- Should you quit YouTube?
I mean, is it time?
We're gonna talk about it
and we're starting right now.
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What is going on?
My name is Nick, welcome to another video.
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First, I gotta ask the question,
are you considering quitting YouTube?
I mean, are you right on the verge
of throwing in the towel?
Or are you on the other side of the fence
where you think, I'm never quitting YouTube,
I don't care what happens?
Or maybe you're in that gray area somewhere in the middle.
I would love to know where you're at right now
and I would like to know why,
so let me know down in the comments.
Okay, first on the list is burnout.
If you feel burned out in any way, shape, or form
to where what you're doing, you're just not into it anymore,
well then you should probably hang it up.
Maybe not permanently, but you know maybe you should
take a break for a little bit, kind of regain your bearings,
make sure that you're still into
what it is that you're doing
and then restart it again sometime in the future.
But if you are just going through
maybe like a stale period or maybe you're somewhere
where you are just trying to, you know, figure out
what can I do to kind of make this grow a little bit faster
or you know something like that.
To where it's still a little bit of fun for you
and you're just trying to figure everything out
and you're just having you know, kind of like growing pains.
In that situation then maybe you wanna hang in there
a little bit, instead of just totally
throwing in the towel.
But seriously, if you're feeling burned out,
to where you're like hey, I'm putting in this effort,
it's just not working.
It's taking over my normal life.
Then maybe you should, maybe not quit,
maybe you should quit,
but maybe you should just take a break.
And I know that there's gonna be a lot of people
in the comments saying, hey Nick, you know,
I'm just doing this for fun.
I don't really care about all this other stuff.
Which is totally cool.
Basically I'm making this video for the people
that are trying to actually make something
out of their YouTube channels,
they're trying to make something long term,
they're putting in a lot of work and things like that.
Those are the people that I'm really talking to here.
Another thing to consider is,
are you willing to consistently put in the work
over a long period of time?
There's no denying it, YouTube is not a track meet,
it's a marathon.
Even the big creators, you know, the household names,
they're always working.
They're always on the grind, always making new content
that they can put in front of their audience.
They're always uploading to YouTube,
be it once a week, be it every single day,
be it twice a week.
You know, if they're putting all of the time and effort
into making amazing content, then maybe they're doing it
once a month, but it's still consistent
and it's still a constant effort in order to
make sure that their YouTube channel
maintains the momentum that it has.
And really, a lot of the work also comes with
learning how to work within YouTube.
You know, how to rank your videos or how to share 'em,
or where to share 'em, or how to interact
with your community and stuff like that.
Learning all of that stuff, you know,
you can also consider that work.
Work, work, work, work, work, work, work.
Being consistent, uploading on a regular basis,
that definitely takes time and tons and tons of effort.
And if you're having trouble working that
into your schedule, then you know,
sometimes there is a choice that has to be made.
If this is driving me crazy,
then maybe I should take a break for awhile
or maybe I should try to find a better way
to work it into my schedule.
Or growing your brand on YouTube
and tapping into the opportunity that can come from YouTube,
if that is a priority for you
and if you look at that as the most important thing,
then maybe you can find something else to sacrifice.
Maybe watch a little bit less TV,
play a little bit less games or something like that.
But if you have commitments that you can't get away from,
and it's driving you crazy, you gotta think long term.
Are you gonna be able to do it?
And by do it, I don't mean are you gonna be able to
grow your channel?
Because as you learn and as you develop through the process,
you're definitely gonna be able to grow your channel.
But the thing is, is are you gonna be able to hold on
for the amount of time that it takes?
And are you gonna be able to put in all of the effort
that it can take at times in order to keep going?
Even though sometimes things can be really slow
or you might not be getting the results
that you're wanting right now.
Can you keep it going?
They're very hard decisions, I know that,
but they gotta be made.
You might know that I have another channel.
On that channel, I absolutely loved that channel,
but the workload that's required for that content,
I couldn't sustain it.
I wanted to so bad.
Seriously, I still think about it
and it's been over eight months
since I've updated that channel.
But I had to make the decision to walk away from it
because I just couldn't sustain the workload
and I couldn't keep that channel going
in addition to the other things that I was doing
because it was taking over.
It sucked so bad.
It's an awesome channel and I hated to leave it,
but I had to make the decision.
And you know, I still might go back to it.
There's a good chance that if I can work it in,
if I can replace something else with that,
then I might go back to it because I would actually love
to at least start uploading there once a week again.
But for right now, it's on hold.
So if you're in a situation like that,
to where you're thinking hey man,
this is just too much for me to carry.
My time would be better spent somewhere else
to where it wouldn't drive me crazy
or I wouldn't have all this pressure to try to make sure
that I'm uploading or whatever,
then maybe it's time to walk away.
And again, it doesn't have to be forever,
all I'm saying is that, if it's causing you stress,
then maybe it's a good time to, at the very least,
give it a break.
Now before we get into this next one,
I wanna go ahead and say, if you are thinking of
expanding your brand into YouTube
or if you are uploading videos on a regular basis
and you can't handle the load,
if you are at a point right now to where you're
uploading all the time and things like that
but maybe it's not growing,
that usually just means that there's more to learn.
But if you're doing all of this stuff
and you are enjoying the process,
or you're going through the different things
and you're liking what you're doing
and you can fit it into your life and all of that,
YouTube has an amazing amount of opportunity
an amazing amount of exposure for you.
And right now, even though with all of the headaches
that have been coming out of YouTube lately,
there is still a massive amount of opportunity
that you can tap into here
and a massive amount of exposure that you can get
for you personally, you can get for your brand.
If you wanna just get in front of other people
and build those relationships with other people,
YouTube is an amazing platform to do that.
Now on the flip side of that coin,
if you are just uploading videos
for the sake of uploading videos right now,
as you try to figure it out and you know as you grow,
you're trying to figure out okay,
what can I do to improve?
Where can I, what can I do to get better at this?
I'm willing to dedicate the time,
I'm willing to learn as much as I can
about how to grow my YouTube channel,
about how to have, you know,
how to increase the influence that I have, all of that.
If you're willing to put in the work
and you're willing to learn how to grow your channel,
how to interact with your audience,
how to make good looking videos,
how to add value to other people, hang in there
because it's going to click
and all of the stuff that you're learning right now,
even if something happens to YouTube in the future
to where people aren't on YouTube as much
and they end up going to Facebook or VidMe
or something like that.
The skills that you are learning right now,
you're gonna be able to apply that
all over social media.
So in the event that you have to jump platform
or something like that, you're gonna come in strong
because you are coming from a very strong foundation.
You already have all of this knowledge in place
about how to interact with an audience,
about how to get your videos in front of people,
about how to make stuff look good,
how to make it sound good, how to add all of that value
that people keep coming back for.
Hang in there.
The reason that it's important to hang in there
if you're struggling right now,
and this is really important.
This time last year, I had 2,000
and some change subscribers, right?
This time last year, one year ago,
now I have 26,000 subscribers.
That's 23,000 new subscribers in just one year.
Listen I've been putting a lot of time
into learning what is going on with YouTube
and how to work within YouTube.
And if I can do this, if I can create an audience like that
and if I can have an audience like that
that are into my stuff, you definitely can.
Look, I'll be transparent here.
You know, I'm bad at math.
I'm bad at grammar.
I know how I say "doing", you know I'm aware of that.
But because I'm passionate about YouTube
and I'm passionate about the amazing opportunity
that we have here, of being able to
make a video in our place and have that video go out
and make an imprint on the minds of people
all around the world, that's amazing to me.
And because of it, I've put in a lot of time and effort
of learning how this whole YouTube thing works
and learning the art of YouTubing.
I know it's tough sometimes.
I know it's frustrating sometimes.
But hang in there, it will get better.
If you keep learning and you keep working,
then it will all get better over time.
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Thank you so much for watching,
I'll see you next time.
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