 How to grow your YouTube channel fast. Have you been struggling to grow your YouTube channel? Hey, it's hard. It's difficult. But there are some tricks and some steps you can take to really accelerate that growth. And in this video, I'm just going to give them to you. There you go. I'm going to give you all those steps and we're getting ready to start now. Here we go. Hey, I'm JR Fisher. Thanks for checking out my channel. Thanks for checking out this video. I'll make it worth your while. Do me a favor and subscribe below. Hit the bell, turn on bell notifications, all notifications so that you're on the VIP Fisher family list and I can notify you every single time I do a video. I mean, hey, I've sold millions of dollars of both digital and physical products online. And in this channel, all I do is share that stuff with you so that you can get good results also. In addition to that, I want to give you one of my courses. It's below. It's a $97 course, absolutely free for a short period of time, so you need to hurry up and do that. Click that link down there. No credit card required. So we want to grow your channel. But what do we do? We need steps. I got them. Let me give them to you. Here we go. This first one is a big one. This is the one that kills most YouTubers. I see it over and over again. I'll see people who start channels and they get like 100 or 50 subscribers and they never get any growth. They never really grow from there. And it's really because of this one thing. This one thing, you know, even if you did horrible videos, I mean, really bad videos, they had to have a good sound though. If you did bad videos and they really weren't that helpful, if you did this one thing right here, you would still end up growing your channel. So this is the one big thing. You're ready for it. Number one is to commit to posting to YouTube multiple times per week. Sorry, got to do it multiple times per week. It's a big time commitment if you really want to grow a YouTube channel. Now you may say to yourself, well, I see big YouTubers and they only post once a month or once a week. You will, but they've already grown their channel. And if you look back over their history, at some point they were probably posting every day or at least two or three times a week. Posting one video a week really is not enough to grow a YouTube channel. Now you may hit on a subject and make it a lot of views, but really essentially you need to commit to posting two to three times a week minimum. What I do is I shoot all my videos. I'm doing it today in one day. I'll shoot 10 videos in one day and I do that every two weeks. That way I have five videos every week that I can post to my channel. So that's a big one. And some of you aren't going to want to do that, but I'm telling you, that's the one thing that you got to do to really grow your channel. Number two, develop a sustainable video production schedule. And here's what I mean by that. If you are taking six months to shoot a video and it's the best video in the world, I mean, it's like, you know, motion picture quality. That's great, but you'll never grow your YouTube channel because you need to post two to three times a week. So how are you going to do this workflow? You're going to need to set up scripts or bullet points. I always have my computer here. That way I can glance down. I can cheat a little bit, but I've got, you know, my bullet points down here that I can talk about to you, but I'm organized. Okay. And then I do my pre-production so that everything's set up. All my lights are in here. I've got everything set up, you know, the angles, right and all that. And this particular room is my office. So I can leave it set up. If you can't leave it set up, I get it. Not everybody can do that, but I'm fortunate that I have the space to do that. Now, in addition to that, after I shoot my video, I take the video and I don't do all the editing. I can do all the editing. However, I couldn't shoot as many videos if I did. So I hired somebody to do the editing, but before I give it to that person, I actually edit the videos before I give it to him. I take out all the mistakes and the things I don't want in there because he doesn't know which things to take out and which to leave in. I do know that. So I'll take all that out, but then he takes it and makes the video look better. So make sure you've got a workflow that's going to work. If you've got a broken workflow, if you've got a process that's going to take you too much time or it's too complicated, then you're never going to be able to get out that two or three videos a week. If you do have the luxury of a particular space where you can shoot your videos, make it look good. You know, have your lighting right. I have some padding on both these walls here to absorb some sound. I've got a backdrop here. Now that's not a real brick wall. Sorry. I've got a light over here. We've got my flick bank award right here. So, you know, it's all set up to do videos. It makes it easier to do videos that way. Number three, begin with an interesting hook. In the beginning of this video, I told you I was going to give you information on how you can grow your channel and get more subscribers and give you all the steps. And that's exactly what I'm delivering on. So you have to give them that hook in the beginning and then actually deliver on it in your video. Number four, keep titles and opening credits short. And what do I mean by that? Well, in the beginning of your video, the people want to get to the meat of it. So a lot of times people will have and we've removed pretty much all of these now. They'll have like a little intro video. They don't care about your intro video. They don't. It may make you look cool for a second, but they may click off and never hear your content, which is what you really want them to do. So I would say if you have an intro in there, man, make it quick like two or three, four seconds, if that or erase it all together, just get to the content because that's why they clicked on your video. It's really important that you get to the meat of things right away. Now the only thing I do in the beginning of some of my videos, I'll tell you that I've sold a bunch of stuff online, which we have. We've done millions of dollars and I'll let you know I've got some freebies. I got a free course down there. I may ask you to subscribe or like, but then I get to the video. So that's what you need to do. You need to get to the video and get to the information. Number five, add in screens. You got to understand for your videos to be shown to other people, for YouTube to say, Hey, we want to show these videos to other people. The number one thing they look for is if your videos keep people on their platform, they want to make sure people stay on the platform. Why? Because they make money on videos that they can run ads on. If your videos take them away from the platform, they're not going to like your videos. They're not going to show them to a lot of people. So if you add in cards in there, which I'll add at the end of this video. And if you check out one of these videos, I'm going to put on the end, you can really grow your business. But if you add those in cards in your videos that will keep the people on the platform, that's, that is relayed back to YouTube. And YouTube can say, Hey, this video is keeping people on the platform for an hour. And this other video is keeping them on the platform for 10 minutes. Which video do you think they're going to show to more people? Makes sense. So make sure you have those in cards. They're easy to do. I have other videos on that, but check that out. Add in cards. Super important. Now I will say when you add these in cards, they tend to work better while you're still talking on screen and where you can just point to them. Okay. So try to time your end cards so that you're mentioning the end cards and that they're still on the screen so that the people can click on them. And you can give them instruction to click on those in cards. Now, if you really want to enhance this, you can say, Hey, check out this playlist right here that has several videos in here on the subject that you're interested in, because playlist are the same thing as an end card, but it takes them to a whole bunch of videos that they can watch in sequence. Thus, keeping them on the platform that much longer. All you have to do is click to add that element and then click the create button and you can decide how long it's on the screen too. Now you're going to have some choices. You know, you can do a video or playlist, you can have subscribed, you can have channels, you can have links. Obviously, if you put a video or playlist in there, that's going to keep them on YouTube that much longer. Once you've decided what video you're going to put on there, you can either choose a recent upload, you can put the best for the viewer, you can choose a video or playlist. Now, I feel like YouTube is smarter than me. Yeah, kind of, sort of, right? So I would rather it be best for the viewer because YouTube, before they came to my video, knows what that person was watching. So maybe they're watching something on SEO and they came to my channel to grab something on SEO. So they're probably going to show one of my videos that has to do with SEO in addition to the one they just watched. So let YouTube make that decision. Let it be best for viewer. I would always check that option. You can also promote your channel with website clicks or channel subscriptions or linked in screens like that. But I really like having the videos in there and letting YouTube choose. Make sure when you're doing your videos also, you have a goal. What is your goal in that particular video? Is it that you want to get more subscribers? Is it that, you know, you want to boost your channel in the algorithm? What is it? Are you trying to sell something in your video? There should be a goal. If you can't say what the goal of that video is, then you need to go back to the drawing board. You need to make sure you have a goal on every video. You see, if you pick a goal, you can actually craft your video around that goal instead of the other way around. You pick your goal first. What is it you want to do? Maybe you wanted to show somebody how to build a WordPress website. Well, that video is going to help them build a WordPress website if that was your goal in the beginning. Now, once you've done this, you want to monitor what is going on. Is the in-screens working? Are they not working? Do you need to switch them out? Make sure you go back and look at these metrics. Number six, edit distractions out of your video. Okay. We don't want these people distracted. We want them watching the video. So you don't want to have like long pauses. You don't have a lot of ums and ahs. You don't want to have spaces where you're not talking. You want to stay on topic. You don't want to get off on tangents too often. Matter of fact, you don't want to get off on tangents. Okay. You really don't want to do that. You want to stick to the subject that they came to that video to watch it for. If you're constantly veering off subject, what you're doing essentially is you're inviting the viewer to leave because they're like, ah, this is not what I clicked on this for. This guy's talking about something else all together different. So make sure you don't do that. Number seven, design thumbnails that people want to click on. Now it seems like in the beginning, nobody had thumbnails. They just had screenshots from their video and that was up there and then people went to the point where they started putting some words on the screen and then they got real fancy and they're putting pictures and all kinds of colors and graphics. And now it seems like they all have pictures and colors and graphics and they're all pretty fancy. So we're going to go more minimal. We're going to put, you know, one or two words on the screen, maybe a red background. That's it because that's the only way to stand out. We know that we can't have the best thumbnails. We know that it's almost impossible to have the best thumbnails. It's hard to be better, but it's easy to be different and that's what we're going to do is we're going to be different. Now here's a cool example here, this red one at the top. You can see this video will make you angry. Okay, what's that about? Well, I know one thing. It's got 5.7 million views. So that tells me something right off the bat right here. Now here's the cool thing. If you use a good thumbnail and it attracts clicks and it's a suggested video, the algorithm is going to pick up on that and they're going to suggest it more and more and more and you can see huge growth on your video. Please don't click made them though. You know, don't put, you know, make money in 24 hours and when they click on it, it's a multi-level thing that they have to, you know, get their friends and family to join. Don't do that. Okay. So if you've put some words on there that are really strong and they say something, make sure you deliver on it in your actual video. Also things you can do on the thumbnails. If you don't want to do a real plain one, you can have something that shows an image or teases a situation that's going to happen. It could be somebody falling. It could be something somebody's getting ready to eat and they're covering it up or whatever it is. Make that to where they want to see what the next part of the story is. Here's an interesting one where a young lady just took a picture of herself and the thumbnail says, I quit. Okay. How I left my full-time job. That's a pretty interesting thumbnail and it's a great title. Make sure you also design your thumbnails to where people can see them. Now, YouTube will tell you that it needs to be 1280 by 720, which is fine if somebody's on a laptop computer, but most people are on their phones. And if they're on their phones, you got to make it to where they can really see it small. I almost suggest you uploading your video, looking at it on your phone and deciding if you want to keep that thumbnail. In most cases, you won't want to because it's just too small for your phone and understand almost everybody's on their phone nowadays. Guys, don't make them for a laptop computer or desktop computer. That's not where they're viewing them. Number eight, test your thumbnails. You don't have to just do one thumbnail. Matter of fact, I recommend you doing a split test on thumbnails and putting two up there. You're going to need a tool to do that and it's called TubeBuddy. You'll find a link below. You can get a free account. You can get a paid account. If you get the paid account, if you use my link, you'll get 30% off. So check out TubeBuddy below. And number nine, create longer videos. Don't do one or two minute videos. Guys, you won't get enough watch time. If you think about it, if you've got two minute videos and people watch 50% of it, the most watch time you can get is a minute. If you've got a 10 minute video and they watch 50% of it, you get five minutes. That's five times the amount of watch time from one video. Make sure your videos are at least 10 to 14 minutes long. That's what YouTube needs for their algorithm. And the last suggestion I have for you is go live on YouTube. I do it once a week, sometimes more, but every now and then if you go live, you're going to pick up some people who have never heard of you, never seen you before, but they got some notification that there's a live video or maybe they're looking for live videos. They find you that way. So the point is go live every now and then. It's not going to be as polished. It's not going to be as perfect, but if you prepare, if you have an outline as to what you're going to talk about, it can still be really good and that can help you build your audience. I hope you enjoyed this video. I hope you found some of these tips helpful. If so, put your comments below. Let me know what you're doing to grow your channel. Let me know about your channel. Maybe I'll check it out. Maybe I'll subscribe. Put your comments below. I really appreciate it. 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