I've uploaded more than 10,000 videos and gotten over a billion views, and I've boiled all of it down to one almost embarrassingly simple system — the same one I'm running today. It covers everything: getting views, getting discovered, building real fans, and monetizing so you can do this full time.
Step one: one short video a day
The most basic move is to upload one video a day per channel. No excuses, no matter how rough your thumbnail or title is — one a day. If you can film five, six, or seven at once and schedule them out, even better. Keep each one to about five minutes so you don't disappear into 30-minute tangents; a pile of short videos beats a handful of long ones. I broke this habit down in detail in one video a day: the simple YouTube strategy nobody wants to hear.
Do that consistently and the algorithm starts to discover you, even on a brand-new channel. Keep showing up. Put your own face on camera instead of leaning on AI slop — use your phone if that's all you have. If you can be a real human being on video every day, you're most of the way there.
Step two: a paid community to monetize
The second half of the system is a community where you can bring people in and monetize. You can start it even if you have nobody yet, and mention it in every single video. I use Skool — my Jerry Banfield Family is hosted there, with a sales page for it on my own site, but you don't need a website to begin.
Make it paid, not free. You're already giving away free value on YouTube, so a paid community is the natural next step — a free one makes sense only when you don't have a discovery engine feeding it. YouTube is that engine: it's by far the best platform for both discovery and community, which is why I don't bother with the others. I mirror some of my crypto content to X because it gets reach there, but the vast majority of my videos just go on YouTube.
Make the community worth staying in
For this to work, the community has to deliver real value. One of the easiest ways is to include one-on-one and group calls with members. That recurring membership is far better than a one-off tip jar, and the thing people value most is each other — bringing your viewers together. Brand it as somewhere people stay indefinitely rather than a single-topic stop they churn out of. That's why mine is the Jerry Banfield Family: one place for everything I do — dating, YouTube, crypto, and the rest — instead of a separate community per niche.
Give first, sell last
Inside each five-minute video, spend the first four or four and a half minutes purely giving value, then keep the pitch to the very end. My value here is exactly that: I've taken everything everyone else teaches about YouTube and compressed it into one five-minute video a day plus a community on Skool. You can make it fancier later with a website, shorts, or live streams once you have an audience, but you don't need any of that to start. Five-minute daily videos and a paid community are the whole machine. If you want the deeper YouTube and business training, you can watch my YouTube coaching playlist.