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Maybe starting a membership🤔

I’ve been planning to start a YouTube membership at the beginning of next year. The start of the year tends to be a good time for an exercise channel, and I believe views and engagement will likely increase then. I haven’t made a final decision yet, but a few messages and comments have strengthened the idea.

A few weeks ago, one viewer even sent me an email asking for my affiliate links so they could order something and make sure I’d get a commission.

And today, one enthusiastic subscriber asked for my bank account number so they could send a monthly payment to support my work. Even though it’s just two people, it really made me feel that when you offer people something valuable, they’re willing to support it (even though they could access it for free).

Today I published a video where I talked a bit about money. I used to run these remote workouts as a paid service, but partly because of financial challenges, I ended that paid service—it wasn’t profitable—and started the YouTube channel instead. In today’s video, I talked about that time period. In an upcoming video, I’ll be summarizing my first two years on YouTube, and I’ll probably discuss the amount of work involved and such. And if I do launch the channel membership, I’ll likely mention it in that video as well.

We also talked about YouTube memberships in this week’s call, so I’d be happy to hear if anyone has experience with it. I’ve personally built member pages on a WordPress website before, so I know the challenges, workload, and costs involved. That’s why, in this case, I’d gladly pay YouTube 30% of the income—since they’ll have a shared interest in making the membership work and generate revenue.

And once I finally get my 70+ audience to become YouTube users, I definitely don’t want to confuse them by sending them off to some other platform. And since my audience is also Finnish-speaking, not all platforms would even work well for them. 😅

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