 How to build a YouTube channel in 90 days. Oh my god, I didn't do it. I want to tell you an embarrassing story about my YouTube channel that it's time to finally come clean about. Now you got to stay tuned because at the end of this video, guess what? You're going to know how to grow your YouTube channel in only 90 days. Now this is true even if it sucked in the past, even if people weren't viewing your videos before, even if you don't even have any subscribers. This stuff will work for you, even if. Hey, I'm JR Fisher and I've been selling products online since 2009. Heck, I've sold millions of dollars of physical and digital products online. And on this channel, I want to explain to you some of the things I did to be successful online so that you can get the same results. I've even gotten my products on thousands of websites including Walmart. 100% this channel is about helping you start, run and grow your own online business. Here's the cool thing, the mistakes that I share in this video I fixed. And in the last 90 days, I have increased my subscribers by double and my views. I want to share those things with you. So before I get started with my embarrassing story, I want you to hit that subscribe button, hit that like button. Don't forget to turn on your notifications. If you've got an embarrassing story about your YouTube channel, something that happened, share it in the comments below. I got to hear it. I'm sure in mind with you right now. Now, back about four years ago, I decided to start a YouTube channel. I said, well, everybody else is doing it and I can do it too. And I did and I did some videos. And guess what? Nothing happened. Nothing happened. Nothing. I thought it was as simple as me coming up with some good ideas and making videos and people would watch them and they go viral and I make a ton of money. It never happened that way. Matter of fact, my first year, I think I made 49 videos and I got nowhere, nowhere whatsoever. Why? Because that's not enough to get any traction. You can't just do 49 videos in a year. Heck, that's less than one a week. How in the world was I expecting to build any kind of audience? So that was mistake number one. I only did 49 videos in one year. Mistake number two. I would sporadically put videos on YouTube. Maybe I'd put two or three in a week and then the next week I'd put one and then I'd wait a month and you can't run your YouTube channel that way. You've got to have a schedule. You know, once a week really is not enough. You probably need two or three a week. And if that scares you, then maybe this isn't for you. But that's what it's going to take. Number three, I did no title research whatsoever. I just, I put a title and I didn't realize that people are searching certain subjects and if you put the right title, they're going to come across your video. But I didn't know that. I use a tool called TubeBuddy and I'm going to put a link in the description where you can get a 30% discount if you want to get the paid version. But there's also a free version too. And by using TubeBuddy, you can figure out what title works. That's something I never did. Now, this video here I did, it did okay. It got 53,000 views. Not too bad. Not too shabby. But you know what, a lot of my videos got less than 50 views because I didn't do title research first. And here comes mistake number four. I made short videos. I mean, they were like anywhere from three to five minutes. And my rationale was I need to have a lot of videos, which I didn't get that done either. But I only had three to five minute videos. And the problem with that is YouTube rewards you and will suggest your videos and show your videos based on watch time. And if you've only got a three to five minute video, you can't really have long watch time. Now, I'm not saying do a two hour video or anything like that. But YouTube will do up to four ads on your videos. And it takes 10 minutes, 10 minutes of a video to get all four of those ads out. So if you don't have at least 10 minute videos, the odds of them looking at your videos and saying, you know, these are good or these are videos we can run ads on aren't too good. So your videos are not going to get shown. Okay, mistake number five. I didn't put affiliate links in my videos. Now, what does that mean? Well, you can find products on Amazon, and you can put affiliate links below. And if you don't think you have products, put the products of the camera use and the light you're using, you know, the cord you're using the computer you're using, it doesn't really matter. But you need these affiliate links. And I didn't put that in any of my videos. Number six, I didn't put keywords in my description. You got to have them. You got to have these keywords in your description. They've got to they've got to match that title. And if they're not there, your videos aren't going to show up. Number seven mistake, I didn't put descriptions or I put bad descriptions. You've got to have a good description on every single video. And if you don't do that, and we're still working on that, because I'm going back trying to fix a lot of this stuff. But if you don't do that, then it's not going to match up to your title. It's not going to match up to your keywords. And you're not going to get views. You've got to put good descriptions. Mistake number eight, I didn't have any opt-ins. What's an opt-in? Well, an opt-in is a free PDF or a free course, like I'm going to give you at the end of this video, where somebody can give up their email in return for something of value. I didn't build my list off YouTube. Silly mistake, but it was something I did. You have to have free opt-ins. And it could be a simple 10 steps to gardening or, you know, five ways to make a cake, you know, click below to get my PDF. But you've got to have those on every single video. The next thing, which was a mistake that I did is I didn't create cool thumbnails. You've got to have cool thumbnails, because you understand that the first thing people see when they type in a search is all the thumbnails of the video. And if you don't create a thumbnail, what YouTube will do is they'll grab one of your screenshots within your video. And that's going to be your thumbnail. And that could be embarrassing at best. Mistake number 10. I didn't offer anything for sale of my own. Okay. So that's something super important. Now I have courses. Now I have classes. Now I have coaching. I have things I can offer now. So you need to come up with some of those things, because that can be a large part of your income. So that's what I did. I fixed those 10 things. Let's go over them real quick, so you know what those 10 things are. So here's your checklist of how to double your subscribers. Number one, you want to upload at least three videos a week. Super important. Remain consistent at that. Maybe Monday, Wednesday, Friday, whatever days you pick and do it the same time a day. Upload at the same time a day is number two. Pick the same time a day. Now we do it at, I think, 10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. But if you do that, the subscribers will see this consistency and they'll be waiting for your next video to come out. Number three, do title research. You can use TubeBuddy. In the description, I'm going to leave that link where you can get a 30% discount on TubeBuddy or pick the free plan. That doesn't matter. You can do that too. Number four, don't make short videos. You can't get long views with short videos. Why didn't I see that? Why is that? You can't do that, right? You're just not going to have long videos when most people don't watch the whole video and all you've got is short ones and you get rewarded with watch time. So that's super, super important. Next one is number five, use affiliate links. You can go to Amazon, set up an affiliate account, pick any of the products you're using on your desk, your desk mat, whatever it is, your microphone. Matter of fact, this microphone, it's in the description. If you want to check it out, it's pretty cool. So use affiliate links. Number five, number six, use keywords in your description. Super important to do that. People forget that. They just start describing their video and they don't reiterate those keywords. You've got to do that. And number seven, put descriptions in. Don't forget to put descriptions in. Don't think that, well, I want to get these 10 videos out, so I'm not going to worry about this description. You can't do that because if you don't put the description in there, that video isn't going to matter much and that was a mistake that I made. Number eight, offer free opt-ins. This is the way you're going to build your list. If you build your list, you can email them later on and sell them all kinds of products. Now I've got a video on my channel. Check it out where you can actually see how to do email marketing. That's super important too. And number nine is make cool thumbnails. Thumbnails are so important. Think about it. The reason you probably clicked on this video and you're watching it right now is because of the thumbnail. That thumbnail is the thing that's going to get people to the video once they look at all of their search results and choices based on the subject that they type in. And number 10, get your own product, sell some merchandise. I mean, you can sell t-shirts and mugs and hats through something like Printify. They will do a print on demand for you and you don't even have to come up with a product. You don't have to ship it. You don't have to do anything. They'll do it for you, but make sure you have a link in your description where people can buy products from you. 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