 Wel, hynny'n gweithio, mae'n gwybod yn ymwneud yn ymddi'r ysgolwyd. Rwy'n gwneud yn ymddi'r ysgolwyd ein newydd ym YouTube, allan y golygu golff yn 2023. Mae'n ystafell yn 5 anhyggur doedd o gweithio'r ysgolwyd yn ymddi'r ysgolwyd. Yn ymddur, mae'n rhaid i esudio ymddur i'r ysgolwyd, a'r wneud ar rhai i symud ymddi'r ysgolwyd? A yna, mae'n gwybod yn ymddi'r ysgolwyd ychydig golff Youtube ym 2023. From My New Channel and What Are The Potential Earnings For You, if You're thinking of starting a new golf YouTube channel. Well, I'll answer all those questions throughout this video but first of all, I'm going to start off with my own new channel, why I chose to do it and what the potential is from My Perspective and it might answer some of the questions that we get to later on, the video when we talk about the potential and the considerations that you're going to need if you are going to consider starting your own YouTube channel. So a few weeks ago, I launched a new channel which is called Testing the Tips and I'm delighted to say that in the first fourteen days we surpassed 100,000 views. Now putting that in perspective, when I started my original channel five years ago it took me best part of a year to get to anywhere near 100,000 views so to do that in the best part of a couple of weeks, I'm absolutely delighted. We posted four or five videos, we got a lot of people to come on from our existing channel to come and watch, and that obviously gave me the major platform and the boost to get off to a good start. The new channel basically looks at me testing golf tips that are provided by other golf YouTubers, professional golfers. I basically take their lesson, their tuition, their tip, whatever you want to call it, and I put it through its paces and see if it works for me at least, translate that lesson into my language, relay it to you, fellow average golfers, and see if it can help your game. And I've got to admit so far the feedback has been fantastic, I'm absolutely delighted with the way things are going because what we do in our existing channel, as you well know, is predominantly review and test golf clubs. So it doesn't really, it's not necessarily a massive help to anybody's game, whereas testing the tips has already provided some incredible feedback where people have tried out the tip that we've filmed, come and reported back, and it's helped their game, which is an incredible sort of, I don't know, it just feels good to help somebody out in their game, especially someone at my level who isn't qualified to do so, but by relaying information that I found that has been successful for me, helping out a fellow golfer, and them having success in their own game, it's been fantastic. So loving what has happened and I really hope that that continues. Now I'll tell you what that 100,000 views earned me very, very shortly, but first of all let's get back to this idea of do you want to start a YouTube channel focused around golf in 2023 and should you do it? Well I'm going to say whether you should or shouldn't, but I'm going to pose a number of questions that you probably need to answer before you make that step. I'm going to start off with first of all the idea and the concept itself for the channel, and I would ask is it a unique idea? My own feeling was in terms of the second channel testing the tips, but it was very much that something nobody else was doing, so gave me a little bit of a head start in that respect and I would ask you to consider the same, is the content already being made and if it's already been made that's not such a bad thing, but can you deliver it in a way that is unique to you and give an angle that somebody is not perhaps considering? Again using my own history if you like, then I was reviewing golf clubs from the perspective as an average golfer whereas the majority of people who reviewed golf clubs out there right now were PGA professional golfers, so we always tried to look at something with a slightly different angle, so that's the first question I would ask you to consider, is your idea a unique idea? The second question, what is the target audience that you're aiming at? And the main consideration I would consider is age, that's the real interesting demographic, who are you trying to appeal to? Obviously there's a far different audience that I appeal to than to say what good good would appeal to and the main difference would be the age demographic I would think, so that's one other consideration, always consider who is your target demographic. Next question, are you able to commit time to upload regularly? This is a big one, I think there's a lot of people out there who watch YouTube videos and think it's an easy life and trust me it's far from that, it's the complete opposite. We post a lot of videos right now and it's been a slow build up but what you first need to ask, can you commit to posting regularly because it's what YouTube are going to want to see? Now that might just be that you post weekly but you're going to have to be posting on the same night every week for a number of weeks and a number of months likely before it becomes a successful channel and before YouTube starts to recognise when you are posting these videos and starts to fit you into a pattern, recognise that pattern and start to meet some of the requirements of that elusive YouTube algorithm but time and commitment to the project is really really important, the idea of creating one video disappearing for two or three weeks and then coming back to make another, I would say that is unlikely to work so another major consideration is the time that you need to commit to make this thing successful, right, is one for you, are you prepared for negativity because trust me there are a lot of people out there who just love hitting that keyboard and having a little bit of a pop, now you need to be fairly thick skinned for this job, you need to be able to deal with it in whichever suits you, I prefer to humour because some of these people are quite funny with the stuff they come up in my opinion but if you're a little bit touchy you might get offended quite easily with some of the things that are said so be mindful, everybody knows that social media comes with that kind of negativity nowadays but it's a consideration, the next thing to think about is what is the aim for the channel and what I mean by that is it just about fun, is about you sticking your iPhone on, you're playing some golf, posting on Instagram, you're playing some golf whatever it may be or is it a career and I think they're quite different things and I think you've got to choose the path that you want to go down in terms of a bit of a route map and it mightn't be the sort of believe me where we started and where we are right now wasn't part of the plan, it certainly evolves along the way but I think you have to have some kind of route map to say that this is where I want to try and take the channel and then like I said there's the odd diversion along the way but yeah I think some plan in place to what it is that you want to do with it is another good one for you, I'm reading them with a slight smirk on my face because they're all kind of considerations and problems that we have, does your unique idea provide enough content opportunities and what I mean by that is reviewing golf clubs was really good but what we need to do is make sure we got access to the golf clubs because without golf clubs we had no content, that seems fairly logical so testing the tips on the other hand is me testing tips from content that already exists so again we've got a well of content that we can go to and produce regular content on the back of it so that's the idea and the concept just think it through and are you able to then deliver consistent and regular content and enough content based on your idea, I hope that one makes sense but I think it's really important as well, another big one can you edit video or do you need help now from my perspective I was self-taught used a final cut from right at the very beginning spent hours and hours and hours whether it be on google or youtube trying to find out how you used different parts of final cut pro which we still use to this day and it's a long haul and a long process there are people out there that will edit videos for you obviously that comes at a cost and I would guess that early on you won't be earning income from day one so that's going to be a tough start but a real consideration they're obviously easier apps to use nowadays than going in straight at final cut but it's a consideration you're going to have to edit videos and from my perspective it's a real important part of what we do to make sure we deliver high quality content next one and maybe the last one I think at this stage is are you passionate about your idea because first of all are you passionate about golf and maybe are you also willing to lose a little bit of love for the game because I say that because it certainly becomes in my sense a career and playing fun golf social golf whatever you want to call it became less and less and less and like anything that you do from sort of Monday to Friday your job it becomes less enjoyable to then do that at the weekend and for me personally my I still love the game but not I don't play anywhere near as much social golf or get enjoyment from my hobby what it used to be as what happens now because like I said we just are at it no end and I think that so just be prepared you've got to be passionate and I'm hugely passionate about golf so if there is any doubt in your mind that you're going into something you're not fully committed to and not fully passionate about I would say that in a matter of weeks months it will soon become a bit of a chore and you will struggle to have the enthusiasm to create the content that is required so I would really make sure that yeah you give a real lot of consideration pretty much to all of those points I said about you know should you start I think absolutely you should start it's offered up me um so many opportunities it's been a real fun five years we've done so many things that I would never have expected to do I've been in with people that I would never have expected to be with and the opportunities keep on coming however it's been a long hard five years and the hours that I've put in if I was to go back and work out what am I getting paid on an hourly rate then trust me way below minimum wage because uh yeah it's their long weeks long hours be prepared I one of the biggest things that makes me laugh about comments that I made and we talk about the negativity if ever you get a sponsor to sponsor some video content and that means earning some money the comment that is often fired is oh you've sold out well trust me I would literally selling out is far from anything that I have ever done or any other golf youtuber has ever done in my opinion because they deserve anything they get because it is a hard hard graft and I said about dealing with negativity with humour it's the one comment that really does annoy me I still can't deal with it because I am certainly not and I wish you could sell out and make life just a little bit easier so it's a tough old grind and make sure you're ready for that kind of commitment back to my own project testing the tips I'm delighted with the way it's gone and I hope that we continue to build that channel and there'll be no end of effort going into that to make sure that I try and make that a success and to do that I need subscribers I need views and ultimately that is exactly what you are going to need so first of all I would ask you again encourage you to go over to testing the tips take a look at the channel there'll be a link in the description below support my channel by subscribing liking videos commenting on videos they're all major things that you're going to need to appeal appeal to your audience to do as well in terms of earnings while I put up a screenshot for you now this 100 000 views and this is what I have earned so far be prepared people it's a long haul because the first thing you need to do is you're going to need to hit certain criteria before you're able to monetize your channel now we've been able to do that and the way I will earn money hopefully fingers crossed in the future is by attracting more views which attracts more adverts which you then get paid for you get paid a minuscule amount it's a small amount and the only way you can be successful in this game is if you get a lot of views on your channel it is that simple not many channels go from zero to hero very very quickly not from my experience at least anyway but if you stick at it there is a career in this but you've got to be in it for the long haul and not expect to I hope you do and good luck to you if you do but not expect like I said go from on a very quick upward turn or upward trend rather but if you do like I said good luck and I hope that's what happens to our second channel testing the tips different video something very very different nothing I've ever spoken about on YouTube at all but with the introduction of our new channel I thought there's probably people out there oh are considering starting new channels in 2023 and like I said good luck go for it you will absolutely love it be prepared for the hard work I'm all done listen I will do a follow up to this video if it could be a disaster maybe it's nothing like what anybody wants to watch right now understand that maybe it's for you know not for my channel stick your comments down below if you've got any questions and I will do my very best to answer and hopefully help if if I can do it in any way and who knows there might be a part two for this video because we've covered very much the basics of some of the questions you need to ask yourselves right that's me done as ever thank you all for your support thank you for watching I will see you all tomorrow night with another video because we're cracking on as ever bye