How To Grow From 0 Subs, According To Ex-YouTube Employee
Starting a YouTube Channel from Scratch
In this section, Tom, an ex-YouTube employee, shares his insights on starting a new YouTube channel from scratch.
Narrowing Down Your Niche
- Start with a narrow niche that captures an underserved market.
- Stay consistent with your niche for at least five to ten videos to establish credibility.
- Avoid going too general and find a specific niche to target.
Promoting Your Channel
- Don't rely solely on YouTube's algorithm to promote your content.
- Find relevant discussion forums or social media platforms and share your content there in a targeted and ethical way.
Creating Engaging Content
- Focus on making engaging and high-quality content.
- Ensure you are creating content about the right topic by considering the size of the audience and competition in that area.
Overall, starting a successful YouTube channel requires finding a specific niche, staying consistent with it, promoting your content effectively, and creating engaging videos.
Knowing When to Pivot
In this section, the speaker talks about how being a creator is like being an entrepreneur and knowing when it's time to pivot or stick with a topic.
Pivoting vs. Sticking with a Topic
- If you've been doing one topic for a long time and it's still not hitting, there may not be much of an audience for you.
- For any video, you want to be in the top ten because after that, the number of views drops off significantly.
- You don't want to be on page 10 of the search results.
Promotion Controversy
In this section, the speaker discusses promotion as a controversial topic and shares his thoughts on whether or not creators should promote their channels in this niche.
To Promote or Not to Promote?
- Tom thinks creators shouldn't promote their channels in this niche.
- The speaker has a video on his five favorite ways to promote videos if you're interested in learning how to bypass the algorithm.