 So yesterday something pretty awesome happened I hit one of my goals that I didn't think would happen until at the end of the year and That was to pass 10,000 subscribers on my YouTube channel. It actually happened yesterday So about five six months ahead of schedule and what I want to do is thank you for being a Subscriber or a viewer or engaging with my videos and helping me grow this channel I want to give back and share with you five secrets to grow a YouTube channel from zero views and zero subscribers If you're thinking of starting one yourself right if you have something of value to share or you want to document your journey and Create your own YouTube channel Then I think it's a fantastic time to start and I want to share with you five secrets that can help you do just that and these Five secrets took me to over 10,000 subscribers on my YouTube channel in a little over six months Okay, and first of all YouTube I think is a fantastic platform It you can make one video can be viewed for years It's become a big part of my business and helping me grow my personal brand of my business So I highly recommend that you if you are even thinking about creating your YouTube channel I just definitely get started now is a better time than ever because there's more people at home more eyeballs and watching the computer and watching YouTube videos than ever before So let's jump into these five secrets I'm going to share with you the secret and I'm going to show you a live example from my YouTube channel And then you can go and implement and apply it to your YouTube channel as you're starting and growing your own so the first secret is To pick a trending or emerging topic or a niche to create your channel around or just create like you already have a channel create videos around Okay So this should be something you know about your passionate about or that you're interested in documenting and learning more about Okay, so if you don't already know if you already know about something or you're passionate about a certain topic or a certain industry Or certain niche that you can start right there That's the easiest place to start is something that you're passionate about you already know about The other side of the coin is if you don't if you're not an expert in anything and you don't need to be to start a channel You can document your journey So let's say that you're getting into online business and you want to create your YouTube channel You can document your journey of building that online business Let's say from 0 to 10k per month and people love watching other people's journeys, right? They like seeing behind the scenes. They like seeing what's going on They like watching what's being documented the steps that go into it So if you don't already know about something or a passionate about a certain area You can always start with documenting your journey and that makes for a great topic or a niche to create your YouTube channel around Now the second thing is to sub-ditch within a niche So the big three are health wealth and relationships now for me my channel is in the wealth big three You don't want to just pick wealth as your niche, right? You want to dive deeper into that sub-niche within a niche so within wealth I went into online business, but that's still too big So I dove a little deeper in online business There's online service-based businesses meaning you're working with clients and within the service-based industry There is a model called called drop servicing, right? And I just spotted drop servicing right before it blew up on YouTube So I started to see this becoming a like a rising trend or topic or niche And it started to show up more like in keywords and search results and people were actually looking for it online So I spotted this back in January. Let me make sure I got the dates right here. So this is my first video The oldest video in my channel and you can see here January 16th And this is about drop servicing, right? This is the highest viewed video My channel is the first one so I just caught it as as it was going up So if you can find something a trending or emerging topic to create a video around or to create your channel around like a Series around that's a great place to start that's gonna help you grow very quickly Okay, so that's a key thing right there if you can it's not always easy to spot trending or emerging topics But if you can that can help you grow very very fast So that's secret number one So secret number two is to use attention grabbing titles and thumbnails, right? Use the tension grabbing titles and thumbnails now my thumbnails are not fancy at all I use the tool a free tool called pic maker comm do all my thumbnails and you can see here It's just a picture of me on the right There's some text on the left that tells them grabs their attention and she and tells them what the video is about and in some cases There's like a stock photo in the back, right and that I just grabbed from YouTube or not from YouTube on Google as a free image So I put it in the back here. I have the text in the left I have a picture of me on the right very simple It really comes down to the text and grabbing their attention with the text in the title So let's talk about some proven title frameworks for your videos first is how to and curiosity based Titles for your videos. So you can see here how to there's there's Curiosity baked into how to titles because people want to know how to do certain things, right? How to get a certain result how to start a drop servicing agency with zero dollars? Let's see how to get SMMA and drop servicing agency clients how to run a sales discovery call What else we got here? How to how my drop servicing agency has been affected how to start in a profitable online business from scratch? So lots of how-to titles I like I love how to titles because they do pretty well the highest viewed video on my channel is a how-to title And there's that natural curiosity baked in because people want to know how to do stuff, right? They want to see how to do it Second is drama and controversy and titles like the truth about X right the truth About let me show you from my video the truth about starting a drop servicing agency, okay? So you can see that even the thumbnail there's some drama and controversy built in there's like a fire going on The back of me the truth about drop servicing not what you think and people they'll say all the time. I don't like drama I don't like controversy. I don't like fights. That's just not true, right? You know as humans were attracted to that stuff. We love watching You know those oh, I don't like watching it But there's my my girlfriend watches those reality TV shows where they're like stuck on an island or they're like the bachelor Right people love those shows they get super high ratings because there's always drama and controversy in those shows And the same thing goes with YouTube if you have like I'm not saying to always have those drama titles and make your Channel all about bad news, but people are attracted to drama and controversy and titles like this right the truth about X That this revealed X revealed three ways to extend your lifespan by this amount revealed, right? I'm just taking this off the top of my head But reveal the truth about X discoveries right those types of titles do well because there is some controversy built in There's some drama in there and people like that kind of stuff. They're attracted to it Hidden weird secrets right these words these types of words do very well in titles because again There's that curiosity factor built in so where's you can see your secret niche sites revealed Where is the best industries revealed? Let me see any other Secret Right here a drop servicing secret weapon to get more customers never shared this before Let's see hidden Weird I know I had a few more in here. I don't know why it's not coming up But hidden weird secrets people like to see those things because there's that curiosity factor built in okay So outcome driven so this is pretty much built into all these other things, right? But people want to get some kind of outcome or result when watching your videos So right here. What is the result here getting clients fast and linked in what is the result here? Starting a drop servicing business with zero dollars. What is the result here getting free clients with social media? What is the result here get clients with this three-step process? So there is result an outcome built into the titles here right now or within the text as well So you want to do the same thing with some of your titles is to have the outcome or result Very clearly stated in your title. What are they gonna get out of watching your video and also numbered lists, right? So you can see here. I love doing numbered lists three ways to do X seven miss niches for X Best vertical niches for 2020 five secret places for beginners to find niches nine industries that are booming right now Seven high-income evergreen skills five free strategies to get clients I use numbered lists all the time because they're proven They do very well and you can combine them with any of these other frameworks and strategies here Okay, actually you can combine pretty much all of these okay, so that's number two use attention grabbing titles and thumbnails for your videos number three secret number three Create content that your fans want and so many people they just create they don't even do any research They don't look at what their audience is searching for and keywords that their audience is searching for They just go out and create content that they feel like creating and if you want to get views and you want to grow your channel You want to get subscribers you need to create content that your fans want and are searching for So what I do is I use a tool called vid IQ and I and I use it to find hot keywords So let me go here. I'm not gonna give you a full tutorial. Maybe that'd be a separate video here But let me just go back to my YouTube channel. Let's just type an email marketing for example because Make a lot of videos on this and you can see here on the right-hand side It has a scoring based off of the keyword itself and then it also gives me Different keyword ideas here, so I can see this that's why I like this tool vid IQ It saves me a ton of time and it gives me ideas on what to create videos around so instead of like guessing what to create a video around I can see all these like high-scoring keywords that I can create videos around an active campaign tutorial, right? I can create an email marketing 101 video. I can create something about auto responders, right? I can compare certain email service providers like convert kid or MailChimp or how to create a lead magnet So these are all video ideas and it's tell this tool is telling me that there's a ton of search volume for these certain terms and There's a very low competition So why wouldn't I want to create a video around something that has low competition and high search volume, right? So I can see here if something has a high search volume and low competition That's definitely something I want to create a video around because those are things that my fans and audience are searching for Okay, so another thing is as you start to grow your audience You can even poll and survey them and ask them what they would want to see what type of content topics Do they want to see a YouTube video around right now? Do that in my Facebook group? I do that on my email list I ask them what they want to see and sometimes I'll create videos around that if there's search volume on YouTube Now if you have a hot video very important make more that are similar Okay, don't be afraid of making more videos of the same topic So there's there's video I have like three or four videos on getting clients using social media It's pretty much all the same thing But they always get a ton of views because people just can't get enough of that topic So if you have a hot video create more videos just like that So I created my first video around drop servicing like if I go back to my channel here and It took off and there's 54,000 views on it now I created let me go back to my channel. Let's see Drop servicing and I saw that it started taking off So I started creating a ton of drop servicing videos, right? I created a lot more one right here I created a bunch of them on on picking niches and figuring out which ones to go into right and how to get clients So once you see a video take off, I don't think that you can't make another video similar to that Right make more more videos off of the one that's taking off It really only takes one video to blow up your channel, right? So this one video alone this 54,000 viewed video is Responsible for a good portion of these subscribers here, right? It really only takes one video to blow up your channel So if you have one that takes off that's starting to get a lot of views Build upon the build upon that momentum and create more videos just like that So that's secret number three secret number four have a consistent schedule and most importantly stick to it Okay, stick to it. So so many people they'll say I'm gonna create 10 videos a week They do it for like two weeks and then they don't create a video for like two years, right? See what you want to do is create a schedule. It doesn't need to be every day, right? Mine is I post a video on Tuesday and a live stream on Thursday and I've been doing that for you know Six months so you can see here I have a video every Tuesday and Thursday for the past six months and I haven't stopped doing I'm very consistent with my schedule So I recommend a minimum of once per week Ideally two if you're just getting started and you want to get some traction and what I do is I have a dedicated Filming day for my YouTube videos. So every Friday I film and schedule my videos And I post them on I post my video on Tuesday and I do a live stream on Thursday So that is my schedule. You don't have to copy that just create your own schedule and be consistent stick with the schedule and Pick a date to actually film your videos and schedule your videos on that day So you don't have to be like scrambling on the day of filming the video editing and uploading it and putting it live Okay, so really important here have a consistent schedule and stick to it Number five. This is something that not many people talk about is to create a content repurposing system Okay, what do I mean by this? Well, I take one piece of content and I turn it into four to seven pieces of content What do I mean by that? Well, I'll create one YouTube video and I can turn that into one to three different emails to my list to my email list I can do one post on my YouTube community tab and then one post in my Facebook group and then also on LinkedIn So that one video that I created turns into four to seven pieces of content across all these different channels And what's really happening is I'm repurposing one piece of content to grow my audience on four different platforms Right, so here's an example Today I sent out this email So this is about Silvio. This is one of my students here my accelerator program and I took this exact email Okay, I wrote up this email and I didn't create a video around this but you want to do this with your videos I took that one email. I posted it on my YouTube community tab here So you can see here, right and like nine people like this video. I also took this exact same post and I posted it in my Facebook group So if I go on here and I go to my Facebook group, you can see the exact same post is in my Facebook group So this one only has you know, I repurposed it three times here a YouTube community tab email list and my Facebook group. I might post it on LinkedIn I might turn it into a video But you can see there just taking one piece of content and using it to grow all these different platforms all at once Okay, and this is huge. This is a big part of what why I've been able to grow my email list I believe there's three thousand or so three thousand two hundred ninety one contacts since February I was able to grow this Facebook group to almost three thousand members and my YouTube channel all all at the same time Right ten thousand subscribers on my YouTube channel. So this one's really important I don't see too many people talking about this This is especially powerful if you already have an audience you can use this to really start growing all your different Platforms all at once and start making more money in your business So let's go through these five secrets one more time five secrets to grow your YouTube channel You're starting from zero views your subscribers And these are five secrets that took me to over ten thousand subscribers in six months number one Pick a trending or emerging topic or niche to base your channel around or to create your videos around number two is to use the tension grabbing Titles and thumbnails and you can rewatch this video so that you know these different proven frameworks and then look at Titles of my channel as well number three is to create content that your fans want and a good tool to do this is vidIQ I'll link to it down in the description You can find hot keywords based on your topic or your niche and start creating videos around those hot Keywords and then once you have a hot video make more that are similar to that It really only takes one video to blow up your channel number four secret number four is to have a consistent schedule and stick to it So mine is every Tuesday and Thursday and I film every Friday Lastly create a content repurposing system So if you have a Facebook group or Instagram or LinkedIn or your YouTube community tab You can grow all of those at once in your email list at the same time by taking one piece of content and repurposing it for all of those different Platforms, okay, so those are five secrets to help you grow your channel If you are implementing these already or if you have a secret that I missed here I'd love to hear about it below in the comments But I hope this was helpful for you And I hope you go and start growing your channel because I think it's a great place There's to start your personal brand on your business and especially right now people are watching videos more than ever before And I think it's a great time to start your YouTube channel and use that to grow your business and your income So if you have any comments or questions go below and let me know and if not I'll see you in the next video