 How to grow your YouTube channel from nothing, that's what we're gonna talk about in this video. So everyone tells you that you can make money on videos and you can get all this ad money and you get all this other money coming in, but no one really tells you how to do it. So that's what I'm gonna cover in this video. In this video, I wanna show you really how to start at zero. And by the way, everyone starts at zero, okay? Starting at zero and to grow your channel and what you need to do, okay? So there's basically seven required steps and one of the biggest reasons people don't grow their channel is they don't know these steps. Now, this video is brought to you by free online money making course that you can get by clicking the link before. To get access to it, it's a $500 value course. All you gotta do is click the link. Now, in this free training, you're gonna get access to a free video training course that will teach you the tips and tricks to help you make money online and save you a lot of time and hassle. We all wanna do that. To go get that information, just go to jrfisher.com forward slash free dash e-commerce dash OPT. All right, now I've been selling online for 10 years and I've sold millions of dollars of products and even have my own branded products on Walmart's website. I always cover how to make money online with both digital and physical products and where you can find answers to your questions about making a great income online. Okay, so let's get going. All right, the first thing you do, number one, this is the big one. This is the one that a lot of people miss. Most people have a biggest issue with this one than anything else. And this is the tough one. Getting started, that's number one. You gotta start. I mean, you really gotta start. You gotta quit worrying about having the best equipment and the best lighting, the best scene. Your first videos are gonna be your worst. They just are. I go back and look at my first videos. These aren't a whole lot better, but they're better, right? In the beginning, you just, you gotta get the bad ones out of the way. You can't start at the top and I think that's what really freezes a lot of people is them thinking that, well, I've gotta have this great video and I'm gonna have a great script and I'm gonna have great lighting and I'm gonna have the best camera. And they say, oh my gosh, that's just gonna cost so much money. I just can't do it right now. You will learn as you go. And even if you don't get a lot of views in the beginning, some views are better than getting zero views because you never put up a video. Now, number two, you need to share your channel with everyone. Friends, family, get people to subscribe to your channel. You know, you probably have at least 100 or 200 people that you know between friends and family. Even on your Facebook page, right? You've probably got friends over there you probably don't know, but you've got them there. You can ask them. Let them know that you need their support. Put links and Instagram and post stuff on social media. If you have an email list, email out to that list, but you gotta get your name out there and you've got to self promote. A lot of people have a hard time with self promotion. Number three, please, please, please have a specific niche. Now on my channel, I only talk about selling stuff online. I talk about physical products. I talk about digital products, but that's all I talk about. I don't talk about general business. I don't cover real estate. I don't cover employee relations or anything like that. And I think that's the biggest problem most people have is they say, well, I'm going to start this channel and I want to cover everything that everybody wants to know. And the problem is if you do that, if you try to cover everybody and speak to everybody, you're really going to speak to no one. So ask yourself, why would somebody watch your channel? Why would they be interested in it? What is it they're going to get out of it? Because understand that's what it's all about, what they're going to get out of it. It's not what you want to do. It's not what you want to sell. It's only about what they want to get out of it. Now, you also have to be very clear and concise and describe exactly what your channel is about. If you do that, people will get it. Mine is about selling the stuff online. That's it. That's all we do. Digital physical products online, that's it. It's all we sell. Now, look at some of these channels that started with no followers, which they all do. Look at Laura Vitale. She started her channel with a simple video, a tomato basil soup. She concentrates solely on Italian recipes in her own kitchen. And one of the first videos she did was really quite simple. She is now on the food network and has been on numerous talk shows. It's opened up all kinds of doors for her and she now has over 1400 videos with over 536 million views and 3.4 million subscribers. Now, keep in mind she started with zero the way you will do. Number four, make sure you engage with your audience. This is a big one. This is a very time consuming one. I know I fight with the two, but when somebody comments on your channel, you have to respond. And you can't respond with thanks or a thumb up or something like that. You have to actually respond to what they said. If you do this, you're gonna have that interaction and that's how you're gonna build your audience. Now, another thing you can do is go to other people's channels and post on their particular comments there. Say something about their video if you liked it, if it was interesting, whatever. Do not go to their videos and post subscribe to mine and I'll subscribe to yours because that doesn't do anybody any good. It just shows at yourself promoting. If you put a intelligent comment on somebody's post in a video, they're gonna maybe look you up and maybe they'll join your channel. Now, you're saying, well, that could take forever and it does, it takes a long time. But understand that your channel's gonna be built one person at a time. Now you can't just do this every now and then. Every single day, you need to go out and you need to comment on other people's videos. I know I have a hard time with it, but I do it and I've been doing it for a short period of time now and I've already seen results from it. So you need to do that. You need to get out there and comment every single day. It's this kind of grunt work that the top channels that have done in the beginning, you don't see it, but they've done it in the beginning and then they've built their channel and then they don't have to do it anymore. So you've gotta do it in the beginning just to get built. Now, number five is focus on the fundamentals. You know, it reminds me of a quote that Michael Jordan once said. He said, focus on the fundamentals and the level of everything you do will rise. Okay, so you have to have a great title. You gotta research it. You know, when you go to YouTube, you can type in a few words and you're gonna see a dropdown and you'll see what people are searching for. Then take that title, put it in there and search videos. Find out how many people are actually watching videos on that subject. If there's a lot of people and there's a lot of videos on that subject, it's gonna be competitive, but at least you know people are searching for it. Make sure that you add tags to all your videos. It's a very tough thing to do, but it takes time. And if you add these tags to your videos, you see this is how people actually find your videos is with the title and the tags in the description. And there's all kinds of tools out there. I like TubeBuddy. I'll put a link in the description there where you can get TubeBuddy at a discount. TubeBuddy's great because it gives you all the suggested keywords and you can just click on them and add them to your particular video. Do your research before you hit that record button. This is super, super important. Heck, you can even do research on YouTube, like I said, and you can see the other videos and see what they're saying and see what they have in their videos and do a similar video to one that is, you know, already popular, but you wanna try to do it even better, right? If they've got three resources, maybe you wanna have five or seven resources. If they've got, you know, some, you know, videos in theirs that are okay and you think you could do some better videos inside your video, go ahead and do that. But try to make your video better than theirs. You wanna plan your videos in advance. And lastly is consistency. You know, a lot of people think, well, I'm gonna do a video every single day and they realize that's really hard to do. It takes a lot of time to record the videos and to plan the videos and to edit the videos. You know, it's more, it's better to be consistent. Even if you're only gonna do one a week, you know, people will know that you're gonna do one a week. You know, if you do one a week, you're gonna have 52 a year. Or you know, if you could do two or three a week, that's great too. But don't go and do six or seven videos over six or seven day period and then not do anything for a month or two because your channel, it just won't grow if you're not consistent. So that's really important to be consistent. Number seven is to have searchable content. YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world. When people type in the search bar, YouTube gives suggestions, like I said in the beginning, of what people are searching for. Understand the goal is to create content people are searching for, not to create content and try to get people to search for it. Many people think that they are trying to create some viral video that's just gonna go crazy and the truth is it's much better to have many videos that have good view counts. If you just have one viral video and the rest of your videos aren't any good, people aren't gonna subscribe to your channel. They're not gonna stick with you and the future of your channel is really gonna be built on subscribers. So that's what you wanna get. This will get more people to subscribe to your channel by having a wide array of really good videos as opposed to having just one viral one. So I hope that helps you out. 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