Watch This Before Starting YouTube

1. Top 5 Tips for Starting a YouTube Channel
2. Importance of Having a Goal and Taking YouTube Seriously
3. Understanding YouTube's Place in Your Business Strategy and Monetization Options
4. Utilizing YouTube Fundamentals and Choosing a Niche
5. Building Experience and Getting Started on YouTube
6. FAQ

Top 5 Tips for Starting a YouTube Channel

If you're thinking about starting a YouTube channel, you're gonna want to watch this entire video because in it I'm gonna save you potentially a ton of time, money, and energy by sharing my top 5 tips and the things that I wish I knew when I was first starting my channel.

Importance of Having a Goal and Taking YouTube Seriously

You see, the reason that you need to have a goal when it comes to YouTube is because this is going to align the direction of your channel over the next weeks or months - or potentially even years. Now if your goal is simply to go out there and document your journey and have a lot of fun along the way, then that's great. I mean, that essentially is a goal in and of itself, but it's gonna be hard to track and as eventually as kind of the novelty wears off, you may get bored and you may let your channel slide, which ultimately creators do. On the other hand, if you've got a more say business-minded goal, you're planning on using YouTube as a key part of your overall marketing strategy, well then you're able to start to exactly where it is that you want to end up and how YouTube can help facilitate this and basically get you to your goal a whole lot faster.

Understanding YouTube's Place in Your Business Strategy and Monetization Options

There's a lot of talk these days about YouTube being a business and becoming a creator and becoming a full-time YouTuber. What they fail to mention is that YouTube is really just a social media platform, meaning it's a source of traffic. It's not a business in and of itself. This is why it's so important to really break down, again, that goal and that overall strategy of what you're trying to achieve and then understanding how YouTube is going to play a part in helping you achieve those goals rather than kind of being a goal in and of itself. Another option when it comes to monetizing your channel is doing brand deals, which is kind of a form of affiliate, but basically what you're going to do here is get products or services from a company, possibly offer them reviews or do tutorial videos on it, and the brand will compensate you for the content you create.

Utilizing YouTube Fundamentals and Choosing a Niche

One of the worst things you can do, something we see all the time, is someone comes out just guns blazing, and they're posting videos all the time. They're doing live streams, they're responding to comments. They do this for like thirty days, maybe 60 days, and then it starts to basically just fall off a cliff and we never hear from them again. All that time and money and energy totally wasted, and essentially what could have been a very profitable and very promising YouTube career gets flushed down the toilet. Now, over time, as you create more and more content, you're gonna start to realize what types of content resonates best with your audience. Then you can start to slowly shift into that area and create more content around that. And essentially, over time, your channel is going to evolve and modify and adjust to suit the needs of your audience, getting you more views and more subscribers.

Building Experience and Getting Started on YouTube

My first YouTube videos were blurry and uncomfortable, really awkward. Now, they're less blurry, less uncomfortable, less awkward, but I would have never got here had I not gone through those initial pains of making really awkward and uncomfortable stuff. In fact, looking back years ago when I was first starting on YouTube, I remember being so uncomfortable and so hot and sweaty and just miserable that I had to change my shirt in between filming because I was just an absolute mess. I'd get tongue-tied, I wouldn't know what to say, I'd stumble, and then re-say it and then re-say it, and a three-minute video would end up taking me an hour to shoot.

FAQ

Q: What are the top 5 tips for starting a YouTube channel?

A: If you're thinking about starting a YouTube channel, you're gonna want to watch this entire video because in it I'm gonna save you potentially a ton of time, money, and energy by sharing my top 5 tips and the things that I wish I knew when I was first starting my channel.
Q: Why is having a goal important when starting a YouTube channel?

A: You see, the reason that you need to have a goal when it comes to YouTube is because this is going to align the direction of your channel over the next weeks or months - or potentially even years. Now if your goal is simply to go out there and document your journey and have a lot of fun along the way, then that's great. I mean, that essentially is a goal in and of itself, but it's gonna be hard to track and as eventually as kind of the novelty wears off, you may get bored and you may let your channel slide, which ultimately creators do. On the other hand, if you've got a more say business-minded goal, you're planning on using YouTube as a key part of your overall marketing strategy, well then you're able to start to exactly where it is that you want to end up and how YouTube can help facilitate this and basically get you to your goal a whole lot faster.
Q: How does YouTube fit into a business strategy and what are the monetization options?

A: There's a lot of talk these days about YouTube being a business and becoming a creator and becoming a full-time YouTuber. What they fail to mention is that YouTube is really just a social media platform, meaning it's a source of traffic. It's not a business in and of itself. This is why it's so important to really break down, again, that goal and that overall strategy of what you're trying to achieve and then understanding how YouTube is going to play a part in helping you achieve those goals rather than kind of being a goal in and of itself. Another option when it comes to monetizing your channel is doing brand deals, which is kind of a form of affiliate, but basically what you're going to do here is get products or services from a company, possibly offer them reviews or do tutorial videos on it, and the brand will compensate you for the content you create.
Q: How can one utilize YouTube fundamentals and choose a niche for their channel?

A: One of the worst things you can do, something we see all the time, is someone comes out just guns blazing, and they're posting videos all the time. They're doing live streams, they're responding to comments. They do this for like thirty days, maybe 60 days, and then it starts to basically just fall off a cliff and we never hear from them again. All that time and money and energy totally wasted, and essentially what could have been a very profitable and very promising YouTube career gets flushed down the toilet. Now, over time, as you create more and more content, you're gonna start to realize what types of content resonates best with your audience. Then you can start to slowly shift into that area and create more content around that. And essentially, over time, your channel is going to evolve and modify and adjust to suit the needs of your audience, getting you more views and more subscribers.
Q: What is the importance of building experience and how to get started on YouTube?

A: My first YouTube videos were blurry and uncomfortable, really awkward. Now, they're less blurry, less uncomfortable, less awkward, but I would have never got here had I not gone through those initial pains of making really awkward and uncomfortable stuff. In fact, looking back years ago when I was first starting on YouTube, I remember being so uncomfortable and so hot and sweaty and just miserable that I had to change my shirt in between filming because I was just an absolute mess. I'd get tongue-tied, I wouldn't know what to say, I'd stumble, and then re-say it and then re-say it, and a three-minute video would end up taking me an hour to shoot.