- Hey guys, welcome.
I wanna keep bringing you guys up to speed
on what Video Labs is all about
because I know some of you guys have been
hearing a little bit about this lately,
and you're kinda like wondering what is going on,
so this is Schellea.
She went through Video Labs earlier this year,
back in January,
and so almost a year ago now.
- Yeah. - And tell us
a little bit about your channel
and where you were at before Video Labs.
- Okay, my channel is fabulous50s,
and it's a lifestyle channel for women over 50.
When I started with Tim, I had 400 subscribers,
so from July to January, - January.
- I got 400, which I was excited about.
- Yeah, that was pretty good.
- Yeah, and I wanted to do a course
because I wanted to learn more about how
to put it all together as a channel.
- So she registered for Video Labs,
which is an eight-week process that you
go through with me and my team,
and we give you, every week's a training,
like a video that you watch to get some in-depth knowledge
and some training about what needs
to happen in your channel.
Then we get into the small groups together
and talk about it, and a live video call every week,
homework assignments, peer reviews,
lots of things happening, and so you went
into Video Labs with 400 subscribers.
- Yes. - And here we are
about a year later, not even a year later.
Where are we at, like 10 months later?
- 10 months later.
- And so, now where are you at?
- So, now I'm at 90,000 subscribers.
- 90,000. - 91 (laughs).
- 91,000 subscribers in 10 months.
- Yes, yes. - Which is awesome,
and you started seeing
some of that growth happen during Video Labs.
- Yep, so each week we'd learn something,
and then we'd get together and we'd talk about it,
and we'd discuss it, and we'd troubleshoot,
and that was so useful to me because
I was able to ask a lot of questions,
and while I was doing the course,
my channel started to grow slowly,
but then all of a sudden, one day
one of my videos was suggested
and that hadn't happened before,
and from there the momentum started.
- So almost, that'll be 100,000 subscribers
in less than a year. - In less than a year.
- When this is all said
and done. - Yeah, yeah.
- So, that's awesome.
- And it was implementing everything that you said to do.
I think 'cause each week there was something new,
and I think if you just learn it and don't do it,
nothing's going to happen,
so the course is designed to get you
to go out of your comfort zone as well
to where you'd have to watch channels that we wouldn't
normally watch and we'd have to look at things
that we're not normally looking at.
- One thing that a lot of people who are thinking
about Video Labs don't actually expect at first,
which is how much work it actually is.
- It's a lot of work.
- It's a lot of work, right? - Yeah.
- And if people are like, "Oh I'm just gonna
"learn some things and boom my channel's like,
"Oh yeah, I learned some things."
Actually do it, but about approximately how many hours
of work do you think you did through the course each week?
- So much work.
Well, I guess if you just do the required amount,
you could do the course in, I don't know--
- A few hours a week, maybe?
- A few hours, eight hours a week?
- Okay. - Maybe?
But if you're going to commit to the course,
you just wanna jump in.
- If you're thinking about doing it,
I recommend that you do somewhere,
you plan on somewhere around five to eight hours
a week of work. - Yep.
- Just to kinda do the stuff
that we're talking about in the course,
plus then all this stuff that you're like,
"Oh, this now has all these other implications
"that I didn't think of,"
and now everything starts changing,
and the other thing we didn't mention
is that she's not like in a gaming category,
or in like family blogging like some
of these massive music or something,
but it's actually a lifestyle channel
for some very specific audience.
- Yep, for women over 50,
just for women over 50.
- And traditionally, it's not a huge audience
on YouTube compared to like teens and kids
and things like that, and so you've done it.
Check it out, high five!
- Thanks. - Good job!
(laughs)
If you guys wanna find out more about Video Labs,
you'll find a link around here or maybe on this page,
and we'd love to work with you guys
in an upcoming Video Lab.
Find out more information, and we'll dive
into your channel with you, and really help
you achieve your goals on YouTube as well.
- It's worth it, give it a go.