How To Make Money On Youtube

At least 3 times a week I speak to someone about my shows on YouTube. It goes the same way every time. So I thought I would write it up and tell everyone for one final time. You can make good money on YouTube.

If you have a camera and a voice, all you have to do is to film something and upload it. Then mark the monetize button and your now on your way to making money as people view your videos.

I have told kids that live on youtube watching videos and told older people who can't even spell youtube and all ages are completely flabbergasted that there is really good money to be made on YouTube.

Here are some astounding facts about my COOKING WITH JACK SHOW and my JACK ON THE GO SHOW:

• I have almost 40,000 subscribers combined
• I have been watched over 7.5 million times
• I am seen in over 95 countries
• I am almost making a full time salary on my videos
• The revenue is increasing each month

Let me tell you what it took to get to this point:

• Bought a $1000 camera. I bought the HF10 Canon Vixia and it is now only about $500 to buy the latest model.
• Bought two 500 watt photo flood lamps with white umbrellas for $250
• Bought the Sennheiser lavalier clip on microphone for $500. 
• Filmed one cooking show a week for 5 years
• Filmed one restaurant review a week for about 3 years

You don't need any of this stuff. I chose to beef up the show when I could afford it. Start with nothing but a camera and work your way up to this level.

Now trust me when I say anyone can do this. Here is how you get started

• Decide what you like to do. (fix cars, crochet, bake, draw, archery, piano, etc.)
• Get a camera. Borrow a camera. USE YOUR DAMN PHONE LIKE I DO
• Film a video no longer than 3-5 minutes. DO NOT USE COPYRIGHT MATERIAL AT ALL. (music and movie clips are not allowed to be used. If you want your own music leave me a comment on how to get some safe music)
• Use editing software. No need to buy it. PC's have movie maker and MAC's have iMovie. Either will do. There are other free ones but these are the best free ones. When editing cut out any dead air. Try to just give the meat of the video. No rambling. Short and sweet information on what your doing. If you don't know how to edit your video then watch training videos on YouTube. How ironic, huh?
• Open a YouTube channel. If you don't know how, watch a Youtube video that shows you.
• upload your video to your channel and make sure you put lots of tags and a great description.
• Be sure to mark the box that says monetize. 

That's it. I will be honest. It's going to take about 6 months to a year of work before you see results. Make sure your content is interesting. Make sure you don't ramble. Editing is your friend.

If you have any questions and are really interested in being apart of something great, leave your comments and questions below and I will reply. I will help anyone with advice and direction who truly wants to learn. No one would help me and I don't want anyone to go through what I went through. 

Dream it. Make it. Share it.

How To Bring Vacation Home

I am sitting on the balcony, overlooking the waves of the Pacific Ocean, sipping a sugar free vanilla caramel coffee in my flip flops and shorts.  How awesome this is. The I got to thinking. If my regular life was like this, how wonderful it would be. To be able to experience this at home.

So the goal is to bring vacation home. Where can I get work done that's not in my stuffy bedroom office. I could join all the office trolls at Starbucks but that is so not me. I want piece and quiet. Too much foot traffic.  Some other places to bring my laptop or ipad with me to get work done would be any bagel shop, any McDonalds (yuk) or any ma and pa coffee place.
Here is the cool thing. Find a nice place to sit like a park or quiet little boutique area that is adjacent to a McDonalds or Starbucks or even a library. Use your free wifi app to help you find all the wifi locations to work at. Here is my favorite thing. Go to the lobby sitting area of a big hotel. The always have open wifi in the lobby area for guests. There never is a password since no sane person would show up to the lobby that wasn't a guest.

Now get your coffee wherever. Mcdonald's coffee is not bad. Starbucks is over rated so I choose the local bagel shop or Mcdonald's or get free coffe at the lobby of the Hotel your net surfing at. In fact, go to the pool area and sit under an umbrella. You may not get into the pool immediate area but there is plenty of outside seating elsewhere.

If your not one to venture, try working on your patio or your front yard. All we really want is fresh air and sunlight to make us feel spoiled. That is what we do on vacation and we never do it at home.

So today, everyone try to get out and get some work done with the sunshine on your face. It's pretty refreshing.

BTW, If you work for the man in an corporate office building your screwed. Just quit and start your own business. You can be an Entrepreneur even if you can't spell it.

Family Vacation - San Diego

So as some of you know I fantasize about the idea of a STAYCATION. I love not driving, flying or fighting other people to get where I want to go.

Driving sucks. You have to time when your leaving So Cal because if you leave at the wrong time, it could take you hours to get out of your own neighborhood. It once took me 3 hours to travel 50 miles. So leaving in the wee hours of the morning is best.

If your traveling by airport then forget it. Just expect to be miserable the whole time. Everyone is irritated they have to strip down, pull out electrical devices, get scanned like your some foreign object. Then waiting to be funneled into a metal tube where the seat belts barely snap closed and your arm is in the lap next to  you. I love how these plane designs are from 1963.
My favorite part is the guy trying to cram a carry on luggage the size of an elephant into the overhead compartment. That guy always puts it above MY head. I am always the lucky guy who sits there with some stranger's crotch pressing against my shoulder while my life hangs on the line with the fact that he is strong enough NOT to drop this luggage on my head.

The most exciting part of arrive at your timeshare/hotel is to realize that your there 2 hours early for check in. Now your exhausted, irritated, hungry and smell bad from traveling all day and they tell you that your room won't be ready until 4pm. HOW FRICKEN LONG DOES IT TAKE TO CLEAN A ROOM. You kick us out at 11am and can't have 1 room available until 4pm. Seriously???

So, I get into my room and we always do the same thing. I run around turning on all the lights. I see what immunities we have. I look in the kitchen at all the utensils i know I am not every going to use on vacation. I just like to know my options. Then I cran on the AC. I figure that I am getting every pennies worth of this room. I order 7 bags of coffee right away knowing they only gave us one bag fot the first day. I also ask for extra pillows knowing that your head is going to sink right through the first one as soon as you go to bed.
Then the music source. I must set up music knowing that this room was decorated in 1985. I set up my MONSTER BLUETOOTH SPEAKER that plays all my music from my iphone without even docking it. I then set up my little office/charging station. A place for my toys. ipad, laptop, watch, keys, iphone, gum and hotel key. This is my go to spot. Surf the net, play music or just read a book.

This week it's San Diego. It's close to home. Quick drive. And closer to mexico meaning even better mexican food places that the OC. Yes Seaworld and the zoo are in my plans. To make it fun, I have brought my CANON T2i with the zoom lens. I plan on documenting everything in photos and video. I also brought my iphone of course and will be hitting as much food spots as possible to bring back home for my JACK ON THE GO SHOW (http://youtube.com/jackonthego)

So what are some things you hate about vacations and what are some crazy rituals you do when you arrive at your room?

Everything You Were Taught No Longer Applies

Remember when your math teacher made you show your long division or how you solved for "x"?  Remember when you said, "Why can't we just use a calculator. Why do we need to do everything the hard way?"

Then your teacher snapped back, "Your not always going to be near a calculator the rest of your life. What will you do then?"

Well, my smartphone not only has a calculator, but it also has a dictionary, encyclopedia, weather and that damn auto correct.

More and more things are changing due to technology. Everything we were told as kids is changing. Some industries have accepted the change (communication companies) and some refuse to blow the dust off and let change take it's course (education system).

I am in the age category where half the people I associate with haven't embraced change. They still are excited about this new technology they call Blu Ray. They may write checks out by hand still and don't trust typing their credit card into a website.  Then there is the other half who have embraced change so well that the just orchestrate their lives by the wave of their hand using a phone screen to pay for their coffee or ordering a movie on their lap and shooting it up to the TV for all to watch or documenting their entire life in video format and uploading to the web for the entire world to see.

Today I am meeting with my brother Charles Scalfani (screenwriter) and a good friend of mine Greg Derochie (movie director) They both collaborated on a movie last year that I got to help produce called http://SolitaryMovie.com.

The discussing today is how things have changed in the entertainment industry. We will be discussing what we have embraced and what the future has in store that we can begin to look into now. It's going to be a very interesting conversation. We might miss the mark on the future but I am sure we will be damn close.

And as said before, 1/2 the industry is accepting and 1/2 the industry is fighting change and kicking and screaming the whole way. Usually it's the head of studios who are way old and are used to controlling the entire field of entertainment. Not any more. It's slipping through their fingers.

Everyone works in a category that is changing. It doesn't matter if your in the medical industry or making paper products. Technology is changing the game and how our parents taught us to do things. They said go to school and get good grades so you can go to college (which is not my first choice for most people, but that's another blog post). Then, work on the corporate ladder and make your way to the top.

Unbelievable how people are still teaching that.  You can learn anything within the walls of your own home now with the internet. Not only that but for the price a few cups of coffee a month you could launch your own business. "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" said it best. Don't work on the corporate ladder; own the corporate ladder.

I have to run off to my meeting in Los Angeles, but here are a few thoughts before I go.

How have some things changed in your field of work.  What things do you find different today then when our parents were running our lives? What is the last dying breed of old thinking in the world and will the embrace or die?

I'M BACK!!!

I always wanted to blog. I just never had the time with producing four youtube channels, running a bible study, raising a 12 year old, running a sauce business and all the other odds and ends that I do around my life.

I believe I am going to concentrate on this page as my all around blogging page. It's kind of general and  I can blog about business, personal and just plain life.

So let's see how this works out. Not sure if I will have time to keep it up, but I am willing to give it another go.

There is so much to say. Now I promise it won't be long blogs. This won't be a place where I complain. I have a youtube channel for that. http://youtube.com/lettersfromjack.

I am excited to be back in word form. Let's see what I can do.

J