Ahoj! 100 thousand subscribers is slowly approaching. This channel is going to hit it in about 4
weeks from now and this is not a celebration video. The celebration will actually come
with all the giveaways. I didn't feel comfortable posting this video once it actually happens
because this video is about mix of feelings and thoughts about getting to 100,000K. This
is one of those honest, let's talk videos. I usually get those feelings when I watch
videos like how to gain first thousand subscribers fast. How to get 100,000 subscribers in a
year. How to double your viral videos and all these things and all I am thinking in
my head is, please can you just tell those people how it really is to be on Youtube.
How it really feels to have the large following. Can you just tell them what they are about
to enter, what they are about to get themselves into? I wrote down 5 positives and 5 negatives
which I would like to openly share with you. How is it to be a woman on Youtube? How is
it to be a tech Youtuber, how is it to be a tutorial Youtuber or vlog Youtuber? Let's
talk about money and all that. But first, I should give you maybe little bit a back
story how it all started. Let's do this very quickly. Who am I and why did I decide to
start a Youtube channel? Well, I started fashion, glamour and stock photography in 2006. Then
I added portraits and weddings. And I did all that full time until pretty much recent
years. Then I realized that the pricing for fashion photography and all the other stuff
are dropping. It started to go slowly down. Well, times have changed. Things have changed.
So in 2018 I decided to open a Youtube channel just to create a back up. Little I knew that
a year later I am gonna be diagnosed with right eye problem which will ban me from shooting
with flashes. So fashion, glamour, portrait work in the studio was done and also weddings.
I am not able to work with flashes so I can't shoot weddings. So, luckily at that time,
the Youtube channel was already making little bit money so I was able to survive. It was
a good move because we were just about to start pandemic which shut down all photography
jobs. And now let's dive into the positives and negatives. Positive no.1 You can work
anywhere in the world as long as you have internet connection. You don't have to worry
about losing a job and moving to find another job in your field. You move, you take the
job with you. In my case, it's easy for me to pack in the summer once I am gonna be able
to travel again and go see my family in Europe and stay there for 5 weeks because I know
I can work from there as well. If you work from home, you have family and kids, you can
juggle it all. As you rendering a video, you can be cooking and doing stuff around the
house. But, you gonna be working a lot. No more excuses that your coworker didn't do
part of the job. You don't work, you don't get paid. Negative no.1. You will be always
stressing out about the views. Most of the people thing that most important number is
how many subscribers the channel has. Well, partially. It is important too, but the most
important numbers are the views and watch time. Views bring subscribers and money. I've
checked some bigger channels and I checked how many views have and surprisingly they
didn't have as many views and watch time as some of the little bit smaller channels. You
will be addicted to numbers. Subscribers, views, watch time, clickthrough rates and
all that. It's very easy to say ignore those numbers, don't look at it. You know just create
content but it's a business which you build with tears and sweat. You will think, sleep,
exercise and eat while your brain will be thinking about your Youtube channel. It's
going to be very hard to take a break from those thoughts as you gonna be building the
channel until you reach that steady full time income. At this point where I am about to
hit 100,000 subscribers, it's sort of stable fulltime income but it's like at the edge
of it. So it takes just very little to go down. It's not there yet. Positive no.2. You
don't need an university degree or diploma to start a Youtube channel. Anybody can do
this. Anybody can start. You will start at the very bottom and you gonna be working your
way up. Now, it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be lot of work. You will learn lot of
things and even more. Producing, editing, filming, marketing, sales, organization skills
and all that. You gonna be feeling very overwhelmed lot, many times. But then it's gonna get much
easier as you progress. It's gonna start making all sense. You gonna get better at that. All
those skills are just a treasure because you gonna be able to take it with you to any type
of business. Negative no.2 At first when you start your channel, you gonna be spitting
out videos. It's easy to get carried away and just create one video after another one.
Maybe a few months, a year and then it starts. Creative block. You will simply wake up and
you will have no idea what video to make next. You will have no idea what to teach anymore.
You will have no idea what to post on your channel anymore and that can happen due to
many things. Things like burnout or this whole pandemic can really effect your creativity.
Or where you exhaust your audience because you are being repetitive too much. Or when
one of your videos does extremely well and then your next video performs poorly and you
will get all depressed and all that. It's perfectly normal. You will have to find a
way to overcome those feelings. Positive no.3 Youtube gave me a freedom in terms of photography
and video. When I was doing weddings and portraits and fashion and glamour for number of years,
it started to be repetitive and I started to be bored of it. I started to feel like
I am in a factory. The same thing over and over again. Here on Youtube I sometimes pick
different genre of photography. I just, I try something new or I learn something different
and I create videos about it. I play with products. I study them, I test them. I create
videos about them. It's not the same, it's always very different and it's challenging
and I think that I am one of those people which needs to be challenged otherwise I get
bored pretty quickly. Negative no.3 You will be always very stressed when it comes to monetization
of your channel because you gonna be stressed that one day, they will take it away from
you. It happened to other people. That the affiliate will be taken away from you. That
income. That sponsorships will stop. That the platform will change rules, it will go
down. Other platforms will take over. It's just, lot of things can happen. So you better
enjoy while it lasts. It's time to actually at that point to create a contact list. That's
something I need to do as well but meanwhile what's important to have also other accounts
on other platforms like Tick tock, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter. Just in case something
happens to your main channel, that the people are able to find you somewhere else. Youtube
feels like walking on a very thin ice. What I mean I that, that you can make very fast
mistake with your content. You start posting a content and then you realize that the numbers
are going down. The channel is falling. That was actually happening to me last 4 months.
Because I was posting way too many product reviews. Last year, people really enjoyed
product reviews and it was not a problem at all. This year, I've noticed that it was getting
less and less new subscribers, views were dropping, watch time was dropping so I quickly
had to change content. Luckily I am back on track. It's growing the same pace like last
year. You have to be super careful what you gonna post on your channel next. At that point
when your channel is big. You have to keep that momentum going. If you gonna go different
way, you can loose it all very quickly. Positive no. 4. You don't need a Hollywood. You want
to express yourself, you can. Nobody's gonna kick you out of the audition because you have
some kind of a weird accent or you have a certain look or you don't have a certain age.
Anybody can do this. It happened to me before many times when I was doing acting in Toronto.
Usually my accent was an issue. Youtube is free. You just open up an account and you
are ready to go. Also, when you have an educational channel, it's better if you are little bit
older because you have so much experience already. You have so much to share. Negative
no.4 Once you hop onto Youtube train, you can't stop. You can take one week vacation,
maybe 2 weeks vacation but then you need to create more videos quickly because the channel
can down. People will kind of move on to other channels and they will forget about you and
you need to keep that momentum going. Also, you don't wanna fall into a trap. And I need
to remind that myself all the time. You need to remind yourself why you actually opened
up Youtube channel and what content you want to post. What will make you happy. I like
to make those creative videos and I like to make videos like this one. Talk for example
when I keep the connection going with the audience and you get to know me little bit
more. I also enjoy those tutorials where I am just spitting out the information and the
product reviews where I am also spitting out the information and I know that there are
people which they say. I like to watch your videos because you are so straight to the
point, no more talking around it. Sure, there are channels which are doing extremely well.
All they do, they are spitting out the information like a machines and that's not me. That was
never my intention. There will be always a mix of videos on this channel. Sure, there
will be those tutorials and product reviews which will be like machine gun. Spitting out
information but then, there will be some vlogs I am gonna throw on you here and there. There
will be some talk videos like this one or some maybe creative videos which I enjoy as
well. Simply, I am gonna please the audience but I also want to make sure as a creator
I am happy as well. Positive no.5 Being on Youtube is not only about posting videos on
Youtube. You are gonna be building your own business. It will take some time before you
will be able to do this full time. It took me 2 years to have small full time income
to cover my bills. Of course that depends in which country in the world you live. I
live in Canada. Everything is expensive here. I need to make lot of money to cover my bills.
You don't need to contact anybody. If you provide high quality videos, high quality
reviews, high quality information and all that. The companies will contact you. They
will offer you products reviews, they will offer you sponsorships. They will offer some
type of a collaboration. You don't need to contact anybody. They are always looking for
the right type of Youtubers to represent their brands. On top of it, once you grow even further
and I am not talking about 100,000 subscribers. I am talking about I would say around 1 million
subscribers like very large channels. It can take years to get there. And you have a very
large following then, you can create your own products, your own brand. And you can
sell anything literally you want. The possibilities at that stage are completely endless. Negative
no.5 Trolls and haters. Everybody has them. Everyone has to deal with them. I've got tons
of hate comments before and even nasty emails, lots of them. For example. Youtube should
only allow English speaking people on their platform. Not people with some type of a weird
accent. Another one. Women have no place in men's filming world. Next one. Unbelievable.
It is interesting to see that woman can actually handle a camera. Of course I get tons of comment
on what I should be wearing. What parts of body I should be showing off more or hiding.
I got so much of pornography material being sent to me in Instagram DMs and highly inappropriate
messages in DMs on Instagram that I am refusing to respond to anything in DMs on Instagram.
That's why I say, you have a question or comment, you leave it here below this video publicly
only. When you get your first hate comments when you just freshly open up a Youtube channel,
it kind of hits you. It kind of stops you and for sure, it's hurtful. But then now after
3 years, I think I've developed anti-bodies to it. I am just so immune. I literally just
shake my head and I move on to comments which make sense and which needs to be answered.
I move onto comments where people actually need a help. Also, some people will try to
control your channel. They will feel entitled. They will tell you what to wear, what to say,
what not to say, what type of background, what type of light, what type of sound, what
type of videos you should be posting. Everything. You are in charge. That's your channel. You
just need to learn to ignore those. The positives outweigh the negatives. It is still very much
worth it to be here and I really appreciate every single one of you. Well, hit the thumbs
up if you liked today's video, if you found it somehow entertaining, informative and subscribe
to future videos like this and again. If you have any questions and comments, only leave
it below the videos here on Youtube platform and I'll see you all of you my friends in
the next video. Cau... Ahoj...