I've got a small YouTube channel, like really small, and I I just don't know where to go other than just make more content. >> What do you sell? >> I've watched y'all stuff.
I don't have anything to sell. That's >> What do you make YouTube about? >> Should I have a product?
>> What was that? >> What do you What's the YouTube about? >> It's uh hunting, fishing, outdoors.
I'm an outdoorsman. Okay. >> Oh, that's cool.
And how many uh subscribers do you have or views do you get a month? Uh, so I've got 2,000 subscribers, >> okay? >> And uh, last in the last 28 days, I've gotten almost a quarter of a million views, mostly from shorts.
I haven't posted any long [snorts] yet. >> Okay. All right.
>> I post. >> What do you do to make money? >> Yeah.
How do you live? >> Uh, I have a job. I work 40 hours a week.
>> What do you like? What do you do though? put the damn I make lawn mower parts.
>> Okay. Nice. >> All right.
Um Okay. I I think you're early. >> Mhm.
>> I think you're early. So, I do think that you should start making some longs because longs is what's going to depen your kind of influence with the audience. You want to you want to demonstrate more expertise around hunting.
Um, and if you're like, I don't know how to do that, just take three or four long con, sorry, short concepts that were good and just loop them together. Not not literally loop them together. Just, you know, make a video that covers each of those uh each of those concepts, you know, in tandem and work your way to a five or eight or 10 minute video.
>> Mhm. >> And I would start doing that. I just think you're I think you're early, dude.
>> Okay. So, just basically just do more. >> Yeah.
And and do better, too. You know what I mean? Like, I think you got you got to learn a little bit more about the content game.
Um, >> yeah, >> I would say like what right now are you spending all of your time making content for YouTube outside of work? >> Just about. Yes.
>> Yeah. And how long >> every minute I can spare, I do. >> No, you're good.
>> How long have you been doing it? So, I started the channel several years ago and kind of got very very inconsistent and then uh about two months ago I decided to really get after it. >> Okay.
Well, okay. I think that we can both tell you this which is like YouTube is a game of consistency. >> Like that's just that's how the platform works.
So, I think the biggest thing that you can do right now is just be consistent. Because if you look at like how to go from just like okay or mediocre to just like good solid, it's consistency. And then if you want to get to like great, it's like continued improvement while being consistent.
>> So I guess the question is how many shorts and how many longs do you commit to making per week. >> So I was at one point I was doing one a day and I was it was great, but I'm kind of back down to like three a week. Three to four a week.
You mean for the shorts, right? >> Yes, sir. >> Yeah.
I think I mean you do have to do more and you have to do it consistently. And I would just tell you that like right now you're not multi like just for your own self do not consider yourself having done this for years. You've been doing it for 8 weeks.
[snorts] >> Yes. >> So you're super early, man. >> Yeah.
>> You're super early. >> Okay. >> So I just like I wouldn't even think about monetizing it right now.
Like you just want to take 5:00 am to 9 a. m. and 5:00 p p.
m. to 9:00 p. m.
your 5 to 9 beginning a day and a day. And I put all of that into making sure no matter what I got out I get out one short a day and then on my weekends I'm going to make sure that I get at least one long out. >> Okay.
All right. >> What's your goal? >> One more question.
>> What's my goal? >> Yeah. >> Do you want to quit your job?
Do you want to build a company? >> Yes. So, I believe if I can just replace my income from my job with this, then I could scale it up.
And uh I guess my number would be about 10 grand a month. >> Okay. Can I ask you something to be super honest?
>> Mhm. >> What stops you from making one video a day like you were? Like what what behavior?
Um, mostly just life gets in the way or I get talking and to somebody and then sun goes down and now I'm out of daylight. >> So if you if you want to ask yourself how to be consistent, the question is how do you stop the things from occurring that make you inconsistent? >> So it's like do you have the right people surrounding you?
Do you have yourself in the right environment? Like those are the things that I think you want to be thinking about right now because I know like for myself or for Alex when we were first starting out and like making just trying to get into business, I had to put myself in an environment where it made it easy to achieve my goals, not hard, which also meant surrounding myself with people in a routine that made it easy. >> Okay.
>> Do you want to know how how I define commitment? >> How >> the elimination of alternatives? You have to get rid of your other options.
>> And I don't mean like you need to quit your job. I mean everything else that is not you make if this is what you want and it's [snorts] like you can only know that. But if this is really what you want, then it means that you have to say no to everything else in order to truly say yes to this.
Because every time you say yes to something else, it's saying no to this thing that you want. And almost always the things that we want to say yes to now are short-term long-term. We say yes in the moment because it gives us a short term short-term good thing but it prevents us from the long term uh long-term great thing.
>> Okay. So I was also thinking should I post on Instagram, Facebook as well? >> I want you to be consistent with YouTube first, man.
>> All right. >> Give me 12 weeks of consistency. You make one long and you make seven shorts 12 weeks in a row.
You do that and you're like, you know what? I got more. The thing is is right now you have to do that volume so you can become more efficient.
Like you have to feel the pain of the inefficiency of being like, man, this is a lot of work. Cuz when you do that, all of a sudden you'll start getting faster, you start getting better, and your work output and capacity will go up. And then you'll free up the bandwidth because you got more skills, you got more efficient that you can start looking at, you know what, I'm going to repurpose this on Instagram.
I'm going repurpose this on Tik Tok or whatever. >> Okay. It's also like just like really thinking about this in order to build a business to replace your income like you want to build that confidence and confidence is an output not an input.
The input to confidence is becoming incredibly consistent with something. So you get the experience which makes you competent then it leads to confidence. And I think like in general if you can't stick with a commitment that you make to yourself then you you degrade the trust you have with yourself every day.
And so like anything you do it's not going to come out as good as it could be. It's always going to be harder. it's going to take longer if you don't repair that trust with yourself.
So, I think like right now, if you're just consistent with the posting, like that is going to make you not just better at business and content, but just a better person for yourself, a better I would say like partner to yourself in doing this. Mhm. That That's kind of funny because I was watching one of Alex's videos where he was talking about consistency and how it how you get better by doing the thing over and over again.
So, I started doing that and I've already noticed that trend. >> It's a I think right now it's good to steer a little bit. Like I get obsessive over doing things consistently.
Alex knows this. Um but I think you can steer a little bit in the obsessive uh direction right now I think it'd be good for you and then you can course correct that later >> and expect the fact like expect people who are normal and around you to not understand expect them to think it's weird expect it to not look cool like everyone goes through a cringe period like it's going to be lonely because you're trying to do something that's very different and I make that content where I say like in order to be exceptional you have to become the exception you're going to probably be surrounded by the majority of people in your life who don't want this aren't interested in it think it's dumb think it's stupid think It's you trying to be famous, you thinking more of yourself than you really are, all of that stuff. And you just have to just put that in on the shelf and get back to work.
Cuz like either they'll be right or you will. And you've got a long time to be right. >> That's kind of what I was.
All right. Thank you. >> Yeah.
They'll be right for now and you'll be right for good. >> Yes, sir. Just keep keep on >> keep posting.
>> Keep on, baby. Keep on. [snorts] >> Thank you very much.
You guys are awesome. >> You bet. I appreciate you, man.
>> Love you.
