Comments on: Will Hamilton Reveals How He Makes Six Figures Online Teaching Tennis

By: Giannis

Giannis — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 19:53:03 +0000

Very interestin case study, I know also a tennis website from my country that does similar incomes every month from a 11 million total population

By: Cecilia

Cecilia — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:08:14 +0000

Awesome interview and it gave me a lot of inspiration for what I want to create this year. I only wish you’d open up the membership site mastermind again! I’d sign up in a hearbeat!

By: Discoden

Discoden — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:18:52 +0000

Great video Yaro. Very inspiring.
I hope to take some of the information for my own opportunities here in Canberra at our local basketball club.

By: Yaro

Yaro — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:21:32 +0000

That’s because MSM is now closed Howard.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:17:38 +0000

What I’m *fuzzy* about (Pun intended:) is how a membership site that covers A to Z in 6 months can really, really grab someone and get them to subscribe when maybe they just want to learn K to Z. Do these people ever say, “Well, I’ll just pay for the first three months even though I don’t really want that material.” ??

Does that make sense?

By: Howard Lothrop

Howard Lothrop — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:28:24 +0000

Yaro, Links for your Membership Site Mastermind coaching are all pointing to your Blog Mastermind program. FYI.
Howard

By: Yaro

Yaro — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:35:58 +0000

That’s not a bad strategy Jason, if your membership site software can do it and you are sure of what modules are coming up next.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:08:11 +0000

Great interview! I love the real life-ness of Will and his business approach! Doesn’t seam over-salesy or too pushy.

Yaro, a quick question:

Regarding content, Will mentioned blocks or modules for learning. When setting something like this up on your own membership site, do you make “FAKE BLOCKS” for content you havent even created yet? That way you can drip feed the content a few times a month to new members, but they also get a preview of whats coming (even though it’s not created!)?

Thanks, looking forward to your comments and GREAT POST!

By: CJ

CJ — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:05:07 +0000

Curious if anyone’s been on the site. My computer is blocking it because it has a red warning.

By: runescape

runescape — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 05:42:42 +0000

interesting article. his youtube page shows 24mil video views which is great but there are plenty of comedians/artists with 100mil views and they dont make anything near 15K a month… the smart thing to do is to start selling something useful under a reasonable price.

great post.

By: Karen Marrow

Karen Marrow — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 02:42:57 +0000

Yaro,

Thanks for the great interview. I shared this with my husband as he LOVES tennis.
Very inspiring and shows that you can do what you love to do and make a great income as well.

Blessings,

Karen

By: David

David — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:17:55 +0000

I do have an issue with this post. This guy had a email subscriber list if 60,000 people before he launched a membership site. Is there a way of being successful with a membership site without such a large subscriber list?

By: slammer

slammer — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 02:18:55 +0000

Yaro Mate!

What a great christmas gift. Don’t you DARE ever take this down my friend. haha
Love it, watched it twice, bookmarked it, and plan to watch it again.

By: Erik Emanuelli

Erik Emanuelli — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:16:35 +0000

Many thanks for sharing this video !

I just got an idea from it…

By: Stanley

Stanley — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:49:06 +0000

Wow!That shows how one can use your own skills for benefit.Smart of him on choosing sports,thats where all the money is if you are in business like me.I have surely learnt something.Thanks.Best of luck!

By: Dieter

Dieter — Wed, 26 May 2010 12:31:51 +0000

I’m a big fan of FYB, both as a tennis player and as an aspiring entrepeneur in music. I found Will’s testimony to resound quite a bit of the advice given on http://www.paulgraham.com. Paul’s essays are a must read for aspiring entrepeneurs. His focus area is software engineering, but his essays extend to various aspects of entrepeneurship and life. In particular, Will’s testimony reminds me to:
- launch fast
- search feedback
- iterate
As Paul never ceases to emphasize, the “days out there in the wilderness” are inevitable. You start making something you think people need, or something you are passionate about, or both, but may end up doing something entirely different. The only way to figure out what people are prepared to pay for, is getting your stuff out. Contrary to what Will says, it is probably pointless figuring out upfront how you’re going to make money. He may think with retrospect he could have avoided the waste of time doing stuff that did not pay off, but I think it was just a necessary evil.

By: Jarrod@ Optimistic Journey

Jarrod@ Optimistic Journey — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:06:25 +0000

I really enjoyed this video! Will has great experience and he leverages the internet into his favor with the use of youtube. I love the example he makes when he was talking about having the technical difficulties with the videos on the site, and discovered that he got about 200 new sign-ups to his emailing list. Sometimes the best techniques are discovered through trial and error.

Great interview, Yaro. Thanks for sharing!!

By: Dave Osmonson

Dave Osmonson — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:29:11 +0000

Hello, Thanks for the video, I can see how much video marketing is so effective. I think it is time for me to create videos for my business entities.

Great stuff.

Thanks, Dave…

By: Gypsykim

Gypsykim — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:03:50 +0000

I disagree, I liked your long hair. But that’s probably because I’m in the music biz. Anyway, great video. I think hubby and I may have jumped the gun with our site, but we’re working at it and should be successful. I wish I’d found Yaro six months ago!

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:51:48 +0000

This is exactly what I’m going to do for Snowboarding.

This video has inspired me no end. Just need to get it off the ground now.

It takes a lot of work and this is a fine example of some hard work that has paid off.

By: Lara Jane

Lara Jane — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:10:25 +0000

Brilliant! Thanks very much for sharing. Very interesting interview!!

By: Robinsh

Robinsh — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:51:02 +0000

It’s great,I am always wiating for the case studies deliver by you.
Who knows that which one will inspire me to do something notable
in the field of blogging.

Really you are helping me with each and every mail !!

Thanks Yaro.

By: Blog Design

Blog Design — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:12:20 +0000

Amazon S3 services is great to use for hosting videos. Great Service and free. Can’t ask for more than that.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:39:30 +0000

Thanks for the information, Yaro. I want to get into videos, but really am clueless as to where to start. It would be awesome if you put together a post or a series of posts on getting started with video.

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By: Greg Voevodsky

Greg Voevodsky — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:54:57 +0000

Hi Yaro,

I have taken many of your ideas and applied them to my youtube channel “wavesdvdcom” with real content much like your fuzzyyellowball tennis pro. I have, however, found my own ‘secrets’ that have exploded my youtube views and my Relaxation Nature Video business on ebay, amazon, and my own website.

I have gone from from 200 views a day at 5/10/09 to 6500 views a day in 1/29/10 and over 4000 views a day on itunes with my podcasts. Please email me directly, I would like to share some ideas with you and maybe we could do some business.
I’m sure your readers would love to see a new youtuber grow his business now that youtube is so much more competitive than when Will started.

By: Yaro

Yaro — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:51:06 +0000

I can’t speak for Will, but mine are hosted on Amazon’s S3 service.

By: Malik

Malik — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:00:41 +0000

was wondering about the premium videos
Are they hosted on YouTube or are they hosted elsewhere

KIndly inform me……..

By: Marcusg

Marcusg — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:25:32 +0000

Great post Yaro (and thank you too Will),

I was wondering about the premium videos. Are they hosted on YouTube or are they hosted elsewhere? It’s just that I didn’t think YouTube allowed you to on-sell their content behind a membership site.

Thanks (in advance)

Marcusg

By: Mama Fortuna

Mama Fortuna — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:56:17 +0000

Really enjoyed that video. Lots of great information, getting me to think about how to get some friends together and have fun making videos for YouTube!

We are so used to seeing you with your old, scraggly hairdo. What a pleasant change for you! It’s nice to see your smiling face.