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Don't forget to what else ring the bell And I ring the bell turn on all bell notifications to your notified each and every time I go live Today we're going to talk about getting more subscribers getting more views growing your YouTube channel I was helping my daughter with it yesterday She has a YouTube channel and guys it is so complicated to really grow a YouTube channel and believe me I'm no expert at it, but you know, I'm getting there We're almost at that five thousand mark. I've been talking to you guys about that We're really close to five thousand Subscribers and just need a little bit more so if you would share my videos I would really appreciate that but I am going to help you today on growing your channel I have grown this I started at how many subscribers was it? Let me see Zero just like everybody everybody starts at zero, right? So I started zero and I want to kind of talk before I get into all these steps today About really celebrating your accomplishments You know, I see people who start stuff and they get so discouraged and they're not getting the results They want just celebrate your accomplishment and the accomplishment number one is that you try to do something Okay, that is an accomplishment in itself I can't count how many times I try to do stuff and it doesn't work out the way I wanted but I tried You know, I did something and over the years. I've been very fortunate I've sold millions of dollars about digital physical products online And I do these trainings to help you guys out to really pay back because I wouldn't have made any of this money It wasn't for you guys buying my products and services and watching my videos and reading my blogs and all that So, I mean, this is my way of paying it back Just before I came on today. I was reading article Actually was a Twitter video of Shaquille O'Neal and he had gone into a jewelry store Zales He was buying some hoop earrings. He said and there was a young man in there who was getting his engagement ring and he was asking how much you owed on it And he wanted to come back and pay it off on his next payday He was gonna get some more money together and Shaq just looked over and he says I got it I'll take care of it. I'll pay for it and he paid for the guy's engagement ring So he's giving back and I think we all need to do that a little bit You need to kind of consider what you've got you probably got a lot If you've got a laptop computer and a internet connection you you're doing pretty good because most of the world doesn't have that So anyhow, I want to get into this growing the channel thing And help you guys out and I've made a list of a few things that I think have worked for me that I want to share with you guys So you can do the same thing Understand That YouTube is a long-term gain This is not a game where you're gonna make money right off the bat It's not gonna happen However, it is a game that works and if you stick with it you will make money I make money every single month off my YouTube channel and in the beginning when I wasn't doing things right I didn't make money off my YouTube channel because I did things wrong And I just want to share with you what is right and what helps and what's wrong First off if you don't know you need 1,000 subscribers So we do want to get to 1,000 subscribers need 4,000 hours of watch time To get monetized and be part of the partner program with YouTube where they're actually gonna pay you for the ads That run on your videos They're gonna run on your videos no matter what so no matter what they're gonna run on your videos So you might as well You know make money off them right because they're gonna run there anyhow. You might as well be part of that Now I want to talk to you about buying subscribers This is the biggest scam that ever has been a scam and first off I want you to think about the fact That you think you're gonna get over on YouTube or Google. I mean how smart are they? You know, I mean really I mean they're like pretty smart and for you to think well, I'm just gonna get over I'm gonna buy some subscribers and I'm gonna get there You know by buying these bots and all that it won't work It won't work and what's worse is that you're gonna put all this time and effort into your channel But then you cheat by buying subscribers, which are just crap, okay? And then they cancel your channel and they ban you. I mean don't let that happen Don't try to do it the easy way the easy way doesn't work Okay, just doesn't work all these companies that say they're gonna get you subscribers They're bots or they're people who are never gonna listen to your videos are never gonna watch your videos And if you don't have engagement and you got thousands of subscribers YouTube's gonna be wise to that. It just doesn't work. There's no way to cheat the system. Okay? This is not gonna happen. It's just not worth it. Okay, so It's like, you know, you're gonna your channel needs to be a niche channel first of all, okay? And that's the next thing I see I see people doing these random videos One day they're eating out at a restaurant the next day, you know They're painting your garage and the next day they're driving down the road and if you're a celebrity, you know If you're Matthew McConaughey, maybe people are interested in what you're doing on a daily basis But if you're Joe Glow, they don't care what you're doing on a daily basis. They just don't So doing that kind of channel is not gonna work. You got to have a channel That is actually focused in on helping people with something. Okay, so my channel is how to start running grow online businesses That's what I do So I want to go through any how all these steps Make sure your channel is focused in on a niche The first thing this was the most obvious thing and yet I didn't do it in the beginning I didn't know to do it in the beginning and it's so silly Ask people to subscribe, you know this in the beginning. I said hey subscribe to my channel if you like this subscribe There's nothing wrong with that. I know a lot of people say well I'm gonna sound so salesy if I do that. I must sound like I'm asking them to do something You are asking them to do something. I really do want you to subscribe, you know if you do that for me I would really appreciate it You know, can I force you to do it? No, you know The only way you're gonna subscribe is if I ask you and remind you and you want to do it because you want More the same content. Okay, that's the only reason but you do have to ask people You can also end your videos by mentioning What you're gonna be working on next, you know, what's your next video? What's the thing you're gonna be working on like this week and probably for the foreseeable future I'm gonna talk a lot about YouTube a lot of you guys have been really interested in YouTube lately and rightfully so I mean, it's a it's an amazing platform You can make a lot of money And also I want to remind you as I'm going through this put your Questions comments and that chat box there. I really appreciate that interaction. It means a lot to me Next thing number three, I guess a propelling Interact with your audience. Okay. See how I just said hey put your comments on there It's because I really do want to talk to you guys. I really like you guys, okay? You've been very supportive. You've helped me grow a channel. You've helped me make money Why would I not talk to you my daughter yesterday when I was talking to her on her channel She had a bunch of comments that people had put and she hadn't responded to them You know in weeks and I'm like, why not? And she's like, oh, I didn't think about it Well, you got to because people put forth their effort to put a comment there Somebody puts a comment in my chat section I owe it to them to respond because they're trying to interact and if I don't interact back They're gonna look at it and say well, you know, I put a comment. He just totally ignored me I mean, that's not right. You got to do that. So by the way after this video today I gotta go in there. I gotta respond to some of your comments I got a bunch I have to respond to but I try to respond to all of them I can't do all of them, but I try to respond to as many as I possibly can because either they're wanting to interact or they've got a question They need help. I owe it to them. They're supporting my channel. I owe you guys. I mean, I know I owe you guys So it's super important to do that and that helps you build your community. They know that you really do care About what you're saying. You're not just saying this stuff number four Make sure you have good channel art. Okay, when they go to your channel make sure that banner looks decent I think mine looks decent. I don't think it's the best in the world I think it's okay I see people with no channel art at all and that screams that you're not serious about your YouTube channel If you don't have channel art It takes you no time, right? All you got to do is hire somebody on Fiverr or Upwork or whatever and spend 20 bucks and put a banner up It's not that much effort or time. Just do it. Do all it's all these little things And that's what I was telling my daughter yesterday. You know, there's so many little things that you're missing You need to do all these little things and I spent over an hour with her just going through a channel Then I woke up today and I thought of like two or three other things I needed to tell her So I would have to get back with her and help her out But she had a channel She started in 2016 and she was doing recipes And she got like 2500 subscribers right off the bat because she had some good recipes and she's got a good personality and all that And you know, she just dropped it like most people do she just dropped it She's like, I don't want to do this too much effort Had she have stuck with it She could have been making 100 or 200 thousand dollars a year off ads because she was doing that well Uh, and it's like man, you wasted the last five years But I I mean I get it. She had a son and then she had twins after that. She's been busy I get it But if you can put a little effort into it guys squeeze that in do it Number five Thumbnails make sure you have thumbnails Um, the thumbnail is supposed to be 1280 by 720 But I mean that is the cover for your video That's what makes people want to click or not click and if you don't have a thumbnail It's just going to grab a screenshot from your videos And it may not be a flattering screenshot may not be something that you want people to even see So it's really important that you have thumbnails if you don't know how to create thumbnails Here's the one thing you could do you could learn You know, you could go get a canva account which are free And they had example thumbnails in there and you could use those You could hire somebody there's so many different things you could do but you've got to have a thumbnail really really important to grow your channel Uh, next up. What do I have on my list here? Yeah, yeah, yeah use your website. Um, use your blog whatever embed your videos in your website or blog Now we embed them also in social media. So I put them on facebook. I put them on twitter I put them on my website, and it doesn't get that much interaction But it gets more and see this is the key that people forget When they're doing this stuff, they like they say well, I want 10,000 people to watch my video. Well You know, I've got videos that have tens of thousands of views But you know the majority of them are not going to have that and you got to get through those ones that aren't going to have All the luck some some barely get views some get hundreds of views some get thousands of views and the thing is You know, you're going to put forth this effort and not everything's going to get you the results you want But some will and that's why you got to just keep going keep moving forward. Keep doing that number seven Use youtube's clickable tools in your videos. Okay, they have clickable tools in there You know a few years ago. They used to have the annotations, but they're gone. Okay Pop-ups or a 90s throwback I guess But they have end screens now where you can put videos in there And I always like in the end screens if I'm going to put videos in there to have videos that youtube selects So you can pick to put a particular video in those end screens Or you can let youtube pick it now. Why would I want youtube to pick it because youtube Knows the person that's watching my video. They're logged in. They know their watch history They know what they're interested in and if they know all that they're going to suggest a video that they're more likely To watch than I am. Okay, because I don't know what they want. I don't know So that way every time somebody watches one of my videos and they go to the end screen They are getting a customized video that youtube says this is probably what they want to watch next And it's one of my videos. So that's pretty cool You can also use the branding watermarks, which is a little watermark on the bottom right where they can click on it and subscribe Why not use that? Why not put that on your videos? Um Are your videos on kartra? Um, well, let me let me kind of address this and how this works I record a video like this is live on youtube. Yeah, this is live on youtube right now When i'm doing my video uploads throughout the week I record them on a sd card You can't see it but the camera is right over there because i've been filming yesterday. I filmed 11 videos I need to do 12 so I gotta do some more today. Um, and then they they go on an sd card Um, if it's a video that i'm going to use for let's say a vsl a visual or excuse me A video sales letter where it's on a page and people go to that page and they watch the video that video is uploaded to kartra If it's a video that goes on youtube. No, it wouldn't be in kartra I would upload that to youtube and then I would go ahead and optimize it with the title and the tags and all that kind of Stuff for youtube so it's two separate things depending on what the what the purpose of that video is. That's a good question, so Um, what else? Uh, okay. I talked about clickable tools Um, oh, yeah add your videos to playlists add your videos to playlists so important Now what a playlist is is when you upload your video to youtube It's just there you have a url for that video and it's on your channel A playlist is a grouping of videos that all go together. So My channel is all about how to start running grow online businesses But I may have a playlist is about how to work on your website. I may have a playlist that is how to design Emails that get results. So anytime I talk about emails I would put one of those videos that had to do with emails into my email playlist If it was how to design websites and put it in the website playlist Now what happens is when I do that my video has a url for the playlist because it's in there And then it has a url where it's just on youtube. So it has two different urls now So i'm getting double seo So I have two videos technically now that are available out there at different URLs. I hope that makes sense now the other reason for having It in a playlist is that people will tend to go to a playlist and start watching all the videos in that playlist So i'm going to get more views by doing that Uh, james's question. How about tube buddy? Love tube buddy. Love it. Love it. Love it. I use tube buddy for every single video I do if it if it's a video where I upload it not optimize it the live ones Not as much But if you're going to do videos what tube buddy allows you doing things for bringing that up james And I have a free link for tube buddy. It's going to be in the description when this video is over with So you can click that link and get tube buddy for free And if you want to do the paid version you can get 30% off but the thing is With tube buddy, it helps me find meta tags It helps me find a title that people are searching for It helps me bottom line optimize the video before it ever goes up on to youtube So I totally recommend tube buddy will help you immensely I didn't use that in the beginning and I would just randomly do a video that I thought would be interesting Well, because I thought it would be interesting doesn't mean the masses think it's going to be interesting So you need a tool like tube buddy. It's super important to have that All right, what's next to my list here You could do contest Contests are pretty cool It gives you a bump in engagement So if you feel like you know, you haven't been getting a good, you know subscriber count, you can do that I don't really do them anymore I was giving away Gift cards on saturday, but I was attracting people who just wanted freebie stuff and that's not the way I want people who want to work But you can do a contest if you want and subscribers and say hey when you subscribe You know, I'm going to give away x to some random subscriber You can certainly do that. That's a good way to get some subscribers I don't want to do that anymore because I don't want anybody wants anything free But it is a way to get started if you need to get some subscribers number 10 Um, you can do videos based on your subscriber milestones So when you get to 100 subscribers do a video you can say thanks I got to 100 or when you get to a thousand or 5,000 or 10,000 whatever it is I probably will do one at 5,000 and I'm really close to that. Let me see where I'm at right now I am kind of curious how I brought that up and I'm meant to look at that this morning, but I didn't My subscriber count is I need a drum roll or something anybody got some drums out there play some drums do a drum roll Hope I can find it on this app. I don't I don't use the app as often as I actually use my laptop I'm one of those old school people Audience right there Okay Well, I don't see it on here though. I know I have it Uh, and you guys can probably see it from your angle a whole lot easier than I can Uh, but I know it was like 48 something yesterday real close to 4900. I need 5,000 so it's pretty close So that's the next thing you do is celebrate those milestones. Um, next thing. This is super important number 11 is really really important Upload videos on a consistent schedule And what this means is decide how many videos you're going to do a week or month or whatever and make sure you do that make sure you do that A rule of thumb for creators is to probably do two or three a week That's what's really going to get you somewhere One video a week isn't going to get you much traction unless you're amazing It's just not enough content But you know, if you do three or four a week, you're going to really get a lot more views I do five a week. Uh, plus I do six lives Because I really want to build a channel. I'm really interested in this. I'm really serious about this. I'll work I'll do whatever it takes. I'll do those little mundane things that most people won't do. I mean, I'll just do it You know, I don't mind doing it. Um, and I know that most people won't do it So I know I can get ahead of most people by doing that. Uh, and it works really well for me I'll be another sip here. My throat is holding out pretty good this morning You know, it takes like two hours for my throat to get cleared out so I can really talk Ah, there we go. Got my hot got my hot tea number 12 Entice your audience over from other channels other social media channels So, you know, talk on facebook about your youtube channel talk on twitter about your youtube channel Like I said, we post my videos on these other channels So that does bring some people in but use those other channels Now sometimes it's difficult because facebook doesn't want to show anything that is related to youtube They just don't neither does twitter neither does instagram neither does any of However, post it anyhow, you know, see if you can get some traffic Even if you only get a few people it's more than what you had and that's what you got to look at Everybody's always trying now days ago. I got to get a million of this or a hundred thousand of this You're not gonna okay. It's it's these small increments that really matter these really tiny increments when I do these lives I don't have thousands and thousands of people right now That are watching but it's okay because I have more than what I did have and that's how you have to look at it Do your keyword research number 13 do your keyword research in your title and videos and define your niche now This is all done in TubeBuddy. All your keyword research is going to be done in TubeBuddy Once you found a title in there, then you of course you can search youtube And you can find you know other videos that maybe you know complement your brand But bottom line is you got to do that research What else? Give people what they don't even know they want yet. What do I mean by that? Your videos should be SEO focused In other words, you should be using SEO to find out Right find out what people really want if you can find out what they really want You can make videos based on that now your subscribers may not realize they want it But when when you use TubeBuddy and you find there's a really good title of people wanting particular Information put that on your channel do it that way And then the other 20 percent say do that about 80 percent of the time The other 20 percent just do stuff that you really want to do that you're passionate about But you do have to give your audience what they want. That's just a fact unless you're some famous celebrity You're probably not going to be able to gain any traction by just doing random videos about what you want I told you that in the beginning Next up next up. What else do I got for you? You can also create what's called topical videos, you know, what's going on in the world right now I wouldn't talk about the illness because you're not allowed to and you you get banned I have no idea why but you just can't do it But do that and also do evergreen videos in other words videos You know first topical is what's going on right now evergreen is something that's going to last forever So if I do a video on how to build a website, that's pretty evergreen ever everybody's going to want to know how to do that If I do a video on Gosh, what's something that's topical right now Gosh, the only thing that's topical is that thing you can't talk about But whatever's in the news pick something in the news and you can talk about that I like to pick positive things to talk about But some channels they focus in on whatever negative things going on in the world and that's what they do videos on it's popular So they do that So that's number 15 number 16. Here's a cool one partner with other channels. I've done this I've done this with Sarah crisp who has been a half million subscribers I would do it again because she has a huge audience I've done it with john christani He's a friend of mine and that's helped it's helped him it's helped me You know, we get views we get thousands of views because people see that there's two different channels talking to each other And all you got to do is contact some of these other people And say hey, I'd like to do a collab with you a collab, right? That's the thing Uh, and I want to do an interview with you or you could interview me Or let's talk about each other whatever just get on a video together with him and nowadays it's so easy You know, I mean you can do like a zoom call or skype or whatever and do a split screen and you're both up on the screen It's pretty simple to do So I would suggest you doing that How do you find out what not to talk about? Well, I know about the illness I don't talk about anything that's negative And I know people say well, you're you're bearing your head to say and you're not talking about the negative stuff I don't know what the benefit is to talk about negative stuff Negative stuff is always going to be there. Uh, and I just don't that's just my hard and fast rule I don't talk about political stuff Just hard and fast rule. I just don't do that. Um, what else don't I talk about? That's probably it. I mean and you know, I don't consider negative things that you shouldn't do I know there was like I may do a video saying well, don't do this because you aren't going to make any money That's not negative. I'm talking about where people got bad results and things didn't work out or something like that Unless I have a solution for the negative in other words, if somebody says well, I tried this and I didn't get any results Okay, that's fine. I'll talk about that But I have to also have the flip side of what you should do so you can get positive results from that thing Whatever it is, whether it's seo or sales page or emails or whatever it is So if I if I do address something negative, I have to have the positive to it That's how I look at it. I just try to stay a positive person. You know, that's all I try to do Um, so yeah, so I hope that helps you a little bit when your youtube channel. That's what we've been talking about today However, if you have other suggestions questions comments Excuse me put that in the chat section and james. I have no idea where paul is today paul is m i a So we're going to talk about him for a second Little sip He's missing an action terrible terrible thing that he's missing an action, but that happens That happens sometimes people cannot get there. Let me switch my screen here real quick Um, and think about it guys. What are you going to do today? Are you going to say? Well, I'm not going to do anything today because you know, I got other stuff to do and you know I'll put it off till tomorrow. Are you going to actually do something today? You're going to actually turn on your camera and record a video I would suggest anybody watching this Do a video today. Just do a video. Just do one. Okay, and you say, well, it's not quite ready Just do one. Okay, that perfectionism thing that thing where you try to make everything perfect Look, my hair is not perfect. My clothes aren't perfect. My desk isn't perfect Nothing's perfect here And it doesn't matter because I did a video and those people that were waiting to do a perfect video did not do a video Uh, and I'm going to get more views than them because they didn't do anything It's really about your effort. It's really about doing something guys Which, you know, and I see people say well, I got to get the right equipment I got to get the right camera and I get the right lighting if you've got a cell phone You're good to go. You can start recording I would tell you to turn it sideways instead of upright though because upright has those black bars on the side They look really funny. Uh, my daughter had done that on her channel too And I said, hey, you can't do that. You can't do that You got to stop that because that's really irritating when you watch them But the point is you don't need to wait anymore. You don't need to wait anymore. Now's the time Now's the time you need to get started. You need to get started I hope I hope you're hearing me get started and something else you can get started with which is really helpful Is hitting that subscribe button down there get started hitting that subscribe button That's the best way to get started is to participate on my channel to get your channel going So hit that subscribe button down there and don't forget to ring the bell Turn on the bell Bell notifications are so important because it's going to let you know when I go live It's going to let you know when I upload new videos Morad's here. What's going on Morad? Haven't seen you in a while. What's up, buddy? Good to see you around you getting in near the end here Where's Paul? Paul's probably making videos. He better be Paul are you listening? I hope you're working I'm messing with him, of course Morad your thoughts about dodgecoin since mark cuban and elan must talk about it Gosh morad Cryptocurrency I have really tried to stay away from cryptocurrency And you know, here's the thing, you know, I was in Bangkok in 2000 I want to say 16 or 17 and I was sitting with a group of investor guys Who were all digital marketers and they had all made millions of dollars And they were sitting around in this mastermind and there was probably about eight or ten of us And they were all talking about cryptocurrency and they were all investing in cryptocurrency And at the time I was like I don't I don't know it. I don't understand. I don't understand How I mean and I get it they make a certain amount of it and they're basically spreadsheets and it's tracked as far as You know who has it next but What prevents them from making more and I said at that time I said what prevents some guy From making more Cryptocurrencies and putting them in the market at the point at that time. I don't think dodgecoin was out at all And there are very few cryptocurrencies at that time and now there's a whole bunch of them So what what I was saying is true people could just go out and make these cryptocurrencies I don't know what prevents you and me from creating your own cryptocurrency. I don't know Maybe I don't have a good understanding of maybe that's it But that's the thing that scares me Is Can anybody just make these things? I mean is that is that the case and put in the comments What your feelings are on this but How does that work? How does that work that you could just come up with something that doesn't exist? And it's a bunch of numbers and it has value. I don't know. I don't know how that works Okay, I can't wrap my brain around that. I mean I know the process I know how it's set up But I don't know what prevents anybody from starting their own cryptocurrency and putting it out in the market And if that's the case that sounds a little dangerous That sounds a little bit dangerous to me anyhow, okay So that's my thoughts on dodgecoin. I don't know much about dodgecoin. I know more about Bitcoin and that that isn't much either Thanks a bunch jr. Some of us need to get round to its. Yes. Have you ever seen those james the round to it? So I had a guy that I used to Oh gosh do business with and he was a motivational speaker. He had this Gosh, well, I think actually it started maybe it started with zig-ziggler But he had these like wooden coins and it says a round to it on it And when somebody says yeah, yeah, I'm gonna do it when I get around to it And he would just hand them the round to it and go well, there you go. Let's do it He would hand them the round to it The good news texas has loads of round to it They do peace and blessings always everyone james my man my man man Appreciate you guys being here. Thanks a lot guys I gotta get out of here and I gotta start filming more videos because I didn't complete yesterday because my wife had a meeting She had to go to so thanks so much for being here guys I really appreciate each and every one of you don't forget to subscribe Don't forget to turn on bell notifications. Don't forget to like this video I would really appreciate it need to get to five thousand. 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