 Hey, what's up guys? So hopefully in this video you're going to find out how to grow your YouTube channel. I would say this is probably the top five questions I get on a daily basis. Other questions, how to grow an online business, how to deal with your fears, the standard stuff. I first want to address, before I continue with this video, please, please, whether it's growing an online business, whether it's growing your YouTube channel, whatever it is, please have some fun doing it. Please, I see too many people too tight up and try to mimicking other people and they're in this weird box and none could please be yourself, have some fun, enjoy, that's what life's about. Okay, so going to how to actually grow your YouTube channel. I'm going to show you how I did it. I went through different phases, different iterations. And I'm a little bit different because I really don't have a business behind my YouTube channel. I don't have any products that I'm selling. I don't have any services that I'm selling. So for me, I created YouTube at the beginning for branding, exposure, plus learning how to communicate and talk. And it's a great learning curve. So these are things you need to do in order to grow your YouTube channel. Number one, like I said before, have fun, enjoy yourself. Number two, commitment. A lot of times people will be talking about what is the SEO strategy for YouTube? Where do I share my videos? What is the title? What's the meta takes? That's great. That's on the sideline. But the number one thing that matters the most is consistency, making sure that if you come out with your video on a Monday at 9 o'clock, every single Monday at 9 o'clock you will have your video. No different than cable TV where creatures of habits were programmed a certain way. So same thing like you like your show, whether that is, I don't know, it used to be Breaking Bad or it can be, you know, the old show Entourage, whatever it may be. You know, for example, Thursday at 9 p.m. on HBO, that show goes on. So you're expecting it. YouTube is no different. You need to train your family, your tribe that your main video, that masterpiece comes out every week on, let's say Monday at 9 a.m. And it's up to you. You can say Monday, you can say Wednesday, you can say Sunday in the evening, it doesn't matter. But what matters is please have consistency. The biggest issue I see is people have three videos they release and they go, they go vacate for like a month and then they come back with a video. It doesn't work that way. Literally week after week, one video on the exact same day, on the exact same time, and then if you create any other video, secondary or third videos, that's great. That adds on top of the masterpiece video that you have. So that's number one, consistency. Number two is actually adding value and knowing your tribe. It really does depend on who you're talking to. Obviously, the gaming industry on YouTube, that's for gamers and you have like the beauty and cosmetic, that's for that tribe. But really understanding who you're speaking to and entertaining and educating them at the exact same time. I think right now, because social media has democratized and commoditized platforms, it's so easy for anyone to just, my phone's not here, but so easy for anyone to grab the phone and just start blabbing and just spewing whatever bullshit and mumbo jumbo they want. How does that add value to them? It doesn't. You know, half the times people don't want to hear your opinion, half the times people don't want to hear just jar about random stuff. What matters is that you really understand who you're talking to and you're adding value in their life. For example, I'm making this YouTube video. I want you to have a positive takeaway, a positive emotional response to this video. So I'm showing you what I think are the top things that you need to have in order to be successful on YouTube. So really get in the mindset of your audience and a great way to do this is like, if you have a website already, or here, if you have Facebook fan page already, go look in your Facebook Insights. You can see demographics, you can see certain age groups, you can see male, female, you can see interest groups. If you have Google Analytics on your website, same thing, go into Google Analytics and see who's going on your website, male, female, age, source, country, origin, et cetera, et cetera. Really understand who you're talking to and therefore with that information, you can now create educating and entertaining videos exact same time. So that's the next thing. Now let's kind of get into the nitty-gritty a little bit of high-level strategy with tactics involved over here. What I like to do is I like to mix a little bit with technical SEO with a little bit of randomness. So for example, I'll give a quick rundown action. I have a full guide on this. I'll see if I want to release it. I'm not too sure, but I just shared that with friends and family. But basically, this is how it works. You first go to Google, okay? And you're going to type in certain natural words that you would search for. In fact, I'll even take this step further. Go to AnswerThePublic.com and type in, for example, we'll do this video, How to Become Successful on YouTube. And then AnswerThePublic.com is going to see all the natural queries or questions people are typing into Google around the world and you can see how to become successful on YouTube in India or how to become successful in 30 days on YouTube. So you're going to take maybe five or 10 of these questions from AnswerThePublic and now you're going to put that into Google. And what you're looking for is this. What you want to find out is, does a video, an actual video, pop up on the first two pages of Google? So an actual thumbnail of the video. Not like a regular blog, an actual video. If the answer is yes, that means Google recognizes that video as an authority and that video is getting a lot of traffic. So that's something you can piggyback off of. So what you're going to do next is you're going to click that video and you're going to see, hmm, what kind of video did that guy make? Can I make a video even better? What kind of title did he make? Can I make a more headline, you know, catchy title? Did he fill in the description box? I think you're allowed up to 5,000 characters. If not, great. So I can now fill in the description box. Did he do his meditate? No, he didn't. So I can put my meditakes in. How did he share this video, et cetera, et cetera. So there's a great program that helps you with this. It's called, let me just pull it up. I think it's called vidIQ, yeah, vidIQ. It's right here. So it's a Chrome, Gmail, sorry. It's a Chrome plugin. So vidIQ, vidIQ is going to tell you the keywords he's ranking for. It's going to show you the meditakes. Basically what you can do, you can literally copy, paste that, add a little bit extra in there, then use it for your video. So let's repeat that again. Answer the public, find the queries or queries, and then go back to Google, put that into Google. Make sure that a video pops on their first two pages. If it doesn't go back and look for ones that actually do, once you find that video, click on it. Use vidIQ to see the meta, to see the tags, to see the keywords. You can take the same information, implement more information on top of that, then use it for your video. Now let's go to your video. I already mentioned that your video has to be educating, entertaining, but your video also has to be better, better, you know, than the videos out there currently. That's it. Simple as that. I don't want to go a little bit too much more in detail about how to become successful on YouTube. That's the small strategy tactic that I show you, did wonders for me. You know, I'm coming up, I don't know, past 60,000. And like I said, if I really wanted to focus, I can make it grow larger. But at the end of the day, it's not that complicated. It's just consistency, making sure a video comes out every week at a certain time. Then you can fill that in between, making sure it's educating, entertaining, using a little bit technical SEO and a little bit hacking around. You can see what you can rank for. Value to your tribe. Have some fun doing it. And that's it. Hope you enjoyed this video. If you've got questions about ranking in YouTube or whatever you want, leave a comment below, guys. I'm here to answer any and all questions you have. Till we meet again. Peace. Adios.