what's up everybody it's Alexander travel bum and today we're gonna go over
how to be a travel vlog if you want more tips and hacks on how to travel how to
be a youtuber how to be a travel youtuber click the bell and subscribe so
that you don't miss anything ok so the first tip is be unique personally I
think being unique on YouTube is the most important thing especially if you
want to be a vlogger or a travel vlogger you need to be your own person you have
to do something special you can't be like everyone else because everyone is
trying to be a vlogger these days so be unique think of different ways to do
things there is always gonna be a different way to make your videos so
color graded differently talk about different things pick a different type
of subject more than anything you don't want to be like everybody else alright
so the next thing is people are interested in you not just the place
this is something that I've had to learn over time is that people are interested
in you the host the youtuber even if they're interested in travel they're not
just going to be interested in seeing the place I had to learn this over a
long time when I first started this channel I didn't want it to be about me
at all I didn't want to call it Alexander travel bum I just wanted to
call it travel bum and I wanted to be behind the camera and show people the
world help people discover different places on the other side of the world
that they've never been but I quickly realized that the vlogs that are
successful are the ones where the people are on camera a lot of the time where
your audience starts to really get to know you and not just these places that
you're a showing once they get to know you they'll follow you on your journey
ok so next you have to figure out your niche are you going to be making vlogs
for the sake of entertainment and humor are there going to be informational
cinema madacorp kind of run-and-gun just as you
go really quickly done you kind of have to pick your niche and go for one thing
your audience is going to want to know what you're going to be putting out
there it shouldn't be changing all the time from cinematic blogs to
informational to this to that and changing all the time see if you want to
go the route of Gabriel traveller who pretty much goes running gun he doesn't
edit that much and he just he just basically shows what he sees as he walks
around it's really really easy to do or are you gonna go the complete opposite
route and go the Sam colder route where you put everything into the edit it's
very cinematic and it looks phenomenal whatever you do pick a route that you're
gonna go and stick to it okay the next thing is don't copy others but learn
from that Picasso had this really good quote I believe that was good artists
copy great artists steal what he meant by that was you can copy someone else's
idea and just be like them and be no different or you can steal their idea
change it alter it and make it your own so I believe you should study other
people doing similar things to you you should study Sam colder Gabriel
traveller fun for Louie Lost Leblanc hey Nadine the vagabrothers
sailing one vagabond look at all these people and see what they do see what you
like what you don't like what you think you can do and what you think you can't
do because not everyone can do what fun for Louie does so figure out what you
can do what you want to do and stick to that okay the next thing that I've
learned on YouTube is be consistent YouTube really likes it if you're
consistent with your videos also your audience appreciates it if they know
when your videos are coming out if you post something five times a week and
then you go a month without posting it really just it throws everything off
YouTube as an algorithm in a really favors consistency I've seen when I am
inconsistent YouTube kind of doesn't push my videos
out there and promote them so much but when I'm consistent I start gaining more
subscribers and more views and it just goes up and up and up so be consistent
with your videos okay the next thing is don't be afraid of the camera I mean I'm
not afraid of the camera honestly I'm a little afraid of the camera I am kind of
an introvert and I've kind of learned how to get better on camera I'm not sure
how it comes across now but it has gotten better since I started a year ago
if you are afraid of the camera or a little shy on camera that's normal
that's how it is for everybody starting out what you should do I did this little
thing before I even started traveling and vlogging I put my phone on this
little magnetic clip on my car on my commute to work my commute to work was
about 20 minutes long and I would just talk the whole time I would do it all
the way to work and I would do it coming back and after I had done that for about
a month I got a lot better at talking to the camera okay the next thing is it's
not about the gear but it helps so a lot of people will tell you it's not about
the gear it's all about you it's about your personality you can vlog with a
phone you can vlog with anything you have
well that's true in a way and I think it is more about you but it really helps to
have a good camera I noticed when I was vlogging I upgraded my camera halfway
and my videos just got so much better I mean if you have a good camera the
picture looks better you feel better putting it out there it just everything
looks better and it just really does help no matter what they say so invest
in a good camera I'm gonna go over the best travel vlogging gear I'll probably
link to it right above my head once that video is out ok one valuable lesson I've
learned is don't give up YouTube is very very hard to get rolling your channel is
most likely going to be very very slow growth in the beginning it is kind of
excruciating you put a ton of hours into your edits a
ton of hours into your work and you put them put out 1 2 3 10 videos and you
only have a hundred subs or maybe less and it just it takes time you're not
making any money from it but you get there if you stick to it one of your
videos takes off and the subscribers just start rolling in and then you put
out more and more and more and the more views you get the more the more
subscribers you start getting the more views you get when you put out the video
the more views you get right away when you put up the video the more YouTube
likes it and promotes your videos the more your videos get promoted the more
people find you and therefore you get more subscribers and it's just this
circle and it just it starts getting better it's exponential growth it's just
very very hard at the beginning and it will probably take a few months to get
anywhere but don't be discouraged and do not give up ok the next thing is make a
lot of videos make a ton of videos maybe even try daily vlogging if you can swing
it put a bunch of videos out there because YouTube likes it when you're
putting more out there and it just gives people more ways to find you your videos
have more chances to take off or go viral so just put a lot of videos out
there and you'll find success soon also you get better with every video or most
people do they just get better and better and better so it's kind of like
practice makes perfect keep putting videos out there and you'll
get better faster just ok next is shoot extra footage I have learned this the
hard way if you don't shoot enough sometimes you can't even make a video
out of it there are many times in Vietnam and the
Philippines I went to just these amazing places and I couldn't make a video out
of it to save my life because I didn't have enough footage so it's always
better to have more footage than not enough the next thing is cut out the boy
a lot of vloggers they just they just talk to the camera constantly constantly
talking talking talking for minutes at a time not showing anything and just
remember it's kind of the happy medium if you're a travel vlogger people are
there to see places but they're also there to see you but they're there to
see both they don't want to just see you on camera just see your face for 10
minutes but they also don't just want to see the places because they want to see
it you so you need to find this this happy place where you can kind of do a
little bit of both just don't talk to the camera for five
minutes about nothing cut out the boring stuff people get bored very easily on
YouTube there are a ton of videos they could be watching and if you start
boring them even for five seconds they'll exit out and they'll find a
better video okay the next valuable lesson learned is
collaborate collaborating with other people is great it's it's fun but it
also grows your channel it grows yours and it grows theirs if
you collaborate the right way you make a video they make a video you get your
subscribers to look at their video they get their subscribers to look at your
video and you both grow from there so it helps others out it helps you out you
have fun you make a friend and the more you do it the faster your channel will
grow okay and the next couple are travel related travel to cheap countries if you
don't have much money to be a travel vlog or you're going to need to travel
to a bunch of places to really get a lot of content out there so if you don't
have much money you need to travel to cheaper countries so that you can travel
to more countries and have more videos on different places people are going to
come to your channel and they're gonna look and see because this vlogger have
videos all from one place or do they videos all over the world and the more
you have on there the more they're gonna want to follow you and see you as this
professional traveler that's been everywhere and actually knows what
they're talking about okay the next thing is to travel to places that aren't
oversaturated this is places like Iceland everyone's
been to Iceland lately there are a ton of vlogs on it Hawaii
everyone's been going there places like Paris France everybody knows about you
need to go places that less people have been because it's also less saturated
and you have more of a chance for your vlog to be seen so I was traveling in
Thailand to start out and everyone is gone to Thailand there are thousands of
vlogs on Thailand but then I went to Myanmar where less people have been
because it hasn't been opened up to visitors for very long and my videos
really just started to take off so I learned that people like to see new
things they don't just want to see the same thing they've seen a ton of times
before okay so I've linked to all my vlogging
gear below check them out to see everything I've talked about and I think
that's it for today so thank you for watching i'm alexander
travel bum please subscribe if you haven't already it helps me out
like this video down below and i will see you in the next video