If you’ve watched Youtube before, chances are you probably have watched an automated video without knowing it. In recent years, there has been an explosion of automated videos on the platform spurring a cottage industry that persuades people to spend thousands of dollars to create video businesses on YouTube.
The premise is simple – you invest, for example, $1000 in a YouTube Automation business and start earning tens of thousands of dollars in passive income each month. While it seems like a no-brainer strategy, as YouTube has paid over $30 billion to content creators in the past few years, there is one huge issue.
Every Tom, Dick & Harry (who thinks he knows what works best but has no idea) has started his own self-appointed YouTube Automation Guru channel. And it was hard to realize just how bad things could get with these videos until recently. Most of them use pretty shoddy sales tactics that leave you feeling like they could have spent more time making your heart sing.
However, that’s not exclusive just to this industry. Every industry has its Toms, Dicks & Harrys. But that only gives better chances to people who work hard and meticulously to swim up to the top without much sweat – people like Paul Hilse.
The 19-year-old Youtube automation expert spent 4-5 hours every day after school writing scripts and editing videos just to make pocket money. He then discovered Youtube automation and hasn’t looked back since.
Today he makes seven figures and has recently launched an intensive online course that teaches people how to set up a Youtube automation business and, more importantly, how to replicate his winning strategy.
But before Paul managed to pull all of that off, his life took a dark turn. His dad, the family’s breadwinner, died three years ago. He and his mom were left with only each other to rely on and had to do everything in their power just to make ends meet (hence Paul’s career in video production as a high school student).
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Just as Paul was on the brink of a massive breakthrough with his automation business, a slight lack of judgment left both of them on the street. They got scammed out of their money in a real estate scam. And just like that, they became homeless overnight.
Up to that moment, Paul thought that taking an exam at school was the most stressful experience in life. But being without a roof over your head is a whole other dimension. Still, it served as a wake-up call for Paul.
“I felt there was no one there supporting me. My dad’s gone. My mom got scammed, and I have to be head of the household to support her,” says Paul Hilse. “I thought I could weep in my despair and just be a victim. Or to muster my strength and do everything necessary to get myself out of that situation.”
He didn’t want to let the horror that befell him define his life. In his mind, he didn’t want to be the victim and play that card for the rest of his life. So he sat down and wrote exactly what he was going to do. He was supposed to take every step to grow and scale his business to pay off the debt and continue living his life like nothing ever happened.
“The first thing I wrote on the whiteboard was my goal – $100,000 a month. And I remember looking back at the whiteboard, laughing at myself for thinking I could ever reach that goal,” Paul says. “But then I wrote every step I needed to take to get there. And day by day, step by step, I started growing and building my business.”
When Paul hit the $50,000-a-month milestone, he initially believed the reason was that he started investing more time. However, he realized more time was only a part of his success when he tested his strategy. He started a brand-new channel and quickly grew it to almost the same size as his first one in a couple of months.
“And that’s when I got the idea to start teaching people how to do YouTube automation. I thought that if I got out of a bad situation, I could help others to do the same,” says Hilse. As he points out, many people in the world are in difficult financial situations, and even though they want to get out, they have no means or necessary knowledge.
“A lot of people are probably in the situation I was in – maybe not scammed out of a million dollars but struggling to make ends meet,” he says. “When I was in a bad place, I only wished for someone to extend their hand to give me the opportunity, to guide me, but I was alone.”
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After going through the whole ordeal himself, he wished that nobody else had to endure all the stress, worry, and struggle. With that in mind, Paul Hilse created a coaching program called Freedom Accelerator. His mission: is to help others get more freedom in life. As per Hilse, Freedom Accelerator is a place where people can break away from the chains of everyday living.
“The most important thing I learned from all this is that you can achieve anything you put your mind to,” says Hilse. “Come up with any idea and put enough hard work in the mix – there is your success recipe. But it’s infinitely easier if you have someone to lean on.”