 Why you should start a YouTube channel to help others? Have you been thinking about starting a YouTube channel but you just weren't sure if it's right for you? Okay, so here's what I'm gonna do in this video. I'm gonna give you a simple test of a few questions and if answered correctly, you should start a YouTube channel and if answered incorrectly, you should not start a YouTube channel. And if you wanna know what those questions are and how you rank, stay tuned because we're starting right now. Hey, if you're new to my channel, don't forget to subscribe. There's a big subscribe button there. It's meant to be used. You gotta hit that subscribe button right there and next to it, there's a bell, sounds just like that. If you push that bell, the harder you push it, the louder it'll be by the way, once you push that bell, turn on all notifications. That way you become part of the VIP family, the Fisher family who gets notified before anybody else about these videos. You want that. 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So I'm gonna run through a few questions here. I've got them right here in front of me and I wanna ask you these questions. I want you to answer them honestly. Number one, do you have a special talent? Like cooking, sales skills, you know, you're a workout guy, you're a tech person that you wanna share with the world. That's number one. Now, you're just gonna answer yes or no to these. That's it. Number two, number two, do you have time to devote to a YouTube channel? In other words, it's gonna take you at least a few hours a week. If you don't have a few hours a week and you're not gonna have that every single week, probably wouldn't be good for you. So you gotta answer that one yes or no, okay? Question number three, you ready? Do you realize that it's a long-term venture? Now some people think I'm gonna make two or three videos and I'm gonna be famous and I'm gonna go viral and I'm gonna make tons of money. It's not gonna happen, okay? This is not gonna happen. That's not how YouTube works. YouTube can take you months or even years to really build up an audience and a following. I know I do a lot of videos and we're growing this channel and that's great but it takes time and it's a slow process and you know, a lot of times your videos don't do well and you gotta keep putting out videos even when those don't do well so you can get more data so you can find out what kind of videos you're gonna have to do to get more. So super important, it's a long-term venture. Number four, do you enjoy talking on camera, okay? I mean, primarily that's what YouTube is. Can you do it with not getting on camera? Yes, it's much harder to be successful if you're not on camera. If people can't see you, it's hard to connect with you. Not saying it can't be done. There's a lot of channels out there millions of subscribers and there's not a person on camera but it's much, much harder to do and it's gonna be a real uphill battle so that's a yes or no. Do you enjoy talking on camera? Number five, do you have a product or service you want to sell, yes or no? This is not a deal breaker. I mean, maybe you just wanna do a channel and you just like to talk to a camera and you have no other alternative motives whatsoever. You could do it but for the most part people do it because they have a product or service they're trying to promote. You know, I have courses, I train people when I had to sell online they can buy my courses they can buy my coaching. Most people don't, it's a small percentage that does but that small percentage helps pay for all of this and all these videos and all of my time. So I do have products to sell. So answer the question, yes or no? Do you have a product or service you want to sell, that's number five. Number six, are you willing to do videos on a consistent basis? Now what do I mean by that? You can't run a YouTube channel and be haphazard. You can't run like put out three videos today and none for a week and then two more in a day and then five more the next day and then none for a month. It doesn't work that way. It's gotta be consistent. I originally started off Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and those were the days I did my videos and I set up everything and that became very, very difficult, very difficult to do. So now what I do is I film one day a week and in that day I do all the videos that I'm gonna do for the next week or two. I'll do five or 10 different videos and now I have one every day. So Monday through Friday, a video comes out. People see those and it helps me build my channel. Now, the fact is the more frequently you post provided they're good videos, they're good information, the quicker your audience is gonna grow. So if I found that when I post five days a week, guess what? I get more subscribers than when I post three days a week. Number seven, do you have the equipment to film videos? You're gonna have to have some equipment. Now, could you do it on your cell phone? Yeah, you could, but you're probably gonna have some added lighting, maybe an added microphone, something. I use a DSLR camera. I have a shotgun microphone on it. I have lighting all the way around here. You don't need all of this in the beginning, okay? There's a lot of people that maybe say or recipes and they do cooking and they just set up a camera on a stand in their kitchen. But you know, you gotta get your lighting right. You gotta have your sound right. People will watch a video that maybe isn't the best quality visually, but if your audio is bad, they won't watch it. They will not watch it, so you gotta have good audio. So make sure if you are using a phone that you're gonna be within maybe three feet of that phone. If it gets any further away from that, it's gonna pick up a lot of side noise and your videos aren't gonna sound good. So make sure you have the right equipment. Do you have the right equipment? Yes or no? Number eight, and number eight's a big one. Can you handle criticism? Guess what? I don't care how good you are. No matter how awesome your information is, there's gonna be people out there that's gonna be hating on you. They're gonna be writing bad things. They're gonna be putting bad comments. And if you internalize that and let that bother you, then you won't be successful. And I don't care what YouTuber you show me, anybody who has any kind of audience whatsoever is gonna get bad comments. They're gonna get thumbs down. They're gonna get all that stuff. And I'll tell you what, it doesn't matter because all YouTube cares about is that you're getting interaction. So if you're getting bad comments or you're getting good comments, YouTube doesn't even look at that. All they know is that you're getting comments. So you could literally have a channel that got nothing but bad comments. I wouldn't suggest this, but instill grow the channel because YouTube's gonna send you traffic because people are interacting with you. All right, so let's rate yourself. Let's rate yourself right now. Now I gave you eight different questions and they were all yes or no. Now you're probably wondering, how did you do? All right, well let's check this out. If you got all eight of them as a yes, you're doing great. You are doing great. You probably should start a YouTube channel. You probably should have started it long ago and you shouldn't have waited. But what if you got seven? Seven, because remember I said, not all of these things are necessary. I mean, you gotta have the equipment obviously. You can't shoot videos without that. So if you got a note of that one, obviously you couldn't do well. But what if you got seven? I'd say you should still start a YouTube channel. I'd say you should do that. As a matter of fact, I say you probably should have already done that because if you got seven out of eight right, you know what, you're gonna do well. You're gonna do really well on YouTube. Just remember you gotta consistently do this and don't give up, okay? What about six? What if you got six yeses out of eight? I would say yes, you should still do a YouTube channel. There's a couple in there that you don't have to worry about. Some of them are like, hey, can you handle criticism? Maybe you can't, but maybe you could learn too, okay? Do you have a product or service to sell? That's not necessary. You don't necessarily have to have that. So if you got six of these right, then you're still okay. What about five? Five, if you got five of these, five yeses out of eight, I would say you're on the fence. Not that you shouldn't start one. Matter of fact, I would recommend that you go ahead and start a channel and see how you do. See how you do with all this stuff. And what if you got four? Four, four is not good. Okay, four is not good. If you only got four yeses out of eight, I would say you need to either reconsider starting a YouTube channel. Maybe you shouldn't do it or you need to look at some of the things that you said no to and see if you can change your mind about those. If you can, then you're gonna do okay. Now, I will tell you, shooting videos takes time. And if you're gonna start a YouTube channel, some of the other pointers I'll give you is that you really need to plan it out. You can't just turn on the camera and talk. It may seem like I've turned on the camera and I'm just talking, I'm not. Now, I don't have a teleprompter up right now. Sometimes I do. In this case, I don't have a teleprompter. In other words, the words going across the screen and everything written out. I don't have that. But I have notes here on my computer and I can look down here and I can look at the next bullet point and I've actually sat down for hours and planned out what's gonna be in these videos because there's a several things you gotta do. You can't just shoot a video. You gotta figure out what do people want? What are they already searching for? I use a program called TubeBuddy and I'll put a link in the description below. You can get TubeBuddy for free. TubeBuddy will help you figure out titles and subjects that you should be doing videos on that people are already searching for. And you gotta think of it this way. If they're already searching for a subject and you do a video and you use that in a title, you have a better chance of your video getting seen. There's no point in making videos that nobody's searching for that there's no search for whatsoever. Now, I will give you a caveat to that. If you've already built up an audience, if you're a Casey Neistat or Mark Wiens or any of these people who have millions of followers, whatever they do a video on is going to get viewers. It's just gonna get viewers because they already have so many subscribers and these subscribers are notified when they do a new video so they're gonna watch it no matter what. Now, they can't really stray that much from their niche though. Casey Neistat is basically blogging his life and what's going on and that's what people come to expect. If he does a video and it's all about cooking and it's not about his life and he stays in the kitchen the whole video, people are gonna go, no, that's not right. That's not what you do. Mark Wiens is a food travel blogger and if he started doing stuff on NASCAR, people are gonna go, no, no, that's not what you do. So even though they have that audience and even though they're gonna get views about what subject they do it on, they still have to stay in their lane. They still have to do videos that make sense for their brand. If they wanna do something different like I follow another guy named Mikey Chen, he's got a couple different channels based on different things. They're all kinda related. One is traveling the world and one of them is just eating at restaurants and I think he has a cooking one now too. So those are all separate but they're all kinda related. So if you do have two different ideas like that, don't mix them in your channel. Don't make your channel haphazard where all the videos are about different things like one week it's about walking your dog, the next week it's about cooking eggs in the kitchen or whatever unless you're just vlogging your life and that's what you wanna do. Those are much harder to rank for, much, much harder to rank for than if you do it in videos for a niche. All right, so you're set up. You know if you should, you know if you shouldn't. You basically know what you need to do and if you should do it or you shouldn't do it. And I'd like to hear, are you going to do a YouTube channel? Have you already done a YouTube channel? Put it in the comments below. Let us see what you've done. If you've done a YouTube channel, put the link down there, we'd love to see it. Love to see what you're doing it on. Maybe you'll get some subscribers for your channel. You never know. If you have a question about starting a YouTube channel or anything about marketing online, feel free to put it in the comments below. If you have a particular subject you'd like for me to do a video on, put that in the comments below and I'll make sure, I'll make sure I look at it at least. I can't promise I'll do the video but I'll look at it. And if it sounds cool, I'll definitely do a video on it. I really appreciate you watching this video and don't forget I've got a free course. It's an e-commerce course. Normally sells for $97. 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