How I Make $200,000/Month as a 21-Year-Old YouTube Strategist — And How You Can Make Your First $10,000/Month in 90 Days

Proof This Is Real

I'm 21 years old. I started this business when I was 18 with nothing. No connections, no money, no experience. Today I make over $200,000 a month from YouTube strategy.

I run the largest YouTube growth operation for experts and businesses. Over 30 active client channels. Over 100 videos produced per month.

My strategy is so effective that I ranked on YouTube alongside Alex Hormozi — not once, but five times:

And just so you know this actually works — here's what my strategy has done for clients:

That's me. That's what I do. Now let me show you how this applies to you.

Hear It From The Clients Themselves

Who This Is For

If you already spend hours on YouTube — you watch it, you study it, you understand what makes videos blow up better than most people — and you've been thinking "there has to be a way to get paid for this"... there is. This is it.

If you're a video editor, a thumbnail designer, a script writer — you're already in the YouTube world but you're stuck doing the execution work. You're watching strategists earn three to five times what you make for less hours. You know you can do that job. You just need the systems and the opportunity. This is how you move up the value chain.

If you've got your own YouTube channel and you understand the platform from a creator's perspective — but your channel isn't paying the bills, or you want a second income stream from the same knowledge. You already have the foundation. This turns that into a career.

If you're in a 9-to-5 right now — maybe marketing, writing, journalism, something where the skills transfer — and you've always wanted to work on your own terms, do something you actually enjoy, and not be stuck in an office building someone else's dream. If you love YouTube and you've been looking for the right vehicle to make that leap. This is it.

If you've been looking to make money online and you're tired of the bullshit. The dropshipping courses. The crypto schemes. The people selling dreams they've never actually delivered on. If you want something real — a real skill, a real business behind it, real income from day one — and you love YouTube. This is the opposite of everything else out there.

If you're already a YouTube strategist or consultant but you're hitting a ceiling. You don't have proper research tools. You don't have access to cross-niche data. You're guessing when you should be using systems. This gives you the infrastructure, the methodology, and the earning opportunities to break through that ceiling.

If you're working at an agency right now, doing good work for someone else's business, and you want your own thing. You want to go independent but you don't have the training, the credibility, or the client pipeline to make the jump. This gives you all three.

If any of that sounds like you — keep reading. This was built for you.

Who This Is NOT For

If you're looking for something passive — some kind of hack where money just shows up without effort — this isn't for you. This is a real skill. It takes real work to develop. If you're not willing to put in the hours, learn something new, and take feedback — stop reading now.

If you don't actually like YouTube — if you're just chasing a payday and you couldn't care less about the platform — this isn't going to work for you. The people who get great at this are the ones who are genuinely fascinated by what makes videos perform. If that's not you, you'll burn out fast.

If you're the type of person who buys things and never follows through — you buy the course, you watch the first two videos, and then it sits there collecting dust — honestly, don't bother. This only works if you actually do the work.

And if you're not coachable — if you think you already know everything and you're not open to being told you're wrong — this isn't the right fit. The best strategists are the ones who take feedback, adjust, and improve. If your ego is bigger than your ambition, this won't work.

The Highest-Paying Skill Nobody's Talking About

All serious businesses and brands are prioritising YouTube to make money right now.

Alex Hormozi built a $200 million a year portfolio and a huge part of that came from his YouTube audience. He sold $100 million worth of books on a YouTube live stream in a single day.

Iman Gadzhi built his entire brand on YouTube. He's made millions of dollars from a single YouTube video. He makes millions of dollars per month now. He's a co-founder in a billion-dollar company — and he got that opportunity in the first place because of his YouTube.

And if you look at smaller channels — Brez Scales, a 20-year-old kid, makes over a million dollars a month. Jeremy Haynes makes a million dollars a month. There are countless examples.

And then you zoom out even further — MrBeast is a billionaire, and YouTube was his main platform and still is. Logan Paul. KSI. Jake Paul. Ryan Trahan. Mark Rober. All built on YouTube. The list goes on and on.

The demand for this skill is sky-high — higher than it's ever been before. Yet the supply of people who can genuinely help these brands and businesses grow on YouTube is basically nowhere to be seen.

But here's the part that most people completely miss — it's not just that there's a lack of talent. It's that most of the talent that does exist can't actually help them grow.

And I don't mean video editors. I don't mean thumbnail designers. I don't mean script writers. There are plenty of those people. But here's the thing — that talent can't actually help them grow the channel. They just help them fulfil the channel. They help them produce the content, but they can't help them grow.

The people who actually help them grow are the strategists. The ones who come up with the ideas. The ones who decide which are the right videos to make and which ones have the highest potential to succeed. The ones who guide them through actually doing the video the right way.

That's where the biggest opportunity exists. But the problem is there's basically no talent for it.

These businesses — Alex Hormozi, MrBeast, every brand and business that's serious about YouTube — they are always looking for YouTube strategists who can help them. But there's nobody there to supply the gap. That's how I get paid so much. That's how Paddy Galloway gets paid millions a year by brands like Red Bull and MrBeast. The demand is insane and the supply is almost zero.

And the reason there's such a lack of talent is simple:

1. Nobody knows this opportunity even exists
2. Nobody who knows the opportunity exists is actually teaching this stuff

Right now, the demand for this skill is the highest it's ever been. And the supply is practically zero.

Who I Am and Why I'm Doing This

For those of you who don't know me — my name is Jake Trinder.

I've been obsessed with YouTube since I was a kid. I started my first YouTube channel when I was 10 years old. Posted my first video and instantly became obsessed. Everyone in my school found out and I got bullied pretty badly for it. I nearly quit, but I loved it too much to give up.

Fast forward — I got rejected from every university I applied to. So I said, fuck university, I'm going to start a business instead. My parents hated the idea. So I made a bet with them — I'd build a successful business within a year, and if I failed, I'd go to uni. They asked what's successful? I said 10k a month. They agreed.

I tried selling websites first. Went door-to-door, knocked on about 100 doors, sold one website for less than $100. That wasn't going to work.

But then I saw a post from an entrepreneur hiring someone to help grow his YouTube channel. And instantly, I knew this was my shot. I didn't just apply as a video editor like everyone else — I pitched myself to run his entire channel. The strategy, the ideas, everything.

He said yes.

In eight months, we added a million dollars per year to his business from YouTube. Not from views. Not from sponsorships. From the actual business behind the channel. Because I figured out what videos to make that would actually drive results.

And that's when I realised the gap. These businesses and experts and brands — they all wanted to do YouTube. They knew they needed to be on YouTube. But they didn't know how. They were getting beaten by creators who might have been less experienced, less knowledgeable, worse at their actual craft — but just because those creators were better at the YouTube side of things, they were winning. The businesses couldn't compete.

So I bridged that gap. I helped them understand who they were targeting, the channel they wanted to build, the videos they needed to make. I brought that into a YouTube strategy — the video ideas, the titles, the thumbnail concepts, the creative direction — that actually got results on YouTube, grew their channel, and generated real business outcomes on the back end. Sales, leads, revenue.

And then it just spiralled. Huge brands started reaching out wanting me to do the same for them. And I did it again. And again. And again.

One year after I started, my parents asked — are you making 10k a month yet? No. $50,000 a month.

Now I'm 21. We do over $200,000 a month. We manage over 30 client channels. Our clients' channels collectively generate over a million dollars per month — channels that we grew from zero, by the way. I have a team of 10 full-time people. And I get to do whatever I want.

And the way I did all of this — the reason any of it worked — is because I recognised that gap and I capitalised on it. These businesses needed someone who understood YouTube strategy. Not editing. Not thumbnails. The strategy — knowing what videos to make. That's the skill. That's what a YouTube strategist does. And that's the skill that built everything I have.

But here's the problem I've run into.

The single biggest bottleneck in my business right now isn't editing. It isn't sales. It isn't getting clients. It's finding YouTube strategists who are actually good. I've tried hiring experienced strategists. I've hired people being paid six figures at other companies. They couldn't do what I needed them to do. The skill just doesn't exist in the market at the level I need it.

So I've decided to take matters into my own hands. Instead of endlessly searching for the right person, I'm going to create them. I'm going to train them myself.

And I want to be fully transparent about why I'm doing this. I already make $200,000 a month. I don't need another income source. The reason I'm doing this is because I genuinely need YouTube strategists for my own business, and they don't exist. But it's not just me — I know dozens of YouTube channels, businesses, and brands that I'm personally connected with who are literally trying to hire for this role right now. And there's nobody that exists for it.

So I'm taking matters into my own hands. Instead of waiting for the talent to appear, I'm going to create it.

What It Actually Takes to Make $10k/Month as a YouTube Strategist

Activity 1: Learn the Skill

The first thing — and this is the foundation of everything — is you need to learn the actual skill.

And when I say the skill, I don't mean how to edit videos. I don't mean how to design thumbnails. I don't mean how to write scripts. Those are execution skills. They're important, but they're not what drives growth on YouTube.

The skill I'm talking about is strategy. It's knowing what videos to make. It's understanding why certain videos perform and others don't. It's being able to look at a channel in any niche and say "here are the five videos you should make next, and here's why they'll work."

That's the skill. And it's the highest-leverage skill in the entire YouTube ecosystem.

Here's why. Everything else on a YouTube channel is downstream of the strategy. You can have the best editor in the world, the best thumbnail designer, the best camera, the best production — but if you're making the wrong videos, none of that matters. The strategy is what determines whether a channel grows or doesn't. It's the thing that everything else depends on.

And here's what most people don't realise — it's a learnable skill. It's not talent. It's not some innate ability that you either have or you don't. It's a process.

Those videos that generated multiple six figures for clients like Instantly AI and Glencoco? They didn't happen because of some flash of creative genius. They happened because there was a process behind them. A systematic way of identifying what video to make and why it would work. That's what YouTube strategy is. And it's completely learnable.

And when you're one of the few people who actually has this skill, everything else becomes easy. Getting clients becomes easy — because businesses are desperate for someone who can actually help them grow on YouTube. Keeping clients becomes easy — because you're getting them results that nobody else is getting them. Charging premium prices becomes easy — because the demand is through the roof and the supply is basically zero.

And by the way — I probably spend one to two hours a day on the actual YouTube strategy and ideation work for my clients. That's it. One to two hours a day, and that's the skill that generates $200,000 a month. That's the leverage of this role.

Activity 2: Get Experience and Get Results

The second thing is you need real experience. And I don't mean watching tutorials. I mean actually doing YouTube strategy for real channels with real stakes.

This is where most people get stuck. You can learn all the theory you want, but until you've actually sat down, researched a niche, identified the right formats, come up with video ideas, and seen those videos perform — you don't really know what you're doing. You think you do, but you don't.

And this is also the biggest catch-22 in the whole space. You can't get experience without someone giving you a chance. But nobody will give you a chance without experience.

I dealt with this exact problem on the other side. I've been trying to hire YouTube strategists for my own business. I've interviewed people who claim to know YouTube strategy. I've even hired people who were being paid six figures at other companies. And most of them couldn't actually do the job. Because knowing about YouTube and actually being able to do YouTube strategy for a business or a brand are two completely different things.

The skill only gets built through real application. You need to be researching real niches, analysing real data, making real recommendations, and seeing real results.

Activity 3: Land Clients and Get Paid

The third thing is you need to actually get paid for this. And here's the good news — this is actually the easiest part, if you've done the first two steps right.

Remember what I said earlier. The demand for YouTube strategists is sky-high and the supply is basically zero. Businesses are actively looking for people who can help them grow on YouTube. They're posting jobs, they're reaching out to agencies, they're asking in communities — and they can't find anyone good.

When you actually have the skill, and you have real results to back it up, getting clients is not the problem. The problem right now in the market is that there aren't enough people who can actually do this.

And here's the other thing — the pricing for YouTube strategy is incredible. I'm not talking about charging $200 to edit a video. YouTube strategists charge $2,000, $3,000, $5,000 a month per client. Some charge way more than that. Paddy Galloway charges brands like Red Bull and MrBeast and he makes millions per year. I charge some of my clients $10,000 a month individually, and in total I make $200,000 a month from this skill.

Even at the starting level, landing two or three clients at $3,000 to $5,000 a month each gets you to $10,000 a month. That's the maths. And those clients are out there waiting for you.

Activity 4: Build It Into a Real Business

The fourth thing — and this is where it really gets exciting — is you build this into a real, leveraged business.

Because the goal isn't just to make money. The goal is to build a career and a lifestyle that most people can only dream of. Working from wherever you want in the world. Setting your own schedule. Choosing the clients you want to work with. And earning an income that grows without you having to work more hours.

And the beautiful thing about YouTube strategy is it's inherently leveraged. You're not editing videos for 10 hours each. You're not designing thumbnails all day. You're making strategic decisions — which videos to make, what formats to use, what direction to take the channel — and those decisions drive hundreds of thousands of dollars in results.

I probably spend one to two hours a day on the actual YouTube strategy and ideation work for my clients. That's it. And my results are better than ever — because of the system I have underneath me. That's what happens when you systematise this properly. You work less, you earn more, and the quality of your output actually goes up.

I started doing this from my bedroom in Newcastle when I was 18. Three years later, $200,000 a month. I travel wherever I want, I meet incredible people, and I get to live life completely on my own terms. All from this one skill. And I'm still growing. The opportunity is genuinely that big.

The Roadmap

If you do these four things, $10,000 a month is genuinely realistic — and that's just the starting point.

Your Options Right Now

There are a few ways you could go about this.

Option one — you try to learn it on your own. Buy some YouTube courses, watch free content, try to piece it together. The problem? There's nobody out there actually teaching YouTube strategy at a high level right now. The information just doesn't exist online. You'd have to try and land a gig with a YouTube expert who's willing to teach you directly — but no YouTube expert is going to take you under their wing unless there's something in it for them. So you're stuck.

Option two — you try to get hired by a YouTube agency. But here's the thing — most YouTube agencies and video editing agencies don't actually have the YouTube strategy expertise themselves. They solve capacity, not capability. Even if you somehow land the gig, they can't teach you the skill because they don't have it.

Option three — you try to build a personal brand and attract clients on your own. Start posting content, grow a following, eventually get clients. This works... in two to three years. And it requires a completely different skill set on top of the strategy skill you're trying to build. Most people burn out long before it ever pays off.

Or — you can work directly with someone who's actually done it. Someone who's built $200k/month from this exact skill, who's grown 30+ channels, and who will train you directly, give you real experience on real clients, and give you the opportunity to start earning while you learn from Day 1.

That's what I've built. And I want to tell you exactly how it works.

The Proof

First — myself. I started from my bedroom in a small city called Newcastle in the United Kingdom at 18 years old with no connections, no money, no experience. Three years later, I make over $200,000 a month as a YouTube strategist. I manage over 30 channels. Our clients' channels collectively generate over a million dollars per month. All from this one skill.

Bryan was trying to build a ghostwriting agency on X. It wasn't working — the platform just wasn't where the money was. I reached out to him directly and trained him one-on-one on YouTube scriptwriting.

He had zero experience. Within a few months, he became one of the best YouTube scriptwriters in the space, and we grew his business from zero to $20,000 a month. Now he's the go-to name in YouTube scriptwriting and a co-founder in a YouTube scriptwriting software company. All from a skill I taught him directly. He had zero experience. Within a few months, he became one of the best YouTube scriptwriters in the space, and we grew his business from zero to $20,000 a month. Now he's the go-to name in YouTube scriptwriting and a co-founder in a YouTube scriptwriting software company. All from a skill I taught him directly.

And in terms of proof that I can actually teach you this skill — that the methodology works — look at what it's produced for clients:

Sam Piliero came to us with 60 subscribers, getting 30 to 60 views per video. Today, he makes over $300,000 per month from YouTube. He's the number one Facebook ads channel on the platform.

Glencoco — a B2B sales platform — had zero subscribers. Their very first video got 270,000 views. They closed $45,000 in deals from it within 30 days. Hit 10,000 subscribers in 60 days.

Leevi went from zero to seven figures a year in eight months. Over $400,000 came directly from YouTube. He has 3,000 subscribers. Not millions — 3,000. Because it's not about views. It's about strategy.

These aren't flukes. This is the same methodology, the same strategic thinking, applied across completely different niches. And it's exactly what you'll learn.

And it's not just client results. My own strategy ranked me alongside the biggest names on YouTube. I ranked for Alex Hormozi — five times:

And that's not just on my own feed. Here's proof it shows up on other people's feeds too:

I ranked for Iman Gadzhi too:

And I ranked number 1 for "Make Money Online" on YouTube — one of the most competitive search terms on the platform:

This is what happens when you actually understand YouTube strategy at a deep level. And it's exactly what I'm going to teach you.

Here's What Happens When You Work With Me

You will learn the highest-leverage skill in the entire YouTube ecosystem — directly from someone who makes $200,000 a month from it. Not from a course creator. Not from someone who used to do YouTube five years ago. From someone doing it right now, every single day, at the highest level.

You will be earning money while you learn. You won't have to wait months or years to see your first income from this. You'll have the opportunity to start getting paid from literally Day 1 as you develop the skill — not after.

You will build real results and real proof on real channels — before you ever need to go out and find your own client. You'll walk into any conversation with undeniable evidence that you can do this, working with brands and businesses that people actually recognise.

You can finally forget about the experience catch-22. No more applying for jobs that want three years of experience you can't get. No more wondering how to break in. That problem is solved.

You will know exactly how to land clients — the same outreach strategies, the same brand-building approach, the same client acquisition methods that built a $200k/month YouTube business. You won't have to figure it out on your own.

You will know how to build this into a real, leveraged business — not just a freelance gig where you're trading all your time for money. A business that scales, that gives you freedom, that lets you work from wherever you want.

And you can do all of this from anywhere in the world. Laptop, internet connection. That's it.

How It Actually Works

Direct Training From Me

Before, if you wanted to learn YouTube strategy, you'd have to try and find a YouTube expert willing to take you under their wing — but no expert is going to do that unless there's something in it for them. Or you'd try to land a job at a YouTube agency, but most agencies don't actually have the strategy expertise to teach you.

With Six-Figure Strategist, I train you directly. One-on-one guidance from someone who's actually grown 30+ channels, built $200k/month from this exact skill, and does this every single day. You're not learning from a course creator who made a few videos about YouTube. You're learning from someone who is actively in the trenches doing it at the highest level right now.

And you get the opportunity to earn while you learn from Day 1 and get paid directly from me. For every good video idea or format you identify for our clients that gets approved, you get paid $100. We need 50+ new approved ideas every single week — that demand is real.

Real Client Experience Under My Supervision

When you work with me, your ideas and your work get tested on real client channels. Real businesses, real stakes. And it's all under my supervision — there's a quality assurance layer so you're not going to produce bad work that damages a client. You learn by doing, on real channels, with real feedback.

And here's the powerful part — the results you generate become your proof. Before you've even landed your own first client, you already have case studies. You already have evidence that your strategy worked on well-established, well-known brands and businesses. That makes getting your own clients incredibly easy. You're not walking in cold. You're walking in with receipts.

Client Acquisition Training

I've absolutely cracked client acquisition for this exact service. I've scaled it to $200k a month. You'll learn exactly how to build your own brand as a YouTube strategist, how to do outreach that gets high response rates from dream clients, and how to generate real interest without being pushy or desperate. The exact strategies I use.

And once you've built up some income, I'll show you how to run paid ads profitably to get clients — like a money printer. Turn it on, clients come in. That's how we do it.

But here's the thing — you don't even have to go out and find your own clients if you don't want to. If you go through the programme, develop the skill, and prove you can do the work — we place you. We place you into an opportunity that pays $5,000 to $10,000 a month immediately. Because we are so well connected in the YouTube industry — with the channels, the brands, the businesses, and other YouTube agencies that are desperately in need of this role — we can place you directly. And that includes us. We're looking to hire from the people who come through this programme.

Systems, Leverage, and AI

I'll show you how I've systematised this to the point where I have a team of 20+ full-time team members — editors, thumbnail designers, scriptwriters, project managers, creative directors — running over 30 channels, and getting better results than ever.

And I'll show you how I'm leveraging AI to build even more leverage. Not your typical ChatGPT or generic AI tools — I'm talking about building custom internal AI tools and agents that act as YouTube strategy assistants, doing research, identifying patterns, and giving us even more of our time back. This is the future of this skill, and you'll be ahead of everyone else.

Get Started

If you wanted to learn this skill on your own — hiring a consultant, getting access to research tools, building your own systems — you'd spend $10,000 to $50,000 and 12 to 24 months of trial and error before you even knew if you were on the right track.

If you wanted to hire a YouTube strategist for your own business, you'd be paying $5,000 to $10,000 per month — and that's if you could find one worth hiring, which you probably can't.

A Few Things You Should Know

This is the initial launch of Six-Figure Strategist. We're only taking on 10 people. That's it. I'm keeping it small so I can give each person my full one-on-one attention and make sure we get real results from the very first cohort.

Because this is the initial launch, the pricing is lower than it will ever be again. Once this cohort fills up, the price goes up. It's that simple.

We also vet every applicant. This isn't first-come, first-served. We need to make sure you're the right fit and that you're serious about this. If the spots are filled by the time you apply, you'll be placed on a waitlist for the next cohort — but the next cohort will be at a higher price.

So if you're reading this and spots are still available — don't sit on it.

Founding Cohort Exclusives

Because you're here during the initial launch — there are four things you get that nobody who joins after this cohort will ever get.

These four things are exclusive to the founding cohort. They won't be offered again.

Let Me Bring This All Together

Every serious business and brand is prioritising YouTube right now. The demand for people who can actually do YouTube strategy is the highest it's ever been. The supply is basically zero. That's a generational wealth opportunity — and almost nobody sees it yet.

I make $200,000 a month from this one skill. I started from my bedroom in Newcastle at 18 with nothing. And I need more people who can do what I do — because they don't exist in the market.

Six-Figure Strategist is me training you directly in the exact skill and methodology behind $200k/month in YouTube strategy. You learn the skill. You get real experience on real client channels. You start earning while you learn. And you either go independent with the client acquisition playbook I've used to scale to $200k/month, or we place you directly into a paid opportunity.

$10,000 a month within 90 days is genuinely realistic. And if you don't make your investment back, we work with you until you do. That's guaranteed.

This is the initial launch. 10 spots. Lowest price it will ever be. One-on-one access to me that future cohorts won't get. Priority placement. Your results featured across my platforms.

This doesn't exist anywhere else. Nobody else is training YouTube strategists. Nobody else has 30+ channels to train you on. Nobody else gives you the opportunity to earn while you learn.