Trying to grow a stream while juggling a full time job, family,
and other responsibilities can be incredibly challenging.
However, today I'm going to share the exact steps that I would
take to go from zero to full time streaming in just one year.
Even if I only had 10 hours a week to be able to commit.
Now I know it might sound crazy, but trust me, it works and it all begins here.
So the first three hours are dedicated to streaming.
And you may be wondering.
But I have no viewers or that only leaves me with seven hours for everything else.
So let me explain these three hours of streaming aren't about viewers.
If they come, that's incredible, but the primary goal here is to
create content while you're live.
So that way you can grow when you're offline.
And I'm gonna go a little bit deeper into this later.
Now your weekly schedule is going to vary.
So you don't need to stream three hours all at once.
You can break it down into three, one hour streams or six 30 minute streams.
The goal here is that when you go live is to create one to two
videos while you're live, that we can utilize later as content.
However, to know what content to be able to create during your live stream, you're
going to need to spend one hour a week.
Studying content that's already working on platforms like YouTube,
TikTok, Twitter, or Instagram.
And what you want to do is that you want to focus on creators who
produce content related to the game or topic you want to cover.
You want to look at how they engage with the content, how they, what they
discuss, right, what their viewers enjoy.
Now you may be thinking like, should I just go ahead and copy them?
I want to stop you right there because instead of copying, I want to
recommend the yoink and twist approach.
So you save or jot down content ideas from successful creators.
That's the yoink.
Then you find a way to blend multiple ideas or add your own unique style
and vibe to create the actual twist.
Then once you have your ideas, how do you now incorporate
them into your live stream?
Well, this is where our next hour comes in.
So up to this point, we've used five out of our ten hours.
But don't worry because the next five hours are extremely crucial.
So during this hour, you're gonna focus solely on planning the
content for your live stream.
Not for social media yet, only the live stream.
And what you want to do is that you want to start with picking one idea and you
want to ask yourself, how can I start the live stream to set the tone for this idea?
I call this the intro.
Then you ask yourself, what clips or things do you need to show or do?
During the live stream to make the idea happen.
I call this the meat and potatoes of the video.
Then ask yourself, once I get to the end of this idea, what is the next
idea that I can get people to watch?
And I call this creating the binge experience.
Now do not overcomplicate it.
The goal is to simply have a game plan for when you go live, but before
hitting go live, you need to spend one hour crafting a competitive title
and a thumbnail for your stream idea.
Now, you may be wondering, why is this necessary for platforms like
Twitch, or Kik, or any other streaming platform you're utilizing right now.
You need to remember that we're not going live for viewers, we're creating content.
And this content that we're creating is going to live on YouTube.
So for it to be able to kind of give you the views and grow your stream
when you're offline, titles and thumbnails are extremely important.
So here's what you want to consider when you're creating these things.
The first thing is keep titles under 55 characters.
If you possibly can, you want to kind of focus on why someone should watch the
video and you 100 percent want to avoid.
Giving away everything that the video is going to be about in the actual title.
And then for thumbnails, you want to keep them as simple as possible, make
everything as bigger than what you think, and then ask yourself, what
is it that the viewer needs to see to be able to click on this video?
Remember during content research, you need to pay attention to the titles
and thumbnails used by successful videos so you can get inspiration.
But I'll also go ahead and link a video in the description on how to make gaming
thumbnails to kind of get you started.
Right.
So now with all of these preparations, you're going to start going live
and utilizing those three hours each week to be able to create content.
But what about the remaining four hours after you finished live streaming each
week, you're now going to spend one hour going through the live stream.
Clipping the video you created that's gonna go on YouTube and finding other
clips that you can go ahead and post on TikTok, ig or YouTube shorts.
But there also are tools that help you do the clipping, and I'll go ahead and link
a few of them in the description for you to be able to go ahead and check them out.
Now, clipping and posting the video alone is not going to cut it to get
the most out of the time that you already spent on researching, planning,
creating titles and thumbnails, you want to go ahead and allocate.
Two of the remaining hours to editing that video.
So you may never have edited before, but you're going to learn how to edit and
apply what you learn at the same time.
So you're not aiming for perfection, but for continuous improvement, because you
need to test which videos perform well and which don't, and I'll go ahead and
include a link in the description to the video on how to edit gaming videos.
It's utilizing a free editor to kind of get you started.
Now with one hour left out of your 10 hour week, you want to utilize
it to upload all of the edited and clipped content to YouTube, Tik
TOK, or IG for the following week.
This step is super important because why life happens and some weeks
you may have less than 10 hours.
So you need to stay ahead.
But not too far ahead because you don't want your content to become outdated.
So you want to aim to be one to two weeks ahead.
And the only way you can do that is that when you start this plan, you
need to start it with the goal of creating content for the next week.
This way you always have content growing your stream.
Now If you can spare an additional hour each week, use it to sharpen
your skills by taking courses, reading books, or watching videos.
Continuous improvement is key to steady growth, but if all of this
seems overwhelming or challenging to even visualize what it looks like in
action, I recommend you go ahead and watch this video right here, where
I break down exactly how I applied these steps to grow a gaming channel.
I'll see you guys in the next video.