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Ever wondered how people turn simple ideas into multi-million dollar businesses — without VC funding or a big team?  In this video, we break down the exact step-by-step process that entrepreneurs are using in 2025 to build $5M/year revenue machines — starting from scratch.  You’ll learn: ✅ The one mindset shift every 7-figure founder makes ✅ A real-world breakdown of a business doing $5M+/year ✅ How to go from idea to scalable business in record time  Whether you're a solo founder, side hustler, or aspiring entrepreneur, this is the roadmap you’ve been waiting for.  Watch till the end — the final strategy is the one most people miss. #Entrepreneurship  #OnlineBusiness  #HighIncomeSkills  #StartupIdeas  #BusinessGrowth   #MakeMoneyOnline  #PassiveIncome  #SaaS  #ProductivityHacks  #TechEntrepreneur   #FinancialFreedom  #SideHustle  #BusinessTips  #CreatorEconomy  #MarketingStrategy Pause and take notes — these insights aren’t being shared anywhere else.

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00:00I know a chap who had 15,000 subscribers and built a million dollar business.

00:05Really, the way people get rich off of YouTube is by...

00:07This is Ali Abdaal, one of the biggest YouTubers and now literally the most followed productivity

00:12expert in the world. In this video, I went to Ali's house in London to hear why he left his

00:18job as a doctor to start a YouTube channel that now has over 4 million subscribers and is making

00:23millions of dollars a year. This video is an absolute masterclass. When you have attention

00:28again, like Ali does, you can make millions. You can add events, you can add communities,

00:33you can add products, sponsorships, ads, job boards, consulting, paywalls. The list goes on.

00:39So many ways to make money. The one key is you got to build up your audience or just copy Ali's

00:45homework. The people that I know who have succeeded on YouTube, the people who have been through our

00:48YouTuber Academy and friends of mine, they have all had some kind of unfair advantage that they

00:53have leveraged on their YouTube channel. It's really hard to succeed on YouTube and in the content

00:57business general, in general, if you don't have any unfair advantages, because all you can do then

01:01is just outwork the competition. Mr. Beast had zero unfair advantages and you see his videos, like 400

01:07videos to get to 10,000 subscribers. He's literally reading the dictionary for 36 hours.

01:11Domineering, Dominican, Dominion, Dominion, Domino effect, Domino, Don. He's literally saying

01:17Logan Paul's name 100,000 times for a 24 hour long video.

01:20That is the level of hard work that he's putting in to make up for the fact that he has zero unfair

01:29advantages in the space. And now obviously he's got his huge team and his huge setup, but unfair

01:33advantages, at least in the education space, you know, having expertise in a specific area and making

01:37videos about that, being particularly charismatic, being particularly good looking, like all of these

01:41are different unfair advantages that you could have. You have to figure out what your unfair

01:44advantages are and find a way to exploit those to skyrocket your growth.

01:49Ali talks about his unfair advantage. I think about it like your unfair advantage diagram.

01:54You're basically finding where do unique skill sets overlap in a way that is uniquely you.

01:59So you had medicine, you had test taking, you had productivity, and you had teaching.

02:04Were those your unfair advantages?

02:06Those and I had Cambridge University branding behind me. And I also had a business, which meant I had

02:11money that I could invest into camera gear, which means my production value from day one was just

02:15better than every other student on the platform because I could afford camera gear. I had the web

02:18design background. That meant I had a certain aesthetic sense for like graphic design. And

02:23I'd been designing posters and brochures for like a decade at that point, even when I started.

02:27So my thumbnails look good. And I kind of had a feel for like what titles and transitions and

02:32animations would look classy and not egregiously over the top or not like Microsoft Word art or

02:36different. Yeah. And so all of those things combined.

02:39Where are there a few things about me that aren't a triangle that's perfectly centered like everybody

02:44else, but slightly askew? Maybe you're that one weird person who pulls out a guitar at every single

02:50party. Maybe you love recording videos all the time and also happen to be really into spreadsheets

02:56like Ms. Excel. Maybe you are obsessed with graphic design, but also philosophy like Jack Butcher.

03:03You want to find the few things that when you put them all together, make you completely

03:09priceless and unique in the world. Much easier than stacking tens and thousands of hours at being

03:15the best at one thing. We can't all be Michael Jordan, but we could certainly be slightly skew from

03:22the rest. Now, how would I start thinking about my first video? I'm going to get my first one up and

03:26I want to make the first hundred bucks that I'm going to make on YouTube through AdSense.

03:29Level one, get going. Level two, get good. Level three, get smart. So our person is like level one,

03:35get going. Usually that's like the first three to 10 videos where the objective is to not overthink

03:40it, to literally just put the content out there and just, just kind of see what happens. Usually

03:43there are a ton of emotional hurdles to getting videos out there, even for the Gen Zs that are

03:48TikTok native and stuff. It's still really freaking weird filming yourself and sticking it on YouTube

03:53and all of the stuff associated with like what my friends and family are going to think and all of

03:57those emotional hurdles. That is a massive barrier. And that is the biggest barrier that holds people

04:01back, which is why level one is just get going. Once you've gotten past the get going stage,

04:05at that point, you have to decide, do I want a casual relationship with YouTube or do I want a

04:10serious relationship with YouTube? Casual is, I will see each other whenever I feel like it. You

04:14know, I'll call in you when I feel like expressing my creative outlet.

04:16I apologize to you if I don't seem really eager to jump into a forced, awkward, intimate situation.

04:22Serious is I'm committing to doing one video a week at least. Now, if they decide serious,

04:26then we go to level two. Level two is get good. Now getting good involves making videos that are

04:31actually good. I'm kind of a big deal. And that's just like a lifelong journey. But I think there's

04:36two barometers of good. There is the internal barometer, which is I no longer cringe when I

04:41watch my own videos because I actually think, yeah, you know, this is reasonable. And that when you have

04:45that feeling that this is at least reasonable, then you know your videos are good. And then there's

04:48the external stuff. There's like, okay, I'm seeing some amount of traction in the market. Like

04:52some people, the view kind of slightly going up. Maybe I'm getting 24 views rather than three.

04:57Maybe I'm getting three comments being like, oh, wow, this was actually helpful. Maybe I'm getting

05:00a few likes. You're starting to see some indicators of interest from the market. When you have those

05:04indicators of interest and you no longer feel cringe watching your own content, you then ask

05:08yourself the big question, is this a hobby or is this a business? And on the scale of zero being

05:13hobby and 10 being business, where do you land on that scale? And you're not allowed to pick five.

05:16Now, if you want to do it as a hobby, then great. Continue at level two. Do whatever you want. Make

05:20the content you like. It's a hobby, et cetera, et cetera. But if you want to do it as a business,

05:24at that point, we get to level three, which is get smart. And that is where business strategy

05:29starts to come into it. That's where we start to say to this person, okay, if you have made 15

05:33videos already, your videos are pretty solid. You think they're reasonable. They started to get a

05:36small amount of traction. You've maybe had two comments in one of your videos saying this was

05:39helpful. At this point, let's zoom out and let's think strategy. Let's figure out what is your niche?

05:45Who is your target audience? What is the value proposition? Let's do a competitor analysis. Who's big in the

05:49space? Let's spend like a whole two weeks. And that we're trying to create here. What's the vibe

05:53you're trying to go for? That will then feed into the content. And so at level three, once people's

05:58videos are really good, most of the growth is to be found in really thinking about it as if you were

06:02a business, the business strategy, the competitive analysis, how do you stand out in a crowded market?

06:07And then you apply consistency and patience over time and you get the results.

06:11Riches and itches. Hate to break it to you, but you're probably not going to ever be the next Mr. Beast.

06:16Me either, by the way. Hundreds and hundreds of millions of followers across multiple platforms

06:21doing these crazy challenges. It's not really my style. And, uh, you know, I don't appeal to like

06:2617 year old boys on YouTube, which is like the predominance of the audience. And so that's not

06:30going to work for me. I had to think when I was creating my audience, how could I come up with an

06:34audience that I could actually serve, that wants the things that I know about? And how could I make,

06:39let's say, enough money to build a business around this particular audience that is going to be

06:44one one hundredth of the size of Mr. Beast. That's when I realized that the higher the niche,

06:50the higher the rich. And what do I mean by that? I mean that when you have a very specific skillset

06:56that you focus on, the people who want that thing are typically willing to pay more.

07:01Shut up and take my money.

07:03Then let's say people are willing to pay when you have hundreds of millions of followers like Mr. Beast.

07:08Mr. Beast can sell a chocolate bar because he can get one one hundredth of his audience to buy it and

07:13have a business that does tens of millions of dollars a year. You and I have to be more specific.

07:18I actually started out on YouTube trying to make singing videos. I thought I was going to be the

07:23next Boyce Avenue, the next Hugo Schneider. I was going to play all the instruments. My friends

07:27would sing and I would sing occasionally, but I'm not I'm not that good.

07:31I found a love for me. Darling, just dive right in and follow my lead.

07:39And my first like five or six videos on YouTube are music covers of Payphone by Maroon 5 and

07:47When I Was Your Man by Bruno Mars and all this kind of stuff. Had I tried to succeed in YouTube on

07:51there, I have no unfair advantages there. It's just a dumb area. It's not an interesting niche.

07:55Find something that the market actually wants because a lot of people will treat YouTube as

07:59like, oh, I should be able to creatively express myself and then good things should just happen,

08:04right? But no, if you're treating it like a business, which is my whole thing,

08:07you know, treat a YouTube channel like a business. If it's a creative hobby, then let's

08:11call it a creative hobby. But if it's a business, a business needs to solve a need that the market

08:14has. The market had no need for my shitty singing skills, shitty guitar playing skills,

08:19inability to kind of string two notes together. But the market had a need for me teaching people

08:25how to get into med school. What are the things you enjoy? What are the things people

08:28would say you're good at? If you were on a desert island and you had to give a talk about

08:31something, what are the five topics you might give a talk about? What are the things you wish you had

08:35known two years ago or five years ago or 10 years ago? What are the things that people are asking

08:39you for advice on? What is the thing that you would do even if you weren't making money for it?

08:43All of those are trying to figure out the who am I component. And then we're trying to figure out

08:48the what value can add to my audience component. So what groups are you familiar with, like medical

08:53students, chess players, doctors, high school students? What's the kind of content that you

08:57consume? What were you like two years ago, five years ago, 10 years ago? Can we try and get you

09:01into the mind of who this person is that you're speaking to? And then can we bridge that with some

09:06kind of value proposition? Really, the way people get rich off of YouTube is by selling their own

09:10products. It's just a business plan. I know a chap who had 15,000 subscribers and built a million

09:16dollar business off of that because it was a very niche audience. He was doing very, very, very detailed

09:22videos about how to build operation systems in Notion. And then his course was about how to build

09:26operations systems in Notion and did like 400K in his first six months of running that business

09:33with a relatively small audience of only 15,000 subscribers. The people who I know who've made

09:39money off of YouTube with even less than that have maybe sort of a few hundred to a few thousand

09:44subscribers, but they target a very niche audience who have money to pay for one-on-one consulting or

09:51coaching services because that is where the money is at if you can land a 2K a month, 5K a month

09:55client. You just need two of those people. And so if you have a couple of hundred subscribers

09:59who really love your stuff and it's the right niche and they crucially have money and are willing to

10:04spend money to solve this problem, you can make a six, sometimes even seven figure business, although

10:08it's harder to seven figure, at least a six figure business off the back of selling one-on-one coaching

10:11or consulting. I had to think, what is the niche that is going to make me rich? And that niche for me

10:17is finance. If people specifically want to learn how to buy small businesses, I'm your gal. Now, how many

10:23people are going to want to buy small businesses? I don't know, one out of a hundred, but that one

10:28will be willing to pay a lot to learn how to do it. And the skill that I'm teaching them can take

10:33them from investing, let's say a thousand dollars to making a hundred thousand or a million. You can't

10:39really make money by buying a chocolate bar. People are paying for your videos. They're not paying

10:44with their money, but they're paying with something arguably even more valuable, which is their time and

10:47their attention, which is the only limited resource that they have. And so would someone actually choose

10:52to pay you for your content? Does it provide enough value to their life to warrant the amount of life

10:57force and time that they're paying for it? And if the answer is no, then let's get to a point where

11:03it is. And if the answer is yes, then you've got potentially a chance on YouTube. So the better

11:06model your niche is, the more rich you and your business will become. If you're one of those business

11:12buyers, here's a free little something for you down in the corner. The first three things you need to

11:17know if you're going to go look to buy a boring business. And that right there, you guys, what I

11:22just did where I said, Hey, if you're my audience, if you're one in a hundred that wants to buy a small

11:27business, and then I point you to something that only those of you who are going to do this cares

11:31about, that's how you don't oversell to people. Because for people that aren't interested, what do

11:36you do? You just keep watching the video, ignore it. Doesn't matter. How do you do a business where you sell

11:40things online in a way that feels really good to you? Yeah, this is something I really struggled with.

11:45So when I first created our YouTuber Academy, we were charging $400 for it. I had never charged

11:52$400 for anything before in my life. And so I had a lot of kind of, in hindsight, emotions and feelings

11:59around the ickiness and the pain of like, Oh, I don't want to come across as that used car salesman.

12:04Look at the size of that trunk. You can put three bodies in there. And it was speaking to some other

12:10some other friends of ours who kind of helped me change my mindset around selling and helped me

12:15see that selling is not an evil thing. Selling is almost education. You're educating people on your

12:21product. And if they want it, they will buy it. And if they don't want it, it's not like you're

12:25trying to shove it down their throats. And after trying this and, you know, putting it slowly out

12:30there into the world and seeing, Oh my God, people don't hate me for charging money. People are

12:35getting lots of value from the course. We're giving out loads of scholarships to people who

12:38can't afford it anyway. We have a basically zero questions, ask refund policy, like all of those

12:42things. In particular, I think the refund policy made me feel very okay with selling because if

12:46someone doesn't like it, they'll literally just ask for their money back. And now I don't have to

12:49worry too much. And now that's the advice that I give to people like, cause I speak to so many

12:52people who are struggling to sell. And I say, because they don't want their audience to hate them or

12:57whatever, just offer a refund policy. And it's probably going to be fine.

13:00Can you find your point of pain and solve it? Your point of pain, not somebody else's.

13:07Here's a perfect example. This is Danny Austin, Danny, online influencer, schlepping out a bunch

13:13of affiliates to dresses and jeans and shorts, things that, you know, we don't really need,

13:18but influencers like to talk about online. All of a sudden, Danny started a lot of women was losing

13:23hair and not talking about it because this is really faux pas for women to lose hair.

13:27Right. This was her pain. She started sharing it on the internet again and again, and again,

13:31like, look at this. Does anybody else have it? All of a sudden she found a bunch of other humans

13:35who shared that pain. They had the same issue and nobody else was really talking about it.

13:40So as she continued to share her pain and some small little solutions, she also started behind

13:45the scenes, creating products to fix it. Enter Divi, her brand that solved this one unique issue

13:52of women losing their hair early. All of a sudden she's spent months priming her audience to want

13:59the thing that she has created to solve hers and now their pain point. That means she has no,

14:06what I call, audience degradation in sales. If you go out and you try to shill something to your

14:11audience, something that they don't really want or need, it feels like you're pushing a giant boulder

14:15up the hill. If instead you allow them to do something that gets out of the way of the boulder

14:20that is already careening towards them, that's where you make millions and you don't have to

14:24sell your soul. So find your pain because that's where the profit is. So if you're wondering what

14:29to do next, how do I also grow my audience? You should watch this video. It's got all the answers you want.

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