 How to get new subscribers on YouTube for startup channels everybody this video is gonna be really helpful to you If you're trying to get subscribers and your startup channel heck It's gonna be helpful to you even if you're not a startup channel But keep in mind we're all startup channels right every single channel on YouTube started with no subscribers And I think that's the one thing that scares people As they say oh my gosh J.R. You know, I don't I don't have any subscribers There's nobody watching my videos. Well, you're watching this video now and this video is going to help you out with that But keep in mind everybody starts with no subscribers now Subscribers are super important because what they've done is they've taken action. Okay, they've said hey, I want to Know more about you know your videos. I want to see more your videos I want to participate with you and that's something you should do is participate with me right now by Subscribing to my channel hit the button down there right now If you think this information is useful hit that button down there now and don't forget turn on notifications notifications are super important Because you'll get notified every time I go live and every time I upload a new video. So here's the cool thing Suggested videos to subscribers your channel will pop up more often if they're subscribed to your channel And understand a subscriber of your channel is gonna watch about twice as much video time as Somebody who's not subscribed now the majority of your views may come from unsubscribed viewers however Those who are subscribed are gonna watch twice as often. So they're both really important now if you have Subscribers next thing that YouTube looks at is of these subscribers. How much are they actually watching your videos? They watch that real close and that's why I tell people don't buy Subscribers because if you buy subscribers, they're not gonna watch your videos And you're actually hurting your channel by doing that you could have 10,000 subscribers, but if only eight of them are watching your videos YouTube's gonna see that and they're gonna maybe even ban your channel But certainly they're not gonna show your videos to these subscribers anymore because nobody's watching them So make sure the people that are subscribing to your channel actually watch them I see a lot of people say hey to their friends and family Hey subscribe to my channel subscribe to my channel and these people subscribe, but they never watch the videos So when you tell somebody to subscribe say if you like this content if you find this content useful If you wanted to get more of it then subscribe to my channel Make sure you let them know that just like I'm letting you know that right now if you want to watch more of this Then you want to subscribe to my channel. Okay, so let's get into this list right now. Number one create amazing content Yeah, I know you're worried about this. You're thinking I'm not amazing JR. I'm just not amazing be yourself and do your best Okay, if if you're trying to like in this video here, I'm trying to show you how to get more subscribers So I'm gonna do a lot of research on that I'm gonna look for the top ways to get more subscribers so that when I give you this information It actually works so you want to create great content. That's step number one over and above everything else is have great content Number two is create play list play list help organize your channel and they give you some SEO benefits Let me explain to you how this works. Let's say you upload a video to YouTube You have a URL or address for that particular video If I create a playlist and I take that same video and I put it in a playlist it actually creates another URL or Address for that video. So now I have two addresses for that video So I've doubled my chances of somebody seeing that video and I actually have more content available now in addition to that It gives somebody a place to go to To organize what they watch so I teach people how to make money online So maybe I'm gonna have a playlist that's gonna be on drop shipping Maybe I'm gonna have a playlist that's gonna be on you know SEO in your site Maybe I'm gonna have a playlist that's gonna be on YouTube videos So they can go to those playlists and find videos that are all related to that one subject And it makes it easier for them to watch your videos plus the fact that if they get into a playlist They're more likely to start watching more videos than if they just go to your channel number three add subscription and CTAs on your videos So when you're making a video make sure you tell people to subscribe like I did in this video Make sure you tell them to like your video Make sure you tell them to turn on notifications Which I did and you can do that now if you haven't done that you should probably do that But you got to add that to your videos if you add that to the videos It it reminds them to do it because a lot of people would subscribe, but they just don't think about it It's not it's not top of mind So you need to tell them that next thing number four is optimize your videos optimize your videos have optimized titles You can use a tool like TubeBuddy which I will have in the description below You can get a free account of TubeBuddy free software. That's pretty good Just go down in the description You'll find a link down there for TubeBuddy and if you decide to go with their pro version You can get a 30% discount by using my affiliate link number five create interactive thumbnails thumbnails are so super important I was talking to somebody Yesterday about that having a thumbnail gives a person a reason to click and watch your video if you don't do a Thumbnail you're going to have some type of screenshot that YouTube's going to pull from your video and to stick it there Okay, and it may not be that interactive. It may not be that good. It may not be flattering Okay, so you want to have a thumbnail on every one of your videos This will help your subscriber rate because you're going to have more people clicking more people watching more people chance of subscribing number six Interact with your audience and when I say interact I would say put a pinned comment at the top of your video It could be a question asking them about something in that video Make sure when they comment that you comment back you answer their questions Commenting with them is so very important guys. Next thing you can do number seven is promote your content on other platforms Let people know on facebook on twitter or on instagram that you have this youtube channel And drive them to that youtube channel by posting there also number eight Release videos consistently. This is the big problem. A lot of people have is Consistency they'll get all hyped up and they want to do videos one day And they'll do three or four videos and put them all up in a couple days And then they get bored or they get busy over the next week And they don't you know post any videos and then a month later they decide to do it again And this lack of consistency not only is difficult for your audience But youtube doesn't like it. Okay, they would rather instead of you posting four videos this week They would rather you posted one a week for the next four weeks than if you posted four in a single week Now the more you do certainly the better off you are a lot of people say well J. I just didn't have time to this week and this week was really busy So here's what you do you batch them you sit down for one day Which is what i'm doing right now and you record a whole lot of videos five six ten Whatever you want to do in that day and commit that day to doing those videos And then you can go into youtube and you can schedule your videos Maybe you want one to pop up every monday or every monday wednesday friday whatever it is and schedule those out for the next Two to three weeks that way if you do have an interruption if life interrupts your life Which it often does you'll already have these videos scheduled and they'll be going up Even though you got busy and you couldn't do it so keep you know a week or two I like to keep you know 10 days of videos in my bank, which I release five a week So that is basically two weeks But you want to keep those videos always scheduled so that you don't have to worry about Missing a day or missing a week number nine try to be creative Okay, try to do something a little bit creative something a little bit interesting something a little bit different And the best way to go about this is find a video On a subject that you want to do a video on watch what they did and say how can I improve this how can I make this Better than theirs. Um, can I make it longer? Can I add more information? Could I make it funnier? Could I make it look different? You know could could my facial expressions to be different whatever it is try to be a little bit creative in your videos Number 10 partner with other channels Reach out to other channels out there that are in the same niche as you and say hey, let's do a collab Let's do a video together. You know, let's do an interview together do something together Now will everybody do that? No, but some will try to find channels Not necessarily the biggest channels on the internet I wouldn't go to mr. Beast or kasey dine stat and say let's do a collab because they probably won't do it But you can find people that are just starting out like yourself You can find people that maybe are a little bit more ahead than you Maybe they've got a thousand subscribers and you got 200 They're they're pretty likely to probably want to do a collab with you, but you got to ask them You got to be proactive number 11. You could spend some money. You know, you could run a youtube Channel campaign to get people to come to your channel and watch your videos It doesn't have to be a lot of money. It could be five dollars a day It could be ten dollars a day But spending that little bit of money will give you that jump start once you get that jump start going It kind of snowballs number 12 you can produce subscriber only content In other words, it's content that only your subscribers are going to see now There's a couple paid things you can do on a youtube where people actually pay you you could use something like patreon Would they get a little bit more information? Maybe they get some downloads? Maybe they get some behind the scenes type stuff you can do something along those lines But make it make it so that if they subscribe they get something more Maybe you could even run a contest for subscribers When they subscribe you throw them into a contest and one of your subscribers wins something But the point is you've got to be really creative for getting these subscribers If you just wait for people to subscribe and don't do these things You're never going to grow your channel the number 13 I probably should have put this in the beginning, but these aren't on order anyhow Make sure you have a niche my gosh. Make sure you have a niche Make sure you know one day you're not out in a boat fishing and the next day you're in the kitchen cooking And the next day you're watching tv or whatever it is The only way to really have a lifestyle channel, which is just pretty much vlogging your life Is if you're already famous if you're already a celebrity Rarely do people start off with a lifestyle channel and it does really well I see a lot of people try that where they try to vlog their own lives and Unfortunately your life is probably pretty boring as it is for most of us But if you're a celebrity, you know, you've got that celebrity status So it's going to be interesting to people because they want to see how you live But if you're the average person, they really don't care how you live on a daily basis You need a niche. Okay. It needs to be, you know, makeup or fitness or survival or cooking or something You've got to have a niche. This is so important guys. If all your videos don't cover a specific niche That's probably why you're not getting subscribers. Understand they come to your channel For a reason they come there to get information They come there to be entertained, but they want that information from that one particular niche What is your niche? You've got to be able to answer that. And the last one number 14 Know your audience know who they are Understand who they are once you get going and you get some views on your channel You can actually go into your audience insights and you can actually see You know what age group is in there if it's male or female or whatever I know my age group the majority of them is 18 to 24 years old. I couldn't tell you why But I know they're 18 to 24 year old and I also know that the next category is 25 to 34 year old So I'm in the 18 to 34 year old age group. I have 80 percent men. I have 20 percent women right now So I've got to make videos that are going to resonate with those people Because if I don't it's not going to work out too well because that's my audience. That's who's watching my videos So that's probably I think I'd last checked it was like 86 percent of my audience was 18 to 34 year olds So I understand that I've got to give them stuff that is going to be relevant to their lives I don't make videos for 60 year olds or 70 year olds. I just don't okay I make videos for people who got a lot of energy and they want to do a lot of things They want to make things happen So that's what the videos have to be about and I do want to cover one more thing before I get out of here and that is Do not buy subscribers ever First off it's a violation of the terms and agreement on youtube Getting fake subscribers is a violation. I don't care what the company tells you that's trying to sell you these services It's you know, 10 dollars. I'll give you a thousand subscribers. I don't care. It doesn't matter The the way they actually get those subscribers is they'll pay people You know 10 or 20 dollars to subscribe to 20 channels And those people are never going to come back and watch your videos and you're going to have that situation I told you in the beginning where you're going to have all these subscribers, but nobody's watching your videos YouTube's going to just hone right in on that. You're not smarter than them. You're just not they have algorithms to figure this stuff out They understand that if somebody subscribes There are twice as likely to watch videos So if you have all these subscribers and nobody's watching your videos, they know what you did They know and besides that what good does it do you outside of your own vanity? Uh, maybe you're trying to get you know, a thousand subscribers so you can get monetized, but You'll end up losing your channel is what you'll end up doing. There's no shortcuts to this You actually have to work, okay? I'm not going to sit here and tell you that you can start a youtube channel I'll make millions of dollars and you never have to put any effort in Because you do you have to put a lot of effort in if that's not the message for you Don't listen to this video. Go someplace else. There's plenty of people That will tell you that you don't have to work and you could make a lot of money The fact is they're lying to you. Okay, if you want the truth, this is what you need to do I hope this video helped you out. Do me a favor and subscribe I need you to subscribe hit that button down there just like I told you to do If it's red you want to turn it gray when you click it It will turn gray once you click it a bell will pop up like this you want to Bring it that means turn on all notifications So you're notified each and every time I do a new video or I go live in addition to that I have a course down there. It's a 97 dollar course. 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