 how to grow on YouTube with zero views and zero subscribers. Hey, did you start a YouTube channel and you're sitting there thinking, I gotta get some people watching this channel. I need subscribers, I need them right now. Well, this video is for you because in this video, I'm gonna show you what you need to do when you're starting from zero. Hey, I'm JR Fisher. Thank you for visiting my channel. I really appreciate it. Do me a favor real quick. Hit that subscribe button down there. Turn on the notifications, the bell notifications. Matter of fact, turn on all notifications and you're notified every single time I do one of these videos. Don't forget to comment below. Let me know how your channel is growing. Let me know what you've tried out of this particular video that's worked for you. Now I've been selling online since 2009 and the one thing I can tell you is that we all start at zero. Okay, when I first started selling online, I had zero sales and when I started my YouTube channel, I had zero subscribers and zero views so don't worry about that. Everybody starts in the same spot. Now I've sold millions of dollars of both digital and physical products and I can tell you the biggest thing is persistence but if you want to hack the YouTube system, I've got some great tips for you. I've also got a free $97 course below in the description. Click and learn no credit card required. Okay, let's start with number one and number one is make longer videos. Yeah, I didn't get this in the beginning. I was making like one in two minute videos and I was trying to increase my watch time. Well, that's kind of hard to do if all your videos are really short. So the first thing I'm gonna tell you is make your videos longer. Now you may say to yourself, well, how long do I make it, JR? There is no exact time. I will tell you that to get the maximum number of ads on your video and I know you may not be monetized yet but you will be there one day. You're gonna need videos that are probably eight to 12 minutes long. Now I will tell you my average video is about 10 to 14 minutes but I have some that are 20 and 25 minutes too. It's really gonna be up to you but I will tell you, you don't wanna make any videos less than probably six or seven minutes. I would say 10 to 14 minutes is best. If you have longer videos, you will have more watch time. Number two, improve session watch time. And what do I mean by that? Well, I mean that once they watch one of your videos you want them to watch more videos. This is how the YouTube algorithm works. If you keep somebody on the platform then of course your channel will get shown more because they get more views on YouTube in general. Now how do you do that? You can add playlist, you can add in cards, you can point to videos and have them on the screen at the end of your video. You can put your videos in playlist so that people go through this playlist and watch more videos. There's a lot of things you can do to increase session watch time. Number three, improve audience retention. What do I mean by retention? I mean how long they actually watch your videos and the way you're gonna do that is making compelling videos. Tell a story in your video. Have some reason for them to want to get to the end of your video. And number four, have more views from other sources. What do I mean by that? Well, you can post your videos on social media. You can ask other people to post links to them. You can send out emails where there's links going back to your videos and getting people to watch on YouTube. Don't forget also, post your videos on your website. This will give you more content for your website and more views for your YouTube channel. Number five, improve click-through rate. What is click-through rate? Well, CTR is when they see a thumbnail of your video and they decide to click on it. Now, a good click-through rate is over 5%. If you get over 5%, you're doing okay. What I would suggest you doing is go through your videos once you've got a few up and look at the videos that are less than 4%. Generally, those videos have a poor thumbnail, something that's not really gonna attract somebody to wanna click. So keep in mind, you want those thumbnails simple and easy to read. Keep in mind, most of these thumbnails are gonna be viewed on a mobile device. And if you have a lot of words on the screen and it's really small and difficult to read, people probably aren't gonna click on it. So in this case, less is more. Number six, increase upload frequency and consistency. And what do I mean by that? The more videos that you upload, obviously the more views you're gonna get. Now, there's an unwritten rule that you're gonna have to upload at least one video a week to build your channel. If you're not uploading more than one video a week to your channel, you probably won't be able to grow it very fast. Yeah, I know there's exceptions out there. Certainly there are ones that have uploaded one or two videos in a month and they've got millions of views, but the odds of that happening are very, very slim. So you've got to increase how many videos you put on YouTube. Now, the optimum thing to do is to upload a video a day. If you can upload a video a day, you're gonna grow your channel pretty fast as long as you have good content. I generally upload five days a week and then I have a coaching call I upload also, so I'm technically six days a week. So that's six videos a week that I'm doing right now to grow this channel. However, I know channels that I follow and I know one guy that is uploading four and five videos a day. So that's a lot of videos to do. You're gonna have to figure out what your time requirements are to do all this and how quick you can get them up, but certainly the more videos you upload, the more views you're gonna get, the more subscribers you're gonna have. Number seven, get more engagement on your videos. What do I mean by engagement? What I'm talking about here is likes, comments, and subscribers. Now, here's the funny thing. A lot of people don't know that they're supposed to like a video. So I'm gonna tell you right now, go ahead and like this video. Hit that thumbs up down there right now and it takes you a second. Also, if you haven't subscribed, you need to hit the subscribe button. Now, if you notice in the beginning of this video, I told you to subscribe, and the reason I did that is most people just don't know to do it. And if you tell them to do it at the beginning, and I'll tell you again at the end, and the end of the video, you're gonna get more subscribers, you're gonna get more likes, and the last thing you wanna do is have them comment. And don't just say comment on this video, tell them what to comment about. Which one of these steps did you like best? I want you to comment on which one of these steps you like best. If you've had some success with your YouTube channel, comment below. If you've had a problem, post that question below and I'll try to answer your question also. So see how I actually gave you things to do in the comment section? I didn't say just comment below because they don't know what to comment on. Number eight, this is a tough one. This is the one that most people can't do. Be patient, okay? It's gonna take time. A YouTube channel just doesn't grow overnight. I know there's exceptions, but I'm talking about the average channel. The average channel takes a lot of hard work, a lot of dedication and patience. You're not gonna grow your channel in weeks or months. It will probably take you years. You may not want to hear that. However, if you stick with it over time, you're gonna have an asset that will earn you money for years to come. Isn't that worth it? I mean, time's gonna pass anyhow. Why not invest it in a great asset like YouTube videos? Number nine, research and discovery. Now, if you're like me, you think, well, I'm gonna put up this great video and everybody's just gonna come find it. It doesn't really work that way. YouTube has to push those videos out to people. It has to have something that people are searching for. I recommend you use something like TubeBuddy. I will have a link below. It will help you figure out titles and tags and description stuff that all are things that people are looking for. So click below, and also it will give you a discount if you decide to go for the pro version of TubeBuddy. But click that link below. You have to have a tool like that so you know what to put on your videos. Number 10, keep making content. This is where a lot of people fall down. They get all excited. They go, gee, I'm gonna have a YouTube channel and I'm gonna make millions of dollars and I'm gonna be famous. Everybody's gonna know me. And then the work sets in and the time sets in. And they say, well, I don't have time this week. Maybe next week I'll do it. Once you stop making content, your views will go down. Your subscribers will go down. And the people who have subscribed, if they see that you're not making content for a while, will say, well, I don't wanna watch that channel anymore. I'm gonna go to another one. It's just like a TV show. You know, if you were watching your favorite TV show and every Tuesday a new show came out, and then all of a sudden for four Tuesdays in a row, there was no show there, you're likely to go over to another channel and start watching another show. Same thing's gonna happen on your YouTube channel. You have to stick with it. Number 11, niche down and pick a topic. I know, everybody wants to do a lifestyle blog. They wanna film what they're doing every day and what restaurant they're going to and what fancy cars they're driving and great vacations. But the thing is, there's no niche to that. Who is it that wants to watch that? You have to have a niche. Now on this channel here, I show you how to start running, grow online businesses. There are channels out there that teach you how to bake baked goods, okay? There are channels out there that show you woodworking. So what you wanna do is you wanna have a niche that people are actually looking for. The more niche down you are, the more people are gonna be interested in what you have if that matches what they want. You don't wanna be a channel that is for the general public because if you market to everyone, you're marketing to no one. Number 12, exploit your success. What I mean by this is that if you see one of your videos, let's say you did a video on doing SEO on WordPress sites and you notice that that one video got a lot of views but the other videos don't. Do another video in that particular area. You don't have to do one just like it but if you find an area, if you explore some areas that are actually working for you, you wanna make more videos on those topics and those subjects so that you can double down on your success. Number 13, copy your competition. Now I don't mean go copy their videos but go to your competitors and sort their videos by most viewed and find out what's working for them. If they've got a video on a particular subject or topic or way of doing things and it's working for them, odds are it'll work for you too. Take the time to do another video that is similar to theirs but even better or maybe longer or maybe more detailed. Number 14, consistency counts. What I mean by this is that you have to consistently post. You don't wanna post on Monday, Wednesday and Friday one week and the next week post on Tuesdays and Saturdays. You wanna stay consistent. Whatever pattern you start, stick with it. If you decide you're gonna post at 10 o'clock in the morning, don't start posting at two in the afternoon. Stick with 10 o'clock in the morning. You gotta stay consistent. Number 15, use trends. Whatever's going on in society right now, people are probably searching for it. It is a trend. If there's some way that you can take whatever that trend is and weave it into your niche, all the better. Now I teach people how to make money online so I may do a video on how COVID is affecting your income and how you can actually make money from home. That would be a good subject right now because that's what people are searching for. Number 16, collaborate with other YouTubers. Now, if you're doing enough videos and they're interesting enough, you're probably gonna have some YouTubers contact you and wanna collaborate with you. But why wait for that? Why not find some competitors right now that maybe have the same number of subscribers or a little bit more and ask them to collaborate on a video with you? You could interview them, they could interview you and you get a shot at their audience and they get a shot at your audience. Number 17, reply to all comments. I can't tell you how important this is. If people comment on your videos and you never reply to them, other people looking in the comments section will say, well, I'm not gonna ask this guy a question because he never answers them anyhow. There's no point in me commenting. So you're actually gonna hurt your comments. No matter how small the comment is, you wanna comment back and what you also wanna do is you wanna comment back with a question. So if somebody says I liked your video on how to make WordPress websites, I would comment back and I would say, hey, thanks for the kind words. What part of the video did you think was the most useful? When they comment back again, I've now turned that single comment into three, four, maybe five comments if we get a conversation going. So it's really important to comment back on all the comments you get on your video. Number 18, have some channel art. I can't count how many times I went to a YouTube channel and I look at the top and they never put any channel art in there. It doesn't take you much time to do this, okay? If you spend 30 minutes and come up with some type of banner at the top, it will really help your YouTube channel. They'll see that you're serious about it and it will look more professional. Number 20, have closed captions. Now, there are certain videos that you're gonna be able to auto generate through YouTube those closed captions and you'll see that available in there. But for some reason, not all of them are there so you're gonna have to put them in. But those closed captions mean a lot. YouTube looks at that and says, hey, I can show that to a bigger audience because it has closed captions on it. So it's really important to do that. Okay, so there's a list of things you can do to grow your YouTube channel. Keep in mind, I started with zero followers, zero subscribers, zero comments, zero likes, zero. Everybody starts at zero. You can't just jump on YouTube and have millions of people following you. It doesn't work that way. But I will tell you, if you work hard, if you put in the time and you put out the videos and you put out good videos, you will build an audience. I hope you liked this video. If you did, put a comment below. Let me know which one of these things you think is gonna work for you. And don't forget to like and subscribe. You gotta subscribe and you wanna turn on all bell notifications so that I can notify you as soon as I do a new video. And you'll be part of the Fisher Family, the VIP group. It gets notified as soon as I go live or do a new video. Don't forget, there's a $97 course below. You can get it absolutely free. All you have to do is click and learn. Thanks for watching this video and I'll see you in the next one. Hey, thanks for watching my video. Don't forget to subscribe to my channel and click that little bell right here so you can be notified every time I do a new video. Also, click on one of those videos there. Keep watching on my channel.