- Maybe you're one of those people who wants to
start a YouTube channel but you just never do.
I mean, you bought all the equipment,
you're watching these videos.
Maybe you're even going to conferences
and dreaming about what it would be
to live full-time off of a community of people
who are passionate about the same thing
you're passionate about.
But here you are, you've uploaded maybe one, two, three,
maybe no videos at all and there's just something
holding you back.
What is that and how do you move on from it?
That's what I'm gonna talk about here today.
(upbeat electronic beeping)
Hey guys, my name is Tim Schmoyer
and welcome to Video Creators.
This channel's all about helping you
learn how to grow a YouTube audience.
You can spread a message that reaches people
and changes their lives, but you're not changing
any lives if you're not posting any videos
and you're not reaching anybody, right?
What is it that holds us back sometimes,
like we have this big dream and we just never quite
go for it the way that we really want to?
I think there's a few things that cause this
and one of the first ones I think is perfectionism.
It holds us back.
You feel like you have this vision for the type of
video in your mind that you wanna make
and you try to make it and it just doesn't look or
turn out even close to the way you want it to.
I know exactly how that feels and ya know what?
You're right!
When you're first getting started, the type of video
that you're envisioning in your mind probably
isn't the kind of video that you're going to be able
to start with.
Making videos isn't like a one-time thing
where you're instantly awesome at it.
It's just like anything else.
Athletics, music, acting.
It all takes time to develop and it gets better
as you continue your practice.
I remember back in the early days for me,
I had to just use equipment that I had
and get started with what I had, which was just
a webcam, actually no, it was my phone.
It was my phone that I got started with.
Just uploading straight to YouTube from my phone.
If you go back and look at the very first videos
on this channel, Video Creators,
they're all from my phone uploaded straight
through the YouTube app.
Guys, gotta remember like 80% is probably,
I don't wanna say it's good enough, but it probably is
because I know in your mind, you envision the video
at 100% but your audience, when they click play,
they're not thinking anything like you were thinking.
They're just watching the video that they happen to be
watching and when it's over, they're not thinking,
"Ya know what?
"Man, that should've been an extra 20% better."
You know?
They're thinking oh okay, they got the value they wanted
or they didn't get the value they wanted.
I mean, this video right here, you guys don't know
what I had in mind for it.
You don't know that I really wanted to do it
a lot earlier in the day before the lighting
was really harsh, before I had to walk around
and just vlog style it, before there was like
less airplanes and cars going by.
Ya know, sometimes you just roll with it
and ya know, you publish and you do better on the next one.
Toby, where's Hannah and Zeke?
I lost my kids while I'm doing this.
Where's Hannah and Zeke?
Oh, they're in the car? Okay.
They're in our car waiting back there.
Another thing that holds careers back is business.
Having the time to be able to publish videos.
I totally know what business is.
My wife and I had seven kids in eight years.
I run a small business called Video Creators here
and a small team of people that work here
and I got clients to serve.
We have a community of people that are important to us.
We've got a lot going on just like you do.
There definitely isn't enough time in the day to do
everything, so you have to pick what's important
and what's not important,
what gets you closer to your goals,
what doesn't get you closer to the goals,
and go with the things that do.
Like for me, I hardly ever watch TV, movies,
I don't even know the last time I was ever
at a movie theater.
We sacrifice a lot of things that normal people would do
in order to achieve some bigger goals
and objectives for our family.
Out of the dirt, Halley and Toby.
This isn't a time management video, but I will say that
one thing that's helped me tremendously well
is not thinking about everything as
a time management problem and thinking of it more
as an integration problem.
So, more time with my kids combined with education
means that we homeschool our kids.
Being able to spend more time with my wife
means that we do house work together more often
or in this case, needing to keep the house quiet
so my wife and the younger three kids can take a nap
and the older kids get out some energy
while I also need to make a video.
That means we come out to the park and do this here today.
Another thing that holds us back is discouragement
and we put a ton of time and energy into these videos
and we publish them and we don't get the reaction we want.
We don't think they get the amount of views
that they're supposed to have and it's very easy
to become discouraged.
Consistently here at Video Creators, I see a lot of
creators who gets started, have high energy level
and then just quit.
For them, the juice just isn't worth the squeeze
and that's okay because all of us have to
say no to something in life in order to say yes
to the best things in life and for some of us,
YouTube is one of those best things.
For others, YouTube's just a good thing.
I don't think there's anything that says
we have to keep going and doing something
just because we started it.
I mean, I've started reading plenty of books
that I later just stopped reading after a few chapters
'cause I was like ya know what, this isn't really worth,
I don't feel like this is gonna be worth the rest of my time
to keep reading this thing.
But if that's not you and you want to keep going
and you feel like this has potential
to be something to help you meet your goals
and your dreams and everything that you think of
when you think about making videos, then keep going!
If you feel like you're in the dip and you wanna
push through that, there's links to a bunch of videos
in the description below you can go check out
of other videos in this channel.
We talk more about the dip, the dip in depth,
talk about how to push through it
and really get through that step, that phase.
If you're one of those creators who
either only posted a few videos or you just haven't
gotten started yet, I wanna hear from you.
What's holding you back?
I wanna learn from you and comment down there below
and the rest of you guys, give encouragement
for each other, leave that down there as well.
I really look forward to seeing all of you guys interacting.
The community here is awesome and we all learn
and support each other so much.
If this is your first time here at Video Creators,
love to have you subscribe.
We are just all about helping each other grow
a YouTube audience so we can spread a message
that reaches people and changes their lives.
That's what this is all about at the end of the day.
So thank you for letting me be a small part in that.
Thank you for your patience
as I kinda do this video out and about with my kids
and we'll see you guys on Monday for a live stream.
See you then, bye.