3 days ago somebody told me creating a YouTube channel was hard that conversation made me laugh out loud because they clearly hadn't discovered what I'm about to show you I'm going to walk you through the exact steps to create your very own YouTube channel it's quick simple and the first step to building a profitable online presence but before we dive in hit like And subscribe so you don't miss a beat hey there I'm Rod Els and after helping thousands of entrepreneurs build their online presence over the last 18 years I can tell you with absolute certainty that starting a YouTube channel is the easiest way it's ever been in 2025 what's even better is that right now it's the perfect time to start as YouTube's parent company Google just announced they're heavily favoring new creators who follow this specific process so I've also created a companion document step by step for you and all you have to do is click the link in the pinned comment below to get it totally free and let me know if you like these type of free documents that help you as a companion guide to these videos so now I'll share my screen and let's dive in you will learn how to create a YouTube channel in this video first go to Google Chrome and search for YouTube by the way the reason you want to do this like look at my channel analytics I have a channel that I just started posting I I revived it I just started posting it just a few months ago and just in one month 28 days has got 7,362 views in the last 28 days and I've monetized it through selling digital offers and um uh affiliate offers as well so if you want a faster way to make money for your YouTube channel Channel make sure you start thinking about selling digital products and coaching or becoming an affiliate in selling digital products and get a commission for it right so and I have a video here that you can watch if you click this button the link to this entire companion document by the way is in the first pin comment below that you can get just in the text description and here's the video that shows you how to make 1,000 a day with chat gbt ebook and 1 hour plus Google doc free it's already got 26,000 views and four months ago is when I did it but I just wanted to bring that out to you if you're thinking about starting a YouTube channel to also make money with it which I hope you are that digital offers and coaching and uh selling um as an affiliate is is a way to make extra money okay or all your money and quit your job okay so what you want to do is go to Google Chrome and search for YouTube all right this is how to start a YouTube channel so I'm just going to go I got Google Chrome up here and I'm just going to search for YouTube right and here's YouTube right so and what you're going to do coming back to the instructions you're going to click the YouTube homepage right so boom I click it I just had to log into a different Google account account so I can show you this because if we go to Google here creating a personal Channel when you basically click on your profile picture click add or manage your channels I'm not seeing that if you see that in your country then great and we come back to to here you then select create a channel for me what I'm seeing is that when I click here it's um YouTube studio is that is what I have to click there's no create channel here so I click YouTube studio and then it's it's saying hey how you're how you will appear and it says create channel so here what I'm going to do this is where you can enter your name and your handle okay name I'll just put for now how you'll appearer select picture and the handle so here I'll just say something like let's go bio hacks for woman over 40 to lose well that's the whole name um bi hacks woman over 40 I could put my real name like MGA Dallas but because this might be a faceless Channel I might just do it this way so buy a haoman over 40 um so that's pretty good so I'm going to hit create channel and I don't know if I can add in more now it doesn't allow me to so it has a limit bioh hacks woman over 40 so create channel all right so it's creating the channel pretty cool huh and welcome to YouTube Studios so hit continue and now what the heck do we do here right now your new channel is created you initially have zero subscribers and no videos obviously and to manage your channel go to YouTube Studio we can adjust settings and track progress so in case you're wondering how how do we make money on this well to be eligible for the YouTube Partner program and monetize your content you need to meet the following criteria 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours in 365 days or 10 million shorts views in 90 days in case you have any further questions about YouTube mon monetization you can go to chat gbt and also ask here's the eligibility requirements as well okay also let you it wants you to have two-step verification on your account and you must follow YouTube's monetization policy but again what I highly recommend is to sell digital products and coaching or become an affiliate sell other people's digital products and coaching and you can watch my video there so we're going to come back to the how to right so what to manage your YouTube channel this is where you can adjust settings and track progress so let's kind of come back here so typically like I don't want to upload a video yet never do that like when you're ready to launch your channel have at least two long form videos and three short videos ready to be uploaded as an example but what you can do here is like if you click the earn button it tells you how you can become a partner like ways to earn watch page ads short feed ads memberships Etc really cool right and Creator support and tools like Facebook wants you or sorry not Facebook YouTube wants you to make money so how do you join you reach these requirements to apply and you want to turn on twostep verification as well so you turn that on and go so you'll be redirected to this so I'm not going to going to do that right now I just want to tell you to go do that because you just follow the instructions pretty easy and then you click customization here and this is where you get to add your banner image right you can go to a free tool called canva to create this for you you upload your picture here and then your channel name right and if you hover over the question mark you can ask see what it says to learn more okay and then your handle so see you can kind of change your handle before you your channel you can do that description so you want to fill in the description here and you know what your channel URL you can change this soon to be a little bit easier than this as well your unique Channel ID you can add links and any contact info all right so show you a concrete example what that looks like if you were to go to my channel and let's click this so see how the youtube.com and then it's Maria gels you'll see my banner there and I have as you can see links here and I I kind of have a little bit about and then I have links how to grow your YouTube channel you click there and it'll go to a sales page okay so let's come back to the step by step I've shown you now how to create your YouTube channel how to go to YouTube Studio to adjust your settings and how to enable two-step verification and make sure that you realize YouTube is a platform that allows you to so showcase your talents following its rules and will help you grow as a Creator and potentially earn money so hope you enjoyed that video and make sure on this companion document you go and click this link below which is takes you here because you'll get a lot of value out of this 11 minute video showing you how to make $1,000 a day with chat gbt ebook in 1 hour and Google doc for free Isn't that cool all right love and light to you cheers