 How to get your first 100 YouTube subscribers. Hey, you don't have any subscribers. You don't have any, none, nothing, zilch. Or you have some and you're trying to build, that's why you're watching this video. You came to the right place. Also, at the end of this video, I wanna tell you a pretty embarrassing thing I did on my YouTube channel that could've killed the channel until I finally figured it out. I'll tell you that at the end, but let's get started. Okay, I'm JR Fisher, I appreciate you being here. If you're new to this channel, don't forget to subscribe. Don't forget, ring the bell, turn on all bell notifications, all of them. You gotta hit all of them, otherwise you'll miss something. Don't you wanna be that VIP in the Fisher family that gets notified before everybody else? Of course you do, of course you do. You're better than them, aren't you? All right, don't forget also, comment below. Your comments mean a lot to me, and that's part of my embarrassing story, which I will share with you at the very end. Pretty embarrassing stuff, but anyhow, comment below, give me a thumbs up, thumbs down, whatever you think. If you have an idea for a video, put that below. If you have a question on how to make money online, put that below. I love getting your comments. Embarrassing story has a lot to do with that, but I will share that with you in the end. So there are certain steps you need to do to make money on YouTube, to grow your channel and to get subscribers. Now, if you're trying to get subscribers, you probably realize there's a value to that, and there is a value to that, right? If you get more subscribers, you can at some point monetize and you can get paid with ads on your videos. But not necessarily that, because that's gonna be a small part of your income. If you're getting more views, you can put things in your description and you can sell products. You can build your email list. You can offer free downloads. You can do all kinds of stuff in your description below. But if you don't have any subscribers, it doesn't matter, right? So we gotta get subscribers. So let's talk about, these are like the 10 main things that you just gotta do, okay? Number one is narrow your audience. Make sure you have a niche. I see this over and over again where people will just do random videos. They'll do videos on cooking one day and then the next day they're taking a trip somewhere and the next day they're cleaning their living room and the next day they're just in their car talking about random things. You cannot, cannot build a channel that way. We don't know this in the beginning and when I tell you this, it's gonna make common sense to you, but the point is people go to a channel for a particular reason. So maybe they go to one channel to learn how to bank. They go to another channel to learn how to work out without weights. They go to another channel to learn how to do SEO. They go to another channel to learn how to sell in the e-commerce. They go to channels based on a niche. So it's very important before you start your channel, you sit down and you say, who do I wanna reach? Who's my audience? Who do I wanna talk to? What am I gonna say to these people? That's the important part. Number two, create a trailer for your channel. Now a trailer is a video that when people go to your main channel, it will play and it will tell them about your channel, what it's about, what does it do for them? They wanna see that. So if you have that, it's gonna hook some people into listening to your channel if you tell them what they're gonna get. Number three, create an interesting profile. Super important that you do this. Having a profile tells the people a lot about you. It can build a loyalty to you. It can build a friendship with you. It can give some of your background. Maybe somebody can relate to your background. Maybe you had a tough start. I think we all had a tough start. I don't know. I don't talk to too many entrepreneurs who are doing really well now that it's just always been easy. I mean, I just, I don't meet a lot of people like that. I'm sure there's some out there. I'm sure, you know, some people got super lucky. But for the most part, you're not gonna, you're not gonna get that lucky. It's not gonna happen that way. What's gonna happen is you're gonna have to put in a lot of work. And if you put that description into your profile and people see that, a lot of people may actually kind of link with that and go, yeah, that person's like me. I wanna watch and see what they've got to say. Next thing that's super, super important, choose searchable titles. That's number four. Searchable titles. How do you do that? You have to use a tool, basically. You're not gonna know what title is gonna be good unless you test it with something like TubeBuddy. I highly recommend TubeBuddy. In TubeBuddy, you can put in a title, change around the words. It will give you a score for that title. Once you get that score high enough, then that's the title you use. The important thing to remember is, you're not making videos that you wanna make. You're making videos that people wanna watch. That's the important thing. So if you're not optimizing this title, nobody's gonna see your videos. If you aren't making a video that people are searching for that people wanna see, you're not gonna get any views. You're just not gonna get subscribers. It's not gonna happen. All right, the next one, number five is make better thumbnails. And, you know, making better thumbnails. And first off, some of you may not know what a thumbnail is, so let me tell you. A thumbnail is what people see when they search YouTube and there's a little picture there on the actual video. That's called a thumbnail. Now, if you don't make a thumbnail, YouTube will do it for you. They're just gonna take a screenshot of part of your video. It could be you making a bad face or whatever. If that's gonna be your thumbnail. So we don't wanna do that. We wanna make thumbnails that are gonna stand out. And now it used to be, a lot of people would get to where they would put a lot of information on the thumbnail and, you know, a cool picture and a cool background and that would really stand out. But unfortunately, over the past few years, a lot of people started doing that same thing and now all those thumbnails look the same. We've gone to more basic ones with maybe just a picture and a red background and two or three words. So those are very easy to do, but you have to create thumbnails. It's gotta be an engaging thumbnail. And keep in mind, whatever words you put on there, you wanna put as few as possible because most people are on mobile nowadays, a phone. So they're looking at your thumbnail on this phone. It's very small, tiny, okay? So if you're putting a bunch of words on there or they blend in the background or the colors aren't right and it's too pastel or whatever, it's not gonna stand out. Now, some of you will say, well, that's not my brand. My brand is this and that. It may be, but if you want people to watch your videos, you're gonna need to change thumbnail, okay? You can't have the light pastel colors on there and expect people to actually click. It's gotta be bold. It's gotta stand out. It's gonna be reds and yellows and blacks and that's what's gonna stand out and that's what's gonna get people to click. So that's super important. Number six, you wanna add a watermark. Now, what's a watermark? A watermark is down in the bottom right of your video. It allows people to click and actually subscribe to your channel. So you can put that little watermark down there and that makes a huge difference because now they've got something to do. You also have to tell them about that, okay? You gotta tell them that it's there. I think the assumption is when we know something as a human being, we assume everybody else has the same knowledge base. They're like, well, I know this, why don't they know it? Because they haven't been exposed to that yet because they haven't learned it yet. And there was a time when you didn't know it, right? You didn't know it. You didn't come out going, I know everything. You learn stuff along the way. Their knowledge base may be a whole lot deeper than yours and better than yours in another area, okay? So you gotta remember, when you want people to do these things, and I'm gonna bring up another thing in just a second, you've got to explain to them what it is and what they need to do. Number seven, use YouTube-free analytics. So important that you use this, guys. This is something I didn't do in the beginning. I didn't really understand it or what it was. But if you go into the analytics, you can actually see which of your videos are performing well. You can see which ones are getting clicks, and you can do more videos with that particular subject matter. If you wanna grow your channel, that's what you're gonna need to do. So as I go in and look at my videos, I pick the ones that got the most interaction, the ones that got the most views, and I try to do similar videos to those. That's what you wanna do too. So you gotta use those free analytics. There's all kinds of analytics in there. You can look at your click-through rate. You can look at the length of time they're watching your videos. All those things are important. And if you have a short watch time, that means maybe you're doing this great title, but when they click on it, it's nothing like what the title says. They click and it's not good. And that's gonna hurt you in YouTube also because they want people to stay on a video. YouTube wants people to engage with videos to watch the whole video is what they want. Obviously, you can't get everybody to watch the whole video, but the more of that video, you can get them to watch the better off you are in Google Analytics. The next one is create consistent content. Oh my gosh, this is so important. Consistent has nothing to do with the amount of content you do. Okay, so you could do 25 videos and upload them all today. And if you did that, you wouldn't do well. You wouldn't do well because the analytics in YouTube looks at consistency. You would be better off if you had 25 videos to put one in a week for 25 weeks, and you're gonna end up with a lot more subscribers. If you put 25 in today. It just takes time. Now, if you did more videos, if you put in 25 videos every single day, right, and you did that five days a week, yeah, you're gonna do really well. You'll do really well. But that's kind of hard to do. It's kind of hard to do that many videos. So, you know, start off with one a week. You pretty much to grow your channel are gonna have to do two or three a week in the beginning to grow with any speed. Could you do it with one a week? Could you have some, you know, ones that explode and do great for you? Yeah, it could happen. For the most part, it doesn't. Most people don't do well on YouTube. Because of these things I'm talking about here, they don't do all these things, so they don't do well. Now, the next one is leading people to staying on your channel. And number nine is create playlist. Create playlist. Playlists are so very important because they're on a particular subject matter. They could be a series of videos, and I've done that before. We'll have two or three videos that is part one, part two, part three. I've done ones that are dissimilar in general and put those in playlists. But once they get into a playlist and they're interested in a particular subject in that playlist, they see other videos that are related to it. They may pop up on the side there. They may stay and watch more. And the more they watch, the more YouTube is gonna send more people to your channel, the more they're gonna show your videos for people to click on, and that's gonna grow your subscriber base. The next thing, this is huge. This is huge. It's number 10. And I didn't do it for the longest time. I didn't do it. And that is ask them to subscribe. Now I'm gonna ask you to subscribe, right? Hit that subscribe button right now. Don't forget, just click it. Seconds, take you a second. But we assume that people know to subscribe. They don't. And not only do they not know to subscribe, they don't know what it means. So when you hit that subscribe button, go ahead and try it right now, a bell's gonna pop up, like this, okay? Now, that bell wasn't there before you hit subscribe. Some of you may not know that. Now, once the bell pops up, you've gotta click the bell, click it so you can see. And then you wanna turn on all notifications. If you notice it's personalized, it's all notifications, you pick the one that's all notifications. You wanna tell people to do this. Because if you don't tell them to do this, and if you notice, I told you in the beginning of the video and also closer to the end of the video, if you don't tell them, they're not gonna subscribe. You know, maybe they do know. Okay, let's say they do know, but they forget. They just forget, they forget to do it. So that's another problem you run into. So it's really important that you tell them about it and you tell them in the beginning of the video and at the end of the video. If you wanna do it in between, you can do that too. But the important thing is you gotta tell them if you wanna get subscribers. Now, I've got a bonus for you, and this is my embarrassing story. I hate to admit it. When I first started doing videos on YouTube, people would comment and it would irritate me. Yes, it would irritate me. I'd be like, oh my God, these people are asking me questions. I don't have time to answer these questions. I'm busy doing videos. I can't answer questions. There's no way I can do that. Little did I know is that by answering questions, it shows interaction. YouTube likes that because they see the interaction, people interacting on their platform, and they will show your videos more. So I had gone two or three years and I never answered any comments. I didn't answer any of them, because I didn't want to. I was lazy. But I also didn't realize the importance of it. Now when I get comments, which I get them every day now, which is kinda cool, because for the longest time, I said, okay, I'm gonna start answering comments, and then there were none. There were none since nobody was commenting because I had to let all that go on my channel. But now when I get a comment, I know to only answer that comment. I do it as quickly as I can. And here's the key if you really wanna grow your channel. This is key. Not only answer their question, ask them another question. Ask them another question. Think about this. They do one comment and you answer it. There's two comments. In your comment, you ask them another question. If they come back and answer what you asked them, that's now four comments. YouTube likes comments. So it's really important that you don't just say thank you. You know, if they say, that was a great video. You know, what I may say is thank you. What parts did you like? Is there anything you didn't like? And get them to interact with me a little bit. I may talk about quitting your job and they may say, yeah, I quit my job. I was a blah, blah, blah, blah, whatever it was. And I may say, hey, yeah, I know what it's like to quit your job. It's pretty scary. What was the one thing that motivated you to quit your job? And it may ask them another question. And that's gonna turn that one comment into four comments. And if you do that every time, it could be five or six if you wanna keep going with this person. Some people will. But if you do that every single time and you do it quickly, because people, you know, when they do a comment, you know, they kinda wanna see if you're gonna respond. And some of these people want attention. They want attention. They wanna talk to somebody. So you could be making somebody pretty happy because they got somebody to talk to. You don't know their situation. You don't know what's going on in their life. I will say always be kind to them. It is difficult as a human. And I know I've struggled with it before. I haven't always done this perfectly. But it's difficult as a human when somebody attacks you and says something mean to you or bad. And you wanna say something back. It doesn't be any good. It's like trying to convince somebody of other politics. It's not gonna happen. So I thank them for their criticism. And I say, I'll try to work on that and do better. You know, that's about all we can do. What else would you like to see me correct? You know, get another question in there. Maybe you get some more comments. So bottom line, I screwed that up in the beginning. I don't now. Now I answer them. Now I get more comments. Get some good ones. Get some bad ones. So that happens. And hey, while we're talking about that, why don't you comment below right now? Why don't you comment on this video? What did you learn in this video? What did you like? Would you just like, thumbs up, thumbs down? Give me one of them. Give me some interaction. Don't forget, I've got a $97 course down there. It's absolutely free for a limited time. You'll want to grab that course. Don't forget to do that. Very important you do that. I really appreciate you watching this video. Make sure you subscribe. Did I say that? Subscribe? I think I did. 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