 Freedom! Today I wanted to talk to you about something that I think a lot of people get wrong. I wanted to talk to you about your personality and how you present yourself like that. We've talked about this a little bit in the past but everything I'm about to say boils down to these few words. Fake it until you make it. Very simple. If you're curious how I'm going to apply that, stick with us. If not, well check out some more of my videos. When it comes to any business and YouTube is no exception, you want to convey a level of professionalism that you would like to achieve, not one that you have achieved. So for instance, I could very easily just go through my videos and say things like, hey guys, look today we're talking about stuff and I, you know, hold on, I didn't put this through. I didn't think this through. Or I can use the magic of editing to convey myself as a professional and I can come off with a much better product in the end. Because in reality I know that a lot of you kind of look up to me and sometimes that's a little bit weird for me to think or to say. However, I know it to be true so I want to give you the best version of myself that I can, which sometimes means that I'm faking it until I make it. I'm creating habits now that I know will become part of my public persona. That's what I want for all of you. I want you to convey yourself to your audience or your potential audience in a way that they not only identify with but also in a way that makes you an authority on everything. Just like advice I've given to you in the past, this is very similar. You want to exude a kind of confidence and a kind of professionalism that other people will strive to attain and respect you for, even if it means doing several takes or even doing a lot of jump cuts in order for you to achieve. For some people this will mean taking a little bit of extra time to tweak your audio. For other people this will mean taking a little bit of extra time to render your video in 1080p. The sad truth of the matter is when it comes to professionalism here on YouTube it's such a wide, wide arc that there are a lot of things you can do and it can be taken as professional. It's really just all in how other people interpret it and how you convey it. One of the most recent examples that I can provide as far as this would be when I was running my gaming channel. I would routinely send letters out to game developers and game studios requesting copies of their game for review and to produce Let's Plays. For me this provided a free source of games as long as I wrote a very professional, good letter. For the studio of course they got promotion in exchange for this free game they sent me. The truth of the matter is when I started doing that at about a hundred and fifty two hundred subscribers or so I was in no position to really advertise anyone because I didn't have a large audience. However all it took was a few developers to put their faith in me and then I grew my audience by utilizing theirs and they grew their audience by utilizing mine. It was a very nice symbiotic relationship. More recently than even that I reached out to Logitech with my small me channel youtube.com slash Anthony Smith and at a very small 300 subscribers they saw fit to send me some review units of their products which we'll be talking about what I'm doing with those later. Not only did they provide me with those review units they also saw fit to put me on a future reviewers list and I did not mention freedom. I did not mention anything that I had done in my gaming channel. I just wrote them a very professional letter and I acted like the guy that I wanted them to see me as and that's all it takes sometimes. This video has gone on a little bit longer than I had planned for it to. However one last pertinent example is when you reach out to others to collaborate do it in a professional way. Sending a message like hey do you want to do something with me is not gonna net you the same results as if you write them a good three or four sentences about who you are what you do and why they should care. I hope that this video has been helpful for you. If it has let us know in comment section down below and comment question of the episode. Have you ever done this? Do you want to do this? If you if you have accomplished this what did it gain you and if you're going to do this in the future make sure to come back this video share your experiences. This is a community channel and I'm very interested in what the community is going to do with this information. If you're a gamer and you'd like more specific information about how to reach out to game developers I may be doing a follow-up either here or on the MGM channel. Till next time I'm Anthony with freedom. Like, subscribe, comment, share this video. Let's discover freedom. Click the first video to learn what is freedom and how it helps you grow. Click the second video to learn about sponsorships for all freedom partners even if you have just 10 subscribers and click the other videos like how do I leave freedom to learn more. Click get more views to learn how to build your audience faster on YouTube. Click get more CPM to learn how to make more money from your channel and click get more music to learn where to get more music to spice up your videos. Click the first playlist to watch the George show on freedom. That's my show or watch the Anthony show or the Alex show also on freedom.