What is up guys, welcome back to the Gaming Careers YouTube channel. Happy
new year, I hope you're all well and rested and ready to tackle 2018. Right off the
bat I want to apologize for the lack of content that we've had on the channel
recently. I've had a lot of things going on in both my work life and my personal life
that have required a lot of my time so I haven't been able to pump out the
content like I wanted to and also I'd like to thank everybody that responded
to the community poll that I put up last week asking some questions about
if I wanted to do this channel full-time and I got some really great really
insightful responses from that so thank you so much for that. 2018 is going to be a
huge opportunity for you guys to grow your channels. There's going to be more
people watching Twitch and YouTube than there were last year and both companies
have committed to helping newer creators and smaller streamers get noticed and
get the viewership that they deserve. and for that reason today we are going to be
talking about setting goals for your Twitch or YouTube channel for 2018. Now
you might be thinking that goal setting is one of those tasks there is a bit of
a waste of time and nobody ever meets their resolutions, but I actually find
the opposite, if you spend time and write down some goals for the year you're much
more likely to meet them especially if you make that information public. So you
could share it with your audience for example maybe tweet it and pin it to the
top of your Twitter page or talk about on your livestream or even have it in
one of the little panels below your live stream talking about what your goals are
for 2018. Or you can always make a YouTube video like I'm doing and I'll be
talking about my goals at the end of this video. Not only does this mean that
your audience can hold you accountable for those resolutions that you don't
meet, but it also means that they can support you in any way and help you
realize which goals are more important to them. So ask yourself what do you want
to achieve in 2018? Where do you want to be a year from now looking back? What do
you wish you would have accomplished in the last year? Can you accomplish that in
2018? And I'm not talking about things like 'I want to hit a million subscribers'.
Try and keep the number specifics out of it don't focus so much on the stats but
focus on the things that you can do to help you reach those numbers. So for
example: Are you keeping to a streaming schedule? Are you interacting with other
streamers on Twitch, Twitter, Discord, YouTube all those other platforms? Are
you collaborating with them? Are you spending time editing your
highlights together rather than just uploading full two-hour vods of your
stream to YouTube? These have to be valuable bits of content that people
want to watch and want to subscribe to. Are you watching the content that you're
putting out? Once you finish streaming do you watch it back to see how you could
improve? These are of course just some ideas of things that might get your
brain working in the way of creating some actionable goals that you can
achieve in 2018. Now what would be great is if you guys can leave comments of
some of your goals for 2018 down in the comment section below. I'm gonna be
coming back to this video at the end of the year to see how I did with my goals
and I'd love to be able to see some of the goals that you guys are setting and
then at the end of the year I'll be able to see how you actually did with your
channel and maybe I'll feature you in 2018 sort of wrap-up video. Now it's time
for me to publicly state my goals for this channel in 2018 and I want to do
this because I want both the support of you guys the Gaming Careers community as
well as the added pressure of me putting it live on the Internet for you guys to
keep track of all of my goals throughout 2018 and let me know when I'm slacking.
So what I have done is on New Year's when I had a little bit too much
champagne, I wrote down five goals on my phone of
what I want to achieve for this YouTube channel in 2018. Let's dive right in. Goal
number one is I want to upload 50 videos to this channel. That might seem a bit of
a reach because last year I uploaded about a fifth of that in 2017, but I'm hoping
that this year I will have more time to dedicate to the channel and that kind of
ties in to resolution number two which is I want to be full-time on YouTube by
some point this year. Obviously right now I'm working as a software developer and I
have to put about 50 hours a week into that job and I would love to leave that
and be able to spend all of my time creating content for this channel at
some point in 2018. Now it's not achievable straightaway, obviously
there's a lot going on with YouTube behind the scenes and ad-pocalypse and
it's not as reliable source of an income as it used to be but I'm trying to work
out ways that some of my viewers can help support me if they want to so that
I can hopefully become full-time on this channel in 2018. Goal number three is to
attend Twitchcon towards the end of the year.
for those of you that don't know Twitchcon is a conference held by Twitch
usually in America where loads of streamers and partners and companies
they all go and there's loads of talks, there's loads of networking, it looks like a
really fun event and I would love to attend in 2018 maybe meet some of you
guys and hopefully you know speak with more people in the industry.
Goal number four is to build a Discord server for this Gaming Careers community.
I'd love to have a place where you guys and me can all network, talk, chat, ask
questions, help each other, promote streams all those kind of things I think
it'd be really beneficial. YouTube comment section is good but it's just
it's not that easy for people to get instant feedback on videos and things so
I'd love to build a Discord server that this whole community can interact in, we
can all help each other talk and ask questions. I'm not a massive expert on
discord, I haven't used it that much so if anybody out there, one of the viewers
has ever set up a discord server before please do get in touch via Twitter and
we can hopefully get this goal crossed off the list fairly early in the year.
Finally the fifth goal for the year is to help more of you guys get a career in
gaming, be that live streaming, content creation,
esports commentary, building or designing games anything that can be included in
this massive growing industry. I want to help more of you guys go full-time into
that kind of profession. And that's it those are my five goals for 2018, please
do share your goals in the comments section below as I said before I will be
coming back and looking at some of the comments towards the end of the year to
see exactly how you guys have done. Thanks so much for watching I hope you've
been left with some actionable goals for 2018. If you haven't already subscribed
to the Gaming Careers YouTube channel have a look around and do subscribe and
subscribers, I'll see you in the next video. Peace!