How to properly customize your YouTube Channel

okay first things first we began to get to a YouTube channel set up for you so uh this is obviously mine this is my primary one uh just so you know you can create multiple YouTube channels I would highly recommend that some of them maybe you just want to have a you know keep I like to use YouTube also as a again you know kind of a file saving platform so a lot of times I'll just put family videos and stuff like that on a different Channel and just upload them upload them upload them and

then they're just I click unlisted and I'll show you how those buttons work later but that way you know it's on it's it's saved somewhere that you know I know is going to be there for probably a long time now you notice I got 20 000 subscribers primarily all organic I've got a little over two million views now on my uh my channel which is really awesome and by the way YouTube sends you a really cool celebratory email uh with some you know some cool things in it once you hit 10 000 subscribers so it's

kind of neat now what we're going to do is I'm going to take you up to real simple is you're gonna we're gonna go to a new incognito window in case you're not familiar with what an incognito is it's basically I can probably pry uh browse privately without cookies so it doesn't it doesn't save anything so I like to use an incognito a lot of times when I'm testing stuff just to make sure that it's not cooking and I'm getting stuff up but anyhow I've got the YouTube channel ready to get or YouTube ready to

go now first and foremost what you need to do is you need to sign in now here's the thing is you have to have a Google slash Gmail account set up to create a YouTube channel obviously Google is or Google owns YouTube so you just basically set that up by putting in either your email or your phone I'm just going to give you an example real quick and what you would do is you would just put that in which is the email that they would contact me with obviously this is a Gmail account from one

of my publishing companies but I'm just going to click next on here and then really it's going to welcome me and it would have me log in if I wanted to do that okay or I could just create a brand new account uh you know so if I did that so I'll actually I'll log in real quick and now it actually has set me up um a YouTube account so I actually have I just set my own YouTube account up you can go to YouTube Studio YouTube as same as publishing okay and then if I

wanted to I could click create my channel and then I could go through the process okay so I'm going to just cancel that out real quick in case I want to do that uh because I don't I'm not going to use that channel yet uh for this tutorial but anyhow let's go back to my page and I'm gonna show you a few things you need to do so once you get that taken care of uh this will be blank in your profile picture will typically be blank you can Mouse over these areas and obviously you

see that it says that it you know if I clicked on it it would pull this up and it would I click edit and it would take me to the Google account okay that's where it's going to go so the Google account is connected to the YouTube account so they're kind of you just so you know that it's going to bounce back and forth not to confuse anybody on that but that's what's going to happen same thing with this one right here you see this little icon as I Mouse over because I'm logged in it

comes up I could do that and it's going to select a photo from my computer or if I've already uploaded some stuff I can click my photos and see what we got here and uh you know upload those change them and so on okay so real real simple now if I'm going to customize my channel because this is where we want to get started with kind of putting some you know some meat behind this thing already customizing it is real simple you want to uh go here so here here's the thing for new visitors okay

so just so you know too if you ever want to view your channel to see what it looks like you can click this little icon it's a view of yourself or as a new you know as a new visitor which would be just you know brand new person found your thing or a returning subscriber because some things change if they've subscribed they don't need to see your uh you know hey sign you know subscribe thing again so you can have that but we're going to leave this alone uh that way we can go in and

edit stuff so what you want to do now for returning subscribers you can put feature content now what feature content will be is when you're setting it up it's going to look and pull some of the videos you have so a lot of times I'll make a you know a video that's a welcome video let me see here YouTube Channel video and I would click on that and click save and that would basically add that as my featured feature content okay uploads now you're going to notice here when uh when you're when you're starting your

channel they're pretty much going to be blank so uploads you'll notice again if I Mouse over it or hover over it it's going to give me the option to move this down or up uh up based on it you'll see right here up or down that's what those mean if I want the popular uploads to be in this section versus here I would push that excuse me but what I'm going to do is I'm going to click on that pencil icon Now by pushing clicking on that pencil icon I can add another uh I can

add either uploads like videos posted videos if I'm you know doing some live things playlists and so on so you're going to basically set that up you can do it in either a horizontal row or a vertical list I typically always do horizontal just my preference and then once you're done you or once you're done with it you click done okay so we put I'm going to put cancel now the important thing to understand though is I think is you want to make sure if you're using YouTube correctly you're going to be using it to

drive traffic somewhere or at least brand awareness of who you are and it's real important to people know how to get a hold of you now you'll notice these links right here okay you can go in and you can edit these I think I could click on that yeah so if you'll notice I'm in here not to edit my photo per se I could edit my channel art but I'm here to edit my links so if I click on that it what's going to happen is it's going to ask you to add links so basically

when you click add then what you're going to do is you're going to be able to type in which which you know what it is you're advertising so this is Mike healytrain.com my website and here's where it is I'm actually uh I'm actually going to change that to come to think of it let's do that while we're doing it thinking about it thank you Mike Healy training .com and then I'm going to be done with that okay so anyhow you can go in and basically if I wanted to and if I were there I was

already done with them I could edit that right see how I did that so if I've got a bunch posted and I was like oh man my Instagram changed or I wanted to add another one I could click it you know pull that out or if I didn't want all those I could delete delete delete and leave whatever I want on here okay and those are the links that I'm editing right here so somebody actually visits my page and they want to go to Facebook they can click here actually Google Plus is kind of a

useless thing uh maybe it's already on there yeah so they they actually defaulted to that anyhow but um anyhow so that's kind of how you update that the other thing too is you want to make sure you have a nice description of yourself again click on the little pencil you can write uh you know quite a bit of information in there and then you click done and you'll be up to speed on that one and then channels What channels are is basically if you have any channels that you'd like to recommend or subscribe to or

something like that if plenty of people want to look at it Community is basically this is where you can actually start posting stuff they really just the recently put this in here so where you can actually if you post something on all your subscribers see it and get sent out and so and so on I haven't seen a lot of success with this yet but I haven't really even used it so and playlists what playlists are is uh once you start putting some content on your page you can start making playlists and really making a

playlist is very simple you click new playlist you add a title to it and then what it's going to do is it's going to go through and ask you to add videos you just it'll pop up a little thing and boom boom boom you pop them in you click save And subscribe and then the playlist goes like that the purpose of building playlists is a lot of times you might have a sequence of videos that you've done like I did a network marketing training I had 12 videos in it and if I click on it

you'll see that it'll pop up and here's the playlist okay so all of these videos are in a sequence okay and then basically if I wanted to I could edit that and so on okay I could go in here edit these I could delete it move it and so on and there was one right here so we're just going to delete that one boom I'm glad I get that uh less brown I don't know what that one is so I'm gonna delete that one and it's done you see how simple that is so basically you

can go in there and move that around so anyhow not to take too long on this one because it's not that hard to set a channel up and create some channel art I'm going to get into the nuts and bolts of really making your channel saying here in a moment but when you go back to home you know again what you can do is you can look at it as yourself uh you can see what it looks like for new new visitors so I definitely have this now here's what I would recommend is I I

made a video it says subscribe to my channel okay and what it is is for new visitors it's the default Channel button that comes up here that shows this and shares it so what you would do is you go in here and you can change the trailer or remove the trailer or add a trailer is what it'll ask you since this is and what it does is it just pulls this and pulls all this information directly into it so you can have that and really what it is it's just a welcome video hey Mike Healy

here and thank you for watching this video I'll try to make it as short as possible this is like my 10th take on this by the way but I'm inviting you to like my YouTube channel because so there I basically just made a video uh that anybody visits the site just you know kind of an encouragement first time I literally tell them what my site's about you know like hey I got marketing material or stuff on here I got network marketing videos I got some personal development I got some Christian development you know that kind

of thing please feel free to subscribe to my channel get updates that way when I publish new stuff and you make that less than a minute long and so on and it really does help bump your subscriber rates up there obviously okay so setting up your channel is pretty easy uh getting it set up and I'm gonna go into the other videos we're going to go you know like I said we're gonna really get down to the nuts and bolts of making your channel uh really sing and then uh really using your videos properly I'll

show you all the tricks to to get this because I know that I know that YouTube is the pla my favorite platform to generate leads and credibility influence Authority in my space um and you'll you'll easily see this as well as we go through this so there you go see on the other videos