How NOT to Start a YouTube Channel
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 27. 07. 2023
- The BIGGEST lesson I've learned after 4 months on CZcams.
I started on CZcams to impact the lives of people, and help them succeed. But I've somehow forgotten this somewhere along the way. So this video is a realignment to my true purpose, to help others succeed in their life.
I've recently started a business alongside a 9-5 and CZcams was becoming a chore. So I've realised the best way to help people succeed and provide incredible content is by aligning the video I make with what I'm learning in life, and sharing that learning with others to help them succeed.
From now on, I'll be documenting and teaching my journey of growing a business alongside a 9-5. You'll get to see how it grows from this day on. And I'm very excited.
This is the video where I pivot. Pivoting in a stronger direction. A stronger direction for both you and me.
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Canât wait to see where the channel goes from here đ„ł
Me neither! So much to share & so much to learn
It's just harder in general to get views now in 2022-2023. Everyone is busy working more jobs/gigs (inflation, higher interest rates pressures) and has less time than 2020-2021. There is also a lot more content to compete with after 2020-2021 boom. Early movers get advantage. Yes some stuff is always popular like funny pet/kids videos, video games, etc. The best recommended way to grow channel is to find a unique topic and keep doing it and refine it and become better at it.
Great point!
This new content aligns with my purpose & values; helping others to become successful by sharing what Iâm learning though building a business, personal brand and CZcams channel.
Thereâs tons Iâve learned over the past few weeks, such as getting clients, gaining a following & networking, and I canât wait to share it with everyone!
@@nathaniel_hall I've been trying to figure out inner workings of CZcams recommendation algorithm for the past few months while promoting my favorite pianist/composer. After posting over 100 videos and clips over last few months, what I learned is that the best way to earn followers is to just delete and repost popular videos (by views and likes:views ratio) every few days. I stumbled on this after I needed to refine my editing and experimented to test what happens statistically if you repeat the process. The outcome won't be the same every time. The algorithm works in very complex ways that are not easily repeatable. The best traffic generation source is hoping your video gets tethered to some other popular video and gets suggested/recommended at the end of it. These tethers are more rare but happen if you keep reposting videos often. The tethers would form, run for a few days and untether later. As for short clips to advertise full videos, you need viewer retention ratio well over 50% to keep being in short feed (% of your clip duration viewed relative to whole clip duration, meaning shorter clips get advantage). It makes sense they want people glued to the screen, so content that can do that gets priority. You can control where your short gets sent by hashtagging with specific topics or general short feed #shorts #short but it's double-edged sword as you must choose between gaining followers near-term (need more exposure) and long-term success of your short (exposure to the right target audience). If you use reposting technique then you can do #shorts #short while reposting and then final repost use more targeted hashtags. There are also other smaller nuances. Bottom line is you have to use YT Studio and analyze stats and insights. You can tell after 24 hours if your video got tethered to something worthwhile ("content recommending this video", etc.). If it didn't get tethered in the first 24 hours, don't wait, just delete and repost without "publish to subscribers" not to annoy anyone. When you're ready to do the final reupload, you can enable "publish to subscribers" again. That's the best subscriber building workflow that I can recommend. The same applies to short clips but it's easier because there is no content tethering in the same manner as full videos. CZcams limits you to a rolling 10 uploads per 24 hours. That's the only rate limiter.
Love your videos!
Thanks Sahar! Appreciate the kind comment. Got another coming out this Friday which Iâm excited for!
Upload more videos so that you can be promoted more by YT
Great suggestion, but uploading one video a week is working for me at the minute. I donât mind if the growth is slow, as long as there is growth