How I Sell Sponsored YouTube Videos and Blog Posts

Thus, the main audience for sponsored videos I have is online entrepreneurs

Those who are trying to build and grow a business. It's important when you try and close the brand deal that advertisers want to know, well, who's your audience, I have a global audience of entrepreneurs online building businesses and I have things like this Continuing Education Program, my Mastermind Group, I am all set up to serve entrepreneurs online.

Another thing that's critical if you want to get brand deals: Make it easy to be contacted

If you do sell people, then you want to be able to answer questions for potential sponsors ahead of time and this is something I've just recently started doing better.

In fact, I've probably missed or not been available for 95% over the years of sponsored videos because I tried to make it difficult to contact me, I had so many things going on. I've recently just cleared my business out and got down to basics.

Be in contact with people and make it easy for people to contact you. I've got my phone number, my WhatsApp and an email submission form all on this page, all of them I read. Therefore it's very easy to contact me and ask questions.

It's important to consider that when you're doing sponsored videos, is this going to be a good relationship? I don't want sponsorships that aren't going to be good for both parties.

I don't want sponsors who want to just use me to get views, so to speak, and don't have any interest in helping me build my brand and matching the content I'm creating with the audience I have.

For example, the staple of my videos is an honest presentation. This is why I do not edit the majority of my videos, I simply talk from the heart because I know what I'm talking about. I accept the little imperfections and it gives a little extra humanity that viewers enjoy and struggle to find in a world of highly edited and polished content.

Part of my sales pitch is the honest presentation, which tends to be very effective for making sales.

The downside of that is, for me personally, I'm not willing to edit a video that I produce, once we agree on the terms and I filmed the video, if you want another one you've got to pay again for me to refilm it again. I sent them out unlisted, so you can look at them beforehand and make sure they're not totally atrocious.

Then we put it out there with all the imperfections. This way, we get an experience that's consistent for my viewers over time that honestly presents the material. Therefore, when you're trying to close brand deals, make sure you only close brand deals that you genuinely want to execute.

Of course, I learned this the hard way

I closed a brand deal before and it was an absolute nightmare for me and the client. I ended up just refunding the client's money to get rid of them after going back and forth and tons of different messages, filming a video that I thought was great and the client requested all these revisions to and I said "Look, just have your money back. I don't even want to publish this anymore"

Therefore you want to only close brand deals where you've set clear conditions upfront

This is how the video will be filmed. This is how the video will be distributed. For example, on my channel, the videos will be published into my existing JerryBanfield YouTube channel, subscribers will be notified, the video will be put public after you as a brand have the chance to look at the unlisted video and verify that it is okay with you.

Once you've got all of this in place, I also find it very helpful to have some kind of a package up where people can buy it.

I got on my website a very clear option to do sponsored videos directly up here. This is where we get into pricing and how much you should charge for it.

If you want to have your listing on my website on Uthena.com, on my marketplace, just join my mastermind at Jerry.tips/partner and you can put your sponsored video service up here so that when other people are hunting around looking for services and see the option to sponsor video with me, then they can discover the option to sponsor a video with you as well.

I believe in putting up a very clear price and making everybody stick to that price as well, so there's no guesswork in negotiations. This is how much it costs to sponsor a video with me, and this is how much it costs today to sponsor a video with me, which is September 25, 2019.

How do you set the price for your sponsored videos

The key to setting the price is to set the price at a point where you are rock solid on selling and then just a tiny bit above that. What I've done with my sponsored videos is I started at around $500.

Before that I had different options. I did a sponsored video for $1,000, and what I've done recently is I've put my price down to what the amount I'm excited about and an amount that's absolutely reasonable that I feel great about selling.

To me, that's $500. That is exceptional value for a brand for what I'm delivering, and then what I do is I steadily raise the rate over time as more and more people sponsor videos with me. For example, someone just paid today $500 to sponsor a video with a blog post and guess what, the price goes up $67 to the next sponsor.

And then when the next sponsor comes along, I basically increase the price of a sponsored video somewhere around 5% or 10% of every single video.

Some of you might think it might not look like much, $500 to sponsor a video but you multiply, let's say 10% and he puts the price up to about 10% of every video, then the next sponsor pays $ 550 the one after that a little over 600, and after 10 sponsored videos, I'm now selling a sponsored video for $1,296.

What is really good is I'm rock solid on this price because everyone before this has bought just below that, therefore, I know it's worth it.

If someone's willing to pay $500 for the video, I'm certain someone will pay $567 for the video. If someone pays $567, somebody else to pay a little over $600. So move your price up over time so that then you're not willing to negotiate or budge on the price either costs this much and if you don't want it, we're not going to work together.

This works well for me because I'm interested in doing more sponsored videos and blog posts. Then each sponsored video I do gives me better and better case studies as to what they look like and what kind of results they get for clients.

Therefore this handles every different aspect of it. If you're seeing this anytime significantly after September 25, 2019, you can see whatever my actual prices.

So what I do is I stick this video itself on the landing page to explain to any potential sponsors exactly the inside of my business and how it works. I have text on why to get to invest in a sponsored video and I have questions about sponsoring a video.

And then I have an option

An upsell to sponsor my entire business instead of just doing one particularly sponsored video, then there's the option to sponsor everything I do on every single video and all the blog posts on my website, etc, I've got an option for one sponsor to do a total takeover and to also block out any other potential sponsors, I think this is a great option to get that very top 1%.

Give that 1% the option to do a total takeover because I am happy to do sponsored videos and blog posts for $500 or $1000, I'd prefer to work with one sponsor that I make a very deep relationship with and then I don't have to fool around getting to know other sponsors, trying a bunch of new things.

I can consistently mention a sponsor in every single video over time, to me then that $10,000 a month is a very stable income. As a sponsor, it's very consistent with growing results over time.

And thus I see it's critical if you want to close brand deals to have an option to work long term with brands, generally the best results for everyone or a successful long term relationship, just sponsoring one video here and there is a fraction of the potential that you can make working together over the long term.

I understand also as a creator, and as a brand who sponsors others that it's nice to have simplicity, instead of working with a bunch of different people you have one person you love working with. And that keeps it very simple, similar to having a marriage, very easy for me to be with one amazing wife vs dating before was very difficult. One can do a great job.

And therefore you respect that 80/20 principle, have something if you're trying to sell as a creator, make sure you've got some kind of upper level package.

Even if you can't picture selling it, you might think at my spot "Well, if people are paying $500 for a sponsored video with the blog post, who's going to pay $10,000 a month?" I don't know. But I'm prepared to receive one person at $10,000 a month that then takes the rest of the service offline and gets results that I imagined would be worth $100,000+ a month for what I can deliver.

I appreciate you reading this and if you want to look more into details that my analytics as a potential sponsor, if you want to show sponsors more detail, I like to look at over a longer period of time because YouTube is noisy.

There are things that just go up and down for no apparent reason. There are times where things go seemingly well and seemingly down and you don't understand why and therefore it's always important. This is why my representative from YouTube said it is better to look over the long term.

If you look over the long term of my channel, and my entire brand online, it is steady. Even though I've been through a whole lot of changes, I've kind of just got everything together nicely, very steadily. In terms of I'm not going anywhere.

I imagine there's a whole lot of growth coming my way as I've just gone through a very interesting transitional period and gotten on point.

If you want to look at the last 90 days, and show even more things like the audience, you can get to know for example, where how many people have notifications on my channel, I'm grateful there's 22,000 people who have all notifications turned on for my channel, you can see the data for yourself there,

You can look at the countries on my channel for the last 90 days

Now the country's going up and down depending on the video topics. For example, on the G Suite video, the distribution is mostly United States, whereas on the Android Development tutorials that have been popular on my channel, the audience is largely in India on these Android Development videos.

Therefore, the exact subject of my video is the primary determinant of the audience

My YouTube channel is built on YouTube search and organic recommendations so it's not as simple as to look at -Well, it's this country and that's where your viewers are from- No, it depends on what the exact video is.

I just showed you, USA, for this G Suite 34% of the viewers on that one. If you go over and look at this Facebook Marketing Tutorial 27% viewers from the USA and 10% from India. Therefore, it's very important to consider the exact subject of the video and you can look on Facebook, the top country is the US also, which makes sense because I'm in the USA.

Once you've got your pitch clearly delivered, and you've explained everything, then if I was going through and editing my videos, I'd probably cut down the end of this one. I could have just ended the video a couple minutes ago.

I also see that longer videos tend to do well on YouTube because the people who watch to the very end are more likely to convert to be a subscriber and YouTube ranks videos heavily based on minutes watched. And if you can keep someone watching the whole video that can help it do very well ranking wise, which is why most of my videos are longer.

That said, I will try to deliver the entire message in the most efficient format possible and the most honest format possible as well. I've learned the hard way in the last several years about what not to do. Don't pitch anything one sided.

Honesty is a very important part of my videos to look at something from multiple sides and not just say this is going to save the world without saying that this could be a total waste of time and money.

Thank you very much. I trust that you've got all the way to the end.

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Thus, every video I do manages to sell multiple different aspects of my business which gives me a remarkable consistency over time.

My value as a creator is delivering that consistency over time and the best I can in the most honest way possible for you.

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