Originally Posted by JTK
Originally Posted by KrisZ
SMA is in for the money as well, rightly so. Hard work should be rewarded. Putting yourself out in the open like that, investing time and money into making and publishing these videos is not an easy and quick task. It takes time, dedication, ingenuity..
That's what intrigues me about SMA. Making the vidoes and putting them out there takes a lot of time and has to slow down the job he's doing dramatically. It's advertising for the shop, but I believe it's only him and another guy? Is the revenue from online advertising that good?
I know the area in NY he's in. It's rural with a lower cost of living. I'm sure that helps.
Regardless, the way Eric O is willing to tear into and replace a bearing on a Hyundai/Kia viscous coupling that's supposed to be tossed out and replaced with a whole new unit amazes me. I know if no shop that would be willing to do that.
With youtube monetization policy changing like weather it's hard to predict just how much each youtuber makes, but SMA has just shy over 300k subscribers, he's got a pretty healthy number of views on each video, and he posts several videos a week and does live streams, so I think he's bringing in a decent chunk of change.
I hardly doubt he would do all of that just to advertise his business, although there is no doubt that it does. I think it's pretty clear that whatever he makes off of youtube, he doesn't feel is enough to abandon his core business, which is repairing vehicles.
ETCG, ScittyKilmer and many others, generated enough subscribers and interest that they could monetize their channel very well and that gave them the freedom to pursue other avenues.