in this video we're gonna guide you on the journey to 1,000 YouTube subscribers but in order to do that I need your help so before the end of the intro answer this question in the comments below why do you want 1000 subscribers let's do this alright then if your answer was something along the lines of because I want to monetize my YouTube channel well don't forget you need 4000 hours of watch time as well if your answer was because I want to monetize my YouTube channel well don't forget that you also need to apply for
the YouTube Partner Program and be accepted into it so there are no shortcuts you too will be checking whether or not you are trying to buy subscribers on manipulate the metrics and if it's because you want to monetize your YouTube channel then you're not thinking about your audience can you see where I'm going with this now if it's because 1000 people represents a huge community but has put their faith interest in your content to inspire and educate them then you're on the right youtube path we've uploaded over 600 videos on the vid IQ YouTube channel
now and we've had over 2 million comments now I haven't read every single one of em I must confess but the over riding theme of a lot of these comments is a lack of understanding and mindset of the YouTube platform most new creators naively and understandably so are thinking more about what they can get from the YouTube platform rather than what they can give to their audience and I've said this already in videos that we've made in 2020 stop thinking about the metrics and how you gain things from the content that you create and think
first about what's valuable to your YouTube audience I can almost guarantee that when you shift mindset from you to your audience your channel will grow so much faster and so much more easily that you'll hit 1000 subscribers before you even know it that's because your content your daily interaction with your community becomes far more important than any milestone that you're trying to achieve oh I'm Rob and welcome to a video of a youtube tool and channel aims to educate you on your YouTube journey for more YouTube tips tricks and advice just like this make sure
to subscribe to our Channel and do this so that you're the first to be notified when we release a brand new content as always school is well already in session stop asking whether file names matter in SEO it never has done and it never will do it's a myth now while I did say that milestones are necessarily that important especially to your audience at this stage they probably still do rattle around in the back of your head so let's touch on this to help with your mental welfare getting to a 100 subscribers is one of
the hardest things you will do on YouTube platform we know we were there to help guide you through it and if you weren't there then there's a video over here that you should definitely watch now let's say theoretically that it took you three months to get 100 subscribers and then your next target is 1000 subscribers that might be a bit of a stretch but at the same time it's not going to take 30 months to get to 1,000 subscribers because like with any YouTube channel you will be gaining it momentum so what you want to
try and continue to have is incremental increases in milestones and go from 100 subscribers to maybe 250 subscribers there may be 500 subscribers 750 subscribers all the way up to a thousand subscribers as long as you're aware of a reachable goal somewhere in the distance and you keep track of your incremental steps towards that milestone whether it be 2 or 3 subscribers a day or 10 or 20 subscribers a week that will nourish you as you nourish your audience with value from your content now if in the background you want to track these incremental milestones
up to 1 files and subscribers vid IQ has the free tool for you or most YouTube pages you'll see a cluster of YouTube tools from vid IQ click on the achievements 1 and it will give you all sorts of stats but there is specifically one for subscribers and when you click on it that generates a certificate and you can share that success with your audience on any of your social media platforms if you have over a hundred subscribers and you're working towards 1000 subscribers for the typical channel you've probably done a few dozen videos and
you have some experience and an understanding generally of what your audience likes on your channel so it's now time to solidify your value proposition what does that mean let me put it very simply describe your channel in five seconds or less in a catchy memorable fashion for example our value proposition could be YouTube's growth channel but in order to make it catchy and memorable what do we say our channel is about educating your YouTube journey now let me give you a couple more made-up examples for tonight gaming channel there are literally hundreds of thousands of
these on YouTube already so how do you describe your channel in a catchy memorable way if you're a fortnight gameplay channel well it could be something along the lines of this because headshots are better at 347 frames per second that could mean that your channel is all about how to improve the gameplay performance of fortnight's or any other first-person shooter game gives your channel more focus your audience knows exactly what your channel is about and it's memorable what about this one European travel vlog now it's too generic we've heard it all before let's try this
euro penniless travelling Nomad alright it's not my best effort but I came up with it in five seconds that defines your channel as content all about an individual going around countries of Europe most likely on an extreme budget and what type of content is that going to appeal to in terms of a target audience young students so you've sold your channel to your audience not explicitly and functionally but through a catchy memorable value proposition now this can change over time there is nothing wrong with that but if your channel has a core theme you always
know the value that you're trying to deliver to your audience and your audience whether they be new visitors or regular subscribers will always know what to expect from your content oh yeah in short I want to see some of your channel value propositions in the comments below when it comes to starting and building a YouTube channel I always save it nothing beats experience so hopefully by now you should have some videos out on a platform and you've got some views and some subscribers so what you've gained from that is social proof you will have certain
videos that are performed better than others you'll have videos that have some engagement and some feedback asking you to make follow-up videos or asking you general questions which you could potentially answer with future content so my advice to you now would be to start researching your channel even if it is the simplest trick in the book which is to go to your video tab on your channel page and sort by the most popular videos if there are any patterns in the top 5 or 10 videos that are telling you a certain type of content works
then make more of that content wherever it's about a particular topic or a video style it may be that you've already chosen your video topic niche whether it be sports gaming politics wrestling beauty but from the content that you have you should by now be able to find a sub niche in that particular topic now it might be predictions or tutorials or reaction videos or when you're in front of camera and you're giving your personal stories when you start your YouTube channel there is nothing wrong with experimenting 80% of a time but as your channel
grows you'll get to a stage where you are serving your audience of content they want to see 80% of a time while you can experiment with over 20% of content know more about your own channel and discover what works for your audience and it's pretty simple do more of it and if you drill down into that concept a little further if you want more subscribers then look at the videos on your channel that bring in the most subscribers and make more content based on those videos you can use the vid IQ channel audit tool to
do this as we have a column which shows you which videos on your channel and bring in the most subscribers and funnily enough it's our video tutorials but are all about how to get more subscribers hence why we're doing this follow-up video on how to get 8000 subscribers in 2020 you know what we're also likely to do in the future based on the data we're getting from our channel audit tool which is also telling us that we're making successful gaming content we're going to make a video on how to get 1000 subscribers as a gaming
channel it just makes now this next thing maybe way down your priority list as you built out your YouTube channel but maybe you want to start thinking about creating a channel trailer we've already talked about your value proposition a channel trailer should essentially encapsulate that value proposition in a video of no more than 30 to 45 seconds I all means look at how successful creators have already used channel trailers to introduce themselves to an audience what you're generally going to discover with channel trailers is that you have a thousand fantastic ideas but you only need
to put one of them in that video or else it's too long we've already said there is an alternative to a dedicated channel trailer and that is to use the video that converts most subscribers on your channel and use that as your channel trailer as it's already proven to work with your audience next up it's time to start taking search engine optimization or SEO seriously on the YouTube platform after all it is the second largest search engine in the world the most creators get their start on YouTube by having discoverable content through search this means
extensive keyword research into your topic to find out what people are searching for including those keywords in the titles but also making those titles intriguing to click on it also includes expanding your keywords out to your video descriptions video tags if you want to and they're trying to include keywords in the vocabulary of your video content because YouTube is watching and listening to everything you put out on the platform now some of these things admittedly are marginal gains but remember this if you're a channel with a hundred subscribers versus a nother channel with 100 subscribers
would you rather be the video content creator of it is giving YouTube as much information about their video as possible or the one who's just throwing stuff onto YouTube and expecting it to be discovered as you might expect keyword research is a huge learning topic in itself so we've done a big video over here on YouTube but we've also done a massive course in the vid IQ Academy vid IQ Academy allows you to go into microscopic detail on YouTube topics including thumbnails keyword research finding your niche starting a YouTube channel and monetizing your content and
the best news is when you sign up for either vid IQ a pro or boost you get the Academy included there is a link in the video description this next point is true for every single video creator no matter where they are in their YouTube journey and that is that they have pain points that are preventing their progress now that could be from nails that just aren't clickable or keyword research that doesn't match up to what people are searching for or you're just absolutely terrible inference of camera which means that you have to retake every
single shot ten times and now is a good time in the early stage of your YouTube journey to start identifying these pain points and facing them head-on the longer you ignore that pain point the more brittle that foundation on your youtube channel will be to a point where it is just crippling handicapping your channel completely now I don't suggest try to tackle all of your pain points all at once identify which you personally feel is the thing that's holding your channel button the most and usually at this point in a creators journey its thumbnails now
for is from nails again we've got a really big playlist over here on YouTube on how to create better thumbnails and an Academy course down here whatever it is spend an extra half an hour or hour per video trying to improve on that pain point by one percent if you start to improve on something today in two or three months you'll look back at where those videos were and you think yeah that was horrible those thumbnails were terrible but I'm so glad they look like this today because I'm getting a higher click-through rate and more
views or presenting in front of camera or your video editing or your b-roll whatever it is start tackling it today a lot of what I'm telling you in this video about how to get 1000 subscribers is foundational strategies that are going to put your channel in good stead as you move forward as a Video Creator hopefully you're taking a lot of this onboard along with all of the other tips tricks and advice you're getting from other YouTube educators but what I would also encourage is to stay weird do things that you wouldn't expect to normally
do 80% of a time you are wanting to deliver content to your audience and create thumbnails that are consistent but there's nothing wrong with experimentation because if you don't test new things you'll never know if you discover a brand new niche or a certain thumbnail that defies all logic but really appeals to a certain demographic who want to click on it because it's different to anything else on YouTube I'm gonna put it like this and a lot of vid IQ regulars may be annoyed with this however PewDiePie vs. T series that was me experimenting with
different content on the channel and it turned out to be highly successful what a lot of regular viewers didn't realize is that they didn't impede on our regular vid IQ content I was still pumping out hundreds of educational pieces of video content and the PewDiePie obesity Series content took up about 10 to 15% of what we did in 2019 but at the same time those videos brought in millions of views and tens of thousands of subscribers many who have stuck around to now watch this type of content to grow their channels and I stayed at
strictly with the educational content that we provide here at vid IQ we may not have reached four hundred and fifty thousand subscribers and 30 million views in the last year now that the PewDiePie vs. T series story has come to an end what have we come back to our core value proposition educating you on your YouTube journey it's just that 20% of a time I like to entertain you on your YouTube journey now because of something called audience retention not everybody who started this video is still watching right now but for those of you who
are 15 minutes into this content thank you very much for watching I value your time and because you're watching the entire video I hope you are getting the whole value from this content that you're going to use on your channel to help you get to 1,000 subscribers you are the core member of this community the brothers and sisters of the Vedic you family and you will have those same people who are not just subscribers but super funds those who already care deeply not only about your content but about you as a video creator and they
want to see you succeed which is why you should engage with your community as much as you can in your videos that's why at the beginning of this video I wanted to engage you all by asking a question which you have answered and for the first couple of hours of this videos life we will be responding to as many of those comments as we can it's why I put a voting poll in a recent video asking you whether or not I should keep the speed and the results have been a resounding yes so that's exactly
what I'm gonna do because I care about how you feel and it's why for the rest of this video I'm going to shout out all of these people who've just commented on the video channel we always appreciate the engagement and that's what you should do with your community graphic touch musically voltage ace changing stranger west of gaming double-oh-seven the mass gamer gaming with Morris by Tatars the Dreamcast Zuzu calm and lamin D key on TV tutorial life studio changing TV the handsome life paracin thank you and thank all of you for watching enjoy the rest
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