 Welcome guys to this video where we want to talk about how do you actually start a YouTube channel? This is something we've been wanting to talk about. Yeah, because this is what's fun to talk about I honestly think a lot of people have like that's their goal That's their dream is to have a successful YouTube channel and be an influencer and shit like that, right? And I have a lot of friends that have tried it and I just I see a lot of people fail and I know why I know Why they're failing so I want to talk about how do you actually start a successful YouTube channel in 2019? Let's go find a place to sit because Because we have to yeah, yeah, I'm thinking let's go over here on this couch Okay, let's set this bad boy up and gets to talking This tripod right here Here and good. Okay. That was perfect. Yeah, good. Yep. Let's Okay, all right So where do we start so this is something I've been wanting to talk about for a while because this is what I geek out about Oh, yeah, I mean our YouTube channel is what I care the most about I was just about to say like Publishing is great and I love it. I don't love it. I don't have a passion for it You know I'm passionate for the money that it makes. Yeah, and that's it and but I am passionate about teaching others Yes, and making YouTube videos and shit like that. So I love talking about this subject, right? So like yeah, what gets me really excited is releasing videos and shit like that So one of our big goals right now is growing the YouTube channel a lot So we're gonna be pumping out a lot of videos over the next six months plus because that's what we want to do All right enough time with us. Let's talk about the point of video. Sorry. So how do you? Successfully start a YouTube channel. So let's try you agree on this what the biggest mistake is Yeah, I see I see this all the time and that is people that started YouTube channel without anything to offer Yep, exactly. You need to have something to offer. Yeah, and it's great that you're starting. That's amazing your first videos But I don't think people should be starting until they have that yeah that thing So it's like I feel like a lot of people are making YouTube videos from a selfish point of view Like they're making videos because oh you want to watch me do this You want to watch me do do this and that you want to watch me me me It's all about me watch me watch me. I can't stop looking at this spider I know I know that's on your coffee glass Get out of here. Wow, that was so brave That was not a big fire as I was saying one of the big mistakes is people making yeah videos They're just about me me me me because they think everyone wants to hear about me me me me But in reality no one gives a fuck about you. That's the truth When people watch YouTube videos, it's they're obviously I mean it's pretty obviously think about they're there for their own reasons right and the reason that that the two reasons that people watch videos on YouTube is either to learn something or To be entertained. Yeah, so education or entertainment. Those are the two reasons that people watch YouTube videos so you need to know beforehand which what you want to offer of those two and Preferably, yeah, you don't need you don't need to pick one or the other so our goal with the channel is to provide a lot of education a Lot of value on that side of things, but also make it fun to watch because there's a lot of publishing channels, but Zero of them are watchable from entertainment point of view Insert that meme oh with the curve at the frog But yeah, so that's the first thing you have to do figure out if it's gonna be entertainment Education preferably both and also if you want YouTube to be like your business for life It's obviously to make money Entertainment is much harder to to monetize. Yeah, oh, yeah, so from that I feel it's not as people's goals is not necessarily to make money with the channel Okay, but if it is if it is if it is it should be a Education-based channel with some entertainment as well because that's what helps the most Yeah, just like vlogs, I don't know how do you even monetize it add sense So you have to like have a million subscribers to make like good full-time income from a vlog So at that point like you got to really love it, right? I think a lot of people do really love it Yeah, so let's talk about that quits a lot. Let's talk about that quickly to make money with vlogs You need so add sense you need tons of views. That's not easy And then what other things can you I sense pays pennies And what else can you offer merch? Yeah, and I can't think of what much else So if you want to make money with the YouTube channel do not make vlogs So that's another thing like there are so many dead of vlog channels because they're like Oh, I don't want to watch my life Everyone's everyone wants to see me live my life like no no one cares unless you have something to offer So that could be one you gotta be one entertaining Outgoing yeah one motherfucker one is you must have an insane personality That just makes people want to watch watch it makes people want to keep watching or number two You need such an insanely epic life that people want to keep watching If you don't have one of those things like doing a vlog it's gonna be really tough back to the point at hand What do you do you need to offer value to the viewer and it offer value and this was Unless we were one less so you have to put yourself in the shoes of the viewer Yeah, so it's all about providing to them. Don't think about yourself. Don't think about all I want to make videos about this This is what they want to see it doesn't matter what you want to make you have to serve the audience and make videos that They generally want to see and that they're gonna take a lot of value from mm-hmm Yeah, when we first started our channel providing value without asking for anything in return was like that's all Like we thought about that was our goal the whole time if you ever notice we never like offered anything for sale didn't try and make any Sort of money for Six months. Yeah, and six months and I'm months. Yeah five months until people were begging for a course exactly Our goal was never to make a course or start making money for honestly I honestly wasn't thinking so much. I honestly wasn't even thinking about it. Mm-hmm. I was like I just want to grow the channel like that's not important I'm not trying to make money right now like I just really need to provide value provide value and like Engagement I think if you really want to build like a big YouTube channel You cannot you cannot start start selling anything within like the first few months. Oh, yeah No, that's another huge problem. I seen you try to monetize so early. Yeah Oh, that's a massive massive massive problem. So it's like people will start YouTube channel and right off the bat They're already off. They're always already putting things up for sale before they've even offered any value Yeah, exactly. So and that turns people off Selling turns people off people don't want to be sold from they want to buy from you Which is our goal. We don't try to sell you on anything. We try to make you want to buy things exactly I hate trying to boost your program I hate trying to like offer shit and like trying to convince you to buy this because this is so awesome Give me money. No, like here it is throw your money at me Here it is and if you think that you can get value from it and it's worth it Then you will buy it. I'm not gonna try and fucking force you to buy it Yeah, and use all these sales tactics and shit. Yeah another thing. Oh, here's another big one It's so we're talking about how to start or how to grow both how does both, okay? So I guess we'll start with how to start. Okay, so people don't know this like We've had our YouTube channel for like six months now. It's probably approaching seven. Yeah, but before that Me and Rasmus had talked about starting a YouTube channel basically every single day for eight months Yeah, everything like okay Rasmus. We're ready Rasmus. This is the step We have to make use of videos now like we know this is part of achieving all of our goals Like a YouTube channel is necessary It took us eight months to actually do it because we were really fucking scared Yeah, it was really really really scary and you probably feel the exact same way and that's okay That's normal like if you think like something's wrong with me Everyone else that starts a YouTube channel is so confident and they just kill it from the way of getting no Like not at all now. We feel pretty good making videos. Oh, that's like if you watch our first videos Wow I was a nervous Please yeah, please don't please don't they were so bad. They were really really bad and really now if you want to I'm just gonna give you the option you go to videos and then sort by oldest Yeah, and you can see the first one ever. Yeah, you can see how I look and that that goes to say like your first videos Will awesome. That's the same. We say you need to know same We say by your audiobooks your first few will be shit Yeah, just because you don't have the experience and everything that this applies to fucking life Yeah, anything you do they've never done before the first be shitty at it So and so how do you get started? Oh, man, there really is like Gary Vee straight to the point This is not the answer you want to hear but it's like you just have to start Yeah, you just have to start yeah, but when you lay back exactly Yeah, that's what when you have value to offer But I'm not saying don't start if like you feel like you don't have value to offer because then you might get The point where you never make videos because you never think you've anything to offer now You can still make videos and practice and develop your video making skills without anything to offer You probably won't grow because like I said you've nothing to offer. Mm-hmm, but you're gonna become comfortable I don't want to get this point. Do you more say about I'm no, I don't I have a point that I'm gonna say it really quick I'm say real quick Consistency that's how you grow it. Yeah consistency uploads uploads uploads uploads uploads So we did every other day for five months. It is hard work Yeah, and most people like to have that consistency with their uploads like we had every other day for the first five months We're two people. That's the only way. Yeah, if I was alone Not be too much right if I did because like I outed a video you'd edit that. Yeah, if I do it all myself Yeah, fuck so we want hard. We want to upload really hard We want to upload more videos the only way to do that is to outsource like the video editing Getting a camera guy. We need to streamline the process because it's so much work. Are you want to say something? Yes, I do want to say something. I'm forgetting it right now, and I'm so more things about how to grow a YouTube channel Okay. Oh good audio and good lighting. So that's for the quality everything. It's not about quality of your camera It's about lighting lighting and audio. Yeah, just you all you need is an iPhone if you have an iPhone Just film with that for the first. Oh, oh, I just like we did and People were I said, you know, what camera are you using because I like as if they were impressed with the camera quality Yeah, I found first 100 videos iPhone. Uh-huh. So now we have this dough bass camera This was a big upgrade in quality, but iPhone works perfectly fine. It's all you need So this is a good opportunity to affiliate market an iPhone iPhone a microphone things like that, but no I won't bother with it No effort doesn't pay enough and then yeah now everyone's gonna say okay The last point yeah, let's make this last point I want to talk about what made us right we talked about it for eight months. How like let's start What finally made us fucking do it like what was that breaking point? Yes, because it like there's a good one end I like there was a thing that happened and if that thing hadn't happened then we probably would be now We would now be 16 months in still saying we got started you to kill. Yeah, if this event didn't happen So for us I can only speak for us It was a thing that had to happen now. It's like well now you have no choice motherfucker One of the one of the worst days turned into one of the best days. Yeah devastating news is what? Created this amazing opportunity. Yeah. Yeah, you should say because it's more okay It was in March when I lost my 2018 2018 when I lost my KDP account publishing account So I lost like ten thousand dollars in income that was coming in every month. I was like, oh shit This is not good. This is not good. This is not good. This is not good Yeah, I still had my audiobooks and that's actually what got us into audiobook publishing as well So then we went hard in audiobooks made more money in audiobooks so created it from anything else Yeah, it created the audiobook thing and the YouTube channel. So then it would just create a moment of desperation We were living in Hawaii. I thought I had to leave Hawaii because I was expensive, right? So I can't afford to live here. I have to move back home after that That's what the fuck it is. So this moment of desperation. We're like, okay. No more fucking around We're making this YouTube channel. We know we have to We have there's no other choice. Here's a motivate. I can speak for myself I think you'll agree like we were living Hawaii making good money with publishing and then when that happened the idea that like Fuck I might have to move back home start over like So that's how we had one stream of income or I had and then I lost that And then we started YouTube and things that's been life-changing So a horrible horrible day and looking back on it. It's not like I was starving or anything But to me in my head, but you lost your whole business. Yeah, but it turned out to be amazing and it changed our lives So this video is more so how to start YouTube channel and grow it man I do want to make a video how to monetize a small YouTube channel because we've been pretty good at that so far Yeah, I cover it. Yeah, I think so how to get started you just have to do it Yeah, the reality of the fact is that's it. That's it. There is no fucking secret You just have to overcome this barrier like go outside your cumbersome and you just have to attack it I know I know you're scared that people will judge you think oh sorry channel It's you have you have no choice. It's so weird. You have no choice, but to overcome your fear Yeah, you have no choice. Mm-hmm. So that's what that is thoughts on this topic Would you like to hear more about this topic about growing YouTube channel because I think it's one of the most life-changing Decisions you could ever make it has been for us at least if you if you want to start a YouTube channel You're right that it's the right thing to do because it's a life-changing business and it's so much fun and everything Yeah, so to get like huge Huge like it's the best traffic source in the world. Yeah, yeah, fuck Instagram fuck Facebook fuck all these YouTube's the spot. Would you like to hear more videos on this topic as any questions? Okay, oh magic emoji of the day. 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