from zero to 1.7 million subscribers (with $1,500,000+ in annual revenue) while working full-time as a doctor.
We ran Cohort 1 in November 2020 and Cohort 2 in March 2021 serving over 600 students with fantastic results and glowing testimonials.
Cohort 3 runs from 7th June to 16th July 2021. Each week, we’ll have a combination of live Zoom lectures, Q&A Office Hours, homework video assignments and group support sessions to help you kickstart your new channel or build upon your existing one.
Each week, we’ll also have a series of Guest Workshops, small group support sessions and social clubs to help you get the most from the course.
By the end of the 6-week course…
Who’s the Course for?
‘Serious’ Beginners
Intermediate YouTubers
Bloggers and Podcasters
Who’s the Course NOT for?
- You’re not willing to put in the time and effort to make 1 video per week for the homework assignments.
- You’re looking for a magic bullet that’ll cause your channel to grow without any effort. There’s no secret here. It’s just about putting in the work, doing it consistently, and stacking the deck in your favour in whatever way you can.
- You’re hoping that starting a YouTube channel will be a get-rich-quick scheme. Again, that’s not how it works. There are no shortcuts.
- You’re looking for a guaranteed path to 10k, or 100k, or 1M subscribers. There are no guarantees in this game. It’s like signing up for a writing course and expecting to have 1M readers per month for your blog, or 100,000 sales of your book. That’s not how it works. There are a huge number of factors that go into whether something will be numerically ‘successful’. We’ll do our best to teach you the systems and processes that have worked for us and our students, but we can’t ‘guarantee’ any specific result.
What’s in the Course?
1. Core Course Modules
Live Session Timings
We’ll have 2 live sessions each week for 6 weeks. They’ll be on Mondays and Thursdays, 1600 – 1800 BST. Each session will have 60-90 mins of core teaching and interactive exercises, followed by an open Q&A. If you can’t make the live sessions, don’t worry – we’ll upload the Zoom recording within 1h of the session ending, and we’ll have a nicely edited video with timestamps ready within 24h of the session.
2. Homework Video Assignments
If you can’t (or won’t) commit to publishing 1 video each week, this course isn’t for you. You won’t get much value out of it. It would be like signing up for a gym class, showing up to watch the tutorial, and not doing any exercise. It might be interesting, but it wouldn’t get you any results.
3. Our New House Support System
Meet your Housemasters
Jack Edwards
Hannah Witton
Elizabeth Filips
4. Community + Support + Accountability
5. Guest Workshops
David Perell
David teaches thousands of people how to improve their writing online, share their ideas, and build an online audience through his his writing school, Write of Passage. He’ll run a Guest Workshop about how to improve your writing and scripting as a YouTuber.
Robbie Crabtree
Robbie is a trial lawyer, teacher and storyteller who runs his own Performative Speaking Course. He’ll run a series of Guest Workshops about becoming a better speaking and improving your storytelling.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Anne-Laure runs the hugely popular blog Ness Labs, where she writes about mindful productivity. In her Guest Workshop, she’ll be teaching us her strategy for monetising an audience through paid memberships.
Tristan & Michael
Tristan and Michael teach the world’s top athletes, creatives, leaders, and entrepreneurs to speak more effectively in the moments that matters most. Their Ultraspeaking Guest Workshop takes us through interactive games and exercises to become better speakers on- and off-camera.
Joe Gannon
Joe runs an agency specialising in building personal brands through educational content. He’s responsible for my own growth on Instagram, Twitter and Linkedin through repurposing podcasts and videos into high-quality 1-2 minute social media clips. His Guest Workshop breaks down his methods so you can learn to do the same.
James Jani
The Self-Serve Option (for Experienced YouTubers)
If you’re an Experienced YouTuber and you’re confident you don’t want or need the live-cohort elements (accountability, community, support and feedback), then you’re very welcome to sign up to our self-serve course option. You’d still probably get large amounts of value from the live cohort, but if you haven’t got the time to take advantage of the live elements, the self-serve option will give you access to all the video recordings and materials.
If you’re a Beginner YouTuber, we don’t recommend the self-serve option. The content in the live sessions will probably be overwhelming, and without the accountability, community, live support and feedback, you’ll feel like you’re drowning in information that you might struggle to implement. If you choose this option, it’ll be at your own risk, with those caveats in mind.
The Self-Serve Option includes:
Lifetime access to video recordings of Cohort 3 live sessions, including guest workshops and Q&As. These are uploaded in HD with timestamps within 24h of the live sessions taking place
Worksheets, templates and other resources that we share with our Live cohort
$500 discount off the Live options if you’d like to join a future cohort of the course
The Self Serve Option doesn’t include:
❌ Access to the Zoom live sessions (core live lectures, office hours, Q&As, guest workshops and social club)
❌ Personalised video feedback from our team
❌ Access to our House System for accountability and support
❌ Access to our community support forum on Circle
Important – Because the Part-Time YouTuber Academy is designed with a live cohort in mind, our Money Back Guarantee doesn’t apply to the self-serve option. If you’re at all concerned the course may not be ‘worth it’ then please sign up to the live cohort and you’ll see that it is 😉
Enrollment opens at 4pm BST on Friday 14th May 2021.
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Duration
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Language
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Students
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