{"id":8299,"date":"2025-02-27T08:44:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T16:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/?p=8299"},"modified":"2025-02-27T08:44:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T16:44:24","slug":"my-woodworking-income-youtube-etsy-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/my-woodworking-income-youtube-etsy-website\/","title":{"rendered":"My Woodworking Income &#8211; YouTube, Etsy, Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sy6BrrqRZMk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Video Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Sy6BrrqRZMk\">How Much Money Does my Woodworking Make on YouTube, Etsy, Etc?<\/a> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hey all! I thought I&#8217;d do a video documenting how well my woodworking business is going, in particular now that I have over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/corbindunn\">10,000 subscribers on YouTube<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me talk about my goals. I&#8217;m really focusing on creating new things and making YouTube videos, but I also want to make my projects accessible to other people. So, I take the time to create directions and digital files for most the things I design and create. Most of the stuff I post for free, but a few of the items I do sell. Those are the ones that I have spend more time on creating the digital product, which usually involves writing a set of directions with detailed photos and notes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My primary goal isn&#8217;t to churn out the same woodworking product again and again. I do like making a few items of each thing I create: I prefer to sell one thing as a way to fund the project, make one for myself, and give one away to a family member or friend. It&#8217;s also difficult to sell my unique creations: I really need to charge around $300 for a typical CNC&#8217;ed bowl, and even at that price it probably isn&#8217;t quite worthwhile for the amount of hours I have into them. And my wood spatulas\/utensils need to be about $30\/each (or more). I think these prices are a little too high for the typical consumer shopping on the internet &#8212; particularly on Etsy, where people are most likely to find my products. I might do well at local craft fairs, and at some point I may give them a try. But for now, selling only on the internet and via friends, it isn&#8217;t worth the time to create a lot of things. I may change that if I ever get something that everyone seems to want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m not focused on woodworking income: to do that I&#8217;d have to pursue clients and create the things they want, which isn&#8217;t something I&#8217;m very interested in doing.  I like sharing things on the internet, and I enjoy making YouTube videos, which in itself makes everything I do take twice as long as it should, simply because I&#8217;m filming things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, check out the video where I talk about my income and expenses for 2024. My income comes from four main sources: YouTube\/Google (which includes the ads on this website), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinsworkshop.com\">CorbinsWorkshop.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/corbinsworkshopstore.etsy.com\">Etsy<\/a>, Amazon Affiliate links (via YouTube descriptions and my blog).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I never try to *<strong>push<\/strong>* stuff on people. I don&#8217;t want to do paid product reviews or placements in my videos. Heck, I don&#8217;t even want people to give me products for free just so I&#8217;ll use them in the videos. I only want to use stuff that I&#8217;d actually go out and buy. Now, there are probably a few exceptions: if some big CNC or tool company gave me a tool that I really wanted, then I&#8217;d probably take it if there were no strings attached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also want information to be free! Free, as in you can watch and learn from me doing stuff on YouTube and via my blog. I don&#8217;t like things being behind paywalls. I don&#8217;t ever want to be on Patreon. I don&#8217;t want to do YouTube subscriptions. Now, this is assuming everything goes smoothly in life, and I should never say never, because I can&#8217;t anticipate what might happen in my life in the future where I might need that additional income for some reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey all! I thought I&#8217;d do a video documenting how well my woodworking business is going, in particular now that I have over 10,000 subscribers on YouTube. Let me talk about my goals. I&#8217;m really&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/my-woodworking-income-youtube-etsy-website\/\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-8299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-woodworking","tag-woodworking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thumbnail-shop-mon-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8302,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299\/revisions\/8302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}