 Get a thousand subscribers on YouTube. How long does it take? Hey guys if you've been trying to work on your YouTube channel and you've been wondering how to get to a thousand subscribers and how long This is gonna take you This is the video for you because I'm gonna go through all that and I've got over a thousand I think we're about six thousand something like that We're not a huge channel But I do want to share with you some things I've learned along the way that are gonna help you So you're gonna want to watch this video to the very end. Thanks so much for clicking and going to watch it But have you subscribed? Let me ask you that question. It's the first thing I want to ask you Make sure you hit that subscribe button down there turn it from red to gray. Don't forget to ring the bell Wait, that's got to be better better Turn on all bell notifications so you're notified each and every time I go live or I upload a video now I'm gonna walk you through Some of the obstacles some of the problems some of the frustrations and you may have experienced some of these I mean to get to a thousand subscribers It can be frustrating because you may work on it for weeks or months or years and never get to a thousand as matter of fact Most people don't get to a thousand subscribers on YouTube But the question is why is that why is it some people can start on YouTube and Within weeks or months have a thousand subscribers. Well, I want to answer all those questions for you and help you out in this video So let's get going now first off Let's uncover why you want a thousand subscribers because everybody equates a thousand subscribers with making money If they don't really care about the number of subscribers It's about making money because you know at a thousand subscribers in four thousand hours of watch time You can get monetized But is that the only way to make money on YouTube? There are so many other ways to make money on YouTube So you're gonna want to watch all of this video because I want to share those with you, too So that along your journey as you're getting to a thousand subscribers, you can already be making money Now I'll be honest with you. I've got just under 6,000 subscribers, which is not a lot But it's it's enough to where I do make money off YouTube. I make ad revenue every single month off YouTube And it's nice. It's nice to have that extra income But that by far is one of the smallest portions of money I make off YouTube because I have affiliate links because I have book sales Because I have courses because I have so many other things that I'm aren't because I can build my email list and sell things To those people through free downloads that I have in the description below of which I'll tell you about There's a course down there a ninety seven dollar course You can get absolutely free no credit card required And I'll try to sell you something later on and it's pretty valuable So you should be happy when you hear about it But the point is most of my money is made off other things and since it's made off other things not ad revenue Even if I don't have the ad revenue, I can still make money and you can too Okay, so let's get to answering that one question. How long does it take? Well, the only way you can find out is to ask the people who have a thousand subscribers How long did it take them on average? They said it took 22 months 22 months now Keep in mind. We didn't ask the people who didn't get to a thousand right? Well, no, you wouldn't do that But the point is the people that did get to a thousand did something to get there They worked on something they they invested their time and effort into something and that's what you're gonna have to do too Now when I say average It doesn't mean anything doesn't mean anything because somebody could get to a thousand within a week and somebody else may take three years I want to put a chart up and you can take a look at it And as you can see average 22 months to a thousand subscribers But no clear trend that all channels get equally you see it's all over the place Okay, so the question is how long does it take to get a thousand subscribers on YouTube? Well It's all dependent upon what you do now according to a study by full screen YouTubers with less than a thousand subscribers We're 90% of the people on the platform 90% that's a pretty large percentage But here's the interesting thing They accounted for only seven percent of the views on YouTube in a study by full screen The youtubers with less than a thousand subscribers accounted for 90 percent 90% of the channels on YouTube, but what's more interesting is the fact that they also only got 7% of the overall views on YouTube now out of the million channels that were studied Only two in ten of those got over 10,000 subscribers and of that 10,000 They only got 28% of the views on YouTube. So you got to think about this Those Subscribers that were doing 90% of the content but had less than a thousand subscribers We're only getting 7% of the views most of the views Go to people who have more than a thousand subscribers and that's one big reason why you want to have a thousand subscribers Basically if you want to be successful on YouTube, you got to have a thousand subscribers because it's going to get you more views They're going to send you more views once you have more subscribers I got to tell you when I first started on YouTube, I knew nothing about YouTube I thought that if I just made some videos and put them up there people would see how great I was and it would just go Viral and I'd make a ton of money. Well, guess what? That didn't happen. That didn't happen for a number of years Because I kind of toyed with YouTube, but I didn't get serious about it It wasn't until I got serious about it that all of a sudden I started making money And that's really what I'm telling you here is you have to do the same thing and getting to a thousand subscribers Should be your first milestone. So I want to give you some of the tips that I learned along the way Number one, of course, you have to have a niche. Why are you making videos on YouTube? Okay, is it entertainment? Is it acting? Is it playing a guitar? Are you trying to teach people how to play a guitar? Are you trying to teach people how to cook? What is your point? The point of my channel right now and has been since the beginning is to teach people how to start running grow Online businesses start running grow online businesses. That's it That's all I teach. So when somebody comes to my channel and that's what they're looking for That's what they're going to get now that niche is a very profitable niche I will tell you my CPM last time I checked was $29 and some change which is the amount I get per thousand views Which is pretty darn good because most people are between five and ten dollars So I do very good in that area, but the next thing I'll tell you is understand that your channel is a community People have to feel like they're part of something. I know when people comment on my videos I read all the comments I try to comment on every single one and try to answer every single question because I understand they're coming to me for a Reason they have some pain points. It may be they want to make more money Maybe they want to quit their job, but maybe they want to increase their business online So it's my job to understand that this is a community Next up I'll tell you is to make videos that people want to watch now How do you know what people want to watch? You need a tool? I would suggest TubeBuddy Below I'll have a link to TubeBuddy. You can get this free software You can put in keywords and you can see what people are searching for It will even tell you how well your video will probably rank before you do it So getting that title dialed in Making that video that people actually want to watch instead of something that you want to make and I'm not saying you You can't make the videos you want you certainly can But if you make a video that you want to make that people are actually looking for you're going to get a whole lot better results The next thing I'll tell you is to look at similar channels to yours Similar niches to yours and then once you look at their channel click on their videos and then sort by most popular most viewed YouTube sometimes changes that up and find their top videos look at those videos and ask yourself Can I do a video on that subject? Obviously, it's popular Can I do that video better? Can I make it a little bit longer? Can I have more information in it? Can I have more graphics in it? What can I do to make a video like that and make it better? You see that there's already people that have done what you want to do. There's already evidence out there There's already examples out there. So many people say well, I don't know what to do a video on Well, all you got to do is pick ten competitors. Okay who are doing similar, you know videos similar channels Look at what they've done. Look at their top videos and do videos on those subjects. It's really that easy Make sure you optimize your title of course use a tool like TubeBuddy, which I'm giving you for free And also if you use my link for TubeBuddy and you decide you want to go with a paid version on down the road You can save 30% so that's a pretty good deal too. So what I'm telling you is there's already examples out there for you There's already channels out there for you that have proven themselves to be successful All you have to do is go look at them and make videos that are similar now over time. You're going to get what we call Experience yeah, you'll get better at it. I know my first videos were horrible They were terrible But everybody's first videos were terrible as a matter of fact if you want to see one of the worst videos You've ever seen a 19 second video search YouTube for the first video ever uploaded It was by one of the founders of YouTube He was at the San Diego Zoo talking about how long the elephant's trunk was and he talked for 19 seconds That was his first video. Okay, look what it's grown into So you've got to also not worry about making bad videos in the beginning because you will you're gonna make some bad ones at The beginning. That's just the way it is. I made bad ones. I made ones that weren't good And you're going to to everybody does now You can trim down that learning curve by watching videos like this Where we kind of share with you the secrets of getting more views and doing better on YouTube But bottom line is you're gonna have to get through the beginning You're gonna have to learn how to do lighting you're gonna have to learn how to do your camera You're gonna have to get your personality out there You're gonna have to do all these things and you're gonna have to work and you're gonna have to do this Consistently and you're gonna have to do it on a regular basis and you're gonna have to do a lot of it Maybe you don't want to hear this I'm an honest person, but you're gonna have to upload two three four videos a week Okay, you're gonna have to do a lot of videos and those videos are gonna have to be about eight to 12 minutes If you want to have enough watch time for them to put ads on them Keep that in mind too if you're making two or three minute videos YouTube can't put ads on your videos as much so they're not going to show your videos as much because they're too short So you're gonna have to make longer videos now I know some of you out there are gonna say well I know people would make an hour-long video and they do good and I know somebody who does two minute videos and they do good That may be true for them but Basically if you go by these guidelines I give you right now Overall, you're gonna do better because we're trying to figure out what works and we've looked at what works and Accomplish some things ourselves here, too So if you listen to what I'm telling you in this video and apply these things to what I'm telling you in this video You're gonna do good. 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